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How to Display Your Profile Picture in Google Search – Authorship

February 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

Have you ever wanted to get your profile picture into Google search results right next to your articles? You’re in luck because it requires very little effort on your part and just a bit of waiting. Having your profile picture in Google search results is done through the Google Authorship program. Adding your profile image next to your posts on the Google search results helps increase clicks to your site and looks more professional (ie: gives you an expert status). Want to get them on your website? I’ll show you how to do that on HTML websites and the easiest method to add your profile picture in Google search results through WordPress.

So what do profile pictures in Google search results look like? Well, it’s that cool little picture next to your posts. Here’s an example search for my name:

How to Display Your Profile Picture in Google Search Authorship

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Fix T-Mobile + Google Voice Voicemail “call forwarding connection problem or invalid mmi code” Problem

January 3, 2013 — Leave a comment

You love your Android on T-Mobile, but hate the T-Mobile Visual Voicemail App. You love Google Voice, but can’t seem to get it working. Thankfully, I have a good explanation for you and solution! For whatever reason, the instructions Google Voice provides you don’t work and when you do try them you get this error:

“call forwarding connection problem or invalid mmi code”

 

It sucks. I know. I’ve been there and I’ve also solved it!

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Monthly Goal Success: Adsense Revenue At $1 Per Day!

April 26, 2011 — 16 Comments

Getting consistent Adsense revenue isn’t always an easy task. Depending on your blog niche and topics it can be anywhere from non-existent to making you a millionaire to anywhere in between. Though I had a goal for this month, to achieve at least a $1.00 per day average Google Adsense income by 23:59 on April 30th, 2011. Suffice it to say: I’ve gone it! Four days ahead of schedule! As of this writing on April 26th at 22:30 I have around $30 sitting in my Adsense account. Yey (and that’s not including any money left over from last month).

So how did I achieve this level of success? On a blog which is all over the board? With ONLY a few adjustments? I’ll tell you the exactly what I did with Adsense in terms for positioning, styling and most importantly: testing! You’ll all get to read the full story once I write a short e-book about it (and no, it won’t be free).

Read on to find out how I took this small blog and changed it into a working business model!

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Top 17 Google Chrome Extensions To Improve Chrome

July 11, 2010 — 3 Comments

Chrome is great in many ways, but it also severely lacks in features. Now don’t get me wrong. Chrome pioneered in many new features. BUT Firefox beat’s Chrome without breaking a sweat in the plugins/extensions department. As we all know, Extensions can (and do) add A LOT of needed (and some not) functionality to the browser.

The biggest issue is that Google’s Chrome isn’t mature yet, not as much as Firefox, and some people are reluctant to port their old Firefox plugins to Chrome. Other’s who have ported their plugins, haven’t been able to do it completely. For a variety of reasons, some plugins just aren’t as good in Chrome as in FF.

That being said, I found a nice list of plugins (many far from the standard list of ‘top chrome extensions’) that (mostly) complete the Chrome functionality list.

Update: Looking for the best MegaUpload & RapidShare Chrome Extensions (plugins)? You’re in luck! Click here!

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Best WordPress Stats Plugin

June 6, 2010 — 53 Comments

There are a plethora of Wordpress Plugins and addons for tracking statistics. This is great because you then get your pick of the litter, but the problem is if you install three different tracking plugins you will get three different results. So what should you do with these choices and discrepancies in results?

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Google Interface Inconstitencies & Problems – A Internet Marketers Nightmare

April 14, 2010 — Leave a comment

Google Interface Inconstitencies & Problems A Internet Marketers NightmareLove it or hate it, Google is here to stay but that doesn’t mean they live up to their motto of “Don’t Be Evil” (DBE). Like anything in the real world, Google is driven by profit. Thankfully most of what pushes Google forward and marking it as top dog is it’s adherence to science, math and automation. Well that’s where the fun ends and the trouble begins.

See, as much as we praise the all mighty Google for its minimalist designs, sporty interfaces and efficient interfaces is lacks the one thing which only Apple has managed to capture in design: consistency.

I use Google’s services for a lot of things, but that doesn’t mean I don’t take everything they say with a grain of salt nor does it mean I wave their flag. On the contrary I inspect every move they make under a magnifying glass. Simply said: Google is NOT your friend. It’s a business. I have many problems with it, but there is one nagging thorn in my side about Google’s products and services: each and every product ‘tries’ to look and feel the same and yet they each have buttons in different places, different color schemes and even different work flow depending on ‘who’ you are (I’ll get more to the ‘who’ a bit later).

Let’s start with the best known Google interface: Google Search. Also check the bottom of the post of a quick preview of Google brand new Keyword Tool Beta!

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30+1 Google Buzz Complete Tutorials, How-To’s and Resource List(s)

February 20, 2010 — Leave a comment

30+1 Google Buzz Complete Tutorials, How Tos and Resource List(s)Google Buzz is all the rage. Good and bad hype, it has it all. In cases like this many people create lots of tutorials, how-to’s and lots of information on how they use it.

Thanks to Tad Chef over at SEOptimize, there is now a good comprehensive list of what he believes to be the best info about the Buzz. Some good reading, especially the how-to’s. For your viewing pleasure here is the list of the how-to’s:

And a condensed resource list:

You can read the full article at SEOOptimize “30+ Google Buzz How tos, Tools and other Resources“

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Google Really Doesn’t Have It Easy With Buzz

February 19, 2010 — Leave a comment

Google Really Doesnt Have It Easy With BuzzThe latest hype is all about Google’s new social media platform: Google Buzz. They kicked off very strongly, yet something was amiss. They didn’t start out on the right foot.

For starters, it became very quickly apparent the Google Buzz did away with the little thing we love to call privacy. The first iteration of Buzz exposed every single users contact list to the world. People didn’t even have a choice of it, they were automatically signed up for it with their lists exposed. Business Insider described it very well in their article “WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw“.

After a short day or two Google quickly ‘fixed’ the issue. It only took two days, 6000+ tweets and 500,000+ complaints JUST from Business Insider viewers. I can’t imagine how many people complained about it, really just have been a significantly larger amount than that. According to Google’s own blog:

We’ve had plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback. In particular there’s been concern from some people who thought their contacts were being made public without their knowledge (in particular the lists of people they follow, and the people following them). In addition, others felt they had too little control over who could follow them and were upset that they lacked the ability to block people who didn’t yet have public profiles from following them.

At least they acknowledged the problem and tried to fix it (read here). Though it wasn’t enough. Today’s internet culture is especially sensative to privacy and it’s something Google blatantly violated. At least one person decided to take up arms against Google.

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