People do vanity searches. Its part of the dark underbelly of the Internet.
So, this evening I was checking my site’s traffic/stats and I noticed a decent amount of traffic to the old site. So for a goof, I did a “vanity search”…you know, searching on your own name…just to see where I ranked and to kind of get a sense of why people may be visiting my site.
Well, it appears that I am now the most popular Stephen Clark on the Internet At least, that’s what Google and Yahoo say.
Being ranked on this lofty perch brings immense responsibility and I can only hope to live up to the expectations of all those “stephen clark” searchers. It also means that there’s only one place to go, and that is down. Yeah, the next Stephen Clark will come along with his new CSS driven, standards compliant site, and knock me off my perch.
But until that happens, I’ll guess I’ll enjoy my new spot on top of the Googleplex.