I just mentioned that Google Books and Popular Science had published a significant portion of the Popular Science archive, online for free. I had added the caveat that it only went as far back as 1926. Turns out that’s not true at all. If you go down to the halfway point on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Google'
On Suing Google
June 9th, 2009 · 29 Comments · Web Development
Aaron Greenspan of Think Computer Corporation has generated quite a stir in the Google Adsense world over the last few months. Everyone knows of or at least has heard of the various Adsense accounts that are sporadically banned on a seemingly hourly basis. Most of those are well founded and the people being [...]
Tags: Google·small business·webmaster
Google Sitemaps Work
November 17th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web Development
I knew they worked, from my experience with About A webmaster, but I had forgotten just how well it worked. This website wasn’t indexed very well. I only realised this lately because I’ve been poking around the technical nuts and bolts of the blog.
I downloaded a Google Sitemap plugin and submitted the [...]
Google Adsense Gets The Heave-Ho
November 6th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Web Development
After several months of exceptionally poor performance, I’ve decided to ditch Google Adsense off of this blog. Adsense is doing ok over at About A Webmaster, but it’s just never really taken off on this site. I’m fairly sure that it has to do with the ad-blindness of blog readers combined with naturally [...]
1 Week Update On Analytics And AAW Gets Referenced!
November 5th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web Development
While checking my backlinks for About A Webmaster on my Google Analytics account, I found that someone has used and referenced my work over at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I’ve had people point to my work before for a high school class, but this is the first time someone has used some of [...]
Tags: About A Webmaster·Analytics·Google
Google Analytics Day 1
October 25th, 2006 · Comments Off · Web Development
After spending a full day with Google Analytics, I have to say I’m impressed. I put in the javascript at the very bottom of the pages so as to alleviate problems should there be any lag at the Google end of things. I know there was a flood when they first opened up [...]