I have to preface this post in saying that I am not pointing out this company as a way of getting them in trouble, but because doing competitive research I notice what happens in the painting contractor landscape of Phoenix, Az. Hell, all publicity is good publicity as long as your not shooting elephants! In […]
2 More Google Places Algorithm Errors
I’ve always been a big fan of cheering for the underdog. I love it even better when the underdog beats out everyone and you are left with a movie plot. However, this is certainly not the case. When it comes to Google Places I would hope the same systematic approach that is used for the […]
Google Blocklist Extension
The newest addition to the Google Chrome extension library is from Google’s own team and called Personal Blocklist. It allows you to block sites that you no longer want to show up in your search lists. It doesn’t effect what anyone else see’s… just yet. Of course the first thing I have to do is […]
4.5 Tools to Speed up your Data Collecting and Avoid Hemroids
I’m a data nut. I believe that nothing says more about a website than the data. People can tell me all they want that a website looks good, is easy to navigate, people spend a lot of time on it, etc. until they have a sore throat, but if there is no data to back […]
Custom Catalyst Theme Pages (example)
Since I moved over to Catalyst from Frugal I noticed that the ability to use templates is now gone. They incorporated a new way of doing it using hooks. In Catalyst you can now see that there are new template options for pages: Blank Body – is absolutely blank Blank Canvas – has the header […]
Google Holiday Maps Good Cheer For All
It looks like the people at Google are sneaking a few things in this year. If you go tot he street view you will see this holiday version: The full PNG:
Dangling Links, or Rather How Not To Dangle Links
Dangling links are simply links to a page that is either non-indexable because of: a robots.txt Disallow statement a meta noindex some other method of stopping a page from being indexed a page that has not been indexed yet a page that does not link to anything else These pages are sort of like an […]
hCard for Local Search
About 80% of businesses online have a physical address and should have an hCard on the site, at the very least on the contact page. Why? An hCard is like a business card and testing is showing thet Google Places uses it as an indicator. The hCard uses the microformat vCard syntax to create a […]
Module ‘ionCube Loader’ already loaded in Unknown on line 0
Here’s a ‘possible’ solution to the ionCube Loader problem that worked for me. At one point in time I installed DBG so that I could do remote debugging using PhpEd. It worked ok, but I didn’t see a need for it, however I never uninstalled the Zend DBG debugger extension. When trying to work through […]