Making search more secure: Accessing search query data in Google Analytics As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, particularly for signed in users, we believe that protecting these personalized search results is important. As part of that effort, today the Google Search team announced that SSL Search on will become the default experience for signed in users on Google.com (see the Official Google Blog post to learn more). Protecting user privacy is important to us, and we want to take this opportunity to explain what the Google Analytics team is doing to help you continue measuring your website effectively in light of these changes. How will this change impact Google Analytics users? When a signed in user visits your site from an organic Google search, all web analytics services, including Google Analytics, will continue to recognize the visit as Google “organic” search, but will no longer report the query terms that the user searched on to reach your site. What is Google Analytics doing about it?
100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library. Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines. Intute: Use this website’s search tools to find the best and most reliable sites to start your research. Meta Search Want to search it all at once? Dogpile: Search Google, Yahoo, Bing and more at once with this great search engine. Databases and Archives Books and Journals Science Math and Technology Social Science
4 Simple Tools for Creating an Infographic Resume This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As a freelancer or job seeker, it is important to have a resume that stands out among the rest — one of the more visually pleasing options on the market today is the infographic resume. An infographic resume enables a job seeker to better visualize his or her career history, education and skills. Unfortunately, not everyone is a graphic designer, and whipping up a professional-looking infographic resume can be a difficult task for the technically unskilled job seeker. Luckily, a number of companies are picking up on this growing trend and building apps to enable the average job seeker to create a beautiful resume. To spruce up your resume, check out these four tools for creating an infographic CV. 1. Vizualize.me is a new app that turns a user's LinkedIn profile information into a beautiful, web-based infographic. 2.
The Web Standards Project Getting Rankings into GA Using Custom Variables The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Gathering rankings is one of the most annoying and time consuming tasks of an SEO consultant's work. Because of search personalization, it can be near impossible to find accurate rankings for keywords to report to clients or to use to gauge our work's effectiveness. Michael King and I have found a way to get rankings for the keywords driving traffic to your site directly into your Analytics using Custom Variables. How Do I Get These Rankings Into My GA? Different people have come up with different ways to get rankings directly into GA. Mike and I decided that a custom variable would be a better way to go. 1) Insert the Javascript custom variable that I will provide you below into your section of your website below your normal GA code; 2) Insert a parameter into your <body> tag; 3) Be able to slice/dice your data in Analytics; and The Code Get the code here
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How to Use the New Hipstamatic App for Protest Photos Hipstamatic, a super-cool app designed to provide a series of custom "lenses" for the iPhone, has a new group feature that could come in handy for citizen journalists, photojournalists and protesters. Here's how it works: using the free Hipstamatic D-Series app, available in iTunes December 15, a group of people can snap "rolls" of pictures of 24 "exposures." (The set-up is a nostalgic wink to analog photo days and cheap disposable cameras still given to guests at weddings, says Lucas Allen Buick Hipstamatic founder and CEO.) Why would this be useful for reporting events? Let's say you're at a public rally you expect to get hot. You can invite as many people as you want to participate via Facebook and anyone who accepts the invite will get the photos. So if you have your iPhone taken away or lose it, the photos are still safe. "We didn't envision it for Occupy-type situations, but I can see how it might be useful," Allen Buick told IJNet.
"Sam Spratt Illustration" What, in your opinion, has been the biggest effect of the internet on art?How do you get noticed in the contemporary art scene when there are so many artists on the internet and social media? With so much plagiarism and emulations of artworks, how do you keep your artworks so original? How do you make sure you style is distinct so that people know it is yours?How different is it selling art online then in a gallery? 1-2. The Internet has allowed more people to discover art, do so easier, and thus enabled more people to be and aspire to be artists — and I think that’s neato burrito. 3-4. Well, not plagiarizing other people’s work is really the key here. It should be made having referenced the source material, materials beyond that source, references created on your own, and tied together through a technical understanding and personal treatment. 5-6. Very. 7.
About Multiply - one of the world's largest online social shopping destinations. How journalists can use Google Refine to clean ‘dirty’ data sets The first attempt at a lead for this post, it turns out, was pretty much the same lead I wrote five years ago when reviewing a book about dirty data. My lapse illustrates two things: First, that I have the memory of a goldfish and some bad habits to address. Second, that dirty data is a constant thorn in the sides of data journalists. Luckily, we now have a tool to address it. Google Refine bills itself as a “power tool for working with messy data,” and it does not disappoint. While not a turnkey solve-all for data integrity, it makes this tedious task far less intimidating. Understanding the problem Before diving into what the tool can do, let’s take a minute to understand the problem it solves. Calling data "dirty" means that it’s unreliable for analysis. Names are a classic example of the variations that can happen. So clean we must. Refine to the rescue Installing Refine will vary slightly depending on your operating system. Right away it becomes clear that we have data integrity issues.
Hey Google, check out my 301s | RagePank SEO Dec 18, 2008 Every so often, you need to change the domain name for a website. This isn't something to be taken lightly as there are several implications. One of these implications is having stale pages lingering around in Google's index from the old domain. The issue here is that due to dupe content issues, Google may not be willing to index your new content until the old content is gone. Without any links to those old redirected pages, Google won't be revisiting those pages anytime soon. My solution to this problem is simple - write an open letter to Google. Hey Googlebot, long time no see mate. Thing is, the site has had dupe content issues in the past and we are only now doing something about it. So Googlebot, could you be so kind as to check out our 301s on the following pages, and do the decent thing and update your index? Cheers mate. Cheers, Harvey. You don't post the letter - you just place it on a page somewhere that Googlebot will find.
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NewsRight: a Game Changer for Online Journalism? The Associated Press, The New York Times Co., The Washington Post Co. and several other news organizations banded together Thursday to launch a new company called NewsRight. Its goal: let news orgs see how widely their original reporting is being spread, and let them easily license content to interested partners. Following three years of planning, NewsRight's industry reach is already substantial. It has 29 co-investors and 30 additional participating companies, representing more than 800 web sites of U.S. newspapers. David Westin, former ABC News president and NewsRight's founding CEO, hopes the company will help sustain original content production. "NewsRight is designed to address an issue in the marketplace of an increased appetite for news but some real challenges to supply," Westin told Mashable. The company provides publishers with strings of HTML code to insert in their stories' headlines and text, so they can track the spread of each piece of their content.