Life as I find it

I have always found most poetry rather inane and a lot of effort over linking words together. Mostly, you can write just about anything and it becomes approximately poetry as long as you follow a format.

The Poetry generator on the Language is a Virus site takes this vague opinion of mine into reality. It was like meeting the personification of what I think about poetry and some genius in creating stuff. Really guys, take a look for unlimited poetry

ot. Ideas of possible and impossible change.

Juggle around with
this list. Look at it in different ways. If you’re serious about this,
I’ll recommend creating versions of this list based on a variety of
factors - urgency, ease/difficulty of achieving, sets of items related
with each other, and so on. Heck, why not, even create one based on how
possible or impossible they seem (though ease and difficulty may
address that).

Now, come back to the original list based on
importance or urgency and pick up the first couple of items on that
list and see where they stand on the others.

These few items are
where most of your conscious efforts are going to be directed. Keep
coming to this blog to find out how to deal with them individually, but
suffice it to say for now, keep them in focus always. Print those lists
out or take those papers and staple them together and stick them on top
of your fridge or computer monitor, where they will be staring right
back at you.

Why? Because they are a part of your life. In fact,
this lack is an important influence on your life. It is your
dissatisfaction and we are planning on turning this into motivation.
For this to happen, it is important that you stop running away from
them when you can and being overwhelmed when you can’t, and learn to be
comfortable looking at them enough to be addressing them as the time
comes.

In the coming posts, I will be dealing with very common
items on people’s lists and seeing how they can be managed. It will not
be easy, but its not particularly tough either. In the meanwhile, if
you think there is any particular “item” you’d like me to address, feel
free to drop in a comment, and I’ll give it a shot.

What makes
me certain that this works - its what I’ve always been doing, and I
have managed to create a life for myself where I am not highly
educated, I’ve never had a job, and have changed professions too often
to have “stable earnings” in any one, yet, I have never lacked for
money (earnings, not inheritance), am a respected professional, and
have achievements, sources of income in multiple fields, and a happy
family life (well, as happy as chaos can get). I have never earned
money from anything I don’t like to do, and I never have to land up
anywhere for work that I don’t want to go. Do I sound like I know what
I’m talking about?

We all are dependent on something or the other, so what is this big
deal about becoming independent? It is about being responsible for
ourselves. For some it may mean moving out of the parents house and
surviving on their own. For others it may be about paying off education
loans and moving on to professional lives. For still others it could be
about getting rid of jobs we don’t like and becoming free, but still
surviving comfortably.

Some facts remain common:

1. Financial independence
2. Having sufficient time
3. Having the freedom to work toward dreams rather than survival
4. Having a nest egg of money for emergencies
5. being happy with the way life is working out.

This
blog is chiefly about how to go about acheiving this elusive goal.
About overcoming perceived handicaps and going around them, when there
is no direct over coming possible.

Its about trusting our strengths and being aware of our weaknesses.

I’m learning elaborate ways of checking backlinks, figuring out keywords and figuring out new keywords to use on the site. It takes a lot of time to learn all these. Which actually begins with learning to use the tools, then you have a list, and then you go around customizing your site so that it works better like that.

Honestly, at the risk of being beaten to death by all the wise SEO gurus all over the web, I found nothing that saved me time and worked more efficiently than what I already do, and it is totally free too.

I login to my Google sitemaps account. That’s also the same place where I submit my sitemaps to google, BTW.

I go and check the links to my site. Great. Done. Then, I go and download the search keywords for the entire site and take a look at them. It takes some patience, but basically, I look for things I came in the search results for, but not clicked through, and then see which of them are things I would like to get clicked through for.

Then, I either adjust an existing page so the title sounds more inviting (yeah I got loads of bad titles from my days of ignorance) and take a look at it to see if I can write it better, or create a page about it, and put it somewhere appropriate in the site. Done.

Honestly, this learning curve for figuring out backlinks and keywords is worthless when compared with this. For me at least. Since I started learning, I’m only fiddling around reading lengthy reports and suggestions, and aiming to get every keyword under the sky on my site. The old system was better me thinks. Listing positives:

1. I spent more time working on my site than with software reading my site.
2. If google has some amount of back links, other engines have them too. Its not something I can insert my finger in and sit and it will become better. I submit, don’t I? Its time to trust them to do their jobs, and get back to mine.
3. I get loads of keyword ideas just looking at the search data. And honestly, as long as I’m writing about my subject, how wrong can I be in expressing the topic? I’m not exactly writing aimless shit that needs to be decorated with words to tell engines what it is. I’m writing what it is already.
4. While the keyword analysis will probably give me an edge, even being careful to use the important words relevant to what I’m writing will promote my subject. And, I will have the time from analysis to devote to content as well, like right now. I’m not trying to figure out what will sell “Nerd in Progress”. I’m simply being Nerd in Progress, which I think is a good idea, and letting the rest happen.
5. Back links are overrated anyway. I hardly have any backlinks and I still come first for many searches and first page for even more. The back links are slightly higher these days, but again, I haven’t really done anything about them as yet. Its a project for “one day”
6. Keywords are also overrated. If my site, which was pretty terribly written initially and got reworked over and over for the content to be good for the subject (let alone keywords and search engines) can come in the first page of results for several words related with it, why wouldn’t any decent writer who can be genuine about it do the same?
7. All these SEO terms are best for the guys writing about them, not your site. Their site is about this stuff, and believe me, a person who blogs daily in several places isn’t really spending a whole load of time figuring out words. They are telling you about the words and getting your traffic, while you spend an eternity running after words and ignoring your primary duty as a webmaster - developing your site in the direction it was intended, rather than keywords.

*I am not here at all. I’m hiding under the table. If there is a lynch mob waiting to hack me to pieces, my site probably got hacked and someone wrote this post to defame me. I’m a certified wimp.