The Guardian reports that the PCC has rejected all the complaints (more than 25,000) about Jan Moir’s article about Stephen Gately.
As it’s late, I shall limit myself to comparing the reported ruling with the original article …
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While idly checking Google’s results for a Jan Moir search, I noticed that a top-10 result for the Angry Mob’s site – a post from September called Jan Moir: I’m thinking she’s a piece of sh*t – has been toned down in Google’s results.
So does Google edit out swear words for popular searches? Or has it done a manual hack on this one post to spare Jan’s blushes? The evidence is leaning towards the latter …
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The furore over Jan Moir has thrown up several interesting SEO issues. Here’s a basic one – how should you link to something you detest?
The problem with linking
Put simply, Google counts a link to a page / website as a vote for that page / website. So everyone who blogged about, and linked to, Jan [...]
There’s a lot to remember when you’re running around in a social media storm, as Jan Moir discovered last week. It would seem that updating meta descriptions isn’t high on the list …
The meta description on the Jan Moir article about Stephen Gately’s death still reads: Our columnist asks why no-one will face up to the sordid reality of the Boyzone star’s demise.
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As part of the fuss over Jan Moir, the Daily Mail ended up changing the headline and the URL of its story and 301 redirecting the old URL to the new one. I wondered what would happen to the Sidewikis written on the original URL. The answer: the Sidewikis remain with a message saying they were originally about a previous URL.
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Update Rachel has commented below that she and others on a Facebook group had been even more proactive and along with others had been phoning the press offices / media buyers of the relevant advertisers. So I’m not sure I should claim too much credit for this …
Original post: Oh my God, we’ve won. I [...]
Update According to Google, at 2.45pm, Jan Moir is the 42nd most popular search in the last hour. The Mail must be loving the traffic they are getting. So, why don’t you try contacting the advertisers on that page to let them know what you think of their brand sitting alongside the story? Try retweeting [...]
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