On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:31:42 -0800 Chris Knight <boh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> By sending an > email to this list, your request was not only sent to thousands if > individuals, but it was displayed on the pages of countless websites > where the content of this mailing list is redisplayed for public > access. Those pages will also be indexed by Google over time, raising > the Google-Awareness of your name to even higher levels. > i find this to be a good response. i hadn't thought of the 'chain-reaction' effects of posting to a list which is well explained in the above. i was also surprised to see that his name comes up at the top of a google search (already!!) though it doesn't show up at all in my clusty or yahoo or excite search at all. anyone know why? possibly, google does things much faster?? > It would not > be absolutely impossible to reverse this process > this is an interesting thing to think about actually. some people try very hard to get high rankings on google, but fail miserably. i looked into websearch optimization some time ago and recall that you can do 'naughty' things like provide an excessive number of irrelevant keywords and get penalized - not sure if something like that could be applied here. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"