Last weekend we launched a completely redesigned vogogo.com based on customer feedback and usage metrics collected over the last year. The new system is significantly simplified over it’s predecessor, written in a technology stack that speeds development time and will allow us to introduce new features with greater speed and confidence.
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It appears sometime around March 2012 the Google geo-targeting policy. I’m pretty sure (not 100% though) prior to March I was able to set http://stancarney.ca/ as ‘Unlisted’, meaning that it would not be geo-targeted in Google search results. After some more digging I found a help page explaining Google’s Geo-Targeting rules and confirmed it via my webmaster tools account. If you have a country specific TLD Google will not allow you to geo-target any search results besides the country of which the ccTLD is assigned. They have a list of generic country code top level domains that they deem to be exceptions and allow you to change the geo-targeted country.
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I started writing this post a month ago but delayed posting it until now. We are almost all the way through a re-write/re-design of vogogo.com in Django and I must say it has been a pleasure.
The comments below represent my findings after developing and deploying several Grails production applications over the last several years.
Further to my post on the Technology Behind Vogogo I’d like to talk a bit more about the software development process used. It is something that everybody has an opinion on, so take it for what it is worth. It has been an interesting last few years where I’ve been able to strip away everything that I’ve been taught about developing software and start from the beginning again working by myself.
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I'm an idea developer. I'm also the Co-Founder, CTO of Redfall Technologies and Vogogo.com. I design and implement online payment systems, specifically online wallets, NACHA, Canadian Payments Association and credit card processing. I also dabble in all things technical. 
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