Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle is in the process of rolling out a major update to Google+ and it looks amazing! Here’s a video to show you what they’re doing: In particular, they’ll be showing photos and videos in a larger format, adding a “ribbon” down the sidebar and making major changes to the profile pages. It looks pretty […]
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Yelp sneaks some augmented reality on your phone
Reading Time: < 1 minThe new Yelp 3.0 app is pretty slick, with a handful of new features. The best one, however, is undocumented — a very slick augmented reality view. We talked about augmented reality a bit with the Wikitude app a few days ago, but Yelp is the first US-based one we’ve seen. To access it on […]
Site Review: New Hope Christian Fellowship Oahu
Reading Time: < 1 minChurch: New Hope Christian Fellowship – Oahu URL: http://www.enewhope.org/ I’ve decided to take a different approach with this review and do it via video. Let me know what you think of the technique (do you prefer video or text), as well as the content. Two quick links for things mentioned in the video: How to […]
Is this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…
Reading Time: < 1 minAnother great “Whiteboard Friday” video from Rand at SEOmoz. This one talks about over-optimization and it covers it very well. Check it out: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – On-Site Over Optimization from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.
Has Google changed the way they handle social media links?
Reading Time: < 1 minThe short answer is yes. And no. 🙂 Matt Cutts explains in the video below. In a nutshell, he says they haven’t specifically changed the way social media links count toward your site, but they’re always changing the algorithm and some of the changes certainly could have had an impact. They’ve made about 300-400 changes […]
Multiple H1s on a page — not a problem.
Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve always shied away from using more than H1 tag on a single page. I’ve assumed that Google would frown upon multiple H1s on a single page. I was wrong. The video below from Matt Cutts explains Google’s position on it. I may re-look at a few sites where I used an H2 when I […]
SEOmoz asks — What’s PageRank got to do with it?
Reading Time: < 1 minRand over at SEOmoz has done a nice little “whiteboard Friday” video about Google PageRank and what it’s really about. He covers four areas where increased PageRank can benefit a site: crawling, inclusion, freshness and ranking. It’s a fairly short video (8 mins) and it’s well worth your time. Do you agree with Rand’s conclusions? […]
Jing is awesome!
Reading Time: < 1 minHow have I not seen this before? A friend showed me Jing a few days ago, and I’m in love with it. It’s a software program for Windows or Mac that makes it very easy to capture screenshots or video clips and share them. I had seen Skitch a few weeks ago, and thought it […]
Driving directions in StreetView
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has added a neat feature that combines Google Maps driving directions with StreetView. When you’re looking at your list of directions, look for the little camera icon next to each item. If you see one, then you can view those directions in StreetView. It draws a blue line with large arrows inside of the […]