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See also RainDog's blog at [[User:RainDog]]. | 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. | 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 | + | (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 | + | 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. |
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. | 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 | + | 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: | So why am I spending my time developing content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers: | ||
| − | * Because | + | * 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 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. | * Because the content can always be used elsewhere, such as copied onto Wikipedia or onto some other wiki. | ||
* And just because. | * And just because. | ||
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