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Hi – this is Sue here again. I want to tell you about the very beginning of this course. Mark said he wanted use to brand ourselves with our own names. Just first name surname.com. Obviously, he did not realize that if you type sue mcdonald into Google you come up with (today) 748000 entries spread over 846 URLs.
Have you ever looked at this search in Google? Amongst the linked names (to name a few) are artists, photographers, Doctors, a clinical psychologist and Real Estate agents. But there are so many entries of people wanting to sue McDonald.
They want to sue for various reasons one group of youngsters sued because McDonald failed to warn them that fast food can lead to obesity. Didn’t their parents ever tell them the risks of eating fast food all the time?
One couple wanted to sue McDonald because the husband left his cell phone at one of their restaurants and the naked pictures of his wife were uploaded to the internet.
This one bought a smile to my face. This guy wanted to sue McDonalds because it clearly states on the side of the bag; “From the hundreds of varieties available, fewer than 10 types of potatoes and apples are good enough for McDonald’s. And to give you perfect grapes, we carefully pick each one hand by hand.”
He didn’t believe there were 10 different varieties of potatoes never lone 100 varieties or more and he was not aware of any product where McDonalds used grapes. He sought advice to see if he could sue them. He must have thought he knew their products very well.
I could not find any court ruling on any article so I do not know if anyone won or lost.
So, you could see the predicament I was in, with the plain name of Sue McDonald and no middle name. Then Mark suggested I put a hyphen in the name and try that. It worked but the next trick was to get my ranking up with Google. I must have started at the very bottom. I checked after 10 days and out of the 846 I had reached position196. Just before I started writing this blog, I checked again. I have reached the dizzy heights of 144. I will keep working on driving traffic and see how far I can get my site up in the Google rankings.
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Hey Sue
Thank you for visiting my blog and your comments, yes I too was one of Alex’s first students and I learned alot from him. I also have Chris Farrell as a mentor and also a friend. I like your blog layout clean and fresh, good luck with your course I’m sure Mark will help you all the way. The only bit of advice I could give you is Do one thing at a time and finish it before you go on to the next one. I know only to well how easy it is to try and get 10 different webs up in different niches, you end up exploding.
Again good luck and take care, email me anytime.
Cheers
Al
Hi Al
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Thanks for the advice. Yes I know how easy it is to get pulled in many direction at once. My main focus is this course and doing what I have to do each week. I do have a few other web pages up but at the moment I am not doing anything with them. I am determined to succeed.
Well done Sue. Looks like you’re learning lots and putting the hard yards in. I wish you big success with it all!!
Thanks Belinda
If you every want to start again just let me know and I will help you.
Cheers
Sue
Sue, I’m in the midst of trying to find a domain name for myself. My name is taken….the best I can find is 2 hyphens between the first and last name. I don’t know if that would work. I’m checking various combinations with my name to find something. I saw you had to do the single hyphen in your name.
Hi Cheryl
Nice of you to visit my blog. Do you have a middle name that you could use? That is often another way around it. My name is just Sue McDonald. I do not have a middle name so this is how I got around it. It does get a little bit difficult to find the right combination at times.
Regards
Sue
Excellent post
Excellent Blog
I will put a link back to your site on mine.
Regards
Hector
Hi Hector
Nice of you to comment. I will put a link to you as well
Regards
Sue