If you’re like me and fortunate enough to have a mother who is a senior citizen and also a Facebook addict, you can hopefully relate to these moments: Mom makes a post on my wall describing her planned activities for the day. Mom comments on a photo of me that a friend posted to tell me that she’s glad I…
Author: Kane
The impact of the latest Google Caffeine changes
On June 8, 2010, Google officially completed development of its new “Caffeine” indexing algorithm. Many marketers were left wondering, “How does this impact me?” Well, I’ve done a fair bit of research and here’s what I’ve come up with… 50% fresher results – Google actually says “Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and…
Outsourcing Myself – Article Submissions
My VA, Gerlyn, next worked on submitting an article I emailed her to around 30 different article directory sites. Here’s the report she gave me afterward (the white box is just covering up personal info). Since I’ve never used SENuke myself, I’m not sure how easy or fast it is to use. However, I’m a bit suspicious that I’m not…
Outsourcing Myself – First Task Complete
My 2nd VA, Gerlyn, spent her first day (4 hours…since I only have her half-time) doing Web 2.0 profile backlinks using SENuke. She then emailed me a report (spreadsheet) listing the pages and keywords she targeted, as well as the 100 or so URLs that were created. Not bad for the first day and < $8 out of my pocket!…
Outsourcing Myself – Language Barrier
I emailed my new VA, Jemelo, to ask him a few questions and here’s his response: I’m sure you already know my name, the following are the answers to youre questions sir. 1. i am available through email and chat only. 2. i can’t do phone calls to someone in north america. 3. The SEO software that we have is…
Outsourcing Myself – Took The Plunge!
After much deliberation, I decided to hire my first Virtual Assistant (VA) from First Page Web Search. As the site says to do, I emailed “admin(at)firstpagewebsearch(dot)com” to request a part-time SEO VA, which costs a super-affordable $37.50 for 20 hours a week. The company owner/manager, Jake, replied: Right now, we do need one week confirmation payment. This covers the two days…
Outsourcing Myself – Decisions
Time Tracking & Analysis So I’ve religiously logged my time for a couple weeks now (using a desktop widget from Paymo.biz), and come to the following conclusions – I waste too much time switching between tasks. I need to focus more on completing things before moving onto something else I waste too much time with social media. I need to outsource…
Outsourcing Myself – Intro
I’m determined to become more efficient and effective with my time. I’ve come to the realization that I waste WAY too much time on things like: Checking email (hundreds of times a day) Customer support Internet window shopping (doing tons of research before deciding what to buy) Forum reading Social networking (Facebook, Twitter, other Ping.FM sites) Blog posts for niche…
The best Google position checker – Traffic Travis
If you’re like me and obsess over how your sites are ranking with the search engines, you’ve likely been looking for a tool that’s fast, user-friendly, and reliable. You may have tried some of the various FireFox plugins that are slow, buggy, and not good at tracking historical ranking changes. Or perhaps you’ve tried one of the many websites…
Awesome WordPress plugin for Facebook
Once and a while a WordPress plugin comes along that I consider to be a “game changer”. The Like plugin is one of ’em. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/like/ One of the great things about Facebook Pages is that they can become viral. It may take you a month to get to 100 “fans” (I guess they’re now considered “people that like your Page”),…