Still Around, Strangely Enough
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After almost a month of not updating the SSL Blog, I figured I better post something to verify that I’m still alive. Although I haven’t been in-world, at all, I have been busy working on some things that have to do with SL. Arbitrage Wise and I have worked out a plan for me to stay involved on the SL Reports web site. I’ve been taking care of different things on the backend of the site, as well as working on improving the SEO.
Things with the SEO seem to be coming along pretty good and the site is actually coming up in the SERPs for terms and keyphrases that we’ve decided to target on. Before I started working on it, the site was not coming up in the top 2,000 results for most of the terms that we’re looking at.
I’ve made a couple different changes to the URL structure of the site, and realized a few things, along the way. Once you change the structure of the URLs, don’t ever change them again! Decide on the structure that you want and stick with it. I “knew” this, of course, but didn’t think long enough about it when I first changed things. That resulted in another change, only a week or two after the first. I’m really glad that I didn’t wait longer than that, but I still wish I would have made only one decision, and stuck with it.
As far as “non-SL” stuff, I got a wild hair up my ass, last night, and decided to download World of Warcraft. I’ve never tried it, before, but wanted to see what it was all about. It’s a free 10 day trial, which has you download the full 3.16GB file, before trying. If you decide that you like it, you just purchase the full version and enter the key. I might get bored with it after 10 or 20 minutes, so we’ll see.
There’s something interesting about the download that I realized, last night, though. After I started it, I told my friend, who lives up in Canada, what I was doing. He went over to the site, clicked on the same buttons, filled out the same forms, downloaded what looked like the same file, and got into WoW, all within ten minutes. I’m not sure if they are giving Canadians a smaller version to try, or what’s going on, though. I’m pretty positive that he didn’t download the full 3.16GB file within ten minutes, though. He sent me a screenshot of him in the game, and I sent him a screenshot of the Blizzard Downloader that I had running. He had never even seen the downloader, though.
Anyway, I just wanted to update, here, and let you know that I’m still around.
February 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
After dying three times, not being able to find my corpse, once, and only playing for a total of about 3 hours, I’m not really “WoWed” by WoW. It actually does remind me of a 3D version of Diablo, is all.