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		<title>Myth Busting 101: Bold statements</title>
		<description>Discuss Myth Busting 101: Bold statements</description>
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			<title>Dave says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1228</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Well, he does have a clue...I just think the post is dangerous for a widely read publication such as SEW. One thing you get when being a forum hound is a healthy dose of scepticism. There are plenty of ideas floated that keep tin foil hat salesmen in business. Problem being is we don't know which are implemented, which pass testing and what weight is given to a signal. This means that even testing becomes problematic - I suppose that's where the 'art' comes in... getting a feel for things. Once more, I applaud the interest, but some of it will never be more that suposition as long as Colonel Google keeps the secret fixings to themselves on the finger licking SERPs... if ya know what I mean ;0)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Tino ICOM says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1226</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This guy hasn't got a clue. How can he make such statements without proof or testing. The article doesn't have structure at all. He starts by saying that THE algorythm is shifting but never offers a conclusion on this. - Says that content is not king anymore. WTF! - 25 RSS subscribers will help you ramk better - "Google now tracks the number of your RSS feed subscribers". NOW?!? it has been doing so for nearly a year. - Where did he get the 20% percent bounce rate figure? He doesn't even explain himself. :0]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tino ICOM</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>SEO Services says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1225</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Nice Post. Thanks for sharing this information with us.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>SEO Services</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dave says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1217</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a long history of such post titles and it should be stopped. It is part of what I spoke of last week as far as the evolution of search. Anyone that is even slightly intimate with search algos would understand there are always dials being turned and toys being tweaked - thus flux is the normal state of things... it is stating the obvious. I find it troubling lately that so many are making statements based on nothing more than 'what they read' somewhere. I have seen little to none in the way of any serious testing; so suspicions crafted to anomalies don't make for a definative statement to me. Google has never stated anything about behavioral stuff outside of personalized search; actually Matt said it would be a 'noisy signal' in the regular search and I tend to believe that for the most part.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Scott Hendison says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1216</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I agree with you 100% that when using phrases like "Google is using..." or "here are some factors that are starting to change search results..." you'd damn well better back it up with data - especially when you're writing at SEL. However, I really don't see that much to argue with what he's written, and part of me wonders whether the author didn't write it long ago, and just posted it now. Your server / site performance, bounce rates, and time spent on site are all things that were factored in quite a while ago according to a lot of sources, and I've seen the results shift myself. I think I first heard it from Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced 2007, right after "forced personal search" was rolled out. And yes, you're also correct that comment, blog, and other social spamming are what they seem to recommend - and that's unfortunate too, but it works. I suppose the key to being successful with that type of linkbuilding is how sincere you can make your bull$h^t sound. By the way - great post - no, seriously - i mean it ;-)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Hendison</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Nice clarification</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dave, As always, you cut to the quick. Sometimes it seems that people, in their haste to get their analysis in front of readers, don't take the time to produce a coherent, consistent commentary. Thankfully, you are there to clean up the mess!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dave says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1214</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Donna, Hi charles... I was kinda shocked that the post. I expect that from lame brain bloggers, not the SEW crowd. I hesitated to write about it, as I tend to to mention specifics when ranting, but I felt that it was worth it to clear up ANY misconceptions borne from that unfortunate effort.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>waveshoppe says:</title>
			<link>http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/Myth-Busting-101-Bold-statements.html#comment-1212</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I just read that SEW post an hour ago and WTF is quite fitting.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>waveshoppe</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Seriously!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LOL, glad it wasn't just me. I read that and thought to myself, WTF? I wanted to call up the author and ask him when he started working for Google, or which Googlet he married, because otherwise, it was highly unlikely that any of his "assertions as facts" were anything more than mere speculation. But even if each of his assertions were proven facts because he had a copy of "the algo" in his hands, that still didn't constitute significant change. Nearly every assertion he made caused me to wonder how anything was changed (or shifted). I kept feeling like I'd stepped into the past. But it was the last line that made me gasp the most, when he said "Thus, drive links, links, and more links if you expect to compete in this new market. " I was like, uh, yah, and that's different from the "old" market...how?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DazzlinDonna</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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