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Originally posted on MatthewForzan.com.au Back in March, Google released information on how to “Make your AJAX Applications Crawlable” which showed a step-by-step method on how to make your AJAX/JS search engine friendly. The latest news comes this morning as Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that the latest Googlebot update, allows Google’s famous search bot to [...]

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The Google+ team have been working hard to bring users new and exciting things to experience. Here are some videos of things just announced on the Official Google Blog! What’s Hot on Google+: Your chance to glance at what is users on Google+ around the world are talking about just with a few simple clicks! [...]

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Today Google announced SSL Search has been made the default search option for users signed into Google (https://www.google.com.au), in order to better protect user privacy. For those not familiar with SSL (Secure Socket Layer), it is an encrypted connection between you (the client) and a server. SSL is denoted by https:// in the URL of a website [...]

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I am sure you have all noticed that the internet is getting faster, and I don’t just mean just the page load speed… the speed of change and growth is also increasing. More and more people are developing websites and more and more people are choosing to go online to research and shop instead of going to [...]

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Data, data, data! It is very important that you track the statistics of your webste to learn about your website visitors. Google Analytics has been a important tool for personal blogs, small to large companies, and most websites on the internet. The current version of Google Analaytics is good, but based on user feedback, it’s not good [...]

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According to a recent video published by Google, the search engine’s algorithm changes in excess of 500 times over the course of a single year. All of these revisions, tweaks and updates have been developed in effort to drive the most relevant user to the most relevant website as quickly as possible. Naturally, these changes [...]

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One of the funny things about Google is their ability to release awesome things for public consumption without the majority of their audience being aware of it. Take Google Labs for example, a testing ground Google has used over the years to get usability feedback from the online community. Labs is now unfortunately being phased [...]

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The upgrades and value adds keep coming as Google continue to roll out new and improved features for Google Analytics. The search engine company’s web analytics gurus have been actively gathering user feedback on each new set of updates, and based on a lot of that they have come up with the following additions: Simplified Custom [...]

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I got a happy little surprise today when I signed into my Google Account to do some pre-August finance calculations. Google had actually changed their logo just for me! While this may seem like nothing more than a simple gesture from the search engine juggernaut, to me it’s a testament to the power of their [...]

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When Google+ launched, there was a lot of buzz about how it might affect the Google search results, SEO and PPC. Now that Google+ has been around for a few weeks, let’s have a look at how things are going. Like Facebook, the primary value of Google+ as a marketing tool is that it collects information from users. The [...]

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