Category Archives: g-metrics

podcasting popularity…

Wow! I’ts been some time since I checked this g-metrics report on podcasting. The bottom line? On 14-Oct-2004, Google returned less than 50.000 results for “podcasting”, on 27-Dec-2005 (a bit more than a year later) 2,210,000!!!

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How do you sell a website?

Regular visitors of this blog know that I am the developer of g-metrics.com. It is an interesting idea: a script makes use of Google WEB APIs to keep track of the number of results Google returns for a query. The … Continue reading

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g-metrics is in “Google Hacks”!

It’s nice to see one’s little project getting attention and publicity! I just finished reading Google Hacks, and g-metrics.com, my pet project is Hack #3! Interesting reading even for someone like me, who thought that knew a lot about Google, … Continue reading

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RSS Metrics, Podcasting

Podcasting is growing and it’s hot! I knew this but here is some more evidence: – FeedBurner Weblog: RSS Metrics, Podcasting – g-metrics.com report on podcasting

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Why nofollow is useful

There has been a lot of talking about whether rel=”nofollow” is good or bad, useful or usless (check Bitflux Blog :: Why nofollow is useless ) However I think that nofollow is quite useful for a different reason than preventing … Continue reading

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Google Raises Query Limit To 32 | InsideGoogle

I never had to search for something longer than 10 words, but I guess that such upgrades are always welcome.. So, this is it, you can now google using up to 32 words per query. Google Raises Query Limit To … Continue reading

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g-metrics.com and rel=”nofollow”

From now on, g-metrics.com will be using rel=”nofollow” in the links returned by Google (Top 10 shown at the bottom of each report). The reason is avoiding cyclic reference to the results that Google returns anyway…

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weird g-metrics findings

how could “sony ericsson” and “on-line * betting” be related? Continue reading

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Spreadfirefox.com mention of g-metrics

spreadfirefox.com mentions g-metrics in their article Climbing in the charts! Hooray! BTW, I have to say that spreadfirefox.com is probably one of the the best on-line campaigns I’ve seen -a great product helps too..

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