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[patent trolling] Warren Buffet patents S.E.O strategy

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I feel like any regular SEO advice book has most of the steps of the claims of this patent.

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a document containing content for distribution via one or more online media distribution channels;

You write a web page

analyzing a structure of the document; determining optimal modifications to the structure of the document;

You should put your navigation after your content

analyzing keyword frequency and keyword positions in the content of the document, the keyword frequency and keyword positions being analyzed relative to historical data obtained from one or more of the online media distribution channels;

Here are some buzzwords that have been picked up by search engines in the past ("keyword frequency," "historical data"). Search engines pick them up when they are in the meta tags ("keyword positions").

determining optimum modifications to the keywords in the content of the document based on the structured document;

Thus, you should put those keywords in the meta tags.

displaying recommended structural changes to the document based on the structured document modification and recommended keyword modifications to the content in the document to a user in a graphical user interface;

This is just automation of what an SEO book teaches. It is well-established that automation of a known process is obvious.

receiving input from the user adopting one or more of the structural changes or the keyword modifications to the content; and initiating distribution of the document via one or more of the online media distribution channels.

You modify your web page and put it online.

Agreed, what the article showed as a flowchart is obvious to anyone with a rudimentary skill in the art of software design.

The misleading linkbait title should be changed, just because a company that Warren Buffet invested in via his investment company has taken some action it doesn't mean that WB did it.

Business Wire is a private company fully owned by BH, not an investment.

That still does not mean Warren did it. If you are the general in an army, you don't necessarily approve every last thing your lieutenants get up to.

Could I patent basic problem solving skills and then sue someone who uses them to solve problems? Where will this madness end?

I want to patent the process of using analogies to teach others. Everyone everywhere must cease thinking because they are infringing on my discoveries.

That's neither a machine or a method of doing business, so it's not patentable. It doesn't help the argument to pretend the patent system is even broader than it is. This patent isn't on "SEO for press releases", it's for a machine which performs a process including an expert system which evaluates rules to provide keyword suggestions... etc. Unless your machine works the same it doesn't infringe. The idea is not what's protected.

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