Sunday, March 13, 2011

Atheist Vault still alive!

Although I have posted to this blog infrequently, the Atheist Vault site is still alive. I did take a break earlier this year while I had to concentrate on another project. My goal is still to get at least one new item up on Atheist Vault a day. Although, I really need to work out some kind of RSS feed so that people can follow it (rather than this blog).

There has been fewer and fewer worthy atheist related articles recently to link to. Some of the good authors have gone quiet, while most of the blogosphere continues to churn out the same ideas over and over.

My major problem is that google hates Atheist Vault. It's a combination of having few links to the site and that my site looks partly like a content farm. Well maybe it is a content farm. All I am doing is linking to articles, and sampling the text from the article as a teaser. In that sense, with no original content Atheist Vault actually fits the definition of a content farm quite neatly.

It's likely that I am going to have to write my own teaser for each article now. That's a little disappointing to me, simply because I am trying to link to articles without appearing to give it an editorial spin, or tell the reader whether they should agree or disagree, in part or in the entirety, with the article.