WordPress SpeedDating in San Francisco (you know you want it)

November 30, 2011 By 18 Comments

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One of the perqs of living in the San Francisco Bay area is being close to the action. For example, tonight I attended the latest WordPress SpeedGeeking event held by the San Francisco WordPress Meetup group, graciously hosted by Zach Berke of Exygy. Automattic was out in force. Old friends were caught up with and new friends were acquired.

And of course some of the coolest WordPress around.

So what is this “speed geeking” thing anyway?

Good question… let’s find out more about this Speed Geeking thing

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Michelle Mangen scores Google #1 result

October 17, 2011 By 25 Comments

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I was doing a little due diligence the other day, seeing where Website In A Weekend was landing in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), and this came up:

Michelle Mangen makes the Big Time

Michelle is a Staff Author on Website In A Weekend

Michelle is a Website In A Weekend Staff Author by dint of writing a series of eight articles on Practical Virtual Assistant Tips for bloggers. I have no idea why Google decided to list Michelle this way, it certainly wasn’t planned.

I don’t even know how to plan something like this, even if I wanted her featured.

Someone really good with SEO could probably figure it, or at least increase anyone’s chances at getting listed this way. But the serendipity works for me.

Maybe guest authoring could work for you? (read on…)

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