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Why Does This SEO-Promoting Email Spam Beat Gmail’s Filters?

seoroi.com-Gabriel-Goldenberg — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:10:54 +0000

I spend an inordinate amount of time deleting spam emails from my Gmail inbox. If my email is public and scraped, Gmail should still block the spam people send me. Since they’ve been horrible at stopping this for at least a year, and probably more like three years, I’m going to start posting these emails here and hopefully Google will improve its spam filters as a result…

Our favorite tweets of the weekMay 14 – May 20, 2012

Cameron — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:49:00 +0000

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out…

Comics of the week #130

Walter — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:16:29 +0000

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons…

Happy Birthday DoubleClick Search V3

Allison Sommer — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:42:00 +0000

DoubleClick Search V3 is one year old! Over the last year we’ve focused on:

Campaign Management
Deeper Insights
Bid Optimization
Better Results

To learn more about a year of DoubleClick innovation, visit the DoubleClick Search blog.Posted by Allison Sommer, Inside AdWords crew

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 18, 2012

Barry Schwartz — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:35:19 +0000

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

Search In Pics: LinkedIn Bike, Chrome Watch & Facebook @ Google
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more…

PokerChips.com LMAO Link Buying: aimClear Just For Fun Friday! (cc @MattCutts)

Marty Weintraub — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:09:01 +0000

Dude, overt link buying is like SO 1998. Imagine a link buying approach that is so over the top that even experienced link builders cringe, as opposed to the usual report-as-spam-and-delete daily doings? OK, so this one takes the cake and we’re featuring it in this week’s installment of Just-Fer-Phun-Phriday.

I like that Rob thinks our site is well designed, warm fuzziness…

A look inside our 2011 diversity report

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000

We work hard to ensure that our commitment to diversity is built into everything we do—from hiring our employees and building our company culture to running our business and developing our products, tools and services. To recap our diversity efforts in 2011, a year in which we partnered with and donated $19 million to more than 150 organizations working on advancing diversity, we created the 2011 Global Diversity & Talent Inclusion Report…

Webinar: How Customer Analytics Grows Your Business Faster than Web Analytics

Lars Lofgren — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:35:02 +0000

It’s spring time again, and if you’re doing some business cleaning and improvement now’s a good time to consider learning about Customer Analytics.

Customer analytics is a great way to get rid of useless clutter in your life by eliminating the need for monthly traffic reports, and replacing them with useful customer analytics reports.

“But wait!?! – Aren’t traffic reports important? I need to be able to tell my boss how much traffic we’re getting…

All Your Knowledge Bases Belong to Google

Bill Slawski — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:20:56 +0000

In a Google Inside Search blog post, Introducing the Knowledge Graph: Things, not strings we’re told of a new initiative from Google to show us more information within search results themselves about the things we search for. This is a potentially paradigm shifting view of what a search engine does. The post tells us:

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The Google Knowledge Graph – Broadening Your Search Horizons

Georgia Halston — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:47:39 +0000

Google has rolled out what it describes as ‘the next frontier in search’, the Google Knowledge Graph. Already in use in the US, this new search engine upgrade from the advertising giant will be made available to most English speaking countries within the next few days and, as usual, to the rest of the world in the weeks and months to come.

Google claims that this upgrade is a much more intelligent version of its existing engine, because it is able to read the words in web content on a semantic level as opposed to a lexical one, as has always been the case…

Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting

Peep Laja — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:27:03 +0000

Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives.

The goal of a “regular” text is to inform or entertain. The goal of Web copy (and ideally your website in general) is to get people to do something—to sign up, make a purchase, or something similar…

A Foot On The Bottom Rung: First Forays Into Responsive Web Development

Gavyn McKenzie — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:31:26 +0000

Responsive design is the hottest topic in front-end Web development right now. It’s going to transform the Web into an all-singing, all-dancing, all-devices party, where we can access any information located anywhere in the world. But does responsive design translate well from the text-heavy Web design blogosphere to the cold hard reality of commercial systems?

Rumors came through our office grapevine that management was looking to revamp our mobile presence…

Free download: 40 Exclusive Photoshop Patterns

Walter — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:34:41 +0000

We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you.

This one is a Photoshop pattern file (.PAT) which contains 40 beautiful textures that you can apply to your designs.

A detailed step by step instruction is provided inside the file to help you use them. You can use these as textures for your websites or any background.

Thanks to Rayz Ong from LemonGraphic for creating this awesome freebie for WDD readers…

How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily

Aurélien Denis — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:15:44 +0000

In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area.

If you’re just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in with some useful and easy ways to customize your WordPress site, a great place to start is the WordPress Admin area, or backend…

Why Web Users Don’t Click on Banner Ads [Infographic]

Linda Bustos — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:04:39 +0000

This week’s infographic explores who looks and clicks on banner ads. Continuing the theme of consumer fears about privacy, it’s not just lack of interest that causes users to shun banner ads. Consumers believe banner ads will prove to haunt them long after the click:

31% are worried that their internet behavior will be tracked
54% don’t trust most online banner ads they see
55% are worried about getting a virus
57% are afraid of receiving spam from advertisers

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Nevertheless, ad spend is expected to grow by 23% this year, and Facebook will pull in $5B in ad revenues…

Websites With Seamless Social Media Integration

Wes McDowell — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:59:54 +0000

Well, its official: social media is here to stay. While it can be difficult to keep up with the ever-changing social landscape, a basic understanding and implementation of the different platforms available can get big results. Companies of all sizes are taking advantage of the free publicity and word-of-mouth that social media can offer them.

One of the most logical ways for companies to capitalize on this trend is to integrate their social media campaigns with their websites…

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2012

Barry Schwartz — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

Bing Search API Now On Paid Platform
About a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be free and today is the day they migrated the Bing Search API to the paid platform. Microsoft said for the time being, the Bing API will still be free – to try out…

Ways to Win Customers and Influence Rankings – Whiteboard Friday

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:54:00 +0000

Starting up your own consulting agency can be quite a difficult process and often times the most challenging step to your endeavour will be finding new customers or clients.

In this week's Whiteboard Friday we will be covering some tips and tactics that you can use to get referrals and win customers. Don't forget to leave your own advice in the comments below.

Happy Friday Everyone! Enjoy!

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Helping students fish for a better future in the land of 10,000 lakes

feedproxy.google.com-A-Googler — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:50:00 +0000

Minnesota has long been a state that’s prided itself on its commitment to education. Now the state has taken on the mission of becoming a technology hub as well, setting the goal to become one of the country’s top five technology states by 2020. Last week, we travelled to Minnesota to pilot two new programs designed to help students with an interest in technology get a jump on the job market, and learn directly from Google engineers over Google+ Hangout…

Announcement: Custom alerts will sunset on June 30, 2012

Katie Wasilenko — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:00 +0000

When we first created custom alerts, we wanted to provide advertisers with a way to be notified when certain behaviors or changes occurred in their AdWords account. Over time, we observed that most advertisers wanted to take action when such triggers occurred within their accounts. Many of these actions can now be done by creating automated rules – a tool within AdWords that enables you to schedule automatic changes to specific parts of your account based on the criteria that you specify…