Friday, January 19, 2007
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I managed to fall out of Google. That is to say, my website this website used to be the #1 result for "Caleb Larsen" which makes sense to me. However, in fooling around with adding a sitemap and my robots.txt file I manage to tell Google not to index ANY of my pages. It was a simple clerical error, but it seems that GoogleBot crawled my site right after I did that, so now I no longer exist in Google. Very Odd. I am hoping to salvage my Page Ranking.
I am never happy with the way that I have my website set up. I want something that is simple, flexible, fast, easy to update and easy to modify that does not require me to muck around with HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Mind you, there is a time and a place to do all of that but I do not think that to add a project or post to my blog that I need to bust out a text editor or fire up Dreamweaver.
I recently started using RapidWeaver...which quite frankly kinda sucks. It aims to make building website quick and easy without having to deal with HTML. That is good. What is bad is that it is really really slow once you have put together a site that includes photos, video, blogs, and such. On a 2GHz MacBook with 2 Gig of ram it takes minutes to open, and minutes to save and minutes to publish changes. And, it does not give images useful names unless you explicitly name the images. Instead it calls them "image-01" or something like that. Which, one might think is not a big deal, but it is to Google Images and to people to like to have a neat meaningfully named site.
So I am now using a hybrid of RapidWeaver for maintaining projects, because it is quite simple to add projects despite the loading slowness, and Blogger. I essentially made a Blogger template that looks like my RapidWeaver site. Blogger is fast, easy, and good. While I think the RapidWeaver Blog feature is pretty much the opposite of that.
I also cleaned up the home directory of my site. Not that any of that matters to you, but I think of it as cleaning of my desk, or taking out the trash. Sort of therapeutic.
We will see how long this lasts.
I am never happy with the way that I have my website set up. I want something that is simple, flexible, fast, easy to update and easy to modify that does not require me to muck around with HTML, CSS, or Javascript. Mind you, there is a time and a place to do all of that but I do not think that to add a project or post to my blog that I need to bust out a text editor or fire up Dreamweaver.
I recently started using RapidWeaver...which quite frankly kinda sucks. It aims to make building website quick and easy without having to deal with HTML. That is good. What is bad is that it is really really slow once you have put together a site that includes photos, video, blogs, and such. On a 2GHz MacBook with 2 Gig of ram it takes minutes to open, and minutes to save and minutes to publish changes. And, it does not give images useful names unless you explicitly name the images. Instead it calls them "image-01" or something like that. Which, one might think is not a big deal, but it is to Google Images and to people to like to have a neat meaningfully named site.
So I am now using a hybrid of RapidWeaver for maintaining projects, because it is quite simple to add projects despite the loading slowness, and Blogger. I essentially made a Blogger template that looks like my RapidWeaver site. Blogger is fast, easy, and good. While I think the RapidWeaver Blog feature is pretty much the opposite of that.
I also cleaned up the home directory of my site. Not that any of that matters to you, but I think of it as cleaning of my desk, or taking out the trash. Sort of therapeutic.
We will see how long this lasts.
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I somehow managed to do the exact same thing and tell the GoogleBot not to crawl my site. I don't really think it's something I did wrong, I think it's the way a plug in came. Thankfully I woke up and figured out what was going on and now I'm back at #1.
I hope you get your old Page Rank back.
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I hope you get your old Page Rank back.
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