Mobile: Credit Card Reader

An apple a day will make all the checks go away. Yes, the Apple given to us by Steve Jobs ! What were you thinking ? Everyone is going mobile. You can't stop it so you might as well grab your apple and get on board. Let's go #teamapple ! No, I'm not getting paid for that. It's true that Apple makes every thing in the world a little better. 

Paypal, Chase and Intuit are just a few of the companies that agree with me. They have created credit card readers for your iphone and given you free apps to use them. So, while I'm having a consultation at Starbucks I can accept your credit card payment on the spot. No fuss and no worries.

Pay Pal Card Reader

Intuit Card Reader presented by Payvment 

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SEO: Google Can Learn

Google is the SEO giant that every webmaster what's to master, please and or dominate. What do we do and how do we do it ?  Google is sure to lead the way. Google sets the standard and we comply. The thing is google is always changing in their effort to improve and impress it's users. Today's trend is search personalization. The traditional technique of search engine optimization are a thing of the past. Let us all bow our heads for a moment of silence. 

By 2004, search engines had incorporated a wide range of undisclosed factors in their ranking algorithms to reduce the impact of link manipulation. In June 2007, The New York Times' Saul Hansell stated Google ranks sites using more than 200 different signals.^[10] The leading search engines, Google, Bing, and Yahoo, do not disclose the algorithms they use to rank pages. Some SEO practitioners have studied different approaches to search engine optimization, and have shared their personal opinions^[11] Patents related to search engines can provide information to better understand search engines.^[12]

In 2005, Google began personalizing search results for each user. Depending on their history of previous searches, Google crafted results for logged in users.^[13] In 2008, Bruce Clay said that "ranking is dead" because of personalized search. He opined that it would become meaningless to discuss how a website ranked, because its rank would potentially be different for each user and each search.^[14]

In 2007, Google announced a campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank.^[15] On June 15, 2009, Google disclosed that they had taken measures to mitigate the effects of PageRank sculpting by use of the nofollow attribute on links. Matt Cutts, a well-known software engineer at Google, announced that Google Bot would no longer treat nofollowed links in the same way, in order to prevent SEO service providers from using nofollow for PageRank sculpting.^[16] As a result of this change the usage of nofollow leads to evaporation of pagerank. In order to avoid the above, SEO engineers developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated Javascript and thus permit PageRank sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of iframes, Flash and Javascript.^[17]

In December 2009, Google announced it would be using the web search history of all its users in order to populate search results.^[18]

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Wordpress Plugin: Wanguard

I've actually been using this plugin for over a year. I just decided to add it to one of the busier sites. I'm so glad I did. This little beauty goes through all your users to see if they have been reported as sploggers or spam bloggers. Yes, we all hate those useless blog post and comments that attempt to take over our virtual space in an attempt to sell us some irrelevant crap we were not looking for. Umph, some people are so absolutely rude. Well, this little beauty solves the problem. 

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Developer: Bitnami

I learned about this software from an online course, YAY ! I'm dedicated to my craft and I'm doing to learn as much as I can. In a nutshell,  Bitnami allows you to install web based software locally on your computer easy and effortlessly. So you can test all your wordpress themes and plugins logically on your computer before uploading them to your site. You have no idea how much time this saves you.

I've been using this for about two weeks now and It is awesome ! I love it. It makes everything so much easier. So right now I have child themes for every wordpress website that I am working on. Can you say magically delicious ? 

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Facebook Tab Improvements

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I'm absolutely excited about the tool I recently found to make adding a little flair to your Facebook page faster and easier. Below are two new tabs I added to the Facebook page for ClubbinChicago.com 

The first tab displays the website twitter page and all it's tweets. This tab was added for all the facebook fans who don't use twitter and also for accountability purposes. When it's important to for people to know what you say this tab is extremely helpful. 

This second tab is the Chicago Music group from sound cloud. I removed the old tab which allowed you to drop music in the group and added this tab to display all the music that is already in the group. This is a way to showcase the many Chicago Artist that Chicago's Hottest Parties Online supports. I see this as a wonderful feature to add to the page. I mean what is better than being able to scroll down a list full of your city's talented emerging musical artist. This list is for all genre of music.