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Google Calendar Adds Appointment Slots
Google Calendar is an excellent organizational resource, whether you’re accessing it for personal or professional reasons. And Calendar isn’t standing still. The recent addition of...
Google Earth & Maps Update Major U.S. Locations
The last time we updated you on the goings-on at Google Earth and Google Maps, it was because Osama Bin Laden was dead. Google took that opportunity...
3 Ideas for Quick and Useful Blog Posts for the Summer
We work hard during the year, so come summer we naturally deserve some much needed rest and relaxation. However, how can we enjoy our vacation...
Search and Rescue: 4 Ways to Find Lost URL’s After a Bad Website Redesign or CMS Migration
One of the many things I love about SEO is that you often get to work on a wide range of projects, across various types...
Anticipating SEO in 2012- Competitive Advantage
Hi there! This is an odd situation for me – as this article is being published, I’m attending SMX Advanced in Seattle – and tomorrow...
Three Things You Need to Know about the Yellow Pages
Local business owners know that they have to be very thorough when it comes to their marketing strategies. Fact is, you will never know how...
Why Google Android Is Just Less Secure than Apple
Every so often I get the pleasure of announcing more malicious software being found in the Android market, or a gaping security hole being revealed,...
Google to Webmasters: Build a Mobile Version, Already!
For those who missed the memo, 2011 is the year of the tablet, while 2010 was the year of the smartphone. Both markets are increasing...
Google Docs: A Phisher’s Best Friend?
Okay, I’ll admit it. I have, on more than one occasion, been curious if I could “phish” some personal data from people on the web....
Google and China Get in (Another) Shouting Match
We recently discussed the advanced phishing attacks on Google accounts of numerous U.S. officials, military leaders, and journalists – not to mention Chinese activists –...
Google Snippets Get Confused on Religion
Even saying the word “religion” on a search engine blog seems like stepping on a landmine and hoping it’s a dud. When technology and spirituality...
Google’s Failed Partnerships: Facebook, Media, and Beyond
In our last two entries we covered some of the major talking points from Google Executive Chair Eric Schmidt’s interview at D9 this year. As...
Google’s Eric Schmidt on Privacy
In our previous entry we went over some of Eric Schmidt’s key points from his interview that opened the D9 conference in RanchoPalos Verdes, California. Certainly the...
Google’s Eric Schmidt on the New Platform War
Since Eric Schmidt stepped down from the position of Google CEO, handing the power seat over to Larry Page (one of Google’s two original founders),...
6 Reasons Why Your Content Isn’t Spreading as Far as It Should
When you’re creating content for social media campaigns, the distance it spreads and the number of users who share it is likely to be a...
Topical Search at Your Fingertips
Back in 2005, topical search was the driving force behind many startups. With qualities like relevancy and targeted audience, topical search engines quickly became the desired...
Google: Your Teen’s New Sex Ed Teacher
There’s been no shortage of controversy about sex ed over the last few decades, and the introduction of the web – along with its many very...
Google Honors Richard Scarry with a Doodle
Google Doodles – the fun, date-driven alternative logos located on Google homepage – may have started as a bit of a joke back in 1998. However, they’ve...
Why Facebook Will Not Launch a Search Engine
I swear if I hear one more person telling me that Facebook is going to “beat Google,” I’m going to punch a baby. I will...
SEO Ranking Factors Get Their Own Periodic Table
Right from the start, let me just tip my hat to the great folks over at Search Engine Land for this monumental creation: a periodic...
Microsoft to Release Office 365 This Month
It really hasn’t been that long since Microsoft announced that their Office 365 was ready for beta. I myself got my beta invite, which I...
Google Pushes for Greener Data Centers
Google is an expert on data centers. Why? They own and operate so many of their own – for search, yes, but even more for...
iOS Surpasses RIM, Google Android Still Leads
Months ago I was already talking about how the real mobile platform war was between Google Android and Apple iOS. This may have seemed cruel, or...
Google Expands SERP Images and Videos
While the web is a place to search for information – and search sites originally conceived of the internet as primarily info aggregation – our...
Google +1: Basic Info Webmasters Need to Know
The announcement of Google +1 was both a great show of Google’s plans for the social web and a bit of a disappointment (since most...
Why Was Google’s Eric Schmidt Demoted?
Eric Schmidt is one of my favorite CEOs, or at least former CEOs, in the world. It’s a tough position to manage, and usually one you have...
Google Maps’ iFit Aims to Make Workouts Funner
If you’re like me, you absolutely mean to work out about a hundred times more often than you actually get around to working out. Part...
Phishing Attempt Targets Google Accounts of U.S. Officials
“Phishing” is a part of the 21st-century web. As anyone who’s used Facebook can testify, users plainly can and do fall for fake links, sites,...
Google Gives Advice on Securing Your Google Account
There’s a saying with poker: If you look around the table and you can’t find the fish in the first five minutes – the fish...
125,000 Google Android Phones Infested by Malicious Software
It hasn’t been all that long since the March malware scare for Google Android. In that initial scare we saw Google moving in fairly quickly...