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March 2011

Forgiveness: What It Is and How To Do It

Scott Magdalein posted an excellent but short post about forgiveness

Forgiveness is a very misunderstood concept these days. We are often more concerned with the persuit of justice (something Jesus and Paul clearly told us not to do) when wronged, that we forget the obligation to forgive.

Please read Scott's post Forgiveness.

Post Page Views Higher With Shorter Main Page Excerpts?

It may not be the case, but it seems that page views on individual blog posts are higher when I make a shorter excerpt before the "read more" break.

At first, I thought "that makes sense, a short excerpt would mean that the reader needs to click through to the full post to read it."

Then I realized that this can't be the reason why, because the only promotion I ever do is autopost to twitter and facebook, and those links are always to the post page, not the main blog page. Is Posterous' S.E.O. that good?

I guess I need to get Google analytics.

You May Not Want to Auto Post to Another Blog With Posterous

A note about the dangers of auto posting to other blogs with Posterous.
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The folks at Posterous have enticed many people to start using their service by claiming that it is super simple to post your content to your blog and post to any or all of the following:

Facebook (Profiles and Pages), Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Plurk, Identica, Blogger, Tumblr, Livejournal, Shopify, Typepad, Xanga, WordPress (XML-RPC must be enabled), MoveableType, Drupal, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, Blip.tv, Scribd, and Delicious. (taken directly from Posterous’ web site)

It is true that you can do all of this, but what they are not saying is that if you use Posterous to post to another blog, and you want the other blog to be the official source of of the information in Google search results, you will run into problems. Google has made changes to their search indexing algorithm, called “the Panda Update.” They are penalizing sites that post information that is duplicated elsewhere, and are favoring (rightfully so) the original content.

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