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From: Eric Lander’s Blog
For the past few months Eric has been supporting Google Webmaster Tools, showing clients and friends how to use them to learn more about their web site. In that time, he’s had a number of questions about just what each of the tools do, and how they can be used for SEO purposes, etc. Read more at his website …

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Defining What is Displayed

What’s it all about when you view search results? Where does the content displayed come from? Is it from the website being displayed? Is it meta-data?

 

 

Matt talks about the anatomy of a search result, and gives some useful tips on how you can help improve how your site appears in our results pages. This talk covers everything you’ll see in a search result, including page title, page description, and sitelinks, and explains those other elements that can appear, such as stock quotes, cached pages links, and more.

Take a view at this video and see. You’re bound to learn something here, as I did also.

“The anatomy of a search result“

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A new application, Google Sites, was just launched from Google, making online file sharing a breeze!

In desperation to find an application for a new client, Hank’s Photos, I stumbled upon this new product. (Hank’s Photos doesn’t have access to a database) Although it’s not a solve-all free website hosting application, it could be just what you need for your company’s collaboration and productivity services. I found it a lot more user-friendly than ZOHO which was my choice prior to finding Google Sites.

From the article at webware.com:

[Google Sites] has two main features: First, you can set it up so anyone you want can edit a Google Sites page (or you can keep it private). And second, it records all changes and lets you change things so you can un-do these edits.

Users who want to keep track of changes to a Google Sites project, or just a page on it, can easily sign up to get alerted when other users make changes.

So, I did a little messing with it to see what could be done, and just how easy it would be for the non-techy to use. You can view my resulting design works here.

Other links of interest:

• Choose which edition you need
• Mashable’s blog post about Google Sites
• Google Relaunches Jotspot - TechCrunch
• My delicious bookmarks on googlesites

All-in-all, I give this new application from Google Apps a thumbs-up!

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