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Google Plus Formatting Shortcuts

Google Plus Formatting HelpGoogle Plus offers you a few helpful shortcuts when it comes to formatting the posts.  You can change the formatting to bold, italics or strikethrough with just a few simple keystrokes.  Go ahead and try these out on your next Google Plus post!  Just make sure you don’t go overboard!

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Google Plus – Better Than Facebook?

Google PlusDo we really need another social network? Google apparently thinks so and has recently started to unleash Google+ onto the world.  Google+ has a really great chance to steal some of the social networking fire away from Facebook.  My only hope is that they do not drop the proverbial ball, as they did with Google Buzz.

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How to Add Google +1 to Your Website

Google +1Google has rolled out its own way to social share the things you love – Google +1.  So, as any good webmaster should – I have started learning more about what I need to do to get this new badge on my website content.  Thankfully, Google has put together a pretty neat tool that allows you to put together your own button code and pick from 4 different sizes.

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5 Useful WordPress Dashboard Plugins

Make WordPress Dashboard Better

The WordPress dashboard is a pretty useless tool if you ask me. I have found some great plugins for WordPress though that add a lot of functionality to it, to make the dashboard useful again.  Check out these five great plugins for WordPress and then try to tell me your WordPress dashboard is not better for having added them into the mix.

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Siteholic: Simple Site Ranking Tool

siteholic website ranking tool

Check your website’s social ranking status with Siteholic.  This neat tool will give you a lot of details concerning your domain’s age, Google PageRank and other search engine and social network ranking statistics you need to keep track of.  The best thing about it is, it keeps all these details, all in one location, on one very simple page.

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Do You Need Google Buzz?

Google Buzz Marketing

Google Buzz, thus far, has been another example of them not exactly having Midas’s golden touch when it comes to new ideas (the other modern one being Google Wave). However, to make sure you have your bases covered – it might not be a bad idea to start syndicating your content through this wacky service to make sure those who want to follow you using Google Buzz can.

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Adding Notes to Google Analytics Timeline

Google Analytics Help

Did you know that in Google Analytics, you can easily make annotations for big events happening to your website?  I am going to share with you the very simple way I made note of all my recent website designs in just a few steps. 

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Find Your Site’s Best Keywords in Google Analytics

Keyword Google Analytics Tutorial

Google Analytics offers a lot of good information, but not everybody knows how to read it.  Today, I will show you how to compare your best performing keywords that bring people into your web site and compare it to the average traffic of your website.

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Crawl Error Troubleshooting Using Google Tools

Google Crawl Error Fix Guide

Did you know that you can easily use Google Webmaster Tools to fix crawl errors on your web site?  This way, you can make sure more of your links go to where they are suppose to so your visitors are not getting the doomed 404 error as much.  I have been going through my old Web Hosting Show posts for the last few weeks fixing a lot of old errors, so figured I would show you how I got things fixed up.

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Download the YouTube Downloader

Simple Way to Download YouTube Videos

Looking for a way to download YouTube videos, without cluttering your browser of choice with yet another extension or add-on?  YouTube Downloader is a free program you can download and use to get this simple job done.

All you have to do  is enter the web site address of the video into the program, and hit the, OK button.  The rest of the process is taken care of internally via the program.

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