Calendar Girl Blog: Blog Guelph in Top Twenty Google Ranking
Calendar Girl has been busy.
March 29, 2007
For Immediate Release
Guelph, Ontario
When you type “Guelph” into a search engine like Google or Yahoo, an astounding 8 million choices will appear.
Over the last several months, BlogGuelph.com has moved from the bottom of this enormous pile of web links to within the top twenty sites thanks to steady and prolific posting by Guelph’s empress of the blogosphere, University of Guelph alumni and local artist Sue Richards.
Blog Guelph - Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Clever Guelphites is a photoblog hosted by local server, Barking Dog Studios. Richards posts multiple photographs on a daily basis, taken by a pool of over 70 Guelph focused shutterbugs. The images serve to highlight the obvious and not so obvious features of Guelph that people find photographic, beautiful or just plain funny. By using the blogging platform as a showcase stage these photographers get additional exposure plus a link to their own photostream on the photo hosting service Flickr.
“The Guelph Pool of photo artists are extremely talented,” reports Richards. “The variation in composition, style, subject matter and technique makes it pure pleasure for me as an on-line publisher. Everyday I have dozen’s of interesting photos to choose from.”
Currently there are over 900 Guelph images and videos, all neatly organized in the Blog Guelph archives.
Richards also adds positive, pithy comments on local news, the weather or the cities current bone of contention and provides promotion for the grassroots community.
“I offer concise and amusing information from my ‘lived in Guelph for twenty five years’ bag of tricks. I’m not trying to compete with existing on-line news services but rather compliment and expand on what already exists. I’ve always been a maven type. I collect and disseminate information,” says Richards.
The City of Guelph benefit from the blogosphere profile too. “It’s easy to forget how culturally rich and picturesque Guelph truly is. Our cultural capital is recognized by people outside of our city, but not always from within. It’s both a drawing card to our city and a vehicle for promotion,” says Richards.
“I’ve had people with plans to move here tune into Blog Guelph in advance of their relocation,” states Richards. “They seem really excited about the feel and look of the city that Blog Guelph projects. University alumni and homesick Guelphites who live away are delighted to get a serving of Guelph just by clicking their mouse.” ”
Richards started her first blog in November of 2004. Although she presently dabbles on several, Blog Guelph and My Menopause Blog keep her busy along with publishing the Breast of Canada calendar.
To add more value to the Blog Guelph experience, Richards profile’s other Guelph bloggers with a live link list called a blogroll. Of the over forty five blogs Richards links to, University of Guelph President Alastair Summerlee, SYNNEX CEO and new owner of Imperial Tobacco, Jim Estill, cartoonist Garth Lind and Liberal candidate hopeful Marva Wisdom are among the blogger plus several artists, real estate agents, musicians, tech heads, politicians, small business owners and her neighbour Randy Sutherland. The Guelph Mercury is in on the bloggy game too with four staff written blogs.
“I’m told there are over 55 million blogs worldwide. It stands to reason that Guelph would have a few,” says Richards.
Blog Guelph’s web traffic report climbs daily. Since installing the stat counter program in late July, Blog Guelph has played host to 15,000 unique visitors and 30,000 visits. The GeoVisitor counter indicates that visitors arrive from all over the world and draw a steady regional crowd too.
Blog Guelph accepts voluntary subscribers and pay per view banner style advertisements. Rates depend on volume of traffic and are available upon request. “If you advertise on Blog Guelph, you also get the advantage of my incessant networking,” says Richards.
“And, people tell me they ‘LOVE’ Blog Guelph,” concludes Richards.
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March 29, 2007
For Immediate Release
Guelph, Ontario
When you type “Guelph” into a search engine like Google or Yahoo, an astounding 8 million choices will appear.
Over the last several months, BlogGuelph.com has moved from the bottom of this enormous pile of web links to within the top twenty sites thanks to steady and prolific posting by Guelph’s empress of the blogosphere, University of Guelph alumni and local artist Sue Richards.
Blog Guelph - Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Clever Guelphites is a photoblog hosted by local server, Barking Dog Studios. Richards posts multiple photographs on a daily basis, taken by a pool of over 70 Guelph focused shutterbugs. The images serve to highlight the obvious and not so obvious features of Guelph that people find photographic, beautiful or just plain funny. By using the blogging platform as a showcase stage these photographers get additional exposure plus a link to their own photostream on the photo hosting service Flickr.
“The Guelph Pool of photo artists are extremely talented,” reports Richards. “The variation in composition, style, subject matter and technique makes it pure pleasure for me as an on-line publisher. Everyday I have dozen’s of interesting photos to choose from.”
Currently there are over 900 Guelph images and videos, all neatly organized in the Blog Guelph archives.
Richards also adds positive, pithy comments on local news, the weather or the cities current bone of contention and provides promotion for the grassroots community.
“I offer concise and amusing information from my ‘lived in Guelph for twenty five years’ bag of tricks. I’m not trying to compete with existing on-line news services but rather compliment and expand on what already exists. I’ve always been a maven type. I collect and disseminate information,” says Richards.
The City of Guelph benefit from the blogosphere profile too. “It’s easy to forget how culturally rich and picturesque Guelph truly is. Our cultural capital is recognized by people outside of our city, but not always from within. It’s both a drawing card to our city and a vehicle for promotion,” says Richards.
“I’ve had people with plans to move here tune into Blog Guelph in advance of their relocation,” states Richards. “They seem really excited about the feel and look of the city that Blog Guelph projects. University alumni and homesick Guelphites who live away are delighted to get a serving of Guelph just by clicking their mouse.” ”
Richards started her first blog in November of 2004. Although she presently dabbles on several, Blog Guelph and My Menopause Blog keep her busy along with publishing the Breast of Canada calendar.
To add more value to the Blog Guelph experience, Richards profile’s other Guelph bloggers with a live link list called a blogroll. Of the over forty five blogs Richards links to, University of Guelph President Alastair Summerlee, SYNNEX CEO and new owner of Imperial Tobacco, Jim Estill, cartoonist Garth Lind and Liberal candidate hopeful Marva Wisdom are among the blogger plus several artists, real estate agents, musicians, tech heads, politicians, small business owners and her neighbour Randy Sutherland. The Guelph Mercury is in on the bloggy game too with four staff written blogs.
“I’m told there are over 55 million blogs worldwide. It stands to reason that Guelph would have a few,” says Richards.
Blog Guelph’s web traffic report climbs daily. Since installing the stat counter program in late July, Blog Guelph has played host to 15,000 unique visitors and 30,000 visits. The GeoVisitor counter indicates that visitors arrive from all over the world and draw a steady regional crowd too.
Blog Guelph accepts voluntary subscribers and pay per view banner style advertisements. Rates depend on volume of traffic and are available upon request. “If you advertise on Blog Guelph, you also get the advantage of my incessant networking,” says Richards.
“And, people tell me they ‘LOVE’ Blog Guelph,” concludes Richards.
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posted by Sue Richards at 3:58 PM
2 Comments:
Hi, it's Snoskred here. I've recently become a blogging chick and have set myself a challenge to comment on as many Blogging Chick blogs as I can. So that's why I'm here. ;)
Even I have heard of Guelph. I live in Australia. :) But we Aussies do love you Canadians.. :)
Snoskred
http://snoskred.blogspot.com/
When are you coming back?!?
I miss my calendar updates!
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