[familyop]

Nope. FR still gets a couple of hits from content keywords alone, just like the other sites. And if you want hits only from FR, do like the following.

keywords here site:freerepublic.com

[rabscuttle385]

On January 30, a Freeper calling herself Sioux-san had posted Dr. Yeagley's article...

*Ping!*

[Cindy]

http://www.google.com

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=freerepublic.com&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=freerepublic&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

[2ndDivisionVet]

And this surprises someone?

[sionnsar]

Google is my search engine of last resort. I much prefer Dogpile, using Google only if Dogpile fails.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I don’t know if Google is censoring FR, but I strongly suspect that some colleges in the Twin Cities metro are filtering FR from their machines. You can type in the URL and get there by link, but the browsers do not retain FR’s addy and error screens are common.

[George Smiley]

I’ve quit using Google and use ixquick instead.

You can even substitute it for Google on the IE7 toolbar.

[TASMANIANRED]

Needs to sue them.

[3D-JOY]

I would be interested in any available follow up information on this “blocking”.

I just checked out the site and saw the story of the confiscated bumper sticker. I have had 3 removed in parking lots.

I am looking for a Tea Party one now.

THEY ARE COMING FOR US ALL!

[Aliska]

I used the advance search for an old post I didn't remember much about as to keywords. It came right up, but then it wasn't the right page. I tinkered for a bit then found it.

Google I use almost exclusively. Habit. Often recent regular google searches, FR comes up near the top, don't see any reason to worry about it yet.

[neefer]

Last night I was on an FR gun control thread. Went to Google in an attempt to find more info about the Hungarian Revolution and guns. To my surprise, Google listed that very thread at the top of the results page. Thread was only about an hour old.

[Plutarch]

We should conduct an experiment. Various links are posted at FR, and Freepers click on them. The statistics from the receiving links are tallied, these are compared to the Google stats.

To add a control, Freepers would be directed to a neutral third link, and there click on the target link. If Google tallies from the the neutral links, but not FR, then Google has some explaining to do.

[snarks_when_bored]

I’ve not read the piece referred to in this post, but I remember reading a Yeagley piece a year or two ago about white women (at FrontPageMagazine.com, I believe). If it wasn’t satire, it was repellent; if it was satire, it was poorly done. Yeagley needs to work on his writing chops.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They have also been removing unfavorable images and cartoons targeted at Obama. There seems to be a general cleansing of conservative content. Orwellian.

[PGalt]

Interesting & an interesting thread. Thanks for posting. BTTT!

[GOPJ]

Richard - you have a way of finding the great stuff to post. You’re a FreeRepublic treasure. Hope I’m still on the ping list...

[KarinG1]

Forgive my ignorance, but I don’t see why Google Analytics would know anything about traffic coming to your site from FR. I searched for the site name you mentioned at Google using FR as the source and this thread was the second result.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=BadEagle.com+site:freerepublic.com&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[aimhigh]

When I do a Google search for BadEagle.com, the first listing is for BadEagle. The second listing has the following text:

Oct 11, 2006 ... On the outside one would never guess that Badeagle.com is a site filled with Hate Speech preaching White Supremacy and the hatred of Blacks, ...

That has to turn a lot of people away from the site. I'm curious if Google placed it there on purpose.

[BufordP]

I use Firefox with the NoScript add-on. With the NoScript add-on I can selectively allow/disallow scripts to run on Firefox. For the most part, I do not allow google-analytics scripts to run at any time. How many other Freepers are doing the same I can't say. But it would probably explain why google would not get any stats from me.

[Boucheau]

I do quite a bit of SEO work and this may be the result of the absence of rel=”nofollow” tags for outbound links.

Google is trying to limit link “spamming” by “asking” forums, the developers of forum/blog/cms, etc., software to include the rel=”nofollow” tags.

It became common practice to “spam” forums with links to your site to build “link popularity”, traffic and to ultimately rank higher in the search engines.

This often works against Google’s relevancy goals.

I only looked at the source briefly but I didn’t find any such code.

Maybe Jim has another method.

My two cents.