Archive for February, 2008

Pride in usaseopros.com

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Over the last few weeks our development team has been hard at work updating code on usaseopros.com and I am proud of the work thats been performed on this project. Updating all the code onto a more OOP environment and making the system easier to edit in the future. In the past, usaseopros.com had been a stress to work on, and at times still is, with extremely poorly written sub-procedural development and vastly redundant loops and functions not needed to perform the task at hand. What was 160 lines of code is now under 30. And its a pleasure, versus the horror it once was. When completed, the transition from old code to new code for the end user will be minimal at best, and should be fairly transparent. Usaseopros.com is our ‘flagship’ code source. More specifically is the backend to the code, where the admin, employees and clients log in. As more comes to head, and the system launches, I will be posting it here to let you know when to check out the new usaseopros.com

Great Weekend spent for SEO and Web Design

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Having another great weekend is what we all need in the life of web design and SEO. Whether you spend it with the one you love, a buddy, or both, it is good to have a good and joyful weekend. I, for one, am ready to work on websites and SEO due to my joyful weekend that I spent with. We went ahead and watched the new movie Jumper, which was pretty good, and then spent time strolling and browsing around the recently new outside mall. It was just great to spend time together even though we see each other everyday, it’s just great to be out and about together. We then spent time with one of our good friends that is married with a son and another one on the way. It was a good get together because we haven’t seen this fool for awhile and haven’t made fun of him together for awhile. It got interesting the more and more we talked and joked and especially when the significant other came home and said something that became awkward when it was realized that they were seeing something that was not what they expected to see. The conversation well worked it’s way on and soon toned itself out. Overall, it was a great weekend spent for another SEO and web design week.

CSS Gallery

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I was working on a site and the client wanted a certain style of photo gallery. So I went surfing the internet to find one that I could at least change to fit what he asked for. In my search to find the right gallery I come upon some cool css photo galleries. So I thought that I would share them with you. The first one is from CSSGlobe. This uses a hidden area to enlarge your images. The second one and the one that I used was from Sonspring. I like this one because it is easier, for me, to change and turn it into how I want.

On Second Thought

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I really should’ve used Wikipedia more often for a site dealing with South Florida Custom Carpentry. Using it could’ve given a lot more content instead of me having to write it all. At least it’s all done now with the teeny kinks worked out.

Ethical SEO Is The Key To Success

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Your path to Search Engine placement lies directly in what is known as ethical SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. USA SEO PROS has learned through the years what it takes to get you ranked on the first page of the search engines, both major and minor. And one of the things that gets ignored are the smaller search engines. Why? We are told that Google is the only search engine that matters. And this is true to a point, but they only have 65% of the market. Meaning the others share 35%. And thats a large portion of traffic, and who knows, that smaller search engine may fair much better for you in your success than Google does. Its not a guarantee or a promise from any reputable company that just by the fact you are ranked that you WILL make sales, as it comes down to YOUR presentation of your product or service. I could get you a thousand people to your site, and if its not compelling, you won’t fair any better than if you only had two. But if you know your market and you know how to make your site convert viewers to buyers, you will see an increase in sales from SEO. USASEOPROS.com specializes in getting your site to the top of search engines. And its through ethical company standards and a team dedicated to your success that we are able to do that.

Over the years, SEO has changed, and usaseopros.com has changed as well. Always increasing the work we do for our clients to stay ahead of the curve. Success is our only goal, for both our clients and ourselves. We never lose site of whats important, you. And we never lose site of SEO. Maintaining the highest possible standard in professionalism and training.

Get USASEOPros.com on your side by contacting us today and having a product specialist walk you through our system.

Content, I need Content!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

There should be lots of content on sites that have lots of keywords and keyterms assigned to them.  If you only have a little bit of content then you will not rank very high, and you would be sad. Being sad is no fun. No one likes it. Sometimes people cry when they are sad. Lots of content makes for good rankings, which makes people happy. People like to be happy.  Only people who are overwhelmed with happiness cry. Crying is bad. Ranks are good.

JavaScript…Thingy

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Stolen directly from Wikipedia:

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It was the originating dialect of the ECMAScript standard. As such, it is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions.

JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to have a similar look to Java, but be easier for non-programmers to work with. The language is best known for its use in websites (as client-side JavaScript), but is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications.

Despite the name, JavaScript is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language, though both have a common debt to C syntax, and JavaScript copies many Java names and naming conventions. The language was renamed from LiveScript in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun’s Java runtime with their browser, which was dominant at the time. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self programming language.

Backups and Communication

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

While working on a site offering a vacation opportunity to make money, I found that it had a serious need to update due to a problem of the data being erased. I personally hadn’t originally done the site, so I asked around to see who had done it. Luckily, I was sent the information aside from content so it made doing the rest a lot easier. Moral of the story is: backups are your friend.

SEO Tips

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

6. Google does live commentary too!
Indians are cricket fanatics. But its amusing to see the organizations here trying to put together tactics to devoid cricket lovers from wasting time to watch the cricket scores instead of doing their work. What I think they fail to understand is that by blocking the live cricket scoring sites they are actually making the employees more curios and provoking them to hunt for proxy networks or listen to the radio or chat with their friends elsewhere.

7. Calculate with your browser
Every OS has a calculator inbuilt but when the browser is the thing which is constantly open whey bother to open up a calculator. Open Google and straight away type your mathematical expression. You can go all the way from basic arithmetic to trigonometrical expressions. This is simply amazing stuff accomplished by Google.

8. Compare your currency with others
Now that the dollar is declining, the rest of the world must be busy trying to check the impact of the dollar on their currencies. But first of all one must know how much a particular currency amounts to when cashed in another currency. Google’s inbuilt currency converter just does this.

9. Keep track of the stocks
With the booming stock market it is very important to track the stocks on a day to day basis. Putting a stock ticker in the search box is the most obvious thing you would think of. But it is not always you would remember the stock ticker, you should add the keyword “stocks:” to the company name.

10. Wanna find some faces?
This is most interesting trick. You might be needing images for various occasions and searching for images is the most difficult thing because what we expect might not be possibly mapped to a query. But Google has a parameter in place for images in situations we need an image which describes a face.

Cascade that…

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

…uhh

Oh the tender joys of having a ‘green thumb’ must be a true blessing to those who make things grow, like vegetables, flowers, and other edible and non-edible stuff.  I do NOT have a green thumb but luckily for me I don’t have a garden, or any thing that dwells in the dirt for survival for that matter.  If I was a gardener and had plants and things vegetating and flowering, I would need me one of those discolored thumb things…but I’m not….so I don’t.

I do have a computer though, and on that computer I do stuff. Stuff that requires a somewhat small amount of skill. Well, while obtaining this these tiny chunks of knowledge and ability I typically come across random hey-you-might-want-to-share-this-with-others-on-the-company-blog stuff, which I usually share in the form of a link to another site with information that someone else wrote, you know, to minimize the amount of mental effort I have to actually put into this whole deal.  Feel like you’re getting the short end of the stick? Don’t! Because in my labors I hunt out this, usually, helpful information. So hey, it’s one less thing you have to do. Feel better? I thought so. Ready to reap the rewards? Okay!

Next time you’re using Cascading Style Sheets (css) go HERE and just look around for awhile. You’ll find something useful. Ha!

How do you feel now?

Whoa, language please.