Comments on: I Predate Google http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html Internet Marketing, Lead Acquisition, Online Business Strategy and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hunter Jackson http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-313559 Hunter Jackson Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:31:06 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-313559 heck, my life barely predates google. looking to finally getting to number 1 for my key terms. heck, my life barely predates google. looking to finally getting to number 1 for my key terms.

]]> By: Bill Cooke http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-64429 Bill Cooke Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:33:32 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-64429 Hi Andy, I'm impressed as I've never read a blogger whose had a presence on the net for so long. I've been creating sites on off for around 4 years, mainly off. A few years ago I was making some money with affiliate sites but the traffic eventually fell away. I guess for every succesful site there's thousands that don't make it. I'm now tring my hand at blogging which I'm hoping is the recipe for success. I'm genuinely enjoying the experience even though I get little traffic and it seems like an uphill battle (especially when I see spam sites ranking in google.) I'm determined to stick with it and sites like this show me what is possible (I'm assuming you gets lots of visitors judging by the number of comments) Keep up the good work, Bill. Hi Andy,
I’m impressed as I’ve never read a blogger whose had a presence on the net for so long.

I’ve been creating sites on off for around 4 years, mainly off. A few years ago I was making some money with affiliate sites but the traffic eventually fell away. I guess for every succesful site there’s thousands that don’t make it.

I’m now tring my hand at blogging which I’m hoping is the recipe for success. I’m genuinely enjoying the experience even though I get little traffic and it seems like an uphill battle (especially when I see spam sites ranking in google.)

I’m determined to stick with it and sites like this show me what is possible (I’m assuming you gets lots of visitors judging by the number of comments)

Keep up the good work,
Bill.

]]> By: Fitness guy http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-38387 Fitness guy Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:37:50 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-38387 Ok, i admit it....the jpegs on my ftp site were indexed by Archie in 1992 **sigh** Ok, i admit it….the jpegs on my ftp site were indexed by Archie in 1992 **sigh**

]]> By: Linda - Drupal Design http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-33685 Linda - Drupal Design Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:12:16 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-33685 My first #1 for a main targeted keyword (instead of some long string that I'm sure I might have been getting traffic for once in a lifetime) was for "social media blog." I definitely don't predate google! I was lucky enough to get on the z-list meme shortly after I launched the blog and rode that wave and in 30 days, boom #1. Thanks so much to the guy that added me, ha ha. My first #1 for a main targeted keyword (instead of some long string that I’m sure I might have been getting traffic for once in a lifetime) was for “social media blog.” I definitely don’t predate google! I was lucky enough to get on the z-list meme shortly after I launched the blog and rode that wave and in 30 days, boom #1. Thanks so much to the guy that added me, ha ha.

]]> By: Franck Silvestre http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-33205 Franck Silvestre Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:39:23 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-33205 I also have a top ranking site for the term: "affiliate marketing". I found a good recipe for getting top rankings, it's highly effective. I also have a top ranking site for the term: “affiliate marketing”.

I found a good recipe for getting top rankings, it’s highly effective.

]]> By: Jadehat http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-33089 Jadehat Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:10:14 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-33089 I *do* not predate Google. I've made my first site when Google wasn't a #1 (or #2) search engine yet, in 1999, but it *was* there, it already existed. I *do* not predate Google. I’ve made my first site when Google wasn’t a #1 (or #2) search engine yet, in 1999, but it *was* there, it already existed.

]]> By: Andy Beard http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-33060 Andy Beard Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:25:47 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-33060 I was mainly using the Cix service, fairly lightly in 1992, and then I moved to Poland in 1993 and I was still "blinking" for email correspondence, which was increasing heavily. I blinked every hour for about 1 minute of connection time. Cix wasn't really Internet, though they did have a Lynx browser gateway. In 1994 I started using it very heavily in compiling a CD-ROM for the Amiga. <img src='http://andybeard.eu/wp-content/uploads/cdpl1.png' alt='CDPL1' /> From what I can remember, we published that CD at the end of 1994 / beginning of 1995. Archive.org doesn't go back far enough for my first real website, but from my hazy memory it would have had to have been live in the middle of 1996 because I was already helping Techland a little in 1995 and throughout 1996, though mainly with acquisitions (e.g. we distributed Quake in Poland in 1996 - that was a coup) <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://techlandsoft.com" rel="nofollow">Archive.org for Techlandsoft Domain</a> I was mainly using the Cix service, fairly lightly in 1992, and then I moved to Poland in 1993 and I was still “blinking” for email correspondence, which was increasing heavily. I blinked every hour for about 1 minute of connection time.

Cix wasn’t really Internet, though they did have a Lynx browser gateway.

In 1994 I started using it very heavily in compiling a CD-ROM for the Amiga.

CDPL1

From what I can remember, we published that CD at the end of 1994 / beginning of 1995.

Archive.org doesn’t go back far enough for my first real website, but from my hazy memory it would have had to have been live in the middle of 1996 because I was already helping Techland a little in 1995 and throughout 1996, though mainly with acquisitions (e.g. we distributed Quake in Poland in 1996 – that was a coup)

Archive.org for Techlandsoft Domain

]]> By: Cornwall http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-32987 Cornwall Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:34:15 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-32987 I'm jealous of people who have been online so long. When I started out I changed my sleeping patterns as there was a service that offered free online sufing and I'm a cheap git. So from 6pm to 7am I was online. Actually the only thing stopping me being online until the early hours is a family life. How old is your oldest domain Andy? Mine is 1998. I’m jealous of people who have been online so long.

When I started out I changed my sleeping patterns as there was a service that offered free online sufing and I’m a cheap git. So from 6pm to 7am I was online.

Actually the only thing stopping me being online until the early hours is a family life.

How old is your oldest domain Andy? Mine is 1998.

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]]> By: Lucia http://andybeard.eu/823/i-predate-google.html#comment-32865 Lucia Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:28:39 +0000 http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/i-predate-google.html#comment-32865 My knitting blog predates google. I learned the term SEO when someone posted a comment at my site suggesting she could help me reorganize my blog to gain SEO. I had to look it up, read a bit, and realized my blog probably already had the best darn SEO for actual search terms of any knitting blog. How did I get the great SEO: I had been writing very specific "how to knit" entries. I no longer have the best SEO on knitting terms because since that time, about.com others started to do the same thing. Ah well.... No big loss because knitting isn't a huge revenue market. My knitting blog predates google. I learned the term SEO when someone posted a comment at my site suggesting she could help me reorganize my blog to gain SEO. I had to look it up, read a bit, and realized my blog probably already had the best darn SEO for actual search terms of any knitting blog.

How did I get the great SEO: I had been writing very specific “how to knit” entries.

I no longer have the best SEO on knitting terms because since that time, about.com others started to do the same thing. Ah well…. No big loss because knitting isn’t a huge revenue market.

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