I'm trying to find a source for this statement:

"There are other important factors for page ranking. If you link to yourself (i.e. with your own website) a million times, it will not affect page rank. Why? Because sites with their own IP address do not contribute to the value of a website link. This is pretty clever because Google realized that if you linked to your website a million times on your own site, you could artificially make it appear higher in search rankings. Which is why Google designed this formula to avoid this potential issue."

Unfortunately, I can't find a source for this at the moment but I remember reading it and it makes sense. If you link to yourself, it is not a good indicator that other websites "value" your content. It would be easy to "cheat" by linking to your own website. What brings visibility to web content is that it is linked to by other websites.

Think a start your own 9/11 blog campaign can't make a difference?

A 9/11 blog creation and linking campaign would work and bring more visibility to 9/11 truth. Understanding how the internet works and understanding how to effectively promote 9/11 information is how the 9/11 truth movement can be successful.

As a funny side note:

"A Google bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions.[1] Because of the way that Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if many sites link to the page in this manner. Google bomb is used both as a verb and a noun. The phrase "Google bombing" was introduced to the New Oxford American Dictionary in May 2005.[2] Google bombing is closely related to spamdexing, the practice of deliberately modifying HTML pages to increase the chance of their being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a misleading or dishonest manner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

"After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it's part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working."
http://searchengineland.com/070125-230048.php
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http://www.livevideo.com/video/40CF8B6BC6E14B1AB23994ED73977F75/in-bound...

"page rank is influenced significantly by the amount of people that link to your site... you do want external links that link to your site... these can come from a number of sources. The top four sources would be blogs, authoritative sites (government sites), articles... and press releases. My preference among all of those... is blogs. Links from blogs is an easy way to get links back to your site."

In other words, by creating 9/11 blogs and collectively linking to 9/11 websites (like 911blogger, 911truth.org, and 911research), you are increasing the visibility of these and other 9/11 truth websites to new visitors. By cross posting your blogs at 911blogger and your own site, you are increasing the visibility of 9/11 information.
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