Help Googlebomb my free music downloads article

[Michael D. Crawford]

A few months ago I wrote an article that points out lots of ways you can enjoy
free music downloads without getting into trouble. The article is "Links to
Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads" at:

http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html

I posted the link to alt.music.mp3 last month.

In writing my article, I also aimed to educate the users of the peer-to-peer
networks on the history of copyright law, and to point out that in the U.S.,
copyright is not a Constitutional right. There are enough people using the p2p
networks that if you all became politically active, you could reform the
copyright laws, and make the sharing of files - any files - completely legal.

My article further suggests some steps to make this happen, ranging from
speaking out, to practicing civil disobedience.

I seem to have struck a chord. My web server logs tell me that traffic to my
article is steadily growing. Right now it's getting around a thousand hits a day.

But that's not enough traffic for my article to reach enough file traders for
them to effect get the copyright laws changed with this year's election. So I'm
trying to get even more people to read my article. I want all sixty million
American p2p users to read my article by the time of the November election.

If you agree with what I have to say, and feel it's important for others to read
it, here's how you can help: please Googlebomb my article with the phrase "free
music downloads". When the Google search engine sees you linking my article
that way, it will boost my article's ranking for the query "free music downloads".

What I'd like you to do is link to my article from ANYWHERE on the web, such as
your homepage, your weblog, or on message boards, with the text of the link
being the phrase "free music downloads". Here's how to do it in an HTML page:

<a href="http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html">free music
downloads</a>

Or for the message boards that use "BB code":

[url=http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html]free music downloads[/url]

I chose the phrase "free music downloads" because my web server logs tell me
lots of people search for it, yet my article is just on Google's second page of
search results for the query. If you help me out this way, you could move it to
Google's first page, or even make it the #1 hit. If that happened, far more
people would read my article.

As an example, try out the query "miserable failure" at Google, to see the
results of an online battle between the left wing and right wing in the US. Or,
search for "litigious bastards" to find the company that's been giving the Free
Software community such grief.

You can find more details about my article's statistics at this page:

http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads-stats.html

Note the spike in activity back in September, starting the day the RIAA sued 261
file traders.

Please note that I didn't write the article for any commercial purpose, but
because I'm genuinely trying to do some good.

Thanks for your help,

Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com/
craw...@goingware.com

Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.