Career Articles and Sitemap for Resume Advantage Pro Uploaded

The most recent .xml resume sitemap has been uploaded this weekend to Google Webmaster tools for http://www.resumeadvantagepro.com We're currently showing 30 URLs in the web index but sense we just started tracking this site statistics I don't currently have any current growth data or crawl stats. I have noticed a few keyword phrases starting to show up on page 1 of Google for a few longtail keywords but until I have a few months of SEO data to compare against I can’t at this stage make any predictions.

Site Maintenance, ShoppingCarts, and Membership Site updates for Resume Advantage Pro

We're back and in full swing. The Seneea Corporation has been challenged like so many in these tough economic times. But with the completely re-release of our successful Resume Writing Video Workshop Program, now completely available online our staff is happy to announce our resurgence in this marketplace.

Resume Advantage Pro or for some of us in the office who are referring to it as the Resume Advantage Professional 2.0 online video software and workbook program is now fully available. This week we've been working on a lot of integration issues so there has been a lot of site maintenance behind the scenes. We switched over to using Wordpress as our primary content management system (CMS) and integrating our sub-domains membership sites to Wishlist Member to handle all the site content security and file protection. We were using AWeber as our email Autoresponder and Clickbank from prior ebook accounts we had setup. But I'll be blunt here. Clickbank is a pain to do any real customization so we decided to switch over to 1ShoppingCart to provide a more robust solution. The best part is 1ShoppingCart integrates very well with Wishlist Member and it also has a good email Autoresponder built in. The 1ShoppingCart autoresponders are not at easy and attractive to use as Aweber, but at this stage it is not that big of an issue.

The major annoying problem was getting Clickbank billing page to show various line items for bundled products and split out a shipping cost. A huge headache with Clickbank! They say they'll accept physical products but it's a hassle so as Resume Advantage Pro and our other sites grow I want more options and it seems 1ShoppingCart will provide this.

There still is some work to be done on the maintenance aspect this weekend, all behind the scenes such as link checking, sitemaps, .xml uploads and more link building but for now we're off to a good start. I'm using Xenu Broken Link Report to check the links, an older program but one I've always been able to count on because the creators made it outstandingly simple (Thanks You Xenu). Beyond this I've been told our gateway is all setup and outside of a few test runs we're off and running.

This blog has been fairly quiet in the past few months, but there are a lot of activities going on behind the scenes. From a 12,000 mile three month business trip around the U.S. to various web site testing and development, I’ve been extremely busy. Although here’s the scoop:

As of today April 1, Seneea is now the Seneea Corporation, a Nevada domestic corporation that I will be conducting business activities under this name; everything from my professional electromagnetics consulting, to web content and product development, etc.

I’m toying around with an idea of a news media site called News-History-Event that will examine historical news pieces and the aftereffect of the news event. Who knows where this will go, but it is also a platform I’m using to crank up my knowledge of WordPress and Twitter. Here are a few stories I added to the site today:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation to Cut Jobs
Antarctica Expedition Returns Home

I’m still continuing my efforts with Free Class Notes Online, but let’s be honest here. I love the technology and providing this content to my audience. Although it is a very narrow focus and after two years of effort and well over a thousand hours of development, my return on investment of time is really poor. So, unless there is specific feedback on what people want, my efforts on this site will be limited as I work other efforts.

There’s a lot more going on but that’s a quick summary of the recent highlights. Now that all the business startup activities are behind me I’ll be posting more often on this blog.
Cheers all. -Brian

Crawl Statistics for Q4 2009

In the last 90 day, with most of the forth quarter of 2009 represented, I just posted my crawl stats from Google’s webmasters tools. It’s showing I currently have 234 indexed pages, with a total of 572 pages submitted. What was nice to see, is last week the spiders re-crawled my entire site as shown in the spike mid January. The good news, the site is growing. Yea for me. I did however have issues with linking to the index page rather then using the web http address which may have caused some indexing and ranking issues but I’ll dive more into that in the near future. Just count that up to another oops issue I’ve made. It does seem I do things often the wrong way first, and then I finally figure them out, but that’s all the learning process, right? But for now, here’s the page crawled per day statistics in the graphic for the site.

www.freeclassnotesonline.com

Super Bowl 2010 Commercials Online

With Superbowl 2010 almost upon us, that being here in the US, it’s a reminder of a blog entry I made two years ago during the 2008 Super Bowl. While watching the game, I overheard one of the advertisers say that the commercials would be reposted on MySpace. My original post I included below and wow talk about timing. Over the next three hours after making this small post, my blog traffic spiked. So the right content and the right timing is key. Maybe this year I’ll see if I can pop up another post just to see if I can catch peoples attention again; who knows, maybe Twitter will overtake it this time.

Original Post:
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Super Bowl Commercials on MySpace.com

Ok, talk about a marketing plug. Apparently, MySpace is getting people to their site by advertising the replay of all the Super Bowl Commercials on their site at www.myspace.com/superbowl I can just see the FaceBook marketing department scrambling right now! Oh and let’s not overlook Barack Obama's post half time show ad.

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Unit of Knowledge Articles Added to Knol

Knol, Google’s publishing forum described as A Unit of Knowledge provides an open source for content generators like me to post articles of just about anything. Over the past few weeks I wrote two articles, one dealing with electrical resistance and the other a Google search engine algorithm theory of mine. Knol also provides user to validate their name, but this is a feature that only is available to US based authors for the moment. I added Google Adsense and Google Analytics data tracking to my Knol profile as well. I’m not sure how much traffic this will generate but who knows; if I can share some ideas on there, why not its fun.

For links to my articles:
1) Electrical Resistance and Resistor Element Fundamentals
2) Google Hates Numbers

Site Visitor Stats for 08 and 09

I just posted my year end visitor count for both 2008 and 2009 for my site, Free Class Notes Online. Note, the former site classnotes123 was converted over the last half of 2009 which caused a drop in visitors as I had one site going online with the other being pulled down. You can see this in April through June numbers, i.e. flat line growth. I also made as many mistakes as one could but hey, it’s all a learning process, right. Many changes I made throughout the year were putting most of my scripting in .php format so I can easily make updates to my pages. I’m not sure if this helps or hurts me in the search engines; if anyone knows if a .html is more weighted then a .php please let me know.

I also converted over all my pages to XHTML 1.0 during this time and I’m starting to go through the process of indexing many of my supporting graphics pages. I’ll tell you all why in a follow on post; I think I’m onto something here. But for now the numbers are for 2009 I had 24,301 total visitors for the year.

Have a happy and prosperous New Year. Cheers -Brian