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At Stone Temple Consulting, we've spent some time playing with the Google Ajax Search API and the Google Ajax Feed API. These are great tools for embedding dynamic content in your web site. This post is going to talk about how to use these two APIs to do just that.
This topic led by the Divining Rod of Webpage Success has landed in the miscellaneous section. It could have landed really in any other section because if you were to make an internet foundation you would find out that ,there are thousands upon thousands of thoughts and comments and trials and errors and great days as well as bad days, when it comes to webmasters and web(tryin...
After reading Gab’s problems with Google I have decided that the community might enjoy talking about some of the decisions that you can make in designing your landing pages with a concrete example....
Here's the deal: I build links. I build a lot of them - tens of thousands every month. How do I do this? I create fun online quizzes and then provide HTML code with quiz scores that bloggers and website owners can embed on their own sites. A good example is this widget, which tells you if you talk too much in your blog, or ...
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Vulcan Golf v. Google et al. is an important case because it's the first time (as far as I know) that trademark owners have tried to hold Google liable for domain-related conduct. Plaintiffs are taking what they learned in the keyword advertising context and applying it to domaining. Further, because the case is potentially a class action, there are mega bucks on the line. Think about it: anyone who's ever had her trademark infringed by a domainer using a parking company and Google Adsense could theoretically sign up to be a plaintiff. The recent ruling paves the way for trademark holders to sue companies who provide advertising services, but neither own or register the offending domain name, to be held liable for trademark infringement and cybersquatting.
I really like YouTube. It is brilliantly easy to use, almost universally accessible and unparalleled in its ability to popularize creative and funny people. YouTube is single handedly responsible for causing an irreversible drop in world productivity while simultaneously bringing countless amounts of joy to average people. It...
As SMX Sydney wound to a close on the north bank of Sydney harbor, I stood with new friends and old, eating shrimp off the barbie (no, really), drinking beer and staring at the incredible view of the Sydney Opera House & the Harbor Bridge. Was this the best conference I've ever attended? Quite possibly, yes (and that's saying a lot). ...
For years as a website designer, I struggled building sites that both fit in Internet Explorer and Netscape. The entire time, I didn't care who won the browser war I just wanted someone to win NOW and the other to go away. The increased work, stress, and money spent to build the same thing twice was frustrating and in my opinion unnecessary. The search engine wars a...
I was using Google Trends the other day and thought "if only I could have something like this for my analytics". For those of you who haven't seen a Google Trends report before here is an example: ...
Today at SMX Sydney (which I'll have a more detailed post about this weekend), Danny Sullivan and I sat together on a site review panel in the late afternoon. One of the sites we were asked to review was DiscoverTasmania.com. During our investigations, we stumbled across some remarkable cloaking f...
Do Search Engines Give Preference to Certain TLDs (Top Level Domains) Than Others? This question has been circulating around SEO circles for some time now. SEOs are always looking for “white hat” methods to improve search engine rank placement (SERP), and so naturally one of the questions we ask concerns preferential treatment of TLDs. The general consensus amo...
When building a FLEX( Flash ) application that must be available to the user via Internet, always comes the next question : Will the website containing the application be SEO friendly?And the answer is NO. Google and other search engines cannot see inside your FLEX( Flash ) website/application and and index your pages. If SEO is important to you, and it should be important, you...
My brother, a Long Haul Trucker with a Bachelors Degree in English Literature, happened to be passing through Denver Friday and dropped by for a visit. "Any reason for a home cooked hot meal and a sleep in a room not equipped with shock absorbers," I would chide. Late Friday night we were discussing the economy and the like, as fuel costs have affected his business rather drast...
For today's Social Wednesday, I thought I'd share an interesting case study. My boyfriend works for Payscale, a salary and compensation information website (hey, he's my boyfriend, so I gotta throw them a good link). One day while I was at work, Jason (aka Manstery Guest) IM'd me and told me about this neat...