Did anyone read within the last week or so a post by someone on the board teaching about getting hits to your web site? I promised someone important to me I would print that post for her and can't find it. :(
Does anyone know what I am talking about?
Did you mean this? It was from WordWolf and the "Chris Geer Arrested?" thread:
Now that we've had a chance to laugh about it, I'd like to point out something that
may be obvious to those of us who use Google constantly.
Google's searches (and most search engines) are dependent upon keywords,
and upon number of links pointing to that site in reference to that word.
That's why one fun prank is the "Google hijack."
Get enough people to link to a particular page, and it comes up as the first result,
which means that when you hit "I'm feeling lucky" and get sent to the first result,
you'll get that page.
Example One: during the whole "are there weapons of mass destruction" controversy,
if you typed in "weapons of mass destruction" and hit "I'm feeling lucky",
you got a page that was designed to resemble a Google searchpage,
saying "weapons of mass destruction" was not found,
and giving options to search another country and whatever.
It actually fooled some people even when they expected a prank.
Example Two: This one still works.
If you type in "french military victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky",
you get another mock Google page saying "french military victories" were not found,
and offer to search for "French military defeats" instead.
That page goes to a partial list of French military history- just the defeats-
written and run by a Canadian.
Example Three: This one still works.
If you type in "miserable failure" and hit "I'm feeling lucky",
you will get a certain legitimate webpage that was not made-up for a joke.
Yes! That's it! Thank you so much and thanks from Roxy also.
To link a post you go to the post you want once there go to the top and copy the address (properties, location, called different things) and paste it into the white space like this.
OK, true story! I was playing THIS a few minutes ago, and during the whole song, my Media Player visualizations were all based on pentagrams, throughout the entire song. First time I have EVER seen them in a visualization! Coincidence? :o :unsure: :unsure:
OK, true story! I was playing THIS a few minutes ago, and during the whole song, my Media Player visualizations were all based on pentagrams, throughout the entire song. First time I have EVER seen them in a visualization! Coincidence? :o :unsure: :unsure:
Rick, mine doesn't have that, but what it has is cool!
Yes and it stopped raining which is great. Except I don't even like candy and I have eaten 2 Almond Joy's. Dang! But they have coconut and that is good. In fact growing up in Miami we use to climb the trees and get the coconuts and eat them. They have three eyes and one is soft enough you can poke thru it. And whoever got the fruit and pealed off the husk got to drink the milk, and coconut milk is delicious. Then you could either start it by making that hole larger or throwing it down hard on the sidewalk and it would pop open. And man oh man hot coconut off the tree is incredible. Geez, I have to go eat another one now.
I went trick-or-treating with the grandsons last night. Assuming my wife has a good photo, I'll post it in the Gallery. The boys were Batman and Robin; I was Superman.
Jacob, the 3-year-old, would get excited between houses: "I'm gonna say, 'Trick or Treat!'" Every time the door opened, though, he turned away and said, "I don't wanna." He did say "Thank you" a couple of times. I wonder if he might have been less bashful if we had gone during daylight hours. He did tell me that he had a lot of fun, though.
You went as Superman? That reminds me.. I have a clip from an oldie to post. I would bet money that nobody here saw it when it first came out. In fact, it would probably be a safe bet to assume nobody here has EVER seen it. I have to admit that I hadn't seen it though I knew of its existence.
I've never seen it before but it looks sci-fish to me.
What is a sci-fish? I mean sci-fi-ish.
I swear I just got another obscene voice messsage but I want to listen to it a couple more times before I delete the voice mail. He wanted to take me to the club and dance with me then blank with me and then marry me.
At first I thought it might have been from the origin episode in "The Adventures of Superman," but I knew it was a different Jor-el. The movie serials would have been my next guess. You are right about one thing, though: I hadn't seen it before!
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Did you mean this? It was from WordWolf and the "Chris Geer Arrested?" thread:
Now that we've had a chance to laugh about it, I'd like to point out something that
may be obvious to those of us who use Google constantly.
Google's searches (and most search engines) are dependent upon keywords,
and upon number of links pointing to that site in reference to that word.
That's why one fun prank is the "Google hijack."
Get enough people to link to a particular page, and it comes up as the first result,
which means that when you hit "I'm feeling lucky" and get sent to the first result,
you'll get that page.
Example One: during the whole "are there weapons of mass destruction" controversy,
if you typed in "weapons of mass destruction" and hit "I'm feeling lucky",
you got a page that was designed to resemble a Google searchpage,
saying "weapons of mass destruction" was not found,
and giving options to search another country and whatever.
It actually fooled some people even when they expected a prank.
Example Two: This one still works.
If you type in "french military victories" and hit "I'm feeling lucky",
you get another mock Google page saying "french military victories" were not found,
and offer to search for "French military defeats" instead.
That page goes to a partial list of French military history- just the defeats-
written and run by a Canadian.
Example Three: This one still works.
If you type in "miserable failure" and hit "I'm feeling lucky",
you will get a certain legitimate webpage that was not made-up for a joke.
The joke is in the search and the result.
I'll let you run the search yourself and see.
http://www.google.com
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Ok, the part that doesn't affect users, but affects site-owners, is that they
can't make other people link to their site- which would raise their listing in
searches, which would direct more traffic to them, which means more money
to paid sites like pr0n and stuff.
So, they can't drive their traffic that way, so they figured out they could
drive their traffic the other way.
Every month, there's a list of most commonly-searched-for items.
(It's on Google somewhere.)
So, the site owners took a lot of words that ranked in searches,
and began sticking them somewhere in their site.
You can tell because some searches will show you the item you're searching
for in a long list of names, or random words, and not in a sentence or
anything. (Often, they'll be alphabetized in a stack of similar names or words.)
Personally, I don't think it's particularly successful (It doesn't lure ME to
their sites), but since it costs them little to add that to their pages, and they
seem to have no penalty for doing it, I expect that they'll keep doing it for a
long time.
So, since certain names get searched for online, eventually, some site operators
have grabbed them off the lists and just shoved them into abstract blocks of text
they dump onto their sites. It says nothing about the content of the sites, nor
about the names they used.
I hope I didn't spoil anyone's fun TOO much.
George
By the way, how does one link another post?
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SaintGeorge,
Yes! That's it! Thank you so much and thanks from Roxy also.
To link a post you go to the post you want once there go to the top and copy the address (properties, location, called different things) and paste it into the white space like this.
This is the page with your post to me in it. http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.ph...mp;#entry277939
Or you can do it this way by going up to that little world with a chain on it.
And posting this Link Here
Which was that same address into the first box and Link Here into the second.
It helps me when learning something to do a quote on the persons post and look at the guts of it, as a suggestion.
And thank you again, that is what I needed for my friend. She will be so thankful.
Kathy
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Coolness! You taught me something new.
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OK, true story! I was playing THIS a few minutes ago, and during the whole song, my Media Player visualizations were all based on pentagrams, throughout the entire song. First time I have EVER seen them in a visualization! Coincidence? :o :unsure: :unsure:
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As for me, I will check it out later dude.
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topoftheworld
Mine was normal. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do.....DO!
Do we need to lay hands on your post? Or maybe offer a Loshanta or two?
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Rick, mine doesn't have that, but what it has is cool!
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Sudo
It's just gotten dark now and.. they're heeeeeeere!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes and it stopped raining which is great. Except I don't even like candy and I have eaten 2 Almond Joy's. Dang! But they have coconut and that is good. In fact growing up in Miami we use to climb the trees and get the coconuts and eat them. They have three eyes and one is soft enough you can poke thru it. And whoever got the fruit and pealed off the husk got to drink the milk, and coconut milk is delicious. Then you could either start it by making that hole larger or throwing it down hard on the sidewalk and it would pop open. And man oh man hot coconut off the tree is incredible. Geez, I have to go eat another one now.
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topoftheworld
Sounds like Kathy's got a good chocolate buzz going......
Great clip! Loved him. Pretty interesting contrasting music.
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ChattyKathy
That is wild, what is it....hahahahaha
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topoftheworld
Well, it's Halloween-so it's anybodys ghost.......ha ha ha ha ha.
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wasway
I just watched the "wizard of oz" while playng "Dark Side of the moon" it is just toooooooooo coooool you gotta do this........ just once
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Didn't give candy to the little beggers this year. But I DID watch Jason X last night. Pretty good flick!
Rick
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Wasway, did you see the body hanging from the tree in the background while watching the Wizard of Oz? :blink:
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I went trick-or-treating with the grandsons last night. Assuming my wife has a good photo, I'll post it in the Gallery. The boys were Batman and Robin; I was Superman.
Jacob, the 3-year-old, would get excited between houses: "I'm gonna say, 'Trick or Treat!'" Every time the door opened, though, he turned away and said, "I don't wanna." He did say "Thank you" a couple of times. I wonder if he might have been less bashful if we had gone during daylight hours. He did tell me that he had a lot of fun, though.
George
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That's precious. :)
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George,
You went as Superman? That reminds me.. I have a clip from an oldie to post. I would bet money that nobody here saw it when it first came out. In fact, it would probably be a safe bet to assume nobody here has EVER seen it. I have to admit that I hadn't seen it though I knew of its existence.
So click HERE! and figure out where it came from.
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I've never seen it before but it looks sci-fish to me.
What is a sci-fish? I mean sci-fi-ish.
I swear I just got another obscene voice messsage but I want to listen to it a couple more times before I delete the voice mail. He wanted to take me to the club and dance with me then blank with me and then marry me.
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Sudo, you forget who comes in here.
That's the origin of Superman. Not the George Reeves tv show, but the Kirk Alyn Columbia serial.
The gentlemen are from Krypton, debating whether or not the planet's about to blow.
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oops-guess I shouldn't have revealed it too soon. George is most likely onto it, also.
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At first I thought it might have been from the origin episode in "The Adventures of Superman," but I knew it was a different Jor-el. The movie serials would have been my next guess. You are right about one thing, though: I hadn't seen it before!
George
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OK, got a special surprise for the Jim Croce Fans. Might take a few minutes to load but WELL worth the wait! :)
Click HERE!
Rick
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