April fools is coming! Got big plans? Going to rick roll half of your company at a large weekly teleconference by taking over the whole room and pull admin access from everyone? (Sadly I left that company before receiving my award for it, hell, i dont think they even know it was me...) Going to hire a stripper for a local religious charity event?
Well, there's a simple one you can play on some internet people that can be amusing with the right people, especially if you can recruit a LOT of people to help.
If you know for certain a person pays attention to the traffic to their site, and they use software that tracks how people got there such as Google Analytics, you can easily give them messages, insult them, freak them out, or even simply get them laughing. First you need to find words on their site that you can reword into something you want to say... and test it by searching for the title of the site and the words you want to say. If it comes up in google search, click through to the site. When that person goes to check their traffic and wants to look to optimizing their site based on what people are searching for when they find that site, they will come across your search. Now once you've found one that works, get everyone you know to do the same thing. If you really want to bring good humor to it all, get everyone to click on one ad while there, at least you can help their revenue while you are at it there.
One of my favorite food blogs,
BrokeAss Gourmet has experienced similar things, and this works very easily since the site is often visited (i.e. comes up easily in google even with weird words) and there's a ton of wonderful original content up there (such as making homemade dog biscuits). Every once in a while Gabi Moskowitz, who runs the site, posted some of the more choice searches she has gotten on Facebook, and some of them are hilarious. Last silly one had something to do with someone searching about how to cook the family pet. (shameless plug: her stuff's amazing, get her book:
The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook
)
That said... on the more negative possibilities, I wonder if the Church of Scientology uses Google Analytics?
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