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Why Amit Bhawani is still an idiot. |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
 So our old buddy Amit Bhawani is at it again. We gave him some site traffic for his stellar review of the MacBook/OS X as it was a truly moving piece. If you could read all the way through it you would either be laughing your ass off or fuming mad. But now he's kinda made me mad.
Let me start of by saying, I don't get mad easy. I've lived on a tropical island for a few years and ever since I've been pretty laid back. But now Amit has posted an article with my name in it saying that I am posting "fake news", with "macmod-chris-tangora-wrong-report" in the URL. Specifically about the article where I commented about Google blocking MacMall Accessories search result. If you are interested in how I feel about Amit and how he is a fake read on. If not, thank you and have a good day.
Amit Bhawani is a 24 year old in Chennai, India. He has been a Search Engine Optimizer for the past three years and claims to be one of the top three SEO's with over 400 domain names (but his fellow SEO's at seomoz.org rank him with 75 thumbs up and 67 thumbs down). Good job making a business for yourself using MS Paint and text edit and running a SEO 'company' for 50¢ a minute. If anyone had 400 domain names they could fake the SEO results that he is getting, just by pure mathematics. Want to talk about fake? Why don't we talk about how you use your own domains to get your rankings, rather than actual content? That would be a good article.
Now here's my main beef with Amit. He is saying that I write "fake news" and the writers at MacMod are "really intelligent enough". This bum didn't even read the article he is writing about. If he did he isn't fluent enough in English to understand it and didn't even look at the picture attached to it. In case you didn't read the article, posted July 16th, the second sentence spells out what I searched for to get the result, "Mac Accessories". When Amit writes about it on his "blog" he doesn't even use the same search phrase for comparison when he post a photo on his site. The original post also had a reduced size screen shot, which Amit claims I didn't post.
NOTE : MacMall has fixed the issue and the warning no longer appears on the Google search.
The article was written to show a nice feature of Google. That was the focus. It was the first time I saw that warning, so i thought I would pass it along. Is it "fake news"? No. The screen shot is reduced, but it is right there on top of the story. Did I go into great details about how Google protects you from malware, no. But if you were really interested there were links to follow. So how is this "fake news"? The only fake news we have ever published is on April Fools Day, and if you don't get that, then don't read it.
I'm not going to warrant the troll with another link to his site. I really want to know how this is a "wrong report" as the SEO genius put in the URL. Amit goes around posting crap news about what FTP is, and now is calling my writing fake and wrong. The articles at MacMod blow your "news" out of the water. You are trolling for more hits and in return you get nothing.
You claim to have gotten thousands of hits off that "linkbait," you actually got a little over 1,500 reads on that troll effort. That would be a singular thousand, not the plural. You have to hit 2000 to go plural. You also got another xxx subscribers from it. Well hell, if you're getting XXX content from a post, you got something working in your favor. And yes, he literally put 'xxx subscribers' in his post.
But here is the part that gets me the worst. His destruction of the comments. He claims to have gotten hundreds of comments on that article, most of which were slamming him, I think one was actually sticking up for him. But the numbers he is claiming isn't really the numbers on his site. He blatantly says that he took down some comments, but then left others up for free speech. It isn't free speech if you censor the content. Oh, and your numbers are off. You only got 67 comments, not hundreds.
Speaking of numbers Amit, your self-proclaimed rankings on your site are off. At least in America. Amit claims he has the #5 search result for "Web Directory", when I searched I couldn't find it in the top 30. Even when I did "Web Directory India" as a search, still not in the top 30. Amit Bhawani also claims to be #4 for "Business Directory" and #2 for "Business Web Directory". Both of which his business site (gii.in, but don't go there) aren't in the top 10. I got lazy and didn't got through the other pages to see how far back he actually is, or if he even shows up. If you are considering Amit Bhawani for for your SEO, please realize that his facts are really hype. He might get those results via Google in India, but in the USA he doesn't come close.
Fake news? Don't get me started. Your credibility is shot. Let me quote one of the comments you didn't edit out,
"You, sir, are an idiot. And I mean that in the most sincere way."
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