I didn’t want to make this contest for a permalink a long drawn out affair, but more people opted in than I expected. Thus I am going to draw it out a bit so that each blog has a chance in the spotlight. I will randomly divide the blogs into groups, one group competing at a time. Each blogger will have an opportunity to describe his or her blog, and then answer a short answer question. Readers will vote on the best answer. The winner from each round will then compete in one final round, the winner of that getting the coveted permalink of no monetary value. Here are the blogs I have listed as competing:
The Voodoo Lounge
Blather Review
The Stormin’ Mormon
Think About It
Mike
Jennifer’s History and Stuff
A Lone Paladin in Good Company
Note-It Posts
Practical Penumbra
Collinization
Advanced Combo Tricks
Adventures in Troubleshooting
Mamamontezz’s Mental Rumpus Room
Tiger Raggin’ & Rantin’
GrahamLester.com
Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness
Right of Center
Proveritate: A Principled Review of Current Events
Beth’s Contradictory Brain
Experimenting with Mental Exhibitionism
Serenity’s Journal
ColoradoPsycho.com
The Wise Man Says
Ambient Irony
Ordinary Galoot
Angelweave
A Little Aardvark Never Hurt Anyone
Bloviating Inanities
Ramblings of SilverBlue
Modular Parrot
Bad Money
Little Miss Attila
Kaedrin
This Side
Wince and Nod
Blog of Xanadu
One Little Victory
Curiosity
Who Tends the Fires
If I left anyone out, please notify me. But, before the competition, everyone must help me in a scientific experiment first.
Before I get to that though, I want to clear something up. I acted jokingly mad at Instapundit for not linking to me on my blogiversary, and then I had people e-mail him hate mail as a joke. He then used that as another opportunity to not link to me, and also insulting called my readers “spambots”. That would seem to make me angry, but it is all in good fun (who ratted me out, though?). I actually respect Glenn Reynolds very much, and am proud to have a permalink on his page. He was an inspiration for me making my own blog.
That said, onto scientific experiment!
Scientific Experiment! (very scientifical)
Google puts a lot of weight on what words are used in a hyperlink to link to someone. People exploited this to make Microsoft the number of item returned when searching for “go to hell” by many people linking to Microsoft with the words “go to hell”. This doesn’t work anymore, as Google seems to have changed the rules. As I pointed out yesterday, while Google does take text in the hyperlink into account, it will not return an item in the search query unless one of the terms being searched for actually appears on the page and not just links to that page. Thus comes my theory:
Frank’s Very Scientific Google Search Theory: If many people link to a page with one word that appears on that page and one word that doesn’t, that page will become the first item returned by Google for the phrase made of the two words.
Now we must experiment to prove this. First, I’ll need a page to link to. Let’s randomly pick one from my blogroll… ah, Instapundit. We’ll use that page.
Now let’s find a word that is always on his mainpage… “Liberal”. That is always on there since he links to the Armed Liberal.
Now I’ll use my random word generator to pick a random word that is not normally on his main page… “Assclown”. Hmm, that’s an interesting word. It will work perfectly for this experiment.
Now all we need is lots of webpages to link to http://www.instapundit.com with the phrase “Liberal Assclown” (e.g. Liberal Assclown). And the links must stay up for a week or so for Google to read in all the new data. If enough people do it, next time we search for “Liberal Assclown”, Instapundit.com will be returned.
So, spambots, here are your orders. Put a link to Instapundit on your mainpage (not just in a post), the hyperlink text being “Liberal Assclown” (I have mine up right under Rachel Lucas on my blogroll). You don not have to remove your normal link to Instapundit if you have one. You have 24 hours to do this, or you are out of the competition (unless you have a note from your doctor or tech support saying that you weren’t able to put up a link). Everyone else with a blog or other webpage is invited to help out in this scientific experiment of extreme scientificness. Make sure your webpage is submitted to Google for scanning. The more people that join in, the more scientifical this venture will be.
Isn’t science fun!
As you command, Oh Great One, so shall it be done.
The link is up. Google has been told. I feel so cheap.
It is done, your Frankness.
However, Google’s indexing of my blog is somewhere between spotty and insane, so I don’t know how well your Scientifical Experiment will work.
If it’s not too late, could I join the contest? Curiosity, http://curi.blogspot.com/
I was previewing a comment when your site–um, took a break–and now I don’t remember what I wrote. Sigh.
Link added (at great peril and expense–the flamethrower is out of juice now, and I’m gonna have to re-pay Pixy Misa for refilling it!)
Have you asked Glenn if he intends to put that link on his website?
Presidential Candidate Xanadu supports this measure fully :
http://www.blog.garageofxanadu.com
What can I say, I’m Frank’s little bitch.
I will do as commanded… however, I have qualms about the exact language used. Although I don’t have enough self-respect to not put up the link, I’m going to make it hidden. You can find it on the far right hand side of the red bar at the top of the screen. It will underline when you are over it, or you can click-drag a selection. Now how do I submit it to google?
I’m not in your contest, but I’ll do anything in the name of science.
Yes, how do we properly submit to google?
Done. It’s right under my “Not linked by Glenn” button under the blogroll.
I would have preferred “maddening, sieve-like f***tard”, but “liberal assclown” works well enough in a pinch.
I didn’t make the list? Is this, like, limited to people with blogs? Do you really think that’s fair?
Right here is how you add:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
If you already can find your site with google, you probably don’t need to do it (at least new posts of mine usually seem to be searchable in just a couple days).
Spoons,
Thanks. Science needs all the support it can get.
Norbizness,
At least one of the words has to regularly be on his site. Reread my theory.
No, I’ve got it. I think. Damned DeVry Institute education! Brain so feeble!
Give DeVry a break! I learned nearly everything I know about Web design from one of its Colorado schools.:)
Frank, you drive a hard bargain! I try to keep my site G-rated as much as possible, so the word “assclown” stays on the homepage only one week, no more and no less.
Looks like my Web site is already in the Google system; some of my latest writings can be called up only a few days after they’re posted.
An administrative announcement to my loyal readers:
Visitors to this site who want to look at my Weblog first should be directed to this URL:
Name of blog: “Over the Edge”
Web address: http://www.ColoradoPsycho.com/Over_the_Edge.htm
(Underline separates words in “Over_the_Edge”)
Rationale for making this distinction:
1. The Weblog may eventually be separated from ColoradoPsycho.com and turned into a separate site.
2. This gives me (and my readers) more flexibility to write about topics not related to psychiatry, including political and religious matters.
3. Some individuals may find any reference to “psycho” offensive.
do not taunt Super Happy Lucky Fun Permalink Contest Number One.
I put it in my blogroll, but i’ll also add it in a template to be sure, as well as a post – i post on my blog so rarely right now that it’ll be up for at least two weeks on the front page.
We French have a word for this sort of self-serving prostitution; we call it PRESTIGE. Call us strumpets but we will do anything for fifteen minutes of fame.
-Guy “not a slave to fashion” Parrot
Mission accomplished.
okay, so I added to google. Then I had to pick a new template so I could have “Links”, but I don’t see any way to add a link! And my “help” button doesn’t seem to work! HELP!!!
I added it to my template, which is the only way I know to add it to my blogroll. Hope my mom doesn’t drop by, though.
Also submitted to Google, but Google came back with a note that said just ‘cuz I submitted, didn’t mean they were gonna publish. . .
kinda like Frank J.
Cheers,
As you commanded. Under the category “Sold my soul to Frank” can be found the link. 🙂
Permalink Whore
Before anyone asks me about the Liberal Assclown link on my blogroll, go here. I feel so, so ashamed.
Cool! I must be in Google cuz I just searched for “penumbera cyberspace poltergeist” and hit “I’m feeling lucky” and it took me straight to my archives!
Tuning Spork–I was going to put this in your comments, but you don’t have any! I also couldn’t find an email addy for you, so, from a fellow non-geek in non-geekese:
On the eblogger page, click on the tab that says template. three new tabs will come up. click on the one that says main template.
(This is where you suit up–coveralls, sturdy boots, good flashlight and a trusty defensive weapon).
Scroll down through all that stuff that looks like it could be english but only if written by a math professor on acid until you get to a part that says:
“Add things to your sidebar here.
Use the format:”
Underneath that is a link to Google.(what are the odds of that?)
Under the link to google is a thinggee that says “edit me”. If you type the url to instapundit between the quotation marks, and then Liberal Assclown between the “>” and “Tuning Spork–I was going to put this in your comments, but you don’t have any! I also couldn’t find an email addy for you, so, from a fellow non-geek in non-geekese:
On the eblogger page, click on the tab that says template. three new tabs will come up. click on the one that says main template.
(This is where you suit up–coveralls, sturdy boots, good flashlight and a trusty defensive weapon).
Scroll down through all that stuff that looks like it could be english but only if written by a math professor on acid until you get to a part that says:
“Add things to your sidebar here.
Use the format:”
Underneath that is a link to Google.(what are the odds of that?)
Under the link to google is a thinggee that says “edit me”. If you type the url to instapundit between the quotation marks, and then Liberal Assclown between the “>” and “<“, and make sure you leave all the other marks the same (compare the format to the one for google to be sure everything is there), and then you hit that bar at the bottom that says “save changes” you SHOULD have a link on your blogroll once you go back to the posts page and hit the orange publish button. You can also just keep adding to the list as long as you use the same format.
Hope this helps!!!! Oh–and get comments!!!
Wake up, competitors!
Yoo Hoo! Bill! Tiger!! Get with it guys, you only have til noon on Wednesday to jump through Frank’s first hoop!…
Couldn’t access my site all day, but I finally managed to add the Liberal Assclown link tonight.
Susie, you are too cool for words!! ThankYouThankYouThankYou!!
And I don’t know how to add comments without forking over some cash. Is there another way? sigh I demand FREE expression! argh!
Not my day to die
Utoh, Susie has informed me that I had a deadline to meet the second prong to compete to get a link on Frank [not Glenn Reynolds]’s blogroll. The second prong is to assist in an experiment to have InstaPundit returned…
OK, Frank, I’m game!
Oh, I know I’m late, but is there any chance I can also get in the competition…?
–Denita TwoDragons
Associate Tender of the Fire
Frank J.’s Mad Google Experiment–MUUAHAHAHA!
OK, Frank J., thy will be done: Liberal Assclown Do I get a lollipop now…?…
i didnt say i hated him, let alone 12 times. you should be proud.
Just to verify, this will still be a “blind” competition, correct? The voters won’t know who each answer is from, and if we reveal our answer we are disqualified?
Liberal Assclown isn’t going to show up for a bit =(
I look forward to this. No results showing means there’ll be only 1 result if Frank’s right.
They’re will be a few questions that aren’t, btu those are to describe your blog. The question that people will be voting on will be blind.
I must have missed the contest, but hey, I’m all for a good Google Bomb. My link’s up.
You are evil! EVIL! I love it.
I’m not in the contest, but out of love for Your Evilness I’ve added a link to the Insta… er Liberal Assclown.
I’m in on the experiment (not the contest, I’ll try out for round 2)…Hey, Frank, how long do you think it’ll take Glenn to do the same linking Monkey Butt to IMAO??? Oh, unless he doesn’t read your site.
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