Thu
Mar 6
7:59am
Thu
Mar 6
7:42am
From Tamarama to Bronte
From Tamarama to Bronte
Thu
Mar 6
7:17am
Bronte ocean baths
Bronte ocean baths
Wed
Mar 5
5:41am
Mon
Mar 3
6:30pm
Had an off on the bike today
Nobody’s fault but my own - my foot was stuck in the toe clip at a set of lights and I slowly fell sideways. My bag bore the brunt of it, and luckily the corner that hit the road had my plastic lunch container there instead of the edge of the laptop case (which is a Booq Vyper)
I cursed like a marine at nobody in particular, picked myself up and kept going!
Sat
Mar 1
5:53pm
What happens if I google “Martin Young”?
I’m sure most people have googled themselves. Today I did the first all the web search for “martin young” since I started writing this blog just to see where I am. The first result that has anything to do with me is this blog at #103. The first result for me in an Australia only search for “martin young” sees an Australian Marketing Institute post about new members at #78 with this blog at #99. Not sure why the AMI post didn’t make it into the results for all-web.
I’m not surprised that this blog doesn’t rank higher. It doesn’t garner many incoming links and apart from this post I hardly ever mention my name. It’ll be interesting to see whether this post changes that and bumps me up the list.
(A search for martinjy returns this blog as #1 on both an Australia only search and all the web - but nobody’s searching for martinjy!)
Ignoring where I rank for a moment, the fun thing about googling yourself is seeing what all the other Martin Young’s of the world do. In order of today’s Google results I’m a struggling TV actor, a Palaeoclimatologist with CSIRO, a co-author of a pathology book, the complete folk entertainer, a research fellow at Charles Darwin University, a bespoke artist, a mad wizard, I was a reasonable cricketer for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, a garden furniture maker, a stained glass artist, some sort of lawyer, a web and graphic designer, a midfielder for Hartlepool, and more. Makes me think I need an About page on this blog. Might have to get around to that shortly.
** update 7 March: “martin young” is now 53rd in an all the web Google search. No idea whether this post has had an impact or Google just likes me today….!