LOL!!! I am ok! Just anytime you are Blessed with a new addition to the family, it kinda knocks you off your rocker for a few weeks to 21 years or longer! LOL!!!!

@ David,

To me, you hit the nail on the head with

“making a site search engine friendly isn’t rocket science. Get the job done and then move on and start blogging and building your base.”

Ha Ha! Falls under the same lines as, “Do your JOB soldier!” Yeah, basically, build the blog, make sure things are good for readers (as you stress) and rock and roll. Thanks for the off line help.

I hope you all can hear the sigh of relief that I just gave. I could never in a thousand years ever get code perfect. Well, maybe in a thousand years…

Fortunately, David has looked at my site to remove some of the stupid mistakes I had, and the results have been interesting. Traffic is gradually improving. I have always posted every day or so, but now Google is spidering me within a minute or so of pushing that ‘publish’ button.

David’s GOOD!

As for me, I tend to spend more time on the things that I like – pretty colors, graphics, etc. and telling the happenings that I’m devoted to.

I found it interesting to realize that Google knows that 99% of us are dummies and compensates for that. Cool concept!

Garry, I didn’t realize that things had been going so stressfully for you. I want you to know how much I appreciate you and all you teach me. You and Angie have all my best wishes.

Sincerely,
Brennan

“but I’m not sure that you can make your code to perfect”

I don’t think you can, but, I think you can spend way to much time trying. As far as the site you are talking about. I can tell you from experience, sooner or later, that site will cause you problems. Google is getting much better at catching those Made For Adsense (or made for any kind of click sites), and it is clearly against the TOS.

I have worked with a couple of Google Engineers and learned a lot about what and how they look at things. I had some killer sites that were built just like you said, and trust me, they are gone now.

To be honest, I understand what David was trying to say, but I’m not sure that you can make your code to perfect. Google’s spiders don’t think, they just do what they are trained to do. The spiders are certainly set to flag certain things, but I don’t think this is one of them. I actually have a post going up early next week which talks a little bit about Google flagging websites/blogs, etc.

I have a couple sites I set up to practice keyword sniping. On those blogs, I actually don’t want the content to be useful. The site is filled with advertisements and affiliate links. I don’t want subscribers or anything like that. The thing is, though the content may not be useful, with SEO techniques I have had success driving search traffic to the website. My hope is they don’t find what they are looking for so they click an ad or affiliate link

I guess my point is that sites like the one I mentioned above are not flagged by Google. Should they be? I don’t know, but I would think Google would care more about that type of site than a well maintained site that has perfect code.

Anyway, I think this is a great discussion. Like I said in the post you linked to, SEO is good, but people also need to focus on natural traffic, which is SEO that comes naturally and doesn’t require any help from Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. Use a blog URL that is short, easy to spell, and very memorable. Make sure its dot com, etc.

I hope everyone realizes what we were talking about. I do not think you should have code that is not done right. But, I was talking more about the issue of spending all your time making your CSS perfect and tweaking this or that.

To me, you hit the nail on the head with

“making a site search engine friendly isn’t rocket science. Get the job done and then move on and start blogging and building your base.”

Another thought, Garry remember it was just last year that you began this journey. I remember you hoping on that Technorati train with me and I followed you along after that and have watched your blog grow from just a mere thought, to a seed and now to see it growing is amazing. Just look through your archives and see the trend. You may want to see what it was you were doing when you got the most hits, clicks, etc. When it was you were having the most fun and try doing something similiar once again.