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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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Fred --

Yesterday's disappointing election results show deep discontent with the pace of change. I know the OFA community and the President share that frustration.

We also saw what we knew to be true all along: Any change worth making is hard and will be fought at every turn. While it doesn't take away the sting of this loss, there is no road to real change without setbacks along the way.

We could have simply sought to do things that were easy, that wouldn't stir up controversy. But changes that aren't controversial rarely solve the problem.

Our country continues to face the same fundamental challenges it faced yesterday. Our health care system still needs reform. Wall Street still needs to be held accountable. We still need to create good jobs. And we still need to continue building a clean energy economy.

The President isn't walking away from these challenges. In fact, his determination and resolve are only stronger. We must match that commitment with our own.

But it won't be easy. Real change never is. For that reason, I am grateful you're part of this fight with us.

Thank you,

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Dear Fred,
The people of Illinois deserve better than Roland Burris, the machine-backed Senator who was appointed by a corrupt governor to represent you. But as Scott Brown's stunning Senatorial victory yesterday in Massachusetts shows, no political machine can stand up to the will of the people.
The Democrats threw the kitchen sink at Scott Brown in their effort to keep "Ted Kennedy's seat," as they called it. But thanks to grassroots leaders like you, Fred, our Party had the resources to take back what is really the "people's seat" for the first time in over 48 years.
Republicans now have the 41st vote we need in the U.S. Senate to break Harry Reid's filibuster-proof majority and put the brakes on Obama's radical tax-and-spend, big government agenda. And it's the vote we need to stop the Obama Democrats' disastrous government takeover of our health care system.
This is our Party's first victory of 2010 -- and it won't be our last. Republicans will build on the momentum from our big win in Massachusetts, but our candidates across the country and at all levels are counting on your continuing support of the Republican National Committee for the resources they need to organize strong campaigns.
Please help keep our Party on track to nationwide victories in the upcoming mid-term elections by making a secure online contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or more to the RNC today.
With your continuing support, we will retake the U.S. House, reclaim the U.S. Senate and elect more Republican governors and state legislators in 2010. Thank you again for helping our Party make history last night in Massachusetts.
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Quick Fact: Examiner, Fox Nation (again) misuse "nuclear option" term
Both the Washington Examiner and Fox Nation falsely described the budget reconciliation process as the "nuclear option," despite the fact that the "nuclear option" actually refers to a procedure that would be used to change Senate rules. Reconciliation requires no such rule changes and has been used many times in the past. Read More
Media advance dubious claim that MA Senate election was a referendum on Obama
The Associated Press, the New York Post, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough advanced the claim that the Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election was, in Scarborough's words, "a rejection of Barack Obama." But election night polling showing that the majority of Massachusetts voters approve of Obama's job performance undermines this claim, and Scott Brown himself has stated that the race was "not a referendum on Obama." Read More
Right-wing media claim MA election is evidence Obama should move to the right
Right-wing pundits are pointing to Martha Coakley's loss in the Massachusetts Senate race as evidence that President Obama and congressional Democrats should move to govern from the center, despite the fact that exit polls show that the Massachusetts election was not a referendum on Obama. Read More
Morris fudges budget numbers while grading Obama's first year
Purporting to grade President Obama's first year in office, Dick Morris falsely attributed to Obama all of the federal spending and deficit from fiscal year 2009, which began in October 2008. Morris therefore ignored spending that took place under President Bush from October 1, 2008, to January 20, 2009, including significant outlays committed by the federal government in response to the recession, as well as the impact of the recession itself on the federal budget. Read More
Right-wing media ran with Fund's made-up claim that Rep. Frank was planning universal voter registration
After Wall Street Journal writer John Fund told a crowd at a David Horowitz Freedom Center forum that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) were planning on introducing legislation that would lead to universal voter registration, the claim was repeated by numerous right-wing media outlets despite the fact that Fund provided no evidence for his claim. After Frank wrote a letter to Fund denying that he was introducing such legislation, Fund retracted his statement that Frank was pushing any such legislation. Read More
Doocy ignored key fact rendering MA not a "big indicator" of national health care attitudes
Tracking talking points advanced by Republican lawmakers in response to Senator-elect Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy asserted that the election "may be a big indicator on how people across the country really feel about health care reform in the United States." However, Massachusetts is not representative of the nation as a whole since it already has a health care program that insures nearly all residents -- a unique situation that allowed Brown to argue that Massachusetts would not benefit from health care reform. Read More
Politico cites GOP polling firm on health care reform, omits ties to health care industry
A Politico article cited exit polling data from Republican firm Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, in asserting that opposition to health care reform "was the most important issue" in Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate election. Politico made no mention of the fact that some of Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates' clients have expressed opposition to aspects of health care reform legislation, including the U.S. Chamber of Congress, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, and the American Health Care Association. Read More
Wash. Times tries in vain to link Obama to New Black Panthers
The Washington Times attacked the Obama White House in an editorial for supposedly interfering in a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. But the Times editorial relied on falsehoods and distortions, such as the false suggestion that the Justice Department completely dropped the voter intimidation case. Read More
Luntz's Fox News focus group participants echo Fox News talking points
During Fox News' January 19 coverage of Massachusetts' Senate race election returns, Fox News' Frank Luntz conducted a focus group with Bay State voters, many of whom were critical of Democratic actions on health care reform and other issues. The focus group participants' remarks echoed talking points frequently advanced on Fox News. Read More
Beck baselessly suggests "White House or Congress" plotted to "bury" pre-scheduled Salahi testimony on "busy news day"
Glenn Beck questioned why the "White House or Congress" would schedule the testimony of the "gate-crashers" Michaele and Tareq Salahi for January 20, baselessly suggesting that they "had the story planted today ... to bury it in a busy news day while everyone else was distracted," presumably by Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate election. But the House Homeland Security Committee ordered the Salahis to appear at the January 20 committee hearing in early December. Read More
Quick Fact: Beck reiterates misleading smears of Stern
Glenn Beck claims that President Obama is "in danger" because his supporters include "violent radicals" like SEIU president Andy Stern, who Beck described as "leading White House visitor. 'Workers of the world Unite. It's not just a slogan anymore." In fact, Politifact has rated Beck's prior claim that Stern was "the most frequent visitor at the White House" as "false," and in discussing his use of the "workers of the world unite" slogan, Stern said that "the good news is communism's dead." Read More
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A Brief History of SEO




 

 
         
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A Brief History of SEO
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of designing and creating content that will result in increased amounts of quality traffic to a website via "organic" or un-paid search engine results.

Webmasters and internet content providers started doing SEO in the mid-90s. However, what actually constitutes SEO work has changed as the field evolved over the years, sometimes rather drastically.

The Early Years

According to Danny Sullivan, a respected search engine industry analyst, the actual term "search engine optimization" started being used around 1997. But even before that, in the early days of Yahoo!, people were already starting to mess around with SEO concepts, testing out different keywords and different keyword densities and placement.

In the early days of search engines, webmasters needed only to submit their page addresses or URLs to the various search engines, who would then send spiders to crawl through and index the sites. As soon as people started to realize the value of having their websites show up on the first page of SERPS, they began looking for ways of manipulating the search engines indexing algorithms.

Back then, search algorithms relied on on-site information to determine page rankings. In other words, they relied on information that was provided by the webmaster, things like keyword density, meta tags and index files. All people needed to do was put in the right keywords in the sufficient density and they would start seeing front-page SE rankings in no-time. Web content providers also started manipulating HTML source attributes to get clients higher rankings. This started to result in the SERPS becoming unreliable, often filled with spam pages whose keyword tags did not accurately represent the pages' actual content.

 


 

The first algorithm crackers appeared around '97. By decoding a search engine's ranking algorithm, which at the time was nowhere near impossible, unscrupulous webmasters could get sites into the top 10 results at will. 1997 was the year that several SEO providers decoded all 35 parameters of Excite's algorithm.

A Shift, And the Arrival of Google

Relying so much on on-site factors like keyword density, which could be directly manipulated by webmasters, to determine their rankings had gotten search engines in trouble. To make search results useful to internet users, search engines had to find another method of ranking pages that actually reflected a page's value and search relevance.

More complex algorithms started being developed that took into account off-site factors. Things like link pop and directory age become important ranking determinants, and cracking SE algorithms becomes a more difficult and sophisticated task.

At this point, Alta Vista was ahead of the pack and the rest of internet users were evenly split between Lycos, Yahoo!, MSN and InfoSeek. Despite the improved algorithms, black hat SEOs were still finding ways to manipulate them, and page jacking and site theft was rampant.

Google, a company founded in September 4, 1998 by Stanford grad students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google's algorithm, PageRank, determines site rankings by measuring the quantity and quality of their inbound links. Google's superior, relevant search results immediately attracted a loyal following, and competing search engines started to realize the importance of keeping up with Google's new page ranking methodology.

 


 

As the new millennium comes around, Google is solidifying its spot as the de-facto engine, while engines like Infoseek are becoming part of SEO and Internet history. By 2001, users are abandoning search engines like Lycos, Excite, AltaVista and Hotbot.

The Google Age

By 2004, the three major search engines that are left, Google, MSN and Yahoo!, start incorporating undisclosed page ranking factors into their algorithms. The era of keyword-spamming SEO is long over. Webmasters and content providers have to rely on more creative ways to promote content and generate inbound links in order to achieve long term increases in SE rankings.

In 2005, Google starts personalizing search results, taking into account a user's search history to come up with customized results pages when that user is logged in. In 2007, Google starts a campaign against paid links affecting PageRank. In 2009, the company announces it is attempting to stop the effects of PageRank sculpting that come as a result of nofollow links.

Today, SEO is, for the most part, a conversation with Google Search. Google has over 70% of today's search engine users and is thus the place you have to be in in order to start driving organic traffic your way. SEO campaigns are much more laborious and complex now than they were a decade ago, but this is largely a good thing. Users get better relevant results and webmasters and content providers have to provide actual value in order to rank high on search results.

About the Author: Ryan Frank - For more information about search engine optimization or to inquire about a variety of great SEM marketing services, please visit http://www.bestrank.com.

 
















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