Cleaning Up
Moving this week has made me realize that I am a pack rat. Not that I didn’t know this before, but there’s just something about seeing all of your stuff lying out and not fitting into all of your boxes that drives the point home. It’s also made me realize that not only do I need to streamline our stuff but to streamline my websites as well.
I have a habit of beginning an article and never finishing it. I have so many drafts on one blog that WordPress doesn’t list them all on the write page. I need to go through those post and either finish them or do something else with the posts.
Since I have a couple of fairly new blogs, I need to drive traffic to them. That means start commenting on like-minded blogs and participating in forum discussions. I also can’t forget the importance of search engine traffic and must remember that when writing articles. I get a lot of traffic from long tail searches, which are search phrases rather than keywords. I try to watch my phrasing when writing to include at least one phrase that might be used by someone in a search engine.
One thing this move has taught me is the importance of keeping a clean, uncluttered place to live. I plan to take my new found philosophy and also apply it to my websites. Hopefully the results will make the pages better for readers as well as search engines.
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