Long time no write. I can’t exactly say what productive thing I did do in the past two to three weeks but it has not been writing in this space. What I know about SEO (search engine optimization) could fill a thimble. I noticed my posts would not show up in Google until weeks after I uploaded them. Turns out my site failed the mobile-friendly test. I found this out when I had to renewed my domain. Thanks to Ilsa Brink, my site now has a new WordPress theme that should … [Read more...]
I Google my name
I Google my name and come up with yours--the exact reverse. I think what if we went to school together, what confusion there’d be at roll call. Ellen, Wade. Wade, Ellen. But you’re older, a ‘51 baby, a country boy from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. And you’re dead, killed in action in 1972, when the chopper you’re co-piloting on a rescue mission is hit by enemy fire and crashes into a small island on the Dak Poko … [Read more...]
Lost in space: un-Googled
I Google myself every day just to see if there is anything new. I Google Solace in So Many Words too. Think of me what you will. Imagine my surprise when this website did not show up on Google. All the other pages were there--the Goodreads' links to this blog, my poems. The only way I could get this site to come up was to actually type it in. The first day I didn't mind that much. By the third day, I was affected. I started looking into whether this site had been … [Read more...]
Generosity and my own case of going a little viral
I've been thinking about the word "generous" and how it can describe the well-known writers who responded to my letter pleading for submissions to Solace in So Many Words. After all, if you have prize-winning books to your name, you don't need appear in a POD paperback edited by an unknown and published by an imprint with no track record. My guess is that they liked the theme of solace. But I know also it is because they are generous. I won't lie. I Google myself. A lot. … [Read more...]