Little Miss Wizard Mode Sat on a routing node She is a weblog today Along came a spider That crawled ’round inside her And referred some traffic her way

Wizard Mode is a real boy, now. Whale spit smells funny.

The Google Webmaster Tools confirms that it is not being spidered. It listed a historical robots.txt from before I acquired it (April ’09, roughly) that did not actually conform [...]]]> I have very recently purchased this domain name. It is not currently being spidered by Google (or anyone else, at the moment). This is suboptimal.

The Google Webmaster Tools confirms that it is not being spidered. It listed a historical robots.txt from before I acquired it (April ’09, roughly) that did not actually conform to robots.txt standards – it was a header of an HTML page, but unfortunately cut off before any actual content, so there was no way for me to see what it might have contained. (The correct one has now been picked up.)

The Internet Archive lists a previous page from June 9, ’08, but at this time gives a data retrieval failure when trying to pull it up. domaintools.com gives a (small) screenshot that suggests that it was a domain with an advertising squatter parked on it, though, so I can well understand why it might currently be blocked from various spiders. Another page links ‘here’ from nearly two years ago amongst many other random domain names with spammer-ish text in a fashion that suggests it was part of advertising spam.

The page is now my own personal blog.

Aside from posting (hopefully) interesting content in a (hopefully) consistent and (vaguely) semantic (parenthetical) fashion, I am not going to do anything to “optimize” my site. I certainly am not going to use it for spamming or ad squatting or illegal activities or advocating bellbottoms. I will be posting occasional Amazon affiliate links when appropriate (usually a book that I have personally read, enjoyed, and advocate, and only when it is apropos to the blog post in question), but that is not the primary purpose. They are clearly described as affiliate links on the About page, marked nofollow, and supplied with no incentive or enticement to click.

Perhaps one day soon this domain will be spidered again, and the sins I inherited will be forgiven.

(In the meantime, perhaps I should celebrate my privacy and anonymity?)