RainDog's Editorial - Revision history

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 See also RainDog's blog at [[User:RainDog]].
-== RainDog's Rant ==
+== RainDog's First Rant ==
 I thought that if I created a website my output would get on Google and at least a few people somewhere would read some of it. But I've created about 6 websites so far and NOBODY EVEN LOOKS AT ANY OF THEM. The statistics show that I am generally the only visitor on all of them.

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 * Because the content can always be used elsewhere, such as copied onto Wikipedia or onto some other wiki.
 * And just because.
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 I thought that if I created a website my output would get on Google and at least a few people somewhere would read some of it. But I've created about 6 websites so far and NOBODY EVEN LOOKS AT ANY OF THEM. The statistics show that I am generally the only visitor on all of them.
-If you are by some quirk of fate reading this please send an email quick to [mailto:conviviality@ouvaton.org conviviality@ouvaton.org] to let me know the good news. Or log on to this wiki and edit ANYTHING.
+(If you are by some quirk of fate reading this please send an email quick to [mailto:conviviality@ouvaton.org conviviality@ouvaton.org] to let me know the good news. Or log on to this wiki and edit ANYTHING.)
 My main [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools] website was visited by a Google bot or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler web crawler], probably because I tried to register the site on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project Open Directory] (which is about as "open" as a locked bank vault). But the Google robot only crawled the first page of the site, and that page comes up so far down on the Google listings that I can't even find it myself.

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 Of course there are techniques for boosting websites upwards in the Google listings. There are even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization Search Engine Optimisation] (SEO) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#motivations contests] where competitors try to come out on top of some arbitrary weird Google search. But I'm too busy developing content to pay attention to all that.
-There also seem to be lots of other factors: the creators of successful sites or blogs are in contact with a community, or they have lots of friends, or their topics interest more people, or maybe sometimes they are just lucky. Whatever it takes, I obviously lack it.
+There also seem to be lots of other factors: the creators of successful sites or blogs are in contact with a community, or they have lots of friends, or their topics interest more people, or maybe sometimes they are just lucky. Whatever it takes, I obviously lack.
 So why am I spending my time developing content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers:

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 So why am I spending my time developing content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers:
-* Because that is my fate, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Sisyphus] forever rolling the rock back up the hill.
+* Because this is my fate, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Sisyphus] forever rolling the rock back up the hill.
 * Because maybe someday something will change, and someone will read a page or two somehow.
 * Because the content can always be used elsewhere, such as copied onto Wikipedia or onto some other wiki.