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Many people are complaining about the recent Google updates to their search engine algorithm. I can’t help but think that the majority of people complaining are gaming the system and do not deserve high rankings in the first place. Like always, if your site has quality content that’s beneficial to your audience, you probably were not affected. If you’re like me, your websites traffic even improved. April 19th was when the latest Panda updates took place. Like clockwork, some of my websites... (more...)

Google is usually known for their high quality web services, but I along with most people am not too impressed with their latest service: Google Drive. My expectations for Drive were to at least match and hopefully exceed services offered by competitors in online file storage, but in my opinion Drive is just your average cloud storage service. There are really no advantages or incentives to using Drive over your current file storage provider and here’s why. Public sharable URLs My biggest gripe... (more...)

The rumors buzzing around the web have finally been confirmed today officially on Google blog. Google drive will kick off offering 5Gb of free storage and premium accounts with tiered space that smashes all competitors including Dropbox. Google Drive will be available for United States users originally on most platforms. Software for Windows, Mac, and Android based devices will be among the first platforms you can use the Drive app on. A future iPhone app will be released shortly. The tier... (more...)

One of the top searches to this blog is questions people have about Gmail’s space counter. I wrongly assumed since it’s been around so long most people understood why they have it and how it can keep on counting. How can Gmail’s space counter keep counting? Well that’s easy the Gmail counter goes up by extremely small increments at a time. In fact, it only goes up about eight millionths of a megabyte per second. To put this in perspective, say an average email is about... (more...)

Google recently announced it was adjusting its algorithm to focus on quality content instead of highly optimized web pages. So what does this mean for SEO specialists? If you have a quality web page that isn’t made for Adsense with high percentage of keywords it means very little. Using traditional SEO methods along with normal content will continue to wreak success on Google. A common technique among SEOs is to keyword stuff. In layman’s terms if you want to rank highly for a... (more...)

Since Gmail’s new interface many users including me have complained about having difficulty operating the icon only interface. Like many products like Microsoft Office Gmail followed the trend of making an almost all Icon interface. Google and Microsoft alike try out all of their new changes with thousands of testers to make sure their changes are for the better. Even extremely minor changes in hex code are put to the test. With this known it’s pretty amazing that the majority of... (more...)