Google Opens Up Their URL Shortener To All
I use bit.ly quite a bit as a URL shortener. It’s nice and easy, plugs in via API to a few other apps I use (Twitter plugin for WordPress, etc.) and it provides nice analytics on links. This week, Google opened up their URL shortener, goo.gl, to people to be able to make their own [...]
You Do Google Your Institution, right?
We web folks are tasked with keeping track of our institution’s presence on many, many platforms across the web. News alerts, blog mentions, press mentions, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Ping*, Diaspora, and so on and so on. I was reminded today that there’s one place I often forget to check. Google. Yes, good ol’ Google. [...]
Do Google Analytics Tracking Codes Hurt Your Google Rankings?
Since posts about analytics seem to be all the rage in the higher ed blogosphere, let me add yet another.
