Before you pay to have your website listed in as many directories as you can find in order to get more traffic, stop for a moment and consider how these paid listings could adversely effect your SEO results. Luckily, Matt Cutts is back again with his latest video answering the question “are paid directories held
Is that Virtual Pageview really being sent to Google Analytics when someone submits my registration form? Does the Event Tracking Call for outbound links get to GA in time before the visitor has left my website? Why do I not get any data for clicks on my teaser links? Questions that can drive a Web
Google’s in-house SEO expert Matt Cutts had a live YouTube Q&A session with webmasters on 21st September. The 45 minutes session focussed on how to search with YouTube live streaming. It was praised and appreciated by the ones who attended it, as they look forward to utilize what they learnt. All those who missed
The first day of the SMX New York saw an interesting and informative session on surviving tips post the Panda update. The participants of the session were: Moderator: Matt McGee, Executive News Editor, Search Engine Land Q&A Moderator: Chris Silver Smith, Director of Optimization Strategies, KeyRelevance Speakers: Alan Bleiweiss, Director of Search Services, Click2Rank Consulting
Tickets to this year’s Google I/O developer conference sold out in 59 minutes, meaning there are probably a whole lot of folks who never got the chance to buy one. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to miss out, as Google’s now arranged to provide video from certain parts of the event. Yesterday, a post
If you’ve heard some unpleasant rumors about Google controlling device manufacturers and making Android less open, don’t swallow them just yet. Google’s Andy Rubin told the company’s side of things yesterday, referring to the other tales as FUD. Rubin wrote in a post on the Android Developers Blog, “As always, device makers are free to
Google Chrome is a platform known for three things: speed, security, and minimalism. All of these items have been enhanced in Chrome 10, but while the extra hardware acceleration and browser-embedded settings windows are of note, the security updates take the digital cake.
Android developers, let’s hear a cheer. Late yesterday, Google announced the launch of in-app billing on the Android Market, meaning users can make purchases from within apps from now on. If you’re not familiar with the concept, in-app billing has a lot of promise. For users, it means less hassle in terms of having to
The availability of feedback is important in many areas of life. Consider how it might be unnerving to drive a car without any gauges, for example, or how your 401(k) would do if you weren’t able to perform research. So developers should be pleased to hear about the addition of Application Statistics to the Android
Where Google goes, developers should perhaps – in a very literal, physical sense – follow. It seems developers who attended Google-led sessions at the Game Developers Conference yesterday received Cr-48 notebooks in return for their interest. Now, we’ll admit: reviews of Cr-48s have made pretty clear that they’re not the best thing ever. They don’t
