Jessica Shepard Photography » social networking http://jessicashepard.com Portland Oregon Wedding Photographer Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:19:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Online Networking Addiction Update http://jessicashepard.com/2009/photography/online-networking-addiction-portland-photography/ http://jessicashepard.com/2009/photography/online-networking-addiction-portland-photography/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:15:06 +0000 Jessica http://blog.jessicashepard.com/?p=2189 Ok, I made it a week with my goals and totally broke it today. I have been on Facebook three times already but even worse I went to Flickr. Not to upload photos, like I should, but to read the forums. From there I discovered a post by David Redding, London Ontario wedding photographer, talking about how he made page one on Google. Congrats David, btw!

Of course this broke my strength and I had to check my stats. To my surprise, I got great results. Google acknowledges my existence. Depending on the search term, I’m ranked between pages 2 and 4. So the moral of the story, maybe my time working instead of obsessing so far has gone well? I think so. I also think it’s more rewarding to only take a peak now and then. Back to trying to keep my original goals now…

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For the month of August I will not:

  • Visit the Flickr forums
  • Go to Facebook more than once a day
  • Check out other photographers’ websites
  • Spend more than 15 minutes on Twitter each
  • Analyze my site stats (no google rank checks, no analytics number reading, no statpress)

I will:

  • Blog every day
  • Work like crazy to keep up with processing all my clients images, and designing albums

Will I get a lot more of my core work accomplished in less time?  How much online networking is enough to keep a business presence but not interfere with work?  Will blogging everyday really improve my SEO and add to my RSS readers? Check back in September to see how it goes.

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