phil ringnalda

Alas, poor Marcus: he made what he thought was a throwaway post about the stunningly stupid design of a website for what sounds to me like a really bad Go-Go’s knockoff band, apparently formed for a “reality” TV show (sorry, can’t be bothered to actually look at the details), but since the site seems to include precisely two words of text, the name of the band in the <title> element, and everything else Flash, now he’s one of Google’s top resources for the band. Worse yet, since he doesn’t do individual entry archives, but does good markup in his comments, with the band name (from the post title) appearing in both the page <title> and an <h2>, it’s the comments page that Google likes better than the actual site. Ouch. Until they crawl again, you can see by the cached version why he was tired of getting new comment email from the post. “Marcus if you don’t like Kim, you obviously have very bad taste in Women!” – in reply to someone’s anonymous comment which failed to mention that she looks like a porn star nearing the end of her career.

Just in case another link will help move their lame site above the fold and his below, it’s Girls Aloud (and the link to turn the sound off is down in the lower right corner). Oddly enough, I think I’ll turn comments off on this post (though TrackBack’s still there, if you really want to say something.)