3 WAYS MISLABELED INFO TAGS THE WRITER

“This is This.” Deer Hunter. image via youtube.com

Or how mislabeled info mislabels you.

The first time a writer posts a piece online they create an identity.

Everything after adds to the evidence.

Boomerpdx runs over a thousand posts strong on topics divided by category buttons.

Inside each category, like an outline, posts ride on tags, key words, and seo magic.

With that body of work the evidence is in.

Over the years this blog has taken stands against societal ills imposed on the most vulnerable among us.

Along with posts about people screwing up on their own.

For that I don’t regret. What I do regret is being tagged on searches unconnected to my body of work.

Someone said they found boomepdx on one of their squirrely searches.

Got the details, explained the post, then asked about their search. Not that it matters. ‘Research.’

Unfortunately you can’t explain your tags to web cruising strangers and why you end up on their google searches.

It’s not an invitation you ask for.

This is the synopsis of the most hit posts on squirrely search showing up on Big Hitters.

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Time Magazine ran an adult topic as a cover story. It felt like a shocking threshold had been reached.

One of the side stories explained how the business ran in Portland. You know, the adult stuff.

So I bloggered the heck up, did enough research, and posted using the Time cover as my accredited image.

Done deal, except for the and search terms people use to find the post.

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If you’re doing it blogger correct, you get out of the house.

Powell’s Books is a piece of blogger heaven. So much more than getting out of the house, that place.

When traveling authors come through, I go see them, listen to them.

One night a crime writer read from his crime book. It was a crime stain book. Creepy.

So, again like a good blogger, I drove into the guts of the only city I’d ever trust to do this, I drove over the Burnside Bridge looking for signs of his crime book.

At night.

The anti-H post gets anti-search terms. So who’s the idiot?

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The moral I discovered is mislabeled info is better than no info.

At least with mislabeled info you’ve got a starting place. It might be a dung pile stinking to high heaven starting place, but you know where the line is.

Not everybody gives a hoot about mislabeled info since they’re not paying attention to begin with.

You listen to so much gas and waving around until it feels like a revival tent show, and that turns into the important part.

Your feelings. Those feelings. The important ones?

The ones that pop up after the distractions.

One of those is a despair for feelings, like they’ll matter less and less.

You’re up.