Just a quick note…after turning off the WordPress privacy thing that somehow got turned on when I upgraded, removing all robots.txt files from my site, and working with the sitemap for a while, Google is now cheerfully sending people here for odd combinations of words again.  The last 100 hits have involved these Google Search Terms:

who is the guitar player…

I’m not sure yet exactly what is good, or bad about Twitter. It’s a micro blogging web site - a social network of sorts - another irritating numbers game. I watch it mostly with half or even a third of the attention it likely deserves if used right - but that is largely because I haven’t figured out how to…

I’ll try to get back to regular posting tomorrow.  I’m going to be reviewing Anansi Boys and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman shortly here, and I’m well into Brian Hodge’s MAD DOGS - which I’ve been waiting for a long time.  I have some projects that are really dragging at me, and I’ve been banging my head on this stupid Google…

Today was one of those days.  Actually, today (in the sense of the problem) began several days ago when I noticed that there was no keyword activity for this site showing up at Statcounter, and my traffic was way down.  I messed with the XML sitemap tool.  I went to the Google Webmaster Dashboard and checked…it had errors.  It said…

Today is the first day that my new short story collection, “Ennui & Other States of Madness” is available for preorder. I’m happy to say this one will be for sale in three states, and one of them is an affordable trade paperback! This is a massive collection, over 120,000 words of fiction, including a brand new novella and a…

I need a test post to see if all the glitches have been shaken back out of this thing. I blame Don Paresi. Actually, I don’t…I blame me. I put up one of his pictures in my gallery and I think I used a picture format that was not allowed. For some reason it took it…but then it broke the…

I’m in the middle of a repair, upgrade of the site.  For the moment, I think I have all the links back where they belong and operational, but on some parts of the site you may see that the theme isn’t working properly.  The site’s designer is helping me recreate it all and fix it back up…may take a few…

I’ve been trying to build up my blog traffic.  There are a million articles out there on how to get more hits, how to get your Google index ration optimized, and your ranking high on all the right spots…it’s frightening, confusing, and a time sink of astronomical proportion.

Yesterday I was checking my blog at Technorati.com.  This is a site where…