Google – Sliced and Diced
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Google has made a series of updates to their home page. Read more at Search Engine Land as Google Searchology is live blogged Some of the highlights are Google’s new “Slice and Dice” options with allow searchers options to sort through the results. Pretty neat One of the tools with in the Slice and Dice [...]
Site Search inside of Search Results
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009There has been a lot of stir lately regarding Google’s use of one line site links. Today I noticed another change to the standard site links; the addition of Google’s Site search. While searching for a recipe for Cheesy Penne Pasta, that Food Network made look so delicious I have to try it out, I [...]
16 Free Local Directory Websites (Now with more Websites!)
Monday, April 20th, 2009Here is a short list of local directory websites that allow for free submissions of your Business profile. InsiderPages CitySearch Yahoo Local Yelp Local.com Kijiji kudzu.com oodle.com craigslist.org backpage.com adoos.us olx.com locanto.com kaango.com Brownbook.net City Slick.net
New Adwords Interface
Sunday, April 19th, 2009Google AdWords has been updated to a new interface. Currently all accounts have the option to switch to the classic view, but the new version appears will be made permanent within a month. The new AdWords Interface has a look and feel similar to Analytics providing better reporting and flexibility. It also features much easier [...]
Favicon Showing in Adwords
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Google AdWords is testing displaying favicon’s next to the destination URL. I have only seen this behavior a couple times within search results. It appears sporatically and only for a few of the advertisements. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Update- I will be providing a screenshot as soon as I can replicate. So far [...]
Google talks about Map Pack Display on Non-Local Searches
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Google confirmed today the recent change in search over the last week, they are placing more emphasis on local search results by displaying map listings even when non-local search querys are entered. Google determines your location by either IP address or account settings (assuming you are signed into a Google profile) Search Engine Land posted [...]
Changing Meta Tags in Common Web Editors
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Editing Meta Tags in Frontpage: In Microsoft Frontpage open each web page and go to “file” “properties” to edit the title (general tab). Then click the “custom” tab to edit the “description” and “keywords”. Editting the title tag in FrontPage 2002 In Page view, in the Normal pane, right-click your page and choose Page Properties. [...]
Changing Meta Tags using Microsoft Publisher
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Microsoft Publisher is not designed to act as a website building program so many of the features you expect are either difficult to find or not an option. Publisher also creates a massive amount of underlying code which causes your code to content ratio to be very poor. However if your site has been designed [...]
Google introduces AutoPilot
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Googe unveiled “AutoPilot” new software bound to revolutionize email as we know it. Autopilot scans and interprets incoming email messages to send the perfect response. Gmail AutopilotTM by CADIE Email will never be a thing of the past, but actually reading and writing messages is about to be. Gmail Autopilot automatically manages your inbox better [...]
New Expandable Google Ads – Not Quite Popups
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Reported on Search Engine Roundtable- Google just introduced expandable ads for Adsense publishers. The ads will be displayed on publisher sites and they can click on the ad to make them expand into a much large ad that overlays over the content of the page. The expandable ads can contain movie streams, show video game [...]
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