Aaron Wall's SEO for Firefox Extension Views My Past Lives
:: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 ::
I don't install just any old Firefox extension. But, this one is new and since I know Aaron and think he's cool, I figured the tool would be too.
He makes sure it's usable by first putting up install instructions for dummies like me. I was cooking until I needed to figure out how to use it. That always happens to me. It's why I'm PERFECT for application testing. If I can get something to work, anyone on the planet can.
So, I take a look at the stats this new SEO for Firefox extension tosses up when I run a search for "cre8pc" in Google. Aaron's Firefox extension brings up a blue line of historical data underneath Google's results. I bickered with its Bloglines subscriber count right away. My Bloglines says I have more than what the extension says. But, I nitpick. I also know my site isn't 12 years old. That's when I gave birth to my second child, was still married, and I'd never even heard of an Internet.
Fast forward to 1996, however, and suddenly I'm a hot, single, web mistress with a sexy as hell web site hosted by none other than Americal On-line! I was known as "Dancing Thunder" and no, I was not selling porn, diet pills or dance classes.
By 1998, however, I had learned how to do proper things like FTP, make web pages with Hot Dog (the HTML software that barked), and I purchased the domain, "cre8pc.com", to celebrate my hippie-ness.
Thanks to Aaron's extension, I traveled back in time to see some of my past creative endeavors. Things like my "Peace Site Directory", "Blabboard" and "WWW Wall of Web Pioneers". You see, in 1998, I was all about links. In a major way.
What's funny is going back to my past and seeing how I did things. For example, I apparently joined a web ring for women, but I don't remember doing that. I miss my old Cre8pc logo (scroll down to the bottom) and the confusing ways I tried to explain my choice of domain.
"Cre8pc.com is about creating using the PC as the medium for expression, but it's also about creating peace, which inevitably we have the opportunity to do with our world wide Internet presence."
"Cre8pc.com. Where creating with your PC and creating peace are one and the same thing."
Eventually, I stopped trying.
By my birthday, in 2002, the May 27, 2002 archive shot shows how imbedded into search engine optimization I'd become. I was completely and utterly engrossed in it. It's sad to look back at all that hard work. Weird to see so much of who I was, tucked into Internet archive dustballs.
Aaron, thanks for taking me back. For those who didn't leave chaos and embarressing history, I'm sure the SEO Firefox Extension can be put to some more professional, practical use - as I'm quite sure he has intended.
:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 7/05/2006 02:01:00 PM
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