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Using Webmaster Tools to Optimize Your Site for Google

This is a GREAT video that shows you how to use Webmaster Tools to do Search Engine Optimization on your own website. Watching this is probably the best 10 minutes that a website owner can spend. Learn about: Signing up for message forwarding to get real-time emails from Google about your site Check out Search …

Google Apps is Changing

Google announced today the timing for what we consider to be a HUGE change for Google Apps customers (that we talked about on October 1st):  The consolidation of Google Apps accounts into the overall Google Accounts structure that control non-apps services (like Analytics, AdSense, Alerts, Reader, Earth, FeedBurner, Custom Search Engine, Checkout, Blogger). See the …

Twitter Plugin for Windows Live Writer Updated for OAUTH

Ever since the oauth-calypse back in August, I’ve been really missing my this plugin for Windows Live Writer. WLW is, in my mind, the best way to manage and compose your blog posts regardless of the platform you are working on (WordPress, BlogEngine.Net, SubText, etc) however the Microsoft-built plugin that I relied upon on every …

Managing Transition From Google Apps Accounts to Google Accounts

There has always been a challenge associated with differentiating between Google Apps Accounts and Google Accounts. One of the big challenges is that Google doesn’t recognize Google Apps Accounts as Google Accounts for most of their services. Back in May, Google announced plans to change all that. In the fall of 2010, Google is planning …

Great Moments in Server Error Messages

Just got this great 500 Internal Server Error on YouTube today (linked to from a Tweet from @mattcutts) and laughed so hard I figured I had to share it. I can’t wait to run into this band of highly trained monkeys some day when next I’m in Mountain View…

How To Extend ASPDNSF Product Name Field

On of the nice features of AspDotNetStorefront is that it supports multiple languages right out of the box. It does this by storing the multiple locale phrases as XML fragments inside the particular field. So, in the case of a product name, this means stuffing each of the multi-lingual product names into the Name field …