Mood:  quizzical

I don't understand search engines. I thought once a search engine found your site, you were found for good. Not so with my site. Search engines seem to find me -- and lose me again -- on a regular basis. I'd enter my exact site name into Google and Yahoo, but the site wouldn't come up in the results. Even the exact URL wouldn't get a result.

I added all the keywords and meta tags and such to my site, and I started to get a few results. With the exact URL, Google could find my site. But doing a search with the site name still wouldn't find the site.

Then Yahoo found the site, and you could get the site to come up in search results by either the site name or the URL. Well, Yahoo! Things were looking up! And it got better! By mid-July I discovered a few people were actually finding the site with keywords, usually by using Yahoo powered search engines.

Then boom!...about a week into August, I was right back where I started. Not only did people stop finding the site using keywords, but entering the exact site name or URL into Yahoo didn't find the site. Yahoo had lost me again. I entered the site name into Google, and voila, it worked! That lasted about two days. Then Google lost me again, too.

It's pretty hard to bring people to the site when the search engines can't find my site. And when they do find it, they seem to lose it again just as fast. How to be found -- and stay found -- by the search engines is unfortunately a mystery I haven't unravelled yet.  So I'm very grateful for the few people who are visiting!

Listening to: Dishwalla - Opaline

Mood:  rushed

I didn't choose it. I just picked one of the ready made templates Angelfire offered. The music one had a Les Paul on it, so I figured that's cool. Okay, it's a lime green Les Paul, but don't you see those every day?  I'm pretty sure there is a line of Les Pauls that are all wild colours, actually. So lime green and blue it is. You can change your template if you want, but I like this one for now. I just don't like the fact that on the calendar you can barely read the month in white against the lime green background. But you know what month it is, don't you?

Poured rain here today, which is good. We need it. And I like rain.

I have company coming any time now, so I'm off.

Listening to: Deep Purple - The Very Best Of Deep Purple

Mood:  lyrical

This is kind of my first blog post. I say "kind of" because I've been dealing with first day glitches like the Comments section not working for me when I tested it (because of my pop-up blocker), the site eating my first post and replacing it with "null", etc. So this is actually the second draft of Into the Land Of Blogs.

Blogging will be a bit of an experiment for me. I don't know if I'll be motivated to stick with it, or how often I'll write blog posts, or if they'll be even remotely interesting, but we'll see. The blog exists in conjuntion with my website, Anne's Guitar Tab Archive (https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret), so many of the postings will be in relation to music, guitar, "adventures in tabbing", things about the website, etc. But it won't be just music entries, I'll talk about plenty of other things, too, whatever topic interests me at any given time.

I've left the Comments section wide open, so....talk to me!  Well, it would be nice, that is, to get some comments from time to time. Anyone can post a comment, all you have to do is fill in a number code to prove you're a real live person. If I end up talking to myself here, maybe I'll even open up the Comments section to the spam-bots and talk to them! Okay, probably not. At the moment, the settings are such that comments will show up immediately, without being moderated.

If you have anything to say about particular tabs on the site, or the tabs overall, or the site in general, or anything talked about here in the blog, all comments are welcome.

In regard to the mood listed at the top, I'm not sure what feeling "lyrical" is. I just liked the little blue music notes, and they fit in well with the fact that this is a blog associated with a music site.

And so...into the land of blogs! (again)