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How to Find a Google Advertising Professional with Google

On December 29, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

Five years after launching the Google Advertising Professional program, Google is giving users a way to search and find these professionals.

Tim Cohn first spotted this, a new page Google launched named Google Advertising Professionals Search beta. You can basically plug in some variables, such as monthly spend, location and type of AdWords related help you are looking for and hit search.

Here is a screen capture:

Google Professional Search Beta

I covered this yesterday at Search Engine Land and one person found the search to be poor, an advertiser said he already got a lead from this feature.

Note: Google has not really publicized the feature yet – so hopefully Google will place this feature in the for front of where customers would look for it.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.


Five years after launching the Google Advertising Professional program, Google is giving users a way to search and find these professionals.

Tim Cohn first spotted this, a new page Google launched named Google Advertising Professionals Search beta. You can basically plug in some variables, such as monthly spend, location and type of AdWords related help you are looking for and hit search.

Here is a screen capture:

Google Professional Search Beta

I covered this yesterday at Search Engine Land and one person found the search to be poor, an advertiser said he already got a lead from this feature.

Note: Google has not really publicized the feature yet – so hopefully Google will place this feature in the for front of where customers would look for it.

Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.



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Google’s FeedBurner Tagging URLs : Duplicate Content Issue

On November 16, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

The Google AdSense for Feeds blog announced they will be tagging your FeedBurner feeds with Google Analytics parameter tracking. I have been seeing this for several blogs for the past few weeks already. Basically, this means, Google is appending variables to the URL.

For example, if you look at one of our latest posts, the URL is http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/KwUDQ61JSkg/021166.html. If you click it, it takes you to http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021166.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SearchEngineRoundtable1+%28Search+Engine+Roundtable+1.0+RSS%29.

The purpose is to make tracking better in Google Analytics but clearly, this is just messy. Heck, I have been linking to these URLs via the SearchCap for the past couple weeks and now it is going to get a lot worse. I am going to be linking to a URL that is not the parent URL.

This is the topic of concern at Cre8asite Forums. JohnMu from Google came into that thread to offer some SEO advice:

- Move to “#” for these parameters, which will effectively hide them from search engines. There are a few articles on this, eg http://esev.com/blog/tutorial/hiding-google-analytics-campaign-variables/

- Use the rel=canonical link element: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

- For Google, use the URL parameter handling tool to tell us to ignore these parameters: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-parameter-handling-tool-helps-with.html

In general, we’ll try to figure these things out on our own (as will the other search engines), but personally I like to be in control so I’d probably try something like that.

Or you can turn off the tracking, the Google blog explains how but here is that info:

If you’re not using Google Analytics, or for some other reason don’t want these parameters in the requests coming to your website, you can turn off Google Analytics tracking on the “Configure Stats” page on the Analyze tab at http://feedburner.google.com.

Got all of that. You should take action, as I should as well.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.


The Google AdSense for Feeds blog announced they will be tagging your FeedBurner feeds with Google Analytics parameter tracking. I have been seeing this for several blogs for the past few weeks already. Basically, this means, Google is appending variables to the URL.

For example, if you look at one of our latest posts, the URL is http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r/SearchEngineRoundtable1/~3/KwUDQ61JSkg/021166.html. If you click it, it takes you to http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021166.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SearchEngineRoundtable1+%28Search+Engine+Roundtable+1.0+RSS%29.

The purpose is to make tracking better in Google Analytics but clearly, this is just messy. Heck, I have been linking to these URLs via the SearchCap for the past couple weeks and now it is going to get a lot worse. I am going to be linking to a URL that is not the parent URL.

This is the topic of concern at Cre8asite Forums. JohnMu from Google came into that thread to offer some SEO advice:

- Move to “#” for these parameters, which will effectively hide them from search engines. There are a few articles on this, eg http://esev.com/blog/tutorial/hiding-google-analytics-campaign-variables/

- Use the rel=canonical link element: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

- For Google, use the URL parameter handling tool to tell us to ignore these parameters: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-parameter-handling-tool-helps-with.html

In general, we’ll try to figure these things out on our own (as will the other search engines), but personally I like to be in control so I’d probably try something like that.

Or you can turn off the tracking, the Google blog explains how but here is that info:

If you’re not using Google Analytics, or for some other reason don’t want these parameters in the requests coming to your website, you can turn off Google Analytics tracking on the “Configure Stats” page on the Analyze tab at http://feedburner.google.com.

Got all of that. You should take action, as I should as well.

Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.



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Faster Load Times Really Matters!

On November 13, 2009, In SEO, by Nick Stamoulis

One of the factors that can seriously affect your on site search engine optimization efforts in a positive way is your website page load time. Interestingly, websites are rarely penalized for having slow load times, but if you increase your page load time you can often see positive results including increased page rankings that will [...]

One of the factors that can seriously affect your on site search engine optimization efforts in a positive way is your website page load time. Interestingly, websites are rarely penalized for having slow load times, but if you increase your page load time you can often see positive results including increased page rankings that will lead to more visitors over time. Also, another reason to have faster load times on your website is user experience. Your site visitors will appreciate it for sure!

This is not across the board. It depends a great deal on how much you improve your page load time. If your page already loads about average and you increase the page load speed by just a few nanoseconds, that likely won’t help you. But if your page load speed is a couple of seconds below par and you increase it by a second-and-a-half then that could be a significant factor in future rankings for your targeted keywords.

As you can see, there are some variables that operate on page load speed. The idea is to create a faster web. More people today expect faster page load times than ever before. That creates a demand for faster page load times. Therefore, the search engines want to reward those sites that deliver on that demand.

What are some ways you can increase page load time? Here are a few ideas:

  • Try using fewer photos and videos. If your page is heavily packed with large files like photos and videos, they will cause your load time to slow. Try deleting some from the page.
  • Use external files. If you have a lot of CSS or JavaScript on a page, you can put it into a separate file and reference that file on your page, increasing your page load time. When a browser tries to read your page it will load the elements that it can find on the page and call out for the external files when it needs them. This increases your page load speed.
  • Make your images smaller. Large images take up a lot of data space and cause your page to load slower. Make the images smaller and see what happens.

The idea is to streamline your pages as much as possible. The key to faster load times is smaller images and external files. Code streamlining will go a long way to increasing page load times and it could mean an extra nudge in the ranking wars and more people coming to your website.

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iPhone OS 3.1.2 Breaks Gmail Push: Not Covered by SLA

On November 6, 2009, In SEO, by rustybrick

In the past few days, many users of the iPhone and Gmail Push service through active sync have been reporting that it is not working. A large Google Mobile Help thread has dozens of posts from unhappy Gmail users.

Google confirmed the issue and blamed the iPhone OS 3.1.2 build, which was out just about a month ago. So I am not sure why people are beginning to complain now.

Robin from the Google Mobile team confirmed the issue and wrote a few responses in the thread. They include:

We’re aware of some issues with Gmail sync and are working to resolve them. OS v. 3.1.2 has broken a few things on our build, and we’ve also had a bug with certain formatting characters in email that has caused sync to stop altogether. We’re working on to get a fix out for these items first, and can then start troubleshooting other possible causes.

While 3.1.2 has been a source of problems, there are a few issues across other platforms and OS version as well that we’re working on. A number of bugs have been fixed over the past month, so it’s unlikely that the source of your problems then is the same as it is now. Also, many folks have been able to sync just fine – sometimes it’s a matter of sorting out setup issues and other device-specific variables. We’re trying to fix the main bugs that we know about first and then can dive into the 1:1 troubleshooting.

Andrew554321, I did want to address your question about Google Apps. Push email is not currently covered by the Google Apps Premier Edition SLA: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/sla.html

While we do apologize for any disruption, please keep in mind that this is a Beta product that was just recently released; you are of course welcome to go back to IMAP or however you were checking your Gmail before implementing Google Sync. Otherwise, we hope you’ll stick with us as we are actively trying to resolve these issues!

Yes, Google Sync uses Microsoft’s Mail for Exchange, which is a separate protocol from IMAP and will thus behave differently. There’s no link between these services, other than the fact that they can both access your Gmail and that Google doesn’t control the protocal for either of them :P

So, if you pay for the Google Apps premier, you are out of luck. Gmail push for the iPhone is a beta product and is thus not covered.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.


In the past few days, many users of the iPhone and Gmail Push service through active sync have been reporting that it is not working. A large Google Mobile Help thread has dozens of posts from unhappy Gmail users.

Google confirmed the issue and blamed the iPhone OS 3.1.2 build, which was out just about a month ago. So I am not sure why people are beginning to complain now.

Robin from the Google Mobile team confirmed the issue and wrote a few responses in the thread. They include:

We’re aware of some issues with Gmail sync and are working to resolve them. OS v. 3.1.2 has broken a few things on our build, and we’ve also had a bug with certain formatting characters in email that has caused sync to stop altogether. We’re working on to get a fix out for these items first, and can then start troubleshooting other possible causes.

While 3.1.2 has been a source of problems, there are a few issues across other platforms and OS version as well that we’re working on. A number of bugs have been fixed over the past month, so it’s unlikely that the source of your problems then is the same as it is now. Also, many folks have been able to sync just fine – sometimes it’s a matter of sorting out setup issues and other device-specific variables. We’re trying to fix the main bugs that we know about first and then can dive into the 1:1 troubleshooting.

Andrew554321, I did want to address your question about Google Apps. Push email is not currently covered by the Google Apps Premier Edition SLA: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/sla.html

While we do apologize for any disruption, please keep in mind that this is a Beta product that was just recently released; you are of course welcome to go back to IMAP or however you were checking your Gmail before implementing Google Sync. Otherwise, we hope you’ll stick with us as we are actively trying to resolve these issues!

Yes, Google Sync uses Microsoft’s Mail for Exchange, which is a separate protocol from IMAP and will thus behave differently. There’s no link between these services, other than the fact that they can both access your Gmail and that Google doesn’t control the protocal for either of them :P

So, if you pay for the Google Apps premier, you are out of luck. Gmail push for the iPhone is a beta product and is thus not covered.

Forum discussion at Google Mobile Help.



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