I have to confess that I was a bit cynical as I wrote this strip. Last week was my biggest week of traffic for this comic in the year-and-a-half it has been in existence. I believe it’s all because last week’s strip mentioned Facebook (and I tagged it), and then because I posted a note about an SEO (search engine optimization) site which runs fake news just for the sake of traffic. So I decided to push it a little more and introduce my own version of SEO into the strip, because I know all the sites and services that crawl the web for those three magical letters will love this post.
And then I had to take it a step further and make a little comment about the current political landscape, with President Barack Obama and conservative talk radio folks such as Rush Limbaugh butting heads. I don’t intend to drag my comic into the slimy mud of politics, which I detest completely, but I figured if I’m being underhandedly cynical in the strip, I might as well go all the way.
So welcome all of you who ended up here thinking you were getting something else entirely. You won’t find poorly written fake news here, just an honest attempt to entertain you — along with some coincidental abbreviations every now and again … . I hope you come back regularly and get your head out of the morass that is SEO marketing or the equally morassic (have I coined a new word, too? What a busy week this is already!) underworld of politics. There’s a whole other world of geeks out here … welcome!
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