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Google Caffeine Delivers

June 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I thought I would do a follow-up on Google Caffeine, the new search engine project from Google.  As you know, if you read and follow this Blog, I’m just not real big on Google.  I like some of their services such as Goolge Earth and Goolge Analytics. I’m not a fan of Adsense, Adwords, or G-Mail.  And their search engine after 15 months of posts; 6 months posting every single day is just dreadful. With 14 Blogs now, I don’t rank for anything other than the Blogs name.  Amazing ……..Simply Amazing. Enter the smoke and mirrors of SEO. Please!!!!! ……..

I see about 3000 uniques a month and I have to knock on every door of every visitor to get them to visit my site.  After I look at traffic for the month, I’m lucky if I see 12% from search engines. Well, Google ain’t the only game in town.  There are literally dozens if not hundreds of search engines out there.  Again after looking at several different traffic softwares,  I see 99.8947 percent of the 12% search engine traffic coming from Google and the rest ……… well let’s just say it makes for an interesting pie graph.

Now comes Google Caffeine!  Just great. Oh joy. Here we go with more hype about my 12% of nothing. I do better with Twitter.

Google Caffeine has been active about a week.  That’s plenty of time for the search engine to do its thing. So I thought I would take a look at one of my latest post to see how the new “Caffeine” was working. Well, well! Yes, I finally have my first linking in Google. Position 1&2 on page 1 no less.  Now we’re talking.  I know that I won’t hold on to that position for long, but that’s not the point.  I should hold down the first spot if I’m working at providing quality content every single day at least for a time.  And if that’s means I rank at 400 after day 3 because of all the other Bloggers, I’m fine with that.  But I’m over the foolishness of having breaking news and not even finding a link in the first 9,000,000 pages or “results”.

Below you will find my first post of the week about the new “Google Caffeine”, again on page one.  Thank you very much Google!!!  Better late than never.  ;)

Google Page Listing

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Now Comes The Social Media Thing – Lesson 16

April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Now comes the time that you need to settle in to some sort of routine, as the next step, the social media step, is a big one. So you should be somewhat comfortable with writing content and managing your Blog. It’s O.K. to feel comfortable with what you are doing before racing away to do something else that is new to you. So take a month and just write content and work with your Blog and your management techniques.

After a month, it will be time to start to drive traffic to your site. This takes a lot of time and attention, so if you rush right in after starting your Blog, you’re going to get things tangled up and make a mess of things as well as waste a ton of time.

I am going to avoid making any social media recommendations as everyone takes a different path, leading to a different outcome, which helps all concerned as you are going to use social sites that other don’t use and vise versa. That way, we’re not getting tangled up with each other. That way there is enough traffic and market for everyone.

I will make three recommendations that all Bloggers need to be aware of and take advantage of. Those three are: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. These three are necessary for all New Bloggers and you should sign-up as soon as you are ready to begin marketing yourself and your Blog. The rest is up to you. The more social media sites you sign-up for and participate in the more traffic you will see to your Blog. But take it slowly and make sure that you understand how to use the social media platform you have chosen or else you will just be wasting your time.

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Managing Your Social Media Content

March 31, 2010 By 2 Comments

Social Media

As I delve further and further into the Social Media realm, it has become harder for me to keep up and harder for me to stay organized. Needless to say, my desktop is a mess. I have icon’s coming out of my ears. So I wanted to post some pointers for the Blogger, to help manage your Social Media.

One of the first things that you should do, when setting up your Blog, is to squirrel away all of your usernames and passwords on a Spread-Sheet and keep it on a thumb-drive. It might really help if you do this alphabetically, too.

Keeping a log of all the passwords and usernames, and the time you want to visit these sites will prove to be a real asset. Get on a schedule: not minute by minute of course, but if your habit is to visit your community of Blogs in the morning, set aside a few minutes to Tweet, and do the Facebook thing, to Digg and Stumbleupon; whatever it is that you Stumbleupon! Now that you’ve “Reddit” do it!

Social Media does not come naturally to me. I’ve had to take it a step at a time. With all the choices, and with my schedule, I just can’t do them all. I dare say, that if you had 24 hours in a day you couldn’t really put a dent in all of the super Social Media Sites. I’m finding more great ones everyday. The greatest challenge of course is not setting aside the time to visit and participate, rather dealing with the learning curve that goes along with some of these sites. It’s best to take it slow like I did, adding one a month and really getting to know it well.

Lastly, don’t forget to Google for pointers on any Social Media site that you participate in. You can find some real gold out there that will make life as a Blogger much easier!

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