care and feeding of your aspie

Post Reply New Topic

I can see you've been working hard, and it's MUCH easier to navigate than before!

I also appreciate the different background; this isn't as pretty as the other, but I find it easier to read.

I've made it thru' #7.

You are very welcome... After the data migration, there was 18 hours of work to configure the site and make it pretty... and then 72 hours total spent on functionality.

The original blog still exists, but all of the care and feeding issues have been moved, and there are track back links and everything...

Erm.
There is no non-organic seo these days.
Google blocked & penalized all the remaining brute force & black hat techniques by the end of 2012.
Moreover, what exactly do you mean by 'organically'?
In the the context of seo & sem 'organic' results are the white (non-sponsored) results on the search engine pages.
If you're driving a lot of traffic 'organically', in this context it would mean that you're coming up high enough on peoples' search results for the relevant keywords, which is, of course, directly influenced by & the whole point of seo.
Unless you mean it in some other sense, as in you're driving traffic through banner ads, or links from friendly sites & blogs rather than through the search engines?

These days content is king, and although there are a few tricks to doing seo properly, they mainly just involve setting all the descriptions & titles properly, cross linking page text internally, speeding up your page load times as much as possible, paying attention to keyword density & contextual relevence, setting up your robots.txt & sitemap.xml files properly, maintaining a Google analytics account for the site & responding promptly to any alerts, and if you're really looking to get ahead: schema or microdata.
There really are no less 'legit' ways to do seo currently.
There's just things which work and things which don't.
Google pretty much leveled the playing field in that last big algorithm update.
Personally, I like it better this way since it means that it's about building & maintaining the site correctly rather than doing all those directory listings and link building campaigns like people used to.

They're your sites & if you're happy with your SERPs & traffic as is, that's wonderful.
No need to make drastic changes if things are alright as they are for you for now, I suppose.

It's all about content in this instance. I am building a brand, and the content continues a steady climb in traffic. Honestly, if we optimized everything and made it blow up... I would... be overwhelmed. I have a lot on my plate with the editing of my novels, the audio play for the first one, my film making, my photography and helping a couple other writers get their stuff formatted... that I can't always get to the blog... As such... I would feel guilty if it blew up and wold start turning more work for it, but I think the quality would suffer for that pressure.

Well, I mean, that's the thing.
I wasn't suggesting doing that for the blog, just the business sites.
Blogs don't necessarily need heavy seo since they generally attract readship based on merit, word of mouth, and re-postings rather than search engine results.
Frankly, my main concern, seo-wise is for the main site since it's the root domain & will take all the hits for the irrelevence & non-connectedness of the other two sites in terms of its rankings.

The other two sites can't actually be effectively seo'd without literally competing with both each other & the main site since they're all on the same domain & Google associates keyword search rankings based on domain & the relevance of the keyword to the domain as a whole, just as the main site can't be seo'd without competing with them.

Anyhow, if you do ever intend to seo the main site heavily, so long as you didn't care at all about the other two sites' appearing on searches at all, you could simply disallow the subdirectories in your main site's robots.txt file, which would prevent the crawlers & bots from seeing them, thus preventing any interference.
Otherwise, if I were you and that time came I'd seriously consider subdomains or getting them their own domains as the best options for preventing them from interfering with the main site's seo.

One more thing to consider, and then I swear I'm all out of arguments (about this at least ):
Google remembers. That is to say, the longer things are a certain way, if it has a negative effect on your main site's rankings, the longer it will take for that to turn around once you fix it if it ever becomes necessary and/or desirable to do so, plus the more redirects you'll have to do at the time to prevent a massive loss of traffic to the other two sites.

That's it, that's all I've got.
I'm off for the evening.
Sleep well.

Ah... Well... I don't need those sites to be high on the end... they are there to provide information to whomever I point at them. I wouldn't even have the studio site, save for the fact that IMDB won't work with us... same for investors.

Meh. Still can't sleep.

Makes sense.

I'm guessing you want IMDB to list your movies & such, but it's hard to tell from that sentence exactly.
Just for kicks, I took a look and apparently it's possible (though not necessarily advisible) to access their database of movie info programatically from a remote location.
Interesting to know, if nothing else.

http://oracleofbacon.org/ does exactly that

>>>Part 62<<< - A bit more on special interests

>>>[b]Part 63[/b]<<< - The doomed land of Aspergia

Is there a section of "care and feeding" which focuses on change within the workplace?

I ask because I have a coworker who is definitely on the spectrum, but has never been diagnosed or referred for screening. (Apparently, his grandparents--who adopted him as a small child--thought they could just beat it out of him with a hickory switch.)

He was one of three staff members who were assigned to different workstations this past week. The last time he shifted workstations, which occurred nearly 2 years ago, he seemed okay with that change yet became very intolerant of any change whatsoever in nearly all other aspects of the job. Because I bore the brunt of that experience, which became a yearlong ordeal for me, and due to my own increased awareness, it's very important to me to do what I can to help make sure he remains as comfortable as possible despite the move.

Right now, he is not.

His new work space is so cramped, the door cannot be opened while he is seated at his desk. His desk is opposite to what's a best fit for that space. The desk cannot be re-assembled into a left-hand hutch and right-hand desk, nor can it be relocated within the space. The design of the desk and the layout of the space permit neither, and the other occupant of that room will not consent to have the room divider relocated 6" to 1' to the west (which would address the door issue).

The combination of the desk being "backward" to the space and the location of the electrical outlets within the room means that the equipment he uses most often must be placed so that it is not accessed with his dominant hand. PITA. He's reluctant to request longer monitor cables, which would address that, because most people would perceive the issue as petty.

Helping make sure he's comfortable is a hybrid between:
a) encouraging him to feel empowered to request for himself the changes he needs, rather than "making do" with something which is actually a collection of slow-burning triggers;
b) "brainstorming" with him, which helps him choose his battles wisely and/or follow his "rabbit trails" to their conclusions; and
c) being that other person who weighs in with "you know, he's actually got a point."

It doesn't include speaking on his behalf or fixing things for him. He's a grown-ass man from North Carolina--he can take care of himself!--I'm just one of the few people at work who sees it that way.

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

I will give that some thought... I have touched on some of it, but not in a comprehensive manner...

The issue that he will have, at this juncture, is that without a diagnosis, under the ADA, he has no recourse. To get accommodations for any condition, it has to be diagnosed...

I think reframing the issues might help.

The door is an egress/fire safety issue.

The desk configuration is an OSHA health and safety issue due to repetitive motion injuries, which can be addressed by purchasing longer cables as that would permit the equipment on the desk to be reconfigured in a manner which avoids those repetitive motions.

Longer cables could also be a fire/electrical safety issue, as it is unsafe to stretch/pinch or "daisy chain" cables.

I want to be an informed friend and coworker as he navigates the 1001 other changes for which no one could reasonably be expected to "control" when changing workstations. Even though it's a good change overall, it's still a change.

If you've more thoughts on the matter, they'd be appreciated.

Thanks!

Well... This begs the question... Does he see the need for these changes in the work place?

And I am thinking... but slowly... BUSY week and weekend... and it's only 2/3 over.

>>>Part 64<<< - Aspies and Religion

It makes me feel so loved ❤️