Difference between revisions of "RainDog's Editorial"
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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. | 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 me an email quick to [mailto:conviviality@ouvaton.org conviviality@ouvaton.org] to let me know the good news.) | + | (If you are by some quirk of fate reading this please send me an email quick to [mailto:conviviality@ouvaton.org conviviality@ouvaton.org] to let me know the good news. Or log on to this wiki.) |
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, 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, 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 contests where competitors try to come out on top of some arbitrary weird Google search. But I'm too busy developing content to pay | + | Of course there are techniques for boosting websites upwards in the Google listings. There are even 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. | + | 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 developping content for a series of websites that no one sees? Because that that is my fate, like Sisyphus forever rolling the rock back up the hill. | + | So why am I spending my time developping content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers: |
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| + | * Because that that is my fate, like 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. | ||
| + | * And just because. | ||
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