It's cooling off outside which is driving to indoor activities. One of those indoor activities is writing this blog.  I've set it aside too long.  The first thing I noticed about this old blog was that I was using posts and not pages.  I'm not sure why.  I'm not happy with the layout, but at first glance, I do some p…

Just a quick update for what will be happening in April with this website.  I've been working on some things related to this weblog. They're in the queue. Sliders or Slideshows  I generally believe they're a nuisance and not good for SEO. I've found some analysis by others that seems to back that up. Nevertheless, I&…

I asked Yoast.  It said 17. I asked my theme. It said 9...  I looked at other websites. 19, 20,22, 26 Most hovered around twenty. To date,  my personal best is a site  I encountered with 55 metatags.  In WordPress, most trust Yoast, but how do we know if Yoast is doing it right?  If we are happy with our websites ranking then Yoast …

Contents [ hide ] Find and Fix Your 404 Errors Early We would like to think that the urls that Google has in its index of your website are the most current ones, i.e. the same ones that are in your sitemap.  However, for a variety of reasons, that is not the case.  A crawl by a link-checker of your website will only reveal if…

Contents [ hide ] This is not the same old Google Blogger schtick. Google does not want your blog...or your house, your wife, and your children.  Not the Same-Ole Blogger Criticisms blogging (Photo by Dan Counsell on Unsplash) There are many websites circulating dubious indictments of the Google Blogger platform. Many of the …

Contents [ hide ] Google Blogger's Import Feature  Well, I lost a couple of days working around some issues that I have seemingly found with Google Blogger's backup and restore capability. Simply put, the re-imported website did not match the previous day's website. The difference was in the URL's themselves…

Contents [ hide ] You should be using Alt Text on your Images.  Alternative Text, Alt Text, or Alt Tag, is the text that aids accessibility by describing the images which appear in your posts.  The  Alt Text should be as descriptive and specific as possible. The purpose of alt text is to convey what is in the image and why it…

Contents [ hide ] Do you sometimes wonder if a website is running Wordpress? There are many Content Management Systems. The last stats I saw had about 1/3 of the websites running WordPress. There are some excellent add-ins that will tell you all sorts of information about a website.  I'll cover those at some later date.  H…

Technical Issues of My Own Creation I lost a day due to a mysterious self-created template issue.  I'm glad to be back. I'm glad to have solved the issue.  I was prepared to switch themes, but I like some features of this one. My problems occurred because of the nature of Google Blogger, and my lack of familiarity with it.  …

Just some small changes to the site today.  Theme Changes I de-emphasized the labels/categories. Since Google's Googlebot Spider seems to find all my individual posts within a day of posting, the idea that I would get some additional use from having the same posts in many labels was mistaken. I don't think labels have much …

Contents [ hide ] I am postponing the case study for now. In my post about  having an irregular post schedule , I talked about the traffic spikes I was seeing immediately after making a post.  I proposed doing a case study of my results after publishing a post every day for 10 days straight. That was 2 days ago. So, I'm p…

Take the Initiative and Get Your Post Indexed You don't have to wait for Google to discover that you have a new post. If you have Google Search Console , you have what you need to get your post indexed by Google. I just completed a post about the need to post regularly in order to feed the Google spider, gain traffic, and built …

Contents [ hide ]  Irregularity. Does your blog suffer from irregularity?  Photo by  Edward Howell  on  Unsplash My blog does. It sounds like a personal problem doesn't it. And since this blog is just me, it IS a personal problem However, irregularity is not what you think. It's not a sign that you need to see a docto…

Contents [ hide ] Blogger is a better place to host your blog than you have heard. Photo by Stephen Phillips - Hostreviews.com There's a lot of disinformation on the Internet. Google Blogger, aka Blogspot, is a better place to host your blog than you might think. If you are easily distracted, as I am, by technical 'cur…

Sometimes Life Gets In The Way It has been a few weeks since I have posted to this blog. Sometimes life gets in the way.  My company is down-sizing and my job was eliminated. So, that means my priorities are elsewhere at the moment. So, I will update this when I can.  Stay safe, Dan

Contents [ hide ] How to Get Google to Read a Newly Created Page You have just finished a post. Your website has already been indexed by Google, but you want to make sure that Google knows you have new information. The answer is use the URL inspection tool on Google Search Console. How to Get Google to Re-index a Revised Page …

Contents [ hide ] In this new category, I'm going to keep track of  my current problems, dislikes, challenges, etc. What's Going Well Traffic continues to increase.  New posts are indexed soon after they appear. So, I think bloggers may be mistaken about what their Photo by  Stephen Dawson  on  Unsplash problem is wit…

I just liked this photo. (Photo by  Joshua Chun  on  Unsplash ) Well, I've decided to change the name of this category to Tools and Tips. I will be adding short posts. A tip is just a bit of advice to solve a particular problem. It isn't something about which I can write 2000 or even 1000 words. However, it is something that…

Contents [ hide ] How does the spider see? Animals have different ways of seeing than humans. Dogs are thought to not be able to see in color.  The compound eyes of flies are particularly interesting.  At one point scientists thought the fly's compound eye resulted in many views like a wall of TV screens all tuned to the s…