A friend IMs me the other day to tell me that my site is being blocked by Google. He told me he searched for “daniel dessinger” and the search result for this website had a warning placed on it by Google saying, “This website may cause harm to your computer.”
Do what?
This is a blog. This has always only been a blog. I don’t add crazy stuff to it in hopes of spamming your computer. I don’t know why Google hates me. This has led me to one of two conclusions:
1. The last WordPress theme I used had some secret stuff hidden on it that I wasn’t aware of. That’s possible, I suppose, but I haven’t found said secrets yet.
2. Someone hates me and has submitted my URL to Google as a spammer. I hope this is not the case, if for no other reason than because Google obviously didn’t check my site before calling me dangerous. Then of course there’s the other side of it where I don’t want someone to dislike me enough to try to sabotage me.
If you have any ideas on why Google is warning the masses against me, please let me know. I’m hoping that the warning will be removed once Google crawls my site again and notices that the template has been changed.
Sigh.
Posted on: November 21st, 2007
I’ve heard that question asked a few times, and it deserves an answer. The truth is, I started off writing on just one blog for more than a year - CultureFeast.com - which to this day has yet to successfully find a niche and faithfully stick to it. I used CultureFeast as my everyday blog. It included my prose, introspective thoughts, and commentaries on pop culture, sports, local news, etc.
As I’ve developed my online marketing skills, I realized the obvious benefit of running niche blogs. You can build regular readership more easily that way, because your readers know what to expect. Once you establish that standard, you will build repeat readership.
I have many interests, so I began new blogs to cover specific topics. Some of my friends were visiting CultureFeast and were getting tired of reading about search marketing, so I realized that a search marketing blog was called for. Essentially, what I’ve done is taken a few of my favorite categories from CultureFeast and turned them into unique, individual blogs.
I am looking for some cool folks to jump in and contribute one blog a week so that my readers don’t have to wait on me to get back around to each site. Blogging daily on all my sites isn’t really an option, but I do the best I can. If you know someone who might like to show off their knowledge or writing style online once a week, hit me up. I’m really hoping to make more of those connections.
