Slashdot Google Bombers? 109
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?"
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:1)
I for sure would aquit a child for killing his parents for doing such a foolish thing.
I can picture in highschool, thanks mom and dad, all the kids are jealous of me for having the highest google pagerank for "Mutley Sleeps."
Re:Well... (Score:2, Interesting)
The only remotely redeeming possibility I can think of for this original article is that geeks can get laid too.
Pls Send link to pervs@nambla.org (Score:1)
For the ignorant....
www.nambla1.de
LOOSER!
QueenB
Why why why (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Why why why (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why why why (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why why why (Score:2)
Did you see his URL? Not everybody has spare domain names to throw around. So he tucks away some family snapshots in a small corner of a web server that serves a fair amount of other unreleated content. He then wants a quickly communicated and easy-to-remember way for friends and family to find the page. Who the hell else is gonna seach for "Ruby Orange" or "Mutley Sleeps" anyway.
As far as Cliff getting trolled, all of the story links are to google,
Re:Why why why (Score:2)
Your ISP hosting webspace, or getting a company who offers vanity domains to point to the url. There are other options than poluting the net with your url.
I'm especially surprised he hasn't thought about the sick pervs on the net.
Re:Why why why (Score:1)
anything.tk... free.
Re:Why why why (Score:1)
"What's your email address? Oh! It's W W W dot
That's alright, because I tell people to go to google and search [google.com] for my name, donncha [linux.ie] and they'll find my blog!
Re:Why why why (Score:2)
Re:Why why why (Score:1)
Re:Why why why (Score:2)
Here's why: (Score:1, Insightful)
Here's a tip: If you drive me to read your material, you are NOT likely to garner a favorable/constructive review.
I'd be willing to read what you've done, but if you trick me into hitting your page, the best you can hope to get is my leaving without crapflooding your guest book. Someone looking for a book review finding your site would be a good thing, probably for all involved
Talk to this guy... (Score:1)
That's It! (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm adding "127.0.0.1 slashdot.org" to my
Re:That's It! (Score:2, Insightful)
I can only assume that the problem is not with Cliff so much as with the idiot
Re:That's It! (Score:2)
Re:That's It! (Score:1)
Re:That's It! (Score:1)
Re:That's It! (Score:1)
Yeah, sure, uh-huh (Score:2)
Re:Yeah, sure, uh-huh (Score:1)
You know
Re:Yeah, sure, uh-huh (Score:2)
What you need, Baloo, what you need, sir, is to broaden your horizons. I consider you a friend, sir. Sir, you are my friend. But you need to broaden your horizons, sir -- you need to broaden your horizons.
Perhaps explore Christian furrydom, or furry shamanism, sir. Sir, either would make you complete in my book, sir.
Re:Yeah, sure, uh-huh (Score:2)
You mean this [ursine.ca]? And besides, I think my major malfunction is that I haven't had a decent vacation in three years.
Re:Yeah, sure, uh-huh (Score:1)
You are a scholar and a gentleman, and I appreciate your openness. Thumbs up in my book, and I wish others were half as brave with their convictions.
Another option (Score:4, Funny)
Why rely on google? You could always SPAM everyone about your site!
I hope your baby is infertile... (Score:3, Funny)
Good luck on elementary education, and here's to ruining the one thing that could POSSIBLY lend some sense to the modern internet. I hope your testicles are crushed in a vice...
Sincerely,
Andrewski
Re:I hope your baby is infertile... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:I hope your baby is infertile... (Score:1)
You don't need google (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:You don't need google (Score:1)
Re:You don't need google (Score:1)
Grah. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sorry for going off on this, but Google is a touchy subject for me lots of others - mainly 'cause other things suck. =)
Oh, for fucks' sake. (Score:5, Funny)
"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
Re:Oh, for fucks' sake. (Score:2)
Ask Slashdot: My Company Violates the GPL, How Can I Effectively Hide This?
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Opinion on Fraud?
Ask Slashdot: I'd Really Like To Get Into Spamming, Can I Have All of Your Email Addresses Please?
Re:Oh, for fucks' sake. (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia you sue SCO!
Dave
Going with a theme... (Score:4, Funny)
Ask Slashdot: How does one get on national TV?
Ask Slashdot: Gimme Attention! NOW!
Ask Slashdot: PC dumping-friendly states?
Ask Slashdot: Cheap ways to set up a 10 kW ham radio antenna?
Ask Slashdot: Hacking ILECs for better bandwidth?
But really, I don't think you can top this question for both sad, pathetic attention cravings and deliberate attempts to ruin a public resource combined together. I can try, though...
Ask Slashdot: Using USENET to advertise my webcam site?
Re:Oh, for fucks' sake. (Score:1)
"News for Nerds"
Not
"Oversized baby pictures with a really hideous background"
So, to paraphrase... (Score:5, Insightful)
I've got 2 words for you, one guess on what they are...
Oh, and by the way... (Score:2)
Oh brother... (Score:5, Insightful)
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
good dad (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:good dad (Score:1)
I truly applaud the author of that line, and whole heartedly agree. The previous posts do largely sum up my sentiments, but this post was the first I've seen to constructively tell this guy that the world doesn't give a fuck about his kid.
Re:good dad (Score:3, Interesting)
Time to quit it.
Does anyone else think it would be funny... (Score:5, Funny)
puppydog@mutley.uklinux.net
Re:Does anyone else think it would be funny... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Does anyone else think it would be funny... (Score:1)
Today on Slashdot! (Score:4, Funny)
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.
!!!
!
Oh that bastard! (Score:1)
Gothfare [fimble.com]
uh... ignore that
Liar! (Score:1, Troll)
How ca you reproduce? You are a slashdot nerd, you kopw they don't have sex! Well, at least not now that you have a kid to keep you up all night whining and crying.
You searched for link:www.mutley.uklinux.net/... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:On the other hand..... (WARNING: GOATSE.CX) (Score:2)
way to go jackass (Score:2, Informative)
Why can't you just give your friends a URL like most normal people would? Hey, while your at it, you should just buy one of those cd's with millions of addresses on it, and then send a mass mailing telling everyone what to google for to find your site.
Idiot.
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Re:click here (Score:2)
I don't approve of this but its made me think about the motives of some slashdot trolls.
Ouch! (Score:1, Funny)
As a proud new dad... (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh, and I put up some baby pics in my cube.
I'm sure your little one is cute, but I don't walk around inflicting my family photos on random strangers, and you shouldn't either.
And to the guy who keeps posting that people with families aren't actual Slashdot readers: Married ten years, daughter is two and a half. And I call myself Moody Loner. If there's hope for me, there's hope for anybody.
Destroy the value of the search engine (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Talk to Suze (Score:1, Offtopic)
No, seriously...
You asked... (Score:5, Funny)
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!
The Second Most Impressive Slashdot Troll Ever (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Contents, contents, contents - or contents (Score:1)
Other question: why do you want more traffic? Just to have a higher hit count? Except if you are hosting a number of paying web-advertizements, I don't see any benefit in that.
This isn't Google bombing (Score:3, Informative)
Favourites?? (Score:3, Funny)
Dang.
Where's the "-1: Offtopic" for stories? (Score:5, Insightful)
--trb
Retards! (Score:1)
Get a good domain name (Score:1)
I agree with many of the critical comments, but I'll try to be somewhat helpful anyway. Here's my advice:
Get the kid a good domain name. Ideally "[firstname][lastname].com".
Then, set up the web site on that domain name. It is perfectly legitimate to email pictures to your *friends*. But I doubt anyone outside of your address book really cares.
The memorable domain name will help *interested* users remember the URL, so they won't even need to go to Google to search for it.
The domain name will al
Ruby (Score:2)
Maybe... (Score:2)
reality check (Score:2, Insightful)
Think Before You Act (Score:2)
Your bandwidth bill will be extraordinary, and you will get some perverts looking at your baby with alternative thoughts....
Actually, I just visited your site. Nix that last remark. That baby's do damn ugly that even the most depraved of sick-o's [cmdrtaco.net] would have only one thing on their mind: nausea. And that family! Fugly fugly fugly! I need image filtering software to prevent me from viewing it!
iMac account (Score:1)
2) take whatever pictures you want
3) import them into iPhoto
4) create an album of photos to share
5) export the album to your
6) profit ?!?! (optional)
Seriously, if sharing your pictures is all you want to do, then this (or something like it) is the way to go.