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I liked this post out of Search Engine Journal, which linked to this post: Stop testing, Start shipping. It makes 4 points that I cannot emphasize enough: Now I am a numbers and data person. I love using data, building metrics, and so on to figure out the right answer. But when it comes to Continue reading "The Brand Is What Matters"
From the my blog is actually my code backup store department, this is a simple function I use on Google Cloud to accept a base64-encoded zip file, then unzip it all to a Google Cloud Storage bucket. You may want to alter the date reference (the US/Central note) but otherwise it s a small and efficient Continue reading "Accept Zip File, Extract All and Save To Google Cloud Storage Function"
A bit too late for a Christmas wish, but this was sticking on my mind. If you ve worked with Google APIs, you re probably familiar with the idea of sensitive/restricted scopes. Sensitive and restricted scopes are scopes that Google believes access private data, so apps using these scopes need review. Sensitive scopes require review by a Continue reading "I Want A Send Only To Self Auth Scope In…
In celebration of closing 2024 and opening up 2025, I wanted to point out some interesting posts on Reddit about Google Ads and SEO. The $1 Ad Campaign Admittedly a humorous/incredibly lucky story, but it illustrates that trying new things can occasionally help. The Multi-Venue Marketer This helps to underline that your customers are not Continue reading "Pointing out some interesting 2024 Reddit…
There was a terrific post from Vercel s blog How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process. The short version of this post is yes, the Google indexer/spider can read content loaded through Javascript. That should come as no surprise to most professional SEO-ers out there, but it s always worth a reminder. I did want to Continue reading "A Short Post On The Google Spider s Ability…
I saw this blog post on Hacker News, and it was so notable that I was thinking about it for the past week. I disagree on its major points for technical reasons, but I agree in that you should SEO with the thought that it s true. But first, I want to make a distinction here. Continue reading "A Reply To: Google Defaults To Not Indexing Or: Google As Miss Manners"
I was updating some Cloud Build triggers and I m not sure what changed I think that the service account field when configuring a new build trigger is now mandatory because I don t recall ever having to set that field before. Also, this is the first time I ve ever seen the below error: Your build Continue reading "Is The Service Account Now Required With Google Cloud Build?"
I have a domain that I used for email almost 20 years ago. I don t use it for (important!) email anymore, nor really for any other purpose, but I do occasionally check the email account attached to the domain every week or so in case something important gets sent through. Most of the time it s Continue reading "GoDaddy EMail Forwarding Shuts Off Migrating Catchall Email Addresses"
For today, I wanted to record a quick observation I had while Googling. It s also a reminder that choosing the correct search terms can drastically change what Google returns to you. If I Google for the period symbol (.), I get back results for the phrase full stop punctuation. I know this because the words Continue reading "Google Search For . (Period)"
I know a lot of enterprise cloud customers have been watching the recent incident with Google Cloud (GCP) and UniSuper. For those of you who haven t seen it: UniSuper is an Australian pension fund firm which had their services hosted on Google Cloud. For some weird reason, their private cloud project was completely deleted. Google s Continue reading "UniSuper and Google Cloud Platform"