Re: suppressing other peoples website from appearing in Google

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:30:31 +0000

Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
>
>About 2 weeks ago my website of :
>
>www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
>
>was seen as about the number 7th website to appear on Google under a
>search of Archimedes Plutonium.
>
>But since those 2 weeks this website is not seen at all in Google.
>
>Perhaps it is in the process of being moved up from 7th to 3rd or even
>1st because that is my homeweb site after www.archimedesplutonium.com
>was disabled.
>
>However, there is another explanation, a sinister one. It could be that
>some suppressionist bully or some prankster knows of a "no see 'um"
>application that knocks out websites to where you cannot see them on
>Google.
>
>So I put the question to the web newsgroups. Is there an easy way of
>writing a web page such that it causes another webpage to be knocked
>out.

No. I have studied this question rather extensively. Your drop in
the Google rankings came at the last change of the Google algorothms.

I can, however, tell you how to get back on top.

STEP ONE:

On your web page you write

  "My old website of www.archimedesplutonium.com is discontinued."

That webpage ranks number one but has no content. You should
follow the advice that Google gives about changing URLs at
[ http://www.google.com/remove.html#change_url ] which says

  "If your old URLs redirect to your new site using HTTP 301
   (permanent) redirects, our crawler will know to use the new
    URL. Changes made in this way will take 6-8 weeks to be
    reflected in Google."

Do a HTTP 301 redirect from [ http://www.archimedesplutonium.com/ ]
to [ http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ ] and you will soon be ranked
number one once again.

STEP TWO

[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Plutonium ] has a link
to your old URL. Contact them and have them link to the new one.
repeat for every site that ranks higher than yours on a Google
search for "Archimedes Plutonium". Google moves you up in the
listings when other high-ranked webpages link to yours.

STEP THREE

Write valid HTML code. Go to [ http://validator.w3.org/ ] and
correct all the errors that cause it to not validate.

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