And the Award for 'Lame Advice of the Year' goes to...
Danny
Sullivan.
One might think that Danny never worked on our side of the SEO fence. But of course he once did. In fact, he's been called The Godfather of SEO by some. That's why it's stunning that he'd proffer such lame advice as judged by those of us who currently labor in the trenches of SEO — but allow me to digress.
The backstory...
Last month Barry Schwartz over at SEroundtable reported on the advice given by former SEO analyst, Danny Sullivan, turned Google search liaison.
When asked what a site owner should do in cases when their original research and content is stolen, and then posted on webpages that outrank them, Danny suggested that they...
Ask the site owners who are stealing your original content to cite you as the originator and then link back to you. As you might expect, astounded SEO's responded with a plethora of scathing comments such as...
Absolutely disgusting and pure nonsense.
We put in all the time to research and put up quality content, and then Google expects us to contact them for a linkback? Seriously?
Contact the plagiarizers and ask for a link back? Too funny! That's like - contact the guy who stole your bike and ask them to give it back!
