And the People Bowed & Prayed to the Search Engine God They Made

My main website is about five years old. Never paid much attention to traffic. I created it to amuse myself.

Well, I never paid attention to traffic until the first time I ran out of bandwidth.

To my surprise a joke reference to a very famous young female pop singer undraped had somehow made me Google’s top two results for the search.

Having no ideas about “monetizing traffic” or the like I deleted the entries to make the hits go away. But I learned to watch my referral logs.

Bemusedly I watch Google (and sometimes Yahoo and MSN as well) embrace my site, then push it away. Up and down, up and down.

A few days ago Google fell passionately in love with that site again. Traffic jumped 250%. I did nothing to cause that surge.

My site will probably fall out of favor again. And perhaps return to search engine favor.

I can’t help but feel sorry for folks whose lifeblood is search engine optimization.

Otherwise there is no moral to this story.

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