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Guide to Google Friend Connect

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: January 19, 2009

Google Friend Connect is my latest social networking trial – partly because other blog community sites have not been too successful in bringing readers here lately and because, as usual, I cannot resist checking out something new. Although released for trial in May last year, the beta version is now available to all. When I first started writing this article I was the lone friend of my site. As you can see by the member icons in the Friend Connect member gadget, at the top of my sidebar, this has now changed. Initial enthusiasm for new social networking activities means [...] Continue Reading…

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Google Gmail Gets Mail Goggles

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: October 8, 2008

"If you drink then email , you’re a bloody idiot" (to misquote a popular Aussie ad slogan for drink driving). Google seems to agree and has kindly provided us with Mail Goggles, for Gmail, a way of attempting to help stop us sending emails which we may later regret. Its method: prompting us to answer some maths problems at designated times – by default Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as "this is the time that most people are likely to need it",. You can change the timings; which is handy if you are prone to [...] Continue Reading…

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Blogosphere News Sept 3

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: September 5, 2008

Apologies if you have been visiting here in the last week looking for new posts. A website I am working on has been taking up a fair bit of time. The site is powered by WordPress but I have had to create a theme with quite a few tweaks to turn it into a CMS system that does what I want it to do. It has been a good learning experience and I am now getting my head around PHP – the simpler WordPress sort at least. However much I have enjoyed this, it has not stopped me getting regularly [...] Continue Reading…

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Alternative Search Engines to Google

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: February 8, 2008

Will there be any alternative search engine to really challenge Google’s stranglehold in the near future? Will spam sites and parked domains continue to rate highly? Will we be able to search and actually easily find exactly what we are looking for? Will we be able to access a good range of valuable information on a topic without finding only those sites who have been successful in keyword and search engine optimization techniques? Google Search does has a lot going for it. It is the most popular, many people are happier staying with something they are familiar with and it [...] Continue Reading…

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Google Leaves Teenagers in Charge

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: January 21, 2008

Look what happens when Google leaves its teenagers at home. I know this video will slow down this page but could not resist posting it. (Warning – It does include some strong language that may offend some people) Continue Reading…

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Blog For Readers not Google

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: January 20, 2008

“Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”- Richard Bach While I was sitting on a page rank of 0, until the recent Google updates, I started changing tack in my attitude towards PR, deciding that I wanted to be able to run this blog with less of the restrictions this was placing on me. . You may have noticed that I have been writing more posts with links to other sites; far more than are coming my way. The SEO gurus would probably shake their heads at this. I get a pagerank of [...] Continue Reading…

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Blogspot Blogger comment form change unfair to ALL bloggers

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: December 2, 2007

Have you noticed that Blogger has changed its comment form so that you have to either sign in with a gmail address or as anonymous? If the blog owner does not allow anonymous comments you cannot comment at all; unless you have a gmail address. A link to a gmail address not attached to a Blogger account leads to a ‘Profile Not Found’ page with the message “The Blogger Profile you requested cannot be displayed. Many Blogger users have not yet elected to publicly share their Profile“. This mistakenly assumes that all those who comment are bloggers themselves! More significantly [...] Continue Reading…

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Page Rank – forget it but still increase traffic

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: September 30, 2007

Darren Rowse of Pro Blogger has created a video that highlights the most important and fundamental elements in achieving a high page rank. This has nothing to do with Search Engine Optimization techniques (SEO), linkbaiting, submitting your blog to directories or social networks but all to do with the quality of your content. Darren believes that people are becoming obsessed with page rank and place too much emphasis on it. If you instead concentrate on creating the quality content Google is looking for then page rank will look after itself. I find it reassuring to be reminded of this. I [...] Continue Reading…

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Google Sky – Fully Researched Review

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: August 25, 2007

After spending quite some considerable time researching Google Sky I have come up with the following erudite and learned opinion: Wow! What pretty pictures Good Fun The above slideshow was created using Slide. Slide provides a very simple and easy method of incorporating slideshows of various styles and image transition types into a blog. Upload your images, choose the style you want and copy and paste the provided code into your blog posts or sidebars. Continue Reading…

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