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I've given up on Panda I've given up on trying to fix the traffic and earnings plunge this site has suffered since Google started its series of "Panda" updates. I feel a bit sad about that. I hate giving up - it's just against my nature. I especially hate giving up when I'm still not entirely sure that there is not still some way to claw back to days of old.


Title Date Comments
Targeting customer interests with multiple Google Plus Pages   2011 11 
- Although mostly overlooked in the general excitement about Google Plusbusiness pages, it's important to realize that you are not limited to just one page for your business. If your business sells multiple products or services, you may very well want to create pages for each part. -
Google Plus Business pages are open now   2011 11 
- Google-Plus now allows business pages. You seem to need a Google Plus account to create your pages, but of course you don't need to post anything at all on that account. You can create as many individual pages as you need. I immediately created pages for several aspects of my business. -
I've given up on Panda   2011 11  2011/12/12 TonyLawrence
- I've given up on trying to fix the traffic and earnings plunge this site has suffered since Google started its series of "Panda" updates. I feel a bit sad about that. I hate giving up - it's just against my nature. I especially hate giving up when I'm still not entirely sure that there is not still some way to claw back to days of old. -
Is Linux becoming insignificant?   2011 08  2011/08/20 TonyLawrence
- How many Linux items have I read? Well, my Linux readers won't like this, because it's just 28. -
Maybe Android should be strangled?   2011 08  2011/08/15 TonyLawrence
- I don't like to see Apple controlling too much. This patent set back isn't just about tablet computers; it touches Android cell phones also. If Apple continues to win court cases on this, Android devices - tablets and phones - will either become much more clumsy (perhaps effectively useless) or will become more expensive because of royalties demanded by Apple. This could put people out of business if Apple gets really greedy -
Google-plus false iPad app disappoints greatly   2011 08  2011/12/10 anonymous
- What we got was what we could have had weeks ago - an iPhone app that is allowed to run on the iPad. -
Right about now, I'm starting to feel all too familiar Google disenchantment   2011 08 
- Google Wave died because people didn't understand it (amusingly, Google+ really isn't all that far removed from what Wave intended). Google Buzz got derailed by careless privacy issues. Google+ could very well die because of lack of momentum. -
Let's NOT have an email discussion about this!   2011 08 
- This is a less than ideal way to truly have a discussion. If Bill replies to me and I reply to him and then we have to get Stephanie's input and she and Bill l have a little side conversation, things get messy, confused and hard to follow very quickly. There are better ways to handle this. -
An unimportant announcement that you probably won't care about at all   2011 07  2011/07/26 TonyLawrence
- What I did was move part of this site to a sub-domain. I did so at the specific advice of Matt Cutts, the famous Google SEO guy. No, he didn't give ME the advice - I'm so far beneath unimportant that nobody at Google would even tell me to 'go suck eggs', never mind drop a hint on how to regain traffic after a Panda slap. -
How to waste your time putting a Gmail Group into a Google+ circle   2011 07 
- When I saw Google+ Circles, I thought 'Great - I can have a Computer Club Circle, a Kerio Customer Circle… And I can. So can you. But immediately there was a problem: I already have those groups identified in Gmail Contact lists. You can export Gmail Contact Lists as CSV files. Therefore, you MUST be able to import those to G+, right? -
Creative Circles in Google Plus.   2011 07 
- In some respects, Circles beat RSS feeds. Unfortunately, they aren't something you can just 'join' - you have to tell me if you want to be in one of my special circles. Google may allow 'subscribing' to Circles later, but right now you have to ask. However, you can be much more specific than you can be with RSS. You could say 'Please put me in the Circle for Mac OS X posts and anything about Perl, thanks'. That's trivial for me to arrange and after that, you only see what you really want to see. -
Google's future in reputations   2011 07  2011/07/07 TonyLawrence
- For now, a search engine has to grope around in the dark, feeling for indications of quality. Google (and every other search engine) looks at multiple factors. Those factors include both on and off page items and also give weight to the reputation of the site as a whole, the age of the page, what else the searcher was looking for or visiting recently and who knows what else. -
 
 
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Google+   2011 07  2011/07/10 TonyLawrence
- I was fortunate to get an invitation to Google+ and can give you a little feedback on it. -
Google Plus One Buttons   2011 07  2011/08/20 videoproduction
- I've recently added Google Plus One Buttons to pages here. I used to have other buttons - Twitter, Facebook "like" and even some others if we go back far enough. -
Google Webmaster Tools   2011 06 
- There is plenty of room for improvement in Google Webmaster Tools. -
Snarling Panda (Google Big Panda update)   2011 03  2011/03/25 TonyLawrence
- Google 'Big Panda' algorithm change disrupts many web sites, causes bitterness and confusion -
Bada-bing - Microsoft busted and Google cleans up the Farms   2011 02  2011/03/02 TonyLawrence
- Will Google win the search war? Microsoft sure does help! -
Google Earth Street View   2007 06  2011/10/14 bchopper
- I'm sorry. The ACLU will probably want their card back, but I just don't see cameras as a privacy problem. -
Google's Gmail   2004 06 
- Why is this so good? The problem all heavy email users have is organizing and searching our mail. It isn't the instantaneous reading and sending that is our major concern; it's finding records of conversations. In traditional email applications, we do that by dumping messages in folders, and tagging messages with labels or color codes. Gmail has a better way. -
Solving Google Page Rank problems with a 301 Redirect   2003 07  2010/10/03 TonyLawrence
- Both domains point to the exact same content. The Apache configuration file at my web server just treated them both as virtual domains having the same filesystem location. There was no difference: no matter what domain name you used, you'd get the same pages. These are just duplicate domains. -
Google Affiliate Programs   2006 06  2011/01/03 CindyEyler
- They apparently are calling these CPA ads, but what that means is that publishers get paid not for clicks but for some specific action at an advertiser's site. -
Google Maps Beta   2005 02 
- This app is surprisingly fast and has obvious features other map servers lack. The first thing I did was type in Boston, MA which is pretty close to home. Sure enough there was a map, rendered quite quickly too. I didn't see all the street names so I used the slider on the left of the map to zoom in. The map zoomed in very quickly, in fact I was quite surprised with its speed. Using the navigation arrows above the slider I saw that moving the map left, right and up and down were quite speedy as well. -
Using Free Google Gmail with your Domain   2009 01  2011/10/13 TonyLawrence
- shifting your hosted email domain to the hands of Gmail -
Google's Chrome site blocking experiment   2011 02 
- Google Chrome Personal Blocklist extension removes designated sites from google Search results. That's nice, but why? Why a Chrome extension and not just a change to Google Search? -
Google's Chrome Extensions tutorial leaves me disappointed   2011 02 
- It is actually a trivial task to create a basic but still useful Chrome extension. It's so easy that anybody who can type can do it. -
Google Analytics   2010 09 
- I was happy to find this, if for no other reason than it introduced me to the author's Analytics Talk blog, which I was not previously aware of. -
Google Custom Search Promotions   2010 01 
- You define keywords, a title and a link. If those keywords are used, your link appears above all the normal results. -
Google's Go   2009 11 
- Normally, the announcement of a new language isn't likely to get me to even click through to read about it but Google go is worth looking at. -
Only the best and the brightest? I call B.S., Google   2009 10  2010/02/05 TonyLawrence
- Why are Google programmers so sloppy and dumb when supposedly they hire 'the world's best engineers"? -
Google SideWiki   2009 10 
- Google's SideWiki is part of the latest Google Toolbare (Firefox and IE). It lets you annotate web pages you visit. -
Google Micropayments   2009 09 
- The newspaper and magazine industry is clamoring for Internet micropayments. They've realized that nobody is going to pay even 50 cents to read a news article - what they probably don't realize is that people probably won't even pay 50 cents a year for full access to everything. -
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It   2009 09 
- The effect of Google upon society and business isn't neglected. All of this is looked at deeply. What does Google mean to other companies? What does Google's growth mean to itself? -
Google Book Search has my books   2009 08 
- This morning I found that my books are indexed and searchable at Google Books -
Analyzing Adsense performance with Google Analytics (Part Two)   2009 08 
- Analyzing Adsense performance with Google Analytics Part Two -
Google Book Search wants your e-books   2009 08 
- Helping Google with that task has benefits for you: Most ebooks get little exposure outside of the website that promotes them, but that's all about to change. Google Books wants those e-books. It wants to index them and provide search options within their text. -
Monetize your site with Google?   2009 08 
- Google wants to help you monetize your website with the Google Checkout store gadget. -
Google Voice   2009 07 
- I got my Google Voice number today. This is going to be very helpful. It would have been even more helpful ten years ago when I basically lived on the telephone, but I am glad to have it now. -
Google endorses microformats   2009 05 
- Anything that helps Google understand your pages better has to help you no matter what anyone else is doing. -
Building Google Traffic   2009 03 
- If he searched Google for the things she sells there were no results pointing to her and if he searched precisely for her business name he gets a hit in position 3, but it is somebody else's page with an old, incorrect address - not very helpful -
Analyzing Adsense performance with Google Analytics (Part One)   2009 02 
- Analyzing Adsense performance with Google Analytics -
Hitting the Google Sweet Spot   2009 01 
- When I was researching the competition for my Working for yourself e-book of course I visited Google to search for related books and websites. Imagine my surprise this morning when I searched Google for "Work for yourself" and found that page on page one in the sixth position! That's pretty darn good!0 -
Google Adsense and recession   2008 10  2012/09/10 TonyLawrence
- Will recession hurt on-line advertising and Google? -
Google Precipitate   2008 10 
- Add Google Docs to Spotlight with a simple bit of sleight of hand and misdirection. -
Google adds benchmark comparisons   2008 04 
- This could be extremely useful and interesting, but unfortunately is not.. well, perhaps it's just too early? -
More thoughts on the Google Slap, no follow and a Slap Back   2007 12 
- The google slap killed page rank for many sites - what if they slapped back? -
Surveys with Google Graphs   2007 12 
- Using Google Graphs to display Survey Results including a simplified version of the code here with comments. -
Google's new Chart API spiffs up your web pages   2007 12 
- Google provides two other ways to encode larger values and even a little bit of Javascript so that you don't have to do the encoding yourself. -
Google Ad Placement Targeting   2007 11 
- Google's new ad targetting for channels allows advertisers to target sections of your website. -
Quick Google Results   2007 07 
- It is possible to quickly move up in Google search -
Google new groups beta   2006 12 
- This is an old article about beta Google Groups and is only left here for historical purposes. -
 
 
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Using Google Channels to test layouts   2006 11 
- New Google features enable smarter testing - a little code lets us do even more. -
Google Adsense multiple channel tracking   2006 10 
- Google finally adds better tracking. This improvement doesn't answer all my gripes, but it's better than it was before. -
Google Writely and Spreadsheets   2006 10 
- Google threatens office and f Microsoft tries their Power Ranging morphing tricks to sidestep, I think they'll just find they've stepped right out of the game. -
The real value of Google   2006 06 
- The real value of google is speed and association. hose answers can raise other questions, and those just might lead us to something important, useful or even brand new and patentable. -
Google Sketchup   2006 06 
- 3D modeling on Mac with Google Skechup 3D modeling is amazing and even more so because it is free. -
More on Google Coop   2006 05 
- Example of using Google Coop context files and annotation files -
Google Coop   2006 05 
- Google coop allows web sites to categorize and label pages -
The value of Google Analytics   2006 02 
- It is certainly true that Analytics does nothing that I couldn't do myself, though would require more disk space and processing power than I want to give it. -
Google and China   2006 02 
- Google censoring for China: I'm sure you have read about Google agreeing to censor search results for Chinese users. -


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