Google Suggest has evolved. As you type in a search phrase, Google tries to predict what you’re searching and refreshes the results as you type. Results continue to change as you continue typing. According to Google’s announcement about Instant Search: Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 […]
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Google Updates: Blogs, Realtime, Places
On August 27, 2010 Google announced improvements to a few services which you’ll want to take advantage of. Changes were made to: Blog Search Realtime Results Google Places EXPANDED BLOG SEARCH When you perform a search, i.e. Apple TV, look to the left-side under “Everything” and click the “Blogs” link. Still in the left-side menu, […]
Firefox 4, Chrome 6, IE9 Available in Beta
You can now download upgrades (beta) for the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, plus a “preview” of Internet Explorer 9. Following is a brief description of the new features for each. Firebox 4 With Multi-Touch On August 11, Mozilla released the third beta version of Firebox 4. The most exciting difference in Firefox 4 […]
The Ugly Side of Lead Generation
Today I am having a guest blogger, Ricky Breslin, take over and discuss his specialty – lead generation. I love Ricky’s approach as it is very much like my own; no-nonsense and full of real examples instead of posting theories. Theories suck. Take it away Ricky … Want to see the inside of actual lead […]
Not All Advice is Good Advice
Okay, let’s have a little fun this morning. While this clip is totally awesome, it also proves that bad advice is everywhere. Know your source before you take action and always, always, always see Penn and Teller whenever you’re in Vegas!
Android Smacks iPhone in Sales
Nielsen Company reported Monday August 1 that Android smartphones topped iPhone sales for the first two quarters of 2010. Within that time smartphones running Google’s Android operating system made up 27% of sales, while iPhone accounted for 23%. While iPhone4 got the big song and dance in the media, Android phones quietly gained popularity and […]
Facebook Questions: Because Your Friends Want to Know
Facebook has a new feature, Facebook Questions, which it envisions as being a valued place where people can get advice and product recommendations from friends and other members (blah blah blah). I know what you’re thinking—the web does not need another Yahoo! Answers. But hey, if Q&A sites like Aardvark, TripAdviser, and Quora are utilizing […]
How To Report a “Google Adwords Professional”
This seems to be getting worse and worse … without an end in site. People either claiming to be Google AdWords professionals or they really have the title and they do shoddy work for their clients. Just as “SEOs” charge outrageous fees upfront with little or no real guarantees for their work, “AdWords Professionals” are […]
Tips & Tricks to get more traffic from Twitter
Twitter is one of the hottest social networks these days with thousands of users following each other. Using Twitter seems to be the most fashionable thing to have happened to the masses and we are all enjoying every bit of the twittering moments. It is one platform where people of different likes and origins unite […]
Understanding The Use of Spiders for SEO
Search engine spiders or crawlers are all the same names for common software which indexes content on the web. A search spider is basically a software program that is frequently used by search engines like Google to index important pages on the Internet for retrieval by their users. The basic task of these crawlers is […]
What is your Google Penalty Plan?
Getting nailed and penalized by Google just sucks. It is a webmasters worse nightmare. Getting hit with a Google penalty is hands down one of the greatest threats to a website’s existence online. Most of the time they are given when a site breaks Google’s Terms of Use, but sometimes they happen for no reason […]
Father’s Day Revisited …
My Dad & I at my sister’s wedding in 2000. My father passed away during the summer of 2003 and I find it hard to believe it has been nearly seven years. It seems like a lot longer than that. A lot has changed since my father died. My youngest son David was born, I’ve […]
Jerry West to Speak Again at PubCon: Vegas
I am often asked which conferences I recommend. There is only one that I have attended every year since 2005 and that’s Webmaster World/PubCon. Why? It kicks ass. Google is there. Some of the best webmasters and affiliates in the world are there. Do you need a better reason? Oh, yeah, it’s in Vegas! But […]
Google Webmaster Tools: Impressions/Clicks Dropped
By now some readers may be noticing a dip, if not a complete cliff dive, in the impressions shown in Google Webmaster Tools. This drop in impressions would have started June 2, 2010 and continued from there. Here is what webmasters are reporting and what we’ve seen on some sites: A significant drop in impressions […]
Bing an Option on iPhone
Apple announced today at WWDC 2010 that Bing is now a search option for iPhone users. Presently, Google is the default search engine, but users can change that to Yahoo! via settings. As was just announced Bing has entered the mix, which will be of further interest to those targeting a mobile market. BTW, the […]
Google Releases Revenue Share
If you’re an AdSense publisher, you’ve no doubt speculated how much Google is paid and pays you, per click. On May 24th, “in the spirit of greater transparency,” Neal Mohan, Vice President, Product Management announced what those percentages are. Google pays AdSense for content publishers 68% worldwide of the amount advertisers pay. For clarification, AdSense […]
Webmaster Tools Verification
More Ways to Verify Site Ownership For all you Webmasters who like to shake up your verification options, Google has added a third method to Webmaster Tools: DNS verification. One advantage this option has is that it allows you to verify all sites on a domain at once. For example, if your URL is www.mywebsite.com […]
Google TV and Android Remotes
The coming of Google TV was announced at Google I/O. Their master plan of world domination is nearly complete. Although, I have to tell you, they had me at “TV with voice commands.” The slogan for Google TV is “TV meets web. Web meets TV.” It is meant to combine the entertainment value of your […]
Google “May” Grab Global IP Solutions
In a press release issued by Global IP Solutions today, Google Acquisition Holdings Inc. will make a cash offer to acquire all the issued and to be issued shares of Global IP Solutions stock. Translation: Google offered to buy the company for 68.2 million dollars in an effort to build their real-time audio and video […]
Yahoo! to Acquire Associated Content
Many of you are familiar with Associated Content which is a media site driven by freelance written content. Freelancers can either submit their content, images, audio, slideshows, or video at no cost and get paid for page views, or take on paid assignments. Here’s the newsflash from Associated Content‘s homepage: “…We’ve signed a definitive agreement […]