I stumbled on this neat trick the other day while having a look for information on a Russian website. If you are browsing using the Google Chrome Browser and open Google Translate in one tab, when you surf to any foreign language sites, it will offer to translate the site for you. You click yes, and bang, you’ve got that site in English. The actual translation is as good as the library they have, hence Spanish is pretty good, while…
2 weeks after go live, BayStatePowerWashing.com is now fully indexed in Google. The site initially had Google position only for it’s own name, due to the use for frames in the old site design. Here is a sample of some of the results: residential power washing massachusetts – #1 commercial power washing massachusetts – #3 power washing weston ma – #1 power washing shrewsbury ma – #1 Excellent progress. Even better news is that the site owner has the ability…
Over the past few weeks I pulled together a new site for my friend Ryan Mowry, owner of BayState Power Washing. The site is built in wordpress and uses a fairly standard template. Points to consider: This is a test of a new localized SEO tactic. The site hadn’t been indexed yet by Google yesterday, the last time I checked. Site is fully editable by Ryan. We did include a blog, where Ryan will be posting information of use to…
Jeff Bennett had a great post yesterday about a shop that had changed their name to take advantage of the customer’s common name for them I said it absolutely made sense and I fully agree. Indeed from my experiences @ NameMedia this is exactly the way it is. I learned first hand the power and impact of generic names as we built our media business. It costs a lot of money and effort to create awareness for nondescript names and brands. …
The past two have been very interesting if you follow the technical goings on at Google. In no particular order, they have released, at least in beta format: Google Chromium OS – the Google operating system which offers about all the functionality most folks would require to surf the web, get email, write basic docs, etc. Google Goggles – a system that allows your Android based phone *(Android is their mobile phone os) to use it’s camera to identify via…
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corp, said that he was going to have Google blocked from all New Corp. websites. That means something From EditorandPublisher.com: The Chairman of News Corp. said in an interview with Sky News Australia (reported here in MediaWeek U.K.) that once the newspapers get their paywalls, News Corp. plans to pull its content from the likes of Google and others. Murdoch said: “We’d rather have fewer people come to the Web site and pay. Consumers…
Let’s say you own a business. It’s a small business, and you’ve tried very, very hard to build it into something. Along the way, like most businesses, there have been bumps, but for the most part, you’ve got a bunch of customers who love you. Then one day, right in front of your door, someone puts up a huge billboard, and on it, they will allow anyone with anything to say about your business to put up whatever they want. …
I’m ready to vent here. Are we, as community builders, becoming so lazy that we don’t want to take the time to build in the social media features we want for our sites, the way we want them? Do we really need to have Google package them up and provide them for us, the way they want them? Two days ago, Google announced they were releasing the Google Social Toolbar, which is really a misnomer, as it isn’t really a…
Google announced late last week that they were killing 6 of their services, Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, Jaiku, and Google Video. Additionally, the Jaiku service is going to be an open source project from here on out. From Informationweek: In addition to Google’s announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google…
I used to use Technorati to find compelling blog posts to share and comments. It was rather convenient to be able to go to one spot and find out what people were saying in blogs around the globe and to easily search. One of the most compelling features, for me, was that it was an application designed with blogs only in mind. This morning I was looking a set of compelling blog posts on the anniversary of 9/11. So I…