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No Press Is Bad Press Even Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-you-don't-have-anything-nice-to-say dept.

otter42 writes "The NYTimes has an 8-page exposé on how an online business is thriving because of giant amounts of negative reviews. It seems that if you directly google the company you have no problem discerning the true nature; but if you instead only google the brand names it sells, the company is at the top of the rankings. Turns out that all the negative advertisement he generates from reputable sites gives him countless links that inflate his pagerank."

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  1. No need to RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks to the NYT's valiant efforts, you can be spared from reading TFA: just check out the comic instead.

  2. Re:Hyperlinks and Pagerank 101 by datapharmer · · Score: 5, Informative

    sure there is, use rel="nofollow" if you don't want to share link love.

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