The Penny Drops.....Well, Sometimes

I often amaze myself at how untechnical I am. It's not for want of trying; more for lack of time, patience and a rather dramatic habit of lowering my forehead onto the keyboard when things get a little too, well, technical.

A few months ago, I started to "follow" as many of the blogs I read as possible. I should really display them on my blog sidebar but I haven't figured that one out yet. It even took me a while to learn how to follow blogs that aren't Blogger blogs. They don't always have that easy "follow me" widget you see. (You'll notice I have however, managed to display all the lovely readers who follow me. Mwa ha ha. - Actually, Blogger makes that very easy.)

Anyways, at CyberMummy, I decided I was going to educate myself a bit, so attended the presentation about SEOs. (That's Search Engine Optimization, for anyone even more useless than me.) Unfortunately, the presentation assumed a little more knowledge that I possessed, and despite leaning over and trying to copy Lulu's notes, (she was as clueless as me), I'm not sure it sank in. Perhaps Lulu and I should merge our notes and see if any of it made sense.

You'll be happy to know that I made one amazing breakthrough this past weekend. I found, and saw the point of, Google reader. I'd heard of it before, and even heard other bloggers raving about how easy it made it to follow all the blogs.  "Well, I can see all the blogs I follow in my Blogger Dashboard, how can it be easier than that?" had been my opinion.

Ah but it is. In the Blogger Dashboard you can only see a few lines, and you have to do a few clicky things to read more. With Google Reader, you can read the entire post right there on your screen without having to lift a finger. Fabulous. If you have a Google account, it's all there for you. Go. Have a look.

Full disclosure, lest you're impressed at my efforts this weekend, - my real mission was Google Analytics, and it was an epic fail.  I got the code thing I'm supposed to copy and paste, but where? And how?  It says "On each page" but I gave up in the end.

See, I told you.

And I've also managed to separate my "followers" into "friends", of which I only seem to have 5. Not sure how I did that or why they are friends and others or not, especially when I wasn't even participating.
Oh and...I started following myself.
Sigh....

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