birthday surprise [not-Ellen filter]

[topaz]

so.

Ellen's birthday is next week.

I'm putting together a treasure hunt for her. Clues are being planted at a bunch of the local places that she frequents -- parks, stores, playgrounds, etc. And I got the idea that it would be really cool if I could kick it off with a clue that you get by searching Google for "Ellen Seebacher's birthday."

So I need your help. I need people to add links to the birthday page I've set up, on pages that are indexed by Google and which Ellen is unlikely to visit on her own.

This may not work since I have only eight days left, and Google's reindexing engine is probably not that fast, but what the hell, I'm going to try anyway. If it doesn't pay off in time I can always just write the Google clue out of the hunt.

I'm told that Google reindexes weblogs more frequently than other pages. Which makes sense. So if you're willing to add a link to your blog, that would be especially helpful!

In other words, I need:

1. Links to http://www.unchi.org/birthday/
   
2. titled Ellen Seebacher's birthday
   
3. on web-indexed pages, especially blogs
   
4. which Ellen doesn't read. (e.g. LiveJournals that aren't on her friends list)
   

If you need help figuring out whether Ellen reads your blog or not, the answer is probably "no" but I can peek at the history & bookmarks on her machine. :-)

Thank you all so so much for your help on my windmill-tilting venture!

Comments

[pancua.livejournal.com]

NOt sure if she reads my blog or not.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I was confused by this until you explained that you meant not pancua but pancua_blog. :-) No, I'm pretty sure you're safe!

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

No prob. http://www.cultural.com/ is there, man.

Ellen's birthday

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

I'd be delighted but I can't figure out how to put a link which says something else (as opposed to just the link) in my journal--is that what you wanted? put the whole thing in like Kaeleigh did?

Re: Ellen's birthday

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

If you cut and paste this into your journal, it should do the right thing:

<a href="http://www.unchi.org/birthday/">Ellen Seebacher's Birthday</a>

Hmm, I see what kaeleigh did. I'll see if I can get her to fix it. :-)

Re: Ellen's birthday

[queenmomcat.livejournal.com]

Done...cool idea.

[cruiser.livejournal.com]

I'm sure she reads mine, since she just replied to it today.

Geeez...

[sulis-vt.livejournal.com]

Want it over on www.vermontwitchcamp.net or www.sulis.net

Checking before I put it on either given content and some people's comfort levels!

Re: Geeez...

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Sounds excellent! Go for it! And thanks!

Re: Geeez...

[sulis-vt.livejournal.com]

Will go tuck it away on there and post changes in the AM...I'm a little under the influence of Mike's...

[stephe.livejournal.com]

Soon to be posted in my journal as well. Better hope she doesn't get a sudden notion to check her friendsfriends page.

[jasra]

Posted to my often googled weblog. :)

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Will forward to Tom and put the incredible power of Boutell.Com's google rank behind this scheme!

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Hee. Google doesn't re-rank pages as often as weekly but it does at least get the new text summarized, so it won't necessarily crank the rank of the Ellen's Birthday page, but my page will show up in the search results for the keyword. I'll link it somewhere she won't look!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Done, on my rarely-updated home page on peace.net/genericdomain.net, and I gave Google both URLs to re-index.

[lcohen]

it looks like it's working on google at the moment. do you still need people to do this? (yes, i am this far behind on LJ again.)