Google+ looks like a duck to me.
Google denies that Google+ is a social network. What it is, they cannot tell you exactly. “It’s email, Twitter, circles, hangouts, chat, documents, photo sharing, collaboration, friendship, business… all rolled into one!” And that, to me, sounds pretty social, don’t you think? Google’s track record with social networks hasn’t been awesome. If I was in their shoes, I would say the same thing, just in case it flunks like the rest of it. “ooh no, we’re not competing against Facebook or...
read moreGoogle Search: Turn off PR
Yesterday’s post on Web Pro News reminded me of something I’ve been concerned about a lot: Black hat SEO tactics. In short, some SEO companies hire low pay people to post fake comments on blogs to get a back link. This does 3 things: 1. Annoys the shit out of the blog owner who has to weed through comments to pick out the fake ones that Akismet doesn’t catch. 2. Annoy the hell out of Google search user who is trying to find the best content – not the highest paid SEO team. 3. Keep the small businesses out of the...
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I’ve been ignoring SEO for years. I felt that it can’t make that much difference and the only thing you should really focus on is to not to get banned from the search engines. So, I did pretty good job at staying hidden! A couple of weeks ago I found this great website that instructs you step by step on what to do and in what order. I’ve used the tools recommended there to track my keywords and I can see clear improvement on the site I’m working on – I haven’t done a thing with this blog yet so don’t...
read moreI want Google to keep their secrets
When I first started using Google back in the day when there still was an alternative and my mother-in-law wouldn’t have asked the question “If I want to open an internet connection, I have to contact Google, right?” I started using it for the reason that it ignored meta-tags and searched the page content only. I knew I would get relevant search results instead of gunk that webmasters served me as lobsters. (Did that make sense to you? I just made it up like that. Good one, eh? Feel free to use it.) Nowadays, everything is...
read moreGoogle it before forwarding it
Did you know that most heart breaking emails that you get are hoaxes? Kids gone missing, presidents thrown out of their legal position, kittens stuck into a jar and the sort, they’re all a load of bull. Even if you can’t possibly imagine why someone would send a hoax like that, check it. It’s very likely that it’s a college boy’s prank. It’s VERY EASY to find out whether or not you should forward the email by copying a section of the email (names are good) and searching it through Google. Chances are that...
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