Posted by paul novak on October 25, 2010 at 10:34 pm
As a writer who produces text intended mainly for use on the web, I am always trying to learn more about how I can improve my work’s web effectiveness. Since text is content, and an obviously content related concern is SEO and everything that has to do with how well a site performs, I spend a deliberately undocumented amount of time figuring out how to gauge overall performance itself. I say deliberately undocumented because to tell the truth, I’m too scared to actually set down in hours how much time I’ve spent doing anything besides actual paying work.
While most of us are concerned with how well our sites perform in the search engines, and rightly so, there are other indicators of site performance that also carry some degree of weight. One of the most well known of these indicators is Alexa rank, and that is the bear I am going to grab by the tail here tonight and hope doesn’t eat me when all is said and done.
To start, Alexa ranking is simply the ranking of a site compared to all the other sites on the internet as determined by Alexa.com. The lower your site’s ranking number on Alexa, the better it is performing compared to other Alexa ranked sites. If your site is ranked at 1 million, then it means your site is the 1 millionth most popular site according to Alexa’s ranking algorithm.
The first thing to realize about Alexa ranking is that it is not determined simply by the amount of traffic your site is bringing in. Alexa rank is based on the traffic to all sites, and sites are then ranked relative to each other. This means that even if your site experiences a significant increase in traffic, there is no guarantee it will also experience an improvement in Alexa ranking. If the sites above or below you also experience an increase in traffic, since Alexa ranking is determined by ratio of traffic between sites, your own site could experience a drop in Alexa ranking despite showing an increase in overall traffic.
Alexa ranking also has very little to do with how well your site ranks in the search engines, how many links are flowing in to your site, or how much content you have spread around. Alexa is geared primarily towards reflecting site popularity based on Alexa’s own data, and so is based for the most part on how often the site is visited by users who have the Alexa toolbar installed along with other undisclosed measures of traffic and unique views. In 2008 Alexa changed its ranking parameters to include more indices outside of the Alexa toolbar data so it is important to understand it is no longer true that the Alex toolbar is the only source providing data.
Now, at this point you might be wondering why Alexa rank even matters if it has nothing to do with search rank and is a poor indicator of overall traffic. That’s a good question, and one that stopped my jumping around like Steve Martin in The Jerk when the new phonebooks arrived after I noticed my Alexa ranking finally dropping below 1 million.
Well, how important Alexa ranking is really depends on what your goals are. Probably the most common reason for trying to improve Alexa rank is the fact that many pay per review or ad sites like ReviewMe, Text Link Ads, and Sponsored Reviews decide how much you’ll be paid according to your Alexa rank. Some of these sites also use Alexa rank to determine how much a link will cost you, or how much one to your site is worth. There are also many companies and businesses that use Alexa rank to determine if purchasing advertising or promotional space on your site is worthwhile or not. Although it’s a poor way to gauge the true value of a site, many places still insist on using Alexa ranking in this manner so it’s not a bad idea to keep this in mind when trying to sell some virtual real estate.
As you can imagine, because Alexa ranking is used this way, it is popular with Marketers, Webmasters, Bloggers, and those people leaning more towards the monetary aspect of the internet. So, if you are a Marketer or a Blogger, develop or manage websites, or in some other way depend on the perceived value of web real estate, improving your Alexa ranking is probably a very worthwhile endeavor.
You’ll notice that I say “perceived” value and not simply value. Well, although Alexa is used by some as a tool to determine and assign monetary values, the reality is that it is not very accurate when it comes to how effectively a site reaches an audience or how large that audience really is. Since Alexa draws data from what can only be described as a limited cross section of internet users, and this cross section is heavily skewed towards those who have the Alexa Toolbar installed, Alexa doesn’t really represent the true reach a site has or its traffic volumes. If you are looking for real performance from your marketing or advertising programs Alexa is not the way to go. If you are looking to market your site or services however, Alexa can be very helpful indeed.
Rather than continue into all the nuances of Alexa ranking and how it works, let’s go instead with assuming it fits in with our goals and that we want to improve how our site is performing.
There really doesn’t appear to be many proven ways to improve your Alexa rank. Although there are quite a few shady tactics involving script and bogus traffic generators geared towards artificially improving the numbers, I strongly recommend against these. Some are only temporary at best, and there are some instances where users have claimed to have experienced serious negative results after an initial boost. Just like with SEO, if it’s shady, don’t do it. So, what can we do then?
Install the Alexa Toolbar
For starters, install the Alexa Toolbar. All you need are the basics. If you don’t want any extras or add-ons, simply choose not to include them in your installation. I’ve had the toolbar for several weeks now and can tell you that I have not experienced any problems whatsoever with its incorporation into my browser. In fact, it’s one of the least obtrusive toolbars I’ve ever used and there is no hidden adware.
By installing the toolbar you are doing a couple things.
You will get credit for your own visits to your own site. The toolbar will also automatically show you the Alexa rank of every site you visit and makes easily available all the info Alexa has compiled, which is great when comparing your own performance to that of your competitors. However, ignore the yahoos who try to tell you to install it on a group of networked systems in the office or at home, and then to set them all to your site as the homepage or any such tomfoolery. Alexa only counts one visit per day, and multiple hits from the same location will add up to zilch. Also avoid advice to use redirects or buy visits. Neither results in honest numbers, and redirects can cost you greatly when it comes to SEO.
Encourage Others to Use the Toolbar
The next thing to do, and perhaps the most effective and important way to dramatically improve your Alexa rank, is to get your friends, visitors, forum members, group members, and any other network you belong to that adds to your site traffic to install the Alexa Toolbar as well. This is probably the only thing that is guaranteed to produce an immediate improvement in your Alexa rank. The more regular visitors you can get to install the toolbar the better, and they will benefit as well with improvements in their own Alexa rank.
Invite reviews
Alexa has an option for viewers of your site’s stats to write reviews of your page. Now, I have to be honest and tell you that I really can’t say if reviews will do much to help your site or not, but, I do believe there is a lot of potential for reviews in conjunction with improved Alexa rank to increase your actual traffic. Some of the sources I’ve come across suggest reviews do help improve your rank, but in my own opinion based on what I understand of Alexa’s workings, there would have to a somewhat arbitrary index included by Alexa for that to be the case. Alexa does state that they include other indicators so it is entirely possible that reviews can help, I just can’t promise you they will. At any rate, I would get the review widget like the one in my lower left footer and begin inviting reviews from your visitors in order to at the least give it a chance. Yes, that’s a hint dear reader. Also, when you copy the widget code or use your own, modify it to open in a new window to keep visitors on your site since it doesn’t have that option by default.
Target Alexa Toolbar Users
One other tip that I find makes sense is to frequent Webmaster, Tech, Marketing, and SEO related forums and begin including your link in signatures and posts where appropriate. Since the bulk of Alexa’s toolbar users are in these areas, it makes sense to have some presence there as well. You can get started with sites like Warrior Forums, Digital Point, Webmaster World, and Sitepoint. If you handle the nuts and bolts of your own site or are engaged in serious marketing you should be a member of these forums anyways as the knowledge and resources they offer are oftentimes invaluable.
Post About Alexa
One last way to improve Alexa Rank would be to write about it just as I have done here. Those interested in Alexa will be using the toolbar and looking for any good solid information about Alexa they can use, and if you can add something of benefit then you stand to gain both Alexa rank and organic traffic from their visits.
This pretty well concludes what I have to offer on improving your Alexa rank. I’ve tried to stick with only those methods I can reasonably endorse as effective while still answering some of the usual questions that come with discussing the subject.
I’ve deliberately ignored a lot of suggestions I’ve come across because they simply aren’t practical or ethical. For instance; if you write about Marketing Strategies, it would make little sense to suggest you write about webmaster tools. Nor would it be ethical to suggest you pay people to promote your link in tech forums or write reviews.
I would really like to hear any suggestions you folks might have, and even better, some summaries of your results after trying what I’ve suggested. As always, thanks for stopping in and good luck.
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Posted by paul novak on October 22, 2010 at 1:04 am
OK folks, it’s October and the holidays are fast approaching. This means the 2011 New Years is next week, the 2020 summer is right around the corner, and our mortal demise is knocking at our doors. Merchants have already realized this and in the spirit of convenience and driving consumers into fits of unrestrained spending, have decided to conglomerate Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas into one 3 month long sale. With one foot practically in the grave, there’s simply no time to waste.
Yes, the marketing world is moving right along and if you want to keep up, the department stores are there to give you your cue if you need some help getting into the swing of things. Go to Wal-Mart for instance and witness the Rudolph and Santa figures sitting together on the shelf with an eyeless zombie, while next to them a smiling Tom Turkey wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving as 12 hungry pilgrims prepare to carve him into bite sized pieces. You should be able to come away with a sense of urgency and the marketing creativity it has spawned after just a few minutes of browsing. What effect this is having on the psychological develoment of small children is not yet clear, but in today’s modern world we can’t be worried with what might happen tomorrow. It’s all about now folks!
For those of us who’s lives revolve around the web, (Yeah right, like you have a life, quit fooling yourself), this means we have to pay close attention to the latest trends and generally pretend we have a clue as to the best way to make good use of them in the coming year. A lot has happened online in 2010 that promises to have serious repercussions for the rest of our lives, so let’s get right to the business of making some of the most important trends work for us.
Stop Searching, Start Talking Nonstop
Search engines are dead, except for Google; their pact with Satan is good until 2015. Social media is now the name of the game and unless you have 2,000,325, 452 Facebook friends, 4,000, 259, 123 Twitter followers, and 342 blogs you can forget making a sale online. The name of the game is now about making your business social and friendly, so make sure you emphasize how important it is that folks add your new blender outlet to their friends and follow lists so they don’t miss out on all the crazy and entertaining antics associated with pureeing Grandpa’s lunch. Remember, there are 700 billion users on Facebook, and every one of them is just dying to make Cheap Aluminum Siding their friend!
The New SEO
Contrary to popular belief, SEO is not dead. Although Google’s unveiling of Instant caused a minor wave of hysteria and a small handful of incidents on window ledges, I can assure you that SEO is still alive and well, only different. The savvy entrepreneurs will recognize the differences and begin working them into their SEO efforts right away. For those who need some help, here are a few tips.
#1. Relevancy has gone from being of the utmost importance, to total worthlessness. The name of the game now is to get your website appearing at the top of Instants on the fly results with total gibberish. Although this may present something of a challenge, consider how you can make this work for your business. For instance, if you have a website dedicated to selling Graphic Design, consider changing your keywords from things like Graphic Design and Custom Web Graphics to Gacdin and Cumbwac. I’m sure you can easily see how this will greatly improve your appearance in Google Instant and rocket you right past all those rubes still trying to do silly things like produce consistent content and relevant links.
#2. Google Instant also makes possible a tried and true method that once was effective for everything EXCEPT the internet. This method involves simply smashing something, in this case your keyboard, in a blind fit of anger fueled frustration until it works. Once done smashing, simply hit save and your keyword work is done! Proven a popular method with automobiles, ATM’s, Furnaces, Televisions and just about anything else mechanical, anger fueled frustration or AFF as I like to call it, may just be the SEO trend to watch in the coming months. For added results you can scream something like “Kreeegahhh!” while utilizing AFF. Although it may be of dubious SEO benefit, it certainly aids in adding a bit of enthusiasm.
Note: You don’t have to use “Kreeegahhh!.” Goddamnit, Sonofabitch, and OHGODWHYME?! can all be equally effective.
Location, Location, Location
Getting noticed, popular, and thus rich and successful online is all about letting everyone know your every last move at every single moment. With Twitter and Facebook making it possible to add locations to your every post, get ahead of the game and show everyone how it really should be done. Have a GPS tracking chip implanted within your body and link it to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. This way, no matter where you are you will always be on the grid. No one will ever again have to wonder where you were when you Tweeted them about that epic sale on fungal cream, and advertisers will have your spam so perfectly targeted you’ll wonder how you ever got by without your new bionic abilities.
Note: Not recommended for those considering becoming Felons or already living a nomadic lifestyle as a result of becoming one.
Summary:
Well, there you have it. A simple and concise breakdown of the major changes and trends that are sure to transform how you work and play online and how to use them. If this seems like a lot of work or just too much to contend with, consider letting me do the work for you. Using my cutting edge techniques and ahead of the curve thinking I can guarantee you the number one spot on Google, $300,000 in your website’s first week, and a date with Taylor Swift. For only $3,000 dollars an hour this is a real bargain, but hurry! I can only handle a limited number of customers and since I am so busy using my own techniques to get filthy rich overnight, I am only willing to do this out of the goodness and snow white purity of my own heart.
Note: The date with Taylor Swift is a bit of an exaggeration. She stopped accepting my calls and is pretending not to know me. It’s probably because my confidence, charm, stunning good looks and wildly successful lifestyle intimidate her. Until the restraining order is lifted the date offer will have to be suspended.
Yes it’s entirely ridiculous B.S. Disclaimer added for the terminally gullible.
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Posted by paul novak on October 7, 2010 at 4:51 am
Sorry folks. Try as I might, I couldn’t find the humor in this one….
“Dear Writingfourmylife,
—-Thank you for submitting a proposal for: “Need someone for writing articles find online”. Unfortunately, the buyer has declined your proposal for the following reason:
Project Name: Need someone for writing articles find online
Buyer Reason: Bid is too high“—-
I get these pretty much every time I decide to give placing bids on popular write for hire sites another try. Back when I first started freelancing and didn’t know anything about these job marketplaces I thought that maybe I was being unrealistic. After all, there are tons of folks bidding left and right and getting the jobs. I took the time then to consider some of the portfolio’s of those I was bidding against and in some instances was shocked by what I found, and in some cases intimidated. The level of skill is certainly wide ranging, but I satisfied myself that I am well within a competitive scale. I had done more than a cursory amount of research into what constitutes acceptable rates, and once I managed to beat down my overly optimistic self assessment, had settled on a range I felt was honestly commensurate with my abilities.
I’ve done enough work since my first entrance into the freelancing marketplace to have received a fair amount of feedback, and to date have yet to be given anything resembling a poor evaluation. In several proposals I have made, my work and writing style is singled out as “really great” despite their decision to decline my offer. So what is the problem then? If I go the slow and difficult route of chasing down work, making direct contacts, and working on a wholly independent level I invariably find good reception and will eventually land a contract that pays somewhere within the range of my established rates. This is fine and in fact the real way to operate as a freelancer. However, until you are established and have mastered the art of self marketing, it’s a slow and painful process.
If I go to any of the jobs marketplaces however I find myself repeatedly told I am too expensive. This happens in spite the fact that when I frequent those places I often reduce my usual rates by half. Obviously there is something at work here I was overlooking. So I spent still more time researching rates, their fluctuations, and the averages. This led me to note some trends; most notably that of foreign workers consistently making offers far below those of their counterparts in my own country.
And so there it was, Outsourcing. To be more precise, the problem is the outsourcing of jobs and contracts to offshore providers. Although the mantra today is “Global Economy”, too much emphasis has been placed on the size of the global marketplace and not enough on the lack of market uniformity or regulation. While it may be true that expanding the marketplace beyond national borders increases the pool of available goods and talent, which is supposed to promote competition, it is also true that differences in economic and cultural characteristics can have a massive negative impact on the quality of the marketplace as a whole. Far from creating competition and a wide pool of resources, rates can become depressed, overall quality standards may suffer, and domestic workers can find themselves unable to compete at all as employers ignore them in favor of rates that are impossible to match in western countries.
The attractiveness of outsourcing lies in the greatly reduced costs associated with hiring offshore workers. In nations where the standard of living is well below that of their western counterparts, and economies far weaker, the value of western currency holds a great deal more power. India for instance has a third of the world’s poor and is classed a poor country by the World Bank. Over 80% of its population lives on under $5.00 U.S. dollars a day. To give some perspective, a U.S. Dollar is worth approximately twenty two times its Indian counterpart the Rupee. What this means is that western currency like the U.S. Dollar has immense buying power in the Indian economy. In the U.S. a dollar will buy you a soda, in India it will help feed you for a week. It is no coincidence then employers seeking to lower expenses through reduced production costs and decreased salaries have made India and its ultra cheap labor pool the biggest recipients of outsourcing from western countries. No coincidence at all.
Although India has made several inroads towards improving its economic situation through improved education and increased focus on improving infrastructure, its median income still lags far behind most economically developed nations. Even though India now has huge numbers of engineering and technical graduates, the quality of their education is below that of western graduates. In an attempt to shore up India’s lagging quality and production standards, the country increased the rate of graduations yet failed to significantly improve the quality of that education. This has led to Indian graduates still being unable to compete with their western counterparts on a skill to skill basis, and thus still being unable to command similar rates. The end result is an even greater influx of lower paid workers into their respective markets, further driving down labor values.
Compounding the problem of a weak middle class and a disproportionately large poor population are India’s serious problems with international trade disparity. Consider true free market trade for example. India has made huge gains in acquiring access to foreign markets like the U.S. However, India practices what in the U.S. would be derided as protectionism and places great restriction on foreign access to its own markets. Business.com cites an agricultural example of this and notes that India has one of the most protected markets in the world. In justifying this protectionism in India’s agricultural markets for example, India’s commerce secretary stated,
“For us, it is a livelihood issue of some of our poorest citizens….. We cannot allow the whole groundnut economy of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat to be wiped out for some economic gains.”
In other words, they want access to foreign markets because of the huge profits they represent, despite the fact that their low economic standards have a severe detrimental effect on those markets, but they refuse to allow foreign access because they fear harming their own markets.
To me this says that far from wanting to participate in the “global economy”, these poor nations like India are in fact interested only in exploiting the weaknesses of global trade. There is no concern on India’s part, or other countries that enjoy widespread outsourcing from western nations, for the welfare of the national and international markets and those who operate within them. Because of their ability to flood international markets with rates up to 80% lower than their western counterparts, they are able to eliminate competition outright. This does a serious disservice to everyone, the offshore worker included.
As companies have as their most important criteria the reduction of costs, the rates held by these markets are then highly sensitive to fluctuations in perceived supply regardless of its quality. Rates drop unnaturally as companies insist on applying the lowest available rates regardless of their origin or viability, as the new normative state. This is an unnatural reduction in value however because these lowest rates do not represent an improvement in quality or production. They do not represent a reduction in demand and they are not a product of organic competition. These lower rates are produced only by the offshore worker’s ability to operate outside the market conditions of those they are competing against within that market.
Where a simple graphic design project once may have once commanded rates in the $250.00 – $500.00 dollar range, the influx of devalued labor from offshore providers kicks those rates down up to 80%, resulting in a huge net loss for all providers across the board. This is unfortunate considering that the highly underpaid offshore workers are those who stand to benefit the most if rates remained intact. But there is yet another problem that is preventing this and as unpopular as it may be, I’ll say it outright; the quality of offshore work is generally lower than that produced on-shore.
Were offshore workers truly more capable and producing results that exceeded those found in the U.S., they would have no problem commanding competitive rates. Rates which would go a long way towards improving their own economic standards. However, this would necessitate them actually having a competitive capability. Were they to try commanding rates commensurate with U.S. standards, they would overnight find themselves without any work. They get the work because they are dirt cheap, and that as any professional who is willing to honestly tell you, is the bottom line. Consider for example-
“American firms were beginning to move call centers and other back-office operations — or “in-sourcing” — back to the U.S. because costs in China, India and other top outsourcing countries had risen sharply and quality hasn’t been consistent.” –(La Times : U.S. jobs continue to flow overseas)
“Nearly 50% of outsourced projects fail outright, or fail to meet expectations.
51% reported that outsourcer was not performing to expectations.” -( Aberdeen Group. )
“Only one-third of those executives that have abandoned off-shoring would seriously reconsider it even “if both security and quality issues could be satisfactorily mitigated,” –(IT Today)
Perhaps the most disconcerting thing about all of this are the attempts by employers to apply the devalued rates off-shoring represents to market niche’s as a whole. As a writer, my work obviously involves holding a solid grasp of the necessary language for my region, which is of course the English language.
Employers state outright in their job postings that they will only consider fluent English speakers or those who have English as their native language. This is the tipoff that they are already well aware of the poor quality of outsourced written content. However, although they are willing to abandon the non native providers work, they are not so willing to abandon his rates. This is where I am finding most of my job marketplaces bidding problems are coming from. I have no doubt this is the same for other markets as well.
This is the true damage from outsourcing that western nations face and in fact ignore. If only it were possible for us, the workers who make up the bulk of the marketplace labor to also ignore it.
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Posted by paul novak on September 22, 2010 at 2:50 am
There are times when I am about to push the publish post button that I find myself inwardly cringing, and about .3 seconds after hitting the button wish I hadn’t sent my words off into the cruel world to face their fate. Ok fine I’ll admit it, it happens almost every time I publish a post. What is it with blogging and feeling like you have to tell the truth all the time anyways? I’m starting to think torture and polygraphs could go the way of the Dodo if authorities decided to blog information out of suspects instead. “Ok Nails, either start talking or we’ll make you write a post!”
“No, not blogging, anything but that! I’ll talk, I’ll talk!”
I can’t speak for other bloggers, because they’d probably sue me into the Stone Age if I did, but when I write a post I try mightily to avoid factual mistakes, much less make less than realistic statements. Every facet of a post is closely scrutinized for factual accuracy and if that’s not possible, at least genuinely honest intents. That way, no matter how badly I flub and go careening off the cliff in a fiery ball of stupidity, folks will still have to amend their derision with statements like, “At least he meant well.”
I guess you could say I’m going on about the integrity of blogging today. I hadn’t really thought about it much because to tell you the truth, I was for the most part pretty busy just trying to keep from embarrassing the bejeezus out of myself while drawing in a little bit of regular site traffic. Sure I like sharing what I’m fairly certain might be of use to others online when I know I won’t cause them to lose their job, home, marriage, family, dignity, and any possible future they may have to look forward to, but basically I just like to write and want to convince people they should pay me to do it. I’m still eating and they haven’t shut off the cable yet so I must be doing something at least half right so far. The point is though, I have to be right often enough to avoid scaring away every potential job offer. So I work hard at being right. A recent article in the increasingly redundant newspaper however struck me as a possible symptom of a growing problem with blogging that may become a major obstacle if blogging is to continue being a popular means for public exposure. Yes, I just had a mental picture of trench coats and sock suspenders too after reading that last sentence so no, you’re not alone.
Onwards.
In this article, the subject had nothing to do with blogging, and everything to do with the trust of the public. What was disconcerting was the story mentioned an Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll which found that the public has little confidence in major institutions. According to the poll, most Americans reserve the bulk of their trust for the military and small business. Now that may raise a few eyebrows given some of what’s transpired over the last nine years but it’s reasonable for the most part. What really made me spit my coffee was the finding that the public reserves it’s greatest distrust for Congress, Banks, and believe it or not, Blogs. Yes, you read that right and no I am not making this up. The general American public ranks blogs right up there with professional liars, otherwise known as politicians and institutions designed to make their money with your money, while making you pay them to do it.
Given my normally non-confrontational demeanor, my first reaction was, “What the hell did I do”? That happens a lot with me; don’t ask me why, it just does. My second reaction was to wonder just why in the heck the lowly blogger would be included in a group that for all intents and purposes represents those who spend a great deal of their time finding ways to deliberately mislead and bamboozle people for their own gain. Considering all the emphasis on factual accuracy and detailed research I see advocated by those who would promote the world of blogging, it struck me as highly ironic that blogging has somehow become associated with bullshit.
Let’s be frank here. Congress is an institution that is tasked with the critical job of helping to run a country, but is made up of yahoos who spend their time finding ways to do anything but, yet appear as if they are. Then when election time comes around, everything that they DO manage to get done is garbage because it’s intended to fool everyone into keeping them in their jobs. Banks are no better because they take our money and get rich with it while paying us ridiculously low returns on the profits they make in the form of insignificant interest rates. Interest which promptly gets eaten by fees for the privilege of letting them borrow our money. Then when they flub and lose their shirts gambling with our dough we have to give them more money to stay in business. Sure, I can understand public distrust of these two groups. No problem.
But blogs? How in the name of all that’s understandably screwed up in this world did blogs get lumped in with professional crooks and liars? Blogs may be a very easy way for those who would not normally be able, to gain a visible public presence and present themselves on a large scale without constraint. Thus they include a lot of the ridiculousness that comes with such an ability in the hands of the public, but seriously, is it that bad? Do blogs have such a horrible track record of fallacies and misinformation that the public thinks of them as nothing more than another way for shysters to peddle their crap?
Perhaps the poll is addressing sites like Huffington and Drudge which have made a habit of embracing partisan political spin, but do they really qualify as blogs in the first place, and more importantly do they represent blogs as an institution at all? It’s probably moot because the story does indeed call blogs “citizen media” which certainly conveys the idea that what we are talking about here is indeed you and me, the citizen blogger.
As if it weren’t bad enough that I have to worry about staying above board with people who know me personally and know where to find me, now I have to worry about the general public thinking I am no more honest than a politician? What a lovely thought.
All this time I was worried that my posts would be found ridiculous and full of errors and faulty information. I needn’t have worried. The public thinks blogs are full of it before you even hit publish post.
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