Confessions of a Six Figure Professional Blogger

I’m One Slot Away From Dot-Com Mogul Status

December 1, 2008 | Ramblings

Tonight, I found a pretty funny post over at the blog of Jamie Harrop. He uses John Chow’s own criteria for being a dot-com mogul against him and points out why Chow is a fake. Of course, it is all tounge-in-cheek, but it was pretty funny.

The criteria are:

  • Your income is made from the Internet
  • The minimum Internet income level is $10,000 per month (you can not add income from other sources to hit this $10K level)
  • You have no jobs outside of the Internet
  • You have a personal blog with your name as the domain name
  • Your blog must be updated at least once per week
  • A Google search of your name must be at the #1 spot
  • You must be willing to help dot com mogul wannabes

So, I was pounding my chest thinking I’ve made it. But then, DENIED. I ran a Google search for “David Risley” and up comes – not me – but David Risley Gallery. I guess some guy with my name runs an art gallery in Denmark. While I own #2 – #10 position in the first page of search results, this guy owns #1.

So, of course you know this means war. ;) David Risley in Denmark, you’re going down! At least to #2. ;)

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  • Booyah! As of tonight, I now rank #1 in Google for my own name. I told that Dutch guy he's going down! ;)
  • Awesome, this post made my night. Unfortunately I'm not even in the first page of results (searching with my real name), but searching with Vertimyst is guaranteed to get me in first place - in fact the only hits for it are all related to me (or should be, unless someone stole my username).

    'course, I'm the only Vertimyst on the entire internet, according to Google (or at least I was a year or two ago).
  • That's hilarious. Of all things, it's a photo. Probably one of the few things out there which uses your name rather than "SIGEPJEDI". ;-)
  • Wait, I must be ULTRA MOGUL STATUS because David Risley ranks #5 when you search my name. I demand a David Risley re-write for ULTRA MOGUL STATUS.
  • I win then. j/k

    :-)
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