Sunday, December 12, 2004

Average Joe wrote:
lol Wrenchie - ohh, what a tangled web we weave. (pun intended)Must be hard to have to manage all those webpages.. lol

Since I'm adding more than a few each and every day automatically I don't even know how many I really do have nor where they are so I don't even worry about managing them. That is the way it is with blogs. They spin off a new copy of themselves every day. So all I have to do (for instance) is copy this or any other message or write my own article to one of my blogs (collectionindustry.blogspot.com for instance ) and that will automatically generate two more new webpages.

One of them will be found at collectionindustry.blogspot.com/atom.xml (for instance) and then another copy which is not an RSS feed will also be spun off. Then I usually take articles that I have written and make a separate static webpage out of them as well and crossweave the links back and forth between them all. .

The RSS feed and the static pages are the most important because the RSS feed is what most of the search engines pick up on now and they usually spider the blogs at least once a day automatically. There are literally hundreds of spiders out there now that use RSS feeds exclusively and they come around automatically so I don't even have to submit to the search engines. If I put something on one of my blogs or on my message board google has it indexed and archived within 24 hours or less and so do most of the other engines as well.

So that means that if I decide to put the childish rantings of Enormis or an article exposing the dumb postings and misinformation on AOC or other message board it is in the search engines within 24 hours or less.

Blogs are the most potent form of advertising on the internet today but podding is becoming awfully popular now too so blogs and webpages have to be translated so that the handhelds can deal with them too.

But it isn't manageing my webpages and blogs that worrys me or occupies most of my time. Doing that is pretty easy. I've got a couple of grandkids that just love to do that stuff and develop new webpages. What is a lot tougher is keeping up with all of the new legal stuff being published on the net by other bloggers every day.

Blogs written by attorneys such as May it please the Court written by J. Craig Williams or My Shingle.com as well as many, many more also occupy quite a bit of time but they provide a wealth of information about law, the courts, attorneys and how they work. Others provide information and help in lots of ways.

If someone really wants to be heard on the net these days they need to learn about and use blogs effectively. Just like message boards most blogs have a commentary section so they can be two way conversations just like a message board is. And to get lots of attention from the spiders one simply has to provide both content and links. If one provides a constant change of new comments and articles and lots of links then they will automatically get lots of search engine traffic which results in lots of eyeballs. If one writes often about almost any topic he will get lots of attention from the search engines.

Articles don't have to be long at all. In fact, being brief is better than writing huge newspaper articles. If someone really wants to get noticed there are basically 10 points that are important to observe.

1. Have a reason for writing. For instance, if I have a blog on which I berate the collectionindustry for it's stupid posts such as those put out yesterday by the infamous Enormis or the madhatter schemes posted on AOC and some of the other boards and I keep writing and keep providing links so that the newbies learn to avoid the crap I will get lots of attention and great search engine placement for a very broad range of keywords. And of course the articles will carry lots of links leading to my other blogs and my message board. If they kick me off a message board that only makes matters worse for them because then I will target them even more. So the efforts of Enormis and others to get me kicked off of here will actually help me a lot more than it will harm me. AOC got real "smart" and banned all of my static IP addresses so I could not post or even read the material on their board.
Or so they thought at least. That action would have been effective against the average person but I'm a long, long way from average and so I have both DSL and cable as well as dial up and Ipod connectivity as well plus a few other ways to get there too. And I have been so kind as to provide them with a special artofcredit blog as well.

Now you all know what I meant when I said that Enormis and his silly rants are doing me a lot more good than harm. The more he rants and raves the more material he provides for my blogs.

2. If anybody really wants to learn how to write effectively for the blogs I'd suggest they visit a list apart and see the excellent essay on the subject written by another blogger.

So now I will add this message to one of my blogs to help it get more visitors. Since I have about a dozen blogs I'll see if all you bright page detectives can figure out which one I post it to. And of course, I'm quite sure that Enormis will have to add his half cent (if that) worth and thereby be so kind as to add yet more of his material to post to the collection industry blog.

With friends like him and his old buddies at the FTC, the collection industry sure don't need any more enemies.