Gnorb.NET

I think I may finally have found what the problem with Technorati spidering my site is. I was planning to send them another message asking why they haven’t yet answered my first post when I noticed the following bit of information from http://technorati.com/help/publishers.html –

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I just noticed that the Googlebot visited Gnorb.NET. It doesn’t quite have the “Santa’s coming to town” feel, but it does help me understand how the spiders crawl my site. Using the Googlebot tracking WordPress plugin, I’m able to see that the bots were here yesterday. By the looks of it, the bot’s in love with my front page, having visited it once every 5 1/2 hours or so yesterday.

I guess it likes all that content.

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After about of month of neglecting it, I finally checked one of the numerous email accounts not housed on this server. I was pretty surprised to find that I didn’t have that much mail, though what was there was pretty interesting. (It’s amazing the kind of things you find in old, unkept email accounts.)

As I logged in, I was expecting to see a lot of spam. To my surprise, there really wasn’t much there. (Hurray spam filters!) What I found instead was a couple of messages from would-be writing contracts and — to my surprise — a LinkedIn invitation from an old acquaintance of mine, Wayne H. Wayne is the owner of Blog Business World, a SEO/SEM firm based out of Canada. Previously, he was also a writer for a SEO website, which is where we met. (I used to be that site’s Chief Editor.)

It was surprising to see his name on my list of un-read emails, especially since it was there three times. The emails were invitations to join the LinkedIn network. Apparently, LinkedIn doesn’t take its invitations lightly. (I’m now glad they don’t.) Since it was Wayne who sent them, I said “What the heck. I’ll bite,” then went ahead and signed up with the program.

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Edit: Given the fact that I’ve switched to WordPress, this is all moot.

Lately — don’t know if anyone’s noticed — I’ve been looking for all kinds of ways to improve this site’s looks to better fit my tastes. What can I say, I’m an eclectic, and I’d like this site to reflect me in more ways than just my writing. (Though honestly, my writing has become a bit more comfortable.) I was hoping to find a good bBlog theme, something to give this site a little spark. Although my search yielded some results, I didn’t find anything particularly attractive. I found a bunch of stuff for WordPress, but not very many bBlog themes.

Frankly, I ought to sharpen my CSS skills, if for no other reason than to offer the bBlog community a few more themes. I guess I have a soft spot for underdog projects. Compared to WordPress, bBlog is definitely an underdog. But it’s sooooo SEO-friendly that it’s hard to give up! In fact, its search engine friendlyness is what promted this post, and a bit of a change of direction for me.

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Ok, I’ve been messing around a bit with the code to the site, and I’ve finally found out how to do the clean URL thing in bBlog. (Honestly, the answer was staring me right in the face, nefariously hidding itself from me in plain sight.) Here’s what I did…

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