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Re: Why Offering Choices on Your Website Is Killing Your Conversion Rate

CantonDog — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:34:26 -0000

I'm just talking about having the two options on the home page without any other content. In the screen shot with the Yachts, you can't really see any content other than the small blurbs under the images. Maybe there's more if you scroll down. It does have nav links though which is better than what our client has. Our client simply has two options when you hit their home page: Member & Non-Member. No other nav links/content/etc. and that's hurting their SEO big time.

Re: Why Offering Choices on Your Website Is Killing Your Conversion Rate

CantonDog — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:38:30 -0000

Great article. The only thing I don't agree with is the "Home page" options. This kills SEO and makes it hard for your site to rank high. We have a client that does this home page choice for "members" and "non-members" and their site is well below our other clients' sites because there's no *content* on the home page.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of four Nexus 7 tablets, courtesy of NVIDIA!

CantonDog — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:04:31 -0000

Boom. Count me in.

Re: Crayon Syntax Highlighter

CantonDog — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:15:22 -0000

This is a really great plugin. Thanks for making this. The scrollbars don't work in my site. It's probably something to do with my theme though.

Re: Top 7 Twitter Commands Everyone Should Know

CantonDog — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:01:11 -0000

Glad you liked the post. The information holds true still even though I wrote it quite a long time ago.

The . before a tweet is used because people are starting their tweet with an @{username} and they want all their followers to see it. For example, if you start a tweet with @CantonDog only you, me and anyone following *both* of us would see it because Twitter treats that as a "reply". If you add a . before the @ (or any character) then Twitter treats that as a "mention" and will show it to all your followers.

As far as direct messages (DM), you can only DM a person who is following you. That's a Twitter rule.

Hope this helps! Happy tweeting.

Re: Top 7 Twitter Commands Everyone Should Know

CantonDog — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:33:47 -0000

If you don't want to follow someone, it's as easy as visiting their profile (or clicking their username in you timeline) and clicking "unfollow". If there is someone who you think is posting spam, you can report them for spam (which will also block that user from your timeline).

Re: .val()

CantonDog — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:37:47 -0000

Damn... I need to start reading the comments sooner. This would have saved me some time. Wish they'd update the documentation.

Re: Where are my Twitter @Replies? – Getting Twitter Replies via Text (SMS)

CantonDog — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:29:55 -0000

@sk8boz,

I actually just released this via service. Check out my post here: http://cantondog.com/227/tw...

Re: Where are my Twitter @Replies? – Getting Twitter Replies via Text (SMS)

CantonDog — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:29:13 -0000

@ShellyBear Check out my new post here: http://cantondog.com/227/tw... I created a service for sending replies to your phone. Feel free to sign up for an alpha code.

Re: Tiger Woods Press Conference to Be Broadcast Live on Ustream

CantonDog — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:41:01 -0000

This is where you'll hear him say he's coming back for The Masters. Probably the only reason he's having a press conference. Because The Masters dictates what you can and can't talk about at their press conferences...and no way in hell they'd let him talk about this.

Re: Top 7 Twitter Commands Everyone Should Know

CantonDog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:19:13 -0000

Jasmin,

If you post an @ to someone it will show up in their stream even if they're not following you. Keep in mind though, that if you're following a big account they may not @ back. Which could be for a number of reasons...like they get a lot of people responding to them and there's too many to sift through. Or any number of reasons. It will show up on their stream though.

Happy Tweeting!

Re: My Google Wave signup haiku

CantonDog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:57:05 -0000

I'd like to check it out. @CantonDog

Re: IT’S HERE: AT&T iPhone MMS Update Released

CantonDog — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:35:37 -0000

Am I the only one who thinks it's lame that you have to sync with iTunes to get the update? Maybe that's because I won't be able to sync for a few days...but it's still lame ;-)

Re: Google’s Plan to Kill Internet Explorer? Google Wave

CantonDog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:12:08 -0000

I don't know if Google Wave is going to attract much attention for the majority of users, but anytime I see a company giving the finger to IE and basically saying "If you're not going to fix your horrible browser, we're going to find a way around you." that gets a double thumbs up from me!

Re: SNEAK PEEK: Twitter’s Upcoming Retweet Feature [Pic]

CantonDog — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:01:57 -0000

Wait, so if someone retweets something, it doesn't show up in your regular Twitter stream again? Or it won't show up multiple times in this new retweet tab? Kind of confusing the way it's written here. Maybe that's just me though.

Re: Top 7 Twitter Commands Everyone Should Know

CantonDog — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:50:59 -0000

Most of these were born out of the community not by the people at Twitter themselves. In fact, I think when Twitter was still in private beta, there wasn't even an @. @{username} was something the users started doing and Twitter integrated it into their system. So that's why there's no "list". However, if you look at the little box under your Following/Followers/Tweets, you'll sometimes see a Twitter definition there.

Thanks for reading.

Re: Chad Ochocinco to Fly Twitter Fans to NFL Games

CantonDog — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:13:18 -0000

He is a great entertainer. And I can't wait to see where this goes. If it soars or flops...it will still get national (and most likely a lot of tv) coverage. The problem is, the NFL doesn't like messages they can't control. This should be interesting.

Re: The US Government Is Going Google

CantonDog — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:30:09 -0000

It's interesting. My first though is to say that's a good idea. But implementation is a big part of it. Still, if it nugged our company into cloud computing then I'm all for it.

Re: BREAKING: Facebook’s @Mentions Feature Is Live

CantonDog — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:42:48 -0000

Of course people are going to compare it to Twitter...but it's not exactly the same. You have to be friends with someone (or a fan of a page) which is really different than Twitter.

Plus, even if you're a fan of a page, that page can't @ you. So I guess you could say it's like @mentions "light". It's pretty restrictive at the moment.

Re: 10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore

CantonDog — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:31:31 -0000

I'd love it for Twitter to crack down on the sales people that are just trying to get you to buy their worthless marketing crap. Gamers seem to always be one step ahead of the system though. There's just too many of "them" to not come up with something different each time the TOS changes. I hope I'm wrong though.

Re: Ochocinco to NFL: I Found Twitter Loopholes!

CantonDog — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:41:17 -0000

I understand the NFL wanting to 'protect their brand' (and by that I include the gambling industry), but Ochocinco is an entertainer...I can't wait to see what he's got planned.

Re: TomTom for iPhone Released [Video]

CantonDog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:31:12 -0000

I'm also wondering if you can get the other voices with this too? Or is that reserved for just their standalone version.

Re: TomTom for iPhone Released [Video]

CantonDog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:52:31 -0000

It's a shame that it's $100 though. I've been waiting for this to come out and was hoping for it to be in the $60-$75 range. I'll probably still end up trying it out, but I might wait for some reviews to come in first.

Re: Qik Arrives on the iPhone (But There’s a Catch)

CantonDog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:38:05 -0000

It's pretty pointless to download another app that will upload video in my opinion. The thing that makes Qik different is the streaming. If that is an Apple restriction then I guess I see why they had to come out with this app...but it's still disapointing.

You can get Qik to stream if you jailbreak your iphone, but I just don't want to do that right now.

Re: Twuner: Listen to Tweets on Your iPhone

CantonDog — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:29:41 -0000

This is an interesting concept. Listening to tweets...I wonder how it will handle hash tags. I think I'll give it a try when it's available at least.