Raven Paradox

Green has been “the new black” for some time now… now it seems as if one can offset ones middle class guilt simply by purchasing a mobile phone plan.

The premise seems to be to be that one can drive ones V8, set up a wall of plasma TV screens, have a coal pit burining in ones back yard to melt down all the plastic shopping bags - whatever one pleases… and then, if one grabs one of these mobile phone plans, one can undo all the damage and erase any simmering middle class guilt without having to stop washing, growing dreadlocks and cooking lentils over tealight candles.

Fantastic idea I reckon, I might have to sign up for one so that I don’t have to move to Brunswick…

Green mobile phone plans… I suppose it had to happen.

Dirty filthy hippie

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People often ask the question “how do I appear on the first page of google?”

There are many different ways that one can go about doing this, but they almost all involve SEO or Search Engine Optimisation.

What a lot of people don’t tend to realise is that building a website that will rank well for chosen keywords and phrases isn’t really rocket surgery. People in the website/search engine optimisation business do carry around vials of smoke and pocketfuls of mirrors - and why wouldn’t they, it keeps them living in the manner to which they have become accustomed.

Search is a highly competitive industry, and google is constantly coming up with more succinct methods to ensure that you, their client (well, after all, in this country, google does account for over 90% of all search) wil keep coming back - this has given rise to the search engine optimisation industry - the proponents of which will do what they can to achieve a result for their clients that firstly:

• gets them to appear on the first page of google
• keeps them appearing on the first page of google

I am currently conducting a little experiment about how to appear on the first page of google. It is mischief combined with SEO and more than a little cheekiness… wonder how it will go… will I appear on the first page of google for the terms “appear on the first page of google”?

Check back to see some time…

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How does one appear on the first page of google?

There are many methods, one can employ black hat SEO techniques to get a placing on the first page of google, and risk being penalised (which isn’t all that bad if you are just running a short campaign or want to have some fun) - but if you want your site to appear consistently on the first page of google, it is far better to utilise what are known as white SEO hat techniques.

Truth be told, I am not going to go into the methods that I use to assist people to appear on the first page of google with their chosen key words and phrases and am really just attempting to make a bit of mischief and see if I can knock off @jimboot (Jim Stewart) from Stewart Media who currently happens to hold the #1 position for the search phrase “appear on the first page of google“.

Jim sort of set a bit of a challenge, threw down the gauntlet if you will at one of his recent SEO workshops, to see if anyone could knock him off from that position. Whilst I don’t think that this particular site has a hope in hell of taking away that his position at the top of the first page of google for that search phrase, I thought I would be cheeky and give it a crack.

I might even have to link back to his page with some anchor text like knocking jimboot off the first result for appearing on the first page of google

SEO is an enjoyable pastime to indulge in and it is about time that I had a bit of fun. So, let’s see if I can get a page one result for the search term and appear on the first page of google with this post.

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