Ode To The Google PageRank Obsession
Website owners, webmasters, and people who specialize in search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) tend to be an obsessive bunch, perpetually checking stats in their quest for better numbers. What do improved numbers mean? In theory, they beget better placement in search engine results pages (SERPS), more sales, and higher ad rates.
This obsession tends to reach a frenzied peak roughly four times a year, when Google’s Toolbar is updated, and you learn if your latest PageRank has risen or (heaven forbid) dropped. And while some may claim that they don’t care about PageRank, nobody believes them.
In honor of Google PageRank update season, which apparently is upon us, I’ve written this limerick:
Ode To The Google PageRank Obsession
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Google PageRank obsession is back,
‘Cause an update is due, which we track.
Have our efforts paid off?
Although many will scoff,
We need proof that we’re leading the pack.
Here are some tools and an informative article for the Google PageRank obsessed: Search Engine Marketing Tools, PageRank Checker, Google PageRank Prediction, Google Pagerank prediction tool, Live PageRank, Dig PageRank, and Google PageRank: What Do We Really Know About it?
(You can find more of my computer and technology humor and limericks here, including my song parody Webmaster’s SEO Complaint.)
Technorati Tags: Google Humor, PageRank Satire, Google Limerick, PR Update Humor, Webmaster Humor, Rank Obsession, SEO Humor, SEM Humor, SERPS, Search Engine Limerick, Net Humor, Web Humor
July 19th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I’m not that obsessed about pagerank, but I am a recovering hitcounter addict. I used to check it incessantly, leaving the window on my desktop and refreshing it every few minutes. I could even identify my regular readers by their ip addresses.
I’m doing much better now. I only checking it once, maybe twice an hour.
July 19th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Ha! I confess to the same addiction to Sitemeter. And I’m not even close to recovering.
July 20th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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July 21st, 2007 at 12:13 am
I’m down to checking Statcounter twice a day now.
Maybe three times.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I *wish* I would become more obsessed. I desire the page rank, yet lack the motivation to work for it. If I were actually obsessed, it might light a fire under the proverbial ass.
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