Comments on: Federal Armed Forces Depot Pfeddersheim (Bundeswehr-Depot Pfeddersheim)

By: Florian

Florian — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:18:57 +0000

Since the Bundeswehr isn’t allow to bomb things or shoot people I guess they put all their energy into keeping the places they stay neat.
The places I explored in Germany were all in pretty good shape. I think there are way more arsonists in Japan than in Germany…

By: Brandon Gay

Brandon Gay — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:14:02 +0000

What is so striking about this one to me is just how “clean” everything looks. I mean of course there is the obvious decay over time that comes with it being abandoned for so long, but the areas look like they were spotless when they left the place.

Or perhaps people that explore it always bring brooms and mops with them

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:36:05 +0000

Thanks a lot for the explanation! I seriously had no clue about the whole topic – this really started out as just another WordPress blog and it took me a year to switch to another skin or theme or whatever they are called here. Still don’t know what a widget is and what it does. I didn’t even read many blogs before I started this one, my first one. Never had a homepage, not even a Myspace account. Twitter and Facebook I set up because people seem to like it – the reason I didn’t automatize the process is because I think if somebody takes the time to read my messages the least they can expect that I wrote them myself. My average monthly visitor numbers strongly depend on if I got lucky to get picked up by some of the sources I linked on the “About / Contact” page – but I don’t even have an account on any of those pages. I am happy about everybody who is interested in the topic and my articles, but this is basically still another WordPress blog.
You losing visitors might be seasonal – I think in winter less people are interested in an outdoor topic like this.

By: Meow • Japan & Urbex

Meow • Japan & Urbex — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:29:42 +0000

Yes, of course, I think sometimes we should put translations or synonyms, but maybe a bit more parsimoniously. It’s not about PR (this is something else, and probably not to be taken seriously anymore as there is not much correlation between PR and number of visitors now).

I’m not a SEO professional, but it seems you’ll get an advantage in the near future if Google “thinks” your page has “a nice smell” of quality. By checking the spelling, images, layout, loading speed… then the second one, harder, is to keep the visitors interested and eager to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or to subscribe to our RSS, but it’s harder… we really need to stand out at first sight (people are “so busy” nowadays ). I personally think I’m losing visitors because of my websites low-performance in term of speed and the worst is that I don’t really know what to do about it (maybe getting a more expensive hosting?). WordPress.com seems to really fast though!

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:28:38 +0000

I’m working on my what? I actually had to look up the term on Wikipedia. Had no clue what a PageRank was until I read about it over at Michael Gakuran’s page. Since you seem to be an expert on the topic: Any advice on SEO? (Don’t take it the wrong way, I’m just curious and willing to learn! )
Variety is the spice of life and blogs that only write a couple of lines about every location probably don’t really have to use synonyms… My articles became painfully long recently, so I might cut down on the text part in general.
It’s getting more complicated when the location you write about doesn’t correspond with the language you write in. E.g. look up Bundeswehr in a dictionary – there are several translations for the term. And this location (as many others) is known under several names for various reasons. Mentioning them goes both ways – it also enables people to find stuff on other blogs, like… uhm… Michael’s. Sure, I could stick with one (English) word for each term, but mentioning the local monikers add some flavor IMHO.

By: Meow • Japan & Urbex

Meow • Japan & Urbex — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:15:27 +0000

Thanks for the report I would just like to say something a bit negative though: you’re obviously actively working on your SEO really intensively but the amount of keywords / synonyms in all your recent articles are a bit overwhelming, and that makes the reading reallllyyyyy painful.

I would rather concentrate on the quality: more paragraphs, space, oxygen and less synonyms or redundant keywords. I feel like you’re trying to spam Google with keywords, but instead it’s the reader’s eyes which are spammed :p Don’t worry about that I want to say, Google is getting more clever everyday, your website will get the number of visitors he deserves. That’s what I believe. Quality will be rewarded better tomorrow (though it’s already quite working via social networks and visitors’ appreciations).

Don’t take it on the wrong way, I just want to be helpful