Lastest news from the development team

Warning: Google search engine update - content should be above the fold

01/19/2012 - Here we go again. Google released an update of its search algorithm which will impact how websites will rank in search results.  The update will penalize sites whose relevant content appears below ... read more >>

How to make OpenX work with your website

01/17/2012 - Every so often we integrate OpenX adertising in websites we build and deploy, but not often enough to always remember why our ads aren't showing up. Here's a list of things to know about posting ads and ... read more >>

How to build your online brand, time for a checkup

01/17/2012 - Here we are in 2012;  a new year with new possibilities for your business.  Well today we would like to present to you a late New Years resolution that you might not have had planned before the ... read more >>

SEO for PDF - how to better optimize your PDFs for search engines

01/09/2012 - Optimizing your PDF files for SEO is very important as Google crawls PDF files and rank them the same way that web pages are ranked. The obvious question is: How to influence the title and description ... read more >>

Deploying new look for 2012, expect lots of small changes overtime

01/03/2012 - You may have noticed a slightly improved look on the admin panel, going wider.. we will be updating the look and feel of the system over the next few months. The updates will happen over time, smoothly ... read more >>

Track advertising campaigns by adding utm_source and utm_campaign parameters to landing urls

12/13/2011 - If you want to identify successfully which ad campaigns bring you traffic, then you cannot solely look at the referrer website. Often times google and facebook will refer traffic to you from other sources ... read more >>

Google Chrome pre-rendering distorts advertising stats (ex: OpenX) and causes server logs to record fake visits

12/08/2011 - As announced in another post yesterday, Google Chrome's Pre-rendering feature is causing serious headaches for webmasters.  The issue Latest Chrome update (Chrome 13+) includes a pre-rendering technology ... read more >>

Google Chrome artificially bumps up page hits.

12/07/2011 - As we've been shoring up our traffic module to show up referrer data and provide more analysis tools, we started to notice that Google Chrome artificially bumps up page hits and page visits - and there's ... read more >>

A new blog, a new author

11/01/2011 - Welcome to the LVSYS SEO Blog!  My name is Matt Webb and I am the SEO blogger for the company.  Before I dive into the good stuff regarding the world of online marketing and how it works for ... read more >>

Long awaited, the archive is here, pushing the CMS into the cloud.

10/26/2011 - After several months of development we're proud to announce that our archive module is here. Introduction In a nutshell, the archive allows you to do the following tasks: move articles (events, products, ... read more >>

Booking Engine module update providing a revamped back end

10/11/2011 - Our booking engine module now includes a revamped back end. We moved lots of technology in house to enhance the reliability to the booking engine. More on this to come up in the near future. The booking ... read more >>

software upgrade provides improvements to user interface

10/07/2011 - After users of several websites deleted all their photos a week from each other by clicking on the "delete all" button and discarding the big warning popup box, we decided to improve the system to prevent ... read more >>

Upgrade: advanced article search and article meta tags

09/20/2011 - Just rolled out an update providing the following fixes: DOB issues for the shopping carts - regulatory requirement for wineries Payment gateways support First Data and Authorize.NET - We can charge ... read more >>

The rise of HTML5, what are the features of HTML5?

09/01/2011 - HTML5 is coming. To most web users, it means nothing. At best some will raise an eyebrow with a sigh: "another software with an increased version, so what?" You'll still have videos, audio, photos, articles, ... read more >>

Keep your best articles to the top by making them featured

08/30/2011 - We just deployed an update that allows all websites to keep their best articles to the top of the list by checking the "Featured' box on the 'content' tab. Articles flagged with the 'Featured' settings ... read more >>

Added support for URL shorthands for articles and products

08/21/2011 - We deployed a new feature to allow even better SEO and cleaner URLs: you can now specify what is known as a URL Shorthand for your articles and products. The feature has been introduced mainly to simplify ... read more >>

Still alive and going strong - new features for the summer

07/23/2011 - It's been two months since our last update. We've been busy. We've hired great new people. We're added more modules and made the system better for you. Here's a snapshot of all the new features: eCommerce Coupons ... read more >>

Should I tweet, blog or facebook every day? Sustainable content strategies

05/15/2011 - Almost every day we hear clients asking whether they should tweet, blog or facebook on a daily basis, which seems to be the word on the street these days. While there is a hint of truth to this, it's ... read more >>

Keeping up with Google: we upgraded our YouTube & Google Maps api to the latest.

05/10/2011 - Yesterday, we upgraded the CMS for all our websites to support the latest version of both Google Maps and YouTube Back in February, the developers at Google Maps broke a lot of functionality, to which ... read more >>

Even better Facebook integration, support for OpenGraph, making your page more visible when people "Like" your Facebook page

05/10/2011 - Today, we released a batch of changes to improve our Facebook integration, so that your content is properly displaying on Facebook when your visitors "Like" your content. Basically, whenever an article ... read more >>