Website Design, SEO

Some tips from Matt Cutts about using Wordpress and ranking higher in Google

Matt Cutts from the Web Spam team at Google showcases the good and the bad of WordPress as seen through the eyes of Google, including basics on how Google search works and how you can boost your blog’s results in Google searches.

Adding a Google Calendar to Wordpress

You can easily add a Google calendar to your wordpress blog using this handy plugin.   All you have to do is download the plugin, add it to your wordpress plugins folder like usual and activate it.  You’ll then have to grab a Google data api key here, then create a public calendar in Google Calendars [...]

Google Knows Where You’ve Been, What You Do

This article is taken from Wired and the link to the full article is at the end.  I wanted to post this here because it goes to show that Google “not being evil” and all is tracking basically everything you do so that it can better feed you ads, because without ads Google wouldn’t be [...]

Dominate Google for competitive keywords using internet marketing tactics such as SEO, affiliate marketing and social networking.

It’s been a slow year so far on this blog and I appologize.  I’ve been busy, been sick  and have had a hard time getting out of the holiday/winter lulls. I know it’s February now but January seemed to just drag on and on.  Anyway, since it’s been slow I thought I’d recycle some content [...]

Google Introduces Video Chat Inside Gmail

Google finally introduces video chat functionality within Gmail! This is an awesome new feature that will surely excite people who use gmail and also skype. Now you don’t have to use a separate client to chat with people in your gmail contacts list.
Read more about the features below.
That’s why today we’re launching voice [...]

FREE Top Ranking On Google – Are You Local?

So Google Local and Google Maps have been around for awhile but there are still business owners who aren’t taking advantage of the power these tools bring.  Basically Google Local allows businesses to receive a free business listing under keywords people would use to search for local businesses.  So if you have a business and [...]

How to update the Sitelinks in your Google listing

Did you know you can update your sitelinks that Google displays when someone searches for your brand or domain name?  Sitelinks are the extra links that appear under a main listing in search results to help searchers navigate a site without having to first go to the homepage.  They look like this:

You can edit these [...]

Major SEO change at Google… They’re OK with dynamic URLs… kinda

So I found out about this over at SE Roundtable where the headline caught my attention.  It seems a little misleading “Major Google SEO Change: Google Prefers You Don’t Use URL Rewrites”
You should still use URL Rewrites if you’re either dealing with a smaller site like say a blog or an ecommerce site where it [...]

Flash and SEO – Google Improves Flash Indexing

Google has improved it’s ability to spider and index Adobe Flash SWF files. It can index textual content as well as external links embedded in a Flash site.
Although I believe they’ve had the ability to spider flash files for awhile they have officially come out and announced it and also described more about what [...]

Google’s New Favicon

I’m not sure about you but I am really not getting used to seeing Google’s new favicon. It’s definetely harder to find when you have multiple tabs open. And yeah…
According to Google:
“We recognized there was a need for a Google icon that would better work across multiple applications including web, mobile and client [...]

Google Now Investing In Renewable Energy

This is interesting… Google is now investing money in renewable energy companies.
Google said it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars, part of that to hire engineers and energy experts to investigate alternative energies like solar, geothermal and wind power. The effort is aimed at reducing Google’s own mounting energy costs to run its vast [...]

Google Failed At Social Networking With Orcut Now It Plans To Force You To Socialize

From TechCrunch – Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
Maka-Maka encompasses Google’s grand plan to build a social layer across all of its applications to compete with Facebook.
Google already has so much data on you, depending on how many Google apps you already use. It just needs to bring everything together. Your contacts are in Gmail. Your [...]

Google Pagerank Update Pissing Off Lots Of People

So Google updated it’s pagerank about a week and a half ago and a lot of people are pissed to the point where they are taking action against Google. I mean to the point where they are disallowing the googlebot to even index their sites. Vlad is one of them. He’s using [...]

Some fun Google Facts. You Afraid Yet?

Some fun facts about Google.
Number of employees: 12,238
Revenue in 2006: $10.6 billion
Profit in 2006: $3.1 billion
Share of the U.S. search market: 53.7 percent
Global unique users in March: 528 million
Market capitalization: $143.5 billion
Current Stock Share price: $461.47 (kinda makes you wish you bought some shares when they opened at $83 in 2004)
Source: Google, Chronicle research
Google will [...]