Every day there are a couple of Google and Yahoo! searches for the phrase ”i hate george bush” showing up in my search engine referrals pages. It’s not very surprising that those who perform this search end up here, since both Google and (Google driven) Yahoo! places one of my t-shirt pages, titled ”I still hate George Bush”, in the first position, and the same page is listed on top when searching on Yahoo! I’m somewhat flattered by the positioning, but I must admit that I have been wondering why anyone might do such a search. Could it be a possy of right wing christian fundamentalists coming after me, or the CIA?
Today, I think I found out why. The probable cause is an article by Joshua Rey, a British blogger with quite an interesting site. His excellent article is titled ”Why we hate George”. His article contains this passage:
It’s no exaggeration to say that George Bush is more widely and deeply hated in Britain and the Western World than Saddam Hussein is. And that’s even though Saddam has home advantage, as it were, in that he’s a fit object for hatred by both sides. If you punch up ”I hate George Bush” on your favourite search engine you’ll get a good deal more links than with ”I hate Saddam Hussein”. And you’ll also notice that a lot of the Saddam links are to articles about George Bush saying ”I hate…”
None of the links from Joshua’s article puts this site in a noticable position. So people must have done the search on their own, and forgetting the surrounding quotes from the article or editing them out deliberately to see what happens they have instead reached my page. At least that is what I hope has happened.
Since Joshua wrote his article Google has spidered his site, and placed it as number 2 and 4 in the two suggested searches above. But why is my I still hate George Bush page on top? There are several reasons, and here follows a few free SEO tips:
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