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 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 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. | ||
