Google Tag Page
View from a search spider
There is a big difference in what you see on your screen and what a search engine spider sees. There are a lot of things that a spider can not interpret like we do. Javascript, Images etc…
I have found it extremely beneficial to use a text browser to dissect a web page. Google recommends this [...]
Google SearchWiki
Don’t miss the Official Google SearchWiki announcement and intro video !
The new Google SearchWiki has some pretty cool features. Although changing page rankings will not affect everyones search results it is a great way to see the notes from everyone on any given page, and this just might become as important as the rankings themselves.
Seeing live [...]
Google Promote and Remove
Google is experimenting with new Promote and Remove buttons in the SERPS moving the search experience to a more personal level. They clearly state that this is an experiment and it may only last a short time.
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for [...]
Gmail Canned Responses
Now this is a pretty useful addition to Gmail, Canned Responses.
If you find yourself answering the same question over and over in Gmail, you can just add a canned response and then set a filter to handle who the response gets delivered to automatically.
This is not the same thing as autoresponders, this is more fine [...]
RSS for Search
It is interesting that Yahoo and MSN allow RSS subscriptions to a search. By subscribing to a search can save you a lot of time and help facilitate any research that you are doing.
Google only allows subscriptions to a Blog Search, but not a Web Search. A good substitute for this is a Google Alert [...]
Google Chrome First Impressions
Not sure that I agree with Dave Winer that there is nothing new here, some things just might not be as apparent yet.
Google Chrome is a brand new browser, plus I think Google is held to such a higher standard everyone is expecting the most out of the first release on anything they do.
I tend [...]
Google Chrome
Now this is going to be good, Google is releasing their Open Source Browser tomorrow.
Not sure if the release of the Google Chrome Comic Book was a slip or just good PR work, but it is certainly getting all the attention you would expect from a major Google release.
You can read all about Google Chrome [...]
iGoogle Monitoring Social Networks
It seems sometimes the best solution is the easy one we overlooked. I have struggled to find the best way to monitor my social networks and communications. The 4 applications I have been trying to keep tabs on seamlessly are Twitter, FriendFeed, eMail (Gmail) and Google Talk.
I liked some of the 3rd party offerings such [...]
Google Maps Real Estate
Last month Google released their Real Estate search functionality for Google Maps. The information is fed by Google Base.
At first this may seem to be a very limited structure since a lot of Real Estate Agents/Brokers do not post their listing to Google Base. However, the trend for the last few years is for Real [...]
What Time Is It In?
While working with people in other locations around the world I have had trouble keeping up with the time differences.
A quick trick that can help with quickly knowing what time it is somewhere else is using Google to show you the current time anywhere in the world.
It has been reported that Time: is an “advanced [...]
Redneck Google
Based on the fact that I have received some pretty mean spirited emails about my posts on Gothic Google and Emo Google I thought I should give equal coverage to those who I believe are sending those emails.
And I will admit that Redneck Google (also known as Hoogle) looks to have a little more technology [...]
Twitter in the SERPS
While browsing my analytics I noticed a search someone had performed at Google for digsby or pidgin.
Nothing real earth shattering there, but what I did find interesting is that when I followed that search, the very first result is a status page from Twitter.
More and more we ares seeing Social Networking and now Micro Blogging [...]
Why is Google Black
The standard Google home page is set on black today, March 29th, 2008 because….
Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour.
I have to admit I tend to think the [...]
Use Google Trends for Your Holiday Menu
Google Trends is one of my favorite pages. Next to reading my RSS subscriptions, Google Trends gives me more ideas than anything else. It is always interesting to see what exact phrases people are using in their searches, and what the hot topics of the day are.
Looking at Trends today made me realize you could [...]
Guaranteed Search Engine Rankings
I just got an email from a company, (I am not going to print their name or link to them for several reasons), and here is what they told me …
…offers you a way to get your web site onto the first page of Google and other search engines guaranteed!…
I have not seen a guarantee [...]
Google Grandcentral
Google GrandCentral is now in Beta and allowing non invite registrations. There are several features of Google GrandCentral that make it stand out. You can now have a phone number that allows people to call you without them knowing your actual phone number, lets see, did that make sense?
Let’s try it this way, One Number, [...]
Google Talk Chatback
Now this is pretty cool. Since I have a Google Talk account, you can chat with me when I am online and you do not even need a Google Talk account since it is using the web-based Google Talk Widget.
With the badge below you should be able to tell if I am available, if so [...]
Super Tuesday Results in a Google Map Twitter Mashup
This is one of the best pages (link below) I have seen displaying the results for Super Tuesday Voting. I was searching for a graphical representation of how the voting occurred, preferably real time when I saw this link in the sponsored links at the top of the search page.
It is a Google Map Mashup [...]
Emo Google
Last month I mentioned Google Gothic (GooGoth.com) and made a joke about “I guess the next thing is an Emo version of Google.”.
Obviously I did not do my homework on the subject because Emo Google is online. So I guess if you want to Define Emo, just check them out.
Now, if you are wondering [...]
Video Blogs
Is 2008 going to be the breakout year for Video Blogs?
Video Blogs are also referred to as Vlogs, although I am not sure that rolls off the tongue as well as Blogs, and they have been gaining ground over the past year or so. Two big factors fueling this are the cost of digital video [...]
Organic SEO Lesson
Search engines want true organic listings, and for some reason a lot of people struggle with this concept. If you write an original article you are creating an organic (natural) post. And the results you achieve might just surprise you. And yes, this is probably harder for me as a programmer than you can imagine. [...]
Learn to Troubleshoot
Over the last 20 years I have probably made more money from troubleshooting than anything else. Troubleshooting is the key to doing any type of repair or maintenance work, in any field.
In most cases software is developed to solve problems. Some problems are just to increase productivity or make a process easier, but solving a [...]
Google Vehicles Search
Over the last year or so there have been a few comments and blog posts about Google Vehicle Search in Google Base. There are lots of vehicles listed in Google Base and you can search these vehicles using the Vehicle Search page.
This week I have been seeing these results show up in a regular Google [...]
Top Internet Properties
While reading the news about The Weather Channel being for sale today some interesting figures caught my attention. The Weather Channel’s website, Weather.com is listed by Comscore as the 16th best Internet property by unique visitors for the month of November, 2007. That is a very strong placement, just ahead of Facebook. And I thought [...]
Google Knol
On December 13th Google made a blog post about a new project that is being developed.
Google Knol appears to be a direct competition to Wikipedia. There are some differences mentioned in the post by Udi Manber, VP Engineering.
The main focus of the article is that authors of the articles will be clearly credited and visible. [...]
New Google Adsense Ad Management
The new Google Adsense Ad Management has been rolling out to accounts with mixed reviews. At first I did not like it, but it is starting to grow on me. Currently you do not have to change all your Adsense code and it is 100% backwards compatible, but it would seem logical to expect there [...]
Google Adsense Video Units & YouTube
According to this post on the official Google Adsense Blog the new Video units are now available to use. Everything reads great, however, it’s not there?
I have gone through all the Official Google press and tutorials and the Video Units are not showing up in the Adsense setup as advertised. So I guess it is [...]
The Top Ten Google Keyword Blunders
Ok, I have never participated in a meme before, but thanks to Garry Conn I think I have to play along here. Garry tagged me with his “The Top Ten Google Keyword Blunders” and made the comment that..
” CyberCoder, who suffers from major loss in Adsense income yet he plays by the rules!” - I [...]
API Explained
Since I spend so much time working and talking about API’s I thought it would be a good idea to show others what an API is, and what it does.
This video does a good job of explaining in very easy terms how API’s work. Whether you are interested in the Google, YouTube, Facebook or almost [...]
Subscriber Stats and updates to Webmaster Tools
Google has added subscriber stats to their Webmaster Tools. This is a nice addition, however I noticed it was only working with internal feeds and not Feedburner. I left a comment and hopefully this problem can be resolved. The system works with any Google product for aggregating feeds.
The updates to the interface are nice [...]
Blogger Play
This is a just a for fun thing, but interesting. The Google Blogger team has come up with a site to allow us to watch images as they are uploaded to the Blogger platform. Blogger Play
If you select “show info” in the bottom right corner it will show you the blog and profile of the [...]
Plan your Blog, Blog your Plan
Same theory, different words. For years I have listened to business consultants say “Plan your work, work your plan”. A blog is no different. You just have to decide what it is you want to accomplish. Some bloggers just want people reading their blog, others want to make money blogging. Whatever the goal, managing your [...]
Make Money Online
Did that get your attention?
Not sure what it says about us, but key that headline into Google and you get 313,000,000 results. Yes, that’s 313 Million.
Everybody says they hate the get rich quick schemes, yet someone is digging for them and trying them.
Anyway, if you want to get rich quick, I certainly can not help [...]
Google Supplemental Index now mainstream, tag dead
The Google Supplemental Index is not going away, however, the tag that displays on supplemental results is.
Onl July 31st, Google announced that they will drop the Supplemental tag from showing in the SERPs.
…we’ve decided to stop labeling these URLs as “Supplemental Results.” Of course, you will continue to benefit from Google’s supplemental index being deeper [...]
Images added to Google AJAX Search API
This morning the Google team led by Mark Lucovsky released Google images to the AJAX Search API. With one line of code I was able to adjust my search page to now include the images.
This morning, we are announcing Image Search in the API. Image Search is just as easy to use as all of [...]
10 Quick Steps to a Blog
Here are the first 10 steps I take in setting up a blog. These steps can be accomplished in less than an hour and lead to a succesful launch.
Register Domain
Setup hosting
Install Wordpress and change Permalink structure
Install Robots.txt file
Publish a few posts
Setup on Feedburner and place RSS links on page.
Create and upload Sitemap
Submit to Google Webmaster [...]
Rapid Development
It is just amazing how fast a blog and/or website can be built and making progress theses days.
Between Feb 1st and March 1st I worked on 10 sites, 3 blogs and 7 websites. I track a lot of data and like to do a review of how well new sites are working and thought I [...]
Google BlogBar
I have installed a Google BlogBar at the top of the page.
I set this BlogBar up using the BlogBar Wizard and did not modify any of the code. For now I used “CyberCoder” as the only keyword. It will rotate through the most relevant blog posts it finds in Google Blogsearch.
The Google AJAX Search API [...]
Google Voice Local Search
Google has released their voice local search called Goog-411, and it works great !
There has been some mention of this in the past, but this appears to be the first “experimental” release.
I tried it immediately and was very impressed with the interface and response.
And it’s free. Google doesn’t charge you a thing for the call [...]
Blog Search
This week Scoble had a post about which blogsearch works best, Technorati or Google. Looking at the numbers is one thing, but, numbers are not the only factor.
One of the reasons I have become such a huge fan of the Google AJAX Search API is because it lets you see more than just one type [...]
Google Groups
Seems I spend more time on Google Groups than I thought. Most of this activity is within the Google AJAX Search API, but there are a few posts scattered across some other topics too.
