Themes for Google Maps
Cool repository of themes for use with the Google Maps API.
A Google Maps builder that uses Snazzy Maps for its theming options.
http://googlemapbuilder.mynameisdonald.com/
Google also has a Styled Maps Wizard to roll your own.
http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/styledmaps/wizard/index.html
Magento and Robots.txt
For all new Magento sites be sure to include a robots.txt. There’s a major problem with robots spidering the search results. It creates a huge server resource issue as well as an SEO issue. Feel free to edit/comment on this as Magento evolves and things need to be added/removed.
## robots.txt for Magento Community and Enterprise
## http://turnkeye.com/blog/optimize-robots-txt-for-magento/
## GENERAL SETTINGS
## Enable robots.txt rules for all crawlers
User-agent: *
## Crawl-delay parameter: number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the same server.
## Set a custom crawl rate if you're experiencing traffic problems with your server.
# Crawl-delay: 30
## Magento sitemap: uncomment and replace the URL to your Magento sitemap file
# Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap/sitemap.xml
## DEVELOPMENT RELATED SETTINGS
## Do not crawl development files and folders: CVS, svn directories and dump files
Disallow: /CVS
Disallow: /*.svn$
Disallow: /*.idea$
Disallow: /*.sql$
Disallow: /*.tgz$
## GENERAL MAGENTO SETTINGS
## Do not crawl Magento admin page
Disallow: /admin/
## Do not crawl common Magento technical folders
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /downloader/
Disallow: /errors/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /media/css/
Disallow: /media/css_secure/
Disallow: /media/customer/
Disallow: /media/downloadable/
Disallow: /media/favicon/
Disallow: /media/import/
Disallow: /media/js/
Disallow: /media/sales/
Disallow: /media/tmp/
Disallow: /media/wysiwyg/
Disallow: /media/xmlconnect/
Disallow: /pkginfo/
Disallow: /shell/
Disallow: /skin/
Disallow: /var/
## Do not crawl common Magento files
Disallow: /api.php
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /cron.sh
Disallow: /error_log
Disallow: /get.php
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /LICENSE.html
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /RELEASE_NOTES.txt
## MAGENTO SEO IMPROVEMENTS
## Do not crawl sub category pages that are sorted or filtered.
Disallow: /*?dir*
Disallow: /*?dir=desc
Disallow: /*?dir=asc
Disallow: /*?limit=all
Disallow: /*?mode*
## Do not crawl 2-nd home page copy (example.com/index.php/). Uncomment it only if you activated Magento SEO URLs.
## Disallow: /index.php/
## Do not crawl links with session IDs
Disallow: /*?SID=
## Do not crawl checkout and user account pages
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /onestepcheckout/
Disallow: /customer/
Disallow: /customer/account/
Disallow: /customer/account/login/
## Do not crawl seach pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/
## SERVER SETTINGS
## Do not crawl common server technical folders and files
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cleanup.php
Disallow: /apc.php
Disallow: /memcache.php
Disallow: /phpinfo.php
## PROJECT SPECIFIC FILES AND FOLDERS
## Do not crawl these files and folders that are developer created
#Disallow: /staging-only/
#Disallow: /m13apc.php
## IMAGE CRAWLERS SETTINGS
## Extra: Uncomment if you do not wish Google and Bing to index your images
# User-agent: Googlebot-Image
# Disallow: /
# User-agent: msnbot-media
# Disallow: /
Ajax and SEO
Ajax and SEO. The article focuses on Bing adding some features but talks about techniques for all.
Google Translate and c5 edit mode
I know I’ve seen this before, but posting ’cause it took me too long to remember WTF was causing it. If you use google translate on a c5 site, the trans script add positioning junk to your body. This causes the editable area highlighters to misalign, possibly making it nonfunctional. So i simply strip out the good trans code when in edit mode. Can be seen at Mahube.org or soon to be capsh.org. Suck it.

Rockstarleatherworks.com new site launch
New Rock Star launched. http://rockstarleatherworks.com/
- Lee Miller designed
- Nathan and Darin implimented
- Custom product scrollers
- Products are pngs for transparency
- Custom shipping
- Google merch product upload via new API
- Paypal propayments and standard.
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