Don't get me wrong, I give a lot of respect to jay and the way he (used?) to handle his business, but this week some things happened which really made me think. Here is what happened:
- Jay tries to trade links with a FAKE PR 7 site:
http://www.greenguyandjim.com/board/...ad.php?t=25250
Here the domain received a fake pr 7 which can be acheived by redirecting a domain to another high pr domian for a while (till the pr update happens). you can do it yourself by registering a new domain and redirecting to google and place at least one link to this domain (to make sure it gets spidered) then after the pr update you have a fake pr 10. however, it will not be a valid one like in jays case, and google will correct the problem asap (like it happened in jay's case).
I cannot believe that this happened to jay who claims to be a search engine expert (even offers seo) by accident.
- Jay was ripping down a site and used its html (only changed the sponsor links). IMO too much drama for such a case, but jay always claimed to be VERY integer and hated this kind of doing business. That is why he cursed everyone using his style of building galleries and linking the pics on html pages with descriptions (if you don't know what i am talking of then you probably are not a very adult se insider). Maybe by jay's high standards this kind of copyright infringement should not happen.
You can make you own opinion whether jay is a cheater or not. It might be that jay is involved in too many projects and looses control over his empire while his employees or partners keep not up with his high standarts. Who knows.
Discuss.