Gaia Capitalist

Never thought I'd work so hard I'd go so broke.

Of the nine formerly middle-class boomers (ages 50s and 60s) in my group of friends in Spokane, WA - three of us are considering bankruptcy, three have recently filed.  Three of our homes are 6 weeks from foreclosure.  Three of us have received utility shut off notices. Two of us are so ill and disabled and living in such unsanitary, dangerous conditions, I am embarrassed I can't help them more.

Six of us have no health insurance. Only three have steady enough work to limp along.  No benefits or pensions in case we get sick or injured.  This is the American dream now in the US for middle-class folks, especially older single women like me.

Let go let God - I've been fighting this for so long, but it's the end of the month and there is simply not enough money again to pay my credit card bills and my $839 mortgage.  The only reason I have a good, modern car with insurance is because my daughters are making the payments. I'm not driving it these days because an engine light is on and I can't afford to get anything fixed. If it hadn't been for my sister's generous Christmas gift, my lights were scheduled to be shut off the day after Christmas. 

I have $24 in my savings account.  $175 in my checking.  My credit is maxxed, just like everyone else. When I went to Virgin in early November, 2006, about the virginfuels.org news site, I was going down the toilet. Now, at Christmas time and right before the start of 2007, I've been flushed down the toilet.

I offered my bioenergy news site to Virgin in true Gaian spirit.  They didn't want it - will someone else please help sponsor my BioEnergy World News Site?  Look what a good job I did getting virginfuels.org site to the top of the SEs?  Will someone please hire me for a job?

I'm not asking for a handout, just the chance to work. 

Bankruptcy. Dropped out of the SEs. Start over again. Great way to celebrate the holidays.

Gaia Capitalist has lots of company.  12.28.06  16:45 

The SEO savant made her point.  The white hat knows when to stop and even pull back, the black hat takes advantage of the momentum and pushes forward. Since the keywords "gaia capitalist" and "gaia capitalism" are so closely and personally associated with SRB's truly good work and service in the world, and no one at Virgin is paying attention, I decided to take GaiaCapitalist.com and gaiacapitalist.squarespace.com out of the search engines.  (See "Gaia Capitalist captures 4 out 5 of top Google spots in search engine rankings.")

One of the simplest ways to do this quickly is URL framing instead of domain mapping. I use this technique when I want to get inter-related sites out of the SEs fast without reconfiguring meta tags and page titles. One click of the switch.

I have separated GaiaCapitalist.com from my blog the Gaia Capitalist on SquareSpace.com and, when I can, will develope it back to it's original purpose - profiling the importance of Gaia Capitalism and the value of everyone working together.

My blog at gaiacapitalist.squarespace.com will continue theVirgin Fuels virginfuels.org domain name registration discussion. Because the same keywords still reside in a content-rich site, I expect Virgin Fuels the virginfuels.org discussion will again rise quickly to top SE rankings for "gaia capitalist".  12.28.06 14:51

Virginfuels.org finally hit the top of Yahoo rankings placing it at #1 and Virgin.com #2 for "virgin fuels" keywords.  Yahoo takes a long time, and the page title and descriptions reference the site before I received the Virgin cease and desist email.  It reads Virgin Fuels independent news site, renewable fuels, etc.  Instead of promoting Virgin Fuels and the benefits of bioenergy and providing a great variety of articles for educaters and students, investors, businesses,  visitors are now stumbling upon this "discussion". Pity. Unfortunate for everyone concerned and so unnecessary.  12.28. 03:40

No visits to virginfuels.org by grain.virgin.co.uk and/ormail.virginunite.co.uk hostnames according to virginfuels.org site logs and traffic reports. No indication Virgin is monitoring what the Gaia Capitalist is posting regarding the virginfuels.org Virgin Fuels domain name registration discussion.

Traffic on site down 90%.  Since sysops stripped it of any keywords associated to Virgin Fuels (12.25.06), site has lost it's top search engine rankings.  Last checked, after dropping all the way to #16 it's back to first page #10 Google for "virgin fuels" keywords.

Rose to Google #3 for "gaia capitalist" keywords. Still holding MSN #1 for "africa bioenergy news" "brazil bioenergy news" and #1 and #2 for "china bioenergy news".   12-28-06  12:12

Gaia Capitalist blogger launched BioEnergyWorldNews.com news site dedicated to bioenergy issues, renewable fuel technologies, sustainable energy policies. Based on the principles of Gaia Capitalism. Site still mirrored to virginfuels.org - sysops' best server guy and tech in the world (ClearLight Communications) in process of separating mysql databases and configuring file changes. Thanks Don!  12.27.06  22:40

Darlene Brice, search engine optimization (SEO) savant, placed #1, #3, #4, #5 spots on Google.co.uk , out of 97,000 listings, for her sites and blog keywords "gaia capitalist".  12.26.06  20:40

Where would the Internet be today if the whole enterprise wasn't based on open source code? (dcb: ancient history. It's not in Wikipedia, which begs the question "if it's not in Wiki, does it exist?")

Where would the Internet be today if html was private intellectual property like DOS and MicroSoft?

Where would personal computer application software be today without the contributions of geeks like Bob Wallace, Jim "Button" Knopf and Andrew Fluegelman. considered the "fathers" of the 1980's shareware freeware marketing model?

Where would e-commerce be today without freeware ZenCart?

Where would big newspapers and corporate sites be today without shareware content management systems people like Exponent and Drupal?

Where would blogging be without Interpreneurs offering a great service for a tiny price like SquareSpace? 

Time magazine named us collectively "Person of the Year" for a reason. As Interpreneurs, we are forcing a new way to create and conduct business, from the bottom up.

David and Goliath redux.

I present my credentials as a granny elder of the Internet.

1982 - my first pc IBM vanilla box with jerry-rigged boards, twin floppy disks, 128k RAM.

1983 - first game played on Atari, had to key the code in myself from a computer gamer mag.

1984 - hooked into Stanford University mainframe working with non-profit organization that collected community data as one of arpa.net's first 19 pilot projects.  Only three mainframes participated.

1985 - started going online, checking out the bulletin boards.  In the olden days, we were called bb sysops. Do bloggers know DOS these days?

1985- had to place the headset of my rotary dial phone into the modem coupler to get connected with, what was then, a small community of like minded technonerds and computer freaks.  We weren't hip back then.

1997- finally taught myself to read and write html code, published my first web page online.

1999 - designed, produced and published first website.

db note - from 1985 to 1999 I raised twin daughters and freelanced doing graphics and print publications on my pc clone out of my home office.  At 55 years old, I claim also to be an original desk-top publisher.

I reside in Spokane, WA, and work in cyberspace, trying to make a living as a web publisher, graphic artist, writer, researcher and outspoken sysops.  Did I mention, I need a job?

In my current discussion with the Virgin Group regarding virginfuels.org it has been suggested that I got virginfuels.org placed at the top of the search engine rankings on my reliance alone to their trademark and copyrighted, protected intellectual property and therefore any value I have built into the site belongs to them.

Untrue. SEO pros know the actual domain name plays a minor role in SEO indexing. If other SE criteria are not met, the name alone will not bring it to the top. If Virgin’s contention, is true then virginfuels.com and virginfuels.net would be ahead of the .org extension in the rankings.

On the other hand, if engine criteria is met and optimized, and updated regularly, then it’s almost impossible to knock out these first three extensions from the top spots. This is why we buy the .com, .net and .org of site names - to take advantage of how search engines read and rate data. I bought virginfuels.org bioenergy news site, for example, when I saw it was available, because I knew, right off the bat, if I did everything else right, I could start out in fourth position in the SEs. 

This is the domain name extension list (from GoDaddy.com) in descending order of their value in search engine crawls. Standard practice for optimizers to use this list when buying site extensions.  Crawl starts with .gov which 95% of the time takes precedence to any extension in the public domain, then moves to:

.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us, .tv, .ws, .name, .cc, .de, .jp, .be, .at, .uk, .nz, .cn, .tw, .jobs, .eu, .fm, .ms, .nu, .tc, .vq, and new one .mobi. Criteria easily change as different engines crawl – and there are untold numbers of them out there - but they all begin at the beginning - (.gov), .com, .net, and .org.

I got virginfuels.org to the top of the SE's by my clever and skillful use of keywords, meta tags, descriptions, page titles, page content, site hierarchy structure, and other Search Engine Optimization techniques. As proof of my ability, I got #1 and #2 spots on MSN for separate pages on this site for keywords "africa bioenergy" and "brazil bioenergy news" without using anything related to Virgin, the Virgin Group, or Virgin Fuels.

Check out what I've done for my blog Gaia Capitalist. Out of 97,900 entries on Google I have managed to get my sites into the #1, #2 and #4 placement for "gaia capitalist" keywords. Google #5 but on AOL, I captured the #1 and #3 spots. On Clusty, virginfuels.org is #2 for "gaia capitalist" keywords (no reference to Virgin).

As a Christmas gift to my twin daughters, I got Google #1 on their name keywords for our family scrapbook. By using image alt text and descriptions,  page titles and other SEO techniques, I managed to get the description to read "Daughters Brice, your Mom loves you!" Out of over 100k for their very generic names, my optimization skills alone placed them both #1 on Google Christmas Eve.

How do we measure the value of consistent top search engine rankings for several different keywords?