After approximately 7 years work, at about 70 hours per week, most of which has been devoted to sorting out the goofs on Google (e.g. duplication through lables, then through their blog archiving system, both of which led to all original work being either unindexed on Google search or demoted to supplementary results) I've realised I need to upgrade to a more efficient and intelligent system of promotion than the Google 'algorithm'. Algorithm is in inverted commas because in the real word it actually means something more than Google's knee jerk reaction - flavour of the month - guaranteed to miss the spammers.
When I've discovered a better system that uses paper publication, word of mouth, probably distribution through snail mail and such, we'll be back in business, but I need a holiday first. So does the alleged algorithm ...
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Hmmm, I won't even try to understand this. If your blog isn't public how will you ever get new members?? But as I say, I won't try to understand it--I'm 33 1/3 RPM in an Ipod world.
LD
Quote: If your blog isn't public how will you ever get new members??
Good point. If Google keeps removing pages from their index (by the hundred) how will I get members? Or even visitors?
There has to be an alternative to Google-subservience, even if this means abandoning the internet: "the only democratic means of publishing the world has ever known" (sans Google, Microsoft, broadband monopoly power games, etc).
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