So, for some time now I have been a ‘relevance’ junkie as far as the future of organic search technologies go. Early last year it was Semantics ( LSA/I and their ilk) and it soon migrated to Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval, ( which I lovingly began to call PaIR)

I stopped by a fellow warriors SEO Blog and noticed he was relating a suspicion that ‘phrase based’ technologies could be at play. ‘Somebody at Webmaster-Talk said that Google was going to use ‘phrase-checking’ to see if a site is being google-bombed.’

While going through some G Patents the other day I noticed an interesting couple of descriptions that sounded a lot like they were pulled from the pages from the Death of the GoogleBomb. I will allow U fine folks to make your own decisions… so here they are;

Online news and the Art of Link baiting

Is it just me, or is everyone in a hurry to linkbait? Link baiting in the world of online publishing is kinda like ‘getting the scoop’ for a Brick and Mortar new outlet. I think the difference is that you don’t care if it’s THE SCOOP or that anyone else has the story. You only care about getting it out FIRST and hopefully creating a little BUZZ while you’re at it (the love me – hate me approach)

The hope is that you can get a whack of links to your story (for credibility or infamy, it matters not). This is the basics of linkbaiting in the online publishing world…