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In Google Politics Search, We Want Gossip & Laughs

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Amidst all that is dark in this world, it’s good to know that so many of us are mostly in it for the laughs, and the dirty pleasures of someone else’s scandal. At least, that’s the impression I get looking at the Google Suggest keywords this evening.  How could I have been so behind the [...]

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Google happens. To Mitt Romney now.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

I’ve written before about Rick Santorum’s painful Google results.  Uh oh, they did it again!  Google is now showing, ahem, an undesirable #2 result for the search query “romney”, as seen here:   Why does this keep happening? Maybe it’s because politicians let advertising agencies handle their search engine optimization needs.  (Psssst.  Hey candidates.  How [...]

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Santorum and Google: Why it happens

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

I’ve written previously about Rick Santorum’s Google problem and the need for politicians to have at least a basic understanding of SEO. I still get questions about how this situation came to be, so here’s a primer: Google’s ranking algorithm is based on many factors, including the number and quality of external links pointing to [...]

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Rick Santorum’s Horrific Google Listings

Monday, December 6, 2010

When I get coffee these days, the barista/o inevitably asks me the question: “what is SEO?”  That’s because my coffee mug declares, “I (heart) SEO” in bold letters.  But you know who really needs to figure out what SEO is?  Rick Santorum. That’s because his name has absolutely *the* *most* *horrible* Google results that I’ve [...]

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