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As blog­gers, we face a wide va­ri­ety of tasks each day re­lat­ed to manag­ing and build­ing our blogs. Productivity and ef­fi­cien­cy are vi­tal, espe­cial­ly for part-time blog­gers. A num­ber of ex­treme­ly ad­dic­tive and time-con­sum­ing habits stand in the way, though. I’m sure you can re­late. We all make mis­takes, but learn­ing from them and not re­peat­ing them will make you suc­cess­ful in ev­ery re­spect. The key is to con­trol habits, good and bad. If you know how to change your habits, then mi­nor ef­fort (...)

WordPress! is an award-win­ning CMS, which en­ables you to build Blogs, Web sites and pow­er­ful on­line ap­pli­ca­tions. Many aspects, in­clud­ing its ease-of-use and ex­ten­si­bil­i­ty, have made WordPress the most pop­u­lar blog soft­ware avail­able. Best of all, WordPress is an open source so­lu­tion that is freely avail­able to ev­ery­one. The shift from PC to mo­bile is clear­ly un­der­way, as brows­ing the web via phones and mo­bile de­vices is get­ting more and more pop­u­lar the­se days. In four out of five (...)

Question & Answer web­sites is a great fea­ture in a web­site be­cause it will let your vis­i­tors to share their thoughts about any­thing un­der the sun. The ques­tions are over flow­ing as well as the an­swers wait­ing for them. Most of the time, the web users have some­thing in mind and want to ask about it, and an­swer should be given my the other web users. In this ar­ti­cle, I’ll be pre­sent­ing free and paid ques­tions and an­swer builder for your web­site. 1. Question2Answer Question2Answer is an (...)

Google’s Webmaster Tools is tak­ing an­oth­er step to­ward be­com­ing a “lite” ver­sion of Google Analytics with the an­nounce­ment to­day of ad­di­tion­al data about search queries that drive traf­fic to your site and which pages ben­e­fit the most from them. There’s a new “Top... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

This year proved to be a strong one for on­line em­ploy­ment, as more and more took to the Web to find work, where an in­creas­ing num­ber of jobs are for em­ploy­ers in other geo­graph­ic ar­eas, ac­cord­ing to a re­port re­leased by Elance. Elance re­port­ed its one-mil­lion­th job list­ing, as an an­nu­al­ly-grow­ing num­ber of job seek­ers and free­lancers use the site to find work. In to­tal, the site saw 375,000 new list­ings in 2010, a 40% in­crease from last year. Web work­ers are cu­mu­la­tive­ly now earn­ing over (...)

Below is what hap­pened in search to­day, as re­port­ed on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Q&A: Google’s Sengupta On The Chrome OS Cr-48 Laptop Yesterday, after writ­ing my re­view of the Google Chrome OS Cr-48 note­book, I had a chance to catch... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

Yesterday, after writ­ing my re­view of the Google Chrome OS Cr-48 note­book, I had a chance to catch up with Google pro­duct man­age­ment di­rec­tor Caesar Sengupta about the ma­chine. Below, an­swers to ques­tion like deal­ing with ex­ter­nal mon­i­tors to whether Google re­al­ly be­lieves this can re­place cur­rent... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

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. I am proud to bring this column back after hav­ing it on a hia­tus for a [...] Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

I re­cent­ly had a con­ver­sa­tion with a client where we were look­ing at an ad cam­paign in Google AdWords that was, for lack of a bet­ter word, strug­gling. Covering The PPC Basics We’d done all of the ba­sic block­ing and tack­ling: Focusing on phras­es that had a high­er prob­a­bil­i­ty of buy­ing in­tent... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

Google has con­firmed that they are now up­dat­ing the Google Image Search in­dex of im­ages at a more rapid rate. Earlier this week, I re­port­ed at the Search Engine Roundtable that web­mas­ters notic­ing this at WebmasterWorld. Webmasters were say­ing that Google Image Search was in­clud­ing their new im­ages... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), America’s first learned so­ci­ety of com­put­ing, has near­ly a hun­dred thou­sand mem­bers. However, it on­ly has about five-hun­dred “fel­lows.” Fellowship sta­tus is re­ward­ed on­ly to “out­stand­ing ACM mem­bers for their achieve­ments in com­put­er science and in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy.” This year, those re­ceiv­ing fel­low­ship in­clude four Google em­ploy­ees — Richard Lyon, Muthu Muthukrishnan, Fernando Pereira, and Luiz Barroso. A list of forty-one new fel­lows in­duct­ed (...)

Google has a record of con­tribut­ing pos­i­tive­ly to im­por­tant Government ef­forts, and this year’s hol­i­day part­ner­ship with NORAD is no ex­cep­tion. NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, has been hard at work track­ing Santa Claus for over fifty years now. They be­gan in 1955 while they were still known as CONAD (Continental Air Defense Command), and tech­nol­o­gy has pro­gressed im­mense­ly since then, al­low­ing bet­ter track­ing than ev­er. As re­port­ed by Google at the be­gin­ning of the (...)

While Bing has been able to spread its in­flu­ence to the Yahoo! U.S. search engine and is do­ing de­cent­ly in its own right, shifts like the Yahoo! Japan/Google part­ner­ship make it more and more clear that Bing must find ap­pro­pri­ate niche mar­kets if it’s go­ing to sur­vive. The group that Bing is tar­get­ing cur­rent­ly? Sports fans. In an at­tempt to tai­lor its ser­vices fur­ther to a sports-ori­ent­ed au­di­ence, Bing be­gan a unique com­pe­ti­tion at the start of November this year: a tail­gat­ing (...)

Anonymous, the group of vig­i­lante hack­ers launch­ing cy­ber­at­tacks again­st groups who have hin­dered the Wikileaks web­site, have al­ready suc­ceed­ed in slow­ing or down­ing a num­ber of ma­jor web­sites. Now, their at­tacks have fo­cused in on two of their long-term tar­gets: Amazon, who shut down Wikileaks host­ing, and PayPal, who stopped al­low­ing the whistle-blow­ing web­site to re­ceive do­na­tions through their ser­vice. As re­port­ed by Computer World, start­ing at about 8am, Pacific Time, on December 9th, (...)

December 9th was the birth­day of American com­put­er sci­en­tist Grace Hooper. Timed to co­in­cide with this is Computer Science Education Week (often dubbed CSEd), an event estab­lished by the Computing in the Core Coalition. However, this year the event has re­ceived a bundle of ad­di­tion­al spon­sors, not the least of which is Google. As de­tailed on the CSEd web­site, the ob­jec­tive of the week is to share in­for­ma­tion on teach­ing about com­put­er science, espe­cial­ly as it is re­lat­ed to K-12 ed­u­ca­tion. (...)

While more and more com­pa­nies are switch­ing to Google Apps for busi­ness pur­pos­es, a sub­stan­tial por­tion of the pro­fes­sion­al mar­ket still be­longs to on-premise ser­vices such as Microsoft Exchange. Now Google is em­ploy­ing a ser­vice that may just be one of their most clev­er mar­ket­ing ap­proach­es yet: pro­vid­ing an ef­fec­tive back­up util­i­ty for Exchange known as Google Message Continuity. As show­cased on the Google Enterprise Blog, this new ser­vice is sim­ple in na­ture but can lead to tremen­dous (...)

Google has added a new ad­vanced search fil­ter named “read­ing level” to the ad­vanced search page. I re­port­ed this at the Search Engine Roundtable after spot­ting a thread at the Google Web Search Help fo­rum where a Google Web Search pro­duct man­ager some­what an­nounced this fea­ture. The... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

This blog post is a ver­sion of Eric’s talk at our Chrome event on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. You can watch his talk on YouTube. - Ed. On Tuesday, we an­nounced a num­ber of up­dates to Chrome and Chrome OS. For me, the­se an­nounce­ments were among the most im­por­tant of my work­ing life—demon­strat­ing the re­al pow­er of com­put­er science to trans­form peo­ple’s lives. It’s ex­traor­di­nary how very com­plex plat­forms can pro­duce beau­ti­ful­ly sim­ple so­lu­tions like Chrome and Chrome OS, which any­one can use from (...)

Google’s am­biva­lence about China seems to be tak­ing its toll on the com­pa­ny’s mar­ket share and rev­enues. The Wall Street Journal is re­port­ing that part-Yahoo-owned on­line mar­ket­place Alibaba now oc­cu­pies the num­ber two po­si­tion in the coun­try in terms of ad­ver­tis­ing rev­enue share: In a... Please vis­it Search Engine Land for the full ar­ti­cle.

With Google Chrome, FireFox smart key­words and mul­ti­ple ad­dons, search­ing from the browser ad­dress bar has be­come the com­mon search­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. But is there any way to give your browser ad­dress bar “in­stant” feel? Actually, there are two ways. Here are 2 tools to search from FireFox ad­dress bar and see in­stant re­sults as you type: 1. Instant FireFox Inspired by Google Instant, Instant FireFox bor­rows that be­hav­ior and lets you see Google search re­sults while you are still typ­ing. The (...)