Disposable ECigs

January 20th, 2014

So, we’ve launched a new site for a client, and found that selling Electronic Cigarettes online is a little tricky.

Our first problem was payment processing. As with most of our magento based clients we decided that when we launched http://www.DiggECig.com/ with Paypal as our payment processor. We received two orders, the first processed fine, the second got kicked back. We then received emails telling us our paypal account has been shutdown for breaking policy.

So, we tracked down a payment gateway that allows online ecig sales, and diggecig.com was once again back in business.

Next,. we had to come up with a way to advertise our services, and low and behold every online marketing firm blocks ecigarettes just like regular cigarettes. Grr… So, we came up with a plan, and we will be marketing our e-cigarette reviews and complaints and then offering people the chance to click over via an in page ad.

So now, DiggECig.com is now live, taking orders and processing them.

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MicroData on Auto Dealer Sites

December 16th, 2013

OK,. so I think I’ve gotten it worked out the best way and will check in 3-5 days,.

So,. step 1,. add Product schema,.
Step 2 add the Offer schema
Step 3 add the AutoDealer Schema

So you end up with make, model, name, descript, dealer name, address phone, and the price

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smitngel@gmail.com SEO Scam

December 11th, 2013

So, today I got one of those stupid SEO solicitations explaining why my site isn’t on page 1 of google. Well it is, and they didn’t make that happen. So if you are getting email from smitngel@gmail.com, mark it as SPAM.

SCAM Warning smitngel@gmail.com Raj is a SCAM

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Magento Admin Password | Magento No Date Part Found

December 9th, 2013

So, if you have one of the above issues, it is related to the way in which Mage is trying to process a preg_match_all,. the flag they are using is incorrect.

So, if you want your magento store to stop giving the “No date part in ‘xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx'” error, then do the following,.

Open /lib/Zend/Locale/Format.php and change the line
preg_match_all(‘/\d+/u’, $number, $splitted);
to
preg_match_all(‘/\d+/’, $number, $splitted);

And all should be fixed,.

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Magento Google Merchant Center Export

December 6th, 2013

Are you selling on Google? If you aren’t, you should be!

We’ve been selling their for years, remember google base anyone? Well, we work with a lot of Magento stores for our clients, and I constantly had to setup the merchant center feeds. Well, here is some data that makes that quick and easy.

Here are a list of the fields that Magento has setup to Feed to Google already:
Item Fields:
title
content (description)
expiration_date
adult

product search fields:
condition
price
sale_price
sale_price_effective_date_from
sale_price_effective_date_to
age_group
brand
color
gender
mpn
online_only
gtin
product_type (category)
product_review_average
product_review_count
shipping_weight
size
material
pattern (pattern/graphic)

Product Ads Fields:
adwords_grouping
adwords_labels
adwords_redirect
adwords_queryparam

You don’t need to use them all, however there are a few that are required.

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AutoDealer MicroData

December 4th, 2013

So, if you are like me, you are in a rush to add Micro Data to your html5 websites.

The most important for us, it seems, is the automotive websites we’ve built. First I integrated into a used car dealership but have seen that it is incorrect. So here are the proper steps,.

1) There is a schema for AutoDealer http://schema.org/AutoDealer
in your document establish the container

2) Establish the important information,
itemprop=”name” (Make/Model/Trim Year)
itemprop=”image” (url to primary image)
itemprop=”url” (url to the product page)
itemprop=”description” (text description of product)

3) Establish an offer so you can list the price

(sale price)
(warranty info)

From there verify what is being listed,. http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Google+ Profile

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Does Microdata Matter?

December 3rd, 2013

Well, I’m testing it on several sites, the first is for Kid Recliners and since we’ve added it, their serps have risen.

Next I’ve added it to the Nice Car Company,. http://www.nicecarcompany.com/ they are a great used car dealer specializing in low mileage one-owner used cars. Their micro data will list the year, make, model, sale price, image and url.

We shall see what happens with the Microdata car information.

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Rick Paulson – BannerSearcher.com | SCAM Warning

November 22nd, 2013

Again, let me point out to the users of the internet, that if someone emails you claiming they were unable to locate your site on google, and that they can guarantee placement on page 1, they are a SCAM.

Today I received a nice solicitation from BannerSearcher.com to be optimized, and I know for a fact that they use a bot to crawl google to find sites to sollicit, and they typically only try to get the first page of results.

So Rick Paulson, go ahead, and sell SEO services, 8669486929 or (866)948-6929 if you want to give him a call and let him know what a great spammer he is.

Or if you would like to see your page optimized, contact me. And Rick, if you are seeing this, you should stop spamming my clients.

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Magentoooooo,. so the record is set

November 20th, 2013

The new World Record for Magento stores, from design to live, is 9 hours 33 minutes, as I completed it.

So, who has a 27 product catalog and can do it faster?

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Magento Record

November 19th, 2013

Done,. well almost done., I’m done with everything that isn’t product related, still going to have to do that,.

In the mean time, I’ve turned off most navigation and have made it static blocks in admin, also I’ve turned off the footer ad,. and some other stuff..

One more day of work and this will be ready…

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