I posted a blog about a week ago and proceeded to announce it in the usual places that one announces these things....especially for someone who is an admitted technotard. I put it on both my face book pages and I went to the forums on Artfire where I have my online shop and I posted it there. Along with some nice comments, I got a response from a computer guru, Jim Juris , who is on Artfire also, and he told me that I needed to optimize my blog titles so that they would be picked up in Google searches. So I have just finished changing the titles of a number of my blogs - and I like my original titles much better than the optimized ones...but I must admit that optimizing them makes sense.
I love writing blogs - they're fun - it's fun to transfer my pre-retirement knowledge (professional practice management) to a new venue, making jewelry and the business involved in selling your jewelry. I love sharing pictures of what I am currently doing and also, what I am currently thinking...which is sometimes scary to see in black and white...but still fun to share. It makes sense to try to get more people looking at all this....but it's just like putting my jewelry in my shop...I'd love to have some cute name instead of something that google is going to look at. So much of what we do is predicated by the rules of the web and I truly wish it were otherwise....but, it isn't.
As I have said many times, I am truly a technotard - I survive in this new technical world but not without allot of blood, sweat, and tears. I honestly thought that by putting good labels or tags on my blogs that Google would pick them up, but that is rarely the case. I am always amazed that almost 4000 people have read my blogs - but almost 70,000 people have looked at my shop on Artfire in almost the same amount of time...and I have tried very hard to optimize the titles of my jewelry, but not my blogs. So I definitely feel that old Jim is probably on to something that we all should be aware of.. It's a cold cruel economy and world out there and any little edge that we can get to get more people looking at what we are selling is better than good...it may just be fantastic.
Those are my thoughts for today and I hope that they help...til next time
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