Comments on: National Pork Board Goes After Breastfeeding Search Marketer

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:40:06 +0000

Dear Danny:

Thanks for taking a stand on this. The breastfeeding cause deserves support.

Yours truly,
Sam

P.S. If the National Pork Board does not back off, I am going off pork completely.

By: chris boggs

chris boggs — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:16:43 +0000

WOW. Just finally got online today to find this. What an amazing crock. I really hope that one of the major networks runs with this. I also would love to see someone do a handwriting analysis of the lawyer’s signature on the PDF.

The fact that they insinuate that it violates their trademark is one thing, but the pork board made a HUGE mistake in claiming that she was promoting something other than the breastfeeding of children in this campaign. Only the same people that would think the idea of a “pork board” was kind of funny would even possibly think that (except Ian :p).

What a bunch of idiots.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:37:39 +0000

“I did, not that you can find the article in Google anywhere” …

Hey, that’s interesting. I dug around:

The Miserable Failure Of A Google Bombs Article Search Ranking

You can find it high ranked for many phrases but not others, seems to be different algorithms depending on something (maybe anchor text phrase popularity).

By: sportsguy

sportsguy — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:46:02 +0000

Time for a pork roast, I say. :)

Man, never thought I’d see the day when Piglet would go postal, but here we are.

Consider this all linked up.

Sad – lawyers trying to justify their retainers, IMO.

Go Jen!

By: Neuro

Neuro — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:38:19 +0000

I thought every one knew that Spoo was the "Other White Meat". Did JMS ever get a letter from the Pork Board

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:13:22 +0000

Great idea Danny – count me in.

Hmmm – Jennifer may soon be able to say she’s got the Pork Board by their Oscar Mayer —- ?

By: randfish

randfish — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:14:15 +0000

OK, I’m with you Danny. The whole – don’t make pull this “nofollow” off my link thing is pretty awesome, actually. Like putting on the brass knuckles and rubbing them without actually hitting the guy.

You really are the Tony Soprano of the search world. :)

By: Bill Slawski

Bill Slawski — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:56:33 +0000

The National Pork Board is comprised of members of the Pork Industry appointed and overseen by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). It’s possible that some complaints to US Senators and Representatives could have some impact upon this, too.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:35:41 +0000

OK, to be clear, I was saying that they’ve given Jennifer a deadline of Feb. 5. My suggestion is the search marketing community give them the same deadline to back off. If they don’t, then the link bomb goes off. I mean, they deserve some dose of bad publicity from this, but they also deserve a chance to do the right thing.

By: randfish

randfish — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:20:48 +0000

Danny, why are you using a “nofollow”? Do you not actually support Jennifer’s effort to take over those rankings? Were you paid for that link? Do you not editorially vouch for the quality of her blog?

Very confusing…