{"id":732,"date":"2008-11-09T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2008\/11\/ik-ben-niet-een-bmw-dealer"},"modified":"2008-11-09T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:21:41","slug":"ik-ben-niet-een-bmw-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2008\/11\/ik-ben-niet-een-bmw-dealer","title":{"rendered":"Ik ben NIET een BMW-dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline says in Dutch: &#8220;I am NOT a BMW dealer.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Branko!&#8221; you will cry surprised, &#8220;you are the essential Universal Man, if you would want to sell Beemers, I am sure you could!&#8221; Ah, I am not so sure if I could, but that&#8217;s beside the point. I don&#8217;t want to sell BMWs in Amsterdam, and I do not sell BMWs in Amsterdam, so how come, if you search Google for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=bmw+amsterdam&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">BMW Amsterdam<\/a>,&#8221; does it show me and my initials at the top of the page?<\/p>\n<p>As a result I have been getting a lot of phone calls lately from people wanting to buy BMWs off me. Sorry, BMW-buying people! Follow the other links.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson I&#8217;ve learned today is that being the top search result in Google helps (if you want to be the top search result, that is).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline says in Dutch: &#8220;I am NOT a BMW dealer.&#8221; &#8220;But Branko!&#8221; you will cry surprised, &#8220;you are the essential Universal Man, if you would want to sell Beemers, I am sure you could!&#8221; Ah, I am not so sure if I could, but that&#8217;s beside the point. I don&#8217;t want to sell BMWs &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2008\/11\/ik-ben-niet-een-bmw-dealer\" class=\"excerpt-read-more read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}