Using LookupPage

The internet has become a great source to dig up information, find directions or movie times, network socially, find a job and network with other professionals. With the proliferation of information swarming the net, it’s no surprise that you will end up on the net too. So, how do you manage your reputation onto the net? And how do you start building a good reputation online?

LookupPage is an executive people “search engine” that allows you to setup a personal page including a personal photo and background. In a way, it does resemble sites like LinkedIn.com and Spock.com, although much simpler. While I would love to see a way to find related individuals (not just company related) to a personal page, I do see how it’s simplicity could work for many who need a “splash” page on the internet. The site works by signing up for the free website service and setting up your personal information. You are able to search the database of people without signing in…something I would recommend the site try doing instead to register even more users.

While the site is simple, Lookup Page gives a great opportunity for people to leverage their own public or internet personality/publicity/appearance and manage their reputation (very important!). The internet will not be going away….

Increase Visibility with Customer Magnetism

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For those of us who own a website, one of the biggest challenges to increasing visibility is climbing to the top for search engine placement, especially using legit techniques. A lot of money can be lost with poor or no Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plan or maintenance to the site.

There are quite a few sites on the web that offer SEO services or claim to be an SEO expert. Consistently ranked as one of the top 10 SEO firms in the country by Website Magazine, Promotion World, Visibility Magazine and Top SEOs, the SEO company called Customer Magnetism is seen as a successful but affordable search engine ranking service. The company offers 3 simple but effective services which include natural listing, ethical link building strategies and effective sponsored listing campaigns using both Google and Yahoo.

All described on their site, they descriptively talk about how they would perform link building via quality relevant one-way links (which they’ll provide for you), submission to related niche directories managed by real humans, research who is linking to your competitors and negotiate for a similar link as well, contact to relevant websites and blogs and publish press releases that include a link to your site. Crazy but true with Customer Magnetism, they’ll even guarantee you its services. Make sure to check out their sample client rankings listed on their site as #1 on Google, it’s quite impressive.

Playing Poker with Mac Online Poker

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One of the most popular card games played by both young and old is poker and with the convenience of the internet, game play in the privacy of your own home makes it that much easier to play at your hearts content or in between writing blog postings. I’m not much of a gambler, probably due to my frugal nature but my husband on the other hand will easily go to a table with a plenty of cash and make back plus more on the game. His favorite game? Texas Holdem, of course. So, yes I have seen quite a few poker games being played in between MMPORG, Magic Online and other online games - all of which is played on a PC computer.

So, you know what I found out the other day? It turns out that Mac users need a special setup to enable some online poker play. Targeted to Mac users interested in playing online card games, Mac Poker Online started as an exclusive provider of information for Macintoch users wanting to play poker or casino games. I haven’t come across their site till now, but found it quite interesting…enough to actually send the link to a handful of my Macintosh friends. The site offers many lists of the best online poker sites and lists them in order of their opinion of the safest for users. They also offer various resources to enhance online poker strategy (helpful either if you are or are not a Mac owner) and offer bonus codes for popular poker sites like Titan Poker to cash in on big bonuses - how nice of them!

Many games are offered including Pacific Poker, Fulltilt Poker and Poker Stars. Prior to downloading, they do offer a convenient poker review guide and pros/cons of playing each Mac compatible game.

I’m not extremely familiar to the capabilities or browser difficulties experienced by Mac users, but Mac Poker Online appears to be quite a useful site. Although I would improve navigation on the site a bit (I felt a bit lost) or maybe add an “about us” page, it would help a newcomer to the site, like me, feel right at home more quickly. But you know what? I’ve noticed some sites that don’t necessarily “look” the prettiest as far as navigation but actually perform VERY well monetarily and deliver the goods to the consumer, doing the job its intended!

Happy Holidays, From The Suarez Family….

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FYI - My husband shows up as a duplicate…yep, we know. The video was for 5 people..and there are only 4 of us so far…counting the cat! :)

Happy Holidays!

Susan