Give us an "RK" boost!
By: Rob
Published On: 5/23/2007 2:18:40 PM
Many of you call us "RK" when referring to Raising Kaine. Well, wouldn't it be nice to navigate to our community by typing that nickname -- "RK" -- in Google and having Raising Kaine be one of the top options? It's the way many people navigate to Talkingpointsmemo, by typing in "TPM," for example.
Well, with that hope in mind, I changed my signature line (and asked Lowell and Jaime to do the same) on Raising Kaine to the following in January:
Thank you for visiting RK! Click here to learn how to join Virginia's progressive online community.
See that - an "RK" linking to our homepage. In otherwords, a "Google-bomb"! There, I just did it again!
After months of this, we've gone from nowhere to midway on the first page. That's huge movement, but let's go a little higher. I'm asking all of you to Googlebomb "RK" in your signature lines here and at Daily Kos and elsewhere. It doesn't have to be exactly like mine - any "RK" will do. Let's grab that top spot from radial keratotomy!
[UPDATE: The comments got me curious. When I logged out of Google, I found us on page 6. I'm guessing that us being on the first page was based on my user-based results. So we've got work to do! Googlebombs away!]
[UPDATE: Another idea -- add "RK" as its own separate link to your blogrolls next to "Raising Kaine." Something like this "Raising Kaine/RK" (Notice that both "Raising Kaine" and "RK" have their own links -- that way "RK" gets googlebombed)]
Comments
I did it. (phriendlyjaime - 5/23/2007 2:21:34 PM)
If you are cool, or want to be cool, you will follow suit. ;)
Okay... (elevandoski - 5/23/2007 2:39:32 PM)
U, RK, R 2 cool!
Thanks! (Rob - 5/23/2007 2:40:09 PM)
Who else is in???
Done (Terry85 - 5/23/2007 3:05:37 PM)
n/t
I just did a Google search for RK (Lowell - 5/23/2007 3:08:16 PM)
and didn't find Raising Kaine anywhere near the front page...
Same here (Terry85 - 5/23/2007 3:09:14 PM)
I tried using quotes too, and still nothing.
hmmmm... maybe it's user based. (Rob - 5/23/2007 3:34:48 PM)
that would suck.
Lowell - (Rob - 5/23/2007 3:39:54 PM)
what do you think about people changing their blog rolls from "Raising Kaine" to "RK"? That would help this cause, but of course might confuse some.
Can they say "Raising Kaine/RK"? (Lowell - 5/23/2007 4:32:46 PM)
n/t
... (Rob - 5/23/2007 4:42:59 PM)
That would work if the RK part had its own link, I guess, not if the whole thing was one link.
If you (Terry85 - 5/23/2007 3:39:01 PM)
type in
RK blog, '
RK' comes up as number one. Have you tried adding a meta tag in the blog's code?
I'll check with Eric (Rob - 5/23/2007 4:44:45 PM)
#67 (code - 5/23/2007 3:44:19 PM)
Yeah. I think you might be hard-pressed to boost Raising Kaine to the top, especially since Radial Keratotomy goes by RK.
Yeah, we're not going to beat Radial (Lowell - 5/23/2007 4:33:46 PM)
Keratotomy. On the other hand, we're a lot cheaper and a whole lot more entertaining! :)
Sure - but it'd be nice to get in the top of the page. (Rob - 5/23/2007 4:44:28 PM)
RK bridal in Virginia doesn't scare me! ;)
How bout this... (KathyinBlacksburg - 5/24/2007 4:31:32 PM)
Here's my attempt...
Well.. (KathyinBlacksburg - 5/24/2007 4:49:23 PM)
Been away too long. The link didn't work.