Coming from an engineering background I’ve been conditioned to appreciate the value of data in shaping my decisions. It’s all part of the Scientific Process, which was introduced to us back around the 5th grade, but unless we went on to pursue careers in science-based fields, we promptly forgot about it.
However, if we eventually wandered over to the field of IM, then we started hearing the incessant chant of “testing and tracking“.
Jeez! All the techy stuff is bad enough, but now we’re expected to learn about A-B split testing, Taguchi methods, and Chi-Squared analysis.
I recently took advantage of the free offer to download a non-demo version of Techsmith’s Camtasia Studio 3 and decided to start learning how to make screen capture videos with it. I believe the offer is still up, so you may want to get in on it. I don’t have a link handy for it, but a quick search will turn it up for you. Seems everyone has blogged about it. It is a great deal.
I decided to do my first Camtasia video on how I use Micro Niche Finder to produce low-competition keywords that I can target in both articles that I submit to article directories and for themed pages on my websites as well as on my blog sometimes.
When a recent visitor to this blog inquired how to contact me via email, it was a wake up call to provide some means to provide this most basic means of communication. Actually, it’s been something I’ve wanted to address for a while now, but to be honest, the only thing I could think of is to search out a WordPress plugin or widget that might provide a contact form.
Needless to say, that search hasn’t progressed very far at all.
A few years back when Google was just an upstart in the search engine market and my search engine of choice was InfoSeek, I had an idea to make searching more user-friendly. I was just starting to come to grips with the power of Boolean search queries and wanted a way to hide this from the user. My idea was to slap a front end over top search engines such as InfoSeek and AltaVista and embed it somehow into Internet Explorer.
This way, a searcher could answer a few questions on a form, and under the covers, the software would perform its magic and gin up complex Boolean search queries in order to bring back ultra-relevant search results.
As I was going through my server logs for this blog I’ve been noticing that it’s starting to rank rather well for some long-tail keywords. I was very pleased to see that it’s currently ranked number one in Google for the search phrase:
Micro Niche Finder Review
Here’s a screen shot of the Google SERPS.
That’s out of 252,000 total results. It’s now a little over a week since I first posted my review of Micro Niche Finder. I’m not sure when it exactly hit the number one position. Could have been within only a few days of publishing the post.
