10.02.08

Inaugural Post

Posted in General at 12:13 pm by Chief Bottle Washer

Hello, and welcome to the ‘Sort My List‘ blog.

To be frank, (and we’re always frank), we had no intention of doing a blog.  Why would our users care about the trials and tribulations of keeping the site up?   Do I read the Google blog, the Yahoo blog, the Zillow blog, or the Ice Cream Eaters Anonymous blog?  No I do not!  I just use the sites and happily go about my merry way.

But, alas, we find that we are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the world of blogging about our site.  Why, you ask yourself?  I blame Google.  No, really, it’s their fault.  We have recently noticed that the people who are looking for us on Google are needing to look on deeper and deeper pages to find us.  Since we once enjoyed “Page 1″ status, this is a source of frustration for us.  “What’s gone wrong?”, we mutter despairingly  into our beers..

Well, it is the opinion of many, that Google judges a site that changes often, such as a blog about what a 13 year old wants for Christmas, higher than a site that doesn’t change often, such as a data sorting and parsing web application used by thousands.  Since our phone calls to Google to have them change their algorithm in our behalf have, to be honest, met with a certain amount of “I’m sorry, who are you again?”, we’ve decided that if you can’t beat them, join them.

So, ‘Sort My List’ users, here is what we’d like for Christmas, this year.

• A condo on “The World”, so we can travel the world, work and raise our kids.
• A case of Madiera Wine.

So, that’s why we’re doing this.  We’ll probably post some more site related things to the blog as well, and perhaps you, our users, will be able to use the blog to tell us what features you want added and/or changed.

Thanks for your interest, and thanks very much for using ‘Sort My List’!

Chief Bottle Washer,

Tom

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