In an effort to increase traffic to this site, I’ve been reading a great deal of articles on how to do that and been getting good advice from a few fellow bloggers who’ve been successful at it.
One of the larger problems I have is that the links to this site are a mess. There are a bunch of sites that are no longer around that link here, as well as Jakeneck, which will probably cease to exist some time soon. (Yet again.)
I had no idea how any of this stuff worked, and someone was kind enough to explain it all to me. If you go to Technorati, you’ll see that the majority of the links to The SNAFU Priniple are from Jakeneck, which I’ve been told, (since it’s a dead site but still exists) isn’t a good thing. I need to increase the number of links to this site from other sites. Too many from just one site isn’t going to help move you up the ladder, and a lot of people use Technocrati and similar search engines for topics and tags. (Which I am still learning about.)
The plan is that new links will feed the site, rather than my own posts which link here anyway. And, I have no idea what is going to happen with the Neck, and all those posts.
So, the solution would solve both problems. First challenge was to archinve all of my Jakeneck posts and then get rid of those links. So, I’ve deleted and archived all of my Jakeneck posts and the comments as well. Hopefully, it will work. It won’t help the Google rank of the site name, but no one searches for this site by name anyway. The next step will be to increase unique links to this site, and that is about reciprocal posting of links, being more a member of the community out there. Which is the fun part of blogging in the first place!
I’ll post the archived Neck posts to this site at some point most likely. Not sure how to do that… maybe convert each post and comment section to one html page and create a single post with all of those titles in it.
Since the Necks days are obviously numbered (Yet again), I didn’t want to lose all those posts I’ve written since it’s reincarnation in June of 2005. I’ve already been thru that twice.
All the posts I made on the Neck from 2003 and 2004 are totally lost. From the first Jakeneck and from the Spectacle version. At least, that is the impression I get. Maybe Mobius has them archived, but I asked and got no answer. So, I’m operating under the (perhaps incorrect) assumption that they were lost. I’ve been able to recover some of the posts I made on Jakeneck from 2003 and 2004 via Google cache, but only a small portion of them. And, there was some good stuff in there. I’ve archived those I’ve found, and will try to put links to them here as well.
I really didn’t particularly want to lose any of tho more recent posts from Jakeneck. They are a journal of sorts. And, I go back to them and learn about myself, what I’ve learned, mistakes I’ve made, good points I’ve made, where I’ve been an idiot, where I’ve been smart… More of the former than the latter, but that’s okay.
It’s an intereting thing. I’ve kept a written journal over the years, and the farther I get from that time, the less important those entries become. I assimilate those thoughts, and reflect upon them, and eventually I don’t need them any more. And, I will get there at some point with my blogging posts I’m sure. Writing is a process and an internal one for me.
My reasons for blogging were always more about the journey than the points of the post I was trying to make at the time. And, at times it is cathartic, too much so sometimes, as I tend to write before I think. Working on that…
I read some of my old posts and comments and think “What the hell was I thinking?” and realize that some times I was just goofing, or pissed off, or not attentive, or just not communicating or just plain wrong… and, that is how life is after all is said and done. And, I learn from it. Change and learning and seeing yourself is painful and glorious all at the same time.
So, we’ll see where this place goes. Right now, there is a pretty good amount of traffic, thanks to Seeing the Forest and The Sideshow, My Left Wing, Daily Kos and a couple of other places, for which I’m glad. I don’t always have that much time for this place, and it can go dark for a number of days.
Perhaps it will blossom. We shall see.
