Recluse reflections: The web page time sink
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"But now he knows these hills, that is to say he knows them better, and if ever again he sees them from afar it will be I think with other eyes, and not only that but the within, all that inner space one never sees, the brain and heart and other caverns where thought and feeling dance their sabbath, all this too quite differently disposed."
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Sunday, June 06, 2004  
The web page time sink

I've maintained and designed (such as it is) the Tacky Tourist Clubs web site since, oh -- about 1996. It might have even been '95 when I first put up a page on a personal account.

Long time.

But I just realized why it's so difficult for me to keep changing it. Something like this can be an amazing time-sink. Every time I do actually look at the site, there is so much to do, I feel overwhelmed.

This time around, I got pulled into the nasty world of search engine optimization. Yikes! I guess that sub-industry on the web is where all the folks went who would have become used-car or burial-insurance salesmen a decade ago. But there is something to it all, of course. And once I found actual information about how to increase the liklihood that someone will find the site in a search engine, I was prompted to make changes that were more widespread than I had expected.

But it's up. It's live. And now maybe I can go back to ignoring it.

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