# A Google search story
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036
**Category:** random
**Created:** [October 1, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036 "2004-10-01T19:33:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/1 "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 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/2 "2004-10-01T19:43:27Z")
thats what makes google so relevant. Because it puts a lof of weight in what the link text says.
Gongrats for your buddy. He mist think you the shizzle now :thumb:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/3 "2004-10-01T19:54:00Z")
I smell…
Is it? Yes, I think it is.
A shameless website promotion.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/4 "2004-10-01T20:03:48Z")
> How’d I do it? I simply created a link to his site on my site using his name as the link text.
Wow, with those kind of results from just one link, imagine the results [David Quirus will get at [url=“http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/”]nocturnal-illusions](http://www.nocturnal-illusions.com/) from the nine in your post above!
Cool.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/5 "2004-10-01T20:05:24Z")
> [@GreenLantern](#):
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> I smell…
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> Is it? Yes, I think it is.
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> A shameless website promotion.
lol…I see youve been trolling the test forum 😉
:lol:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/6 "2004-10-01T20:20:25Z")
I troll every forum.
I am watching. :cyclops:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/7 "2004-10-01T22:13:32Z")
pretty amazing stuff on his site, the “love liza” movie intro is brilliant and beautiful
good promotion, senocular 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/8 "2004-10-01T22:21:36Z")
There’s this stupid DJ named Reclipse who didn’t show up until 6 months after I put my site online. I hate him. ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/9 "2004-10-01T22:23:54Z")
Im not really trying promoting him… just telling how I got his site listed. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/10 "2004-10-01T22:41:49Z")
since i acutally know little of search-optimization/google-promotion, are there any good reads you’d reccomend?
…or should i do a “google-search” :trout:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/11 "2004-10-01T23:16:45Z")
hes pretty good, i gotta say
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/12 "2004-10-01T23:33:03Z")
> [@protagonist](#):
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> since i acutally know little of search-optimization/google-promotion, are there any good reads you’d reccomend?
>
> …or should i do a “google-search” :trout:
heh I dont know. google it 😃
:run:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/13 "2004-10-02T07:15:54Z")
This is what I do for a living.
There are many forums out there on SEO but this is the best in my opinion
> **[High Rankings SEO Forum](http://www.highrankings.com/forum/)**
>
> Common sense search engine optimization from Jill Whalen and the High Rankings forum team.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/14 "2004-10-02T16:37:48Z")
I’m having the same same problem :-D. I think we should put your skills to a second test and get my site, [www.thinkingdigitally.com](http://www.thinkingdigitally.com), listed by google for Robert Olson 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/15 "2004-10-02T16:43:43Z")
[ot][updown]
digigamer, it’s weird that your “vote bush”-buttons lead to kerry’s site :huh: [/updown][/ot]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/16 "2004-10-02T16:51:41Z")
lmao!
Salad fingers fans have to check out this paradoy. Its called bananna fingers…
too funy…
Episode three is so funny
> **[Banana Fingers](https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188814)**
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> Enjoy
> **[Banana Fingers EP. 3](https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/190396)**
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> Enjoy
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/17 "2004-10-02T17:11:59Z")
Protagonist:
Its an anti-kerry site 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/18 "2004-10-02T17:22:12Z")
:trout: 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/19 "2004-10-02T20:24:37Z")
> [@fester8542](#):
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> lmao!
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> Salad fingers fans have to check out this paradoy. Its called bananna fingers…
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> too funy…
>
> Episode three is so funny
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> [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188814](http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/188814)
>
> [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/190396](http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/190396)
ROFTLMAO!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-google-search-story/66036/20 "2004-10-02T23:33:53Z")
> [@protagonist](#):
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> digigamer, it’s weird that your “vote bush”-buttons lead to kerry’s site :huh:
It links to [kerry-04.org](http://kerry-04.org) which is an anti kerry website. 🐇
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