Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
This is just a little challenge. John Battelle wrote about the “database of intentions” in his book, The Search. If you look at our search history, it tells us who we are and what we value. Our Google searches are the artifacts of our culture. Really, it’s just a small challenge. Google something better.
Traffic tips, time-saving scripts, music licensing opportunities, and much more…
A Unix program called Remind is one of the greatest tools for keeping your goals and projects on track. Where calendars like iCal and Google Calendar come up short, Remind fills in the gaps.
When you login to your AdSense account today, you’ll notice a brand new video units link under the AdSense setup tab.
There were some excellent potential solutions to duplicate content discussed at the Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I also learned a couple important points:
Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages are detected, one version will be returned in the search results to ensure variety for searchers.
Duplicate content doesn’t cause [...]
Rand Fishkin has posted an excellent flow chart for determining how to handle a Google penalty.
Speaking of Google penalties, Google webmaster tools just added a form to report paid links.
Google is beginning to grab a part of the top 10 search results for themselves. So far, they’ve been adding the following to page one of your search queries:
There was a minor change made to the Google AdWords quality score last night. This could impact your minimum bids so you’ll want to login and see if you need to make any adjustments.
With a little help from Dave Taylor, author of a number of cool tech books, including the book that inspired this time-saving tip, Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, I was able to save myself a tremendous amount of time and energy. Time that I used to spend doing mind-numbing repetitive data entry can now be used [...]
I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t mention the SEO consequences of duplicating the entire list from Darren Rowse’s Group Writing Project.
It’s never a good idea to duplicate someone else’s content on your own blog. You now have duplicate content issues and can very easily send your page into the Google supplemental index, [...]
As bloggers, we tend to do the same repetitive tasks over and over again. We open the same URLs. We launch the same apps. We ftp, we search Technorati, we comment, we do this day in and day out. The 80/20 rule would tell us that creating content in the form of blog posts, [...]
First, they changed the background color of the top ads from blue to yellow. No real big deal to advertisers there. It’s the second change that could make a significant difference to your CTR.
Google’s multivariate testing app, Website Optimizer, just opened to the public. It can help you increase your conversion rates and best of all, it’s free!
Google recently added a new feature to the define: search command. A query like define:marketing will bring back a list of related keywords like the following:
direct marketing
marketing plan
marketing mix
marketing research
search engine marketing
viral marketing
affiliate marketing
internet marketing
permission marketing
database marketing
Not only is this a great tool for generating lists of related keywords to implement in your search engine [...]
Google AdWords Pay-Per-Action is in beta and they’re answering your questions here. I’ll be watching closely how they plan to handle advertising accounts that get very low conversion. If you only pay-per-action, what happens when nobody takes an action? Was that free branding you just got?
Also in AdSense news, the AdSense API is ready for [...]
Google just released this statement today:
We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, [...]
AdSense is all the rage now and there are many different ways to make money from Adsense. But here is a simple method to make money from AdSense that you can give you an unfair advantage over your competitors. How? Because most people aren’t serious about enough to take the time and effort to add [...]
Musiclocated is a free service that uses Google Maps to help you find musicians in your area. You can submit your URL and you can also link to a YouTube video of your performance or mp3 of your music. Check it out!
This video is a magnificent example of musical peak performance. It’s possible that Glenn Gould had Asperger syndrome, a disorder related to autism. He really makes Johann Sebastian Bach come alive!
It seems that with the infiltration of spam sites and splogs into Google’s search index, they came up with a duplicate content filter to solve this problem. These spam sites use automated tools to scrape content from other websites with the hopes of creating keyword dense pages that rank high in the search engines and [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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