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Google Adwords Advertising Professional

Posted on September 25, 2009. Filed under: Google Adwords | Tags: , , |

I’ve passed the Google Advertising Professional Exam! The test is $50 and has about 110 questions, nothing to drastic. Some questions are a bit tricky as they are so simple they confuse you, just go with your gut instinct.

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Google Analytics Custom Settings

Posted on September 19, 2009. Filed under: Google Analytics | Tags: , |

Why are custom Google Analytics settings defined in the client-side code?
I would think the most obvious place for these settings would be through the Google Analytics admin interface or an XML file that only needed to be downloaded once, not upon every page visit.
Would love to know more about the thinking behind this.

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Google Analytics Qualification (Certification)

Posted on September 19, 2009. Filed under: Google Analytics | Tags: |

I passed my Google Analytics Qualification today and am now Google Analytics Qualified (yeah, if only it would make me more money~!).
You can take the certification at https://www.starttest.com/8.0.0.0/starttest.aspx?cmd=home

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Google Analytics with JavaScript disabled

Posted on September 17, 2009. Filed under: Google Analytics |

Why does Google Analytics not track a browser with JavaScript disabled? Surely a simple 1px transparent image would do the trick where JavaScript can’t?

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Yodel = Google Australia

Posted on May 30, 2008. Filed under: Google, Other |

Our telephone services are outsourced and we just got a message saying we need to return a call to Google Australia! I found it very hard to believe that Google Australia was actually on the phone, so I did some research on the phone number (1800732724 or 1800 732 724), it turns out that the [...]

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Google Ranking

Posted on March 13, 2008. Filed under: Google, Search Engine Optimization & Marketing, clickfind Business Directory | Tags: , , |

We were in panic mode for the last two weeks, as we basically dropped completely from Googles search results. This was after doing some tweaking of the site for SEO.

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Why pay, when Google is free?

Posted on February 22, 2008. Filed under: Google, clickfind Business Directory | Tags: , , |

Why would anyone want to pay to be in a Business Directory when Google is free?
This is a question we get asked often. Our response is simple:

there is no control on what is indexed in Google, your page might not be indexed
there is no control over what information from the page is shown in the [...]

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Google Base Australia

Posted on January 25, 2008. Filed under: Google, clickfind Business Directory | Tags: , , |

Are you looking for Google Base Australia? Look no further!

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Create a Google Webmaster Sitemap (free code)

Posted on January 21, 2008. Filed under: ColdFusion, Google, MS SQL | Tags: , , , |

Want to know how to easily create a Google sitemap without having to use any other external tools?
It’s easypeasy if you use MS SQL and ColdFusion!
Let’s assume you have a database full of products (11,000 or more) and you need to generate a sitemap so google knows what to index. You wouldn’t want to do that [...]

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Google Webmaster Tools

Posted on January 21, 2008. Filed under: Google | Tags: , |

Google Webmaster Tools is one of the things you can’t do without if you run a website. It’s an excellent tool for webmasters who do not have any other access to their log file and check for 404 or other errors.
It also allows you to see how Google crawls and indexes your site, learn about problems [...]

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