My pain as a poker blogger

Turns out this isn't going to be as easy as i thought it would be.

I have all the old articles from Texas Holdem Australia (almost 200 of them). I thought I would just go on a 'cut and paste' rampage, add an article a day then, 'hey presto' a new blog!

I've run into two problems with my plan for world domination

• "Did I write that?" syndrome, and
  

• Keyword Usage 101

The first problem, "did I write that?" syndrome, is what happens when I re-read my old poker articles that I wrote at the start of my time as a player.

Not only is there poor grammar and spelling (no promises I can fix all that), there is some fairly poor advice here and there.

The result is that I am spending about as much time on polishing old material as it took to write in the first place.

The second problem is keyword Usage 101. Having been around the web a fair bit over the last couple of years, I now know much more about the use of keywords to help people find my blog.

For example, my article on "texas holdem blinds" used to be called "beer and blinds". That wasn't a problem for people who were already reading my blog, but when some guy in South Africa wants simple advice on setting up a blind structure for a home poker tourney, he wouldn't likely be putting "beer and blinds" into google would he?

So the article itself remains mostly unchanged from the original, but the title is changed and the likely search term has been added in the correct quantities to help google, myself and the web-surfers all get what we want- a good article on poker blinds.

With both of these challenges ahead of me, this blog project is going to take a little longer to build up than i expected.

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