On my personalized Google home page I have a little widget that tells me the Google page rank of this blog. My effort here is new, and almost no one is linking to me. It’s not a huge shock that the widget has told me that my rank is 0 out of 10 possible.

Today, however, imagine my surprise when I open the browser and discover that the popularity of my blog has skyrocketed to a phenomenal ONE out of ten! Curious as to what might have caused this rapid ascent, I spent some time scanning through Google’s analytics page. What I discovered is that my site is the 9th most popular entry if you type in “Morgan Spurloch.”

For a moment I was wondering what I could possibly have written about Spurloch to earn me this ranking. Then I realize that the name of the Supersize Me documentarian is actually Morgan Spurlock, not Spurloch. Oops. So I have a higher overall rating with Google because I have become one of the few experts on the subject of a proper name that doesn’t exist. The school teacher in me instantly thought to log on and correct the spelling mistake. But then I thought better of it. Instead, I published this post, which includes the word ‘Spurloch’ five times. We’ll see if I can’t push past #9 among Spurloch experts.

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