Difference between revisions of "RainDog's Editorial"
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My main [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools] website was visited by a Google robot, probably because I tried to register the site on 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 other websites remain unknown even to Google. | My main [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools] website was visited by a Google robot, probably because I tried to register the site on 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 other websites remain unknown even to Google. | ||
| − | Of course there are techniques for boosting websites upwards in the Google listings. There are even 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. | ||
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So why am I spending my time developping content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers: | So why am I spending my time developping content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers: | ||
| − | * Because that is my fate, like Sisyphus forever rolling the rock back up the hill. | + | * Because that 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. | ||
