Bah I hate SEO

No I am not an SEO expert but I thought I knew a few things. But turns out I think I know bugger all. I hate artificial SEO, the stuff where you add stupid reviews to some random website about your own product. Or where you buy lots of different domains and point it to your main one. Google is dominated with the stuff. You try searching for something, like a how to do something, and all you get is someone selling you some crap. And it's always price comparison websites which is so annoying.

So anyway, why am I peeved? I created a long time ago a website devoted to free and open source software. (See what I did there? A link to my website, won't work apparently because it is hosted on the same IP as this website) Well it was a pet project, one for learning new techniques with PHP and the other because I am a proud supporter of open source software. It's all about freedom. So I wanted people to learn about some software which can be used as alternatives to commercial software and avoid resorting to pirating software. But this website only gets a few hits a day. There seems to be a lot of competition in this area.

So then I thought well I should start taking it a bit seriously. I created a free software blog to try and boost the traffic. I also wanted to try and learn to write a bit better as well as I always like to be straight to the point so thought I need to expand. Well since doing that the traffic on my website has dived completely. Why? Who knows. Maybe people don't really want free software. Or it could be my design skills are really bad. I am correcting that though. I have had a design created for me and hopefully a logo to go with it.

So why have I written this? Well in some desperation that the search engines will pick up the blog link and spider it. For some reason my own personal website gets more hits and there is nothing of value here?!?!!?