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NY Times Gay, Straight, Or Lying is on page 1 of google.com's results for "bisexual" (NOTE that to see it you have to go to and search with google.com, not googles local version for your country e.g. google.com.au or google.co.uk). To get to the international google.com, go to http://www.google.com/ncr .

For those that dont know, this article quotes dis-proven research that was done by a professor, who was later expelled from his university for using false data.

As a Search Engine Optimizer, basically I can see this has happened because alot of people are linking to this NY Times article directly, even some pro-bi websites in mentioning/discussing the article, are linking to it. This is just feeding the problem.

The other reason is the main bisexual sites are not linking to each other enough. This makes the results vulnerable to pages like the NY Times article. ( http://www.bisexual.com is an exception as it has a large links directly). Theres also not enough bi people setting up bi websites. There can never be “too many” bi sites that have links on them.

If your reading this and are concerned about it, there are some very simple, fast and easy things YOU can do right now, from your computer. With a concerted effort by may people, we can get this article off page 1 and beyond.

1. When you post to this forum, or any forums, add the following links to your signature. Use anchor text that contains the
word "Bisexual" if at all possible, for the links (if not, any link is better than no link). This will push these sites up the rankings and help push the NY Times article out onto page 2 and hopefully beyond.

Great bisexual sites -
http://www.bisexual.org http://www.bisexual.com http://www.bidownunder.com http://www.msu.edu/~alliance/faq/faqbisexuality.html http://www.bisexualplayground.com/ http://bisexualpassions.com/ http://ww.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-15-bisexual-women_N.htm http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ausbinet http://torontobinet.org http://bi.org/ http://www.bi-nsw.org.au

2. Set up your own free bisexual blog on blogs.com You can use an anonymous nickname if you like. Write one post to it, it can be about how good you think bisexuals are, or can be anything from a interesting personal story to voicing about an issue. Use blogs.com where possible as other blog sites add something called “nofollow” to their links, which stops them being useful.

Add the following links to the blog -
http://www.bisexual.org http://www.bisexual.com http://www.bidownunder.com http://www.msu.edu/~alliance/faq/faqbisexuality.html http://www.bisexualplayground.com/ http://bisexualpassions.com/ http://ww.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-15-bisexual-women_N.htm http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ausbinet http://torontobinet.org http://bi.org/ http://www.bi-nsw.org.au
Try to make the link text use the word "Bisexual" if you can, but any link is better than none.

Now- EVERYONE should do 1 and 2 because they take little time and effort. If you have time on your hands, please also do
3, 4, 5 and 6. I would also appreciate it if you re-posted this article to any bi internet forums that dont already have it posted in them.

3. Submit bisexual websites to social bookmarking sites like digg.com. There is a list of such websites to submit the links to at http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/do-follow-social-bookmarking-si... . More can be found by searching google for “Do-follow social bookmarking sites”.

Submit the following links where you can, with positive reviews -
http://www.bisexual.org http://www.bisexual.com http://www.bidownunder.com http://www.msu.edu/~alliance/faq/faqbisexuality.html http://www.bisexualplayground.com/ http://bisexualpassions.com/ http://ww.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-15-bisexual-women_N.htm http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ausbinet http://torontobinet.org http://bi.org/ http://www.bi-nsw.org.au

4. Go to http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/...
This will give you a list of sites linking to the NY Times article. To get that site of page 1 of the results, it will help
alot if those links are taken down.

Email the administrators/webmasters of the sites and politely ask them to take the links down. If you see the links mentioned
on any wikipedia pages edit the page yourself and take it down. (wikipedia is user editable, and the research has been shown to be
innacurate).

5. If you own a bisexual website/blog or have a blog/website of any kind, add the following links with the anchor text "bisexual".

http://www.bisexual.org http://www.bisexual.com http://www.bidownunder.com http://www.msu.edu/~alliance/faq/faqbisexuality.html http://www.bisexualplayground.com/ http://bisexualpassions.com/ http://ww.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-01-15-bisexual-women_N.htm http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ausbinet http://torontobinet.org http://bi.org/ http://www.bi-nsw.org.au

6. Ive taken a bit of time and effort to send this around the internet, where it will be noticed and acted upon. If you see a bi-related forum or mailing list that hasnt had this message posted in it, please “copy and paste” this entire message and send it to that forum/mailing list.

If possible make the link text use the word "Bisexual", but any link is better than none.

Also, Whatever you do - DO NOT link to the NY Times article, even just talking about it. Googles Web Robot sees a link as a "vote" for a page and each link pushes a sites rank up.

The pro-bi links ive mentioned in this article are random pro-bi ones I obtained by searching google as well as a few worthy
bi sites that I know of.

The more links we get to the legitimate and pro-bisexual sites and the more get taken down to the article in question, the
further back down the rankings the ny times article will go down in the rankings and the higher the pro-bi websites will go.

We need as many people as we can involved in this effort, so people dont get mis-informed. This is serious, so if you have time, get to doing the above things. If you don't have time, just do 1 and 2 as they require little effort and can be done in less than 20 minutes of your spare time.

Dont forget to re-post this message to any bi forums/mailing lists/newsgroups you come across that dont already have this message already posted, so we can get the whole community active in this. Also inform any active members of bi organisations that you know of personally.