{"id":40,"date":"2016-02-12T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/?p=40"},"modified":"2016-02-22T00:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:20:25","slug":"peaked-and-piqued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/2016\/02\/12\/peaked-and-piqued\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaked, and piqued"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My collegiate journalism career peaked last night \u2013 and all I could think about what search engine optimization.<\/span><\/p>\n

I found myself waltzing in a room lined with Facebook-blue covered tables and large screen TVs yesterday afternoon surrounded by the state and the nation\u2019s greatest journalists. We were all there, in a press filing room in UW-Milwaukee\u2019s Student Union while anxiously waiting to hear what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) were going to squabble about tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was a lowly peasant from the <\/span>Royal Purple<\/a> in a room of royalty reporters, photographers and videographers from the <\/span>AP<\/a>, <\/span>CNN<\/a> and the likes. It gave me hope I would someday return after making a name for myself, while humbling me the instant I walked into the room.<\/span><\/p>\n

I got physically and mentally swept up in student activists protesting for a student worker\u2019s union. I talked those holding signs in all-caps, \u201cHillary for Jail 2016.\u201d It was dumb luck that my news team and I happened to be interviewing a member of the UW-M College Republicans as the police forced them to move their table \u2013 for the third time that night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing all of this in high heels, may I add.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this whole time, I was thinking about search engine optimization.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s content could not have come at a better time. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the beginning of the week, I was looking to figure out how I could optimize my stories when posted to the Royal Purple news page. Last night I was figuring out how I could <\/span>tweet<\/a> out the messages of the people around me so they could be seen by the outside world. I consciously thought about how I could write my <\/span>story<\/a> in order to get the most viewers possible to <\/span>the Royal Purple\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n

I actually pondered the headline I was going to write, in order to make sure it was searchable. Thirteen hours later, I\u2019m studying the analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I\u2019m pretty sure my college career peaked, my interest in how to increase my online presence piqued, too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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