Google Juice
I started out INN346 with no preconceived ideas about social media and my place in the ether ecosystem. After precariously tinkering with a creative industries subject I decided to persevere with the IT subject, simply because the lecturer Jason Watson and the students seemed to have a better grasp of “Web 2.0” and new social media and were more enthusiastic about the whole life journey ( of which Uni is a significant part). The fact that 2 of the CI class had heard of Second Life, and Facebook was about their extent of social media involvement definitely influenced my decision.
But about the Juice. Jason mentioned it in his first lecture, and I love the term. A few years ago I egotistically Googled myself “Pete Wildermuth” to find a customs officer and a student in the states. Fail to the Pete Wildermuth brand. Today after I had established my own url www.petewildermuth.com and blogged a bit I had another look.
Juice, Google Juice I have! I am not the Numero Uno Peter Wildermuth as yet, but I am on the charts – WOO HOO!
“Life’s Good” my Blog of 2 weeks ago is 2nd on the list, my Twitter account established approximately 6 months ago is 4th on the list, my linkedin profile 5th and Wiki account personal profile 6th. Then the other imposters commence Zooming, Plaxing and Facebooking where Pete Wildermuth, Brisbane, Australia has yet to influence and cross pollinate.
How am I taking this? Quite well actually, as I never even expected to be on the home page of Google Search anyway.
What’s my strategy to improve my Web 2.0 image/sphere of influence/ranking/online profile ?
- Establish my blog with some relevant, sticky, interesting content
- Continue to Tweet, primarily on subjects with work relevance (Web Developer) and once I am happy with my blog promote through this avenue
- Continue to use Facebook, primarily on social subjects and cross pollinate with Twitter and Life’s Good
- Establish a sphere of contacts and associates on linkedin and link to Twitter, Facebook and Life’s Good
- Investigate Plaxo, zoominfor, meetup and the other listed Peter Wildermuth’s to see what they are doing to get Juice
- Lock in openId and Facebook usernames for petewildermuth
So that will start the journey, 13 weeks down the track I will revisit, hopefully with an increased favourable online presence. Category Wine, Web 2.0, Surf and Thoroughbred Racing, because that’s what I enjoy!
If my readers agree that Life’s Good, then we are half way there!
6 Comments
Hi Peter,
This post is currently about number 18 under your name at the moment. You do come up as number 1… but it leads to a dead link on QUT wiki.
Your plan to move up the google juice ladder is well founded. Also consider commenting on as many blogs as you can (constructive of course!) as this will make people link to you you and links lead to juice
~ Jason W
Life is good indeed!!!
I like the design of your blog as well as the concept of choosing/creating a ‘strong image’ for each blog post!
Good job!
Haha great post mate.
I agree, the term Google Juice is awesome. I’ve been trying to get mine up but it’s pretty hard when a fellow Australian also called Ben McCallum was in Big Brother. O well, I’ll keep trying.
Anyway, keep up the good work. Love the site design. Look forward to future posts.
-Ben
http://wordpress.benmccallum.com/
Hi Pete,
It’s a bit surreal isn’t? To realise that we can be googled…and that we turn up in a google search! I like the strategies you’ve proposed to increase your market share of google juice. I look forward to seeing how it all pans out at the end of the semester!
Hi Peter,
This topic’s a really interesting one and I like your approach. Like you, I have an account on most of these platforms and to date, my ‘Google Juice’ differs depending on my search.
‘Donald Gee’ returns a lot of information about a 19th Century scholar and BBC’s 1970′s actor… Can I compete with juice like this? ‘Donald Gee enterprise 2.0′ puts me at the top as i have made some comments on Sasha Chua’s blog and she’s very well connected. ‘Donald Gee QUT’ seems to be a big one for me giving me next to a full page of stuff.
My theory about this is that even though my name pops up in all instances, I realised (thanks to Jason’s comments) I have different aliases in each case. What do you think about this?
Thanks for your tips by the way. I have started using Tweet Deck and things have started to get a bit easier.
Best Regards,
Donald
Hi Peter,
I agree Life’s Good..
This is true in most walks of life. Saying thank you when leaving a store register or saying thank you when someone holds a door for you is common sense but people don’t always do it. But it works for making people feel welcome.
You can obviously do it online too.
I like your way..
Nice job
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