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As some of you may or may not now. Aside from my alustrious career as a heavy metal vocalist. I also dabble a touch in search engine optimization or (SEO). Meaning, I try to get myself ranked high in google when people search for specific key phrases. Not that many people aside from myself are actually searching for “Jason Russo” on google.com, myspace, and other popular websites; I tend to make it my personal mission to make sure that I’m in the top of the searches for my own name.

My ego tends to get bruised however from time to time when I discover there are several other Jason Russo’s in this world. If I could turn back time I’d change my name to something unique. I think Madonna, and Cher had the right idea. When you search that you’re almost certain to get them to come up because how many people are named Madonna or Cher? Guess that’s not a good example though because they were already famous prior to the web.

My old band, Herod for example. Very hard to get us in the top ten because Herod was a king and also mentioned in the Holy Bible. Hard to get your Heavy Metal Band ranked in the top ten when there’ll more than likely be thousands of pages about King Herod and religion on the web.

Always took pride however if I could get myself and people in my band(s) ranked in the top ten of major websites for their name. If you’re curious what I’m talking about; go to google and query your own name. See what comes up, you’ll be surprised to find out how many people might share your name.!

I searched google.com tonight and found myself ranked #2 and 3 for the keyword “Jason Russo” #1 is some guy on myspace in Florida.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=77008869

Sorry to say Jason Russo in Florida, but I’m going to work on getting you bumped down because you have a bad song on your profile and some stupid survey. You must be bumped off. Sorry.

I’m glad I’m #2 and #3 but that took some work. What is really been quite the struggle for me though and the whole basis for my blog is that there is this singer/song writer named Jason Russo in a band named Hopewell on mercury records.

www.myspace.com/hopewell

This guy is everywhere! And, he’s a singer. This is not good folks!! I think people might confuse us. That being said, I have no choice but to do everything in my power to get him bumped down off the searches.

For the record I am NOT Jason Russo lead singer from the band Hopewell on Mercury Records.! I am Jason Russo lead singer of Darkling.

Therefore I feel it is my personal duty to wipe you off of the first page of the search results. Because ……….

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE JASON RUSSO!!

Are you kidding me? So I’m answering some emails and in the corner of my eye what do I see? An anti-smoking ad.

Yea, smoking is bad, I agree. So is drinking. So is eating fast food, so is taking steroids, so is snorting cocaine. So is a lot of things. Most of us know this by the time we are teenagers but there are some of us who try these things anyways.

But my God, do you have to show us a picture of a foot with toes missing? I mean really? Was that even necessary of myspace to allow an advertiser such as this to promote on here?

I just don’t see the point of putting a grotesque advertisment such as this. And on this website? I’m shocked!

Oh myspace, you become more and more corporate every day. It makes me sad. You used to be so cool!!!

I think sometimes these ads are bit over the top. Do they really think by showing someone with toes missing or with a black lung is going to achieve anything other then totally grossing us out.?

What do these advertisers expect to gain by these grotesque ads they promote? And I wouldn’t be suprised if a percentage of these ads aren’t sponsored by Philip Morris the very same company who sells this shit.

What gets me the most is myspace probably wouldn’t hesitate to block out an account of girl showing her breasts. Yet it’s o.k. to show an ad of someone with a gangreen foot with toes missing and disgusting black rotten foot???? But HOW DARE YOU SHOW YOUR BREASTS! People might get offended!! but here.. “don’t smoke, because it causes your foot to look like this!!”

You decide. Nice pair of breasts or ad of rotten foot?? And I digress.

Let’s face it, people want to smoke, drink and do drugs. Showing them an advertisement of toes missing isn’t going to achieve anything other then grossing people out.

So with all do respect myspace, please stop these kind of ads.

For the record, I don’t smoke cigarettes or marijuana. I don’t do any drugs. I drink Budweiser.

However, I am very annoyed by these kind of advertisments. I feel they are grotesque, offensive, and most importantly; uneseccary…