My Google Rant…

Good news… I figured whining was useless so I accepted responsibility to reach out to several of Google’s Helpouts Support Individuals and ask for their help. Seems that the Helpout Team has to get word back from their editorial department and the two departments weren't communicating all of the facts to each other.

I was pleasantly surprise when I found an email from them when I awoke today stating they have approved my helpout!

The girl in my Google Helpouts listing image is “Vera” my photographer’s assistant. She wears that fairy dress and wings during the photo sessions (works much better than wearing a silly wig) and treats the kids to Face Painting at the end of each session,

You Can See My Google Helpouts Listing Here!

I figured it was up to me to initiate some video chats with their helpouts team members and sell them on getting this sorted out.

I also figure that I can’t depend on Google sending me any traffic. But I just learned a very clever and 100% free way to get all the leads I want. Names, Address, Email, birth dates and the phone numbers of people already interested in photography to market to.

So I’ll reach out to them first to invite them to take me up on my helpout Will target younger people just getting started with photography so they should have less bad habits to unlearn and are generally more open minded.

As for my website dropping off Goggles first page I think it was really due to over optimization of my key words. All the backlinks I built used my keywords for the anchor text and it got picked up when they made their Penguin update.

Cheers,
Steve