Redneck Tale # 23 - This Redneck is Going "Viral"
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"Hubpages to Google - Come In Please"
Like many who enjoy writing, I enjoy learning how "my stuff" is taken to by new readers who are not likely to tell me nice things just because they know me. In addition to that, I get a big charge out of learning where I stand with the world of the Internet and its search engines. Now and again I will hike on over with my fingertips on the keyboard and test out "Redneck Tale" on "Google."
That started as an experiment of sorts. Whenever a goofy subject for a story came in between my ears, I named it, "Redneck Tale # XX – Story Title." For example, this current story is "Redneck Tale # 23 – This Redneck is Going Viral." Why so?
Checking out the Google rankings of "Redneck Tale" today I found that they numbered 1 through 5 out of the first 10. Of course, that made me smile a little bit. I kept on going down the list, looking for more. I stopped looking when I came to number 8. It was also about one of my Redneck Tales. This was # 12, the story about the magical wacka-wacka snake in the Burma military theater during World War II. However, that number 8 ranking in Google was not written by me.
Spreading the Virus
Instead, the entry was a link to a forum about World War II itself, maybe populated by aging veterans of that big war. The entries pointed to by the link on Google were about Redneck Tale #12, the tale about that goofy snake that turned itself into a tiger.
In other words, the story had "gone viral" and had been enjoyed and back-linked by the forum members.
I tell this to you, not as bragging, but to emphasize for you the power of Hubpages to put the word out about your writing and mine. I do not know any of the forum members, but I know now that they know about Hubpages, and because of Hubpages, now they know about me.
Isn’t it good to have Hubpages on our side? Who could afford to pay for the PR we are getting just for having tons of fun writing stuff we like to write?
Anyway, here are three of the entries I copied from that forum and a link to it as well:
(Found on "WWII Forums" located at [http://][ww2f.com][wwii-general]/39970-burma-wacka-wacka-snake-story-redneck].[html])
Note: The automatic link that had been supplied here has been removed by the hub author at the request of HubPages' management when their "Google" inspection apparatus may have discovered something possibly wrong with that Web site. The author used the link, inspected the cited Web site personally, and found the link to be OK on his visit and as it had been about a year ago before the removal request had been issued. To use the link manually, remove all of the brackets and the trailing parenthesis mark.
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burma, the wacka wacka snake, story from a redneck..
good story, with a very good ending.. (and here is the backlink "ray w." placed on the forum)
Redneck Tale # 12 - The Wacka-Wacka Snake [Note: This is a link right back to this hub.]
ray w.
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Re: burma, the wacka wacka snake, story from a redneck..
That's a good one Ray, it reminded me of one I heard from a buddy from High School who had spent a tour in Nam, he was telling me that he missed Montana where all he had to worry about were the 'rattlers. He said he was informed that in country there were 90 different types of snake, 89 were poisonous in varying degrees of lethality, and one just ate ya whole.
Happy Trails,
Clint.
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Re: burma, the wacka wacka snake, story from a redneck..
can see his point, the rattler didn't look so bad then...
ray w.
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That's fantastic!
Randy - I have to tell you that I was surprised to see the WW-2 folks picking up on that goofy story. It showed me that HP is doing a really fine job of getting our writings out there for the world to see.
Gus :-)))
Sheila b. - I think that "it is fantastic" for all of us here on HP. Getting a nice backlink to the hub was an unexpected bonus, but what has been impressing me is that the title tag words, "Redneck Tale ...," "Dumb Poem...," and "Redneck Recipe..." are all Hubpage listed title words and all of them are in the top 10 on the first page on Google. It is obvious that both the keywords and Hubpages are working.
Gus :-)))
Hi, Gus. How nice to have confirmation that there is hope for the rest of us Hub people as well.
Happy for your viral success. Today, the WWII Forum. Tomorow, the world!
Go get 'em, redneck Tiger.
That's really cool...I never thought of it that way...HP a PR tool for us. See ya later.
Hi Doctor BJ - Notice that I have capitalized the "bj." That is to be regarded as a sign of mutual respect as to both skill and really young"old age" 'twixt the two of us. You and I have already made big footprints here and there, so the matter of a crazy snake-to-tiger tale procreating via viral RNA on Internet forums is really not that big a deal. However, it shows the "reach" of Hubpages in the doing.
Gus :-)))
Howdy Nurse Tammy - Hey ! Did you maybe ever think of things in reverse, like we are probably pretty good PR tools for HP? Back in the beginning of things here on HP for me I thought that I would experiment with my hub titles, beginning them all with a repetitive word arrangement. The purpose of that was to see how search engines handled them as to ranking. It turned out that they all are in the first ten articles listed on each of 3 "title" categories, usually the top 2 and now and then slipping to 3, 4, or 5, give or take a little. Now that does not earn you a penny, but you learn that folks are searching for your title words and finding you on top of the lists. Not a bad experiment and it has had a good result thus far.
As to the WW2 forum thing, I was pleasantly surprised to see that someone had picked up on what actually is a low-scoring Hub.
And as to your "...really cool," I agree, but my perspective on that is molded by what I was taught on the way to the computer - "Keep a cool tool in the motor pool!" My old sergeant used to holler that at me whenever I went bonkers under his annoying tutelage.
Gus :-)))
Gus...:-D
Nurse Tammy - And one big one back to you, too.
Gus :-)))
..well Sir Gus I danced all over the keyboards like Liberace on this hub subject and pushed all of the buttons like the little hub monkey on meds that I am - and that said, no one STILL dosen't write quite like you - and probably never ever will - and thank god for that because you are truly truly one in a million - (that's two 'trulys' by the way - lol)
Hi "epi" - It just now came to my mind, good friend... a HI epi truly does beat a LO epi, but that's easy to say, for there is no LO epi.
Gus :-)))
Write on Gus. Ha! Isn't it great, the different styles of writing that we get to see,just by turning on this little screen in front of our noggin's.
Good Day to you Patrick (Paddyboy) - Yes. About the only thing I can think of in the fog of the morning is that seeing a million bucks in front of my noggin would likely be lots of fun, too.
Gus :-)))
Randy Godwin Level 6 Commenter 2 years ago
Way to go, Gus! It's funny how things work on HP sometimes!