SEO Prank “How to kill Anthony Shapley”
Posted by David WhitehouseApparently this was nothing new, as people had been searching for “Kean Richmond is gay” before I came up with this idea:
Basically I got a load of people to click through to anthonyshapley.co.uk after visiting this page, so that it got into his Analytics:
Anthony Shapley's Analytics
Anyone else heard of any other good SEO pranks? I guess Google Suggest is probably a popular one…
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These aren’t new, so maybe I’m wasting the comment, but they are my personal favourites:
Google this with the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button:
“french military victories”
The other favourite being Google Whacks
Comment by Andy Fletcher — August 24, 2009 #
Yeah I’ve seen that french military victories one before – brilliant!
Comment by David Whitehouse — August 24, 2009 #
[...] once played a light hearted prank on him where he thought someone was out to kill him, haha – we had a good chuckle about that [...]
Pingback by Anthony Shapley – The Secret Facts Behind a UK SEO Wiz — August 28, 2009 #
This should be in the SEO Geek book under the list of, “You know when you are an SEO Geek when you…”
I’ve done the same kind thing in the past on a friends art website when I got him to stick G.Analytics on his site, but his keywords were a bit tougher so to cut corners I used, ‘site:X.com -keyword’.
Also, a Firefox plugin called RefControl – fakes the referring URL, so it looked like he had traffic coming from cia.gov
… yeah, he never thanked me for it, heh.
Comment by John — September 17, 2009 #
lol yeah I’ve used that RefControl thing before…
Comment by David Whitehouse — September 17, 2009 #