Update: Read the apology

So you’re a Filipino angry at Desperate Housewives, and want to make sure your disdain is effective? Here’s something that’s much better than a boycott (which Karlo says won’t work anyway).

Ever heard of a Google bomb? A few years ago, if you searched for “Miserable Failure” on Google, the first result was a link to George W. Bush’s biography. Maybe you can also do that here. Just pick a web page talking about Teri Hatcher’s recent slur (like perhaps, the post I wrote yesterday or even the one you’re reading right now?) and link to it using the words “Desperate Housewives.”

I’m no SEO expert, but if enough people linked to the same page using the same words, it’s quite possible that that page would be the first result whenever anyone searches for “Desperate Housewives” on Google. Thus making the Teri Hatcher incident much more visible. I can imagine it now:

Executive: Chief, we’ve received a lot of hate mail about that line from Desperate Housewives.
President: So what? It’s more of the same. Keep the show running.
Executive: But chief, the line is now #1 on Google for Desperate Housewives!
President: What?! Get an apology ready, we’re pulling the show.

I’m kidding of course. It’s not like Desperate Housewives’s primary audience are mostly Filipinos. But I still think that gaining visibility by ranking high on search engines is much more effective than calls for boycott. At the very least, more non-Filipinos would take note.

I now open the floor to anyone who’s into SEO (Like Marc, Marghil, Ely, and Riz): is Google bombing still that effective at gaining attention?