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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

You Didn't Break It; But You Better Fix It

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This is part 3 of 3 Daily Golden Nuggets. We are explaining the 3 common problems that can harm your jewelry website. Each is damaging in some way or another and will harm your ranking in Google's search results.

3. Server software glitches.

Until recently, we hadn't seen too many negative effects from software glitches. Surely you've seen these types of errors yourself:

* SEQUEL SERVER database error
* mySQL error
* PHP error
* Template Error

Usually it's only a few pages on a website affected by these errors. There's not much of a ranking impact for independent jewelers to worry about if you have a small website because small sites seldom have heavy database or programming code.

On the other hand, if you have a jewelry e-commerce site you might have several errors without even realizin...
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AT: 01/24/2012 01:49:42 AM   0 COMMENTS
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Contact Us Page Killers

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The bottom line of today's Golden Nugget is:
Don't require JavaScript or Flash or Java to make your Contact Us form work. You are potentially missing out on a lot of visitors who may have tried to reach you, but couldn't because of technology limitations.

Why did we start this Nugget with the "bottom line?" Because the explanation is a little history lesson that might not interest you. Keep reading if you would like to have a well rounded understanding of why JavaScript/Flash/Java are all bad for your Contact Us form.

Every few days a new computerized device is released; new computers, new cell phones, new GPS, new portable gizmos of some type that can connect to the internet.

Even though the hardware changes, the underlying programming languages of the internet haven't changed much in several years.

Co...
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AT: 04/14/2011 02:00:14 PM   0 COMMENTS
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