• Be to the point. Nobody cares about splash screens, flash intros, portfolios or any other useless drivel beyond the basics : Who, What, When, Where, How and WHY!
• People perform searches on the go. They now spend more time searching with a mobile device than on destop computers.
• People want to know WHERE you are. If you’re not on Google Maps, you don’t really exist.
• People want to know WHAT you do. Be social. Facebook for instance is the best way to get people to know you and trust your services.
• Get involved with niche web 2.0 services relevant to your industry.
• Forget twitter. It’s basically for politicians, celebrities and news.

In fact, we should be doing this!

• Remove site from Google SERPs – You can instruct us not to include content from your site in our index or to remove content from your site that is currently in our index
• Add your site – We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the web, and we invite you to submit your URL here. We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.
• Webmaster guidelines – Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. 
• Google-friendly site – Our webmaster guidelines provide general design, technical, and quality guidelines. Below are more detailed tips for creating a Google-friendly site.
• Webmaster central – Welcome to your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites.
• Google Base – Simply describe your items on Base to make them as easy as possible for people to find when they search.
• Google sitemap generator for Wordpress – This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
• XML Sitemaps – Our Sitemap Generator now supports sitemaps in ROR format (both Free Online version and Unlimited Standalone generator).
• Google’s python sitemap generator – The Google Sitemap Generator is a Python script that creates a Sitemap for your site using the Sitemap Protocol. This script can create Sitemaps from URL lists, web server directories, or from access logs. In order to use this script:
• Gstories – Gstories is a source for what’s new and interesting about Google(TM) & other search engines
• PhpBase – PhpBase is a set of Open Source classes and functions that help developers on submiting their data sources to Google Base.

Granted you have your Google SOAP API Key, you will be able to perform some deep searches for keywords and multiple domains, or mass keyword searches. Google Rankings is definitely one of our favorite tools for competition analysis and comparative ranking.

Google’s Cheat Sheet

• addition           45 + 39
• subtraction           45 – 39
• multiplication           45 * 39
• division           45 / 39
• percentage of           45% of 39
• raise to a power     2^5

Roots, squares and cubes

By typing sqrt() with a positive integer, Google will calculate the value of the square root. Since Google offers the power operator, one could simply use 2^0.5 instead. Writing a cube root with such notation would be quite impractical.

Google also give the square root value by simply typing “square root of 4”.
Using this syntax, Google will also calculate “cube root”, “Nth root of”

e^(i*pi)

Google’s mathematical abilities are quite impressive, in fact you can use common constants like e, pi and i in all calculations.

All trigonometric operators are available as well but arguments are assumed to be in radians : sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, cot, arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccsc, sinh, cosh, tanh, csch, arsinh, arccsch

MCMLXVII in decimal

Google also does currency and unit conversions of mass, length, volume, area, time, electricity, power, energy and various numbering systems

Constants

Google also understands a number of physics constants from the speed of light to the Stefan-Boltzmann constant.

So here’s a technique you can use for very uncommon words that uses the translating abilities of Canadian federal translators. All Canadian web documents must be published in both languages. Therefore any word you are searching that has been used on any government of Canada page will have been translated by a trained professional, not a piece of software.

For instance, if you were looking for the French name of the Longhorned beetle, type this into Google:

“Longhorned beetle” site:gc.ca

Using “site:gc.ca” with Google will restrict searches to Government of Canada websites (gc.ca). Follow through to the page, locate the term “Longhorned beetle” and make a mental note of its position in the general layout: it might be in the title or the fifth paragraph down, third sentence.

Then, using the masthead of the website, click on “Français” to get the French language version of the page, locate the equivalent sentence using the mental note you made in the previous step, and there you are: Longhorned beetle in French is “Longicorne asiatique”.

Use this technique for any French to English, or English to French translation of a keyword, small phrase or difficult technical term !