{"id":148,"date":"2005-05-19T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=148"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"mormon-temple-googlebomb-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/05\/19\/mormon-temple-googlebomb-bombed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Temple GoogleBomb Bombed"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s been over a month since the Bloggernacle went crazy with the so called injustice that resulted in a Google search for “mormon temple” showing up no positive sources for temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A number of blogs decided to start making links to positive sites hoping to change that (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a> to name a few).<\/p>\n It appears all those efforts amounted to nothing. There appears to be no change<\/a>. Of course, this did not surprise me and should not come as a surprise to anyone else that it doesn’t surprise me. After all, I commented on a number of occasions that it wouldn’t work. Google is smarter than that.<\/p>\n First of all, none of the sites linking to the positive pages are big players. They have very little effect on such a common phrase (490,000 results).<\/p>\n Secondly, the commonly used pages for the positive information had very little content and had poor HTML structure. Both of these qualities have a big effect on search engine placement.<\/p>\n Finally, few, if any, of the participating naccers are temple-oriented.<\/p>\n If we want positive, helpful resources come up for searches of ‘mormon temple’, there need to be content-rich, well-structured sites. With such sites will come links from all over the LDS cybersphere. That is the only way to do it.<\/p>\n Funny. It’s also the best way to do it.<\/p>\n UPDATE (for Kaimi): Google re-indexes every month. It’s been over a month since the Bloggernacle went ahead with the GoogleBombing efforts. If it was going to make a difference, it would have by now. The problem is not that there wasn’t enough time. Read above for the problem (some of it applying to the poor implementation you suggested).<\/p>\n It’s been over a month since the Bloggernacle went crazy with the so called injustice that resulted in a Google … Continue reading Mormon Temple GoogleBomb Bombed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n