Virginia Breeze

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I hope my readers will forgive me but I need to change themes again this evening. I need a theme that is very SEO friendly AND simple.  The one I have been using today is not simple although it is good in the SEO department.  And I have enough challenges trying to discover why Google has gone away.

I don’t need to wrestle with a theme too. So here we are back with Sadish whom I trust and a very nice theme called Blixed.  You just take it out of the box and start it up!  A few photos may be a bit too wide but that’s about the extent of the problems, hopefully, I will face.

And it is only a two column theme. But I have been reading that a two column theme is more attractive, less cluttered and it is the one used by “most successful bloggers”.    Well hey!  We all want to be one of those although I’m finding the prospect of becoming one fading into the distance.

Maybe Google had a reason for waiting until my first anniversary to say good-bye.  Maybe they have different rules or more strick rules for the second year.

Who knows?  But I am trying to figure it out. One thing for sure is don’t take your popularity plugin and print the results in a post.  That’s about thirty links.  That’s no good I bet.  So all those are coming out. And I installed Robots Meta and Platinum SEO Pack (the ultimate SEO guide).

And, as I said, this theme is supposed to be very good SEO- wise.

We will see.  The important thing is to have friends.  Blogging buddies.  Google went down in importance in my book.  Just like I apparently went down in theirs.   And the silver lining is better understanding of why I do this every day.  When you lose there is always a silver lining.  And I have learned over the years that your failures contribute very much to your ultimate success if you learn from them.

So sorry about the theme.  I hope someone enjoys Andrea tonight.

Update/ Too many photos to fix.  I am not a photo editing machine.  Too bad.  It was a nice theme.

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of my Wordpress blogging adventure. The earliest post I can find is here

Not much has changed since then. I am still trying to relax and you will still see photos here of subjects that are primarily attempting to help me (us?) do just that.

These early posts are part of a Wordpress.com blog that still finds a few readers each day. It is a nice little blog and has some interesting posts in it along with some pretty bad ones. It’s all part of learning to be a blogger I guess.

Now I have four or five blogs and three of them are very active. I am happy to have made it this far and appreciative of those who were around last summer and still hang around here sometimes.

Hopefully things will progress in the second year. But blogging is about having fun unless you are making a living doing it. Are any of us making buckets of money?

If the answer is no then we should be doing things we enjoy when we blog! Right? There are Template Tombstones littering the Internet and many of them in my estimation belong to bloggers who were not enjoying themselves. They were not happy with the “progress” they were making perhaps. They were trying to do what the experts said they should do instead of what their hearts hoped they would do.

And they were not making money either. I met some of them in the past year and thought they were pretty wonderful people. No doubt they still are. Wherever they are.

Let us have a moment of silence as we remember some of their most memorable posts.

Thank you. Amen. Have a great Monday.

Update:// I deleted Wordpress.com.   So the earliest post is from this blog now.  It’s the same photo but it’s in a different place and the date is different.

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