Friday, November 12, 2010
Yes, it's lucrative and one of the most popular, if not THE most popular enterprises on the net. However, everybody and their aunties are into it, so it's also one of the hardest to do successfully.
So, why even attempt it? The answer is simple...ego. It's an ego thing. Only the bravest, most ingenious, and daring webmasters ever get within sniffing distance of success.
It is a fact, and I say this most umbly, that should you visit Bing or Yahoo and search for "diet food delivered," which just happens to be my chosen diet niche, you'll find my GetCalhoun.com diet pages on page 2.
If you further add a state, say, Georgia, as in diet food delivered georgia, " you'll find me on page one, listing one. Now, by dollop, that's not too shabby! That means I'm whipping the snot out of nearly 5 million other websites advertising their shabby diet food delivery mess.
It just so happens that GetCalhoun.com gets a slew of hits for diet food delivered. But not so many conversions. So, I have just revamped the pages. Now I offer not only three diet food delivered options, but also now, the top three hurry up and lose weight diet courses as well.
Just think of what you could accomplish if you not only have your diet food delivered, but also then follow along with one of these miracle weight loss programs too.
I hesitate to mention this, but you know you're going to murderize all that turkey and dressing multiple times between now and the first of next year. If you're tummy offends you afterward, you'll need to go ahead and head over to my diet pages.
If, on the other hand, you could care less, could I interest you in some online candy treats? GetCalhoun.com sells those too. In bulk. Check out the Coupon Special page. Jeez!
Norm
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Several years ago GetCalhoun.com started making local election results available by what's known as an "inline frame" wherein we here are able to incorporate the local election database provided by the Calhoun County Sheriff Department's website.
What I saw from my end last night was typical of what I have seen before, with a kicker. The page offered was a representation of the results from the last race until 8:58pm when it was finally updated with the stats from the Nov 2 race.
The kicker was that the Sheriff Department's website got bogged down, presumably from all the people trying to login to it and stayed locked up for a good part of the evening up until the results were finally updated.
In the meantime, I suppose, because GetCalhoun.com was logged in to their system from the getgo, viewers could see their website from the GetCalhoun.com window. However, all they saw was election results from months ago.
What I'm saying here is that while I don't have a clue as to the problems of whoever was in charge of updating the voting database, it's clear that something needs to be done because their performance was very bad. Obviously some results were available early in the evening. Their database SHOULD have been updated publicly throughout the evening instead of only at 9PM. And if this wasn't possible, at least they should have put something online to let us know they were working on the problem instead of leaving the results from July on all night.
At the least, there is an air of incompetence and a lack of understanding of the needs of the public.
I say again, I don't know who was typing in the results or what their problems were, but they could have gone a long way in mitigating the unprofessional appearance of their presentation by simply putting up a page saying that the results would be presented soon. Something like that.
I know there was confusion last night, and a meltdown of their server by people looking for answers that weren't forthcoming. It would have been so simple to avoid this. It's called "web presence." They need more of that.
If someone from the Election Board or Sheriff's office has a comment on my comment, we'd love to hear it. Guaranteed to be posted here.
What I saw from my end last night was typical of what I have seen before, with a kicker. The page offered was a representation of the results from the last race until 8:58pm when it was finally updated with the stats from the Nov 2 race.
The kicker was that the Sheriff Department's website got bogged down, presumably from all the people trying to login to it and stayed locked up for a good part of the evening up until the results were finally updated.
In the meantime, I suppose, because GetCalhoun.com was logged in to their system from the getgo, viewers could see their website from the GetCalhoun.com window. However, all they saw was election results from months ago.
What I'm saying here is that while I don't have a clue as to the problems of whoever was in charge of updating the voting database, it's clear that something needs to be done because their performance was very bad. Obviously some results were available early in the evening. Their database SHOULD have been updated publicly throughout the evening instead of only at 9PM. And if this wasn't possible, at least they should have put something online to let us know they were working on the problem instead of leaving the results from July on all night.
At the least, there is an air of incompetence and a lack of understanding of the needs of the public.
I say again, I don't know who was typing in the results or what their problems were, but they could have gone a long way in mitigating the unprofessional appearance of their presentation by simply putting up a page saying that the results would be presented soon. Something like that.
I know there was confusion last night, and a meltdown of their server by people looking for answers that weren't forthcoming. It would have been so simple to avoid this. It's called "web presence." They need more of that.
If someone from the Election Board or Sheriff's office has a comment on my comment, we'd love to hear it. Guaranteed to be posted here.
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