So far, I have been outed (ie: identified by someone who I know in real life as being connected with this blog) by new friends and neighbors at a pretty fast pace. Each Shabbat (which is the only time when you have any real interactions with people beyond those who live on your street and those with whom you daven) so far, I have had at least one person come up to me and say “you are Yaakov from the Aliyah Blog, right”? And that is pretty good, considering that I am normally not the one to hang around for long after davening or at a kiddush doing chit-chat (and considering that it took at least half a year for the same level of local exposure back when I lived in Kochav Yaakov).
I think that I am being discovered so easily is because my post on Yad Binyamin is now showing up as the #1 result in Google and Yahoo when searching for “Yad Binyamin” (#30 on Microsoft’s search - they don’t seem to care so much for blogs, which I guess is inline with their overall search rankings). (Yad Binyamin now joins Kochav Yaakov, Neve Daniel, Karnei Shomron and Chashmonaim as places in Israel where I have a link show up on the first page of results merely because I wrote something about them).
So…just out of curiosity, how many people reading this live in Yad Binyamin and know who I am?
In going with the general theme of this post, check this out:
August 8th, 2008 at 20:54
Great Blog! Very informative. I really enjoyed reading it. I also moved to Israel- nearly 5 years ago and just started a blog myself about my experience (http://aliyahsurvivalblog.wordpress.com/). It’s more personal writing, but in a bit of a funny and cynical tone - you know like an Israeli’s sense of humor! I hope to keep seeing other bloggers sharing their experiences in Israel.