December 21st, 2010 | by Deanna | published in Google Earth
Are you curious about what kind of businesses are eligible to appear in the free listings that appear on Google and Google Maps? In this second post in our blog series about how to create a clear and effective business listing via Google Places, we’l…
December 21st, 2010 | by lquinn | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Over 3 million businesses have adopted Google Apps. Today we’ll hear from Ali Ball, CIO of Broadway Malyan. To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our community map or test drive lif…
December 20th, 2010 | by Deanna | published in Google Earth
It’ll be a dark and stormy night on the moon. Well, dark anyway, because tonight is the only total lunar eclipse of 2010.Visible to people in North America starting at about 9pm Pacific this evening, the Earth will pass between the sun and moon, blocki…
December 20th, 2010 | by Jeremiah Dillon, Google Apps Marketing Manager | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Last month we launched an improvement that makes more than 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. Since the launch, we’ve featured posts from product teams across Google to showcase how you can benefit from the new services. O…
December 20th, 2010 | by Ariel | published in Google Orkut, Uncategorized
Isn’t it great when you don’t have to do work twice? The new feature Groups of Friends in orkut is one way of saving you a little extra effort. Once you group your friends into appropriate groups, such as “family”, “college” or “best friends”, you ca…
December 20th, 2010 | by Ariel | published in Google Orkut, Uncategorized
Isn’t it great when you don’t have to do work twice? The new feature Groups of Friends in orkut is one way of saving you a little extra effort. Once you group your friends into appropriate groups, such as “family”, “college” or “best friends”, you ca…
December 20th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
We’re excited to announce the launch of Grantspro, an updated version of the Additional Services Program, aimed at better serving grantees involved in this segment of the Google Grants program.
What is Grantspro?
Grantspro offers an additional $30,000 per month (for a total of $40,000 per month) to grantees who meet certain requirements. The updated requirements are detailed on our website.
How is Grantspro different from Additional Services?
Grantspros are not required to submit quarterly analytics reports as they were in the Additional Services program. All analytics data is requested on the Annual Survey, which was sent to all grantees this year on November 1, 2010, and is sent annually in Q4.
New applicants to Grantspro will first participate in a Grantspro test aimed at setting expectations about the demands of managing your account at the increased budget and requirement levels.
Grantspro’s required spend level is higher, but the required period of time for this spend is shorter, to allow for non-profits who experience seasonality and fluctuations in traffic patterns.
What if I’m currently enrolled in Additional Services?
You’re all set. Just continue to submit your Annual Survey results yearly and follow the Active Account Management requirements to remain active as a Grantspro. You don’t need to reapply for the program or resubmit analytics data (you covered it with your Annual Survey this year).
Additional FAQs about Grantspro can be found in our Help Center. If you’d like to continue discussing the launch of Grantspro, we invite you to start up a conversation in our Grantspro discussion forum.
Posted by Jessica Vaughan, Google Grants Team
December 20th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
We’re excited to announce the launch of Grantspro, an updated version of the Additional Services Program, aimed at better serving grantees involved in this segment of the Google Grants program.What is Grantspro?Grantspro offers an additional $30,000 pe…
December 20th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
This is part 3 of a timely 3 part guest post on mobile analytics strategy and implementation by Feras Alhlou at E-Nor, a Certified Partner in Northern California. Here’s part 1, which explained how to look for trends in mobile traffic to your website, …
Improved migration tools for Microsoft® Exchange and Microsoft Outlook®
December 20th, 2010 | by Jeremiah Dillon, Google Apps Marketing Manager | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
With more than 3 million businesses using Google Apps, it’s been an exciting year for 100% web-based computing! To help make it easy for our customers transition to Google Apps, over the years we’ve launched several tools to migrate email, contacts a…
December 20th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
A few weeks have passed since the winners of the 3D Printed Lamp Design Challenge for SketchUp were announced. Our friends over at Materialise have had time to print out the winning designs; we thought you might like to see the amazing results.First Pl…
December 20th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Webmaster Level: Beginner
Co-hosted on the Webmaster Central Blog
A New Year’s resolution
In the spirit of the holidays, here at Google we wanted to take the time to help out those who spend their days making our world a better place: non-profit organizations. A few weeks back, we asked webmasters of non-profits to submit their organization’s site to our Search Quality team for analysis. After some number crunching and trend analysis, we’re back to report on general areas for improvement and to guide you towards some useful resources!
Making our list, checking it twice
First, we’d like thank all of the amazing organizations who participated by submitting their sites. We got some great results, and are excited about all the diverse non-profit causes out there.
Our analysis will take place in the following two posts. The first post will focus on cleaning up HTML tags in your source code, while the second will examine improving user experience via better content accessibility.
Visions of… URLs… dancing in our heads
The great news is, every single site submitted had at least one or two areas to tweak to make it even better! So this information should be helpful to everyone out there, big or small. Just to whet your appetites, here’s a quick list of items that will not be addressed in our following posts, but that had some room for improvement in a large percentage of submitted sites:
-
Keep an eye on proper canonicalization: 56% of analyzed non-profit sites could improve their canonicalization practices. You can read more about canonicalization in this blog post from a previous site clinic.
-
Make sure your volunteer/support sections are visible: 29% of our submissions could improve their sites by making their support, volunteer, or donation sections easier to find. A great way to accomplish this is to add a donations tab to your navigation bar so it’s just one click away at all times.
-
Protect your confidential information: Lots of non-profits, especially those in the medical industry, deal with some very important and confidential information. Read up on how to control your crawled and indexed content, and remember to protect confidential content through proper authentication measures.
-
Make your Flash sites search engine friendly: We saw some beautiful sites running on Flash. Search engines have a hard time understanding Flash files, and we’re working to improve Flash comprehension on our end, but here are some discussion points on how you can help us understand your Flash content.
Posted by Alexi Douvas & Jen Lee, Search Quality Evaluation Team
Contributors: Aditya Goradia, Brandon Falls, Charlene Perex, Diara Dankert, Michael Wyszomierski & Nelson Bradley
December 20th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Webmaster Level: BeginnerCo-hosted on the Webmaster Central BlogA New Year’s resolutionIn the spirit of the holidays, here at Google we wanted to take the time to help out those who spend their days making our world a better place: non-profit organi…
December 20th, 2010 | by Parag Chokshi | published in Google.org
Cross-posted on the Official Google BlogAt Google, we’re committed to building a clean energy future because we we want to be good environmental stewards, and because we think it makes business sense. We’ve had a busy year with our clean energy ini…
December 20th, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
The end of the year is such an exciting time – classes are just about over and the holidays are coming. But things can also be a little stressful while you’re wrapping things up. Whether you need to schedule time to study for all your exams or just…