Two Year Wrap-Up

Ryan    Uncategorized     Keyword Rank, SpyFu

Just to inform you, today marks my last Friday at my current employer, and if you don’t know who that is… I think I’ll point it out later in this entry. Any ways, today, as I was finishing up some last minute things before the weekend, I began to do some Google searches for some of the keywords we had for so long wanted to rank for. To make a long story short… with all of the dilemmas with content, lead generation, and everything else I have been facing over the last 4-5 months, I really haven’t had ANY time to focus on any kind of keyword research/SEO issues I had originally set out to do. Today was enlightening. Look at what SpyFu.com pulled up on us:

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Remember Yahoo?

Ryan    Uncategorized     Search Engines, Yahoo

Hey, remember when Yahoo! was a search engine?

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Yeah, I know that the Yahoo! homepage has been like this for a long long time, but after seeing that top horizontal ad space, I think the truth of what Yahoo! really has going is something more. Remember when we were always prompted to make a webpage ‘Our Homepage’… this is not what I want my ‘Homepage’ to look like.

A Storm Came and Went

Ryan    Uncategorized     Phoenix

Yesterday brought one of the biggest storms I’ve seen in a long time, especially here in Phoenix. While the first hail episode occurred at around 12:30, it was the second storm at around 5 or so that brought the most damage. Take a look at the tail end.

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FourSquare Server Error

Ryan    Uncategorized     Fail, FourSquare

Usually this kinda stuff sucks.

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I guess I meant always.

When something #fails, I usually try to find an alternative. I think there are many.

Google Goggles

Ryan    Uncategorized     Google Goggles, Microsoft Tag, QR Codes

If you haven’t heard about Google Goggles, go check it out. If you’re not feeling up to doing any clicking or searching at this time, to explain it in a nutshell, its basically a search tool that utilizes the camera on your iPhone or Android to recognize visual characteristics of objects (digitally) and then will proceed to lead you to more information about whatever it was you took your picture of. Subjects could be anything from book titles, to foreign languages, to landmarks, or even just a simple logo. How crazy does this sound to you? Technology wise, this concept is pretty revolutionary. From a marketing perspective, its pretty extrordinary. read more

The Age of Promotion on Twitter

Ryan    Uncategorized     Promoted Tweets, Twitter

I stumbled across a tweet from HootSuite yesterday reading:

Hoot! New Blog post: HootSuite Syndicates Promoted Tweets and Trends from Twitter http://ow.ly/19hP6C

With all of the talk and rumors going on regarding #NewTwitter, its no wonder that everyone who has a stake in Twitter, is making 100% sure that they don’t miss a single beat when it comes to integration. HootSuite is right there… and I’m pretty sure Twitter is praising their pro-activeness.

Because I began writing this post yesterday, and I cannot concentrate on anything related to whatever it was I was trying to write about, I have to cut this entry short right here.