About Eleventy-one

Last night I was poking around, trying to locate the local files for the main page of elhide.com and the original CotC page, thinking those both could use modifying, and thinking I really need to organize the files on my hard drive that are for blogs and other online content.  I mean, more is already the case, as I have a “blogs” folder on the desktop, but there’s a ton of obsolete or transient or false start stuff under it, and other files are in folders off the root of C.  Confusing.  And if there’s anything this year needs resolve to do, it’s be more organized.

Anyway, I came across my “about Jay Solo” page, which was HTML and not part of the blog.  Reading through, I was intrigued that I had updated it when I was 43 and again when I was 46, based on fun with strikeouts.  However. part of the way through, it clearly reverted to obsolete text.  Had I started revising and never finished and uploaded it?  Indeed; the online version remains last updated in 2004.  Oops.

That got me looking at my “eleventy-one things about me” page.  The number of states visited and slept in looked odd, so I tallied and realized that I last updated that page after I married Deb, but before I went back to California to drive across the country with her.  Wow.  I didn’t look for an offline version to see if I’d gotten part of the way through and never posted the update.  What I really should do is an entirely new version, changing some of what’s there and eliminating the clunky parts.

I long since left a page up at the original address of the CotC, but made it a portal to a set of links.  That could be updated, but the big thing I need to change is the title.  The page still captions with “Carnival of the Capitalists” and that is probably part of why it still tends to come out ahead of the current home in search results.  That and it was the CotC’s heyday, when everyone linked that page and many of them left the link unupdated.  Fewer people bother to link the home page now, even some weeks the people who have hosted, within their CotC post.

I also looked at traffic, and at least half the total traffic to my original blog goes to that CotC page.  In turn, a significant proportion of the traffic to the current CotC site comes from the original CotC page.

Ah well.  It was interesting, digging through the old stuff.  Since online activity is going to generate part of our income, if only supplemental, there’s merit in getting it organized and taking maximum advantage of residual value of old pages.

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