# A Google search story **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 1, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/124287 "2004-10-01T19:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/124287/1 "2004-10-01T19:33:03Z")
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](http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/). 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 Quirus](http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/)s out there is all that was needed. Just goes to show how powerful one little link can be 😉