It has been less than a week since joining ActiveRain. I didn't quite understand what "ActiveRain" had to do with anything, but now I have "seen the light"--the more "active" you are, the more "rain" will fall. Rain, of course, is a good thing. I know that it frieghtens many of you who live in Florida and California, but it doesn't scare those of us in the Northwest--including those great northwesterners that monitor this site. Perhaps it would have been named "Active Sunshine" had it been established elsewhere... but I digress.
Since joining, I have quickly watched my name, and the names of my associates, move up in the rankings of GOOGLE results. If used properly, you can be high on the list in many cities, if not the highest.
Savvy to SEO (Search Engine Optimization for you "lay people"), I am getting the feeling that there must be some sort of connection between ActiveRain and the "Google Gods". Not by actual affiliation, but ActiveRain must know that it is doing something that becons the... "rain" of "e-heaven".
But what about MSN, ASK and Yahoo. If you don't know, most search engines on the internet use one of the "big four" 1. Google, 2. Yahoo, 3. MSN and 4. ASK.
While it is wonderful that ActiveRain has pleased the "gods", what about these other search engines in the "big four"?
Are there any plans by ActiveRain to make rain fall from the Arch Angel Jeeves, Bill Gates' Pet Projects and Yahoooooowwww? Hope so.
Suggestions for Active Rain:
1. Lets get into the other three big search engines.
2. Any possibility of being able to edit or add to our meta tags?
3. If we are inviting multiple people, it would be nice to be able to put all of their email addresses in the "send" box, instead of having to keep adding each name... one at a timte. While the email you are sending, I noticed, keeps itself there for the next person you want to imput, I think that it would also be nice to just invite multiple people at once.
4. On those invitations, it might make sense to go way our of your way to make it not look like conventional spam mail. I delete off the whim almost anything that is sent to me unless I know who it is from or the subject box has something do to with my business. If it looked more like a conventional email from each of us, those that we send it to would be more apt to open it.
I have really enjoyed my time here at ActiveRain and appreciate the opportunities that it has given me to increase my revenues. As mentioned, I have now done 2 inspections and have recieved 3 leads just from active rain. I have also had people request other services from me through finding me on Active Rain. It works, and I hope that it continues to work as well as it does.
Justin Nickelsen, Vancouver Washington
P.S. Speaking of ASK (Jeeves).com, does anybody know how to penetrate their shell? I am at the top of Google, MSN and Yahoo for most geocentric and service-centric (Bush-ism) searches, but ASK doesn't even know who I am. They don't seem to have a place to submit your site.
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