Bay Area graphic designer and search fetishist Jeremy Turner, improving my presence on Google by writing about it.

Three Degrees of Merlin Mann

June 14, 2008

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Three Degrees of Merlin Mann

This is Jeremy Turner, and I used to work with Dave. Dave went to high school with lonelysandwich. Lonelysandwich performs along with Scott Simpson on the HI-larious podcast You Look Nice Today with… wait for it… Merlin Mann! That’s right, people. Three degrees. Amazing what you find out when you pay attention. I would like [...]

The Google Temporarily Purges .info Domain Names

June 10, 2008

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The Google Temporarily Purges .info Domain Names

Hi there. This is Jeremy Turner and I Just found this article on SEOBook.com, linked from this article on SearchEngineJournal.com. Last week, a number of webmasters with .info domains posted to the webmasterworld.com forums stating that their domains had dissapeared from The Google. The article suggests that rather than this being just a “glitch,” Google [...]

Link Sculpting

June 8, 2008

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Link Sculpting

Hi. This is Jeremy Turner, and here’s some links to articles I’ve been reading while watching the game. Today’s topic du jour is “Link sculpting.” First I read about “PageRank sculpting” here, here, and here. Then I went back and read that first link. Link sculpting is an interesting concept of using the “nofollow” tag [...]

Status Update 2

June 7, 2008

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Status Update 2

Hi. This is Jeremy Turner, and my first week giddiness fades to bitter consternation as I find myself dropping to the twenty-third result on Google. However things are looking up at Yahoo where I am now the second and third result. Funny thing is, the third result shows the page title and description for my [...]

Jeremy Turner, Abstract Artist, Uses The Internets as His Canvas

June 2, 2008

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Jeremy Turner, Abstract Artist, Uses The Internets as His Canvas

Update: Holy crap! Jeremy Turner-Abstract Artist has updated his site! 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 [...]

Status Update

June 1, 2008

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Status Update

Hi. This is Jeremy Turner and so far so good. looks like there may not be nearly as much competition as I thought. Not quite sure how to feel about that right now. Less than a week into this experiment I went from basically zero web presence —the 139th Google result for the query “Jeremy [...]

SEO Stuff, Plugins I’m Using

May 30, 2008

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SEO Stuff, Plugins I’m Using

Hi, I’m Jeremy Turner and tonight I’m all about the plugins. So evidently there are all kinds of ways to “optimize” your WordPress blog. A Google search for “WordPress Google Analytics” yielded links to four very worthy plugins on the first SERP alone, that I’ve since downloaded. See why I need to get to the [...]

Reason To Blog

May 26, 2008

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Reason To Blog

Hello, my name is Jeremy Turner, and I’ve finally found a reason to start a blog. About time, you say? We’lll I agree! I’ve put it off for a while now because, well, I’ve never been one to keep a diary, and if I did I sure as heck wouldn’t keep it in public. But [...]