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For a while I had articles up and I was happy with them for a while, but then I wasn’t. I realized with the articles I was writing as if they were just factual and only news, but I didn’t want that, I wanted to have my opinion and my voice in there. I have absorbed the articles under blogs, so this way I can write and give an opinion and not feel guilty about it not being just the facts. All the articles still exist, they just changed to be under the blogs now.

I’ve missed writing and I want to write more. Just over the last few days, between the CNN+ and Playstation Plus blog posts, I’ve done more writing than I have in a while. For CNN+ I didn’t really get into much of an opinion and kept it pretty factual, but when it came to PS+ I went more in depth with a personal side of things. Expect to see more of that kind of thing on here. While articles were fun, they lacked me, a me that I feel I can put into blogs easier. I highly doubt I will be able to do a blog a day like I’ve been doing though, between work and creating other kinds of content, it doesn’t seem feasible, but if there’s something I want to give an opinion on or write about, it will most likely be put up.

Since I am a nerd and into technology, video games, 3d printing and other things like that, expect to see more writings about those kinds of things. Hopefully I can get to the point that I want to with this, but I am feeling reinvigorated now for some reason, so maybe the drive I have can keep me going.

I’ve been trying to get better SEO going on my site. When I added the games section I thought for sure it would be a big boost, but it seems that Google keeps finding and crawling the pages, but not actually indexing them. I’ve been in meetings with SEO companies and even though a lot of things were discussed through these months of meetings, crawling, but not indexing was never brought up. I have Yoast SEO installed and have been going through SEMRush, with no idea what is wrong. My best guess is that there’s a lot of thin content, meaning that the content that I have isn’t enough meat to it. Some of it is years old at this point though. The new stuff, though, that’s where my main concern is. Stuff like the games section, where I make the pictures and write the summaries and eventually will be including Youtube, clips, etc from my playthroughs itself. That is my biggest concern right now.

Over the next few weeks I will be going and modifying things and resubmitting URLs in the hope that I can bring the non-indexed pages down dramatically. It looks like when I tell Google to reconsider, they get indexed. That may seem like a pretty straightforward solution and it may very well be if it was a handful, but this is thousands of URLs. As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to submit them all for reconsideration, so doing it manually, piece by piece seems to be the only way to do it.

What this means going forward

With my focus more on SEO, you can expect more writings from me. I suppose with me writing the games stuff a lot lately, I’ve already been writing more. I am wanting to do more than just the games though, I want to do reviews and more articles and even more writing out things for TikTok and Youtube. I’ve been saying how if I am going to do reviews I need to at least finish up the games stuff, I’ve even held off starting new games and storylines until I can at least complete the Resident Evil Series, but my goal is to finish Revelations and Revelations 2 this weekend. I was planning on writing Revelations article tonight, however I started getting frustrated with the SEO stuff and seeing that it might be due to “thin content” so here we are. What does all this mean exactly? I am not entirely sure. If my brain allows (damn ADHD with executive dysfunction) it means that my content on here will be much fuller while also branching out and doing more elsewhere. If it doesn’t, well then nothing will change and it will be months or even years until my next update. Maybe I should just post this stuff on stream, do a whole writing stream, that would be different and possibly keep me focused. I’ve mainly just streamed playing games, but streaming writing about them, since I love writing, could be a whole new thing for me. It’s certainly something to ponder about.

How do you grade art? In high school essays and stuff has a way of being graded by spelling, grammar, sentence structure, but what if the structure was made in a way to convey a point, what if the poor spelling, run on sentences, etc were part of the art and imagery that the writer was trying to convey? How do you grade art?

Critics have a hard job. They have to review things and not care if they hurt the artist. The artist in turn has to understand that their art may just not be for that person. Look at the movie Venom, it was hated by critics, but loved by fans. Critics literally just tell people if you like the same things as me, you will either love it or hate it. It is a pretty odd profession if you think about it.

I find doing reviews extremely hard, which is probably why I haven’t put any up in a long time. I am planning on doing them, I just hate criticizing someone’s hard work. Yes Call of Duty is the same game released yearly, but it is a game that people love and that a team took years to make, so who am I to say whether it is a good game or not? What makes a game good? Is it fun had while playing? Story? Replayability? Least amount of bugs? All of the above? For me I want it to be all of the above and maybe more. When I start doing reviews again I will be posting videos and clips of me playing it, along with a scoring system and then a final score from that system.

Now to just figure out the scores and start writing reviews.

New logo, new theme, new categories (well missing ones since things seem to have broke at some point, probably when I moved to WordPress MU), and a new renewed agenda to start writing again.

I posted on Twitter that I was going to do reviews for games I stream calling it retro reviews and that is the plan. Before I did that though, I needed to get a new theme up with my new logo that Syx (tensyx.com) made for me. I also had to get rid of the premade theme that I had up for a little while now. My new logo is part of a brand for everything, starting with the site, continuing over to Twitch, etc. It is something that I have needed and been wanting for a while now and I am happy that it is all coming together finally.

Things are definitely going to be moving forward and I am going to be getting more and more into content creation in videos, streams, and writing, whereas the last few years I was only focused on streaming. I think I am in a spot mentally that I can start todo things a bit different. Lots of changes coming and it’s not a moment too soon.