Showing posts with label blogspot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogspot. Show all posts

Apr 8, 2024

Microblogging and ping-o-matic

Ensuring that search engines discover your latest blog entry involves a few steps:

1. Submit Your Sitemap: Create an XML sitemap of your blog, listing all the URLs, and submit it to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. This helps search engines understand your site structure and crawl it efficiently.

2. Internal Linking: Link to your new blog post from other relevant pages on your site. This helps search engine crawlers find the new content while they navigate through your site.

3. Social Media Sharing: Share your new blog post on social media platforms (facebook, instagram, tumblr, pinterest, whatsapp, etc ...). While this doesn't directly influence search engine crawls, it can attract users to your site, increasing the likelihood of search engine discovery.

4. Ping Services: Some services, like Ping-O-Matic, can notify search engines and blog directories about your new content. This can prompt them to crawl your site sooner.

5. Quality Content and SEO: Ensure your blog posts are well-optimized for search engines with relevant keywords, descriptive meta tags, and proper headings. High-quality content tends to get indexed and ranked faster.

However, keep in mind that search engines have their algorithms for crawling and indexing content, so there's no guaranteed way to enforce their crawl. It may take some time for them to discover and index your new content naturally.

Ping-O-Matic is a service that notifies multiple search engines and blog directories about updates to your website. It's been a popular tool among bloggers for many years. However, it appears that their blog hasn't been updated since 2015, which may raise concerns.



Jul 19, 2022

Playing with cards - guess red or black card trick

I found this nice article in another blog

that got me interested in card tricks

And I found this little magic trick that is pretty fun to do, and requires a little preparation

Here is how it is done:

With a deck in card, select one red card, and one black card

put them in front of the audience, and point the red card then pick from the pile 2 cards

and ask the audience to 'guess' which one is red

once the audience has selected one card, show it to the audience and then proceed with the next 2 cards in the pile.

And once 4 cards have been added to each red of black revealed card 

then return the entire stack of cards, and it surprise the audience as they will discover that all cards on the left are red, and on the right are black

See the demonstration here https://youtu.be/d7g4jQ3_Uu4

Mar 17, 2021

Blog, microblogging, and returning for more

Blogging used to be the king way to publish content on the Internet back in the 2000s

Historically, wordpress, blogger, livejournal, and all these platforms used to be receiving enthusiastic bloggers daily content, that would start great exchange of ideas, experiences, tutorials, and that precluded the arrival of the game changer that was youtube

Blogs were superior because - they were searchable, using keywords
youtube videos - are searchable via keywords too - but when there is a 2 hours lecture of Tom Campbell, I don't think you could retrieve a particular video by typing a sentence you heard, and remembered - because it is a video and searching text within a video is not yet possible.

Currently writing in blogger.com seems to be like typing in an empty place - the blogger.com platform is not well designed for exchange.

How do you end up on this blog? probably via a google search
well, once you (reader) have found the content you were looking for, you leave and never come back

That is where the second game changer has arrived, facebook

This social platform from 2010 - is more like a microblogging platform - you can spend your entire day there on facebook and type 2 lines updates or post a meme, and leave - but then the next day most people are returning ; because their friends are there, their family and that will push them to come back.

Nobody has a family setting up a blog for each member, and typing their life experience, and exchanging there - because it is not a forum.

Wordpress now is that blogging social platform, that looks a bit like a cross between blogger.com and facebook - from there you can set up a reading list, add new content, but also like and reblog from other blogs you are following ...

Instagram too, in a way is enabling such social platform where the content (photo) is king - and allowing the exchange between users.

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