REV2 Review

I chose REV2 as the second blog to review for this week’s assignment. When I first looked at the blog, I was excited to browse, as it came across as clean and well organized. It focuses more on technology and business start up and news, which can be viewed by subject, latest posts, and popular posts. Skimming through, there are a ton of posts written discussing social media or internet information specifically. I didn't notice anywhere on the site where users could connect on other social media, but you would have been able to share any post through your own Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Pinterest, and a variety of other sites. There was however, the option to subscribe to the RSS feed. It looks like the blog isn’t collaborative and involves one writer: Dave. (Dave, 2015)

I was quite disappointed when I noticed that nothing on the site was recent. The latest articles I saw were from a year ago, and many go back to 9 and 10 years. Many of the articles no longer have photos displayed, which makes me question if they were linked instead of hosted (a big no no for web sites). One article that caught my eye was on Dave’s list of most successful 2.0 web sites. He mentioned he started with a list of 20, before narrowing it down to include the following:

1. MySpace
2. YouTube
3. Facebook
4. Wikipedia
5. Bebo
6. Digg
7. Flickr
8. Netvibes
9. Del.icio.us
10. Meebo  (Dave, 2015)

I’m not sure about you, but I’ve been familiar with all of these other than the last three on this list. A good chunk of these still thrive today and keep evolving and delivering to the public effectively. I would have been interested in seeing his top 20 after viewing this list!

Digging a little deeper, perhaps I found something even more irritating than the lack of current articles: SEO. I’m a bit crazy sometimes and like to looks at the source code for web sites. I noticed that the meta data in the code was highly lacking, which may or may not be a reason this site is no longer running (did it do well during it’s life – I don’t know). It seems to have been a package made by another individual, but that isn't an excuse to not be "in the know" with your own meta data. There were not many relevant keywords either. What really irritated me were ones that were included and awfully spammy. Just to give you some examples, there were ones such as get massive followers, junk twitter accounts, app auto follow, chain membership of twitter, and the list went on.  If a site is going to have shady keywords and nothing of relevance to the subject matter, it runs the risk of getting banned from search engines all together. I don’t know how many people search for terms such as these, but it can’t be as many as those looking for actual content.

I didn’t look any further into the blog at this point, because I didn’t feel respected as a reader and didn’t want to waste my time with information that was so old to begin with. 

Source: Dave. (2015). The Latest Tech & Startup News. Retrieved August 13, 2016, from http://www.rev2.org/