With the introduction Google’s recent introduction of FriendConnect (look in the bottom right-hand corner of this blog!) and the profile pages you can build for your profile ON FriendConnect, it was just a matter of time before Google started to index those profile pages in their very own search results.

Depending upon how well you use it (Such as filling out good titles for your links, and content rich information in your “About Me” section) you may see a message like this on your Google profile like it appeared on mine this afternoon.

Your profile is eligible to be featured in Google search results. You can find your profile at <link here>.

Here are some ways to share your new profile with your friends:

• Add it to your IM status message
• Link to it in your email signature
• Note it in Google Reader
• Post about it on Twitter
• Share it on Facebook

These last three were dynamically created based upon the services which were hooked up in the Add Links section.  Make sure to set a vanity URL that matches your name as it appears in all other social media.

The awesome thing about it is that you can link to every last thing in the universe that you’re on from here.  FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Your Blog(s), You Article Marketing Feeds, Reddit, Delicious, YouTube, YouNameIt!

In my few tests, Google’s profile page for the user name in question (for several of my nomes de plume (sp?)) came up in the first page of results again and again.

Conclusion

If you want to be found set up your own Google Profile, and link to every last thing in the world with your name on it (that you’re proud of, at least).

To sign up, just do so over in the bottom right of my blog in the “Friend Connect” box using the “Join This Site” button. and you’ll get started right away in setting up your Google profile.

The Microsoft Kumo Search Engine (not Cumo or Kumho)  may be MS’s rebranding of the same old MS Live Search, but it may also be Microsoft’s re-emergence into the search engine space.

Kumo Search Engine

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I’m trying a few new things in this Search Engine Optimization post.  First, I’m working on an outsourceable model of video creation.    Witness the video and how it’s not ME!  It’s my words, and my direction, but not me.  Heck, you can probably even see hints of my own mannerisms in the character, but it’s not me.

This type of “productization” of my knowledge is one of the goals I push my clients toward regularly (you know who you are!).  I, too, have suffered from the malaise that my most meaningful content is hard to separate myself from.

Perhaps this medium can allow me to do so.  Now, onto the meaningful SEO tips !

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I’ve recently installed the WordPress Plug-in called “TweetBacks” on  two of my sites, to see how it goes.  Those two sites are those I promote highly on Twitter .  The first is this blog, about Small Business Internet Marketing , the other is a blog about How to Twitter .

What is TweetBacks WordPress Plug-In?

The TweetBack plug-in automatically picks up conversations when people Twitter about your particular WordPress blog post and inserts each tweet as a comment in your blog.

It was working out pretty nicely for a while.  I even recommended TweetBacks to members of my inner circle, but then I noticed some very strange things only happening on this blog.

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That title certainly sounds like a personal problem, doesn’t it?  It makes you wonder:

• What the heck are permalinks
• Why would I care about optimizing them?
• Will I have to undergo expensive surgeries in order to optimize?

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Since I’ve been working so hard for clients for the past few months, it’s only been recently that I’ve had a chance to get in touch with the latest internet marketing trends.   I’ve been continuing with previous successful actions, of course, most notably article marketing and lead generation sites.

In catching up with the world, a technology I had largely ignored showed me it has really grown up.  This little tool is called Twitter.

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One of my previous articles has brought up a couple of questions from readers, one of which I’ll answer right now.

The question is “Why are your domain names so long, with all those dashes in them? Should I be doing that as well?” (A domain name is the .com, .net, or .org part of a web site address – aka URL)

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I was researching keywords related to blogging, researching a number of products with AdWords ads.  In that area, I stumbled across THIS interesting little number…

Mark Joyner claims that he’s a blogging moron, and that he’d like your help reviewing his multimedia course on blogging.  So here’s his deal…

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All of the recent discussion about the Google PageRank update has stimulated a few questions from my readers. Let me take a swipe at answering the questions that have come up, and a few others to fill in the gaps and get everyone up to speed.

• What is PageRank ?
• How can I see my PageRank ?
• What is the impact of a higher PageRank ?
• What does a given ranking mean ?
• How do I use PageRank , then?

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I wholeheartedly agree with the Woody Allen Quote that I’ll paraphrase for my purposes "90% of success is just showing up."

Something I tell my clients regularly:  Do something to market your business — ANYTHING.  It’s better to mail a low-budget direct marketing letter to a small list than it is to wait forever to get the time to make the perfect letter, and to budget enough to mail it to tons of people, etc.

As it stands, so many small businesses end up in "analysis paralysis", doing nothing while they look for the best way, rather than doing something.  As a result, once you get off of your butt and actually do some marketing, you’re narrowing your field of competition significantly.

Your results from a bad marketing campaign are bound to be astoundingly better than the results you’ll get from no campaign.  Well, it would seem I’m wrong again,  there ARE exceptions to every rule.

So, there’s something I have never mentioned, because I assume everyone understands this…

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