Leyburn Leisure Club
So yesterday I was playing squash and I in my shandy drinking way was chatting next to the bar after the game.
The subject of what I do for a living was brought up and skillfully avoided, but it did lead the conversation on to why the Leyburn Leisure Club (where I had been playing squash somewhat poorly) was “invisible on Google” despite having a website that had been online for some time now.
This brought another of my interesting experiments to mind – particularly given my humble exclamation that “I can get to number one in Google for pretty much any term I like (sic)”. So here it is, and the experiment is simple.
I reckon I can put this very page at a high spot in Google organic searches for the term “Leyburn Leisure Club” and, not only that, I reckon a club member will read this very page. If that club member comes in and I am at the bar, they simply have to say the words “Bob Carolgees” to me, and I will buy them a pint.
Paul – the owner of Leyburn Leisure Club – is not included. Paul, if you say “Bob Carolgees” to me, you must give me a free drink. Then ask how I got this page to this very lofty ranking.
The best thing is, if this experiment doesn’t work, no-one will ever know.
Alternatively, if you want a game of squash against quite possibly the worst player in Wensleydale (providing you aren’t offended by moderately bad language during the game), feel free to leave a comment.
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I think I know you – the tall chap with the scruffy beard who was playing squash last week and who is a web designer or similar.
Promising technique on the court, but a bigger swing will help you and try not to play a winner from every shot. Squash is mostly a game of endurance: do the same thing over and over again and get your opponent to do likewise and wait for him to make a mistake, then strike. Ignore the bar comments: the club champ has a ‘weak forehand drop-shot’ that has so far stymied all challengers.
I shall carol ‘Bob etc’ when next I think I see you.
Enjoy Wensleydale.
Yes. The power of Google, and our ability to rank for such random words as “Leyburn” and “Leisure” and “Club”.
I like hitting winners from every shot – maybe that stems from my old tennis style, but I doubt I’ll be able to pass up the opportunity to attempt a passing shot if I think its on!
The Bob Carolgees offer was a limited time offer (something I forgot to mention on purpose), but consider it reversed now. Any mention of Carolgees or Spit the Dog may only now be made if followed immediately with the question “Do you want a drink?”
You are the third person to have read this and mentioned it though, so good effort.
Is this site better than the squash club website? Answers on a postcard to “Leyburn Leisure Club, Grove Square, Leyburn, North Yorkshire”
All the very best.