Interesting… If Happy People Killing Themselves Seems Odd to You

As more and more reports emerge about the activities of James Arthur Ray (he who killed my brother) and JRI (James Ray International) emerge, a certain stink begins to waft about – first slender tendrils of stink which hint – then on to discover the source of the stink, one finds all manner of tragedy, negligence, and greed – a steamy pile of James Arthur Ray in the corner of the living room that someone other than James Arthur Ray will have to clean up.

Here is an interesting blog. Did Colleen Conaway really throw herself to her own doom? Here is a great post.

BTW – there is an art in the land of Search Engine Marketing called “Brand Protection” or “Reputation Management” – wherein a business hires a Search Engine Mktg company to scour the intratubals looking for negative press and combating negative search results with extremely expensive SEM techniques – essentially, so that when one searches for “James Arthur Ray,” one sees benign  results, rather than natural (organic) search results… which, un-manipulated,  would by this time be top to bottom results speaking to James Arthur Ray’s negligence and current/ongoing troubles (re: negative press).

It is my professional opinion James Arthur Ray and James Ray International have hired a very adept SEM company to unnaturally impact the natural (organic) rankings. What this means is that they are astroturfing the Search Engines, skewing the organic results in order to protect the brand that is James A Ray.

It is not cheap.

UPDATE: MilwaukeeSEO, Anthony “Don’t Call me Tony” Verre, indicates that it is unlikely, based on his analysis, JARay is doing any sort of Search Engine Astroturfing. Sez Mr. Verre, SEM Expert Extraordinaire (my go to now that my business partner is dead) “if James Ray has contracted a SEM firm, they suck at their job.”