Some Problems Fixed

This allegedly easy upgrade to New Blogger is still a bit troublesome. Some of my posts look odd in Internet Explorer. I need to fool with my template. In the meantime, I've figured out (with a lot of help) the evil line of code that caused me to get dropped from Google, so that should be fixed.

Update: Martha post fixed. I also accidentally beheaded my blog (took the head out of the template) and then reattached it. The operation appears to have been successful, but we'll see.

For anyone else who has the joy of switching from old Blogger to new Blogger, make sure that you check out this link.

Thanks to several readers for their helpful input on (hopefully) resolving this problem.

Blogger Annoyances

Ever since I switched to the "new and improved" Blogger, my hits have been way down. This seems to be largely because this site no longer appears in results for Google searches nor in Google blog searches that used to garner me plenty of hits.

I even more greatly appreciate the links from various blogs lately, as they have been the only source of traffic for me outside of my regular readers.

Equally as annoying are the blogs that steal my content word for word and then repost it on their sites as if they wrote it. That is called plagiarism and I don't like it. Sarahparkin.com is a great example -- that site shows all of my posts as well as posts ripped from other blogs word for word without any credit being given to the authors. Even worse, sarahparkin.com now shows up in Google searches and my site does not. Figure that out.