Back in 2006 when we moved to Arizona, all I seemed to hear from everyone there was the word Passion. What is your passion? Are you living your life and working at your passion? Passion this, passion that, blah blah passion BS!

Now 4 years later I am back living on the east coast in South Florida and I haven’t been bombarded with this passion word. I am also going to assume it is because there was no book called The Secret that recently came out either. But regardless the whole passion phenomena either died down or I am just not in the right circles to be hearing it.
When I think of passion, I first think of love and relationships. Then I think about what I desire to do with my life and my future. I have been blessed to follow multiple passions from being a dancer to teaching, traveling, being a small business owner to teaching myself about online marketing and Organic SEO for the past 10 years. Thanks to me following my “passions” (which I NEVER used this word prior to living in Arizona), I have been given a great opportunity to work for a company full time as their SEO Editor. I will still continue my consulting for Organic SEO but the fact that I followed my gut 10 years ago and learned about Organic SEO and Google without an official college program, now has opened doors which wouldn’t have happened had I been scared to jump on the online marketing playing field back in 2000.

So what’s your passion and how will you make your dreams a reality? Will it be through a JV? Will it be through a mentor? Think about what you want from your life and go after it no matter who or what boundaries may lie ahead. If I listened to everyone 10 years ago, I wouldn’t have been given the opportunities that I have encountered. From speaking at expos about Organic SEO and online marketing to working with some amazing people, keep your chin up and be patient because no attempt is wasted if you learn from it.

Be well,

Lisa

As promised, it is time to share some of my pics from the AdWords workshop this weekend. Of course I blanked out and forgot to ask someone to take pics of me while I presented. If anyone has some pics of me, I would love to have a copy of one.

Here are some pics and I look oh so lovely…

This past weekend was an amazing experience meeting everyone and hope to have many more.

This past weekend was an amazing experience meeting everyone and hope to have many more.

As reported on CNet yesterday,

Is Google’s PageRank algorithm changing?

There are many speculations about if this rumor is true or why Google wants to change their continued plan to conquering the Internet and make an online marketer rich world to totally dropping many high ranking sites down the totem pole.

Do you think Google likes that they have the power over the entire search engine market and building an Internet empire? Yes of course they do! Between all the buying of other companies, they just keep getting bigger and stronger but to change the algorithm that may hurt some companies, is the power going to far?

Or we can look at it another way; with the changing of the algorithm, will it give the smaller Websites and online businesses a chance to rank higher in the SERP’s? Unfortunately I cannot answer this question but would be interested in seeing if this rumor is true, how it will affect the online-racking-in-the-money business to the smaller gal’s online, working-hard-to-pay-the-bills eCommerce business.

Let’s tune in together to find out what Google has planned next…