Blogging must really be a powerful force
if it's filtered down to me. I knew blogs existed, even seen a couple
inadvertently, but to me they were the sort of things written by high
school girls or the terminally nerdy, filled with things such as,
"Joey and Carmella were at the mall. she was SOOO flaunting it in
front of me all 'he's with me biatch.' carmella is such a slut. she's
such a ho and someday joeys going see that and BEG me to take him
back just so he can get away from her. SHES THE BIATCH u readin this
???!! YOUR THE BIATCH!!!" (For the
absolutely clueless among you, all grammatical errors were on
purpose. Some people just don't get dialogue.)
Then there are those who use blog software
(or bulletin board messaging software) to lay out their entire site.
Ugh. It sears the aesthetic senses. If you're like me, unhip to the
blog vernacular, the site is an incomprehensible, innavigable mess.
(Another problem with such sites, they tend not to tell you what
they're about or what you're supposed to do at them. A confused mind
clicks out. But I digress....)
"Blogs -- They're Not Just For Teen Girls Anymore!"
Blogs have become big. Professionals
have blogs to dispense their views and opinions. Presidential
candidates have blogs.** Some
say blogs are the new personal home page. Who knew?
I came to blogs by way of something called
"Google
Bombing." Google has more or less dropped my web site from their
listings. I'm still indexed, but I don't come up when you search on
my name. None of my sites do anymore. Personally I think the only
whole site dedicated to a Gene
Nash should not only come up when you search on "Gene
Nash" but should probably be very near the top (or number one, as
I had been for years). One day I started dropping -- 4, 13 -- then I
was gone completely. Oh, I have theories as to why, but back to
blogging. Enter the Google
Bomb. I notice one of those 2 line blurbs at the bottom of
CNN Headline News mentioning
"google bombing." A short search engine trip later*** and I think,
"Ah-ha, I'm back in business."
The gist of google bombing is that Google's
results are based partly on the text used to link to a site.
Theoretically if enough sites used the text "Gene
Nash" to link to my site, I would again make the list and
hopefully rise back to the top. The primary and easiest way to do
this? Blogging. A cabal of bloggers use their linking power to
manipulate search engine results.
So, here I am blogging and "Gene
Nash" linking. It's a start. ****
Yours,
Gene Nash
* the REAL Mr.
Deeds, with Gary
Cooper, not that garbage with Adam
Sandler. I like Adam Sandler, but that was bad.
** Dean's
site is as bloated as a Liberal budget, mainly because of that
30' long left-side bar. C'mon, Dean, be man! Write your own blog!
*** Ironically the search engine I used to
look up "google bomb" was Google itself.
**** And no, this isn't the only blog I'm
starting, and they will all link back to my pathetic little
site.
P.S. --- Don't you hate footnotes? What kind
of pretentious S.O.B.'s use footnotes??
Update:
(January 1, 2004) It worked! I'm back
in Google's results and back to
number 1, for the time being anyway. Bwahahahaha!