aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Help Brandon Wirtz beat Stephen Colbert!

Tired and cranky, I linked to the Colbert Greatest Living American Google Bomb last night and went to bed.

Today in comments Brandon Wirtz stopped by:

Sure support the easy candidate… I’m the under dog in this race but I’d like your vote… I may not have Colberts’ Looks, Money, or legions of followers but I at least came to visit your web site.  Did Colbert do that?

Hell no!

So I clicked on over to Brandon’s place to learn more about his quest to become the Google-designated Greatest Living American:

Stephen Colbert is out to steal my thunder as Greatest Living American.  So I’m actively going to try and Foil Him.  I may not have his legions of people, but this is about SEO,[*] and his followers don’t have my friends Google Rank.

I may not be qualified to be the Greatest… but I am a Great Living American, and that is not that far off of Greatest Living American.  Even if I can be in the top 10 links, I think that should be worth something.

As the screenshot above (click to enlarge) demonstrates, Brandon has made it to the #2 spot. (Look ma, no quotes!) His hometown paper reported Tuesday that he had 50 links; I see 31 in Technorati right now - and that he snagged a prestigious Lost Remote link.

You’ve got my nod Brandon. I do watch Colbert most every night and I look forward to the day you knock him from his heady perch! I’m happy to do my small part to help. And while I’m at it, Steve Safran is the Laziest Man in America…

* For the laymen among us, SEO is Search Engine Optimization.