It is now possible to hit the publish button on your latest blog post and see the result within 30 seconds on Google. I am not exaggerating, I’ve just done it. I hit the publish button, copied the headline, fired up Google and pasted in the query. Hit search (yes, I know you can type enter to save time) and there’s my blog post in the number one spot (and number two indented which means they actually indexed one page and updated another). In 30 seconds flat, probably faster because I wasn’t rushing. Now how the hell do they do that and just how fast is Google?

The fact I took the headline and first two paragraphs from a news site and the original was ranked at number three is a bit embarrassing (for them), but of course I gave them a read more link to funnel the traffic their way.

I’ve been noticing the speed pick-up all month but now it’s just crazy fast. Think about it, an obscure little web site in the arsehole of nowhere coughs up a post and somewhere out there ravenous Google beasts instantly detect movement and pounce. They race the prey at light speed back to the Google hive, stash it in just the right spot and then bolt away to find the next catch. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365.25 days per year, for millions of web sites all over the planet.

You can’t help being impressed (or make that depressed if you are Yahoo or Bing).

Of course you can’t achieve this turnaround with just any web site. You need to work to prime the Google beasts so they notice when you twitch. If you hardly ever move then you eventually get ignored even if you resort to jumping up and down and waving your arms around.

Yes I know Google has been indexing pages faster and faster for a while now but something has definitely changed, something has picked up a gear. I’m aware I could run over to the face-slappingly smug blog run by that famous Google guy and get all the details but, as it happens, I’m not a fan boy by nature.

The “activity” thing must be for real then, because why else would they go to such lengths to provide performance this impressive? If you don’t know what the “activity” thing is, SEO bods and rebel (i.e. new product launch imminent) marketers are saying that Google is about to pay a whole lot more attention to freshness and social “buzz” at the expense of traditional on page SEO and link building.

Put another way, pull SENuke back to second gear and get yourself a blog and a Twitter account. Plus get yourself a cat, you’ll need something inane to talk about in the land of social media. Love it or not that’s where we’re going because that’s where Google is taking us – fast!

Okay… I’m hitting the publish button… NOW!

216 followers on Twitter now (see previous post No Time to Waste). That’s in just over 2 days! Now I don’t for a second imagine just by having a heap of followers on Twitter I can relax and wait for the money to roll in. No, I’m using Twitter as one piece of a traffic generation method that I’m stitching together.

I have to say though, a lot of the people I’ve started to follow in return have plenty to say and there are a few gems hidden in there. I think I like Twitter, though I’m determined not to spend non-profitable hours on it.

I’ll talk about the other traffic generation methods and how they all fit together next week.

Generating traffic is all that I’m focusing on because I figure without traffic and without something useful to present when the traffic arrives I don’t stand much of a chance in terms of making money online.

I’ve decided to take weekends off and work like a carthorse Monday to Friday. I have a regular day job to take care of, fortunately I work from home and that’s a big, big benefit. The 9 to 5 will be working for the man and the remaining hours in each day I’ll work for myself (and Gordon Brown of course, mustn’t forget his bung!).

In my spare time today I was thinking about my Vision Statement. All the gurus I’ve listened to demand I have one. They say it doesn’t need to be complicated but it does need to be ambitious. Here goes:

I will earn enough online by providing top quality information products and services so I can give up my day job once and for all, and help other people do the same.

Isn’t the whole regular work scene humiliating, when you stop to consider it? Arrive when they tell you, leave when they tell you, eat when they tell you, mind your manners, be judged and rated and ranked and get thrown out the door when some bean-counter thinks there’s value in kicking you in the butt as thanks for all those years.

I just don’t want to do that any more, no matter how good the pay is. It’s degrading and I’m better than that and I deserve a more useful and fulfilled life. Provided I put the effort in to achieve it.

Rush say it better than I can. You may or may not like their style, but you have to admit – they’ve got a point. Have a great weekend.

Well, about 24 hours after activating this system I have 73 followers, all without lifting a finger. Multiply that up by 30 days and you get 2,190 followers just as the system claims!

Now I don’t know if this will continue at the current pace so let’s not get too excited just yet. And it could be I have 73 robot followers who will be of no value whatsoever, but having scanned my follower list I don’t think that’s the case.

Anyway, so far so good. Keep an eye on my Twitter account at http://www.twitter.com/marketplex to see if this trend continues. For more information on the product I’m using go and watch this video (aff.link).

I could have hired a lawyer and an accountant. But I didn’t do any of that because right now I haven’t made a penny. It’s pretty easy to account for nothing, I can do that myself and I’ll hire some help once the nothing turns into something.

Traffic, that’s what I need. Without traffic I’m not going to be much of an Internet Marketer. So let’s deal with that first.

Tony Shepherd sent me a mail a couple of days ago and I opened it pretty much like I open all the other marketing emails I’ve signed up for – with a sigh, “What now?” But this was a good one about a new Twitter automation product that GUARANTEES you 2,000 new followers EVERY MONTH!

Well that counts as traffic and they were offering a stupidly low lock-in price, in fact I don’t think this thing has even launched yet because when I went to the home page it just said, “Coming Soon!” Thanks Tony, looks like you got me in on the ground floor.

If you want to know more about this new product, which really will be something if it does what it claims, then watch this video (aff. link).

I got the introductory price, which is so low it’s crazy, I doubt it’s still available now though as it was first 200 sign-ups only. If it works out it’ll be another smart investment, a no-brainer. I’ll tell you on this blog how well this product does, I’ll give you my numbers each week. We’ll soon find out if it’s as good as it claims. I’ve just activated it, today is Thursday 19th January. Stay tuned.

But go and watch the video (aff. link) for yourself rather than listen to me blabbering on. They explain it better than I can.

Automatic methods for getting traffic, legal ones of course. That’s what I’m interested in. I’m not interested in taking huge risks on PPC, haven’t got the time to fine tune my site to the nth degree and write a ton of original, optimised content. So I need other methods to get the traffic and I’ll be explaining what I’ve settled on over the coming days.