Today, as I put another spreadsheet with Store Locator Plus and Enhanced Results features onto Google Drive, I realized something. If Google Drive crashes, very unlikely but stranger things have happened, I don’t have a backup copy of ANY of my Google Drive documents. There are a lot of things I have out there [...]
22
Jan
Google Maps TLDs
Google owns a variety of top-level domains (TLDs) besides the American-centric Google.com. For example, the Bahamas uses www.google.bs as the official domain name. With Store Locator Plus a setting is provided to allow the site administrator to set the starting TLD for the Google map. While any address in the world can be searched from [...]
10
Nov
SEO : The Rel Attribute
After attending the WordPress User Group this week I decided to pay slightly more attention to the SEO elements of the page content on the Cyber Sprocket site. One of the topics they brought up was the importance of the rel tag. Google is putting more emphasis on the linkages between sites since the Panda [...]
04
Sep
App Inventor First Impressions : Setting Up
In the previous article I went over some of the notable items on the Terms of Service for Google App Inventor. Here we get into building our first simple app. App Inventor and Java While you don’t need to know how to code in Java, you will need Java installed on your computer. Don’t worry, your [...]
04
Sep
App Inventor First Impressions : Signing Up
Google App Inventor is a service and development platform provided by Google to make it easier to create and deploy Android mobile applications. I am reviewing the viability of this platform now that the technology has matured a bit and is gaining more acceptance in the community. It appears this project may have some longevity, [...]
09
May
Google Spam Filter FAIL
My favorite tech company has fallen off their pedestal and their new-found ego is going to give them a big ugly black eye. The tech community is quickly becoming disenchanted with the ways of Google, thanks in a big way to the ultimate FAIL of the Google Spam Filter. It turns out that Google decided [...]
Talk To Me...
Enter your email below to sign up for the monthly Store Locator Plus newsletter. Click the Facebook icon to get almost-daily updates on what I'm working on now. The RSS feed icon will bring my bi-weekly blog posts to your feed reader.
