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Nike Shoegler’s

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Custom designed Nike sneakers have been around for ages, in-fact these aren’t the first Google themed Nike sneakers to come out. Daniel Reese has 2 designs for Google, and Google Chrome available for sale on his website, BrassMonki. These are however the first design officially made by a Googler -the sneakers were designed […]

Google Updates Reconsideration Procedure

If your site isn’t appearing in Google search results, or it’s performing more poorly than it once did (and you believe that it does not violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines), you can ask Google to reconsider your site. In the past you would receive notification that your reconsideration request has been received – with another notification once it was […]

Google Reworks Internal and External Site Links

Most of you by now probably utilize Google Webmaster Tools, and if not you really should be. For those who do use Webmaster Tools, chances are you have noticed that Webmaster Tools will only recognize internal links to your site if they exactly match your setup domain. For example http://www.rapidpurple.com links will not be displayed […]

GoDaddy Integration With Google Tools Broken

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]A post by mcarter88 on the Google Webmaster Forums has brought to light an issue with the integration of Google Webmaster Tools and GoDaddy Hosting. Back in 2007 Google and GoDaddy formed an integration deal where Go Daddy users will see the Google Webmaster Tools link right in their hosting control center, and can […]

Schema.org Workshop Announced

[frame align=”left”][/frame]Almost 2 months ago I wrote to tell you about the launch of Schema.org – a project aimed at creating and supporting a common set of schemas for structured data markup. Microsoft recently announced the first Schema.org workshop to be held in Silicon Valley on September 21st, 2011. Bing describes the event as a “working session” […]

Click-to-Call Enhancements Announced for Google Adwords

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]On July 29th Google sent out an email to most Adwords advertisers announcing enhancements to their click-to-call functionality in AdWords ad text. This is important information to read and understand as an Adwords advertiser. Many businesses currently list their phone numbers in their ad copy – which isn’t a bad thing – however […]

Google Introduces New Page Speed Service

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Yesterday Google announced their latest innovation to help out everyone’s need for speed, the Google Page Speed Service. To directly quote Scott Knaster from the Google Code Blog: Page Speed Service is an online service that automatically speeds up loading of your web pages. To use the service, you need to sign up […]

Google Updates The ‘Plus One’ Button

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]The Google +1 button is fast becoming an essential “must have” for most site owners – which means that Google wants to provide all these site owners the best experience possible. Facebook has hired some of the best guys out there to focus purely on making everything load as fast as possible, including […]

Google Launches Adwords Express

Today Google announced the launch of Adwords Express. AdWords Express is designed to help local businesses that aren’t already AdWords advertisers create effective campaigns easily, and within 5 minutes. Product Manager Kiley McEvoy uploaded a short video on Youtube to help explain what Adwords Express really is. To start simply visit http://www.google.com/awexpress, fill out some basic […]

Google Updates It’s Mobile Site Builder

A little while ago I spoke about the launch of Google’s Mobile Site Builder – an extremely easy to use tool to quickly and easily develop mobile websites for your small business. Rajiv Bammi, Software Engineer at Google, posted on the Google Apps blog sharing a few updates that have been made to their mobile site […]

Google Plus Business Profiles Are Coming Soon!

Christian Oestlien posted an update on his Google+ account today regarding Google+ Business Profiles. Since the Google Business Profiles concept has leaked out to the masses there have been tens of thousands of requests to be one of the first beta testers of these business profiles. Due to this demand Google actually made the decision […]

More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows

[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Last week, Google CEO Larry Page used the phrase ”more wood behind fewer arrows” to describe an ongoing effort to make Google a sleeker, more focused company. Page went on to declare the products Google Health and Google PowerMeter were the first victims of that effort. Today, Google has announced that it’s also shuttering […]

Fund Your Adwords Campaign Via The Google Credit Card

Building up capital for a small business can be a bit of a hassle sometimes, and having the correct cash-flow at exactly the correct time to launch new advertising campaigns does not always happen. However what if you did have the necessary funds to launch an advertising campaign, say right before the holiday season? Before […]

Google Multiple Sign-in Updated To Support 10 Accounts

If you’re anything like me chances are you find yourself using more than one Google account. I have my own personal account, 2 different work accounts, as well as my Rapid Purple accounts hosted on Google Apps. All in all it comes up to around 6 different accounts – and checking things quickly used to […]

Google Removes .CO.CC Domains from Index

Just a little while after we put together a list of free domain name providers Google decides to pull the plug on .CO.CC domains and remove them all from it’s index. Don’t believe me? Run a search for site:co.cc – nothing. Completely empty index. A post by Matt Cutts explains why this happened and what […]

Data, Data, Data

The video the Google’s Data Liberation Front released on Youtube just a few days ago really does speak for itself – not to mention it’s rather entertaining.