How to Rank High in Google with Molly Holzschlag
Nancy: Okay, so we’d all get down to my last question which is an important one. I think we’re giving prizes to the authors for the top answer. We’re interviewing all the authors on this particular one. So if we’re going to try to bump this interview up to the top ranking on Google so we want this to be when someone searches on it to come up at the top of the ranking.
How would you do that? And part of your answer needs to also be optimized for search engines so your answer would also need to have in it the keywords that we would use in order to get it there.
Molly: If you forgive me for some incompletely arrogant and sound pessimistic, would you do that, I have one word, Molly.
Nancy: Okay! That’s a very fair answer you know and it’s interesting. Every author answers that different way.
Molly: Just Molly. Could you imagine if I have gotten whole club? Alright, because if I got the wholeclub.com, I don’t think I would have a clear I have today.
Nancy: Well, you’re reachable at Molly.com.
Molly: Absolutely, So www.Molly.com.
Nancy: I mean everybody fix satellite how would you get that? There’s an interesting story about that.
Molly: Well, tell me the story. I never heard that story.
Nancy: This is very funny because actually it was Linda Monument and Harley Hahn.
Molly: Remember Harley?
Nancy: Oh, of course, yes. How could anyone forget Harley Hahn?
Molly: Who writes Harley.com right?
Nancy: Yes, right.
Molly: It’s so amazing! They both were influential in my early career as an author so by my second book, I was getting a lot of interest from Linda and interest from Harley at that time and they both were mentors to me and they said get the domain name because we have early in then it was working great and so this is before we even had network solutions or anything like that. There was no money going. It was at the National Science Foundation and you know you didn’t pay.
Nancy: Right! Great!
Molly: So I have to do a few researches and somebody had it and they let it go into a non-response kind of, I forget with the method was but there if you weren’t using it and it didn’t respond to queries at that point, they would put you in a certain categories. Suzy went in that category. The domain name became up for the first not for sale, no money earlier so for grabs basically.
Nancy: Yeah, for grabs.
Molly: And so you know you should have seen me like I was there everyday waiting for this to happen because it was clear that they were not responding and so on like on and everyday. This is what 94 or 95, very early on so I’d get it, I hate it, and five minutes later, I’ll get an email from Huang Laboratories which are no longer, right.
Nancy: Right, exactly.
Molly: And I get this email from this guy at Wang Laboratory who says we just been waiting on Molly.com and you got there first and we want to know where this is what they’ve told me, we’re building a search engine. They’re reusing the name Molly because the CEO had just had a daughter that he had name Molly and they’re reusing it as their code name. And they wanted the domain and so there hopefully was. That mean that they were going to use that for the search engine and this was they keep telling me, “They’re like. Well, you know, what will take to get that from you” and I said you’re not going to get it. And it was so funny because he’s like what will give you a big link you’ll be on our search engine page.
Nancy: Right, right, yeah!
Molly: It’s so great and it sound like you know and then they send me a picture of little Molly.
Nancy: Oh, to try to convince you and make you feel so terrible that you’d take in her identity.
Molly: I know I try to appeal to the maternal goodness in my heart that’s in all give it to a little girl. She needs it.
Nancy: I know that thing.
Molly: Oh I'm too selfish for that and I have to give it up so I called on to that.
Nancy: That is a great story.
Molly: Well, it is and the thing is it does go background to the fact that I can answer that. It was really funny New Zealand. They introduce me as the domain name like there is a share and there’s a prints, and there’s a Molly, right?
Nancy: Right, yeah!
Molly: That’s really funny, because to me you know I'm Molly Holzschlag and right?
Nancy: Right!
Molly: And the whole slot is an impossible name for most Americans.
Nancy: Name like mine Nancy Ruenzel no one can pronounce it, yeah.
Molly: Oh right, it seems like nobody could spell it, pronounce it so could you just imagine what my current benefit if I've done Holzschlag.com instead of Molly.com
Nancy: Right, yeah! It would be a different conversation perhaps we would be having today.
Molly: Absolutely it would be potentially a conversation.
Nancy: So you’re right.
Molly: So that’s what I really I don’t mean to sound American but that’s why because that name early on because of the great advice of visionaries. I was able to snag that and brand my self and then I trademark it by the way.
Nancy: You did!
Molly: Yes, it’s a very difficult thing to trademark a name.
Nancy: I bet that was a process.
Molly: It took me four 4 years and I trademark the name.
Nancy: Yeah, because you have to show and used in multiple ways etcetera. Oh, I can guarantee you it didn’t take us that much trouble to get peachb.com.
Molly: Which is great. But if you would not get it when you got it, I'm sure somebody would come around that.
Molly: That’s right, that’s right and.
Nancy: And some people can go off and find everything about your books at www.Peachbe.com but also at Molly.com.
Molly: Right. They’re going to learn more about me.
Nancy: They’ll learn more about you at Molly.com absolutely.
Molly: And sometimes I rinse on standards but it’s more like it’s personal.
Nancy: And if you have a choice of telling people where to find you in terms of social networking, where you’ll just send
Molly: Oh, definitely Twitter. You can always email me.
Nancy: Are you in Facebook?
Molly: Yeah. I'm on my Facebook as well. It’s interesting. I have now decided on not joining anymore social networks. I'm on linked in.
Nancy: Okay, I’ll focus for the here first.
Molly: It’s linked in Twitter and Facebook. I can’t do anymore. No plunking and plunking and in this scenario and I can’t do it anymore.
Molly: It’s too much! So we’ll be following you on Twitter in the next few days and thanks so much.
Nancy: Thanks so much for having you here.
Molly: Thanks very much, Nancy. It’s always a pleasure to me. Thank you.
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