Scribd

One of the great cool things about outsourcing webhosting to third parties the way I do is that when my own hosting takes a dump, as happened to me in December, you don't necessarily lose all your organic web presence because the original, 3rd-party host service that I was using still maintains it's data.

And Since most, if not all, of my 3-rd party hosting services have a social component, they also generate referrals. (Up until my old blog died, Scribd was like my No. 4 referrer.)

Scribd, the document storage hand hosting social network, also includes a fantastic amount of meta data with it's hosting services.

My "Origins of Shame" story, the one about Super-anti-hero Gordy McPharpenstien, has been up there since March 24, 2007, and has quietly been garnering a rather entertaining collection of organic search results, which I've listed here behind the cut.

I mean, if some of these hits don't make you want to read the story, I don't know what will.