The other day Google announced they are scrapping a number of their products including:

Aardvark – Aard-what?
Desktop – quite interesting as they used to really push this
Fast Flip – Pointless addition to Google Reader, total flop.
Google Maps API for Flash
Google Pack
Google Web Security
Image Labeler
Notebook – I really liked this, I used it to write a book. Fortunately if you do use this your notes will be imported into Google Docs.
Sidewiki – Again this was a bit of a flop.
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Google Serps in chrome seems to have more white space and the addition of Search in red next to the number of results

This is the IE 9 rendered version

that’s it really

for the purpose of this post here is a no followed link Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO and a followed Link David Naylor a UK SEO

One thing I have always used was JS shortcuts of highlighting links the first one shows NOFollowed links in Pink :

javascript:function highlightNofollow(){var newStyle=document.createElement('style');newStyle.type='text/css';newStyle.appendChild(document.createTextNode('a[rel~=nofollow]{border:1px dashed #852! important;background-color:#fcc! important;}'));document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(newStyle);};highlightNofollow();

Second one that not many people use is the one to shows Followed links in blue ( great when no link style is added )

javascript:function highlightNofollow(){var newStyle=document.createElement('style');newStyle.type='text/css';newStyle.appendChild(document.createTextNode('a{border:1px dashed #852! important;background-color:#4bf! important;}'));document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(newStyle);};highlightNofollow();

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I’m always looking for extra incomes and especially ones that will tick over themselves and require little input from me, but has my own lack of thought been my downfall. I think that I could have had a nice little earning site as rankings and traffic where both climbing nicely, but now I guess I’m going to need to start adding more content to each page.

A few months (2011-06-14) ago I bought a keyword rich domain which had a few links from articlesbase.com, and I decided I was going to put WordPress on and go from there. I was already using Amazon’s affiliate scheme on another site I have so after some digging around, I found out that Amazon had just launched Javari which sells Shoes & Handbags.

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This isn’t exactly interesting news, but it is necessary – Google are changing their product search feed specification and if you don’t adhere to the changes you could get your account suspended (which would be pretty bad, because Google Product Feeds provide a lot of targeted traffic). The news was announced on Friday on the Google Merchant Blog.

Basically you need to ensure certain attributes are included, if you would like to see a summary of the required attributes (new and old) you can do so here.

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Google announced a few days ago on the Gmail Blog their new addition for Gmail: offline Gmail, Calendar and Docs. No doubt this was a key area they needed to improve upon for those users wishing to buy a Chromebook. Basically it’s like the way Outlook works, you can write and send emails without a connection, then when you connect it synchronises and the emails get sent out automatically.

By the looks of it Gmail will be one of a number of apps that will have an offline version created. They released downloadable Google Maps a few months ago, so you can download areas you are visiting in case you lose your connection or you want to avoid data roaming.

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For those of you who don’t follow the Official Google Webmaster Blog they announced today that they are tidying up their link reporting in Google Webmasters Tools. Sadly they still won’t be showing you all the links, but they are going to make it easier to analyse external links.

How it used to work
Prior to today, when you looked at the “links to your site” report on Google Webmaster Tools it would show you all links from subdomains, for example it would have shown example.com links to www.example.com in the external links report.

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I’ve been waiting along time for Google to release this, but last week I finally got access to multi-channel funnels. I must say I am quite impressed – although I can already see a few problems. I’ve been trying out the non-brand vs brand channel grouping that Shark SEO ran through on SEO Gadget, which is kind of cool.

There is one thing that I think needs adding – I’d like to be able to segment channels based on their landing pages – if you have a different landing page for each stage of the buying decision making progress then you can accurately determine where they are likely to be in that process. This is definitely something I’d like to see in future, and I can imagine it is fairly easy to do.

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