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Social Media Connections

I discovered Facebook nearly five years ago. I had four friends after about six months until John Bonner asked me to add him as a friend, I was clueless as to why I should have friends I didn’t already know. At first I bocked, but then I thought, “what the heck?”

I decided to look to see who his friends were. I couldn’t believe it! I sawy Deepak Chopra, Mark Victor Hansen, Wayne Dwyer, Jack Canfield, Bill Mayer, Robert Kioyoski and I lost track of the number of well known personalities who were already John’s friends! I felt like I hit the jackpot!

I sat there for an hour requesting they add me as a friend. The next morning when I checked, I had 92 friends! Wow! What a great resource.

I kept up the routine and conducted conversations with the majority of those who accepted my friend request. But nothing developed from those relationships.

What did make a difference were the speakers and authors I connected with. I had six people offer to interview me on their radio programs; three who introduced me to International radio hosts and I was able to be interviewed in Canada, Spain and London.

What is truly amazing is I have better relationships with individuals on Facebook and LinkedIn than the relationships I created attending live networking events.

It is important to develop your relationships and maintain the connections. You will be pleasantly surprised at what you will be able to do in conjunction with your Social Media friends.

I Found Google

I don’t know what Google is up to but all of their original links to register your website with the Google Search Engine have been eliminated. So I stumbled onto a new resource that was right in front of me!

I was logging on to my cpanel when I noticed at the very bottom there is an option that is eaactly what I needed. Did you notice the “Get in Google? button? It took one day to go from 15,000,000 ranking on Alexa to 5,900,000.

That’s very rapid!

There are also SEO tools, a resource to Increase Your Web Traffic, a way to create your Google Sitemap, Link Building, how to Increase your Facebook traffic and great tips on creating SEO.

If you don’t see these options on your cpanel, you might want to consider transferring to HostGator so you’ll be able to take advantage of their tools.

But before you transfer your site, you’ll want to back up your database. It’s a fairly simple process, but if you have trouble with it, the tech help at HostGator will be happy to help you.