You Can Help Put Spreading Santorum Back on Top!

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How do I know if my clicks are legitimate? What if I accidentally click illegitimately?

Now I'm scared.

Aurora Erratic on March 1, 2012 at 11:37 AM

Or you could stop and ask yourself "How does Google know what I just clicked on? Do I want Google to know what links I click? And what could I do about that?"

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on March 1, 2012 at 11:42 AM

@1 - Are you married to your clicks' father?

mtfbwy on March 1, 2012 at 12:08 PM

@2 - If you don't want Google to know what you're doing on Google, don't use Google.

Mike in Olympia on March 1, 2012 at 12:11 PM

spreadingsantorum.com is now back and appearing at #3 for me; the spreadingsantorum blog is at #2.

Somebody is doing something right....

Charles Maguro on March 1, 2012 at 12:16 PM

Clickin the links don't do shit, Dan, unless they're links on a google search results page. So one way to help is to google santorum, see the site in the number four spot, and click it.

beef rallard on March 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM

Also, as someone else pointed out, get rid of the "click to continue" landing page on www.spreadingsantorum.com.

beef rallard on March 1, 2012 at 12:20 PM

@4

Sort of like abstinence because you're too dumb to figure out a condom, I guess.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on March 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM

I kind of like it at #2

monkey on March 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM

Now my finger hurts and my mouse is groaning.

You're still #1, Dano!

despicable me on March 1, 2012 at 12:31 PM

Still no link at all to the landing page on Google for me. Just to the blog, and that's way down the list if at all.

Clicking on that doesn't do any good, does it? The content on that site may be friendly, but it doesn't support the definition, which is just a tiny sidebar.

People getting better results must be signed into Google? Or their cookies are enabled? Explain.

GasparFagel on March 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM

I'm getting it 4th on the page and then when clicking the link it takes me to an archive from 2004???

on March 1, 2012 at 1:02 PM

The title of the landing page ought to read "Definition of Santorum" instead of plain old "Santorum" (that is, the title one sees at the top of the browser) because that is the second most important key word area after the domain name. A lot of people are probably searching for "definition of santorum" these days because they've heard it means something too awful to say on TV. So when that title comes up in a search, people will be more likely to click on it, thus signalling its relevance and boosting its rank.

KCFrance on March 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM

Clicking accomplishes little or nothing - even on google search pages (see http://searchengineland.com/36-seo-myths…). What you want to do is put the link to www.spreadingsantorum.com on a webpage with use appropriate anchor text (e.g. Rick Santorum). Forum comments, etc. generally don't count - those links often have "no follow" commands.

checkavailability on March 1, 2012 at 1:34 PM

And according to Danny Sullivan's updates on this, it has more to do with Google's SafeSearch algorithm - http://searchengineland.com/santorum-no-….

More links isn't going to fix that.

checkavailability on March 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM

You should do an update to the site\landing page. Recently updated sites supposedly rank higher. Also, maybe put a little more content on the first page. Call your web guy!

gttim on March 1, 2012 at 1:37 PM

Looks like SpreadingSantorum.com is already back to number 1. The only thing before it is a couple video clips and the primary results. It's the first actual web site result.

brandon on March 1, 2012 at 1:55 PM

Clearly we have some different theories about the why's and how's, but I still wrote a post about it with some links and a definition, so who knows!

(http://beingbostonian.wordpress.com/2012…)

YoSoyComoSoy on March 1, 2012 at 2:00 PM

ZZZZZZZ
Isn't this a bit old after all these years?

crone on March 1, 2012 at 4:36 PM

Done and done:

http://blog.spreadingsantorum.com/

judybrowni on March 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM

Why not have the brown splatter & definition as a header to the blog?

phgf on March 1, 2012 at 8:47 PM

There are some simple markup changes that might help with rank.

I'd put the title into text. The "Spreading Santorum" image at the top of the page isn't machine readable. Google Pagerank should score it higher if it's H1 text. I'd also move the definition from the sidebar to the page header and tag it H2.

like this...

http://pastebin.com/xRkFmBUM

Curmudgeon on March 1, 2012 at 11:04 PM

@21 is on the money with merging the splash page and blog. That redirect is gonna hammer PageRank.

Curmudgeon on March 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM

It looks like the spreadingsantorum blog is up to 4th place.

SeattleKim on March 2, 2012 at 9:14 AM

Not to gross anyone out, but I happen to have a pair of santorum-stained briefs (very expensive and recently ruined) that I would be willing to auction off "for the cause." Anyone know of any freaks who get into that sort of thing?

cxg on March 2, 2012 at 12:18 PM

I think we did it. The blog site is now number one on the Google search.

SeattleKim on March 3, 2012 at 9:57 AM

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