2008 April

Search Engine Optimization for Shopping Carts: ASPdotNetStorefront

April 30th, 2008 dawhoo

SEO Review of ASPDotNetStorefront online store

While many shopping carts and online stores have made great leaps in making their carts search engine friendly, they all seem to have room for improvement. Many shopping carts require fairly substantial modification to optimize the product, category and topic pages for the shopping cart. Some shopping carts are much better than others and ASPdotNetStorefront is one of them. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google Page Rank Update Underway

April 29th, 2008 dawhoo

Google updating web site rankings

It looks like Google is updating the page rank for many websites this evening. I’ve noticed several sites seeing a nice peak in Google Page Rank today. At this time, the data centers are not synchronized. Page rank can vary until all datacenters have loaded the latest updates on page rankings. All of the ranks should be accurate within 24 hours at the absolute most. If you’re using a toolbar page rank checker, be sure and clear the cache to get accurate ranking score.

Google page rank updates are irregular and seem to follow an Indus Script pattern for updates. It has been 62 days since the last update to Google page ranks. The latest update was February 26, 2008. It was reported that Google Toolbar, a browser plugin for checking page rank, was going to add a new 11 point scale. As of this writing, all data centers are still exporting the 10 point scale to my toolbar.

While it’s true that Google’s web page rank is continually changing, the data center ranks are the de facto standard measurement used by web managers for search optimization tracking.

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iPhone Surf Reports and Forecasts: Surfing the Web

April 28th, 2008 dawhoo

Have you ever been driving and started to wonder what the wave buoys are doing? Interested in wave height and conditions offshore? Wonder what directions the winds are at your local break? If you’re a surfer or an avid offshore fisherman, chances are you have.

I do too and that’s why I made a few new web pages, specifically with mobile devices in mind. I wanted to be able to access the buoy data I needed on my cell phone. It needed to be fast loading, easy to navigate, formatted to work on nearly any mobile device and as small a download as possible. I set some lofty goals, but I think I did it.

Navigation on most websites using a cell phone isn’t fun. The pages are too wide, too tall and its hard to find the one spot you need. I boiled down the data to the smallest needed points My phones screen is 176×220 and that’s a small screen.

The pages are very lite with most coming in under 2KB. That’s important because my cell phone company charges me 1 cent per KB. That may not seem like much, but considering how many web pages are 40-150KB, that penny per KB adds up. I visit

You don’t even have to have an iPhone, any web enabled mobile device, can now get the latest buoy reports from the NDBC.

Visit http://www.otesurf.com/cellphone_surf.php for more information

or visit http://www.otesurf.com/go on your cellphone to start getting reports now.