Posts Tagged ‘google’
Latest Google Doodle Introduces Us To Alexander Calder
Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:59 No CommentsThe Google Doodles are a great deal more prolific than they used to be. What used to be an occasional thing is now frequent. To wit, today’s Alexander Calder doodle marks the second Google logo alteration this week. Granted, the Calder doodle is a little different than Gregor [...]
Google+ Growth Outpaces Twitter, Facebook by Lengths and Bounds
Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:37 No CommentsUndoubtedly fueled by the perceived exclusivity, coupled with the tech/geek crowd absolutely embracing it, when it comes to initial growth, Google+ is absolutely lapping Twitter and Facebook in terms of reaching certain milestones. In this case, the milestone being discussed is the first to 10 million users, and, as you’ll [...]
Help Google Crawl Your Site More Effectively, But Use Caution
Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:33 No CommentsGoogle has introduced some changes to Webmaster Tools – in particular, handling of URLs with parameters.
“URL Parameters helps you control which URLs on your site should be crawled by Googlebot, depending on the parameters that appear in these URLs,” explains Kamila Primke, Software Engineer with the Google Webmaster Tools Team. “This functionality [...]
Google Adds +1 Button Data to Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools
Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:57 No CommentsGoogle announced the addition of +1 button data to Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. These new metrics can show you how the +1 button actually affects the traffic to your site.
In WMT, there is a Search Impact report, which shows how +1′s affect your organic search traffic. “You can find out if your clickthrough rate [...]