Well, a few people came up to me recently and told me that they encountered a blog posting today about my #1 spot when you search for “Vancouver blogger” on Google, and how the blog owner was planning a Google coup-d’etat against me before Northern Voice in just a few weeks.
To be honest, I could really care less about my rank on Google for the phrase “Vancouver blogger”, but I think it’s sort of a humorous effort, and I’m always up for a challenge. I’m purposefully not going to take the bait and point back to his blog (haha!), but trust me the entry exists, and YOU must help me defeat him.
The person who started the challenge is encouraging everyone reading his blog to link back to his blog to increase his page rank. If you read my blog from time to time and don’t already link to it, feel free to add it now to show your support for me in my battle against the evil DARTH JEALOUSY.
To sweeten the deal I’ll give a free 12×18″ (that’s pretty big) print away to one special person of an HDR shot that I’ve never released yet for Vancouver. It will be a one of a kind original, at least for a while :)
To be entered, link back to my blog and post a comment on this entry. I’ll announce the winner in a few weeks, and reveal the photo. If you manage to get someone else to drop a link as well, tell them to indicate it in the comments (a referral if you will), and I’ll count you again for each one (also, if anyone still hasn’t received your print from a few months ago, drop me an email. I sent a few last week and have a few on my table that I didn’t have addresses for). I’ll send the print anywhere in the world (as long as it’s accessible easily by mail), so feel free to chime in if you’re outside of North America too!
Get all your blogger friends out to support me against evil. And send some juicy link love my way! If anyone wants to include that funky Star Wars knock off I did up above, just grab this code below:
I’ll get rid of the autoplay audio tomorrow, but put up with it for now — it’s pretty fun.
You can read more about the Vancouver Blogger challenge here.
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[...] I admit it. I’m doing this because I could win something1. You know me, I love a chance to win something. And if ya feel like helping a sister out, you [...]
I linked to you, I linked to you! http://drbethsnow.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/link-love/
Did I win yet?
Not that I have a huge readership of my piddling little blog, but there is a link to yours!
May the uhm, Force be with you?
Don’t forget the closing tags for the embeds. ;-)
Actually, in HTML and XML, having a tag with a trailing “/” is the same as closing it off. So in those cases you don’t need closing tags.
Unfortunately, Blogger flags a warning even with that. :-p
[...] felt a disturbance in the force….now I must help Duane battle the evil in our [...]
[...] Duane, not one to be outdone, found humour in all of these efforts and has come up with “Blog Wars“, an amusing way to get people to link back to him - and so the madness [...]
I’m pretty sure it’s cause you have “vancouver blogger” in your blog’s title - regardless - good luck Duane Blogwalker!
[...] open. So I decided to get up and check my feeds, email, and Facebook. I am happy to report that Blog Wars have broken-out here in Vancouver. Next month is the Northern Voice conference, and the [...]
Go Get’em Tiger!!! The force is strong with you!
Thanks for helping out and photographing at Vancouver’s 2nd Facebook Developer (& Designer) Garage. The Vancouver Blogger link is online @ http://bestwest.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/thankyou/
[...] sponsors and to Megan Cole for hosting the event, Rebecca Bollwitt for live blogging, Duane Storey (Vancouver Blogger) and Rastin Mehr for photographing, and for the Vancouver Film School (VFS) for welcoming us [...]
gave you a big, wet, juicy link love smacker!
Sadly, this excludes those of us who have linked back to you for like 2 years! Bah! May you trip over your blogsaber and cut off your big toe! (just kidding…keep the toe…it’s essential for balance which you’ll need in the upcoming battle)
Clay, come over and I’ll print you one out at my desk sometime!
You are such a huge geek, even I am impressed!
Chad, go put that star wars thing on your blog.. Support the scotch drinkers!
Duane, I’m glad you have accepted my friendly Google chellenge, the Vancouver Blogger Smackdown. It’s a silly and fun way to hype this year’s Northern Voice: spice it up with a little controversy.
I’ve thrown down the gauntlet. Who will be #1 for the search term “Vancouver blogger” on the first day of this year’s conference? We could peak too soon - a premature top-ranking, so to speak.
I may end up as Google road kill, but people will tell their grandkids about the Great Vancouver Blogger Smackdown of 2008!
Yah, it’s all in good fun.
I accept your challenge. I shall reclaim my throne. Long live the Empire! (Insert your favourite Palpatine laugh here.)
[...] the Force be with you, Duane. Posted in [...]
Happy to link to you.
Been a fan via the RSS feed for quite a while, so I decided to do something better than just link to you…that’s right…i made you a COOL KID.
This is a big fuck deal.
-Jeff
I linked to you! Anyone want to link to me? I’ll be your best friend.
[...] But when the rest of the local geek squad (and I write that as a Level 4 Geek) found out about my dastardly shenanigans, it was open season on Currents and Jonathon Narvey’s search ranking. The Vancouver Blogger challenge was born, thanks to Vancouver communications guru and media maven Michael Klassen. 2008 Tech Woman to Watch Miss604 has also entered the running and she seems fairly intent on grinding Currents’ search ranking into plasma. As for Duane Blogwalker, may the Force be with you. [...]
I wish you the best of luck in taking top spot in the Vancouver Blogger Challenge, Duane. But I’ve had my day in the sun. In the words of modern philosopher Jerry Seinfeld, I CHOOSE NOT TO RUN!
I can’t really see anything to gain other than bragging rights. I’m new to bloggin, so I dunno, but it seems like a lot of work.
I don’t have a really real blog but I’ll put it up on facebook. Even tho you import your notes to facebook I don’t see the updates in my mini feed… I only see your imported notes show up when I go to write a note… if you have some sort of setting disabled you might be able to get more hits if you change that?
Good luck.
Haha, did anyone else notice Boris is at #3 right now (after Klassen and the blog meetup)? Is he even trying???
Actually, as of 10.48 am on Thursday morning, Michael Klassen is first, Vancouver Blogger Meetup (the invite created by Isabella Mori) is second, and Duane is third. Man, this is getting exciting! I got to meet Shane at the VBM… and I’ll admit I’m just a little blogpadawan. May the Force be with… whomever wins :)
http://hummingbird604.blogspot.com/2008/01/liveblogging-vancouver-blogger-meetup.html
I’ll have to link this, because I have good luck in winning contests like this :-D
[...] 31, 2008 in Vancouver Duane wants to hang onto the #1 spot in a Google search for “Vancouver Blogger,” and is holding a contest. You’re [...]
My condo could use a better view…one of your sweet shots of Vancouver to hang on the wall would be a fine substitute.
[...] months Duane was sitting there at the top of the Google heap when you searched “Vancouver Blogger“. [...]
[...] may not have heard (probably not if you’re not in town and in tech) there’s a bit of a competition or “Blog Wars” as Duane put it, going on right now between a bunch of the local [...]
Duane, here’s some more love. Strutta and Bootup are shacking up in some new office space in Gastown. The walls are pretty bare right now. We could use one of your cityscapes to spruce the place up.
[...] was reminded by Vancouver blogger Ariane that there’s this ongoing nerd fight to own the number one spot for the Google search for “Vancouver blogger” at the start [...]
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