SEO, New Mexico, and a Break

Posted by icemonkey9 on Mar 22, 2009 in writing | 1 comment

For many of you that frequent this blog to see how I'm doing, you'll know that I've been battling the major search engine of the internet (the G word) because sometime in mid June or July it was excluded from the search engine. Sucks! Why would they blacklist me of all people, and how the heck would I be able to get back on?

Well, it wasn't easy and took some research on the internet as well as bugging a really patient fellow that helped me out. I think the steps that I took were:

• Signing up for the Google Webmaster Tools
• Watching the "Submit Reconsideration Video"
• Moving to WordPress on a Linux Server
• Adding the SEO All in One Pack & Permalinks for the blog
• Being very patient
• Reading interesting SEO topics about Blogs on various SEO forums

This morning I checked the search engine to see if I had been added back in, and sure enough, I'm back baby!  Now I haven't seen a huge spike in traffic but I am now seeing people come in from the general internet public which is cool.

Today I am also headed to New Mexico with the wife.  She is working out there as part of her clinical trials study (she does monitoring of research projects) and since I haven't seen her in a month I decided to go along.  I'm taking my laptop and all the goodies so working and playing poker won't be any problem from the hotel room.  We're hopefully going to have a smooth trip and plan to go out with her cousin one night and then hit up one of the many resort-type casinos in the area for some food/entertainment/poker another night.  I'm looking forward to it.

Poker wise I haven't played in a few days, I think since Thursday afternoon.  It was a good time to take a break since I couldn't even win at 25nl ... the sick hand there was me stacking off with QQ on a rag board:

I played it right, so I guess I should be happy but a month's worth of every-session-playing below EV and coolers has my interest in poker down to a minimal level at this point.

Anyways, if you were like me and have your blog excluded from the major search engine, do sign up for those webmaster tools and watch the video.  The main reason that a site gets excluded is that you'll be linking to a bunch of websites in your blogroll that all just link to each other and makes the search engine think it's a link scheme so they just ban all of you (which sucks).  Anyways, good luck, and welcome general search engine traffic type people!