Getting my hands dirty to pump the numbers up

I’ve made some changes at my blog the past week or so. Because my blog was quiet for a chunk of time I have an odd traffic mix my 1st few weeks back, my numbers being low I’ve depended on search engines to feed enough hits. So I made big changes to optimize my SEO position because my blog is not very popular these days compared to previously and I can’t drive heavy traffic to links like normal, which is not good for building up traffic at all.

Thankfully changes have so far worked some. I’m getting more 1st page results on a lot of searches at google this week which is very helpful, no small feat when going up against the NY Times & Jerusalem Post lol. I doubled my google returns in the past 5 days which is good but I’m looking to jump that higher.

RSS - Most of the changes are in source & blog code so it may not be visible though they are extensive, what is visible however to the 50 or 60 people who subscribe here overall is the change to the RSS feed. My blog posts are no longer being represented in full at RSS, only the 1st few lines. I changed this as part of my SEO optimization tests and I apologize because I know how annoying that is.. I need another week or so to see some of the effects these changes have made and maybe I’ll slap the full feed back in.

My return visitors are very low since I’m pumping mostly engine traffic to my posts, I’ll have to see if this is because my posts suck like crap lately or what, which is certainly possible since I haven’t blogged a long while. Also I blog very long, but people want to read twitter two liners - That’s a problem I am aware of and discussed with a few of my regular readers, Oh well. In more exciting news McCain is speaking tonight in the US, and the NFL is back in play - go Raiders!

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I had a lot of action on my blog yesterday thanks to a key stumble, there’s little mystery where the stumbler saw my post - Creating a double whammy for me, so big thanks to the council for nominating one of my posts in this weeks Watcher’s Council because it’s delicious to be amongst the council, 2 or 3 of the council members are much more than regular reads for me, amongst my top ten favorite blogs (they know who they are).

This week’s edition is being hosted by the Glittering Eye, let me just say that I am not fearful of the eye of Sauron, and actually want to be FISA’d so to speak. Go ahead, Bug my phones lol. In appreciation, here are the Council members’ posts and the non member posts for the week.. My vote if I had one could be boiled down to two words, Support Georgia.

Non-Council posts

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Common Denominator: Israel at Every Level is Prepared to Strike Iran  - has been stumbled in the last hour, and is being featured on the Stumbleupon Israel front page, flash headers are disabled for the time being..

I hope my hosting holds, because they are coming in thick. My thanks to the stumbler who’s clearly got some serious cred! A visit + every 20 seconds, suffice to say that’s above my normal traffic. If you’re here for your 1st visit, please consider a bookmark or grab the RSS link.

Cheers.

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Esseragoroth has the latest & greatest HH Jewish Carnival readied up for mass consumption, if you’d like to see the roundup in what surely was a busy week be sure to check it out! I think I’ll do the same.. Thanks to the hosts & the latest sponsor Jack for quality carnivalidge.

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The Haveil Havalim is up at Soccer Dad’s, a milestone edition as Jack at the Shack will be stewarding the big carnival for a bit so Mazal Tov to both of them for their great efforts.

Speaking of fun times, I have a busy week ahead with a job search here in Israel picking up steam so I’ll be a bit slower on my own blog trigger.. Today would be an excellent day to read a little carnival until I can blog some tonight

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Yid with Lid has the latest Jewish carnival up, go on by & check out what us dastardly joooz have been scheming up lately!

I’m not sure why I intro’d the carnival that way, I guess I’m in a foul mood because my monthly Worlwide Zionist Conspiracy check is late again in the mail, plus Rice is coming back again this week.. A least this time she’s bringing George with her. Time to put my reading hat on.. There’s a carnival to catch.

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I’m in California for the traditional American holiday period visiting friends & family so blogging will be super light until we ring in 2008 and I return to the Holy Land. Here’s to hoping for a great safe wonderful holiday season to you & yours!

saus

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3rd Anniversary Edition!

Can you believe it’s been three years!? No!? Me neither.. I haven’t been around that long
Mazal Tov to SD on a carnival milestone, he makes it happen - so show him some love.

Confused? Clickety click, barbatrick and you too can go to carnival..

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The best Rock & Roll band in the history of the world played their 1st live gig last night in a long long time! Via memeorandum NME Reviews the concert and of course you know it was beyond any measure of awesome. Oy, I’m hopeful they put out a DVD of this event so it can be enjoyed by rock aficionados the world over..

I was fortunate enough to see Page & Plant a few years ago when they toured for the No Quarter album, it was without question the best concert I have ever seen by exponents. What a beautiful thing to see them jamming all together again!

Led Zep Emergency Instructions: Open in case of Islamic Jihad ONLY.
There’s no music playing allowed whatsoever under the Jihad - It’s a sin, so hide those Zep CDs when the mullahs come for you.. lest these treasures be lost forever under Islam’s Iron Boot.

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