Willie, not Willy
Posted by Stuart at 10:25 AM on September 15, 2003One of the great mysteries of my web site is why do I get a lot of people coming to my site after searching for Willie Mays? I do have a picture of him on my site (well, a picture of me next to his statue at Pac Bell Park), but why would my site show up in the search results? Surely there are many other, better sites than mine to learn about Willie.
Today, I just realized why. A nice older lady left a comment on my site on the Willie Mays picture. I wondered how she found my site and so I went to Google and searched for "Willy Mays". Sure enough, my site came up first. First! And then I saw that the top of the search results page said, "Did you mean: willie mays?"
Opps. Since I mispelled Willie's name, I am the number one result for Willy not Willie. Duh. So just go ahead and add "Willie Mays" to the words that I do not know how to spell (along with the ones that Bob W was nice enough to point out recently: consonant and province.)
So, apologies to everyone who comes to my site looking for information on the greatest baseball player San Francisco has ever known (and apologies to Mr. Bonds for that last comment). Next time, try spelling his name correctly (and I promise to try to do the same!)
i con't speel ither
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Hey, I think I took this picture for you, didn't I?
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