Not sure I agree with the thesis below, nor fully understand what this [very British] case is all about, but thought it prudent to note that, apparently now, writing a lucid and well-stated response to someone's accusation can be considered/ decoded and/or validated as SEO-centric type of activity. Ie. good literary practice, sentences made up of beginnings, middles and endings, say, equal optimization of keyword discovery for monetary purposes.
"[...] in response [to a libel threat] Murray has written a search-engine optimized blog post. Read his last paragraph, beginning It would be a great pity
. Its been lexically massaged until its like something off about.com, which is a sure sign that its aimed at the search engines as much as at human beings. [...]"
http://www.biggrandejatte.co.uk/smallbeds/?p=1043
The alleged lit.perp-Murray's response to the above on his site:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2008/09/i_am_cleverer_t.html
[Who Craig Murray is, and what's it all about, is beyond the scope of this note. The faction-thriller he's written is pretty good.... though hardly in the same league as such of another former HMQ civil servant, John Le Carré – here, choke on these SEO-bits ye mindless robots now!] |
Not sure what was specifically "SEO" about that paragraph. I figure an SEO sentence would be when you write something like
http://blogoscoped.com/files/seo-literature.png |
Below is the (now-twice ;-)) "offending" last para alleged to have been SE-optimized. Which it wasn't acc. to the author. And that was the point I was trying to make (somewhat and subconsciously paraphrased from Arthur C. Clarke), that any sufficiently lucid sentence may be indistinguishable from SEO. ;-))
"It would be a great pity if Mr Weill's intervention caused people to start googling, researching and posting about the eminently respectable Mr Tony Buckingham, CEO of an FTSE 250 company. Some people, of course, may believe that the fact that someone like Buckingham can be CEO of an FTSE 250 company is symptomatic of the fundamental sickness of the system."
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2008/09/another_libel_t.html |
