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Who’s looking at you kid?

// April 30th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // SEO, marketing

One of the best thing I like about Wordpress, besides its ease of use, is all the neat little plugins that you can install. I think my absolute favourite, and one that I have on all of my sites is the Visitor Maps.

It’s not publicly visible on all my sites, but it is in the dashboard of each. I know that there are other analytics tools out there. I have Google analytics installed, and I occasionally pop over to previous employer, Pear Analytics to use their site juice tool. But, there’s something nice about the visitor maps. Maybe it’s because I don’t have to go somewhere else to see the information. Maybe it’s that I’m a very visual person, and I like seeing the actual map. I like that it tells me how many times a visitor has been there before. It also tells me if they were referred from another site.I can see what term they were searching for in Google that brought them to me. When I send out a tweet with a link back to my blogs, I can see how many people actually clicked on that link and went to read it.

I guess I’m just amused by small things, but I really like this plug in. Even if you have, and you should have, another analytics tool installed, I’d get this one, even if it’s just for the fun of it.

Looking at the visitor maps on the Sarah Monahan website, I’m amused by how many people come to the site just by searching my name. Guess it’s an inside joke though. Ryan at the Pear made fun of my old site for not being properly SEO’d. He said it was only SEO’d well for “Sarah Monahan” and nobody would be searching for that.  Over 39k hits in 4 weeks for “Sarah Monahan” ain’t bad Ryan.

No matter what tool you’re using, make sure that you’re using something. You want to know who your visitors are and why they’re looking for you.

Happy New Year

// December 31st, 2009 // No Comments » // SEO, social media, video production

Can you believe it’s already New Years Eve?

Where did the year go? It seems every year just goes faster and faster! I did a lot this last year. I started off with Matt up in Iowa, freezing my butt off. We headed to Tampa for my birthday/Easter and to take a break from the Iowa cold. We were also seriously considering moving to Florida, so it was also a scouting trip. Then Matt got a new job in San Antonio. So we came back home to our nice house. It seemed so big after that little corporate apartment in Iowa.
I got a job teaching acting classes and working for a SEO firm. I was also going to do a bunch of filming and diving, but the jobs got in the way! So, after a work trip to New York City, which was also a first for me, I finished with that company and added SEO services to ShrimpTank. The beauty of the web is that I can work from anywhere, so now if I have a weekend shoot, I can take my laptop with me and work on the road. It’s probably much less distracting than working in an office where everyone is playing Wii tennis anyway.

So I’m looking forward to doing a bunch of stuff in 2010. I hope we’ll get several more episodes filmed for Going Down. I’d like to see a few more cities I haven’t been to yet. I’d like to get healthy and back into shape. I hope this is the year my folks finally visit me from Oz.

What are you hoping the New Year brings?

Here’s wishing you Health, Prosperity and Good Times. I can’t help you with your health, but if you need support for the Prosperity or Good Times, give me a shout. We can work on your SEO and Social Media campaign over a cold beer!

New Services!

// October 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // SEO, social media, video production

We are launching a new arm of ShrimpTank Productions this week.

ShrimpTank Productions started off as a Media Production company to produce “Going Down“. We are now expanding to encompass Social Media and Search Engine Optimization. These days, all three work together to help you get noticed. There’s no point having some webmaster build you a beautiful website if it doesn’t contain any keywords or content that target what you do. Everybody is on Twitter. We’ll help you make sure your posts aren’t pointless babble. Got a message that really goes over better face to face? Put it on video! We’ve got the cameras and the editing equipment to get your message online.

After attending SMX East in New York City earlier this month, it’s obvious that there’s some major changes going on in the search world. Make sure you stay visible.