Saturday, August 04, 2012

Testing The SEO Value of Blogger

I released two posts a few minutes ago... no worries, I am not going to be crapping up my blog with random off-topic posts for much longer. I am simply testing a few things on Blogger to determine if its a viable medium for posting content for the partial purpose of content monetization. Over the years I have created about two hundred blogger blogs with URLs and titles that target some pretty decent keywords. Granted, these blogs have been dormant over the last couple of years, but if these few tests I am running here on this blog reveal promising news, I will probably reignite those blogs again. I mean heck, if Google wants to host my blog for free and if it has equal pull and SEO value to WordPress or even something custom crafted and built from scratch, then why not!

Home Depot Labor Day Lawn Mower Sales

My template titles were messed up so my last post got indexed the wrong way so let's try this again. Need a new lawn mower? Every time I visit Home Depot they seem to have a vast selection of lawn mowers available. Another thing I notice is their price. Riding lawn mowers are ridiculously expensive. But with Labor Day just around the corner I am sure that Home Depot will be offering Labor Day sales and discounts on their lawn mowers. I guess we will just have to wait and see. I kind of remember there being a Home Depot Labor Day lawn mower sales last year. Or maybe that was at Lowes?

Dell Back To School Laptop Sales

If you are a student who needs a new laptop and is about to go back to school probably right now would be the best time to purchase one, especially if you are wanting to purchase a new Dell laptop.

Right now, Dell is offering their annual back to school laptop sales promotion again. During this computer sales event, you can save quite a bit of money when you purchase one of their new laptops. You might want to check it out.

On another note, this post is obviously to test the SEO value of blogger, oh and also to see how easy it is to post code snippets. Let's give that a shot and see what happens:

#!/bin/sh

THESITE="yoursite.com"
THEDATE=`date +%m%d%Y%H%M`

tar czf /var/www/$THESITE/backups/sitebackup_${THESITE}_${THEDATE}.tar -C / var/www/$THESITE/public_html
gzip /var/www/$THESITE/backups/sitebackup_${THESITE}_${THEDATE}.tar

find /var/www/$THESITE/backups/site* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Hopefully that looks good. It's just using the blockquote feature. However, if it displays correctly without me having to adjust css or do any kind of editing to the template, that may entice me to continue posting stuff on this blog. We'll just have to see what happens after I click the publish button.

Anyway, don't forget about the Dell back to school laptop sales. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.

Friday, August 03, 2012

It's Been Awhile Since I Updated This Blog...

Blogger sure has changed a lot over the last couple of years. It's actually pretty cool. Google makes Blogger fairly dummy-proof if you asked me. No offense intended to anyone out there who feels like they are a blog dummy.

Anyway, it's been a couple of years since I have even thoughts about this blog, let alone even considered accessing it. I am real impressed with the simplicity of Blogger -- always have in fact. And today, it seems quite appealing to use. So I may just do that.

In the mean time, anyone still subscribed, sit back and it may be possible that you will see some posts coming from this blog again.