The posts are coming, soon.

Jess, thank you for the comment! I see that you are competing with me through the length of comments.

I think it is a very good thing that you do not care about the number of visitors, as that allows you to focus more on writing and the message instead of the size of audience you will be attracting.

Yes, search engines can ban a site, even innocent sites, unfortunately. The search engine won’t list relevant pages from a site, or it may list them very low in the search results.

I just had to google Tila Tequila to refresh my memory. Yes, online, the popularity usually wins over logic or reason. However, online, people can also voice their opinions more, so it is a good thing that we can hopefully see more than one side of the story and try to decide on our own without being biased.

Heh, I have to see that Simpsons episode. Is it called Das Bus?

Yes, a comment’s a comment, and I love it when I get a comment on any post, whether it’s from today or 2 years ago. So please don’t worry, and go ahead and comment on everything.

Thanks again.

I had no idea that search engines could ban a site. That would be tough if you’re site provided a lottt of content, more content-based rather than ‘life blogging’ based. If people were to search for information, you’re website would not come up. And those who do come across your site may come from a link from another site, not necessarily for your content.

Getting criticised from a famous blogger would suck. Your argument may be completely valid, and so may theirs, but as no-one has heard of you (and who hasn’t heard of uhhh.. Tila Tequila? Lol, first blogger/myspace-r that came to mind) the famous blogger would receive a lot more support. Sort of like Bill Gates buying out small companies, haha I don’t know if that happens, I just remembered the Simpsons episode lmao! =D

Take care, and I know this isn’t the most recent blog, but a comment’s a comment! And enjoy your travel to the most (or to the most that you can, whatever the reason for your travel is).

Thanks for your answers regarding SEO. I look forward to reading your post dedicated to this important topic.

Hey, give me that KitKat, don’t I deserve it too? Rrrrrr-meaaoowoo ^o^

I hope you never get a ticket to Blog Hell, though some say experience only comes from running into problems. There are many things that search engines can consider “Weird“, and punish you directly or indirectly for that. I should write a post on that too.

One of the most important things search engines look at is the meta tags on your pages. Sure, for the past few years people started focusing on other things and considered meta tags to be dead, but search engines have been counting them all along. If your pages have similar meta tag values, search engines like Google may put you in the supplemental index. This index contains results that Google does not consider that important, and the most pages your site has in that index, the more your site is deemed less important or relevant for any keyword. I think by end of next week I will post an article on changing different meta tags on your WordPress pages to help in SEO indexing and ranking.

Also, I am happy I linked to the previous articles, as you probably found them interesting too. That is a good idea; I will start a trend or something outlining some of the older posts on a regular basis, I think.

Thanks for such a wonderful comment and for so many good writing ideas!

I think I would add another thing that puts us on the train to Hell - Readers Loosing Interest In My Blog. The signs of that can be getting less comments or not at all after having a fairly intensive interactions with the readers before; RSS feed count steadily dropping, less and less people visiting the site.

Well, thanks for the warning, Bes. If I get the ticket to Blog Hell, I won’t be able to blame you for not warning me to be careful
I’m not a SEO guru, so I’m curious to find out how can I make sure that my blog doesn’t get punished by search engines? I know that link baiting can lead me to that, site redirects and some other illegal activities. What else? What are the seemingly legal activities that could get my blog punished and banned by Search Engines?

Oh, and thanks for cross-linking to your older articles, Bes. I think you should consider writing an article listing your most popular posts published in the pre-Vivien era (anytime before April 2007, when I started reading your blog daily)