Hum Posted March 18, 2008 Share Posted March 18, 2008 "Link Relevance" Suppressed on Alternative Media As if it were not bad enough that we are censored by the main stream media, now there's a new type of suppression being implemented upon conspiracy related websites and alternative media sources. It's called Link Relevance Suppression, and it's being used on most of the alternative media websites to lower traffic being driven to them by the popular search engine Google. It's also being used in the opposite way to "Promote" Neo-Con supporting websites by giving them double the "Link Relevance" Let me explain how Google indexes sites that go into the search cue when someone types in certain keywords relating that site. Google has many different criteria when it decides how close to the top a website gets, but the main and most important one is Link Relevance. It simply means in laymen's terms; The more sites that link to your site, the higher you go on the list. There is a simple way to check on Google how many other websites are linking to your website. You go to Google and type in the word link: before the web address, for example; link:www.theultimateconspiracy.com Now here is where the proof is that Google has implemented some kind of script that is giving all the alternative media sites less that 1/4th of the Link Relevance that they deserve. If you go to Google and simply type in www.yourwebsite.com you will find the REAL number of sites that have a link back to your website. This does not mean that the sites are being added to the Link Relevance, it only shows that they have the link on their website. Want proof? Let's do some searches of various alternative media related websites and see what we get. Click the links to see results; link:www.infowars.com http://www.infowars.com Now notice that the "Link Search" brings up 2,960 pages that are linked back to www.infowars.com, but when you look at the actual numbers of sites with links to www.infowars.com the real number is 207,000. How about; link:www.prisonplanet.com www.prisonplanet.com You get 2,530 "Link Relevance", but the real number is 331,000. link:www.whatreallyhappened.com www.whatreallyhappened.com You get 2,840 "Link Relevance", but the real number is 111,000. link:www.theultimateconspiracy.com www.theultimateconspiracy.com You get 0 "Link Relevance", but the real number is 56. They are even doing it to popular alternative media sites like Huffingtonpost.com link:www.huffingtonpost.com www.huffingtonpost.com You get 47,000 "Link Relevance", but the real number is 851,000. Now, let's turn the tables and do a link search on a popular Neo-Con supporting website called Hotair.com, run by the Fox News Shill Michelle Malkin. link:www.hotair.com www.hotair.com You get 11,400 "Link Relevance", and the real number is 526. How about doing a search on Michelle Malkin's personal site. link:www.michellemalkin.com www.michellemalkin.com You get 38,200 "Link Relevance", and the real number is 15,900. Notice how the numbers are flipped? This should have ANY webmaster up in arms. Blatant censorship being implemented to keep the alternative media down and promote the Neo-Con Draconian agendas. Did Google not think that somebody would figure this out eventually? Did they not think that this very noticeable censorship would go unchecked forever? I urge ALL Webmasters, Alternative Media Users, and anybody who cares about how sites are indexed on Google to contact them en mass and state your dissatisfaction about suppressing "Link Relevance". If Google gave sites like Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com the "Link Relevance" that they deserve, these alternative media sites would be in direct competition with Main Stream Media sites that so dominate the Internet as we know it today. Nothing like beating the competition by eliminating them, right Google ? source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted March 18, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2008 Uh, that's completely retarded. I just did a search for Neowin both ways and got ~4000 for the link search and 207000 for the regular search. This article is completely incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Veteran Posted March 18, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2008 Blah blah blah conspiracy theories from people who think they know how Google's algorithms work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted March 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2008 Since when were 9/11 conspiracy sites classified as "competitors" of Google. Since when was Google's main business news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted March 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2008 LOL, thats some hilariously skewed logic they have right there :rofl: theyre searching for 2 completely different search terms :blink: nothing like a bit of sensationalism though eh :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted March 23, 2008 Veteran Share Posted March 23, 2008 I have a link farm generator that promotes all sites to #1 for sale if anyone is interested seriously, someone is just trying to get attention with a skewed idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted March 23, 2008 Subscriber¹ Share Posted March 23, 2008 They're conspiracy theorists. Of course they're going to be spouting inaccurate and twisted figured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Null Zen Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Neo-Con Draconian agendas. Gotta love those technical terms :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 a site including the text www.neowin.net does not mean it links to it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
episode Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Uhm, that article is from September. Why post it now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokeripa Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 Uhm, that article is from September. Why post it now? This isn't a news section... I'm not entirely sure about Google, they seem a bit 'too good to be true' with the sweet tools and features they have, but some seems a bit suspicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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