Yes, the links in the RSS feed are broken because I moved the blog from complainthub.com to blog.complainthub.com. I’m planning to fix that. I’ll get to it eventually.
Tag: blogging
Coming soon . . .
I’ve got some changes in mind for this site. I’ve been working on some things, although it’s hard to find time with moving and everything and still wanting to spend a little time with my wife. But she’s got stuff she has to get done tonight, so I’m hoping to get some work done while she’s busy with that. My lack of success installing a test MySQL server on my Windows machine is not helping things, but the primary change I’m looking to make right away shouldn’t depend on the database anyway. Maybe tonight. This site might be down briefly as I move it to a subdomain.
Anyway, we’ll see how it goes.
Commenter with interesting site
I hope you find my blog to be well…average! If it’s too good, expectations emerge. If it’s not good enough, I’ll be the only one reading it. So I figure: “Average”.
I got a comment from this guy the other day, and I checked out his blog. He and I have a lot in common, I think, but maybe I’m better at creative rationalization, so I haven’t had to come to terms with my place in the world yet. Maybe that makes me worse.
Anyway, I’ve been reading his stuff, and it’s interesting. He is a Yankees fan, so that’s minus two points, but he said good things about Cal Ripken when he got into the Hall, so I guess I can give the two points back.
Tag abuse
Some of you may know that I love Flickr. I have about 1800 pictures up there. Recently, I posted some pictures of Barb’s family watching a video on YouTube, and tagged it “youtube”, among other things. It currently has 107 views, up from the normal 5-10 views on most of my pictures.
That got me thinking. Is it “ethical” to drive traffic to your website by adding tags and search terms that don’t really apply? The “youtube” tag was relevant to the picture, but I could have tagged it with all sorts of popular tags that don’t really apply. Similarly, I could tag this blog post with “sex” or “hate Republicans” or whatever the kids are searching for these days, and drive more traffic.
Or, alternatively to adding tags that don’t really fit, what if I actually wrote about stuff based on current top Google searches? It wouldn’t be hard to find out what the week’s popular search terms are, and then I could write about those things.
Usually, I post about whatever I feel like posting about. Sometimes that’s current events. For example, I got some random traffic when I posted about Zidane’s head butt, and I got random traffic when I posted about the Enviga tea that some marketing guy sent me. But often it’s not, like when I post about my stupid cat.
Anyway, I have no point, here. I’m just wondering where the line is between offering content that people might find interesting and then trying to promote it, and prostituting one’s self for traffic.