Super Permanent Ink

On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging

parislemon:

The information in the image above is not surprising at all. But still pathetic.

Imagine that, you write 35 200-word posts featuring the words “Bin Laden” in the headline and they pull in traffic on the day it’s one of the most searched terms ever. 

Were any of those stories really about technology? A few, maybe. But none were given the actual attention that a story of such magnitude deserves. It was a pure traffic/SEO play.

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In my dream world, there is a Panda-esque update to Google that essentially knocks down any content with keywords featuring the top 100 terms in Google Trends that has been created in the past 24 hours — outside of a few, vetted outlets. Would this be unfair? Yes. Would it make the Internet a VASTLY better? Also yes.

4 May 2011 ·