Life is really tricky. Just when you think things are under control, along comes the trickiness. Maybe you have figured out how not to get junk mail on your computer, but I haven’t. But I have found the delete button. I probably get 40 to 50 junk emails a day. The Jockey Store sends me a sale notice everyday. Really, how much underwear can you own?
So when I bring up my emails, I go down the list: Groupon, Retail-Me-Not, tickets for the St. Louis Cardinals (even though I am in DC), GoDaddy, Double Take Offers, AAA and Dick’s Sporting Goods and many more. I generally don’t even look at them. With my finger on the delete button, I go ping, ping, ping, ping.
Well, life got tricky. Even though GoDaddy had sent me hundreds of sale notifications, this time, since the first of the year, they have been trying to notify me that all of my blogs were about to disappear. They were shutting down GoDaddy’s Quick Blogcast, which is the platform I use to support ricequips.com. On June 19, I was sitting in an outlet parking lot in Lancaster, PA, while Carole and our two grown daughters, Becky and Missy were shopping. I was deleting stuff from my IPhone. When I got to GoDaddy, the first two words got my attention. It said, “Important Notice.” That is how I found out that they were shutting me down on June 25!
I called GoDaddy on the 21st and they sold me a new platform (WordPress) for all my blogs. Then with the help of JW Kimbro, a GoDaddy consultant, we transferred all 244 existing blogs from Quick Blogcast to WordPress. If you are having difficulty understanding this, don’t feel bad. I have no idea what I am talking about. I am just repeating what they told me. However, if you are reading this, you can see the style is different and that is because it was published on WordPress. So there.
Now, my biggest problem is that Google can’t find me. If you go to Google and type in Schilling Manor, Ricequips will pop up on the first page. But, since switching to WordPress, when you click on the article, Google will tell you it is “Not Found.” And I thought Google was keeping track of all of us. I called GoDaddy to see if they could help me. After two lengthy pauses to get help, I was informed by the consultant that Google is a web crawler and it will eventually find me. I kept having flashbacks to the movie Matrix. But I am somewhat relieved. It just hasn’t happened yet. I hope the posting of this blog does the trick.
I don’t think you can call Google. They are too busy putting together a cute Google logo for the next day. But hopefully, when I post this blog on WordPress a light will come on at Google and Bing. Please keep your fingers crossed.
Written by PJ Rice at www.ricequips.com
Copyright 2014