I try. That one was a little too realistic for a lot of folks. Guess I need to get some sarcasm training one of these days.
I'm still suffering from a "-4 penalty" in the 5th spot for [
seo book], but my little joke apparently did help gather some links from my readers. Aaron himself even chipped in with a link. #5 is probably as far as I'll get without putting actual work into it, since the top 4 results are all from Aaron's site and he's got years worth of links behind him.
Aaron's book, I am informed, is still available to those who join his ($100/month) training program, so you can actually get it, for just a few dollars more than what it used to cost.
Google giving Aaron the top 4 positions on that SERP does reveal their "treating subdomains just like folders" and "two listings per SERP" nonsense for what it is, but I seriously doubt that any searchers are bothered by this.