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The personal attack seems very, very harsh here. I think the message is “don’t trust Rand or SEOmoz - they’re trying to pull a fast one on the SEO world.” I work really, really hard to try to do just the opposite, so obviously, I’m heartbroken to see this kind of post. I guess we can always work harder, though, and I’ll try to do that when I return from vacation.
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This is Rand's response on your blog, Michael ... or part of it.
The thing is that I have yet to meet one person who doesn't like Rand as a person. The problem is that PS encourages following a tool blindly rather than analyzing and experimenting with some of your own results.
I highly doubt that there will ever be a tool like it that is reliable enough for advanced webmasters to rely on it. In this day and age of "report paid links" the tool's purpose in itself goes against everything Google is trying to stop.
I don't think it's a matter of working harder, it's just that unless you're on the inside of Google and have access to the algorithm and its entire complexity, anything pretending to tell you which links are most beneficial, is bound to be more or less snakeoil.
Mike