Do follow blog
Adam January 24th, 2012
I’ve decided to make my blog here DoFollow. I moderate every comment and run Askimet anyway so I feel this is a good move. It’ll encourage more comments which is something I’d be happy to have.
Corporate Regulatory Committee from Salem, Oregon is a Scam
Adam January 23rd, 2012
I wanted to let the internet know and spread the word of a scam that is targeting small business’s in Oregon. I got a letter today from a “Corporate Regulatory Committee” in Salem, Oregon but really this is a scam. They ask for $238 in order to file an annual report to the Secretary of State according to Oregon statute 60.787. Being in busisness for years I know that I’ve been sent a letter directly from the secretary of state of Oregon asking for me to update my LLC license and for the renewal fee’s. This company, “Corporate Regulatory Committee”, is just trying to capitalize on something that isn’t needed and looks official to scare business’s into doing this.
As any informed business should do I did a Google search. At first I didn’t see any thing about it but hidden down a few listings was a post from the John Gear Law Office. In their post they also point out that this is a scam and to not send any money to this company. The original post is here. Maybe the “Corporate Regulatory Committee” shouldn’t have sent a law firm a scam letter 
Taken directly from the State of Oregon’s website is a quote from Oregon 60.787. ” The Secretary of State shall mail the annual report form to any address shown for the corporation in the current records of the office. ”
I really don’t like these letters. I get them all the time from domain registry companies. They look official, they scare the business into doing something that they don’t need to do, they cost business’s thousands of dollars a year (if not millions, overall), and they are a waste of time.
Landing page infographic
Adam October 28th, 2011
A nice infographic for landing pages. I’ll just leave this here!
Good job Big G
Adam September 15th, 2011
I recently found my Google places account suspended! “Ouch”, I thought at first. There’s no explanation or anything of the sorts. It’s just a “you’re suspended and you should read the rules before reapplying for your account back” type of deal. But I already knew what I did. I know the rules. I knew I was breaking them. Why would I do that? It’s sad to say but it’s because everyone is (or was). I believe my offense (it’s not confirmed yet) was adding keywords at the end of the place’s business name. It’s smart that they don’t want that happening because it’ll get out of hand and it’s not accurate. It makes sense though to me that people would exploit this until being caught. I congratulate the big G for enforcing the rules and making a nicely organized list of business’s. There’s too many other ones out there that suck.
When no one seemed to be enforcing the rules for this what else are you going to do to get to the top of the 7 pack (local results) when everyone else is? So I knew I wasn’t in the right here but what are you going to do in this dog eat dog world… sometimes the nice guys finish last.
As for my listing (Azunga is the only one in that places page account for that account that was suspended) that got suspended it actually never comes up on the local results anyway… I’ve realized and through my testing that web design, web development, and many other computer related services aren’t considered local search terms. That’s even if you include the local town or city name ie. “portland web design” the search isn’t counted as a local search and the normal, more global, search results page comes up. That surprises me a bit because in my experience people prefer to go local with their web / computer needs as a face to face meeting is just so much easier… we’ll see if the Big G changes that anytime soon.
Beards
Adam September 1st, 2011
I rock the beard and today on reddit I found this:
*Since I’m not the designer and I feel the need to give some link love to the original designer, here’s his blog.
