Search Engine Optimization

As of May 02, 2007, George W Bush is no longer a miserable
failure. According to Google.

Did I get your attention? Thought so. Now before you go thinking
I’m making any kind of political statement here, let me quickly point
my finger to the world’s most popular search engine. Now it is my firm
belief that the folks over at Google Inc have very little interest in
incorporating political statements into their algorithms, as they are
busy working hard, day and night, to bring us the best www
searching experience they possibly can, while maintaining
(a relatively, er, modest) profit margin.

“Then why do I get a government webpage on George W Bush
when I type ‘failure’, or ‘miserable failure’ into Google” you ask?
You don’t. Well as of May 2nd 2007 you dont anyway.

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Last week Matt Cutts head of the Google Webspam team posted on his blog how to report paid links to Google using Google’s Webmaster Console. The news got the SEO industry almost fired up when Matt himself asked people to report link buyers and sellers. Yes its true many seo companies use this technique “Google has never been happy about paid links. They believe that they influence the search ranking algorithm in a negative way.”
Paid links can confuse Google’s pagerank system which pays attention to links in web pages to help find relevant search results. said seocompany.ca
Matt Cutts says that Google has some technology in the works that will identify paid links. Read More »

The news last week was Microsoft is looking to acquire Yahoo for $50 billion.
Is it true some sources say?
Do the WSJ’s unnamed sources really trump the NY Post’s unnamed sources? So suggests popular blogosphere consensus. Read More »