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Thursday, 17 April 2025

TRYING TO BE POPULAR

BACK IN THE OLD DAYS I USED PAWN TAGS

My first Blogger SIFT blog that I set up in 2007 and stopped updating in 2015 is still online here


Apart from being purple, this blog is very similar to that first SIFT Blogger Blog, except it's missing two of the original features - there is no "HOT RETRO BIKER CHICK" picture (I have no idea where that picture originally came from), and there are also no massive lists of pawn search tagwords.

The big collections of tag words were in the footer. They were popular searches of their time, with lots of misspellings of Britteny Speers (over 600 of them!) and lots of other celebs who were engaged in scandals around 2007, but those tags all look pretty deranged now.

 

I would have done a post with a copy of the list here, just in case they still work as a hit magnet, but I tried doing that and the post was immediately blocked. It seems Goosle has much more stringent AI censorship now. If you would like to view the original list it can be seen HERE on my WordPress.org blog, and it still remains there uncensored in the footer of my original Blogger blog.


If I can't get away with using pawn tags any more I'll try this tactic instead. Apparently having lots of posts, at least one every day - gets a Blogger blog boosted up higher in some algorithm or other. 


I don't understand how this works, so I'm going to try an experiment - I'm going to try posting more frequently, more than once a day, and see what happens. What I expect to happen is for the hits to go up for a while, but then for some libturd gimp or bot to complain, and for the hits to then go down again.




So I'm going to try it and see what happens!