Book meme
“It’s very hard to correlate any particular action with a particular increase or decrease in search engine rank. Often when a rank drops, it’s because of something that Google has done, not anything you’ve done.” - Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, 3rd Edition by Peter Kent.
Book meme:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
via leahculver.com
I know it’s sad that I’m reading SEO for Dummies, but someone bought it for me as a gift. And I’ve actually learnt a few things from it. In fact, if you’re a micro business website owner, you may want to read it too.
And I know the meme says to post the text of the 5th sentence, but the 6th sentence was a good one so I had to use it.
Okay. But since I’m at work right now this is not an indication of what I read. I grabbed one of the orange books on the shelf behind me. There’s a diagram on pg 56 so I’m going to the next page with text - p 58.
“Firstly a reference to an article by the same author, Kolin, was selected - article no 2 on the diagram - and upon entering the 1967 SCI, two citations to this article were found.”
Essays of an Information Scientist. vol 1 1962-1973 by Eugene Garfield.
“Inserts are used in the preactive, active or abandoned condition.”
Underwriter Laboratories, Inc. – Fire Resistance Volume 1 2008
OK – I’m at work so this is not something I would have at home on my shelf. Maybe I should do this again later.
@Carla - gosh, I don’t know which is worse - yours or mine
@Kim - I think mine is worse!
Now that I’m in the comfort of my own home, I found this random book off the shelf:
“The prior had his own reasons, however, for preserving in the course of temperance which he had adopted.”
-Eclectic English Classics: Scott’s Ivanhoe Schreiber
Copyright 1899