He echoes Fishkin and Schwartz's reassurances that the pagerank change has had no effect on sites' traffic.
Trademarking the methodology of a deliberative poll (as Mr Fishkin has done) may be a form of quality control.
Mr Fishkin recalls that the first America-wide deliberative poll, in 1996, required airline sponsorship to fly participants to the venue in Austin, Texas.
Reports so far indicate that only a handful of link directories have been punished, a tiny fraction of those that exist, notes Rand Fishkin.
Search engine marketer and blogger Rand Fishkin agrees that the pagerank shift was likely meant to send a message to link buyers and sellers.
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Google-owned properties like YouTube, Blogger, Google Images and Google Maps already show up frequently in Google search results, points out search engine marketer Rand Fishkin.
"Google has said in many conferences that this number isn't accurate, that it's a rough signal but shouldn't make any determination about a site, " says Fishkin.
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Search engine marketing consultant and blogger Rand Fishkin recently compiled a list of more than 70 sites with names like LinksFactory.net and DirectoryDump.com, which have been relegated in the past three weeks to the hardly seen back pages of Google's results, even when users search for them by name.
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