I gotta tell ya, I'm confused about how this whole internet thing works. I have been traveling some websites today that have been around for as long as 4 years and they get no significant hits. I went back to the very first post on each site I was on and left a comment. Some of them were brilliant and yet no one had ever thought enough to leave a comment IF they even got read in the first place.
I do not believe any of MY great work so far has been read by anyone but myself.
I want to give you two examples that are polar opposites of each other (at least in my mind) and I want you to visit each site and judge for yourself which is truly the better site, contently speaking.
EXHIBIT A
Franks Funnies believe it or not I found this while doing a Google search for "apocalypse signs". His site is number 32 out of about 3,370,000. His site has nothing to do with the apocalypse and everything to do with really funny shit on a variety of subject matter. Click the link and see what I mean. You will spend at least an hour reading his stuff. I am now a follower of Frank.
EXHIBIT B
STM my favorite sleep talkin' man site. The entire first page of a search for "sleep talking man" is about this guy. It's okay for what it is but shit-fire did it go commercial fast! Check out his store. ALERT!! ALERT!!
Today's STM update:
7957 Followers (an increase of over 2200 in a little over a week)
2,351,127 Unique Vistors to his site
The best I can figure is this site has been up for about a year. The postings were very sporadic at first. Example: between June 16th and September 8th...nothing. Then STM was a featured "blog of note" on blogger.com. Now that the gravy train is rolling they are coming fast and furious. Here is my work.
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So now I start searching Google to see if I can find my site in ANY way possible.
I search "apocalypse signs". Stopped at 10 pages but the bonus here is I found Franksfunnies.
I search "signs of the apocalypse". This returns 367,000 results. Again after ten pages I stop. I did how ever stumble on this little terrifying site. I downloaded the survival list and I am now going to starting saving to join this lovely bunch of coconuts. Cause really, what the hell good is my site going to be if the poles shift, and their gig sounds like a hoot. As usual...too late to the blogging party.
Then I search "a pack a lips now". This was the name of my blog a few hours ago. What do you think I got back?? Ready? 1,030,000 results! WTF times 2!!
Who in the hell would even type in that term except a nutbag like me?
Cruel reality...even THAT exact term brought up no webpage of mine. I went through 50 pages. FIFTY! I had no more time left to be toyed with so I am assuming that my site is result number 1,029,999. Hey, I'm optimistic, what can I say. Fuck, that sucks.
So now I have renamed my blog Apocalypse Now. Stupid me, when I set it up I was searching for a site name that had apocalypse in it and nothing was available that I liked (and I really didn't try all that hard, but hard enough).
So my site name is THIS, but my blog name is Apocalypse Now. I know those of you who are reading this at some future date will think I'm a blogging simpleton but this is my first forage into the public blogosphere, I'm learning (I think).
I knew there was such a thing as a "Google Slap" and it was to be feared above all else by bloggers and webmasters...but what I didn't know until today was there is also a...
Google Kick In The Nuts
My only answer to that lies in the lyrics to this great Webb Wilder ditty...
Google may be the Antichrist (Please don't kick me again...)
Maybe I need to try some Adsense...or common sense
or some sleep...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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