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Mobile Strategy

Googles Mobile SEO Algorithm Update Screams Responsive Web Design

A few days ago Google announced a change to their algorithm that really favors sites that are built using the best in class design patters of Responsive Web Design (RWD).

According to Search Engine Watch Google has really made the way you put together your mobile site even more important.

The main emphasis of their post is this: if in doubt, connect the user to the content they want on a non-mobile page, rather than direct them to an incorrect mobile-formatted page.

For instance, having a blanket redirect to your mobile homepage when the site detects a user is on a smartphone, despite the fact they have clicked on a deep link, has now been called out as an explicit no-no

I think we all probably believe that RWD in some form or another is the future of the mobile web, but this move by Google might just be the update that the rest of the world needed to push the strategy into the main stream. Clients are used to SEO conversations and so explaining this to them and getting them to realize they need a new Responsive site, should be a no-brainer.

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Design

The Story of Send

At my latest place o’work I keep hearing this notion that we always “have to tell a story” with our web/interactive site designs. I personally don’t agree that all sites need to tell a story, because there isn’t always a story to tell and forcing a story will be very obvious to the user.

That being said, I ran into this “story” put together by Google. It tells the story of an email, and how that email gets to you after someone hits send.

The appropriately named “The Story of Send” is a great way to explain to people what happens when a user hits send in their email.

Not only is the story compelling and worth telling, the way the designers put the story together is unique, ellegant and well thought out.

THIS is an appropriate use of the “have to tell a story” montra and it works.

 

 

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Articles Tech/Gadgets

Google+ Photo Album sorting fix

Tutorial on how to get latest photos and videos (from phone) to show up at the top of a Google+ album.

So I’ve noticed that since the G+ redesign last week, that images you upload to an album via the “from phone” page get slapped to the BOTTOM of your album, not matter how you have sorting set up. It’s totally annoying, but I have figured out how to fix it (and I shouldn’t have to)

  1. go to the “from your phone” page to select the images/videos you want to move to an album.
  2. Select and highlight all the images you want to move.
  3. Click the Add To Album Button.
  4. Share or don’t share at this point. This to me is another annoying feature of G+ photos. I should be able to chose if I want to share the images I’m about to move to an album, not forced to “cancel”. But if you do cancel the share box, the images will still get moved.
  5. Go into the album you chose to move images into. WHAT? they aren’t there? Well scroll to the bottom of that album…BOOM. Thats where they are.
  6. If you want your latest images to be sorted to the top you have to click MORE > ORGANIZE ALBUM > and then click ORDER BY DATE twice. Then you’re lates images will be at the top.

WHEW.

Now all that being said, maybe I’m doing something wrong. If so let me know. Thanks.

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Articles

GOOGLE ZEITGEIST: Here’s What The World Searched For In 2011

GOOGLE ZEITGEIST: Here’s What The World Searched For In 2011.

Google released a list of it’s top 10 searches for 2011. Couple of surprises on the list… Mainly Ryan Dunn #3 and Rebecca Black #1 (well actually RB doesn’t surprise me at all… Friday is a rad tune).

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Links

Google teases social networking plans

The last sentence in this article says it all.

Considering the odds of that ever happening are not likely, Schmidt has
just one thing to say: “Failing that, there are other ways to get that
information,” said Schmidt.

It’s ALL about the information… YOUR information.

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Links

Google ruins the internet?

First they made it awesome, now they make it suck. Thoughts on this?

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Images

Googles 4th of July Logo – 1 hell of a CSS Sprite

Check this out before it’s gone (i would hope you all know the URL, duh)

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Links

Has the iPhone lost its cool?

I knew this was going to happen, just not so soon! Googles I/O was only YESTERDAY and people like Engadget,Gizmodo and now Mashable (Pete Cashmore) are all saying Google just leapfrogged Apple.

I’m calling this one: Next Apple ads we’ll see will be attacking GOOGLE and not Microsoft. This shall be an interesting next few months to see how Apple responds.

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Video

GAMECHANGER: Google TV (video)