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YouTube Releases Video Analytics Tool for All Users
Thursday March 27, 2008
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Whether your YouTube video has 10 views or 10,000,000, people always want to know the same thing: who’s watching this? Where do viewers come from? How did they find my video?Finally, Youtube has some answers. Today there are releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics…
How to Keep a Constant Watch on Your Website
Wednesday March 26, 2008
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In a perfect world your website is available on the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week … but things can happen. You may accidentally let your domain expire. How could that happen? You may have signed up for your domain with an email you no longer use. Hackers could break into the…
Google AdWords, Automatic Matching and
Thursday March 20, 2008
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The following linked article from The Register accuses Google’s AdWords, namely the ‘automatic matching’ feature to be untargeted and an outright waste of funds in most instances. In short, automatic matching weakens the parameters and rules of defining ‘targeted’ in PPC terms. If I sell Adidas shoes, the articles explains, I don’t want to come…
Google’s PPC games and something to avoid
Thursday March 20, 2008
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The following linked article from The Register accuses Google’s AdWords, namely the ‘automatic matching’ feature to be untargeted and an outright waste of funds in most instances. In short, automatic matching weakens the parameters and rules of defining ‘targeted’ in PPC terms. If I sell Adidas shoes, the articles explains, I don’t want to come…
It’s Your World, Go Map it
Thursday March 20, 2008
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Google realizes that you know your neighborhood best. So to provide the most accurate maps possible, Google Maps is open to user edits. People have moved markers of their homes and businesses all around the U.S. and Australia, making Maps work even better. And so they thought: Why stop there? Moving placemarks is just scratching…
From the Google Webmaster Central Blog
Tuesday March 18, 2008
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Why should you upload a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools, if you site is crawled just fine? All sites can benefit from submitting a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. You may help them to do a better job of crawling and understanding your site, especially if it has dynamic content or a complicated architecture.Besides, you…
Blogger Help Vids!
Friday March 14, 2008
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For all you visual learners who want to add features to your blog, but don’t have the patience to browse bloggers help articles, we’ve created the new Blogger Help YouTube Channel. There you can find videos that show you step by step how to use Blogger features.There are only a few videos at the moment,…
Twitter in Plain English
Thursday March 13, 2008
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https://twitter.com/Webconsuls http://twitter.com/judyhelfand http://twitter.com/malikms Do you follow us?
Customer Service IS the New Marketing
Monday February 25, 2008
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Call Me! Let’s brainstorm on how to use the techniques found in this blog for you.Darin R. McClureDirector of Social MediaMCSE MCP MCP+Ihttp://webconsuls.comdarin@webconsuls.comdarin.r.mcclure@gmail.com (Google Talk)(949) 370-3069 (My iPhone)
Blogger New Feature – Scheduled Posts
Saturday February 16, 2008
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Google has often heard that sometimes we would like to write a post now and have it automatically published at some time in the future. Like big posts that we would like to post into smaller sections. Some of you like to go on vacation in a dead cell zone! They listened, and are pleased…
Social Media Optimization Lesson Learned from an iPhone
Wednesday February 6, 2008
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I am one of those people who need to justify most purchases. When that iPhone came out my creative juices started flowing. Hmmmm … how can I convince myself that phone is vital to my existence, maybe not vital, but how can it help me? Sometimes you just need a little inspiration. The iPhone is…
How to Make Your Blog Mobile
Wednesday January 30, 2008
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Google Tutor has posted a fantastic post on how to instantly make a mobile phone version of any feed using Google Reader. All you need to do is add a feed URL to the end of this line : http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address] So for instance Our blog’s mobile feed would be : http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://webconsuls.com/blog/atom.xml You could add, Click…