A Google search story

So a friend and colleague, David Quirus, approached me eariler in the week and showed me his website [url=“http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/”]Nocturnal Illusions. He then confessed that his website did not appear on any google search for either his name, [url=“http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/”]David Quirus, nor the site title, [url=“http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/”]Nocturnal Illusions. Granted, the site name has some fierce competitors such as an adult anime game aptly called [url=“http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/review/R46707.html”]Nocturnal Illusion, but there’s no reason why his name, [url=“http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/”]David Quirus, wouldn’t bring up his own site. So I says to him (not verbatum), “[url=“http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/”]David Quirus, I bet I can have your site listed at the top of a google search using your name by the end of the week.” Of course I wasn’t sure if I actually could or not… but I did. LESS than 48 hours is all it took for his site to be at the top of a [url=“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=David+Quirus&btnG=Google+Search”]google search for David Quirus.

How’d I do it? I simply created a link to his site on my site using his name as the link text. That with a little luck and knowing that there are only so many other David Quiruss out there is all that was needed.

Just goes to show how powerful one little link can be :wink: