First off, a huge thank you to all the subscribers and the more than 2,000 visitors to Cipher Mysteries. Adding in the roughly 8,100 visitors to my old Voynich News site, traffic has now broken through the 10,000 visitor mark – next stop 100,000.
This is despite the new site’s PageRank still floundering at a lowly PR2: search engine makes up only 20% of hits. Despite a brief period when it was 90th or so for Google searches for “Voynich”, it has since sunk back down to around 110+ (bah!). If I was paranoid, I would ask (having just moved from Blogger) “is it coz I is WordPress?” – but, more realistically, it’s probably because I haven’t fully engaged with the world of tweaks and pain associated with what is now known as “PageRank Sculpting”. If you use WordPress, there’s a good guide to PageRank Sculpting here.
This is a side of blogging nobody tells you about: while anyone can put up a blog in minutes, it can take months to engineer it to the point that search engines will link to it. Oh well!