Hi! I’m Aldahlia.
Ms. Lauren’s recent “Culture of Life” series of posts, got me to thinking about a little thing known as “Google Bombing.”
Essentially, it’s manipulating enough links to affect Google’s page-ranking system. Like, what (mostly) bloggers have done with “miserable failure.”
What I’m proposing, is indeed… a link-based high-jacking of the question “where are the women bloggers.”
All it will take is enough folks creating a post that looks something like this:
where are the women bloggers
where are the women bloggers
where are the women bloggers
where are the women bloggers
Of course, you can add similar links to just about any female blogger (preferably political bloggers) you want to, including this place. The point is for someone to punch the phrase into google and get some women bloggers, instead of getting some moron bemoaning the (theoretical) absence of women that blog, or some singular entry by a frustrated woman trying to assert her visibility, our visibility, on her own.
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Wed Mar 23, 2005
Google Bombing and Women Bloggers
I guest blogged this, over at Feministe, m [...]
SCARED OF OPEN DEBATE_ HUH
Beg pardon, Fitz?
I think he’s scared of proper grammar and capitalization.
Your blocking my posts, I was hoping for a reply from the women below-
Posts by unfamiliar users are immediately sent to moderation. I have to approve all new users. I’ll get to it when I get to it – you have not been banned or “blocked,” though you might be if you keep making hostile and presumptive accusations.
You may want to read the Disclaimer in the sidebar (top, righthand side of the main page) if you are unfamiliar with this blog.
Why not put the bomb in the sidebar where it is on every page (for those that use post pages)? That would raise the number of times those sites are hit.
Good point, Petro. Bombs work best when they are static and do not roll off the front page.
Good call. I’ve never tried this before. Can you tell? :)
Aldahlia, there is always a first time.
This is the html that I used in my sidebar — I also added Feminist blogs.org to the list:
Where are all the women bloggers?
What She Said!
Blogs By Women
Progressive Women’s Blog Ring
Women Bloggers
Feminist Blogs
Ack! Let’s try this without some of the tags — you’ll have to add the li and font tags
font class=”_”>Where are all the women bloggers?What She Said!Blogs By WomenProgressive Women’s Blog RingWomen BloggersFeminist Blogs
It may work if you put it inbetween [code] [/code] but with carrots.
I like the “miserable failure” google bomb, that’s lovely! Does anyone know of any feminist anti-war google bombs that I could support? I’m writing an article in a magazine that I publish called THE RAG about feminist anti-war blogging, and I’m trying to give feminist readers info about good forms of feminist and gender conscious anti-war activism. For that matter, can anyone direct me to some of your favorite feminist anti-war &/or peace blogs?
I hope I’ve got this right — I already have all of these on my sidebar; I’ve added them again, all linked to the text “where are the women bloggers” — will this work?
I guess at this point, my hatred of html has shone through, but I think you all get the idea. Instead of repeating “where are the women bloggers,” I listed the names of the sites. And yes, that will put their urls on the sidebar more than once, but, hey, that’s okay. (If I leave out the “Where are all the women bloggers?
ul>
li>a href=”http://whatshesaid.the-goddess.org/”>What She Said!
li>a href=”http://blogsbywomen.blogspot.com/”>Blogs By Women
li>a href=”http://http//www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=carla;action=list/”>Progressive Women’s Blog Ring
li>a href=”http://ringsaround.net/womenbloggers/”>Women Bloggers
li>a href=”http://www.feministblogs.org/” target=”_blank”>Feminist Blogs
/ul]
SB–that’s how I set mine up.
Instead of google bombing “women bloggers”….you might want to try this…
because of an article i wrote last week, i got a hit on my blog from someone who googled best bloggers which came up eleventh.
You should wrap that with your html codes instead.
Success– you’re first for the complete phrase. Congratulations.
Where ARE The Women Bloggers?
Well, this bewilderment has come to rest in the west, goldarnit. Ed Kemmick at City Lights announced an upcoming Yellowstone public radio program on Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging, featuring him, David Crisp and Craig Sprout. A discussion began
Good luck on the Google bombing. Meanwhile, I’ve been answering the question “Where are the women bloggers” for this entire month, and wouldn’t mind at least one of the Google bombs having my link on it. :)