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Sharing Google Chrome Usage

September 4th, 2008 by Benj Arriola

I first saw Danny Sullivan’s Tweet talking about Barry Schwartz’ post on Google Chrome usage.

First posted by Michael Arrington on TechCrunch, stating that Google Analytics will not detect Google Chrome right away, and once it did, TechCrunch posted their Analytics user browser’s data. RustyBrick followed with their post on SearchEngineLand and was inviting the public to post theirs.

Sharing our Google Chrome Stats

Google Chrome Usage on BusinessOnLine's website visitors.

Only 0.25%, less than 1% of BusinessOnLine’s visitors use Chrome. I am even quite surprised Firefox is higher than IE. Does this mean there are more competitors looking at our site than potential corporate clients? :p Hehe

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Google Chrome – The Google Web Browser

September 3rd, 2008 by Benj Arriola


Over the long weekend, Tweets from SEO Tweeters have been passed left and right all about Google Chrome. When I checked my emails, mailing groups are talking about it too, not only SEO email groups but also blogging, web design and other groups I am a member of. Although this is a Google product, this is not just about search.

Google Chrome is a new Internet web browser

After seeing all the tweets, I searched Google Chrome to download and give it a spin. The top results were Google books comic strip and also a blog post by GoogleBlogoscope, the unofficial Google blog. And I just bypassed all information, did not read it right away and just kept searching for the download link and install. I’ll just figure out what Google Chrome does after I install it without reading the numerous blog post, features & benefits of the browser. Knowing Google, everything should be intuitive and easy to use, easy to figure out things.

Initial feedback after installing Google Chrome

Good points I noticed right away after I installed Chrome: (more…)

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PDFs in Google Search Results Showing "Author" & "Cited by" in Description Snippets

August 13th, 2008 by Benj Arriola

PDF’s Author Metadata in Google Search Results

Google Search Engine Results Showing PDF Metadata Authors.

Looking into the first document in the sample SERP above deeper by opening the file in Adobe Acrobat and clicking on Document Properties this is what we get:

PDF Document Properties showing Metadata

Does PDF metadata have any significant effect on ranking?

This is probably something we all need to test further to come up with a good theory showing consistent results that is repeatable. And if it is worth the time to test because of its significance to your business.

There are factors we are aware of, and there are also factors we really do not know until tested further and we can only make good intelligent guesses. But then again, it is a guess. Nevertheless, my best guesses based on this observation are: (more…)

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Google Unleashes New Mobile Search App for Iphone

July 10th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Fresh from Google’s Blog, Google has just launched a new search application (app) for the Iphone.

Once again Google continues to push the competition in search. This is definately a must try. Not only do you get Google search features for the Web, but it also works for your contacts! Enjoy.

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Online Marketing Summit (OMS) Preview – How to Use Google Webmaster Tools for SEO

July 7th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

** Just posted the next two SEO videos from this presentation on Wed, July 9th, 2008..

With the Online Marketing Summit’s regional tour on the horizon, I thought it would be a good time to give everyone a taste of the kind of material that is presented at OMS. So I contacted the always helpful OMS marketing team and got their permission to release some video footage of my presentation here in San Diego last February. The presentation was entitled “SEO: Unveiling the Black Box – Everything You Want to Know that an SEO Wont Tell You”. Now before all you fellow SEO’s think I’ve been sniffin a little too much glue on the side, I didn’t come up with the title. *lol* So I will give you a more accurate title of the presentation: “Good SEO Practices for an Ongoing SEO Campaign”. In other words, this presentation centers around the kinds of activities you want to be doing once the initial optimization of the site has been completed.

The first two videos I am releasing for this presentation are focused on how to effectively use Google Webmaster Tools to augment an existing SEO campaign. (more…)

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The Paid Links Debate – Why Buying Links for SEO is BAD

June 20th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

So today the debate about Google’s heavy hand in regard to paid links continues. I read Michael Gray’s blog today where he posts a scathing review of Google’s policies about paid links and point’s out the hypocrisy of their position. I like Michael and think he is an excellent blogger but I have to take issue with his stance here. You may accuse me of drinking too much Google Kool Aid, but I think Google’s stance on paid links is the right one. The ability for companies to buy their way into the top of organic search results completely devalues the algorithm for both Google and it’s users.

Google is who they are because their algorithm is the best that we have so far for getting relevant information from the Internet. You can argue the point if (more…)

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Why a Top 10 Listing in Google Continues to Mean Less in SEO

June 2nd, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

So you’re thinking, Catfish you must have had way too much to drink at your birthday show Saturday night if you think that top 10 listings in Google are not important. Well I will plead the 5th on the extent of my celebration except to say I had a blast and I was very appreciative of so many of my friends coming out to celebrate with me. Turning 39 isn’t easy…lol. But, my original point in the title of this post still stands. A top ten listing in Google continues to mean less. And the reason is, because it gets harder and harder to (more…)

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Track AJAX and Flash Actions with Google Analytics Event Tracking

May 21st, 2008 by Benj Arriola

Get more detailed actions with Google Analytics Event Tracking

Google Analytics/Google Code Event Tracking

Google Analytics Event Tracking PanelReleased as beta a version to testers, Google Analytics can now tag certain events that happen on a page that are normally not tracked by default on many other analytics platforms. This is common on websites that use AJAX and Flash, which are two technologies based on the current trends will just see more and more of these technologies used. Thus there is a great demand for tracking the events on sites like these.

Often web analytics platforms track many server and browser variables once an HTML rendered page loads. Problem today is many page elements powered by AJAX and Flash does not reload a new page. Thus an AJAX or Flash heavy site may be having a lot of user activity but are not effectively tracked as common web analytics software are not being able to track these events without a page loading.

Google Analytics new feature released to beta testers (more…)

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Google’s Friend Connect Ready to Dominate Web 2.0 Social Media

May 13th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Just when I think I have seen the best that Google has to offer, they come up with something new. And today they did it again with Google Friend Connect. Check out the video and see how this new Google toolset can add social media functionality to your Web site in a matter of minutes (once its out of beta), requires almost no coding and immediately helps your site become more viral. The ability of your friends to publish their activities on your site through (more…)

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A Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

May 5th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

All the noise today about Microsoft dropping it’s bid for Yahoo (hopefully it stays that way) inspired me today to take another look at the differences between the search engines and why one (Google) is utterly dominating the competition (Yahoo and MSN). And suddenly as I looked around the office and noticed some of the “swag” that my fellow BOLers had picked up from the search engines at various conferences, I was immediately struck by the obvious. The bottom line is, company culture has everything to do with why one company is winning and the others are losing. And that culture ironically is perfectly illustrated in the following picture. Google uses sophisticated technology and spends the money to do things right, Yahoo has some clever ideas but they aren’t quite up to speed, and MSN is still lost in the past:

Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo and MSN Search Engines

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