I just discovered that I am now the #1 Internet Marketing Coach ranked by Google.

Go search “internet marketing coach” at Google.com.sg, you’ll see my Internet Marketing Coach blog at WordPress.com is ranked Number 1.

And if you search using Google.com, I am ranked number 3.

Google Must Have Changed Something

Not bad for a blog that was dormant for past 6 months. If I haven’t been change anything in that blog then Google must have changed it ranking algorithm. Maybe WordPress.com is getting back into Google good

For the past 7 months, it was ranked between 9th to 15th position.

In fact, this Internet Marketing Coach blog was first ranked among the top 10 in July 2007 – just 4 months after I started the blog to experiment how quickly I could achieve top 10 ranking for a relatively competitive keywords such as “internet marketing coach”.

Maybe I should make some time to get it into the top 10 spots for the very competitive internet marketing.

After a couple hours of hacking with JavaScript, I finally created my very first SEO-friendly social bookmarking widget specially for this blog. As you can see, I’ve positioned the bookmark widget right at the top of the post to get the most attention and clicks.

The widget is constructed with JavaScript. It is a very simple script which I modified from “Build Your Own Social Bookmark Widget” by Gath Adams.

// JavaScript - bookmarking_widget.js
var theTitle = encodeURIComponent(document.title)
var theURL = encodeURIComponent(document.location)
document.write('<style type="text/css">
  .bookmark_widget{margin:15px 0 10px;font-size:12px;
  font-family:arial,verdana,san serif}
  .bookmark_widget a{font-weight:normal;margin-left:5px}
  </style>')
document.write('<div class="bookmark_widget">')
document.write('<a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url='
  +theURL+'&title='+theTitle+'"
  title="See who bookmarked at del.icio.us" >
  <img src="http://images.del.icio.us/static/img/
  delicious.gif" alt=" " height="16" width="16"
  border="0" />&nbsp;del.icio.us</a> ')
document.write('<a href="http://technorati.com/
  faves/?add='+theURL+'" title="Favorite it at
  Technorati" >
  <img src="http://static.technorati.com/x/static/
  images/buttons/fave.png" alt=" " height="13"
  width="18" border="0" />&nbsp;fave it</a> ')
document.write('<a href="http://reddit.com/submit?url='
  +theURL+'&title='+theTitle+'") title="Add To
  Reddit"><img src="http://sp.reddit.com/
  reddithead4.gif" alt="Reddit" height="16" width="16"
  border="0" />&nbsp;reddit</a>')
document.write('<a href="

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+theURL+

  '&title='+theTitle+'") title="StumbleUpon - I like
  it"><img src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/
  images/icon_su.gif" alt=" " height="16" width="16"
  border="0" />&nbsp;StumbleUpon</a>')
document.write("</div>")

And I modified the file single.php of the Prologue theme.

<div id="widget_digg">
  <script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js"></script>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>
  /bookmark_widget.js"></script>
<?php the_content( __( '[More...]' ) ); ?>

From the source codes above, you can see that I placed the bookmarking widget after the Digg It Submit Button. I think this layout looks pretty neat.

Beside adding the social bookmarking widget at this blog, I also installed it at http://shihengcheong.com/blog/ and http://www.timmguru.com. As I have a wider column in both of these blogs, I was able to squeeze in a few more social bookmarking sites: Furl, Reddit and also friendfeed.

Click here to download bookmark_widget.js.txt
(You will need to rename the file and remove .txt)

“But I don’t know JavaScript”

If you are not familiar with JavaScript or just don’t like to DIY, then you can try using Share This WordPress Plugin instead.