Jul 202013
 

OK folks…I’ll admit it.  Today I’m taking the easy way out on this week’s post of mine.  If Ralph could do that little Twitter tweet style post the other day then I can be brief as well.  This post will  be a substantial improvement over Ralph’s though, in two ways:

  • First, while brief, it will follow Google’s rules about a post’s length.  You see, Google, in its wisdom, has decided that if you don’t write at least 300 words on whatever topic you are writing about, what you wrote has no value.  None.  Nada.Image representing Google as depicted in Crunc... Zip.  Zero.  Zilch.  You will notice I am working hard to meet Google’s totally arbitrary standard by finding unnecessary, extraneous, unneeded words just to hit that magic 300 word mark.  If there is anything I don’t want Continue reading »

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Bob comes to us with a skeptical attitude and a full cup of Cantankerousness. He also writes about homesteading and yurts over at JuicyMaters.com and rants about politics at Common-Sense-Conversation.com Most of the time, though, you'll find him at HayleStorm.net, cranking out great websites for clients OR writing tutorials teaching them to build their own sites.

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Feb 012013
 

I was just looking at some numbers here on the ol’ Coots blog and I found something interesting.  It seems our tweet out when posted plugin is not working.  At all.  Looking further, there are no updates, the plugin blog post on the developer site is from 2008.  Finally, I have switched plugins.

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That in itself is not big news, what is surprising is this, the past 2 posts that have gone out this week have had 11 and 17 views.  The two before that have had 42 and 37 views.  That tells me there are not many people actually reading these posts on their own and Twitter is a huge tool in the promotion of this blog.  This particular post should go out into the Twitterverse and lets see just how many hits it generates.

Now, I have read volumes of stuff about how to make blogs happen and get bigger.  Twitter is good but sharing, out there with people, gets more people here to read our stuff.  If this is your first time here, good deal.  Share with your friends using those nifty buttons at the bottom.

If this blog is your guilty pleasure and you don’t want people to know you read it, sneak some links out and about for us.  We won’t tell.

If you are so inclined, add something to the comments!  We love to hear inane babble er, constructive comments from our readers.  Ralph has been the main writer here for far too long and maybe you are just getting tired of him and his rants about traveling the world and all of the hardships associated with living in California.  Apparently, he is losing his ranting mojo as evidenced by this post earlier in the week.

Or maybe you are just excited to get some Bob back into the cantankerousness with his last two posts, part 1 and part 2.  Maybe you just don’t care.   But, with 2013 fast dwindling we need to raise our alexa score so that we can get some advertising to help pay for this adventure.

Please, share, comment, blast us with incredulity, or find your own cantankerousness and write a guest post.  You will not be sorry.

-Justin

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Justin

Justin is the young Coot with a Cantankerous Soul who continues to be educated by older, more cootish Ralph and Bob. His Cantankerosity is his own.

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