benparsons.com

you know those telethons that PBS does, or KEXP?

for those who don’t: what happens is, a “public” type of service which doesn’t sell advertising or have other means of revenue generation will ask its users to donate to it, in order to keep providing its service. it’s like “if you think this rules, then you should send money”.

no, i’m not asking you to send me money- i have a better idea. my request of you is that you take a moment to put “ben parsons” (without the quotes) in as a google search term, and when the results come up, click the one that links to this blog- it should read “ben parsons is contemplating” let’s just do that right now…

so, on google you will see that the top listing for “ben parsons” is my myspace page, which is pretty great. unfortunately, there is an impostor “ben parsons” listed at #2 for some “blog” or something. obviously this person is trying to discredit me by pretending to be me. lets bring this fraud down by clicking on the #3 entry, the REAL ben parsons (ben parsons is contemplating).

other searches that would probably be beneficial for me are “ben parsons rules”, “ben parsons kicks ass”, or maybe “ben parsons is a complete moron”. adding “music”, “art”, or whatever else you may think applies to my name on a search, and then clicking on one of my pages will move me up on the google-meter, the meter by which the universe is measured.

here on wordpress you can see how many times people have used searches to find your blog, and what terms they have used, so i expect to see 20,000 or so “ben parsons” searches in my blog stats in the next 24 hours or so, ok? that would be great. thanks.

-side note- i don’t know a whole lot about how these search engines work, but i’ve been told that the more links you have out there in cyber-land the more recognizable your site is to search engines. i think this would make myspace a really good place to get your name out there, if you are interested in doing so, because each time you “add a friend” that creates another link to whatever thing you are promoting. it’s free, and maybe more efficient than other methods of “flagging” for search engines?

so- do your part to make me more awesome by googling me and then clicking on me. don’t click on those other losers. they are only jealous of my success.

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here on handy-dandy wordpress there is a tool that displays what google searches have lead people to my blog. this one i thought was worth sharing…
apparently someone searched
“skulls myspace and headers middle finger” and ended up looking at my blog. that is perfect. can’t beat it. i mean, i had stitches on my middle finger, a painting called “not flames/skulls”, and a link to my myspace page on here, so i guess it makes sense??

in other news, i got the stitches out of my finger, and am now trying to type with it again. it’s weird because i can’t feel my finger tip at all, so i don’t know how hard i pushing down on the keys with that one. i’m sort of afraid that at some point i will look down and find blood all over the letters E D and C (yes, i use proper typing form).

this week i helped out hosting a conference called “the new conspirators” that was held at Bethany Community Church. The thing is, my depression has been gnawing at me for the last two weeks, and i just don’t think i should say anything about the conference. it was probably good, it’s just my judgement is all out of whack, and i keep being super negative, so it’s best if i just say that i think Tom Sine and Efrem Smith are rad.