IT'S OVER!

That's it. It's over.

I don't want to bore you with the numbers...

Actually, I kind of do. 3rd place got 172 unique views, 2nd place got 346 views and 1st place (me) ended yesterday with 702.

Everything worked out and I have most of you to thank for that. Now I can stop bothering you to go visit that site and instead you can stay here. I've still got a few posts backed up in the queue that I've been really dying to put up, but I needed to keep the one below this at the top until the contest was over.

Now that it is, it's back to irregularly scheduled posts about things you didn't think you wanted to know about.

I'll still be writing SEO/web-related posts for the Local Results blog every 3 weeks or so, and if that's something that interests you, keep that bookmarked. But most of the fun stuff will be here.

Thanks again to everyone that helped out by checking out the article, reading it and sharing it with your friends. I appreciate it.

BEATING A DEAD HORSE - UNTIL I WIN, AT LEAST

That's kind of what this feels like at this point, but I'm pressing on.

Here's the deal: I need your help.

It's as simple as that.

The company that I work for is having a contest. They had all three of the people on my "team" write a post for the company blog last month. We're supposed to promote it however we can, and after one month whoever has the most unique views wins. The prize is money. Money that I'll probably use to fund a few Old News Records projects because (fingers crossed) Craft Lake City announces who made the cut for this year's festival next weekend. I had a lot of fun last year and I want to do it again. if I'm accepted, I've got a few tricks up my sleeve that will be amazing if they pan out.

Also, there's a Salt Lake City Comic-Con in the works and I'm trying to get a booth there, too. Lots of stuff planned this summer.

But more importantly - I have a team now. I also have a cubicle and squeaky chair (that I didn't know about until yesterday because I can't hear it). I like the people that I work for/with and I'm pretty excited that I don't have to lie about how good Eggs Benedict is every day (that's down to just once or twice a week).

Back to the contest. It ends on May 15 (next Wednesday) and I really want to win. I'm ahead right now, but that doesn't matter. These other two might have a few tricks up their sleeve and I'm not taking any chances.

Here's the link:

http://www.localresults.com/your-website-as-your-personal-mixtape/

The topic was incredibly broad, so I just sort of used the HIGH FIDELITY mixtape process and tried to apply it to building websites. Sure.

Here's where you come in.

Go to that link. Then share it. Spread it around via Twitter, Facebook, email, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Linkedin, MySpace (if that's still a thing), your blog or whatever other social media site you use that I don't know about and you're trying to keep a secret. There's a little menu to the left of the post. Use that and blow it up.

I honestly don't care if you actually read it or not. Open it in a new tab, ignore it for a few minutes then close it. As long as it registers as a click, I don't give a shit what happens at this point.

I'm really proud of it and all that, but at this point I just want to win.

Help me do that and I promise that when you come visit me at Craft Lake City or Salt Lake Comic Con (hopefully, fingers crossed) I'll give you a kick-ass trevorhale.com pin or something. A hug. A kiss. Whatever the hell you want.

Just help me win this thing.

Thanks everyone. After this is over, I can get back to showing you a bunch of stuff you never knew you wanted to know. And bitching about movies. I tend to do that a lot.

WRITING LIKE A MIXTAPE

Remember when I started making all kinds of noise about doing more with this site? Me too.

See, that was when I was living the high life of being unemployed, going to the gym, watching DEADWOOD and FRIENDS all day, all while planning how to become Internet-famous.

Then I remembered that I had bills to pay, so I had to get a job. So I did.

Now I work for a company called Local Results. I'm doing SEO copywriting at the moment, trying to make websites for karate dojo's, taxi services and construction companies in the deep south sound more interesting.

During my downtime, they've had me write a few blog posts for them, too. I wrote this one about the best April Fool's Day jokes that I found on the Internet (no really, that's what I did one day), and then since that one was so awesome they had me write another one.

This one is a contest. There's three of us on the content team, and they decided that we'd all write a blog post and after a month, whoever wrote the post with the most unique page views will win.

So I wrote this post about how creating a website/blog is a little bit like making a mixtape. And we all know how much I love mixtapes, right?

Here's a link to the post. You should read it and share it with your friends and co-workers. I'm pretty sure this is a little bit of a test to see how far each of our personal reach is, and I kind of really want to win.

So help me out. Go read this piece for me.

Your Website As Your Personal Mixtape