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Timeout

Posted on July 21, 2007
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I would like to inform regular readers that I will be writing much less often from now on. The illness that kept me bound to the home has improved dramatically and I can now leave the house and face the world again. This means however that I will have less time to devote to the blog.

Over the next few weeks I will reorganize the main page to better cater to new readers that discover this site every day.

Thank you,
Brazzie

Uruguay Dreaming Update

Posted on June 28, 2007
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Three months ago, I wrote a Note to My Readers to offer some behind-the-scenes statistics about the site and its readers. Since the profile of readers has changed somewhat over the past three months, I thought it might be a good idea to provide you with an update.

First, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my blog; and my special thanks to all of you that contribute to the blog on a regular basis in the form of comments. Read more

Desperately Seeking Uruguay

Posted on May 18, 2007
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Have you noticed how hard it is to find information about Uruguay using search engines? It’s maddening! It has been said that searching for a piece of information contained somewhere in a US site is like trying to drink from a fire hose. If that’s the case, searching for information in Uruguayan sites is more like trying to drink from a clogged straw.

As you may know, Google uses the Page Rank (PR) algorithm to determine how “authoritative” or relevant a page is, based on how many pages link to it and how authoritative they are. If nobody links to a page, it will have a low PR. And in general, a page with a low PR will be displayed lower in the Google results list, although other factors are taken into consideration as well. Read more

FAQ Announcement

Posted on May 12, 2007
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Since I started this blog, many readers have written me personal notes on a variety of subjects. Many of these notes contained personal questions about this mysterious Brazzie character. As you may have noticed, I have tried to keep the focus of this blog away from my person so as not to get in the way of the main subject matter: Uruguay. In an effort to satisfy any curiosity you may have about the person behind this blog, I created an FAQ page (on the top right of the Uruguay Dreaming header) in which I answer a few personal questions in a more public way.

Note to My Readers

Posted on March 31, 2007
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First of all, thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings about Uruguay.

Although this blog is less than two months old, it has already attracted a lot of attention. Viewership has more than quadrupled in the last three weeks and has been increasing daily. This increase in traffic is partly due to having been “discovered” by Google and the Yahoo search engines. An increasing number of readers land here every day because of this and many of these readers visit 20 or more pages on their initial visit. On an average day, 80 distinct visits are made and five or more pages are viewed per visit. In the last two weeks alone there were 500 unique visitors. Of those, more than 200 have come back to the site or do so on a regular basis. Read more