I couldn’t imagine life without Google. As someone who writes code for a living, it has been an invaluable tool and has helped me solve some of the most difficult problems.

For most website owners, getting to the first page of Google is a huge deal — and people spend a LOT of money trying to get there. It’s a well-known fact, that the way to get there is by creating good content that gets shared around.

It’s not always on purpose though. Innocent comments, photos, pictures and articles can go viral for the strangest of reasons.

“jukmifggugg” is another example of the how quickly something can spread on the internet.

12 hours ago, if you did a Google search for “jukmifgguggh” you would find 0 results.

But thanks to Reddit, it has grown to over 600 results in less than 12 hours.

See the comments that started it here:

The beginning of jukmifgguggh

The current results

It’s only been 12 hours since that original “jukmifgguggh” comment was posted — and we already have: YouTube videos, lots of Reddit posts, usernames taken, even the domain “jukmifgguggh.com” is gone.

I think it’ll be very interesting to see how the search results change over the next few days.

This Medium post is a part of that — Now that I’m posting more content on Medium, I want to see whether Medium will give this article a boost in the search results for “jukmifgguggh”.

Hopefully we’ll see some interesting results.

Update: After 24 hours

So this Medium article initially appeared on the front page in position 9. Over the next few hours, it moved up to position 8, then 7.

Shortly after that, it completely disappeared off the front page and sat on Page 2 (and that is where it sits now).

It was bumped off by Astro Dog Apparel:

Here’s a screenshot showing the current results after 24 hours:

Note: We’re now up to 7,000+ results! So it’s growing quickly.

Notice how YouTube dominates the front page? I thought maybe if I created a YouTube video, and linked it to this article then maybe it would give it a little boost and steal back the position that Astro Dog Apparel took.

So I uploaded a video — and a few hours later, nothing had changed.

Then I tried a Twitter link. Nothing changed. Perhaps if I had the resources and audience to spread the link on Twitter and YouTube, we might have seen more of a difference? I don’t know.

Finally, I’ve tried a Reddit link on the jukmifgguggh subreddit. We’ll see what happens.

Disclaimer

I’ve noticed a few people are viewing this article so I thought I should point something out:

I’m not a SEO expert — and this post isn’t meant to be taken as a credible SEO experiment. So take everything I’ve written here with a grain of salt.

I’ll keep adding updates here (at least until I get bored) — but please don’t base any decisions on what’s written here. Just a personal test to see what would happen :)