Purple Widget – An SEO Experiment

Google is well known for annual their April Fool’s Jokes – usually more than one and usually pretty funny.  Learn more as Wikipedia has chronicled

A googlegasm is unusual excitement and joy from anything Google. I think I invented this word.  I may not have, but I’m pretty sure I never heard it before I started using it.  Urban Dictionary disagrees with me. A few examples: T-Mobile G1 The first so called “Google Phone” that ran Android – I pre-order [...]

So I’m driving to work again today and as I merge from I-435 to I-70 (about 1/3 the way to the office) I see a Kansas state trooper will now be behind me on I-70.  So my normal driving speed of 75-80 mph will be reduced today to the neighborhood  of 70 mph (the speed limit on [...]

And now, less than a week from launch this website is ranking for the term purple widget.  I see us ranking 4th in Google (which is realistically the only engine that matters)!   Sorry about the small image – still learning WordPress.  Click to view bigger! Although Google is king, lets see how we’re doing [...]

The entire Purple Widget website is now indexed in Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.purplewidget.com&hl=en It shows all 16 pages that existed (before this post created a new page). Of course we don’t rank in the Top 30 for the search term purple widget just yet – in fact we’re not in the Top 500 results, but it should [...]