[Manish Pandey]

Originally Posted by mvandemar

I will:



Not verbatim, true, but surely you admit in that statement you were trying to imply that Rand's assessment of the quality of the Aviva directory, based on his title-ranking test, was sound and should be trusted. If it's not at the very least quality, then it's not authority, since we are talking strictly in terms of how the search engines see things.



Well, afaik you are in fact defending Rand and his methodologies in this thread... and this was his assertion:



So, Bob, if you could please, how is it that you think that it is possible for a directory to pass a test determining that it has "little to no value", for that test to be "valid", and yet for the directory to still be an "authority"?



Well, since you are using those statements to refute something I said (even though you are replying to someone replying to me, rather than directly), why don't you please show us how those values significantly differ from the stats I posted, and prove that the statement I made about which keyphrase was more competitive was actually incorrect, instead of just saying "Well, that method isn't the best".

-Michael

Thanks Michael, for making my work simpler!