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Re: An expat news fix? Win digital magazine subscriptions from Zinio

Sean Carlos — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 04:59:20 -0000

The Economist is probably one of the best sources of news analysis in English, although I also try to keep up with the New York Times and to a lesser extent the Guardian.

Re: Facebook Graph Search Now Passing Keyword Data To Webmasters

Sean Carlos — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:36:22 -0000

An alternative, and perhaps prefered, solution would be to simply add Facebook to Google Analytics' list of known search engines. The GA tracking code in pages needs to be modified, adding something along the lines of _gaq.push(['_addOrganic','facebook.com','q']).

Re: Can Social Influence Be Distilled Into A Score? Part 2 – Potential Pitfalls

Sean Carlos — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:16:10 -0000

I suspect that many perceive application installation requests on Facebook like as spam requests (= unsolicited & unwanted). I haven't seen valid study data, but it isn't too difficult to arrive at this conclusion.

Re: Only 9% Of Tech Blogs Implement Google Authorship Properly

Sean Carlos — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:29:00 -0000

If Conductor's survey only looked for rel="author" and rel=author then we may well have a dubious conclusion. In one of Google's authorship markup iterations, they allowed for linking to Google+ profiles via a verified email address for the same domain as an author's articles. A true analysis would have to take this into account, but since the email can be hidden, cannot I suspect.

Re: Only 9% Of Tech Blogs Implement Google Authorship Properly

Sean Carlos — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 08:22:38 -0000

Did you test your markup using Google's rich snippets simulator? There's no guarantee that they'll actually use it though. http://www.google.com/webma...

Re: Ugly URLs Be Gone! Google+ Opens Vanity URLs For Certain Accounts

Sean Carlos — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:05:29 -0000

Fair point, but Google gets high marks in my book for their spam filtering system, including the flag as spam option :-)

Re: Ugly URLs Be Gone! Google+ Opens Vanity URLs For Certain Accounts

Sean Carlos — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:06:40 -0000

For those who may have forgotten, individuals who had a Google profile with a gmail address before Google+ launched already have a vanity URL, e.g. http://profiles.google.com/...

Re: As The Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance Falls Short, Could A Yahoo-Google Deal Emerge?

Sean Carlos — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:18:26 -0000

Baidu could supply Yahoo! with search results? Nice idea, but it is my understanding that Baidu gets its English language results from... Bing.

Ref: http://www.reuters.com/arti...

Re: Enhance your blog or website with Google’s Site Search. Measure the results in Google Analytics.

Sean Carlos — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:39:25 -0000

The normal search engine crawling caveats still apply - if a page isn't publicly accessible, then it won't appear in Google's site specific search.

The best solution in this case is to consider hosting your own solution - consider one of the Enterprise solutions I mentioned.

It is worth pointing out that there are plenty of ways to stop search engines from accessing site content. Any of these will stop pages or other site content from showing up in Google Site Search.