Spy Journal 3.0 Filtering the web for you

Go on - I dare you to watch this video and then not share it with anybody.

Samsung will sell phones based on this ad - even if they were useless!

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is paying off for me.

I have an unfortunate name. Tim Miller is a pretty common name. So when you do a Google search for me you cant find this Tim Miller, instead you find a whole bunch of other people. This is part of the reason I have promoted my blog as SpyJournal. Its a unique name and its the name I use for most of my social websites and so on. Our business names also of Jethro Management and Jethro Consultants are pretty unique.

  So when I do a Google search for SpyJournal, every single entry on the first page is me. Jethro Management is the same, and Jethro Consultants has the second last one only as not me. 9 out of 10 or 10 out of 10 results is pretty good. I think I have a pretty good chance of getting found with my company name. By the way I would be interested if readers in other countries could try the same thing and let me know in the comments what you find. Feel free to use other search engines, though Google is of course the main one. I cant remember the time I needed  to try a different one!

The next step for me is to keep working on my keywords, specifically Drupal and Excel and Excel VBA.

I have received numerous jobs recently through from people who found us with Google searches here in Australia. More in the last 6 months than in the rest of our business history so far.

Joe from Joe Tech has written an article outlining the top ten reasons he thinks the new Entrecard – SezWho partnership is great for bloggers.

Here’s a one line summary of each point – for the details read his article.

1. Your blog will get more comments
2. Comments will be high quality comments
3. You will leave more comments
4. Earn Entrecard credits
5. Check Me out – a SezWho feature
6. Reduced bounce rate
7. Backlinks
8. Its Viral
9. School of Blogging
10. It will keep you blogging

Last week The Chitika Blog hosted an Expert Mini-Series in which 5 experts gave their favorite Chitika & Google Adsense ad placement tips. Just in time for the holiday shopping season!