A Digital Directory: Come Into My Disaster Area

I've been around a long time.  To be honest, I would prefer a tidy, simplified digital footprint, but when you have varying types of content, I guess it's inevitable.  

The majority of my content is my website devoted to the Mayfair Witches novels by Anne Rice.  Over time, as social media was growing in use, imagination led to innovation in the form of digital content creation.  I learned how to do other things.  When I gave my Mayfair Witches website, Come Into My Parlor, an overhaul in 2023, fifteen years after its launch in 2008, I started to integrate content, starting with YouTube.  I write my text myself and always have.  But--I also wanted to provide some of my own design and graphics.  

For me, YouTube is more of an extension rather than simply a video host or social media (though it is both of those things as well as a search engine).  Still, I began to include social media--Facebook, Instagram, etc.  As I've tested different platforms for different things, I also had other types of content that were not Mayfair Witches-related.  Blending it in with the Mayfair Witches was a strategy that allegedly muddles hexes algorithms, so I ended up creating or renaming some of my social media to keep the non-Mayfair Witches content separate.  

In the case of YouTube, I have a secondary channel for that.  

What ended up happening is a weird mishmash with different names for different types of content.  How is anyone supposed to keep all this straight?  Where can folks find stuff of mine they'd like to see and might even like?

And wherever shall Those Who Wish to Troll look?  

Sanderson Sisters, Hocus Pocus 2
Disney (2022)

Allow me to take all the fun out of guessing.

No, I do not provide links to my personal accounts.  Guess why.

Look to the right column of this blog.  There is a section devoted to links to the rest of my "digital footprint".  Of course, the Mayfair Witches is a category all its own.  There is a category for my Digital Dollhouse Creations.  The top section has the rest, and it is where you will find the link to my other website.  It is small, and like the blog posts here that are archival since I moved them from the GoDaddy site's blog to this blog with their original dates, some of the site's content was migrated from the Original Parlor site.

Or I could move it all again--to this blog.  

I...smell...Facebook.

This is a guide to the search result mess that surrounds my website, Come Into My Parlor.

If you look for the site in search engines, you're going to find results that will give you nothing but 404 errors.  Or, in the case of GoDaddy, a polite "Coming Soon".

It has been a complete and utter nightmare trying to keep my site current and resourceful.  This explains in part why it is I have this mess on my hands.  And it is the direct result of the fact that Come Into My Parlor and the other names it has been known by in recent years belongs to me and me alone.  There's no "we", no "community".  Just me discussing a topic that is dear to me and has been for thirty years now.  Just me offering thoughts and insights in the hope that other fans will enjoy the content and perhaps encourage others to read the novels for themselves.  

Come Into My Parlor was launched--by me--on Tripod Lycos in June 2008.  In recent years, it has been known as The Mayfair Witches Parlor and had a "sister site" hosted on GoDaddy called Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches.

The Mayfair Witches Parlor, I thought, would be a way to rebrand, with the site's original title as a tag line.  But then, I had to make the decision to move my site's content to a new host and unpublish it.

Not before I archived it myself.  Not before I made sure my records were full of things that will resurface should anyone make the idiotic mistake of trying to plagiarize or just plain steal my content.  In short, I am the owner and always have been.  No one else.  Later on, I'll explain what that means.  In the meantime, let me just break it down for y'all:

• Come Into My Parlor's URL was https:// mayfair95. tripod. com
• Come Into My Parlor's former domain was www. comeintomyparlor. com
• Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches on GoDaddy began as a "sister site" to the Tripod site, but only for a blog and for social media connected to the website
• Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches' GoDaddy URL was https:// chroniclesofthemayfairwitches. godaddysites. com
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor was the "new" name of the original Come Into My Parlor site, used in the last couple of years for the Tripod site.
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor was also the name of the Blogspot site at https:// themayfairparlor. blogspot. com
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor on Blogspot was also backed up and has some important metadata in those backup files--like publish dates, which I know because I just ran the backup file
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor on Blogspot is now Esmeralde's Maye Faire Grimoire and its URL is https://comeintomyparlormayfair95.blogspot.com
• Esmeralde's Maye Faire Grimoire on Blogspot has previous versions of pages of the Parlor, but those pages on Blogspot are unpublished and have NOINDEX tags on them should they be republished.
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor name has previously been used for social media, but is not used for the site's social media now
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor 2.0 on Google Sites originally hosted the Parlor's content that was migrated from the Tripod Lycos site, and the archived pages of the Tripod Lycos site still have the previous links to it
• The Mayfair Witches Parlor 2.0 had in its URL the-mayfair-witches-parlor
• OY!  The Mayfair Witches Parlor 2.0 is supposed to have a NOINDEX tag on it is now UNPUBLISHED but not deleted
• Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches on GoDaddy is now unpublished by me, and I have moved the blog posts about the AMC series to this blog here
• Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches on GoDaddy NEVER hosted any of the content of the original website but only linked to it
• Come Into My Parlor is now restored as the name of the original site's content, and is hosted on Google Sites
• Come Into My Parlor has a URL on Google Sites that includes mayfair-witches-chronicles.  Like this: https://sites.google.com/view/mayfair-witches-chronicles/

Because name changes in experiments with rebranding have produced odd results I cannot change except to restore the original names, or I just don't feel like changing them again, you will notice Name vs. URL dumpster fires like:

• NightCafe: is called Esmeralde's Grimoire 11 11 but still has Mayfair Witches Parlor in its URL, which is permanent and cannot be changed.

However:

• Facebook: retains the title "Chronicles of the Mayfair Witches"
• YouTube: is now "Esmeralde's Maye Faire Grimoire" but retains the user handle @comeintomyparlor1995.  Like this: https://www.youtube.com/@ComeIntoMyParlor1995

I...Smell...YouTube.