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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Losing to myself

My goal in gaining "Ryan Barlow" dominance, in the organic google search rankings, has reached a point where I am now number 1 and number 2. I can't help but feel that I am losing to myself. I'll have to settle for being the number 1 Ryan Barlow, and the number 2 Ryan Barlow. I may have earned the "self-centered", "egotistical", "narcissistic" labels with these Ego surf posts about Ryan Barlow, but I guess the time to explain myself is in order (even though the labels are more than accurate).

The web crawlers that spider through the internet are looking for certain criteria that increases ones relevancy when specific key words are searched. That criteria involves many things (some are even unknown to us), but the more common ones are how many websites link to you, and another is the number of times the key words is used in the text. For example. If I want this website to show up when someone searches for Ryan Barlow, I need to find ways to say Ryan Barlow as many times as possible. My previous "Ego Surf" posts were specifically designed to say the name Ryan Barlow as many times as possible (in a non cheating sort of way, google hates cheaters) which helped lead to my website becoming the number 1 ryan barlow search site. In order to maintain my position level, I will have to periodically write posts about ryan barlow. In fact, Ryan Barlow has been said 10 times so far within this post (not nearly as many Ryan Barlow's as my previous posts (they numbered around 13 to 14 Ryan Barlow's). Oh well, 12 will do.

Ryan Barlow...13