Wednesday, March 09, 2005

pookon.com receives recognition from fans

Something amazing has happened to me and my website over the weekend, something that seems to be happening more and more often. Before I explain myself, go to your favorite search engine (be it yahoo, msn, google) and type anything related to my site (pookon, godsplash, miller park, beer pong, saguaro cactus, STYX) and see if you can find my site. Often random people type in keywords and accidentally stumble upon my site. Most times I don't find out, but when I do it is spectacular. Tim was browsing the STYX website message boards, and saw a post about summerfest photos, where a random person stumbled upon my site, the posted the link for everyone else to view. The following is that post:

http://www.pookon.com/styx1.html
Here is someone's concert photos from a summer concert. I stumbled across it by accident. He has some great concert photos. If you leave it the page for a bit, he also recorded a bit of the show, a different song for each page. Maybe this will help a bit with all our need for new concert photos.

Tim saw this and went nuts. He replied to this post with the following:

OH MY GOD! This is soo crazy. That's my brother's website! I made him bring his camera along. You can even see me ruining the songs by singing along every once and a while (sorry). I am the guy in the first few pictures with long hair standing next to Lawrence. How did you find it?

The next post answers Tim's question:

Hey Tim!! That is amazing that I stumbled upon the website of your brother's!! I was sitting here waiting up for my teenage daughter to come home from a night out with friends. I typed in "Styx" on MSN homepage and started surfing. And there it was. He has some really great photos. Love his comments, what a great sense of humor! And the music add to the pages is such a great idea. Funny and creative too, What a great Kid your brother is. You taught him well!

Tim then conveyed my thanks for the pleasant comments:

Haha, well it was just mind blowing to open up this post and see my brothers website link there, lol. Anyway he really appreciated the comments and we look forward to rocking out and taking more pictures in the near future.

When Tim told me about this it rocked my socks off. It's times like this that make me keep working on this site, even though some times it can be a burden and time consuming. Somewhere out there, there are people who care. I can add a few more Styx fans to that list now. How much does that rock?

www.pookon.com

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