You Must Twitter. Ok?

I admit, even just two weeks ago I said:

“Maybe I’m not hip or cool enough, but I don’t get twitter. I just have too much of a life to be twittering all the time.”

Either I suddenly don’t have a life anymore, or I never had one, or twittering really doesn’t intrude too much.

What’s twitter? Just check out my twitter page- it’s like blogging but quicker, briefer, pithier.  See the wikipedia definition.

Brevity is the soul of wit said Shakespeare, and if you can’t be pithy, use twitter to learn to be.

And try twhirl if you want it on your desktop like instant messaging.

Step 1 to Googleability: Content

I don’t really want to write this, but for this new blog to be googleable, it needs more than one page! So this is the second post, the second page, and represents a big step you can take to being more findable.

Online, you need a footprint. You need multiple sites and blogs, and each of those must have valuable content on it.

So you should start a blog immediately. Try wordpress.com. It’s free.

Notice I just gave you a useful tip and a useful link to an authority site.  Hmmm.  Why would I do that?

What’s Googleable?

A friend mentioned she searched her name in Google- she’d done it before, but another woman had the exact same name, even middle name as her, so she was completely un-Google-able.

But now she said Google had figure out she existed as a separate person- she’s finally Googleable.

I don’t care if it’s narcissistic, I’ve googled myself more times than I count. And I’m highly Googleable.

We were going to bet, but she doesn’t bet, about whether this term was already in Google. I said it was. She said it wasn’t.

We also differed on the spelling- I preferred Googlable, she preferred it with the extra E. Now that I’ve seen it written, I prefer Googleable. With the E. And there are almost three times as many pages in Google for Googleable with the extra E.

Anyhow, if you search for Brian Carter, I have about half the top 20 search results… partly because I do SEM for a living so I know what to do to be findable (my CEO said I should talk about findability if I wanted to be cool. I said I’m already cool), and partly because I’ve done a bunch of different things online- most of what I do in life is online- music, comedy, adwords, stupid youtube videos, etc.

So I thought I’d write a blog for regular people about how to be more googleable. Read on.