hey little bat!

As I posted last week, I am currently working on optimizing this blog. In doing so, I came across something that I am now completely fascinated with (and mostly because of its name and how I imagine it to look in my head): the Googlebot. (I think I imagine it to be something like the little obsessive-compulsive robot M-O that cleans things in WALL-E.) So there's not actually a Googlebot - it's Google's search bot - or spider - software that searches the web and indexes the information it finds in the Google search engine. Here are some of the things the Googlebot likes: Relevant and descriptive titles (blog title bar, blog post titles, titles in the permalinks)* Relevant and descriptive labels (categories, tags) Relevant and descriptive anchor text You updating your blog often! Anyway, these are some of the things I'm implementing in an effort to be kind to the Googlebots, so, again, please bear with me while I'm changing some things around (like titles, labels, a...

Please note that I will be shuffling some things around because I am currently doing some site optimization. This will involve reworking some of the posts already up and hopefully adding more posts regularly, especially those bat- and Costa Rica-related. (My husband and I visited Costa Rica a second time over the holidays!) One reader commented about the blog's colors and fonts, saying it was kinda hard to read. I don't have a problem with it (but different monitors display things so differently) and no one else has commented on this; but if it is a problem, I don't want to turn people away with my color and font selections. So let me know.

I am proud to call this my first official outside -oriented blog. And this is my first official blog posting. Nature, wildlife, travel, camping, bats - I'm very excited to be able to share these things that I love! I envision hey little bat! as a journal of outdoor activities in and around Houston, in Texas, and in faraway places that my husband and I are fortunate enough to visit, as well as a chronicle of thoughts on these subjects. Retrospectively, I plan to "digitize" the travel journal that I kept of our amazing trip to Costa Rica last year, as well as write about some of our wonderful camping experiences in Big Bend National Park. Let's see what unfolds... Through all of this I hope to encourage people to enjoy and respect nature and animals, to travel and go camping, and to provide some practical information and advice about some of the places I've been. Finally, I hope to give people an appreciation of my favorite animal, the bat.