Salutatory lessons in blogging #3 - why saving your blog posts is so important

There you are slaving your guts out on a post; it may not be your finest but as far as the gurus at Blogcamp are concerned, it fits the bill. All I have to do is save the post and all will be well. In fact it could not have gone m94more smoothly. The headline has all the right words and phrases for a good search; it's been checked so that it is topical and will crawled over by spiders.
No it's not some sort of occult thing, you have to make sure that you get these things right so that the bods at Google notice it and they do this by sending out spiders to do their searching or so I am led to believe...
The first paragraph has all the right phrases in to make searching easier as does the last paragraph and I try not to think how cringe worthy it sounds to me, a writer who has been trained by the best NOT to repeat herself and to use the myriad of words and phrases the English language is blessed with so that I do not bore my readers by endless repetition - would that they have taught Google.
I have tweeted using all the new tricks taught, capitalised, dotted and everything is go...and then blogger fails.
One of the best posts I have done in ages with everything just right and the tech bods at Google bugger it up by crashing Blogger who then stop all blogs and remove recent posts in an attempt to get things back to normal. My moment of triumph ruined and guess why? Because I forget to copy it. Having thought about it earlier I still forget. The post goes up and it takes well in fact better than I ever expected I get 17 hits in an hour! I am ecstatic. Obviously the Blogcamp guys know their stuff. Yet I forget the most basic tenet always back up your blog in case you lose it.
Well Blogger, thanks to you, it looks like I did. I'd love to blame it on you and Google but let's face it this is salutatory lesson in blogging number 3 for me: always save your posts...