I built Vast Rank integrating a lot of different pieces of technology, ASP.Net, ASP.NET AJAX, Google Maps API, Google Ajax Search API, Google Custom Search, CSS, and the list goes on and on.
I have been a Microsoft oriented developer all of my life so when I built Vast Rank, I wanted to find a decent profile system and forum system based on .NET that I could build on top of. Community Server was by far the best platform to use when I started developing Vast Rank in 2007.
Edit: I posted an update to my findings here.
Vast Rank was steadily growing since its launch (a month ago) and last week was at its peek with a lot of organic (search) traffic from Google.
I saw this drop start on Saturday, October 25th and as a result I have started to dig into the Google Webmaster Guidelines and the world of SEO. It looks like Google has algorithms that determine whether your site is “spammy”, and may penalize a site that it thinks is spam. Since Vast Rank is so new and has a fairly low Page Rank, I am concerned I may have fallen prey to this algorithm.
Every Friday night, my fiancée Nicole and I head out to CBO the best Pizza place I have ever been to. There are a lot of reasons that we love CBO (pronounced C-BO by the locals here at the Jersey shore) but here are a few that come to mind: all pies on the menu can be ordered on wheat crust, all of the ingredients are fresh and of the utmost quality, the service is top notch, it is clean, and the ambience is great.
I did a lot of work on Vast Rank in my spare time and I am really proud to have Vast Rank recognized by the Google API team. Vast Rank is now a featured project on the Google Maps and Google Search API.
Featured Projects are somewhat buried on the Google API pages. The first screen shot here shows where Vast Rank is featured on the Google Maps API page. The second screen shot below shows Vast Rank featured on the Google AJAX search API page.
Hi, I'm Jon Kragh a Programmer & Entrepreneur.
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