John Douglas Miller from Norfolk, Virginia...
Are you "my" Johnny?
I saw ya in my Site Meter and I just have to ask...
If it is you, do me a huuuuge favor.
Click on the word "testify" under this post and say something.... anything, ya know?
Just let me know... especially if it's you, Babe. And, if you're not "my" Johnny... thanks every bit as much, because I clicked on the archived post you found and just got to revisit one of my best posts. It's about Mike. I wrote it waaaay back in May 2004. Had "Live Rust" blasting in the background when I wrote it and it can still take me right back to those days. Not that "these days" aren't almost as good, but... with life having stripped my innocence and my head being too aware of the avarice that powers most people's lives and all that kinda crap, it'll probably never be EXACTLY the same. But, I swear... standing in the sunshine at the horse farm today, with Cal saddled, waiting for Mrs. Boss to come to the barn, looking at all the horses around me.... I could feel it, almost completely. That feeling I used to live in when I was a kid and it was a warm Spring day and all in the world I had to do was ride.
Didn't hafta worry about bills, health shit, house cleaning, grocery shopping, dying alone.... none of that. I could just wake up in my bed, in my house, with my Dad right in the next room and Diablo right out in the pasture. I was whole and complete in a way I wish I had been more aware of at the time. It felt so safe, so... real. So good. There are times when I'd trade the rest of my life for one more day with things being like that again. No matter where I went or what I did, I knew Dad was "there" somewhere. If he wasn't in the kitchen window when I rode back into the yard, maybe he'd be out back in his garden or in the livingroom or even at work, but always "there". Okay. What the hell.
What's with the leaky face all of a sudden? I'm not sad, not really.
But, ya couldn't tell that by lookin' at me right now.
Tears are rollin' faster than rain right now and I don't know why. Maybe I miss Mike.
Maybe I miss Johnny.
Maybe I miss Dad.
Maybe I'm just nuts.
I don't know. All I do know is that it's nearly midnight and I just woke up a little while ago.
I didn't sleep at all last night.
I cleaned the house instead.
Guess I was a little keyed up about "riding for them", like an audition. Which, by the way, I passed with flying colors.
Especially since Calvin, the little turd, decided to give me some shit. Just enough to prove to 'em that, yes I can handle a horse, quite easily in fact.
Besides, Cal... you call that "bucking"?
Please, Dude.
That was more like "crow-hopping 'cause you were trying to get out of cantering".
I do know the difference, ya putz. Anyway... if you are the John Miller I hope ya are, let me know. And... how is it again that you make yourself the first result for a particular search? I've done it before, kinda by accident, with that dorkus I used to work for in Jersey.
But, that was so long ago I don't remember how it happened (or why I wanted it to happen, for that matter...) Anyhoo... I want to be the first result for the name Glenn Davis. He's one of my best friends from high school and last I knew, he was, of all things, a Navy Seal.
He was such a sweet, gentle guy I can't imagine him being able to kill with a look (like I heard SEALs can do).
*grin* Here's what I know: Glenn Davis
Transferred to Woodstown High School from one of the Cherry Hill high schools... can't remember it if was East or West.
He was in Ag with me.
Lived in Pole Tavern.
Played football.
His Dad either worked for or owned a rug cleaning company.
Last place I know he was is San Diego. He was going there for the SEAL training and this was at least 16 years ago.
I loved 'im to death. So.
What do I do with alla this? How do I make it so I come up at all, if not first, with any of these words or combos thereof? I want to find Glenn.
He's one of those rather unique pieces of my past... one that has no hurt attached to it.
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The best way to become high in the search engine rankings for a particular set of keywords can be done, but becoming FIRST is usually hit or miss. The easiest way to do it is this:
1. Create a post with "Glenn Davis" in the title, just like you did with John Douglas Miller in this post.
2. Mention his full name a few times in your post itself.
3. Mention any other keywords that are related to Glenn, just like you did in this post (high school, home town, etc...).
4. I'm not sure how mu.nu runs their site, but if you have the ability to create static webpages (ones independant from your blog), you could also create a seperate page with his name within the meta tags in the code of the page.
5. Search engines will send their 'spiders' out to your site on a regular basis to scan your pages and you'll eventually be able to see the results when you search for his name. I don't know when or how often they do it, but if you give it a few weeks and then go to Google and search for "Glenn Davis" you'll find your page in the results somewhere.
Without getting too technical, different search engines rank pages using different algorithms, but those 4 are the most usual ways of attracting targeted keyword traffic. Much of your position depends on who else is using the term "Glenn Davis" in their site. If, for example, CNN.com were to have a news story about him, they would appear in the search results before you because CNN is a more popular site and gets more traffic.
1. Create a post with "Glenn Davis" in the title, just like you did with John Douglas Miller in this post.
2. Mention his full name a few times in your post itself.
3. Mention any other keywords that are related to Glenn, just like you did in this post (high school, home town, etc...).
4. I'm not sure how mu.nu runs their site, but if you have the ability to create static webpages (ones independant from your blog), you could also create a seperate page with his name within the meta tags in the code of the page.
5. Search engines will send their 'spiders' out to your site on a regular basis to scan your pages and you'll eventually be able to see the results when you search for his name. I don't know when or how often they do it, but if you give it a few weeks and then go to Google and search for "Glenn Davis" you'll find your page in the results somewhere.
Without getting too technical, different search engines rank pages using different algorithms, but those 4 are the most usual ways of attracting targeted keyword traffic. Much of your position depends on who else is using the term "Glenn Davis" in their site. If, for example, CNN.com were to have a news story about him, they would appear in the search results before you because CNN is a more popular site and gets more traffic.
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