How Many Cents in a Dollar?
82The answer my friend, if you have landed on this as a search result, is one hundred.
100 cents equals 1 dollar.
Now, having provided you with the answer, I need a small favour from you in return.
Don’t worry, I’m not selling anything! I wish I was, but that’s another story.
No, I just need you to hang around for about five to ten seconds if possible. If you can bear it, that is. I’ll try to make it easy. Short sentences – with a point.
The point in this case being my page and Google’s assessment of it. My page contains a simple question and a simple answer. This should be good enough but the time of your visit is being measured.
If the visitor (you) hangs around for a bit then Google says “ah this must be a Good page” and it looks after me. If, on the other hand, you just pop in and pop off again, Google says “must be rubbish” and no one will ever see me again.
That means a lot of writing just has a brief moment in the sun, and then down we go to page two hundred of the search results. It’s tough being an internet writer.
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Can I Tempt You?
Now, I don’t expect a lot of gratitude for answering your query. But it’s like this. If you stopped someone in the street and said “how many cents in a dollar?” and they answered - you might pause to say “thanks” and maybe have a bit of conversation.
It wouldn’t be an immediate wheel away and off to the next person with a different query.
Well, perhaps just today, you could hang on – and it seems you already are (thanks) – while I tell you my life story. Nah, not really. Just pause with me for a few moments, while the Google Clock of Search Death (mild exaggeration) measures your visit.
Why Should I Hang Around?
I’m glad you asked that, it shows a willingness to engage with me. Something else that Google likes. Engagement. I’d better answer it I suppose.
Every time you immediately back arrow an angel cries in Heaven.
OK, not really – but suppose it was true? That would be on your conscience and for all we know there could right now be a tearful angel pointing to my web page and hoping that you would stay for a while longer.
It’s unlikely, but the law of averages says that once in every one hundred internet statements there will be a grain of truth. We can call them cents if you like, and that will help you retain the answer to the original query regarding dollars.
Thanks for Staying
That’s probably sufficient time on this page and you may well agree. It’s hard trying to fathom how to engage with someone who has come from anywhere in the world with a straightforward query.
We might not get on or you might actively dislike this kind of writing. It’s impossible as a writer to appeal to every single person and if one could crack that then a political career would be a better alternative.
But we made it this far which is not bad going – for you and for me.
You have a number of choices now.
Decision Time
The usual back arrow and off and away to greater internet things. You might even want to check that dollar query elsewhere – just to be sure.
Or you might want to read something else by me in which case there are some links underneath the Like and Share buttons below. I will say that Google (and me) become deliriously happy if we get more than a one page view from a search result.
So that would be really nice of you.
One more thing before you decide on your course of action.
How come I am such an expert on cents?
I am an internet writer. Every time I get to one hundred cents an angel sends me a dollar.
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Haha--I'm donating to your cent count--you've got me totally engaged in what you've to say--cents and google--all makes perfect sense. Hopefully,, the cent angel will be busying counting up.
It might be sixty, or that might be a trick question. On my stats though it's about 0.0000012.
Thanks anginwu - you are an angel.
That was funny. Hope I contributed to your cent accounts.
Thank mysticalrose. You know, I'm never sure about whether something is funny, or is just a ramble.
It might help if I actually put a joke in somewhere I suppose - but hey!
What do people expect for cents?
very creative. your article certainly caught my attention and kept my attention.
Voted up, funny and interesting. The ironic part will be when this turns into your most popular hub ever!! lol
Nice twist on a true tale about the challenges of Google.
Thanks lucky and Brett. It's an interesting challenge - attracting and keeping a reader. One I have failed on so many of my earlier, and more recent pages. They come, they look, they bounce.
I've been extremely impressed by the accuracy of the information in this Hub (the 100-cents-in-a-dollar thing). What's more, I didn't even have to search for it. Somehow, the Internet just knew how often I think about dollars (and cents) - and here it is! Very informative (and a little ESP-ish to boot). :)
It's funny how before becoming a writer I used to think in dollars, and now I think in cents.
When I say "becoming a writer" - that seems to be how I describe myself these days.
Lisa - I'm glad it's accurate (imagine if I'd got it wrong) and that there is some kind of ESP thing going on. Maybe I don't need search at all.
Mark, thanks for letting me know this valuable information. It's worth every second of my stay here.=)
My pleasure cheerfulnuts - if it turns out to be accurate as well then we are onto a winner.
When I saw the title of the hub I was like what is this and why would someone seriously write a hub on this? But still against my better judgement I decided to click on in and see what had to be said. Pretty funny stuff, I'll have to check out Google and see how this is going on the Google SERP ranks, I think you've got a winner here.
Well keyword research isn't my strong point. I figured someone might look for it and I might as well write about it - it's all a bit haphazard really.
If this is about anything it's probably about bounce rate research.
LOL!!!
This really is good, Ma'am. Much obliged to ya for answering my question. Lord Willing and the creek don't rise - I might someday get above my raisin'.
Fabulous Sir. If your comments get any more oblique I'm going, well, I don't know what I'm going to do. Make some of my own up I guess.
How much 'sense' did me sticking around make just now....lol
Well, it's a measure Cardisa, by Google, of how much people appreciate a page they landed on and whether they want to read anything else by the author.
In precise terms this page has made zero cents and has a 100% bounce rate. So not a resounding success as of yet. But then Hubbers aren't normal people... or are they?
Makes sense (sorry for the pun)..I don't know about anyone else, but I usually stick around to read all the cool comments people leave on your Hubs :) Here's a tip for all...make sure any internal links open in a new window so your Hubpage get more air-time. It's a pain to add the bit of html but it's worth it. Find instruction on my "open a new window" hub. (sorry for the cheap promo).
I'll let you off the promo (this time) because I think that's a really useful thing. Comments can be great fun, often better than the page - they don't half take up a lot of time though.
You were so lucky when I found you. Not only do I read all your hubs and come back for more with some, because they are so well written and funny and all that other stuff, but I am a painfully slow reader and therefore I take ages and ages and ages to read and that must help. Innit.
May those Lachrymose Angels shower you with cents and pence and whatever else Angels deal in nowadays.
I saved this comment till last to answer Twilight (had a few this morning, busy start). Because I am lucky - your commenting and appreciation are worth a lot to me.
You 'get' everything I do - and I look forward to seeing "what will Twilight make of this?". The slow reading is a boon of course.
May those Angels bless us both.
Mark, we've been up this road before, you and I, all the way up to the local for a few ales, dinner and darts, leaving the window open the whole time.
This time, I thought I'd actually stay on the page, but I'm getting slightly bored (no reflection on your riveting article, just a limit to how much more insight it has yet to reveal, after four reads..), so I thought I'd tell a joke, just to pad out the time.
It's on topic (well, kinda..). Hope you haven't already heard it.
Q: What's the difference between beer nuts, and deer nuts?
A: Beer nuts can run to a coupla dollars, but deer nuts are always under a buck.
That's it. Time's up. Good luck with the analytics.
Yes, I was repeating myself about the bounce thing. Not in quite the same words of course, oh no. Thing is I thought the title might have some search attractiveness - but having answered a short simple question - what else to do?
I know what I should have done now. A load of curious facts about the dollar - how it started, where is it printed, whose faces have been on it - all that kind of research thing.
Like the deer nuts thing, once the coffee had started to take effect. First thing in the morning commenting - it takes a while.
It's amazing how you weave fact in with your humor. Really enjoyable to read and of course there's that two cents worth of information thrown in for good luck! Voted up and funny. Oh, and just fyi, I hung around a while too!
Thanks for hanging around tillsontitan - no point in rushing round that silly old internet.
This is great. voted up. Now I just need to figure out how to get enough cents to make a dollar.
Well, now we know what to aim for. Funny how writing on here makes a dollar really seem like something.
Look, Mark - I'm doing my very best here. I read your (very good) stuff, and I comment. Now I'm depressed, because my speed-reading skills are penalizing one of my very favorite writers here. It's not fair to you, and it's not fair to me. Just to make certain I stay on the site long enough for Google to adore you (or at least reasonably tolerate you), I have to dawdle around, get up and get a snack, etc. I'm gaining weight from this.
By the way, I will get your Famous Dictators magnets as soon as they're issued. That will give me something fun to look at when I go to the refrigerator while killing time.
Obviously, Google's process is flawed. Either that, or they did like every other scientific researcher does and they studied average reading times based on college students and not the entire population. My generation (the one that really did invent the word 'cool') was taught speed reading. We have to use thar skill now, more than ever, because we actually read the entire content on Internet pages rather than doing the Click and Run thing.
Gotta go for now. The refrigerator is calling. I'll keep the window open for a minute or two longer so Google will think I'm still reading.
Thanks for hanging around Marcy! And for working your way through this stuff...
FloraBreenRobison 8 months ago
I wander how many cents are in a minute's worth of reading according to Google?