From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 03:25:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5471065673 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:25:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1699F8FC08 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:25:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.192] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EC25C2E8A5 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:26:55 +1100 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090210185047.64a5e8a8@gom.home> References: <1115427411@web.de> <20090210185047.64a5e8a8@gom.home> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:25:22 +1000 Message-Id: <1234322722.13067.6.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.4 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:25:38 -0000 On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:50 -0800, prad wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:31:42 -0800 > Chris Knight wrote: > > > By sending an > > email to this list, your request was not only sent to thousands if > > individuals, but it was displayed on the pages of countless websites > > where the content of this mailing list is redisplayed for public > > access. Those pages will also be indexed by Google over time, raising > > the Google-Awareness of your name to even higher levels. > > > i find this to be a good response. > > i hadn't thought of the 'chain-reaction' effects of posting to a list > which is well explained in the above. > > i was also surprised to see that his name comes up at the top of a > google search (already!!) though it doesn't show up at all in my clusty > or yahoo or excite search at all. anyone know why? possibly, google does > things much faster?? > > > It would not > > be absolutely impossible to reverse this process > > > this is an interesting thing to think about actually. some people try > very hard to get high rankings on google, but fail miserably. i looked > into websearch optimization some time ago and recall that you can do > 'naughty' things like provide an excessive number of irrelevant keywords > and get penalized - not sure if something like that could be applied > here. > Lists and their webpost (nabble and whatever) counterparts will ensure that the particular phrase, name, whatever gets stored in the google webcrawler from many different areas which raises awareness of the phrase, ergo top of the list in searching. Its not how many times a phrase appears, its how many links relating to the phrase there are. Thats why its hard work- you need to get others to link to your site and the keyword. Thats what google sell in the google ads system: links on other (related) sites.