Tag Archives: Google

FeedBurner API Shut Down

As part of Google’s spring-cleaning announcement –  the FeedBurner API has been shut down. Any application that requests subscriber information will fail to retrieve the data. This includes custom subscriber count widgets, and various iPhone apps – like Ego. This does bring up the concern of what will come of FeedBurner over the next several years. Will […]

Test Your Website’s Mobility With GoMo

More people own cellphones than passports now; a large number of internet users are using their mobile devices to access the internet. Therefore, it is vital that your website be usable for these consumers. With the GoMo Meter by Google, you can test your website’s usability on mobile devices. This tool shows you how your current site looks […]

An Inside Look at Google’s Datacenters

Never before has the general public been given an open look at the inside of Google’s datacenters – until now. True Google has shared many of their designs and best practices, and they have been publishing their efficiency data since 2008, however only a small handful of employees have access to the server floor itself. Yesterday Google announced the […]

Google Updates Link Schemes Guidelines, Hates on Footer Links

Google has updated their Link Schemes Guidelines – which to be honest – I think has made things that much worse. If you really read through the new guidelines – you’ll find that linking, in general, is really hard to do now. I guess the big problem here is that with terms as vague as “various […]

mod_pagespeed Graduates from Beta Version

Google first introduced mod_pagespeed back in 2010 – and since then they’ve been hard at work to improve the functionality, quality and performance of this open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and their resources. Now, after almost two years and eighteen releases, they are announcing that they are taking off the Beta label. To learn […]

Google Adwords Business Credit Card Pilot Announced in UK

Back in July we first mentioned the Google Adwords Mastercard for Businesses – which was piloted to a select amount of U.S. based businesses. Today Google announced the launch of the AdWords Business Credit UK pilot, with more invites for U.S. businesses being promised next. There are a few key differences to take note of with the […]

Google Webmaster Guidelines Have Been Updated

The official Google Webmaster Guidelines have long needed an overhaul in various areas. For starters the introduction of rich-snippets has brought with it a handful of new questions – which some clear documentation and guidelines would help. Luckily yesterday Google announced their new, updated guidelines – with a set of quality and technical guidelines for […]

Webmaster Tools Adds Critical Notification Emails

As of October 1st Google’s Webmaster Tools will send out an email notifying you of any critical changes/issues that may impact your search listings, and your websites overall health – oh, as long as Google knows how to fix that said issue. So, malware will be picked up, and a notification issued – but what […]

New Focus on Google Adwords Sitelinks Policy

Sitelinks give users a choice of destinations on your website that they can visit directly from your text ads. Hopefully you’ve already been using sitelinks to improve your Adwords campaign performance; and if so – make sure to pay close attention to Google’s Adwords Sitelinks policy so you do not run the risk of being penalized. […]

Google Announces New Keyword Meta Tag

A few days ago Google announced the introduction of a brand new meta tag to be used for news articles – the news_keywords meta tag. The goal of it is simple: empower news writers to express their stories freely while helping Google News to properly understand and classify that content so that it’s discoverable by our wide […]

Google Adwords $100 Credit Giveaway

All of my clients always receive a $100 Google Adwords credit to help them jump-start their online marketing. To help give something back to the community I decided to give away 5 $100 Google Adword credits randomly to those who sign up for our email updates and post a comment on this post. Make sure […]

Good Link Building Techniques

If you want to increase the pagerank and traffic to your site there are many SEO options available but one of the most crucial methods is by gaining relevant backlinks to your website. Backlinks are vital in raising the profile of your website as up to 75% of Google’s ranking factors are attributed to off […]

The Keyword Meta-Tag Is Still Very Much Alive

Even though Google and other search engines do not use the keywords meta-tag, many search engines, such as Active Search Results, still do. Personally I find that the keywords meta tag is a good location to include words that you want indexed that might not appear in your content much. For example you may wish […]

Schema.org Video Markup Supported By Google

Videos are some of the most commonly viewed media on the web, and one of the most common search result types on Google. So it should come as no surprise then that Google has been working hard to bring support for video markup – and as of Tuesday, February 21st – that support has finally […]

Google+ Button Updates

2 new updates are coming to the Google+ buttons you’ve all been using on your sites. Take note that for anyone within the Google+ Preview Group – all of these updates go live right NOW! First, Google is updating the +1 button sharing flow.  Your users have been able to share from the +1 button for about […]

Google Plus Pages Finally Arrive

Google Plus pages have been long overdue. I remember writing about them back on July 21st – and now, finally – 3 months later – Google Plus Pages have finally went live! As of now Google Plus users can head on over to the Create a Page tool and get started with their own page. […]

MyHosting Offers Free Google Adwords Credits

myhosting.com has partnered with Google to offer all shared Web hosting and virtual private server (VPS) clients free Google AdWords credits when they register a new account with Google. myhosting.com clients can receive up to $75 in free AdWords advertising with their shared Web hosting or VPS hosting account. This promotional offer for free AdWords advertising is available […]

More Wood, Even Fewer Arrows

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Remember a couple months ago I had mentioned that Google had plans to shut down Google Labs, and a series of other services in an effort to make Google sleeker and more focused?  Well the time has come. As of last night Google Labs is officially no more. Heading over to http://www.googlelabs.com now […]