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2012 / Savage Love You Can Help Put Spreading Santorum Back on Top!
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM
The landing/splat page—www.spreadingsantorum.com—got disappeared. Best theories as to why here. But the link to the Spreading Santorum blog is currently the 4th return when you Google "santorum." You can help put us back on top by spreading the blog's link around and clicking the shit out of it:
Legit links, please. I don't actually know how you Google bomb something—I'm not tech-savvy, "santorum" and IGBP notwithstanding—but if you know how to bomb the Googles, please don't do it. Don't give Google and excuse to knock us down again. Legit links and clicks only, please! Also, search "santorum" and click on the link to http://blog.spreadingsantorum.com/.
And read the blog—Jocelyn mops the floor with Santorum/santorum!
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How do I know if my clicks are legitimate? What if I accidentally click illegitimately?
Now I'm scared.
Now I'm scared.
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Or you could stop and ask yourself "How does Google know what I just clicked on? Do I want Google to know what links I click? And what could I do about that?"
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spreadingsantorum.com is now back and appearing at #3 for me; the spreadingsantorum blog is at #2.
Somebody is doing something right....
Somebody is doing something right....
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Clickin the links don't do shit, Dan, unless they're links on a google search results page. So one way to help is to google santorum, see the site in the number four spot, and click it.
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Also, as someone else pointed out, get rid of the "click to continue" landing page on www.spreadingsantorum.com.
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Still no link at all to the landing page on Google for me. Just to the blog, and that's way down the list if at all.
Clicking on that doesn't do any good, does it? The content on that site may be friendly, but it doesn't support the definition, which is just a tiny sidebar.
People getting better results must be signed into Google? Or their cookies are enabled? Explain.
Clicking on that doesn't do any good, does it? The content on that site may be friendly, but it doesn't support the definition, which is just a tiny sidebar.
People getting better results must be signed into Google? Or their cookies are enabled? Explain.
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I'm getting it 4th on the page and then when clicking the link it takes me to an archive from 2004???
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The title of the landing page ought to read "Definition of Santorum" instead of plain old "Santorum" (that is, the title one sees at the top of the browser) because that is the second most important key word area after the domain name. A lot of people are probably searching for "definition of santorum" these days because they've heard it means something too awful to say on TV. So when that title comes up in a search, people will be more likely to click on it, thus signalling its relevance and boosting its rank.
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Clicking accomplishes little or nothing - even on google search pages (see http://searchengineland.com/36-seo-myths…). What you want to do is put the link to www.spreadingsantorum.com on a webpage with use appropriate anchor text (e.g. Rick Santorum). Forum comments, etc. generally don't count - those links often have "no follow" commands.
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And according to Danny Sullivan's updates on this, it has more to do with Google's SafeSearch algorithm - http://searchengineland.com/santorum-no-….
More links isn't going to fix that.
More links isn't going to fix that.
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You should do an update to the site\landing page. Recently updated sites supposedly rank higher. Also, maybe put a little more content on the first page. Call your web guy!
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Looks like SpreadingSantorum.com is already back to number 1. The only thing before it is a couple video clips and the primary results. It's the first actual web site result.
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Clearly we have some different theories about the why's and how's, but I still wrote a post about it with some links and a definition, so who knows!
(http://beingbostonian.wordpress.com/2012…)
(http://beingbostonian.wordpress.com/2012…)
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There are some simple markup changes that might help with rank.
I'd put the title into text. The "Spreading Santorum" image at the top of the page isn't machine readable. Google Pagerank should score it higher if it's H1 text. I'd also move the definition from the sidebar to the page header and tag it H2.
like this...
http://pastebin.com/xRkFmBUM
I'd put the title into text. The "Spreading Santorum" image at the top of the page isn't machine readable. Google Pagerank should score it higher if it's H1 text. I'd also move the definition from the sidebar to the page header and tag it H2.
like this...
http://pastebin.com/xRkFmBUM
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@21 is on the money with merging the splash page and blog. That redirect is gonna hammer PageRank.
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Not to gross anyone out, but I happen to have a pair of santorum-stained briefs (very expensive and recently ruined) that I would be willing to auction off "for the cause." Anyone know of any freaks who get into that sort of thing?
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