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Google to end support for IE6Posted by: Herb: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

The bane of every web developers existence has been ensuring that websites operate properly in all the major browsers.The browser that creates most problems (by far) has been Internet Explorer 6. Why? Because it does a poor job of supporting HTML and CSS standards. While we can criticize Microsoft for even releasing a product that [...] Continue Reading

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Constructing A Proper Title TagPosted by: Joe: Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Alright, so you have just started your own website and you heard that SEO or “search engine optimization” is a great way to get found in Google. Now what? Hiring an SEO firm may be a bit premature for your growing business, so I am going to teach you one of the most [...] Continue Reading

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220 MySpace Employees on FaceBookPosted by: Scott: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

According to a new FaceBook advertising tool that we’re playing with, there are 220 MySpace employees with FaceBook accounts. Other companies with US employees on FaceBook: —- 5,000+ Google’ers —- 2,800+ IBM’ers —- 1,000+ United Nations’ers —- 5,000+ Apple’ers —- 200 WSJ’ers —- 500 FaceBook’ers —- 280 CNN’ers —- 260 FoxNews’ers Want to advertise to these people, or other networks? Contact us. Continue Reading

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FaceBook Pushing User Profiles to GooglePosted by: Scott: Thursday, September 6th, 2007

According to the notice I encounter upon logging into FaceBook today, FaceBook will be serving up a “public” version of your profile to Google. What does this mean? When someone searches on you in Google they will find a special version of your FaceBook profile page. FaceBook’s privacy settings allow you to disable this [...] Continue Reading

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Widget-Mania?Posted by: Scott: Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

A colleague of mine shared this interesting article on the subject of “widgets.” It’s worth a read. My take… What are widgets? In a sense, Widgets are Web 2.0 versions of the small software applications and shareware that we saw in the 90’s, only they are web based and they are much more useful. If you are an [...] Continue Reading

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Google Wireless PhonePosted by: Scott: Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Google is shopping a prototype for a new cell phone. Here is the WashingtonPost article. Google would give away FREE phones and subscriptions in exchange for pushing ads through the phone. In the article questions are raised as to whether people will be willing to listen to advertisements, but my guess is that Google will not ask [...] Continue Reading

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Google No Longer Tagging Listings as SupplementalPosted by: Scott: Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Check out this post on the Google blog. Google will no longer be labeling results in their index as being “supplemental,” and they offer some nuanced language suggesting the line between sites in their supplemental index and their main index will diminish. There has been an outcry from webmasters begging Google to reverse course. For many, [...] Continue Reading

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Google requires high quality landing pages and websitesPosted by: admin: Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Did you know that Google has landing page and site quality “guidelines”? More importantly did you know that this affects the price you pay to advertise on Google? In fact, Google is very open that Adwords customers are expected to meet quality guidelines. How well you meet them affects your “Quality Score.” As Google states: “The AdWords [...] Continue Reading