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InstantSpot Boys

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:58:25 GMT

Have you noticed that the InstantSpot Staff has been quite lately? I hear they are are cooking up a brand new version of InstantSpot for us. I wonder if that means the older shirts will go on sale?

Good Day!
Ryan

Need A Spot?

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:39:30 GMT

Hey you! Yea, you! Do you know what you are reading? Well, besides the fun, entertaining not always grammatically correct rambles of a web developer. You are reading an InstantSpot! InstantSpot is a social networking site, similar to those other social networking sites, but better! On InstantSpot you are not limited to just one page to update, oh no, you can create and update as many pages as you want, plus maintain your own blog, calendars and photo albums.

So are you interested in having your own Spot? It’s free don’t cha know? If you’re interested use the referral code below. That way the boys over at InstantSpot know I sent ya.

http://www.instantspot.com/referral?c=n3fpjscv

Good Day!
Ryan

Google Heart InstantSpot

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:10:07 GMT

A recent post by Aaron Lynch sent me to Chris Rutherford's blog where he explains how many hits he is getting from Google to his spot. Chris shows off some stats on how 91% of his site referralls come from Google. This post got me thinking I should share my stats to back up his claim. If you want hits to your blog InstantSpot is the answer!!

Below is a screen shot of my organic referrals by search engine according to my Google Analytics account.

As you can see 98% of referrals to my blog come from google vs the remaining 1.96% from msn and yahoo combined.

The next screen is just the detail of those percentages above. Not quite up to Chris' hits yet, but hey I'm new at all this.

Another thing I found out by looking at my stats is that my number one key word referral is for "mssql date format" followed by "sql date format". Both of these key words bring visitors to a post I made which provided some code on formatting SQL dates. As of this posting my blog comes up as number 7 when googling for "mssql date format ", something I find amazing! That is such a generic term and for my little blog to rank number 7 is a testament to Dave, Aaron and InstantSpot.

At any rate just thought I'd share my opinion on the matter. InstantSpot is a very very cool place to be right now. So if you are thinking about blogging come on in, the water is warm!

Good Day!
Ryan

PS InstantSpot is more than just blogs by the way, its a whole website, for free just for you. With the ability to change host headers and style sheets you can really make it your own in a hurry.

Challenge Accepted!

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:09:05 GMT

I’ve been called a lot of mean things in my life some to my face and surely more behind my back. However the other day I got called a name by a guy I don’t even know! This guy, Todd, if that is his real name, called me a lurker!!! A lurker??!! How can you call me a lurker if you don’t even know me Todd??

Well Todd didn’t just call me a lurker he called A LOT of ColdFusion developers lurkers or takers. We can define lurkers or takers in this case as developers that take code from blogs or other community sites but don’t give back to the community. For whatever reason, either they are too busy or too lazy they just don’t give back. Therefor Todd proposed a challenge. The challenge was for us all to get more involved in the ColdFusion Community, write a blog, join a CFUG or mailing list. Do something to give back.

Well Todd, challenge accepted! I’m going to try my best to make time to give back. What I say here on my InstantSpot may seem silly to those more experienced than I, so for that I apologize and welcome all feedback.

If you are new to the ColdFusion or Blog thing, here are some of the hot spots I visit often,.

Dave Shuck
Aaron J Lynch
Matt Woodward
Todd Sharp
Robert Froehling
Ray Camden
Mark Drew
ColdFusion Weely
ajaxCFC Yahoo! Group

Good Day!
Ryan