Thom "dot com" Craver

Don’t like those new options down the left side of your Google search results?  There’s an app for that.   Sorry – I got carried away.  There’s a plug-in for that.  If you use Firefox or Chrome and you don’t want to see those new search refinement options on the Google search results pages, Bruce Clay’s SEO Tools has a plug-in for you. Until Google’s recent interface change, you had the option to see tools that would help you refine search [...]

Google has changed their look and given a Web 2.0 face lift to the search interface. With it comes a plethora of tools and filters to let searchers control the search results and better decide what they want to see. A how-to guide on the new Google.

The Google Analytics team announced new changes to what they’re calling the Google Analytics Ecosystem.  Several announcements were made today at EMetrics.  Specifically, the team announced Analytics Apps, new reports for tracking AdWords campaigns, includnig AdWords Search Funnels now available in all AdWords accounts and asynchronous tracking is now officially out of beta. If you hadn’t used it before, you can add the code with these instructions. Apps are apparently where it’s at. After launching the Google Apps Marketplace, Google has [...]

The joy and pain of Google Apps and other services is the single sign-on system. While it’s great to be able to access online your email, document repository, analytics and other services by only logging on once, it can also open yourself up to a world of information theft if your password is compromised.  Combine that with browsers that store passwords, malware and phishing scams, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster if you are not careful. //