My secret blog
by Jacob on Oct.14, 2006, under Blogging
A few months ago there was a discussion on ProvoPulse.com about blogs and how they can be public and representative of their authors. I’ve given that discussion a fair amount of thought.
When I first started this blog, I really wasn’t sure about what I was doing. I still don’t. But as traffic to this website is anywhere from 200% to 400% of what it was a year ago, I’ve found that I need to keep many of my posts more professional because they increasingly represent who I am. Consider this excerpt from one of my very first posts:
Roommates are interesting. I’m not sure how much I trust them yet, which is kind of unusual, because I would like to think of myself as a trusting person. Yet there is something that just doesn’t feel right about one of them, and I just can’t quite ignore that feeling.
I don’t think I can really write such things anymore. I can’t talk trash any more. So along with my other efforts to diversify my blogs by audience, I’ve decided to create a new secret blog somewhere out there on that massively large world wide web, where I can post just about anything I want.
I know some of you will want to try and find my blog. Go ahead, it might be entertaining for you, but more likely it will just waste your time. But to give you a fighting chance, let me tell you about some of the details about the site that really aren’t going to help you find it at all:
- Between pink, blue, and green colors, I chose a theme with lime green and black and white and gray colors.
- I’m using Wordpress software to run the site
- I did not register a domain name for the site (at least not yet). I instead elected to use a subdomain name provided free from an independent web service provider.
- The software runs on the same server that runs most of my other blogs
- I have Google Ads on the site, and I actually hope that I might make money off of people clicking them. Of course, this means that I need people to come to the site, so I’ve made efforts to have the site fully indexed in Google and other blogging search engines.
- I’ve already made three posts to the secret blog in its first day.
- I intend to use code names for myself and in reference to other people
Well, that should be enough hits. If anyone other than Iacov finds it, I will be very impressed. My goal with secrecy is that I want many random Internetizens to find it randomly, but have no one I know actually ever come across it.
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October 14th, 2006 on 8:55 am
It should show up here eventually (I don’t think it was there yet):
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=ip:207.210.65.36
October 14th, 2006 on 12:52 pm
Shoot. That definately would make it too easy. I guess I should either decide to block search engines that can return content by IP address, or move that site to a different server.
October 16th, 2006 on 12:55 am
[...] How to promote a secret site October 16, 2006 at 12:55 am Last Friday, the thirteenth, I announced that I created a secret blog. I want it to be searchable from at least two major search engines, probably Google and Yahoo!, because I’m not such a fan of MSN or whatever they are calling it these days. I’ve created site maps and I’ve submitted them to both Google and Yahoo, and I see a little bit of downloading, but no results in their search indexes. I’ve used ping-o-matic to alert sites as to the existence of new posts, but I get very little response. [...]
October 16th, 2006 on 12:08 pm
Richard, I’ve taken the appropriate measures to make sure your method of finding the secret site will most likely not work.