Search Engine Optimization: Rock and Roll Edition

Good

  1. Biirdie - The only thing they have to fear are typos!
  2. Beatles - If Google existed in 1962, it would have been constantly asking people whether they really meant “Beatles?” But at least they would have found what they were looking for.

Bad

  1. The The - Repeated word *and* a definite article?! Guilty on both counts!
  2. Franz Ferdinand - This was a ballsy move, basically deciding up-front that you’re going to have to become more famous than the guy whose assassination started World War I. Hmm… actually on further reflection, maybe that is not such a bad bet.
  3. !!! - Ok, so maybe this one isn’t *really* difficult to search for but I’m just putting it in here because I really resent having to be informed of how to pronouce this band’s damn name (”chk, chk, chk”) every damn time I see it in print. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A PHONETIC LANGUAGE DAMMIT!
  4. The M’s - Fighting Words!
  5. The Band - Not only is it impossible to search for, but you’ve also ruined it for thousands of future groups with bad names, whose only hope was appending “the-band” to their URL!
  6. NWA - That being said, I’ll bet Northwestern Airlines would be wayyy cooler if Eazy E *did* run it.

Ok, well those are all the ones of which I can recall at the moment, but I’ll add to this if any future googling should bring new shit to light.

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