So I've blogged every day for a week now and, oddly enough, I can't find my own site on google, even when I look for exact matches for strings in older blog posts. I've started using a plugin for RapidWeaver, SiteMap, that's supposed to improve SEO, but I don't know if it's helping.
That being said, it's still early, and I don't really know what I'm doing. I've read several often contradictory books and articles about SEO, but I've never really tried it out myself, so I'll see how it ends up.
The two things I 'm concerned about at the moment are 1) I'm using the RapidBlog plugin to mirror content between my site and Blogger, and so it's possible that my site is getting ranked down because the content is in two places (although that isn't the case for some other sites I've found that are running RapidBlog), and 2) The RapidBlog plugin doesn't let me change the
tags on the permalink pages, so the articles might not appear as relevant. I might end up trying a combination of RapidBlog (which I love, because it makes blogging much more convenient) and normal RapidWeaver blog pages and see if the "normal" blog pages show up better in Google.</p><p>Regardless, it's still early in my learning process, and I'll document what I figure out here.</p>
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<p>I implied <a href="/blog/2010/8/27/blogging-workflow-with-reeder.html">earlier</a> that when I use <a href="http://blogpress.coollittlethings.com/">BlogPress</a> to write a blog post with my iPhone or iPad, that I had to wait until I got to my laptop to publish it. That isn't true. If I want to tweak it in <a href="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/" target="_blank">RapidWeaver</a>, then I have to wait for my laptop, but if I'm okay posting it without going through a proper preview step, I can just hit "Publish Now!" in BlogPress, and let <a href="http://www.loghound.com/rapidblog/index.html">RapidBlog</a> handle the rest.</p>
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<p>I'm a huge fan of <a href="http://reederapp.com/">Reeder</a> for both the iPhone and iPad. It's so much faster and more convenient than any other Google Reader client I've dealt with, I haven't launched Socialite or NetNewsWire in weeks.</p><p>So, when I decided I was going to start blogging regularly, I wanted to make it easy for me to do so. This is the workflow I worked out:<br/> <br/>I set up a blog on blogspot, and then linked it to my site (which I edit with RapidWeaver) with RapidBlog from Loghound.com. Then I used the "Email & Mobile" menu of the Settings tab of the blogspot dashboard to set up an email address, and set it to "Save emails as draft posts". Then I added that email address to my Contacts app with the name "Blog Fodder". </p><p>Now, when I see something in Reeder I might want to blog about, I hit the action button, "email link", and send it to my blog address. Then, I can edit it (as I'm doing now) as a draft with BlogPress on my iPad or iPhone, and when I have some time with my Mac, then I can sync and publish it to my blog with RapidBlog. </p><p>Granted, it's a little Rube Goldberg, but it makes it easy for me to capture ideas whenever they occur to me, blog during my unproductive time, and publish quickly at my leisure. </p><p>Time will tell if it's easy enough that I manage to stick with it. </p>
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<p>So I read <a href="http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/EthicsIT/post-300-or-why-all-developers-should-be">this great article</a> on why I should be blogging. So I decided I should start blogging.</p><p>So here I am blogging :).</p><p>Now, to be (at least partially) a programming blog, I need to be able to post code. I was playing with the High-Light plug-in for Rapid Weaver last year when I was playing with this blog the first time, but it doesn't do Objective-C (at least not well - and Objective-C is what I'll probably blog about the most), so I went hunting, and found <a href="http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/highlight/en/highlight.html">highlight</a> and used the installer from <a href="http://www.hmug.org/pub/MacOS_X/BSD/Applications/Text/highlight/">here</a> to get it running on my Mac.</p><p>So I'm grabbing the code, dumping it into TextMate, reformatting it, and using <span style="font:12px 'Lucida Grande', LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; ">Opt-Cmd-R</span> to run it through this script:<br/><pre style="color:#ffffff; background-color:#000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:'Courier New';"><span style="color:#888888"> 1 </span><span style="color:#008888">#!/bin/sh</span><br/><span style="color:#888888"> 2 </span><br/><span style="color:#888888"> 3 </span><span style="color:#ff00ff">/</span>usr<span style="color:#ff00ff">/</span><span style="color:#00ff00">local</span><span style="color:#ff00ff">/</span>bin<span style="color:#ff00ff">/</span>highlight <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>H <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>W <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>J <span style="color:#619de7">85</span> <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>l <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>f <span style="color:#ff00ff">--</span>enclose<span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>pre \<br/><span style="color:#888888"> 4 </span> <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>I <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>j <span style="color:#619de7">4</span> <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>t <span style="color:#619de7">2</span> <span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>S objc <span style="color:#ff00ff">--</span>inline<span style="color:#ff00ff">-</span>css <span style="color:#ff00ff">--</span>style darkness $<span style="color:#ff00ff">*</span><br/></pre><br/>and then pasting it into RapidWeaver. It seems to behave so far (although I'll probably end up trying to extend the Cocoa-specific recognition before long).</p><p>So now, I'm blogging. We'll see how long it lasts.</p>
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