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One Week One Goal: Google Revelation

January 18th, 2007 at 09:34 pm

I received an inspiring comment on my blog yesterday. Nothing particularly special about that, as I have grown accustomed to reading the kind, insightful, and inspiring words you leave me on a daily basis.

With that said, this comment was different. It was on an entry from

Text is October 16th and Link is http://tinapbeana.savingadvice.com/2006/10/16/one-week-one-goal_15779/
October 16th: over three months ago (!) from someone new to the site. He wasn't on the site due to an interest in personal finance, he found my blog due to a Google search for one goal one week. I WAS THE NUMBER ONE RESULT.

Actually, his exact words were "Googled it - and you are the first link. So there.So I've decided to hold myself accountable and live-by 1-goal.1-wk." I didn't believe him, so I tried Gooling the phrase. Searched one goal one week without quotations, and there are "about 45,700,000" results.

And there I am. At the top.

My eyes bulged, my jaw dropped, my little heart went pitter-pat. There are companies and websites that would kill for that kind of placement. OK, maybe not kill, but definitely spend good money... And somehow I manage to get there by accident?

Odd. Weird. Perhaps even kizmit.

This one comment, from a man in India using the handle
Text is Condor and Link is http://www.flickr.com/photos/condor/
Condor, has left me with an itch I desparately want to scratch. It brought to light the known but unacknowledged fact that what I put forth on this blog (perhaps spew forth would be more accurate!) could really and truly have an effect on some unknown person somewhere out in 'The Real World', be it positive or negative. Was it the intended effect? No, but I guess that's part of the revelation, too. People will take what they will from your writing, which may or may not be what you expect.

Long story short, this has made me realize several different things. Most basically, I stopped my "One Week, One Goal" entries when the holidays hit and I really should start again, if nothing else but for my own good. Also, it made me wonder whether or not "One Week, One Goal" could be the basis for a viable online community. And whether I could create it. Or maintain it. Or, with enough luck and enough Condors, grow it into a self-sustaining entity.

So many what-if's, so little time...

Posted in One Week One Goal | 11 Comments »

11 Responses to “One Week One Goal: Google Revelation”

  1. kimiko Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 10:07 pm 1169158024
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    That's because he searched by the exact title of your entry. If you do a search of the title of old entries by everyone in here, you'll see that they appear at the top of the list too, unless they're too common. But having such inspirational entries is quite a challenge to live up too Smile

  2. tinapbeana Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 10:16 pm 1169158567
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    the search term 'one goal one week' is the reverse of the title of the entry. i've actually never used the phrase 'one goal one week' in my blog, and if you search for it with quotes i don't show up at all, that's what made it so weird... either way, it was pretty nifty...

  3. Ima saver Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 10:35 pm 1169159723
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    Well, I think that is neat!

  4. kimiko Says:
    January 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm 1169160192
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    I didn't actually click the link before I did a search for other entries so I didn't notice but is is actually your Categories title instead of the actual entry title.

  5. Broken Arrow Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 12:20 am 1169166000
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    Hehe. Yeah, that's pretty wild!

  6. Carolina Bound Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 12:26 am 1169166410
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    I found this sight by Googling "frugal living." Took me right to a number of entries by Cerci, who doesn't blog here anymore, but that's how I got hooked. I wasn't even sure what a blog was!

  7. jodi Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 02:13 am 1169172805
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    I googled my blog once by accident too when I was looking for Eckerd's rebates! Kinda freaked me out...but it was still pretty neat. It's really a hit or miss type of thing.

    Neat idea about the "one goal one week". I've had a few goals I've been turning over in my head too, but haven't gotten the motivation to act on them yet. There's nothing like an online community for a bit of inspiration (read: kick in the pants)!

  8. librarylady Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 03:26 am 1169177212
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    I think that is so great! That would freak me out too!
    I see what you mean, by this blogging thing being able to reach a lot of people.
    You never do know.

  9. shiela Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 09:12 am 1169197928
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    My DH googled my blog at work because he didn't know the website address. When he came home and told me all about it, I freaked out. It's pretty neat!

  10. Lau Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 03:41 pm 1169221261
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    That is neat... I never though our little blogs could come up like that! Cool... Hopefully many more people will find us this way.

  11. fern Says:
    January 19th, 2007 at 05:04 pm 1169226277
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    "It's a small world after all."

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