I dink around in SEO a lot because I find it fascinating, fun and occasionally profitable. As a fun anecdote, at one point I wrote a ridiculously sarcastic post

I dink around in SEO a lot because I find it fascinating, fun and occasionally profitable. As a fun anecdote, at one point I wrote a ridiculously sarcastic post about "how to rank #1 on Google" and held the number one position for that query for at least a year. [1] A long time ago, one of my friends came to me saying "When I googled for a picture of a bird wearing a tucked in shirt, I couldn't find anything!" Clearly this tragedy needed a remedy, so I MSPainted a shirt onto a bird, tucked neatly into its little belly and plopped it onto my blog [2] with most of the SEO best practices check boxes filled in. Since it was of so little value and competition it took about three days for it to rank number one for "bird wearing a tucked in shirt" - My friend thought I was a wizard, telling her coworkers of my mystical powers and ability to manipulate the internet. "You have very powerful friends" her boss would proclaim. Point of this story? Well, there isn't really one. Unfortunately, I broke my blog a few months ago in a host migration resulting in a crash for all my useless rankings. The image was lost in that migration as well... Perhaps someone else can provide the world with an image of a bird wearing a tucked in shirt it so desperately needs. [1] Here's the now broken post for anyone curious - http://stentontoledo.com/blog/how-to-rank-1-on-google-guaranteed/ http://stentontoledo.com/blog/how-to-rank-1-on-google-guaran... [2] http://stentontoledo.com/blog/a-bird-wearing-a-tucked-in-shirt/ http://stentontoledo.com/blog/a-bird-wearing-a-tucked-in-shi...