So I was doing another vanity search for myself last week, and I was happy to find that I have conqured The Yahoo. Yahoo! And I’ve conquered MSN as well. Actually, this guy snuck up out of nowhere on MSN. I enjoy the fact that a lot of the Jeremy Turner’s on The Google seem to have an artistic bent, even if I find there work to be trite and without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. And I feel kind of bad beating Jeremy Turner Photographer to the number one spot, but only kind of. Bittersweet is my favorite kind of chocolate, so I will have to settle for it’s taste in victory as well.
So when I went to do the search on The Google there I was, still at number twelve (and thirteen). Same old… wait. Somethings missing. Where is JeremyTurner.com? Um, ok it’s not here anywhere. I typed the url directly in to my browser and was quickly redirected to a Wordpress blog titled Start a Business and Keep It Running for 10 Years, last updated October 19 with the post “Don’t Buy a Trashcan!” Seriously?
Evidently Jeremy Turner of happyballs.com fame has started a blog. I can’t help but think that my last post had something to do with his newfound interest in blogging. If that is the case however, I am saddened that I did not hear from him prior to his newfound interest in our URL. Funny, the only business advice on the site is not to buy an $80 trash can. Sound advice I suppose, but I’m sure he’s learned more in his ten years of antenna ballin’ so I look forward to hearing what more he has to say on the subject of small business longevity. At least now he is creating content that is close to his heart, but I would still suggest that he read this post on 43Folders about what makes a really good blog.What’s even more amusing, especially within the context of the narrow focus of this site, is that by updating his site he has effectively committed SERP-icide, at least on The Google and MSN. The Yahoo still has him listed at number six. I had to do a search for jeremyturner.com on The Google to get this:
SEO Tips for Jeremy “Happyballs” Turner
1. Making your home page into a 302 redirect to a sub-page of your site may have unexpected results, especially to the fickle and ever changing whims of The Google. I can not recommend this method for changing the content of your site. I don’t know anything about keeping a business running for ten years, but I do know that keeping a url for ten years and then suddenly changing it may not have the positive results you would hope for. I have no idea if you can undo the damage to your SERP ranking, but I would suggest ditching the redirect and instead put a link to your blog on the jeremyturner.com home page.
2. Your URL should relate, in some way, to the content on your page. Since the blog isn’t really about you, rather about small business success, I would recommend posting the blog at a new URL with a more relevant name that people who are searching for your content (how to build a sucessfull small business) might recognize as useful, or even something indirectly related to the site, like eightydollartrashcan.com or dont buyatrashcan.com or since it’s the title of the blog StartABusinessAndKeepItRunningFor10Years.com. And then advertise. Contact me, we can talk.
Lest this site take the tone of an all consuming vendetta against Jeremy “Happyballs” Turner, this will hopefully be the last post regarding this particular Jeremy. Unless of course he decides to contact me and doesn’t mind me talking about it. I think I should be more concerned with Jeremy “Woodcarver” Turner. Scary stuff man. Scary.
Update:
Holy crap! Jeremy Turner-Abstract Artist has updated his site too! No more broken links. I sincerely hope he heard about my efforts to defame him and responded accordingly, but I doubt it. Unfortunately the quality of the artwork now being displayed has seriously degraded the quality of the website. My vote is to bring back the broken links.
Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Jeremy Turner
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