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Google Skin Tags

Google Skin TagThis scares me.

I was talking to a friend the other day when I noticed a growth.

“Is that a wart or a skin tag?” I asked.

“Huh, I never noticed it… looks like a skin tag.”

“Yeah, I think it is a skin tag.”

That was it, we moved on to other subjects.

A couple hours later, I went on Youtube and right across the screen was a banner for SKIN TAG videos. Every suggested video was for SKIN TAGS.

Is this just the strangest coincidence ever or is Google now listening to our real world conversations? I am pretty sure my Android phone was in my pocket when I noticed the growth.

Thesis WordPress Theme

I haven’t been the most entertaining blogger of late. Late meaning the last couple of years. My father likes to remind me that I once had some blogging mojo… unfortunately it has left the building, never to return. As you know I decided to monetize this Website a few months back and have been failing miserably. You may also remember Donnaville was hacked back a number of months ago and I have never recovered in terms of traffic. I don’t know if I was removed from search engines or if I was blacklisted and continue to be blacklisted but I am not getting anywhere near the same amount of traffic I used to get. When I told this to my dad yesterday he said, “That’s because you don’t produce any quality content!” And that is true but what is also true is, I never really did. Plus, most of the traffic I got was just one time visitors searching for something odd that I happened to have written a post on. And I’ve been writing blog entries since 1998! I have more than enough content! Even if I only sporadically come up with something only slightly amusing, I still have 11 years of old posts!

So I’ve been thinking. What is wrong and what can I do? Finally I decided that some of the problems are probably related to the lack of Search Engine Optimization on this site. Back when I was working for the weekend, I had no intention of making money from Donnaville AND I had no real interest in attracting readers. So I never bothered with Categories or Tags or Meta Descriptions or anything that might help people find me better. And my theme was certainly not helping. Every single page was being fed to the Googlebot and I think Mr. Googlebot didn’t like the sheer amount of duplicate entries he was being fed. That could be the reason ALL my pages (all 13,900!) are showing up in the Supplemental Index: site:www.donnaville.com *** -sljktf Something needed to be done. Last night I plunked down the money and purchased the Thesis WordPress theme. Its users says it’s all about SEO and customization and ice cream and Charles Bronson. (Last night I had a dream of Charles Bronson, he wasn’t looking too good, kinda skinny). I am not sure if Thesis really is all it’s cracked up to be or if they just have a dynamite affiliate program and people will sell their soul for 33% of $87 or $164. But I am desperate! I want to restore Donnaville to her former glory and make some money along the way.

I hope this new design is pleasing to your eyes. Hopefully you won’t notice if I take out some garbage. And bear with me as I try to crank out something…. anything. And let’s hope Mr Googlebot decides that Donnaville is a nice crunchy snack that should be displayed closer to the top of the results and not in the back Supplemental Index closet.