by Matt Soreco on April 14, 2010
It looks like Google pushed out an enhancement to their queries report in their Webmaster Tools. It now gives the ability to enter a date range, and it shows the number of impressions along with the click throughs (and click through rate). And each query has a dropdown link to see the positions the term showed up in. There is also a graph that trends query volume and click through volume over time.
If you use Google Webmaster Tools, definitely check out this new feature. It’s great for SEO!
by Matt Soreco on April 6, 2010
The challenge was to find a way to easily and selectively share to all of my top social media networks while avoiding duplication. It’s a pain in the neck when I find something interesting, and have to post it multiple times to get it out to all of my friends/followers. It’s also annoying to link accounts together, and have meaningless posts shared across profiles (e.g. Twitter in Buzz or Facebook).
Also, I don’t want to be one of those who simply have everything on autopilot–creating noise everywhere.
The answer, I think, is ping.fm. I tested it a bit, and it seems to do the trick.
From Ping.fm I can post the same thing directly to:
I can post to those services separately too (without using ping.fm), to avoid noise in my streams.
I also wanted to push Google Reader shared items to those services as well, which can be done through RSS. Now the items are truly shared.
There is only one workaround–which I hope is fixed soon. To post to Buzz, you must have ping.fm post to Google Chat status, which then can be added as a connected site to Buzz. I hope ping.fm will allow direct posing to Buzz soon for a cleaner connection.
Also, to avoid duplication, I now have only one connected site to Buzz–which is the Chat Status.
Lets see how this holds up.
by Matt Soreco on April 2, 2010
Wednesday I posted that it was a mess. It still is. Very messy. Today they released a feature that auto collapses comments on posts that have a lot of comments based on some kind of logic. There was a consensus in the comments of Buzz’s official post–that’s not what people wanted.
It stinks.
Someone made a great suggestion to make it more like Reader. Spot on.
Buzz should follow Reader’s interface. Only have a count of what’s new, what’s updated, and what’s read. And be able to:
- Show New (count)
- Show New (count) and Updated (count)
- Show All
Like Reader, don’t assume I read something if it’s at the bottom of my screen. Mark it read if I read it, or if I choose to mark it read. Today, if something is buried below the fold, Buzz assumes you’ve read it.
Like Reader, have everything collapsed unless I tell you open each (by navigating or otherwise). If I’m in the mood, let me just mark everything as read.
Basically, copy Reader.
Also, have @reply hotlinks next to everyone’s comments for easy referencing other’s. I still don’t understand how it’s done if you don’t know someone’s gmail address.
And finally, add a +follow link too next to everyone’s comments for easy adding. I choose to follow people based on their commenting. So that would save me (and I bet a lot of others) a lot of wasted clicks.
