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Jack William Bell — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:36:18 +0000

Part of it might be the ‘geeky programmer’ aspect. But mostly I just didn’t want to bother. Also, this way if I move hosts to somewhere that doesn’t allow Apache remapping my links don’t change.

SEO isn’t quite dead. But Google is on to even the more arcane tricks people were using. So the age of the ‘SEO Consultant’ is pretty much over.

OTOH, like I’ve been telling people for a while, the best SEO is organized, useful, well written content. Anything else and, even if people find you, they will remember your site is crap and avoid it.

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profiles.google.com/11589749958… — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:20:46 +0000

Interesting. So do you feel like there is a benefit to it, or are you just a geeky programmer who likes all the numbers and codes? LOL
And I am not an SEO fanatic myself. I have one or two things I do, but to me heavy SEO is just a bit old school. What do you think?

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Jack William Bell — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:14:23 +0000

Yeah, I know about the permalinks settings. Although they do add a bit of SEO to each post, in these days of link shorteners and the like they don’t add to human readability any more. So I actually made a conscious decision to use the ‘p-xxx’ format.

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profiles.google.com/11589749958… — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:03:43 +0000

I feel your pain. Though on a smaller scale. One of my author clients recently decided to switch from weebly to wordpress and hired me to do it for. Although an RSS import is theoretically possible, it just ended up being easier re-constructing her entire blog (not nearly as big as yours thankfully). Most of the comments have the same IP address so this might end up looking bad to the spiders, but thanks to gravatar and some nifty editing of date stamps it looks just like it should to human eyes. But man what a process. Weebly is a nifty little tool but I dont recommend it to my clients any more. Blogger is just as handy and drag-drop easy, but at least you can export it to WordPress if you want more one day.
Free tip – maybe you know but just have not gotten around to it yet. Settings>Permalinks: Select “post name”–it is just one extra way to incorporate key words into your page data

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profiles.google.com/11589749958… — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:36:50 +0000

Thanks for hosting Jack. Yes it was last minute, but you made a very tempting offer–we could not have had a better set up to view the meteors. I would not have missed it for the world. I got home and asked my neighbors if they saw the show, but at most they saw 2 or 3 meteors total. Even a friend who went all the way to lake Whatcom to see them was disappointed–apparently people with big trucks were parking and leaving their headlights on so they could “see”.
Being new in town we don’t get a lot of invites to things yet, so I very much appreciated getting this one. And who better to watch such a spectacular event with than a bunch of SFF/writerly folk. My favorite time of the evening was when the lateness of the hour and the steady flow of beer made everyone a bit silly and we started bouncing puns about like it was some kind of drinking game. That was some Sirius fun!
And your welcome for the hucklberries!

Amanda

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