Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages Good Stuff No more Content Aggregation – let’s do Content Curation to bring value to readers along with search engine position Content Aggregation (which is just a fancy term for the automated gathering of links and content from the web) can be viewed on sites like Google News and several other news kind of websites. Generally, this kind of aggregation may be seen being a good thing for content creators and content publishers and uptill recently, it was upto the technology to do this – meaning – automated scripts or bots – that could help fill up content from different sources. The part of content creation was and has generally been a very human effort. But all this is now changing with Content Curation — what is content curation? An wonderful blog post about “content curation” is found on Robin Good’s weblog – . Here’s a part from Robin’s blog “A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.” 1. 2. 3. 4.
New public relations: Beating back bad press with Google AdWords The New York Times reported on its front page in September that hoki, an unattractive sea creature best known as the primary ingredient in the Filet-O-Fish, is at risk of depletion. Naturally, the New Zealand companies that farm hoki by the metric ton weren’t pleased by the article, which pointed to “ominous signs of overfishing.” Time was, the subject of a critical news story could write a letter to the editor, issue a press release, maybe demand a correction. Not content with those options, the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council took an approach I hadn’t seen before: buying Google ads for keywords like new zealand hoki and hoki new york times. The ads sought to target people discussing or searching for more information about the story. Now, I don’t really care who’s right in this dispute, though I should note the Times only apologized for using the trade association’s photograph without permission. Targeting reporters where they hang out online is McCarthy’s grating specialty.
Google Script - Building an Idea Bank Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Saqib Ali. Saqib is a Google Apps evangelist at Seagate. He has used Apps Script to create a number of applications that leverage Google Apps. What is an Idea Bank? Idea Banks are repositories for innovative ideas that Seagate employees can submit, and others can vote on those ideas. Designing the Idea Bank A typical Idea Bank consists of three basic functions: Ability to submit and store ideas to a central database.Ability to vote on ideas.Ability to add description comment on ideas. A traditional application would probably use a Relational Database like MySQL to store the ideas. Entered data can be easily managed using the Spreadsheet Editor;Revision history. The number of votes, and the voters are tracked using cells in the spreadsheet. Since the Ideas Bank is embedded in a Google Site, we were able to simply use the Google Sites Page as a place holder to add description and comments to the ideas. Implementation Details But why Google Apps Script?
Content Curation Guide for SEO The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. When it comes to the Internet, I imagine it as the warehouse where the Ark is archived at the end of Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ark is that outstanding content someone has produced and that no other will be able to see again, because it is forgotten and hidden between gazillions of other contents. Apart from the gigantic volume of pages present in the Internet, for a long time, search spam has been making the discovery of reliable sources difficult; and – let's be honest – Social Media has enhanced this issue, because it added even more noise and dispersion. Actually, as Mitchel Kapor said once, getting information off the Internet is like having a drink from a fire hydrant. To tell the truth, this problem is not new. What is Content Curation? This is especially needed in the Internet era. How to do Content Curation: The Tools Zite Flipboard
4 ways to do Mail Merge using Google Apps Script Editor’s Note: This blog post is co-authored by James, Steve and Romain who are Google Apps Script top contributors. -- Ryan Boyd The Google Apps Script team is on a roll and has implemented a ton of new features in the last few months. Some of us “Top Contributors” thought it will be a useful exercise to revisit the Mail Merge use case and discuss various ways in which we can do Mail Merge using Apps Script. Below are several techniques that tap into the power of Google Apps Script by utilizing Gmail, Documents and Sites to give your mailings some zing. Mail Merge is easy and here is how it can be done. 1. The Simple Mail Merge tutorial shows an easy way to collect information from people in a Spreadsheet using Google Forms then generate and distribute personalized emails. 2. The Gmail Service is now available in Google Apps Script, allowing you to create your template in Gmail where it is saved as a draft. 3. Here is a code snippet example to get you started. 4. Happy merging!
BonzoBox G+ Apps Skloog.com Utopic Project Emporia Personalized News for You! Project Emporia turns your votes on stories into your own personal newspaper. Overview Every day we are told about information overflow; how so much data is coming at us through so many channels every day that it is difficult to weed out the gems that are important to us from all the noise. For those who aren’t social media mavens, the whole concept can be intimidating, and for those that are, digesting social streams can become a huge time sink. Project Emporia offers one solution to this. This is just the starting point however, you can also influence how future stories are chosen for you, one vote at a time. Project Emporia is brought to you from Microsoft Research FUSE LabsProject Emporia identifies relevant news stories and surfaces them categorized by topicProject Emporia gives users a way to tap the pulse of the Internet without signing up for any accounts
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