The BackWoods Drifter

I wanted to let my readers know of some decisions I have made. The first was to take the Bolt Mountain blog back out, dust it off and put it back in full operation. In making that decision I have also decided to keep the subject of mountaintop removal off the Bolt Mountain blog. I do have a page there with photos but I’m not going to talk about it there. As I said in a post on that blog, I have to have someplace to escape to sanity. I’ve also given the Bolt Mountain blog the tagline of The BackWoods Drifter to tie it together with this blog.

As far as this blog - I believe I have decided to flex my story telling muscles - what few of them there are. I can’t say the stories won’t be related to mountaintop removal as far as heritage and culture is concerned but I can say they will take a more indirect approach. As a resident hillbilly and a neighbor to the coal industry I see a lot missing from our culture today as compared to just 20 years ago. Plus I see all that we stand to lose. I’m going to tell you about it.

On another note - for those into SEO, the BWD Gallery hit a Google pagerank of 3 in it’s first indexing. I’m kind of curious why it ranked so high and being so young. But apparently Google loves photos. If I had to guess it would have something to do with all of the photos having titles, descriptions, and tags. I don’t know what the reason but it is obvious a photo gallery will get you on the good side of Google - in a hurry. So if you go there and like a photo or not - leave a comment. It’s so hard to get good interaction these days.