My next update

So all four of my pages are indexed at the moment. Buut, currently only one is actually being displayed (the part 2 page) the others have been omitted due to being "very similar". Clearly a demonstration that the googlebot isn't very intelligent. Each page is very different. I can only guess that it's saying that because the anchor text for the links is almost identical and the meta tag description is exactly the same. To try to fix this I've changed the meta tag stuff. I really don't want to change the links, mainly because I don't feel like having to go back and manually change the listings on all those social bookmarking sites. I actually made these changes a few days ago, but google hasn't updated anything. From looking at the webmaster site on my google account, I know that their bot revisited the site after I made the changes, but they aren't showing up in the main listing. I've either been "sandboxed" or I haven't done enough poking at google to convince it that it needs to pay attention. And as I've said before, it's a real drag doing this manually. I've been keeping up with the reading on various blackhat sites so I don't waste too much time doing things that don't matter. But lately, rather than being a motivating force, I find all that info being more of a discouragement. There is soooo much to learn it is easy to get overwhelmed and be paralyzed into inaction. Since I wasn't a computer science guy in college and my normal life has nothing to do with this kind of stuff aaand I'm looking at this as kind of a hobby, I find myself asking if all this effort is going to be worth it. At this point, I'm not even sure I know what the endgame is here. I don't know about you, but it's hard to keep at something if you can't see the point in it. But for now, the motivation is still there and I suppose if I do manage to get a decent ranking, get the site monetized and get some cash trickling in, that will keep my interest up.

I have decided to try a different strategy. Even though I should probably keep the scraped content on another blog rather than pollute this one, I'm not (combination of laziness and, again, doing all this manually). So to keep the garbage down, I think I'll post the junk I've scraped off my own site, leave it here for a few days and then delete it. That way I'll have at most maybe 5-7 posts of scraped stuff at any one time, but it'll just be new scrapings. I was considering not doing any more, seeing as how google (and apparently yahoo) have found the "money" site, but since it isn't getting updated in the index I'll have to keep doing it to try and get google to pay attention.

I've started trying to learn php (using the manual off of the php.net site) doesn't seem too bad. I think it'll just be a matter of working through it. Fortunately for blackhat, you don't have to learn everything about the language. But again, is this really worth it? Try looking at some of the stuffs real blackhatters are doing with PHP. Depressing. I don't think I'm ever going to get as good as these guys. And, of course, this is the problem. Blackhat pays off through sheer scale. Scale takes automation. Automation requires something like PHP. Again, is the effort going to be worth it? For now, I think so.