Cameron Gibbs

Well, I’m back.  After posting daily for an entire month, I took a longer break than I anticipated.

Today was my first day of work at ShieldZone corp, makers of the InvisibleShield (a protective shield for your handheld devices).  The company has an incredible history despite the fact that it hasn’t even been in business for two full years yet and the future is very bright.  To read about how the company started, check out this article from connect, a Utah business magazine.

I’ve actually been surprised at how well-known the product already is.  Of everyone I’ve told about my new job, almost half of them have either heard of the InvisibileShield or have one.  Now I’ve just got to educate the other half.

Just two days after I was venting my frustration with the Overture keyword selector, SearchEngineWatch posted about Wordtracker’s new free keyword suggestion tool.  Though the tool provides hard numbers on keyword search volume, the calculation is somewhat crude (I don’t think the searches done on dogpile and metacrawler are a very good representation of searches done on more popular search engines).   

That being said, I think this was a smart move by Wordtracker.  Thousands like me used overture’s (Yahoo’s) tool and miss it.  Wordtracker’s tool will now be the go-to tool for keyword volume and many of those users will signup for a paying account.