What do qualities do investors look for in the team behind a startup, before they invest? Will a startup succeed if the founders have a proven track record? And what should you do when you find another startup doing what you are trying to do? Don Dodge, long-time investor and startups advocate, shares his experience […]
Nothing is guaranteed in the world of startups and business. Sometimes the greatest of ideas aren’t a good fit for the market as it is today. Don Dodge welcomes Louis Gray to talk about some technologies that took a while to catch on, and those for whom timing was on their side, in a special […]
In this video by GoogleWebmasterHelp, Matt Cutt answers the question: “Does a website get a better overall ranking if it has a large amount of indexed pages?” Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum:http://groups.google.com/a/googleprod… Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for […]
Listing your business on Google Search and Maps can help you capture new local customers at the very moment they’re searching for you. Check out this video if you are interesting in getting more exposure through Google, and more than just through your normal revenues, like Google AdWords. Be found on Search and Maps: – […]
Mentions from another online source that talks about your own brand is always nice, and is totally welcome. Hey, that means more audience awareness of what you’re trying to sell, right? Of course, it feels a little backwards when a site mentions your brand, but won’t include a link in that mention. But, if it’s […]
What is the cause of successful business? Great effort! Aside from the effort it takes to gain success, it takes a little bit of being market ready, as well as having a little bit of luck on your side. Don Dodge welcomes Louis Gray to talk about the intersection of skill and luck in a […]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go into a Google Data Center? Michelle Miller of CBS News was able to get inside a Data Center in North Carolina and got to poke around for a bit. Find out what it actually looks like from the inside! This is actually quite interesting […]
Google covers best practices for expanding your site to new languages or country-based language variations. We discuss use cases of international sites, implementation of rel=”alternate” hreflang, and best practices. Webmaster Help Center article on rel=”alternate” hreflang and hreflang=”x-default”: https://support.google.com/webmasters… Working with multilingual sites: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo… Working with multiregional sites: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo… New markup for multilingual content: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspo… Introducing “x-default hreflang” […]
Now that Hummingbird has been around for a little while now, we know that there are some pretty big differences between this update when compared to Penguin and Panda. Because of Hummingbird’s new algorithm, it changes how Google understands the search queries it’s given and what it finds on the web pages it crawls. In […]
I’m sure by now we all know that when it comes to other countries and cultures, things can be very different between them. The things that seem normal to you might seem really odd and outlandish. On the same token, the opposite is true. behaviors and other things might might seem strange to the other […]