Archive for July, 2010

iPad Users Can’t Manage Their Google AdWords Accounts

2010/07/09

Those of you who have migrated off their desktops or laptops and onto an Apple iPad, like Michael Gray, may be out of luck when it comes to managing their Google AdWord account. If you try to login to your…

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Advanced Ways to Make Sense of Your FireFox Bookmarks

2010/07/09

We consume so much info on the web that it is absolutely impossible to do without some smart bookmarking tools. FireFox built-in bookmarking feature is one way to go: the browser bookmarks can now be organized by folders and tags and they are always by hand.

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Consumer Watchdog Believes Google ‘WiSpy’ Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data

2010/07/09

In the long list of legal issues Google is facing at the moment, here’s another one to add to the record: Consumer Watchdog suspects the Mountain View-based company to have picked up unprotected payload data (i.e. Wi-Fi) from the home network of a member of the Department of Homeland Security as well as from houses of members of Congress. Ironically enough, person who has most likely been snooped upon is Rep.

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Changing Old Code To CSS Killed One Webmaster’s Google Rankings

2010/07/09

A featured WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who said his 13 year old well ranking web site was updated to use the latest CSS and coding techniques. The page content, titles, meta information was not touched, only the way the..

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Changing Old Code To CSS Killed One Webmaster’s Google Rankings

2010/07/09

A featured WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who said his 13 year old well ranking web site was updated to use the latest CSS and coding techniques. The page content, titles, meta information was not touched, only the way the…

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China Renews Google License To Operate In China

2010/07/09

Google updated their blog post on China saying the Chinese government has renewed their licenses to operate in China. Google said they “are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China.” When Google stopped censoring *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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The History of SEOmoz (1981-2010) + Open Q&A

2010/07/09

Posted by randfish Last week, Mixergy’s Andrew Warner interviewed me about the founding of SEOmoz and our trajectory to date. It was a very personal interview about the background of the company, but turned out to be a great experience. I’ve posted it below for those who might want to watch over the weekend and if you prefer, there’s also a full text transcript on the Mixergy blog post

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Where Is Search Going: Google’s Johanna Wright

2010/07/09

With this post, I return to the topic I got sidetracked from a few months back: where is search going? I’ve had the chance to talk to Stefan Weitz from Microsoft, The Search author John Battelle and, this time around, I had the chance to pose a few questions to Johanna Wright, Google’s Product Management *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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How To Hire A Good Web Analytics Person

2010/07/09

I’ve been asked several times lately how to attract good web analytics talent. It’s a bit of a tough question, but I do think there are some guidelines that can be followed to increase your chances at finding a really talented web analytics person.

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