Jun 05 2009

Welcome to our latest Guest Blogger - Saurav Verma

Tag: blogging, personalKalena Jordan @ 8:21 pm

Hi there - it looks like you're the first person to view this page. Congratulations! Relax, I'm kidding. But seriously, if you like what you read, I'd really appreciate it if you could subscribe to my feed. It's not fattening, I promise :-)

Thank you to everyone who responded to my recent plea for Guest Bloggers to join the team here at Ask Kalena and help me with a ridiculous backlog of search engine Q and A’s.

I now have a full gaggle of bloggers (is there a collective term for bloggers yet? Until then, gaggle will have to do) and I’m no longer taking applications. Our latest recruit is Saurav Verma.

Saurav is based in New Delhi, India and works for online marketing company Kneoteric eSolutions where he is a senior online marketing consultant and technical adviser for the sales team.

Saurav’s background is in electronics engineering and he has an MBA degree from Cardiff University, UK. He writes monthly search marketing newsletters and blogs for Kneoteric and his work was recently published on SEOmoz.

Please join me in welcoming Saurav to the Ask Kalena blogging team.

[Care to throw Saurav in the deep end? Send through your tricky search engine questions via the big red button above.]

Popularity: 6%


May 14 2009

Welcome to another Guest Blogger - Andy Henderson

Tag: blogging, personalKalena Jordan @ 5:06 pm

Well I can’t believe my luck, but I’ve already found two Guest Bloggers to join the team here at Ask Kalena and help me out with an enormous backlog of search engine Q and A’s.

Yesterday we welcomed Peter Newsome and today we’re joined by Andy Henderson (pictured with me in Sydney earlier this year) as the newest addition to the Ask Kalena team.

Andy has over twenty years experience in the I.T. industry including a stint at global web design agency ZIVO, where I used to work (although not in the same office). Andy currently manages all SEO and SEM activities for ireckon.com in Brisbane, Australia.

Unlike Pete, I’m not sure if Andy can dance - we did our best to get him up on the dance floor during SMX Sydney, but he wasn’t having any of it!

Congratulations Andy, it’s great to have you on deck.

[To kick off Andy's new blogging gig, why not send him a search engine question via the big red button above?]

Popularity: 5%


May 12 2009

Welcome to Our New Guest Blogger - Peter Newsome

Tag: blogging, personalKalena Jordan @ 11:49 pm

Remember yesterday I announced that I was searching for some Guest Bloggers to join the team here at Ask Kalena to help me with an enormous backlog of search engine Q and A’s? Well we’ve already found a willing victim expert to join our team.

Please join me in welcoming Peter Newsome of SiteMost SEO in Brisbane Australia as our newest Guest Blogger here at Ask Kalena.

Not only is Peter a talented SEO with his own hosting and search engine optimization company, but he can also hold his own on the dance floor (evidence pictured).

Congratulations Pete, looking forward to reading your posts!

[Wanna put Peter through his paces? Send through your tricky search engine questions via the big red button above.]

Popularity: 7%


May 11 2009

We’re in a tight spot - can you help?

Tag: blogging, jobs, personal, search industryKalena Jordan @ 10:12 am

Do you like problem solving? Helping people? Think you know a thing or two about search engines? We’ve been inundated lately with so many search engine questions that I simply don’t have time to answer them all.

Can you help us out of this tight spot? We’re looking for a  couple of Guest Bloggers to help us answer the search engine Q and A’s here at Ask-Kalena.com.

You’ll need to be a confident writer with a fun, readable style and excellent grammar. It would also help if you didn’t make spelling mistakes very often or at least when you did, you made them entertaining.

To get an idea of what we’re looking for, search our “Q & A” categories under the “Topics” drop down list on the left.

Ready to be a Search Engine Superhero? Give me a shout via kalena [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line “GUEST BLOGGER” by Sunday 24 May.

In your email, please include:

1) A 1-2 paragraph summary of your experience in the search industry

2) Links to one or more of your recent articles or blog posts.

Please note that the role of Guest Blogger is unpaid but authors do receive a byline as well as a link to their site/blog from each post, not to mention the enormous kudos from being syndicated on hundreds of sites.

Thanks!

Popularity: 6%


Apr 23 2009

Ask Kalena jumps 20 places in Top 100 Aussie Blogs

Tag: blogging, personal, women bloggersKalena Jordan @ 11:24 am

Well after a year of being listed in the Top 100 Australian Blogs Index, this blog has moved up 20 spots from position #91 in January to position #71 this month.

My friend Neerav has jumped ahead of me to position #48, but at least I’m now beating Duncan Riley who’s at #78. Woohoo!

As I’m now located in New Zealand, I probably shouldn’t be on this list anymore, but I won’t tell if you don’t.

Thanks to all my subscribers who have helped boost the stats. If you haven’t yet subscribed, press the big red feed button on the left and help me reach the top 50 next update.

Popularity: 9%


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