Clarification of my role in the Disa Johnson / Shoemoney Situation
On ShoeMoney's Blog today was written...
While Disa is a long time colleague and friend, I am not working on any sort of link building or rep mgmt on her behalf or for any of her sites. I'd fail at such a thing because rep management and attempting to push pages down the rankings is not my specific area of expertise AT ALL. Disa gave me a testimonial, which I posted it on my site, with link attribute, and that single link from my site somehow bumped Disa's site up above ShoeMoney's original post. Thus it appeared I'm some sort of reputation management link building guru.
I'm nothing of the sort. Not even close. I also have no illusions that this rank will be permanent, nor should it be. Jeremy knows far more about this type of thing than I do.
I know how link works and why, but only in my very specific niche, which is for content rich niche sites, so I'll be staying on the sidelines on this ongoing saga.
I think it's time to drop this. Live and let live. Life is short. Please.
Eric, the link builder formerly known as LinkMoses :)
Disa says she has enlisted Link master Eric Ward to start building her links to her new site and improve her rep management. I am still stunned that Disa doesnt understand truly how rankings work… but bringing in the Link Moses cant hurt.I felt I needed to respond, because this statement is not true.
While Disa is a long time colleague and friend, I am not working on any sort of link building or rep mgmt on her behalf or for any of her sites. I'd fail at such a thing because rep management and attempting to push pages down the rankings is not my specific area of expertise AT ALL. Disa gave me a testimonial, which I posted it on my site, with link attribute, and that single link from my site somehow bumped Disa's site up above ShoeMoney's original post. Thus it appeared I'm some sort of reputation management link building guru.
I'm nothing of the sort. Not even close. I also have no illusions that this rank will be permanent, nor should it be. Jeremy knows far more about this type of thing than I do.
I know how link works and why, but only in my very specific niche, which is for content rich niche sites, so I'll be staying on the sidelines on this ongoing saga.
I think it's time to drop this. Live and let live. Life is short. Please.
Eric, the link builder formerly known as LinkMoses :)
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4 Comments:
Oh come on Eric, you know exactly what you're doing, don't play coy with phrases like "that single link from my site somehow bumped Disa's site."
You were obviously trying to help improve Disa's rankings, otherwise why would you have linked the name instead of the company as you've done with the other testimonials you have.
Just say you're helpin out a friend, it's nothing to be ashamed of.
Skitzzo - yes, no denying I was hoping the link from my own site would help, but that's one single link, from a site I control. I told Disa I had no expectation it would be a fix, but wanted to help a friend. But...adding one link on my site is a far cry from how my role was described: "enlisted Link master Eric Ward to start building her links to her new site and improve her rep management". Note he said "links" (plural), and "to her new site", also wrong. I aimed one link to Disa's 6 year old site. And that's it. I am absolutely NOT a reputation management link building expert.
Can't help but wonder...please give some tips/advice on how link building for reputation management differs from link building for other types of content.
That would be a good topic for a full post. :)
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