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And this one is from my "accessories" page.

Lithium ion battery (NP-50): Obviously, the camera does come with one, but it might be handy to have an extra one in your pocket if you decide to go camera crazy while on vacation. f50fd battery

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This blurb is from my "overview page".

Where to start? Well, I guess with, I'm a bit jealous. Even though it's just a fact of life you have to deal with when getting anything electronic, the F50fd does seem a lot better than my F10 and well, boo. The FinePix F50fd is the latest installment to the already fantastic F series of compact digital cameras from Fujifilm. As I said, I own a FinePix F10 (6.3MP, 5th generation SuperCCDHR, 1600 max ISO) with roughly 7,000 images taken so far and I still love it. Even ~3 years later, it’s still a great camera and I wouldn’t have any qualms about pitting it against any of today's compact digitals (although after ~7k images, I have noticed that the battery is just now showing signs of not holding a charge as well as it used to). f50 12

Been a while

So after about 50 gazillion redoes of my finepix site, I think I have the basic structure figured out. Problem now is I need to see how "the man" (google) is going to like it. The spiders haven't come around very often and as it stands only 2 pages have been indexed (that's partly my fault, of the 10 links that were in the xml sitemap I submitted, 8 were bad... ok, so maybe it was all my fault.) Anywho, even though I believe I said somewhere in an earlier post that I wasn't going to post stuff from my site here (to get the spiders to pay attention) I'm going to do it anyway. Just until my stuff gets indexed. At some point I'm going to make a more lengthy and worthwhile post about the workings of the site (perhaps with some of the PHP code I've struggled to write), but for now I'm just going to focus of getting stuff indexed. later foo.

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Yet another update.

So what to say this time. Well, google finally got around to updating its index showing the new site. Unfortunately, my index and sitemap.xml pages are the only ones showing and the rest are in the "more results from...". Bah! At least they are all indexed this time so I don't really care too much about that. Another thing also got fixed. For a while there this blog was actually ranking higher than the site I am working on! Argh. But like I said, it's fixed now. I have really been slacking off on the social bookmarking thing however. I'm on simpy, startaid, and somewhere else (can't remember, like I said - slacking). On the plus side, I've gotten pretty far in a PHP book I've been reading. Oh, and since google seems to like .pdf files, I've made .pdf copies of all my pages and stuck them in the main directory (with links). I didn't add them to the sitemap yet cuz I want to see if google will find them on its own. I've also run across powerpoint slides on the net as well, so just to see what would happen, I made copies of my pages in the .ppt format as well, couldn't hurt. What is the point? Well, hopefully with the mixed media, google might think my site is more relevant on its own and give it a higher ranking. According to google's webmasters panel, I think I'm only ranking for a misspelling of fujifilm (fujfilm I think). What? How could it think that when I don't have any misspellings in any of my pages? I'm either going to have to break down and do much more bookmarking, spam the comment section of this blog (since it's already ranking), or start another blog and just spam the heck out of that. I really don't want to do that, however. I'm trying to be a smarter blackhatter and splogging seems so passe' and quite pedestrian. Maybe I should mosey on over to the "buy viagra" crowd and see what they are doing. I'll get it someday. I will, however, leave a link to my .html sitemap here, fujifilm f50fd.

Alright, Alright, Fiiine! I'll make the changes.

Ok, so after much debate with myself (I do that a lot), I was able to wear myself down and convince myself to redo the whole site (all four pages of it). Before, the site was made of a mixture of tables (HTML) and CSS and all of the pages were in the same directory. The result was a site that was tedious to make changes to (because if I wanted to make a structural change I had to do it to all four pages) and a site were only the .xml sitemap and main page showed in the search engine results page (SERP) of google. The other pages were glaumed into the "similar pages" of the SERP, boo. So I made two big changes. 1) I moved the entire look and structure over to a single .css page (so now a change to a single file has a site-wide impact) and 2) I moved each page to its own directory. Hopefully the separate directory thingy will convince google etc. to include all pages in the index. I'm also working through some reading material so hopefully I can learn PHP before the sun explodes. One potential drawback is that the free site that I'm using (awardspace.com) doesn't appear to have the cURL library for PHP installed. If you don't know, that's a library that allows you to emulate a web browser which allows you to do nifty things like automate the process of making e-mail accounts, creating accounts and posting on social bookmarking sites, and making the all mighty webbots. I'm interested in the ones that will go through a proxy server (masking its origins), enter search terms I'm targeting into search engines, and then visit my site through the results page (hopefully convincing the search engines that my site deserves a higher ranking). That, social bookmarking, and some other tricks (which I will be learning) I think will do the trick. Buuut, by the time I get all that stuff going, probably no one will care about the fujifilm finepix f50fd. My immediate goal, however, is trying to convince google to visit my site a lot more often than it does (which at the moment is around every 8-10 days). What is annoying is that my non-SEO blog deadgrasshopper.wordpress.com will get things indexed in a matter of hours. Understandable since it is wordpress's site, but still annoying.

OK, so a change to the blog

So as you can see, I've removed the scraped stuff from this blog. It didn't look very good and I wasn't doing anywhere near enough to have any impact with the ole search engines. So nothin' but blackhat adventures here. Weeell, maybe I'll keep leaving links to my grand experiment site in each of the posts. Finepix f50fd!