A friend sent me a link to a podcast (mp3 file) for a radio show by Michael Savage. Forward to 19 minutes in the show and you’ll hear Joseph Farah owner/editor of WorldNetDaily claiming that Google, Bing and other search engines are burying his website’s pages. His website writes “anti Obama” stories and seeking Obama’s birth certificate. He mentions (about 27:30) that Google showed “dozens of stories for Obama Birth Certificate from his website till yesterday”, but today he claims that his website is burried on the search engines. He believes that Obama/whitehouse forces are behind pushing his website down on the search engines.
It is not very clear if Joe is talking about Google Web search or Google News. I assume he is talking about Google News, as he mentions “dozens of stories were displayed”. Google web only shows 2 pages from a given website on any SERP. It is not that difficult to figure out that the old news gets buried and new stories show up on the top as time passes by. He probably was the biggest source writing about the stories a few days ago and enjoyed the higher rankings. He himself claims that all the other big news sources are writing about it, which clearly explains why he dropped.
I checked Google and currently WorldNetDaily’s page ranks 13th. I haven’t checked backlinks for the website, but just looking at the website’s SEO I think he should be happy that his website ranked high (as claimed by him) till yesterday. I don’t know if Obama has a birth certificate or not or if it is fake, but I do know that WorldNetDaily should optimize their website for the search engines if they want to rank high for any keywords.
Photo Credits: Bonzo Mcgure
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