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Slashdot Google Bombers?
muirhead asks: "As a proud new dad, I made a web site to share some baby photos. Having seen this article about Google Bombing, I gave it a go and posted comments to Slashdot, Newsforge, Kuro5hin and LinuxWorld. Some of the pages have a high enough PageRank to show up as links into my site. Now, there are quite a few phrases that I can tell folk to google, and know my site will show top of the list. My favourites are Ruby Orange and Mutley Sleeps, but of course, I want more. What other free sites and means do you know of that I can use to further increase the visibility of my website?"
You could submit it as a story to Slashdot.
I want my Cowboyneal
Why can't you just give a URL out to your friends? Why would you want to publicize a site which will only be of interest to people you know AND sick perverts that want to look at your child in a much different way than you intended? I understand the desire to share pictures of your new child with family and friends but you might want to reconsider sharing it with the whole world. If I were to create a Internet photo album, I would keep it low-key. Why pay bandwidth bills so strangers can look at your kid?
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
That's it, I'm leaving slashing permanently! I can't believe this post made it here.
/etc/hosts and never coming back.
I'm adding "127.0.0.1 slashdot.org" to my
The best way to drive more traffic to your site is to make more interesting and original content.
I know, I know, most of the posts have been unhelpful thus far.. But I have to ask, should they be? We rely on Google as a tool for relevance for specific searchs, and "Google Bombing," as it so blatantly suggests, undermines this. If you site is good and relevant, it should rise to the top without any such techniques. If it doesn't.. It probably isn't relevant to the searches.
Sorry for going off on this, but Google is a touchy subject for me lots of others - mainly 'cause other things suck. =)
This statement is false.
What's wrong with the editors today? Hello?
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"Dear Slashdot, can you please advise me on how to more effectively screw over one of the few remaining useful resources? Yours, Johnny Spammer".
Between this and the regular ocurrence of "does anyone know how I can promote my new shareware, LameView" I'm beginning to wonder if there's a dialog box I'm missing where I can type in my credit card details when submitting a story.
Fucking hell. Read it, at the top, under the logo
"Stuff that matters"
Not
"Shit marketing resources for lamers"
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
I've got 2 words for you, one guess on what they are...
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
First, why is this on /. ?
/. ?
;)
Second, this is really lame. Why do you want to bomb the engines for your baby site? Who really is looking for it when they search with those keywords?
Third, why in the world is this on
Maybe this will finally break my slashdot addiction
Time you spend being a good dad will have a more positive effect on the child than maximizing your web site hits.
For everyone to pick their favorite spam email sender and sign up his posted email address?
puppydog@mutley.uklinux.net
How to $hamele$$y plug your <spam/"shareware"/casino/pr0n/...> website for in$tant $$$$$$$$^H^H^H^H^H!!!
All the devious tricks revealed by a website with over half a million users in one easy to access place.
!!!
!
So much to do, so little bandwidth.
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Try Mozilla
Please tell us what specific information you were seeking. Also tell us why you were dissatisfied with the search results. Lession for today: Screw the system (esp. the good system) and be screwed by its supporters.
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How did this ever make the frontpage of Slashdot? Thanks for helping screw up the one decent search engine, jackass.
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Alright, I REALLY hate the fact that I'm starting to sound like those 80 year olds sitting on the porch of the retirement home kvetching about how it used to be in "The Good Old Days", but...
I remember a better time - A long time ago - when the SPAM content of my inbox was GUARANTEED to be less than the archive of legit mail I have piled up. - Now, in the last 5 days I have 507 bits of spam, and 307 "archived" real mails sitting in my inbox awaiting (eventual) sorting into categories.
But, far more on topic (or off depending on your point of view), I remember back when search engines were useful because their content was guaranteed to be SOMEWHAT relevant to what you searched for.
Yes, I know they were never perfect. You could search for Reddywhip, innocently hoping to get a site about whipped cream and inadvertently wind up at reddywhip.org (not your intended destination I'm sure), but now with the clutter from blogs that don't have the common sense to have a NOINDEX in their META tags or an appropriate robots.txt file, the damn things are becoming saturated with CRAP! Add to this the result of "googlebombing" (admittedly a much smaller effect, but still something that gets noticed - obviously or it wouldnt be done) and things are really starting to get out of control.
Honestly, "nerds" should know better than to abuse search engines like this, and slashdot editors should know better than to post stories like this one - where the only "nerdly" bit is the link to the googlebombing article - itself already a story on slashdot (one with a great deal of merit in and of itself) - which will only serve to encourage more googlebombing and further degrade the quality of search results.
Moderators: Go ahead, I know it's offtopic, but this kind of stuff SERIOUSLY pisses me off. Nothing personal against Clif & his article selection, I happen to like some of his articles, but this one just serves to inflame an already bad situation.
/~mikeg
If you want to vastly increase web traffic to your site, I suggest that you post more naked pictures of your wife. Also, add some click-through disclaimers and pop-ups, so people know they're getting the *really* good stuff. Also, enter into some mutually beneficial advertising partnerships with any other similar sites.
And if all that doesn't work, then go to a high-profile event, and kill the speaker and yourself. Don't forget to leave a suicide note with the URL to your website; it'll be in major newspapers everywhere!
All right, we should all clap and move on. This may be the single most impressive Slashdot Troll Story I've ever seen (the first, of course, being the hillarious take on the goat.cx link).
You successfully managed to get a story posted that:
* has nothing to do with nerds
* Is a meta-joke (the fact that you have a story up at all means that there is no question)
* contains obvious and highly visible links to a crappy personal webpage of pictures
* contains a direct plea to Slashdot to assist in spamming.
* was posted from an account that wasn't built up at all with legitimate postings, but had been used for just trolling.
So, I say we should clap momentarily and move on. I suspect that many trolls have tried over the years, but pulling the wool so completely over editors' eyes cannot possibly be easy.
May we never see th
Seriously, Taco, can we start modding stories? I would gladly give all 5 of my moderator points for the chance to z0t stories like this. It's amazing that someone managed to post a "-1: Offtopic", "-1: Troll" and "-1: Flamebait" story all in one.
--trb