Kudos to Matt McGee whose Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO gave me a few hearty guffaws. A couple of my personal favorites:
- When your son tells you he wants to go play in the sandbox, you fear you won’t see him again for eight months.
- You feel uncomfortable and out of place at a minor league baseball game because you don’t see a Text Link Ads advertisement on the outfield wall.
- When your daughter brings home a new boyfriend to meet you, your first thought is to check his backlinks.
Nice work, Matt - we're definitely in need of something like this.
2 things - reading a passage from the bible and thinking 'Wow they've optimised it for the word 'light'
and whilst laying some bathroom flooring, cutting it short and automatically reaching for the 'undo' key.
Rand, thanks for pointing us to that thread. I needed a good laugh today.
Yeah I'm guilty. Some good ones, but #20 was the best.
I'd also ad:
#22: When you realize you are being kicked out of a club for misbehavin', you ask, in a guilty tone, for reinclusion.
#23: A friend tells you "Nice Site!", to which you instantly reply, "No you can't have a link."
#24: You find yourself daydreaming about the day that Google will allow you to deposit your AdSense balance into your AdWords balance.
#25: You cried more about Danny Sullivan leaving SEW and SES than you did about Steve Irwin.
#26: You consider any site with large AdSense ads as "Search Spam"...except for yours.
#27: You really wanted to go to Ask, you really did. They have more relevent results, more features, related searches, and all sorts of goodiness. Your fingers just default to "g-o-o-g-l-e" no matter how consciously you try not to.
#28: You do an ego search for your name and are no longer satisfied with being just #1. You must also have 7-8 of the other top 10 results (for your MySpace, Wordpress.com, Live.com, Newsvine, Friendster, Wikipedia, Google Pages, and Blogger profiles).
ok, so it's Friday. Not all the brain gears aren't turning and that's all the lameness I can come up with. :D
I guess its better than my former addiction: believing if you die, you'll just respawn...
#22
Nice catch, Russell... Matt was worried about that exact problem when he posted his XSS entry :)
Number 20: "You just wrote an article titled “50 Amazing Things For Sale in My Garage This Weekend.” You think the local paper will publish it. Or at least link to it."
You also know you've simply been using a computer too long when you write something incorrectly (i.e. with a pen, gasp!) and go to press Ctrl+Z on an imaginary keyboard. Reading a book and looking for Ctrl+F is another very bad sign.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen something underlined in a magazine or text books, and start tapping the word expecting a new book to open up. I'm always confused for just long enough for someone to catch me doing it, too.
I have found myself thinking, "How long ago did I save?" when I've made a serious blunder... in real life. That's scary.