A Google Sized Laugh

Ever wish you could have a site that was listed NUMBER ONE ON GOOGLE - how about for weeks on end? Well if you've ever wished that, this article is for YOU, and I'm certain you will agree with me that it is hilarious, and it's real, and that makes what happened to me even funnier; but we'll get into that in the next few paragraphs, first, there is a question I'd love you to share with yourself: why do you want your site to be number one on Google? Most of the people that communicate to me and I to them are talking about selling, publishing, or otherwise, making money, contacts, or some sort of use out of Google listing. Would that describe where your heart is at? See if it's possible, what we want to deal with here is your heart, not your head. If it were possible I'd ask you shut your head off, so we could talk to your heart, but the truth is, that's really your heart, isn't it? So let's get your head into this whole laugh, shall we?

The laugh actually begins so long ago that it really isn't even an accurate memory, you may have had that experience, where your memory tends to run things into the wrong categories on you? Thevisionsvisions blendalled Torrance, California , but for me, it was the palace where Ali Babba hid under the stairs with the Princess while the guards ran past looking to get them. It was Dodger stadium and the wall was the batter, and Willie Mays had taught me how to catch. It was a place where I could have a cat but no dog? It was a place where there were earthquakes and I went to sleep on one side of the room and woke up on another, it was that kind of wonderful, fast, scary youth. There weren't any computers around there, and Google wasn't even a concept in anybody's life - but in the midst of that place, a President name Kennedy got shot and my mom and Grandma cried about it.

Google has a remarkable history of their own, and when you read it, it's almost like a tie in to the miracle that is the Internet; to be a part of that Google experience is a wonderful thing, Google allows people to search out web sites, like a giganBabbaelephone directory, or a fabulous bulletin board at light speed, Google tells us all what we need to find. Today the Google we have little resembles it's first offerings. Google has become a lighthouse of what artificial intelligence can do, and it uses the most sophisticated type of programming available. This is why Google now famously asks, "did you mean?" Which to a writer, is a well known phrase, which, uh, writers, don't usually like to hear.

To those who want toanybody'sey, or, get recognized, Google is a search engine that has power in their lives, and it has power in mine as well, becaushasa course, I'd love to make money off the Internet by selling articles, which, uh; is certainly part of why we do this associated content thing, isn't it? But there is more to it than that, but not when it comes to Google, right? If you get listed in Google and your search is fairly high up the ladder one, the odds are that somebody scrolling down the search engine might actually see your stuff, right? That's what so many of us go for, right? So imagine how hard this laugh on me is, because it happened for me, something that I wrote actually did get listed on Google- and I was actually, honestly shocked. Basically what happened is that I wrote the introduction to my book, and, about that time a person recommended that I put my introduction on a site called author nation, it sounded pretty good so I went over there and tried it out. The putting of the article was not too hard, so I went ahead with it; put it out there, and forgot about it. Meanwhile I continued to write, work, negotiate and live life. Like we all do.

As the weeks went bye I would occasionally go out to the author nation site, but I didn't devote effort to it, and started to pay attention to things that were going on work wise, and about other stories. I visited other writer web sites, and even turned in a story on associated content; but had to self publish it, so as you can tell; things weren't really getting hot in my writing much at all. Ever been in the dull spot in your life? I was in a dull spot. Now the question is, what do you do when your in a place like that? I asked myself if I want to continue to write, and the truth is, it's getting harder, because the sharper the focus on you the reader, the better the writing, but the harder it becomes to crank it out. So I completely forgot about the author nation piece.

Two weeks go bye and friend says to me, "hey aren't you always saying you are a writer and that you have stuff published?" I said yes, they asked where, I told them Associated content, but also I shared with them about my book coming out soon, and they asked if I had put any of it on paper, but I said no it was out on the web though, they asked how could they find it, I said, "Google it, it'll probably show out there somewhere." Wow, that was pretty cocky huh? Now for the funny part, they didn't say anything to me for a couple of days, and I was sort of wondering, "hey what's the deal here?" So one morning I asked them sort of sheepishly if they'd found it, "oh yeah, man, sure, hey, you didn't tell me it would be so easy to find, " naturally my response was, "huh, easy to find, how so?" You can guess what they uttered that blew me away..."dude it was at the top of the search when I put in keyhole success, there it was?" I was shocked, but couldn't show it; had to play it cool, right? Got away from there, and got to a screen, punched that pup in, and low and behold, there it was! Hadn't done a thing, hadn't marketed it, hadn't said a thing about it on my blog, hadn't really said much to anyone about it, but all of a sudden there it was, number one on Google.

Now my friends, most reasonably intelligent folk would somehow figure a way to take advantage of that, but not this kid, oh no, two days later, I was so shell shocked that I checked it again, and there it was- and still at the very tip top of the list! Man alive, was I shocked. But can you see the humor in this, it is hilarious, because, it has been there for weeks, and friend, I can't figure a way to make that mean much except, somebody must be reading it somewhere? My hope is that they like it, because that's really what the entire idea of that writing is about. Wow- so here was the dream of dreams for a"netnick" like me, and yet, in the midst of this, all I can do is smile, 'cause it didn't happen like I thought it would at all, and, it didn't mean bucks in any way, and maybe in there is something real about those of us who push the web in a direction it wasn't honestly ever meant to go? Maybe if we get back to just honestly putting the best part of our bleeding veins onto the page for someone to read, maybe that will be the real deal, and enough? Who knows...maybe it'll get you noticed on Google? If it does my hope is that you'll have the laugh out of it that I've enjoyed. My hope is also, bye the way, that you have enjoyed reading this and might enjoy the thought that what you contribute to my life by reading it, matters. But beyond that my guess is, you are reading this because you may from time to time try your hand at writing, and mnetnickis, you'll continue to try and that someday you can have that thrill of thrills and see your article at the top of the Google listing. My hope is that it might be a part of some deliberate effort on your part to make a living off it, that others might read your work there.