There’s a new phenomenon in Google search results that is worthy of a quick update. If Google has properly classified the location of your business, you may find yourself at a higher spot in the organic search results when you do your searches from in town. When you’re searching from a few hundred miles away, you may see your ranking at the same spot it was before Google did its update about a month ago. There is even a brief mention of this update in a recent Business Week article.

Overall, the response to the new positioning is good, assuming that you get a fair chunk of business from your local market. If your business is based on high positions for nationwide or international searches, you may have more of a problem. All of a sudden, rankings are different for each city, and this can be a double whammy for people who have already been marginalized by local map results that have supplanted the visual marketplace on the search results. Over the past few weeks, webmasters have been improving their local SEO practices to try and take advantage of this new algorithmic tweak. Read the rest of this entry »

In case you weren’t aware of it, there are more browsers than just Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Chrome. A lot more. One of those less-popular browsers is something called “Opera,” a web browser that has more age and experience than some of the others, but not quite as much popular appeal. Having just received, a new design and a complete overhaul, Opera may be back to winning its way into the hearts of browsers worldwide. Or not.

Just today, the Norway-based software development company announced the release of Opera 10, which had been it RC-mode for about a week. Opera claims that their “newest browser is packed with innovations” and displays “an elegant, fresh interface.”

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At ZYB we have been doing cross domain JavaScript calls for quite some time now. Whenever we tell that to people, many don’t believe it is possible with standard security settings in any modern browser. This surprised me a bit since it has always been possible with a simple little trick.

The problem

Say you have a website (site A) with an iframe wherein you host another website (site B). In old and unsecure browsers it was possible to do a JavaScript call from site B to site A like this:

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