A friend and I were talking recently about whether “God” is a man or a woman. Regardless of your beliefs and opinions on this subject…this is something that we can talk about on another blog or forum. But, the conversation got me thinking…is Google a man or a woman in it’s mannerisms, ideas, actions, etc. I believe Google is a woman, and here’s what I came up with:

• She’s a tease
• You have to spend money to make her notice you (although she says this isn’t true)
• She always gets her way
• She can’t make up her mind
• She has millions of men (and some women) looking to get on top of her
• She’s good with directions
• If you’re bad, she doesn’t speak to you or ignores you completely. Then you have to beg to get on her good side.
• She wants to save the world
• She can be a bitch
• She’ll take your money without you even knowing
• She likes cosmetic surgery
• She’s very picky
• She loves to dance
• Foreplay for her needs to last a long time
  
• She doesn’t get turned on very easily
• She wants a commitment and not a fling
• She’s moody
• She’s gotten bigger over the years
• To be happy with Google you must love her a lot & not try to understand her at all
• She has the last word in any argument
• She dislikes porn
• She can be anal at times

And there’s my observations. If any of you have more that you would like to add, leave it in the comment section with your url, and I’ll give you a backlink.

Squidoo and Hubpages…PR7 and PR6 consecutively. Let’s talk about these Web 2.0 collaborations and see how we can use these to our advantage.

Granted, these strategies are not new, but sometimes forgotten and/or undiscovered by new internet marketers. Squidoo & Hubpages are part of the Web 2.0 trend that involve blogging, social networking, podcasts, wikis, etc. These things have been around for quite some time but have really come into focus within the past couple of years. Squidoo & Hubpages kind of fit into the categories of blogging and social networking.

Squidoo’s description of Squidoo:

Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for building free, single pages about your passions. Highlight books, blogs, vids, online shops, or just spread the word about stuff you love. Bonus: you raise money (for you or charity) at the same time. It’s fast, free, and supereasy.

Hubpages description of Hubpages:

Simple to use, 100% free, HubPages allows you to:

• Publish online with easy, non-techie tools
• Be widely read thanks to the heavy internet traffic of HubPages
• Create ongoing royalty opportunities

So, what’s the point?  Use these pages as a marketing tool, a backlink tool, and get visitors to your main site.  Both of these sites have become wise to affiliate links, so you need to point your links to your actual page instead of to an affiliate page (at least with Hubpages).  Put as much content into your pages as possible and use keywords throughout.