The Run of the Numbers.

Reading my daily dose of NetNewsWire – beginning to get back into the habit again of reading it, having the iMac in the kitchen has absolute usefulness, such as keeping MacGourmet handy, or reading some blogs while sipping my piping hot tea or following my basal temperature chart… you know, all such entertaining things – and one of the WordPress entries catches my eye:

Tips for Recovering from Google Page Rank Drop

And the entry goes on about not to panic and to analyze etc. and yes, of course, so many people hopped onto the blog wagon to make income, get payed per click and top it off with Google ads, just fill your page up with “stuff” – it’s the best way to ensure that I won’t be visiting you any longer.

Dooce, my favorite chatter chick has gone down that path, though a recent glance shows that she is trying to somewhat contain it, but her blog has become an advertisement page and one has to search for her witty entries. It’s like the paper magazines, recently I glanced through some Make my House Beautiful type magazines as we were considering to place an ad and I was amazed, I couldn’t find any content, only ads after ads after ads and to place a one time 1/4 page ad costs $2,000 in that magazine but then the publisher has the brashness to charge the buying reader almost $10 per magazine. Everything gets drowned, even the ads.

And all these people who are trying to make some money off some people who “click” – well, yes, of course, they SHOULD panic if their Google ranking drops, but what a game to play in the first place!

I admit, I was tickled by this fever too and this made me to have Googles text ads on my site – taken down since, still visible (for now) if you go into a single category – and to get an account with Performance – which is kinda loosing it on me too because it seems to get more and more bloated and more complicated to get to my stats – and to pay a years account for Stumble – which is a great site if you’re a bored kinda internet surfer and are looking for some distraction (the one thing I am trying to get RID of) – and also with this very site I was tickled with pride when I saw interest rise and so I began with the Technorati tags – which at this point I sometimes do and then again not.

But the day I decided to NOT write for others, but instead only for myself (mostly) and just allow others to peek in on me if they so wish but to no longer care if somebody hits my blog or not (I’m even working on applying this for my whole family, the not caring if they read or not part) and to no longer feel obliged to write every day something witty to get a few more hits – that was the day when this blog again began to make fun.

So now I am no longer some number on a site for the amount of people reading these pages here. I’m smaller and even barely on the Radar of The Truth Laid Bear – shrunk down to an Insignificant Microbe, down from a Wiggling Worm (haha) – so it’s not fully true that I’m no longer ANY number, currently I am # 40621 on their site. Oh, just checking out their site now I see they changed and even show excerpts of my current blog entries right then and there (what a waste)! The other day I felt guilty for a moment to have Meagan from The ONE Campaign add me to their supporter blog list; but then I thought, well, I DO think it a cause to support and even if only 5 people click onto the banner ad with the link to their site from here, it was worth it.

My point of this all? The deep, relieved breather. The recognition that since I’m no longer a number striving crazed person, I’m again an individual and I’m just me, myself and I.

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