It’s been awhile since I posted anything here, but I keep getting distracted with other things, but I wanted to post some type of update to catch everyone up.

I had pretty much updated all of my blogs, making them all 2257 compliant.  Unfortunately, the guys at the adult blog free host BlogBugs got some type of glitch that resulted in losing all of their blogs.  They were able to restore the blogs from a backup from 6 month’s earlier - prior to the changes I had made.  Every change I had made was now undone, and the blogs once again had non-2257 compliant posts.  In addition to the changes being undone, it seems they were looking into better monetize the blogs they hosted, and my blogs now had various “float over” advertising, depending on the categories they were listed under, and a 2nd HEAD section inserted into the displayed pages code that inserted their own meta description, meta keywords, google analytics, and top bar links.  I suspect it was this attempt at additional monetization that caused the glitch in the first place.

This time, instead of again investing so much time into reworking each and every post to make it 2257 compliant, it seemed to me like removing the posts entirely was the most cost-effective action.  I wrote them about my displeasure and a month or so later I got a response saying the advertising had been removed, but yet there still remain those 2nd HEAD sections in the code.  Not that it makes much difference, but it’s not even MY HEAD, THEIR HEAD, BODY BEGIN - it’s MY HEAD, BODY BEGIN, THEIR HEAD.  Now, I’m by no means a SEO guru, but it seems to me like this departure from the established format will most likely kill any ranking I might otherwise have had.  Additionally, I now had to go back through all my other blogs and remove the links pointing to these blogs, so that their linking wouldn’t adversely affect their rankings as well.

I could delete the BlogBugs blogs entirely, but why sacrifice what little traffic may still be tricking in, when I can still provide links to my sponsors for the surfer to peruse.

Oddly, a single blog ( Movies on Demand ) was unaffected, though other than dropping by from time to time to import new posts with the aggregator, I’m not going to waste any time on it.

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