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Gmail Is it Big Enough

So I’ve been living in a brand new Gmail account for almost a month now, and I’ve grown used to it but I, see a problem on the horizon I’m going to run out of space.

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I know Werty showed something similar to this at pubcon, but this is as bad as I’ve ever seen it. 12 sponsored ads on a page and almost no way out but to click the ads. Yes I know there are two links in the upper right but well seems a bit like an MFA [...]

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Google’s Policy on No follow and Reviews is Hypocritical and Wrong

I’m not exactly sure what caused all this secondary fuss about no-follow and reviews lately but I think it’s time someone pointed out that Google is being extremely hypocritical about the entire thing and using fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to corral web publishers to their way of thinking.

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What I Miss About Not Working at Google

I’m a curious person, I like to experiment, try new things, read and learn. You wouldn’t know it by looking at my permanent record or report card since I graduated high school 374th out of 400. You also wouldn’t know it looking at my college transcripts because I tried going to college twice and dropped [...]

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More Adwords Quality Stupidity

So exactly why do I have to raise my bids to $0.20 and $0.30 for terms like [michael gray] , [graywolf], and [greywolf] when there are only 2 other people bidding? Am I somehow not relevant for those terms?

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Strange and Irrelevant Gmail Advertisements

So I’m logged into GMail and I see some strange ads down in the lower right hand corner.

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Google and Personalized Search – Collective Data Borg

I’m getting pretty in depth in studying the tools and services Google makes available to people with Google accounts. However I came across something today that made me wrinkle my nose and look down over the top of my glasses like my Grandma did when she knew I was telling fibs.

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Blue Widgets – Google and CSS Files

With all this talk about Google Crawling CSS files I thought it might be nice to get an idea what’s within guidelines and what’s not.

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TheDisneyBlog.com Delisted in Google

Not my site, not my client, not affiliated with me in any way, however I do read it regularly. Seems he’s having a bit of a problem with Google losing his site. Maybe someone in Google can give him a heads up. There I did my good deed for the day.

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Google Reader – The Borg is Watching

The blogosphere is buzzing today about the new stats being published by the Google reader, however I’d like to take a slightly more cynical look at things.

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Googlers Blogging More

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed more activity on the official google blogs in the past few days? Wonder if it’s a direct result of the Matt Cutts Blog Faster post or just a coincidence, of course I don’t believe in coincidences … Official Google Blog: Kirkland calling Inside AdSense: Embed a [...]

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Oddities From the Latest Google Update

Man the latest update on Google is clearly showing some odd stuff. For example on one domain I own it says the site isn’t in google at all. If I do a site: search on the domain I get 300+ pages but everything except one is in supplemental. If I look back at the page [...]

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If Google Ran The World

This is the way things work in the real world this is the way things would work if Google ran the world any questions …

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Shoemoney and Graywolf in Forbes.com

Shoemoney rocks the house, but I managed to get in a name drop and few sentences in an article on Google Arbitrage Bitten By The Google Spider – Forbes.com Critics say the new restrictions have missed the mark, punishing people like Kris Jones who run legitimate Web sites. Search engine marketer Michael Gray says Googleâ€™s [...]

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Google and Private Registrations

CShel has been doing a little research and thinks she got an answer tot he question of can google see private registration data.

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Google Click Tracking in Gmail

I can’t believe that I am the first one to notice this, and I guess it’s because I don’t use GMail regularly that I didn’t notice this before, but if they didn’t actually want your user data would Google be tracking clicks in Gmail?

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Adwords Quality Score Interview

If you’re interested in reading what I have to say about the adwords quality score check out An Interview With Michael Gray aka Graywolf I gave over on PPC Blog

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My Website Isn’t Banned in Google

This post is a follow up to is my website banned in Google. Looking at the screen shot below you can see I’m no longer banned.

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Is Google Pushing a Republican Agenda and Burying Internet Porn

Recently there have been a number of stories alleging that Google is in bed with CIA and feeding them data. Having just returned from an internet conference and speaking with some Goolge Engineers I feel pretty confident that Google’s response that they are not involved with the CIA is true, however there is a growing [...]

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Using Sitemaps to Combat Duplicate Content

If you talked to anyone at the recent pubcon you realized one the things that’s on everyone’s mind is duplicate content, scrapers, splogs and adsense. While I didn’t get a chance to spend any time with anyone on the Google Sitemaps team, sometimes it takes a few hours on a plane for an idea to [...]

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