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Google Plus Shortcodes For Styling Your + Posts

We’ve sent out invites to all our readers who wanted a Google+ invite as part of our Giveaway for IGW readers! If you don’t have one yet, feel free to jump and ask one here… With that done, i’m sure you folks are enjoying it! Now that you all have an invite, here are couple [...]

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Remove People You Follow from Google Reader (Social Feature)

Google Operating System Blog has published a hack to remove the social component of Google Reader from the Web, doing so in order to use it only to read their RSS feeds without the “intrusion” by our friends. All you have to do after opening Google Reader, is to paste the text into the address [...]

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How to: Avoid automatic Google homepage redirection to your local page

Google’s clever, it knows where you’re opening the google search page from based on your IP address, so if you hit google.com from your browser, and lets say your in Australia then you would be automatically redirected to is google.com.au, same with new zealand or UK it redirects to google.co.nz, google.co.uk etc. Even if you [...]

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Google tips and tricks: Using both XML and HTML sitemaps is Good

Always wondered which sitemap to use? XML or HTML? Well, here is a video of Matt Cutts (head of Google webspam) answered a question about HTML and XML sitemaps and what is preferred. If you use HTML sitemap, Google will find your pages more quickly and this maybe a useful addition for visitors too. And [...]

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