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Of Interest

Google WDYL Is More Like WWGD

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (28 Jun 2011)  |  Leave a comment

Its interesting to see all that Google has time to develop.  The latest entry is called “What Do You Love.”  Its basically a search engine that mashes up results from a variety of sources and comes up a dashboard or portal to all things that relate to your search term.

In a break from tradition though, Google does not have a directory address or alias under google.com, like mail.google.com or google.com/analytics.  Instead, it has its very own address wdyl.com. An interesting step away from their branding.

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Of Interest

When The Free Ride Comes To An End

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (29 Apr 2011)  |  Leave a comment

Over the years, during the development of open source solutions, it has almost become expected that we should have free products to work with.

At our office, we have taken advantage of a lot of these services and products.  One of my favorites has been Sun Microsystems’ Open Office.  After spending $300 plus dollars on an upgrade of Microsoft Office Professional a few years back, I was frustrated to find out that Office wouldn’t install on the new laptop I bought weeks later, because it said that it would no longer upgrade to the newer versions of Microsoft Works.

This immediately sent me looking for another solution and drove me into using Open Office, which was open source and free.

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SEO Tips

Google Instant Search Creates a Whole New SEO Dynamic

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (9 Sep 2010)  |  Leave a comment

Over the last 8 years, Google has lead the pack in terms of creating algorithms that have made their search engine the most valuable in the industry.

Now Google is going one step further.  Over the last couple of years you may have noticed the search bar on Google (and Yahoo! and Bing for that matter) has become more dynamic…showing you multiple results and filtering as you add more text.  Now imagine that same kind of instant recognition of your search results…IN the search results?

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Website Strategies

Get Your Web Developer to Share Google Analytics

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (30 Jul 2010)  |  Leave a comment

If your web developer has been emailing you reports from Google Analytics, you can actually have him add you to his account.  Its this simple.

First, sign up for your own Google Analytics account (you must associate it with a @gmail.com address so you might want to sign up for that first).

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Of Interest

Google to Take On Facebook / Twitter with Gmail

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (8 Feb 2010)  |  Leave a comment

A very interesting story. Google and Apple are acting more like Microsoft used to. Now that there are many companies looking to cut competition out…can anyone be singled out anymore? http://bit.ly/cX5ytP

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SEO Tips

Getting Your News Posted On Google, Bing, Yahoo!

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (2 Dec 2009)  |  Leave a comment

A client today had an interesting question.  With the rise of blogs, social media, and rss / atom feeds, it is much easier to present your website updates as news.  And the search engines are obliging by now indexing this content faster and more efficiently.

What if you are provider of daily news updates?  How do you get your site featured on Google News, Yahoo! News and Bing News where people are seeing this breaking content?

One search engine has this down to a science, the other two are still a bit in the stone age…

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SEO Tips

Title Tags for Search Engine Success

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (17 Aug 2009)  |  Leave a comment

So you’re looking to search optimize your site and you’ve spent some money on getting a keyword analysis.  What now?

Its time to start looking at some of the elements of your website that are critical to search engine success.

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