Dear Herculodge: What Gives with the “Repeat” Posts?

 

 

Dear Herculodge: 

I notice you’re posting repeats, old material that I saw a few months ago.  I have to confess that even though I don’t spend any money for going on your blog every day (you don’t have any premium subscriptions as far as I know), I do feel a bit cheated. What gives? 

Dear Reader: 

My humble blog does not have a search feature. Say for example someone wants to access my Panasonic RF-2200 SW radio review. They will have to dig for the post buried under hundreds of “Radio Lovers Can’t Be Cured Postings.” 

So what I do is look at the traffic, what readers are searching on various search engines, and popular inquiries get recycled every so often—for the readers’ convenience. 

Perhaps I will use a new host for my blog that has a search engine, but in doing so I may lose readership unless traffic is re-routed from the current blog to the new host blog. I will consider that, but for now my recycling remains—not for cheap re-hashed material—but so that the reader has easier access to my most-hit posts, “greatest hits,” if you will. 

Comments

[stetsi]

Yes, the lack of a search facility makes things difficult (though googling eg. radio model + herculodge usually works). If you have the time and inclination, please add any new thoughts/updates to the old reviews. I often like the "Update" additions. They kind of put things in context, and give the sense of ongoing radio-relationships.

[Jesse Menn]

I can probably host it if you don't mind the blow to your narcissism by having a jessemenn/herculodge/ or herculodge.jessemenn.com addy.

You're not paying for your hosting here, are you?

[jeffrey McMahon]

I pay 95 a year and make enough on ads to pay for it. I need to look and see if their "premium" version has a search function. If not, maybe I'll try the Jesse plan.

[Paul]

Google works just fine for searching. Do you know that your postings are almost *immediatley* indexed by Google? (I mean within 5-10 minutes).

Just try the "site" option in Google:

site:herculodge.typepad.com

[Jesse Menn]

Oh, I got most ads blocked so I never noticed you had them. My mistake.

[jeffrey McMahon]

Paul, thanks for the heads-up, especially for new readers who need to pinpoint radio reviews and the like.

Jesse, typepad as far as I can tell doesn't have a search feature, even for their business class subscriptions, but I could be wrong.

[S Patrick]

blogspot is a good blog that archives everything. You can use a simple meta tag to redirect those visiting this url to your new blog location.

I also block almost all ads via FireFox adblock so I've never noticed any ads here either.

[Ed]

And for what Jeff pays us, his site's contributors, ie, bupkis, you expect *new* material every day??