Looking at where my hits have come from recently, I have noticed that all kinds of hits have been coming from search engines. Most of these searches have been looking for something called : “the rant” . I can only assume that this is because of the commercial of the same name (the rant). You know the one : My name is Joe and I am Canadian! Perhaps the search engines are picking up on the words “the rant” in my title, or the fact that “the rant” is actually contained on this page. I have heard many different angles on how search engines sort sites in their rankings, but one of them was the amount of times that keywords come up in the text. I suppose that meta tags do a little too… So I guess that placing the words “the” and “rant” or the phrase “the rant” in my page of rants might actually increase my hits, hypothetically. Therefore, people looking for “the rant” that was in the rant commercial might actually be picking up on “the rant” in this very sentence, or “the rant” words from my title. Of course, I am completely above placing words like “the” and rant” or the phrase “the rant” in my page that may contain a rant or two simply in order to increase my hits from people looking for “the rant”. I don’t want to start a rant here, but that sort of behaviour is completely unacceptable, and you will not find me doing such deplorable things on this page. Glad we cleared that up.

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