I should have posted about the Academy Awards

Sorry, once again, I have not posted in a while.

Yeah, I stayed up and watched the Academy Awards as did many of you. If you have a celebrity website, it only pays to make sure that you at least mentioned the awards - especially if you have any of the actors/actresses that were nominated (or won).

I was not thrilled with the winners. I saw "The Departed" and was not completely thrilled with it. It was not even Scorcese's best film - but he finally recieved his overdue award for Best Director. There was some very good acting by some great actors, but not Academy Award winning performances. Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren were excellent and well deserving choices. I did not see Little Miss Sunshine, so I cannot really comment on the supporting actor award, but I heard Alan Arkin was very good. However, Jennifer Hudson was not the best choice in her category. Not that the past American Idol contestant is a bad actress, but still not up-to-par with others in the category (but I guess the Association had to give "Dreamgirls" at least one of the major awards).

The award ceremony was not very exciting this year and could have been half as long.

Anyway, the reason why I have not been posting is because I have been spending so much time trying to work on issues with Google and the "950 Penalty." It comes, it goes, it comes, it goes. Now, besides the penalty, at least one of my pages - Jordan Pruitt at http://www.popstarsplus.com/music_jordanpruitt.htm has been pushed into the supplementals.

This blog had begun as a site to help other celebrity webowners with their own sites based on my sucesses. Next, it began to be my own personal complaint forum regarding how to get a site indexed. Then over the past two months, it has become a site about me complaining about Google changing their algo and killing me in the Serps (Search Engine Result Page). With a sided flavor of supplementals. Is there any rest for the weary? I just want to go back to creating a website that visitors will like. Instead, I have been spending half of my time worrying about SEO. Which, by the way, is exactly what the "officials" at Google say you should not do. If you create a good user freindly website with good content, you should be fine (they say). I did, now I am getting killed for it. Thank goodness I have a large number of returning visitors or else I would be sunk right now. My toal visitor ship is down by half of what it was in December. My numbers are almost going back to what they were a year ago.

What to do now?

Until next time . . . .
Ian Ripley