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So You Want To Build A Website?

Mark MacKinnon — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:48:22 +0000

Seriously, forget about it. No really, don’t even bother. As today’s web evolves, you’re better off creating your own one or two page site with a blogging platform with links to relevant social media where you’ll do most of your work anyway. Most important of all, provide useful and basic information that can be easily accessed with a mobile device !

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.

From Google Reader to Twitter?

Mark MacKinnon — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:19:21 +0000

Want to publish more up to date tweets automatically from your Google News Reader? We’ve set up some great Google News Reader accounts for clients, but one of them wanted to know how she could have selected articles appear automatically in her twitter feed? Well, here’s the perfect article on the subject: How to Share Articles in Google Reader on Twitter.

In fact, we should be doing this!

Google Tools

Mark MacKinnon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:01:04 +0000

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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.

Google Rankings

Mark MacKinnon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:42:13 +0000

One of the best Google analysis tools out there is GoogleRankings.com. All you need is your Google SOAP API Key. A word of caution: Google does not generate these keys anymore, so if you’re lucky you already have one, if not, we’re sorry.

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.