Say What You Feel

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

Human Stupidity

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

Be yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

Don't cry

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

Americas Original Pumpkin Ale - Review

This review is one of many Pumpkin Beer and Oktoberfest Reviews.

Beer Reviewed:
Americas Original Pumpkin Ale by Buffalo Bill's Brewery

The first beer I am going to review is Buffalo Bill's Pumkin Ale. I picked this one first because despite the name of Original, I had tried Buffalo Bills' Pumkin Ale and so I was completely new to it. The first thing I noticed as poping the bottle cap was a missing pop. No Prssure! This usualy means a flat beer and it was. I was sadly disapointed beacuse I could tell just by looking at it I was going to be disapointed. The beer was just as it looks flat, flat, and more flat. Not sure if I got a bad batch or this is how the pumpkin ale usualy runs but I like a good head on my beer so it's already out for me as a favorite.

The color of The Original Pumpkin Ale was a brilliant bright orange. This did impress me because as a home brewer myself I know how hard it is to change a beers color to match its flavor. This beer certainly looks like a pumpkin and for that I give it a plus point.

The smell had a distinctive spicy aroma reminding me of a pumpkin pie. The spicy smell however is followed by a undertone of the fruity banana smell of the yeast. not really a fan of the yeasty smell but I still give it a point for it's inital pumpkin punch.

Now for taste! While this beer is fairly light it has a heavy taste which is good. I like thickness whens it comes a pumpkin ale. There is a strong flavor of spice and pumpkin and literately no hop. Once again all good things in a pumpkin brew. While I really did like the taste of Americas Original Pumpkin Ale I can't help but be disappointed in the overall finish due to it's earlier mentioned flatness.

Overall I going to give Buffalo Bill's Americas Original Pumpkin Ale 3 out of 5 stars. If they could get some carbonation going I probably raise that to four stars. Over all its Good but no where close to great!

Check out the rest of the Reviews

Oktoberfest & Pumpkin Beer Reviews

I'm going to try something a little bit different on this blog. By different I mean actually blogging.  We are coming into my favorite season of the year (harvest), and that means something else I love Great Seasonal Ales! Every year starting late Summer and into early Autumn breweries start releasing there seasonal brew.  This means Oktoberfest and Pumpkin Ales followed by winter time specials!  I always look forward to the fall for things like apple and pumpkin picking, apple cider, fresh garden veggies,tricker treating, costume parties, my birthday, but mainly the beer.

It's about that time of year so I headed to the package store and my adventure began. This Year I was absolutely bombarded by pumpkin beers and barely had time to skim the Oktoberfest offerings. I know what your thinking, "too much good beer to choose from, Oh No!" I thought the same thing. Luckily for me they sell singles for an outrageous price I just happened to be willing to pay. I loaded up on as many pumpkin ales as I could find, a few Octobers and headed home.

So since I'm going to  drinking all these beers anyway I might as well give them some reviews. Hopefully they will help you to choose a Pumpkin beer you will enjoy. At the very least I'll have these handy for next years trip!

I will make a list of links to my reviews below and ad the beers as I review them.

America's Original Pumpkin Ale by Buffalo Bill's Brewery

Force is All-Conquering

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

-Abraham Lincoln

 

 

You Can't Base Your Life on the Past!

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

-Chuck Palahniuk

 

 

 

Destiny

"Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill

Doubt whom you will

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

-Christine Bovee

 

 

No Inner-Life

"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings." 

- Henri Frederic Amiel

 

 

You Have Not Planned Enough

If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

-Edward Everett Hale

 

 

Inner Fire

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

-Edith Sodergran

 

 

In the Business World

In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

-Warren Buffett

 

 

Take Responsibility for your Own Well-being

If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.

-Jennifer Hudson

 

 

 

Dig where the gold is

Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.

John M. Capozzi

 

 

Be kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

-Plato

 

 

Live up to your potential

Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

-Martha Burgess

 

 

Destiny is not a matter of chance

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill

What makes you a winner

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
That's what makes you a winner."
- Venus Williams 

Successful and unsuccessful people

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.
They vary in their desires to reach their potential."
- John Maxwell

Love something

He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.

-Heather Armstrong

 

 

Make Yourself Indispensable

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

-Andre Gide

 

 

Local SEO Part 4 - Make A Plan

      4.  Make A Plan

Based on what you previously found, it’s time to build a plan for your local campaign. Building local listings consists of creating an account and adding contact info. You should spend some quality time developing content for these profiles. Often times users will make buying decision based solely on local listing and never even visit the company website. This is why a quality brand message is important. Start with a Tag Line and short description that’s one to two sentences long. Then you should development a much more in-depth, long description. All of the above should incorporate the following in some way :

Who your company is and what you represent.
Why is your business unique, special and/or better than the competition.
What are the products and/or service that you sell?

MORE LOCAL SEO 

A Person's Determination

"The difference between the impossible
and the possible lies in a person's determination."
- Tommy Lasorda 

Never give up

"Never give up, never, never give up."
- Winston Churchill

 

Your world is made of your memories

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'

-Real Live Preacher

 

 

You are today where your thoughts have brought you

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Allen

the more you try to compete

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

-Kathy Sierra

 

 

Local SEO Guide - Part 3

3. Analyze Your Market

Visit the top ten ranked websites and various profiles, then browse around a bit. What kinds of info and text do they have? What other internal pages do they link to? Are they running specials, sales, and promotions? You’re not looking to copy anyone, you are just getting an idea of what other business' that are high ranking are doing. Are there any consistencies across the top ranking pages? Is there anything you saw you really liked? Is there anything you really didn’t like? Read the reviews good and bad. What are the fans saying? What are the critics saying? Are there any areas you excel in which your competition is weak? Are you able to spot any potential weakness of your business that you can address before you get a bad review?

 More Local SEO

Boldness has genius

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe

little consequence

"What we think or what we know
or what we believe is, in the
end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do"
- John Ruskin

All blame is a waste of time

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another,
and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you"
 
- Wayne Dyer

At heart I am a warrior

"At heart I am a warrior."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

Upward in the night

"The heights by great men reached and
kept, were not attained by sudden
flight, but they, while their companions
slept, were toiling upward in the night."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You are the average

"You are the average of the five people
you spend the most time with."
- Jim Rohn



 

Obstacles don't have to stop you

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and
give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
 
- Michael Jordan

Not by Strength but by Perseverance

"In the confrontation between the stream
and the rock, the stream always wins
- not by strength but by perseverance."
 
- H. Jackson Brown 

Local SEO Guide: Part 2

 

2. Research Your Local Market

      Once you have your Target Local Keyword, you can begin doing some research. I recommend opening up all three major search engines: Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Then sign out of any associated accounts that may alter your results (Gmail, Ymail, Hotmail, etc.). Search your Target Local Keyword in all of the engines and begin examining the results. Who ranks #1, #2, and #3? I recommend setting up an excel spreadsheet for each engine and recording the top 10 for your TLK.  Record all of the local and top organic results up to 10 total spots. Record the business name, linked URL, total number of reviews, reviews of each star level, and business address information.


 

Excellence is never an accident.

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
-Aristotle

 

 

one friend

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

 

-Aristotle

peace and happiness

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive
untold peace and happiness."
 
- Dr. Robert Muller

Bring peace to others

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

 

-Thomas a Kempis

 

 

Choosing a SEO Professional in Albuquerque, NM?

How to find the Best SEO.

Choosing a SEO Professional in Albuquerque, NM?

Looking for a Honest SEO?

Finding the RIGHT SEO Company is vital to your business's online success. Choosing an SEO service to represent your company's website is an important decision and can be a difficult process. Here are a few key factors to keep in mind while you make a decision.

Decide what you want

"The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want."
 
- Ben Stein

HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR

THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR

Work which one does merely for the sake of earning a living is seldom liked. More often it is disliked, or even hated. When engaged in work, which he loves, a man may labor for an unbelievably long period of hours without becoming fatigued.

 

-Napoleon Hill

Your child is trying to be the best he can

Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.

 

-Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

 

 

Victory

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
- Napoleon

Local SEO Guide: Part1

1. Find Target Keywords

Keywords are important, very important. Starting with keywords is a solid base to build any SEO campaign. The goal is to find the most relevant words for your business that also have the highest local monthly search volume. There are plenty of other great articles on the net about keyword selection so I won’t go too deeply into the process. Local keyword selection consists of adding Geographic Specific Keywords (GSK) to your Target Keyword (TK).
 

GSK + TK = TLK (Target Local Keyword)

 

You may also want to find variations using state, zip code, and neighborhoods in addition to alternating the Target Keywords and GSK in location.

 

 

I'm not afraid of facts

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

 

-Cynthia Ozick

 

 

Enjoy life

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.” 

New Facebook Promoted Page Likes

Promoted Pages Ad Overview

New Facebook Promoted Page Likes makes it easy for local businesses to run an ad. No copy needed, only a address and a profile pic. This new Facebook ad option is set to run on a daily spend limit for a specified time frame.

Watch the video and let us know what you think.

Yesterday is not ours to recover

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but
tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
 
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Misery or unhappiness is determined

"I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is
determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." 

- Martha Washington

Success isn't how far you got

Success isn't how far you got, but the
distance you traveled from where you started.
 
- Proverb 

 

In the absence of clearly-defined goals

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

 

-Robert Heinlein

 

 

Joy is not in things

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

 

-Richard Wagner

 

 

Google Penguin Refresh Coming

Google Penguin Refresh Coming...

Google confirms that within the next few weeks we will see a major update to the search algorithm. Google internally is calling the coming update Penguin 2.0 as they feel it is going to be a major update to Penguin where as the previous we not as significant and should be labeled as 1.1 and 1.2. However to keep all these Penguin updates in order and easily tracked the folks at Search Engine Land will be referring to it as Penguin 4 .This coming Penguin update will be the fourth total Penguin update.

To accomplish great things

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

 

-Anatole France

You can't rest on your laurels

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

 

-Barack Obama

 

 

 

When there is no peril

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

-Pierre Corneille

Local SEO Guide: 10 Easy Steps

Local SEO Guide - 10 Easy Steps

This resource is dedicated to the hard working small business owners who know the importance of SEO and Online Marketing but don’t have the budget to hire a professional.  At Digital Key Design we know what it’s like to be the little guys and we want to help out in any way possible.


If you are a new business starting out fresh the process will be a little different from an established business who may already have listings. This Local SEO Guide will be a great starting point and reference for you on your journey.  This guide will help you to develop a strategy to rank your business in  your local area using a combination of Brand Message, Search Engine Optimization, and Social Media.

Read More of Local SEO Guide

Above all things

Above all things, reverence yourself.

 

-Pythagoras

 

 

You are today

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
 
- James Allen

Some are born great

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

 

-Daniel J. Boorstin

 

 

 

A joyful life is an individual creation

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

 

-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,

 

 

 

I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger

"Adversity is another way to measure
the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
- Lou Holtz

If You Have Built Castles

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

 

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

Blog Upgraded to Google+

Including this blog:

I just upgraded the Blog to be linked with the official +Digital Key Design Google+ page. All posts will now be posted by the Author +Cuyler Pagano (me) rather than the previous Digital Key Design profile. Not a huge difference but one worth noting.

The major differences:

What lies before us are small matters..

"What lies behind us, and what lies
before us are small matters
compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Local SEO: Seek & Destroy

Advanced Local SEO Tactics

So you have already been running a SEO campaign and you have already taken care of all the Local SEO basics. You even started building some links and doing some social media. Your site is picking up traction and your rankings have improved. Yet your business isn't ranking locally.  What to do? If you have done a good job at building your business's profile up and feel your site should rank, we may be able to help!

It's time to implement some:

Seek and Destroy SEO! 

 

 

 

 

 

The only consequence is what we do

What we think or what we know
or what we believe is, in the
end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do"
- John Ruskin