SEO Gorilla
Written by Jay on July 13, 2008 – 6:18 pm
I’ve always been a little freaked out by gorillas. Not that I’ve seen them often enough to form any real opinions of them, but on the few occasions that I have observed them in their faux-natural habitat, when they are not eating their own vomit; they seem to enjoy staring at me. It is the stare that disturbs me because it is all too human – I would not be surprised if they began speaking. This may be directly related to the number of times I have watched the 1983 movie Trading Places.
I only mention gorillas because for a while, if you search on Google for gorilla, this site would come up. (It does not today – Google has discovered that my site has nothing to do with gorillas, apparently.) I wrote a post a while back about the gorillas at the Denver Zoo, and it had a nice image of a gorilla. (I can not remember if I took this picture, or if I happened upon it on the internet – it was a long time ago.) This image seemed popular with folks searching for gorilla, so it moved up and up on Google Images until, tada, first page.
That’s right, little ol’ Unfocused Content got on the front page of Google for a keyword. Though, as I have mentioned, this site isn’t so much about gorillas as, say, the Wikipedia article about gorillas. Still, front page, ya know. So, I started thinking maybe I should capitalize on this rare and possibly one-time occurrence. Now, I couldn’t really begin to write about gorillas because (a) that would be boring and (b) I know literally nothing about gorillas, (and by literally, I mean I know very little) but I could maybe find something related to gorillas that would dovetail with a humor blog. (semi-humor blog.) So, I did some research.
You probably don’t know this, but people don’t really care that much about gorillas. I mean, as a species, we’re all pretty sure that it would be bad if they were all gone, and we’re hoping someone somewhere is trying to save them and stuff, but we don’t really think about gorillas much beyond that. The best I could come up with was to throw some ads for gorilla glue in to the sidebar. Not as an affiliate, but just because I liked the company and thought that people should use it. Except, and I hesitate to share this, as my affiliate status with gorilla glue is still pending (I sent them an email and asked if maybe they would start a program), but as I wrote last Halloween, I used the product, and I didn’t have much success.
So, the whole idea was a total bust, and now I’m not even on the first page, so the opportunity has been missed by me. (I don’t think that sentence could have been written any more passively by me – which proves that the missed opportunity was not my fault.)
Of course, in my other ventures, I am still chasing other keywords. Most of them are pretty good, (better than gorilla, for sure) and I don’t think anyone else has even thought of them. Stuff like “mortgage” and “web hosting.” I may even start a site called best-web-seogorilla-free123.info and write about all the money-making opportunities available on the internet. I should be a millionaire by October, I’m thinking.
PS - don’t you hate when emails have odd stuff in them like this - Why is that?
This is women’s tag watches is and wii fit reviews and also guitar hero wii and not to mention Croc Review how could I forget bluehost without did the Crocs and also (a long time ago mind you) the penguin webkins. also not mentioning used wii games there was also guitar hero wii and not to mention Croc Review how other stuff and when we did the Crocs and also (a long time ago mind you) the penguin webkins. That was really fun.
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July 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Isn’t it random how Google works? Someone once searched for “Old butt cheeks” and got MY blog. I once posted a “Wordless Wednesday” photo of a frighteningly old woman in a g-string. Guess it only takes once!