Let it be known that I, Carlo Cruz, am not only doing this for personal gain but for all the carlo cruz’s out there. So as for you my same-named brothers, you better not F*%# it up!
so here we are…
a blog.
so how do we do this?
or better yet, how did this happen?
Have you ever (hah! and i know you did!!) googled your name to see what comes up? How does the all-knowing internet define you? Does Google’s definition of you satisfy your palate or are you defined in the www as some crazy lady badgering a home shopping site asking for her money back because of the faulty slap chop she ordered?
– “google” as defined by dictionary.com is simply “to search for information on the Internet, esp. using the Google search engine”… there! Add that tidbit to your vault of useless knowledge. The more you know
A few years ago, I was watching something on T.V. about this lady dating some guy and then somebody told her to google his name and see what comes up to check if he was to be trusted and how many times has he’d been arrested for the past x years.
What?! Could this be true? How could this be? I didn’t know the internet could hold so much power. Why, it can now be said that the internet can make or break you and ultimately dictate your social status. It bonds everyone under the same name. Be it a good deed or bad.
So naturally, I was curious. I immediately turned my computer on, unhooked the telephone line, clicked my netzero icon, went to google, clicked the search bar and typed my name – “carlo cruz”
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What! these are not me!! i was never in mexico attending my family reunion! I never joined a body building contest! I didn’t think techno was the shit! I was never into the harp! The name had been tarnished!
Fast-forward to 2009 and –
Well at least I managed to get the first 3 spots for now. 🙂
So anyway that’s when I started getting more involved with all these internet stuffs.
The thing is nobody (other than yourself) searches your name in google. So come to think of it, it’s pretty worthless.
Maybe I should think this through… type in a few more keywords there… like “photography”, “image”, “photo”… make my name come up unsuspectingly… tricking people to see my site. Diabolical. Conniving. I like it!
(Notice how I abuse the three consecutive dots? See how it can make things sound more interesting and important? But the wife said I should stop using it because fancy writers don’t use that. So I’m now running on a limit of 4 times in a blog. Or 5 maximum…)
I went and seeked out professional advice. I shall spare no expense. I shall consult a professional SEO (search engine optimization) consultant. And so I asked the wife. This was last year.
I asked her, how can I trick people to go to my site? This was her professional advice – ” Well.. (it was a long speech and I didn’t really understand words like organic, page rank and google algorithms) “- start with a blog.”
Hence, here I am 1 year late and apparently not busy here at work (December 28, Monday).
So here we are… let the rambling begin!
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