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Search Engine Optimization Follies

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

So, I’ve done it; I finally developed a site that was so off the wall it seems that google isn’t all that good at crawling it.

http://www.michiganhomesforeclosures.com is using a combination of .htaccess 404 tricks to generate dynamic content on the fly, which normally doesn’t cause a problem; however, when paired with purely javascript navigation it’s seems to keep google from recognizing the links at all.

With this site, there are several counties such as livingston county home foreclosures baked right in to the navigation that direct your browser to http://www.michiganhomesforeclosures.com/counties/livingston the same type of navigation is built in to visit cities, http://www.michiganhomesforeclosures.com/cities/Brighton for example brings up the foreclosure listings for Brighton Michigan, simple enough but with the code tricks I’ve used to make these things happen Google isn’t reading the pages.

I’ve been working on some new fixes that may solve the problem but you’ll have to check back to see how that goes.

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17″ Used Laptop | Gaming Laptop | Sager NP9262 Quad Core

Friday, October 9th, 2009

If you are looking for a new computer and performance is important to you, then I’ve got the computer for you. I’m currently selling my Sager NP9262 17″ Quad Core laptop computer.

You can take a look at it on ebay or craigslist:

ebay

or

craigslist

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jQuery Shadowbox Tutorial | HOWTOs jQuery

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Wondering what the easiest way to shadow box a page is? It’s really simple and can be accomplished with very little code.

Follow these simple steps and you will be set in no time,

1) include the jquery library in the head of your document

2) Add a div just below the body tag with id=”shadow” style=”display: none;”

3) add the following to your document.ready function or to an onclick event or whatever
$(‘#shadow’)
.css(“background”,”#000″)
.css(“position”,”absolute”)
.css(“z-index”,”9999″)
.css(“opacity”,”0″)
.css(“height”,($(‘body’).height() + 50) )
.css(“width”,$(‘body’).width());

$(‘#shadow’).toggle(function(){
$(‘#shadow’).animate({
opacity: “.7”
}, 1000)
)};

4) you can update the code in the shadow box with $(‘#shadowbox’).html(“html here”); or by placing whatever you want shadowboxed in the shadow box div

You are all set your page is shadowboxed with a 70% opacity, if you need to have the items display at 100% opacity, add a second div that is positioned absolute and z-indexed above the shadow with opacity 1 and you are even better off.

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Yet another new site

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Today we are launching a new client site, http://www.feedbackcounseling.com this site is dedicated to neurofeedback and counseling.

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DanilesDiamonds.com New Online Diamond Jewelry Store

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

We’ve launched another site, this time an e-commerce front end for Jewelry Depot of Brighton, Michigan.

We are working hard on moving them quickly to the tops of the search engines for Diamond Rings, Engagement Rings, Wedding Rings, Wedding Bands, and Men’s Rings. They also have Diamond Jewelry including Diamond Necklaces, Diamond Bracelets, Diamond Earrings and even Diamond Pendants.

The Deals don’t stop there either, they have Black Diamonds, Yellow Diamonds, Blue Diamonds even Pink Diamonds.

So when you get a chance visit http://www.danielsdiamonds.com

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jQuery animate function

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Today I’ve used the jQuery library to build a sideways sliding web page.

In addition to the page sliding left or right, on the final page the content also slides left and right.

Cool little presentation for one of our sales people, at the moment it is designed to be viewed in 1440×690 resolution but can be easily tweaked for any browser size.

http://www.calientedesign.com/slide/

have a look

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PubCon Las Vegas, SEO/SEM Waste of Time

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

So, today we noticed that the premier meeting of the minds for the supposed best and brightest of SEO and SEM haven’t taken the time to actually use any SEO/SEM and market the convention.

Here at Caliente Design, we see the need to put up more than just a page, you need a web presence, page domination, search engine optimization, and search engine marketing. We say save your money skip PubCon 2009 in Las Vegas and head on over to http://jaybale.com it won’t cost you a thing.

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WorldPac a Recipe for Failure

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Thanks again WorldPac, I know you want to make sure your existing customers continue to sell their products from your catalog and that is all fine and dandy, however how about making it possible for new customers to also succeed.

Today I’ve spoken with the Technical Director and the person in charge of data feeds for worldpac.com and been told that their off the shelf catalog system that actually does provide you with the information necessary to sell a part is the only thing that they make available to their “new clients”.

The down side is it doesn’t allow for any optimization at all nor does it allow for any site score as everything to do with the parts themselves are served through an antiquated pop-up from your site.

What we need is a simple data feed that would allow us to add the parts they sell to our CMS system. Much like we get with all the distributors we work with including industries that are far larger than the aftermarket parts world. This would allow us to optimize the content and advertise the parts themselves. Being that we are a company that specialize in SEO and SEM it’s very important that we are able to control the data that is on our site. If they would simply allow us their data feed which is available to their existing customers and not to a new customer we could easily outsell most of their existing customers.

My advice to you if you are looking in to selling performance auto parts is find another distributor, or find something else to sell.

As it stands right now, the client is going to have to pay us to launch a site that is garbage but sells their parts for the next year or so then he will have to come back and pay us again to rebuild a site that actually works once we can establish a relationship that gets us the data feed.

Way to go worldpac!!!

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Re-Think Ubuntu 9.04

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Ok, ok so it wasn’t ubuntu’s fault my computer was overheating and now that I’m back up and running I have to say that I really do like Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope much more than Linux Mint.

The biggest reason, Mint is kind of like Mac it’s linux spoon fed to you with a pretty wrapper, however most of the wrapper isn’t edible nor would you have seconds of the bits that were.

The look and feel is nice but who can’t change the look and feel of their linux install and gnome or kde desktop.

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fix gmail so you can access your email

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

So, gmail is still down, and has been for us for around an hour. At this point I had to find another solution. To fix your gmail or at least fetch your mail setup a local email client to grab it via imap from google.

incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com use ssl, port 993
outgoing mail server : smtp.gmail.com use authentication port 465 or 587
account name: your full email address ie whoever@gmail.com
email address: your gmail email address ie whoever@gmail.com
password: your gmail password

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