If most of us saw a rabid spider monkey, I believe the first thought that would probably occur to us would be, “Oh, look, a monkey. I love monkeys.” However, once we noticed the foaming mouth and beady little eyes bent on our destruction, we might think twice and run in the opposite direction. Conventional wisdom would tell us that rabid spider monkeys are to be feared. However, I’d like to take a different stance.
Rabid spider monkeys are not to be feared. In fact rabid spider monkeys can actually be your friend. That is, if you just have a little information about rabid spider monkeys and you spend a little time with rabid spider monkeys, you can quickly learn to tame and master rabid spider monkeys.
It’s true.
Let me tell you how I’m going to command and conquer rabid spider monkeys.
It’ll help if I first inform you that when I’m talking about rabid spider monkeys I don’t mean actual rabid spider monkeys. I’m not saying that rabid spider monkeys can’t or don’t exist. They certainly could, I suppose, and probably do somewhere. However, I’m choosing to not really worry about it.
When I say rabid spider monkeys, I just mean the phrase “rabid spider monkeys.”
As I mentioned yesterday, some of us at Student Life are in an e-commerce seminar, and it’s great. Part of what we’re learning about is SEO or search engine optimization. This has to do with the way that you use keywords to get noticed. So, I picked a random one.
RABID SPIDER MONKEYS.
I googled the exact phrase “rabid spider monkeys” and say that it came up with about 15,200 results. That means that over 15,000 websites have the phrase “rabid spider monkeys” in their content. So, maybe there are at least 15,000 people who are actually concerned about rabid spider monkeys.
So, I’ve now placed the phrase “rabid spider monkeys” in my title and have repeated it over and over and over throughout this post (as I’m sure you’ve noticed). I’m not going to create a “rabid spider monkey” category. However, I will create a new tag that is “rabid spider monkey.” I will also create tags that are various derivatives of that phrase. Then I’m going to publish and see where I rank amongst the 15,000 websites that talk about rabid spider monkeys. After I do that, I’ll come in this post and edit it to let you know.
Okay. Let’s see what happens with all these rabid spider monkeys.
*UPDATE*
Look what happened.
Rabid spider monkeys rule!
HA! after the first paragraph it clicked – i remembered yesterday’s seminar and realized what you were going for here. great pic too by the way. (and i love that in the midst of all the tags, Search engine Optimization and Student Life are thrown in there too)
Since I started the blog at http://xmachinegunx.blogspot.com/ my website and myspace (www.xmachinegunx.com and http://www.myspace.com/machinegundesigns) have moved from the 2nd page of a Yahoo search to numbers 2 and 3 behind only a wikipedia article about actual designs of machine guns.
See what I did there?
That’s awesome.
Just googled “rabid spider monkeys” are you are first on the list. lol
I think that for the next post, you should include something mundane but commonly Googled, like “teeth whitening” or “David Letterman affair” and have a race to see how fast you make it to the top of the results!
I’ve noticed that my blog gets TONS more hits when I include a celebrity name (which is sad, when you think about it), but this also came up yesterday: “leslea newman hannah’s pontoon.” a) What does that even mean? and 2) How is that linking into my blog? Crazy…
PS I pop up third on Google for searches of “unreliable narrator.” Maybe I should start including a section where I discuss popular allusions in classic literature, or include a link to an MLA reference page.
Yes. You should. Please.