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Anonymous — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:40:34 -0000

Zoe, all of your links to Happy's Place need to go to thehappyhospitalist.blogspo...

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Zoe — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:43:15 -0000

OK, Happy, I am just an ignorant reader. I obediantly changed you in "my favorites" to your new link I didn't do anything to my RSS feed that links you to my iGoogle reader. Now what do I have to change back to make everything good again?? I sympathize with your technical problems, and trying to be a concientious reader.

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Anonymous — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:08:03 -0000

If cheap shots and acting like a spiteful old hag are funny, then I'm lost on it.

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Anonymous — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:22:06 -0000

Cynic, you should have said "because ignorance is bliss" ... another fan of cheap entertainment BTW.
-Second career nursing student

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cynic — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00:51 -0000

Ignorance, really ? I do not take myself that seriously.

I think it's hilarious. This is cheap entertainment.

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Anonymous — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:14:48 -0000

cynic, why would you want to be a part of that ignorance?

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cynic — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:07:32 -0000

I smile every time Dino posts...

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Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:30:24 -0000

Dinosaur isn't kidding. This is her opportunity to be an anonymous bully, and she take every chance she gets. I hope it's all internet persona, as I can't imagine any person actually having such a grating personality in real life, much less somebody that deals with people on a daily basis.

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The Happy Hospitalist — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:18:07 -0000

I switched back to my original URL. We'll see what happens.

Thanks for the excellent discussion and assistance.

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Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:43:05 -0000

"You speak of things as if you know them without realizing how ignorant you really are. That is so much dumber than admitting that you don't know something" (Anon 6:42)

Words of true wisdom for all.
-Second career nursing student

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Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:42:03 -0000

Wow, Dinosaur, that was harsh. But your comment shows that you know nothing about that which you speak. Let us hope that you are a better doctor than your knowledge of technical things would suggest. Dr. Happy admits he needs help with some technical aspects of his website. You speak of things as if you know them without realizing how ignorant you really are. That is so much dumber than admitting that you don't know something.

If you're kidding, then so am I. (Sometimes people try to "take back" their bad behavior by claiming they were kidding. I'm pre-empting you.)

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#1 Dinosaur — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:38:54 -0000

What it really means is that you're about as successful at your second career (blogging) as you are at your first. (ie: initially satisfactory, possibly even almost "good", but dropping like a stone as your overconfidence catches up with you.) Which, given what we've seen of your doctoring ability, is actually pretty understandable.

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Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:33:09 -0000

140? Where did you find that?
http://alexa.com/(yoursite). I note that women like you better than men do. (See the demographics tab.) And people with graduate degrees like you better than people with less education. And that the search phrase "happy hospitalist" drives traffic to Nurse K's website. Interesting. Perhaps she gets a lot of visitors to her site because of you, Dr. Happy, rather than her entertaining writing. You, on the other hand, get lots of visitors looking for ways to make meth. Ha!

And what does that mean. I know I've had far more than 140 inbound links in aggregate over the last 1 1/2 years
It supposedly means the numbers of sites that link to yours. If a site has multiple links to your site, it counts as only 1. Could that explain why you've seen more inbound links than 140?

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The Happy Hospitalist — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:52:17 -0000

I did read the article anon. I think I am coming to the conclusion that I should cancel my new link and go back to the old one. By the way I guess I missed the part that could tell how many in bound links I have. 140? Where did you find that? And what does that mean. I know I've had far more than 140 inbound links in aggregate over the last 1 1/2 years

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Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:30:28 -0000

Did you read the article?You have correctly identified the choices. It really is mostly about the links. I'm afraid I don't know whether it is better to drop the new link or try to get the new one linked by others. You have 140 inbound links. That's almost twice as many as Nurse K would have to get changed.

Some of us managed to pull up Dr. Whitecoat's website to the first page on searches for "Deborah Peel" just by (repeatedly) searching for DP and clicking on his page and none other. I don't know if that would help for the main URL or not.

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The Happy Hospitalist — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:02:08 -0000

anon 853. my point was that blogger, owned by google, offers bloggers the ability to redirect their content from the free xxx.blogspot.com to a xxx.com website domain that the blogger can purchase through google as the intermediary.

So I took google/blogger up on their offer. I purchased my new domain and clicked a little check box to have the blogger program redirect all my traffic from the old URL to the new one.

To me, that makes both link equivalent as one substitutes for the other. You're saying it isn't. I understand that. Which to me doesn't make any sense. But it is what it is.

So how do I fix it?

Do I cancel my new link and go back to use the old free one? Or is there another way to make 1 1/2 years of links in and out of Happy Hospitalist not go to waste on the search engine rankings.

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Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:53:29 -0000

Dr. Happy, it's not about which server it's on. The entire issue is about the URL. You have a new URL. The new URL is not popular because you don't have many inbound links to the new URL, among other issues. (Read the link in the 8:01 comment.)

Contacting everyone who as ever linked to me and having them change their link? That seems unreasonable.It is unreasonable, but cancer is also unreasonable. You don't get to change the game, you can only control how you play the game.

Certainly Google has a better answer, since it's their technology that is redirecting folks to the new URL.That is not a better answer, because it is not an answer at all. You are confusing two entirely different things. The two are so different they are not even the same species. The first issue is the physical location of your writings. That is the issue you are talking about when you say "Google has a better answer." That is totally irrelevant to your page rank. Being able to find your new page from the old one does not affect your page rank. Wish it did, but again, that is not a part of the game.

The second issue is the URL. You had URL-A, and now you have URL-B. That is the identity. That is what is making your page rank so poor. You are not known by that name yet.

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Nurse K — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:45:26 -0000

Anon--I'm normally like #80 or so on that list (usually the 2nd highest nurse), but it's buggy of course like any other "rank me" programs. All it does is say who has the most links which isn't a judge of anything really. I have way more readers than Happy, however, which is what advertisers really care about. I've never had a potential advertiser ask me how many links I have, only the amount of traffic.

I, however, think it's way more interesting to entertain people than put up assloads of ads that bog down your website.

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The Happy Hospitalist — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:36:17 -0000

I didn't move anything to a new server. blogger is still the host. All they did was rediret the traffic from my original link to the new one.

Now. If you try and click on the old link, it automatically sends you to the new one without doing anything.

Contacting everyone who as ever linked to me and having them change their link? That seems unreasonable. Certainly Google has a better answer, since it's their technology that is redirecting folks to the new URL.

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Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:01:08 -0000

Nurse K, I note that you are not even in the top 200 health blogs, so perhaps Dr. Happy has more expertise on the subject.

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Nurse K — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:23:37 -0000

Decrease the quantity of posts and aim for quality---see your readership increase and your page rank w/it. You really only need to write one really good post per day for this to happen. Google is biased towards blogs because they are updated frequently (ie are "current").

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Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:00:54 -0000

Oh, yeah, another thing. Put a link on your old blog (like you do for other bloggers) to *this* blog. May as well get whatever goodies you can from the work you built.

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Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:56:44 -0000

I am not an expert. That doesn't make me feel less qualified to comment, however. ;)

Your older URL is in the top 100 health blogs:
http://www.edrugsearch.com/edsblog/healthcare100/You might look at the FAQ, the Add Your Blog, and Learn the Algorithm at that site.

Also, I suggest you take a look at that page, and ask each medical blogger individually who has linked to your old blog to update their links. But before you ask someone, make sure your link to their page is up-to-date. For example, Dr. Whitecoat is in the same situation as you are. If you are linked to him, make sure your link to him is his new blog.

I would ask people like Dr. Whitecoat who are still higher on their old blogs to change that link, too, and suggest you do them the same favor.