I asked a friend recently to Google Humanity Hiker, the simplified instruction for finding my 900+ blog posts over the past 15 years. After the research results she asked which one to click, pointing out to me that there are now two humanity hikers. As the original humanity hiker, the URL for my website is www.humanityhiker.com. The newcomer’s URL is www.thehumanityhiker.org.
If you just put “humanity hiker” into the Google search my website comes up first. If you type “the humanity hiker” his website comes first. More problematic for me is when you add a term like “guy,” as in either “humanity hiker guy” or “the humanity hiker guy.” In both cases AI kicks in with a reference to Christopher Neil Maclurcan, a 29 year old Australian. He is on a mission to “Hike,” “Help” and “Heal” while hiking around the world.
His website features two pages, lengthy and informative, but no posts. He posts to Instagram, with his first on Jan 2, 2024. He appears to be in China now as inferred from his 46th and most recent post coming on March 4, 2025.
I admit to feeling a bit wistful there is another humanity hiker out there hiking around the world, a young whippersnapper at that. That was precisely my own ambition before becoming a home caregiver for the past 15 years. I also am a little irked that AI recognizes the other humanity hiker with 2 pages and 46 posts. The original humanity hiker (that’s me) has over 900 posts with numerous pages and related sites. Instagram be damned!
With this revamped website I have a modest goal getting 5,000 subscribers and will not begrudge the other humanity hiker if he gets more on Instagram. To be honest, I fear what too many subscribers might imply for the lifestyle and effort needed for obtaining them. Plus it is hard to teach an older dog new tricks, such as shifting all my posting to social media venues.
On the other hand, I may never reach 5,000 subscribers if I fail to change my ways at all, which led me to research search engine optimization. Crosslinking helps the visibility of a site. Notice my links in this post to the other humanity hiker; I hope he reciprocates. Focused categories also help, which is why I will be going through all my posts to place them into one or more of six main categories: Journeying, Humanity, Brain Health, Care Partners and True Love. Together these categories represent my contribution to a humanitarian movement that is needed for these trying times.
Cornerstone articles help the search engines. Apparently, an article can be a page rather than a post, while a category is an archival page. My next posts for this revamped website will be cornerstone articles for each of the six main category pages that shape the Humanity Hiker purpose … the original one that is.
Reader involvement also increases the visibility of a site. Let’s test that out. The other humanity hiker’s creed is “Hike. Help. Heal.” My humanitarian creed is “Love kindness. Build community. Believe in humanity.” Comment on which one you prefer and why.
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