Archive for 'Personal Branding Project'

Video Blogging Coming Soon!

I know I haven’t been great about updating this recently, but I have a small piece of news for now. A few weeks ago, I took a survey for ParkerLePla, a branding agency in Seattle. Completing the survey entered me in a chance to win a Flip camera, one of the more popular video blogging [...]

My Thoughts on the Wibiya Toobar

Edit: After giving the toolbar a good month long trial, I decided to pull it down. I suspect it would be more useful for a enterprise level blog. If you have visited my blog recently, You may have noticed the new toolbar situated at the bottom of the window. I am trying out the Wibiya [...]

A Firsthand Account of the Differences Between Bing and Google

I’ve submitted my domain to Google, Yahoo and Bing. I’ve already taken several simple steps to optimize my content for crawlers. And the results so far? For the keyword “jeff shearer”, I rank 36th on Google. Yahoo hasn’t indexed me yet, and Bing?

My Search Engine Optimization Tools Of Choice

Any good website is built with the user first in mind. Unfortunately, simply having a great and easily accessible site is not necessarily enough to rank #1 on search engines. The search algorithms are not perfect. Often the webmaster needs to do a bit of hand holding with the search engine and show it the [...]

My Summer Personal Branding Project

You might have noticed that I purchased a new domain, www.jeffrshearer.com. I recently decided to seriously claim my personal brand online after googling my name and finding most of my online presence had been relegated to page 2. This website is part of a larger project throughout this summer that I have designated as my [...]