Category Archives: Google

A very good Chrome extension, which allows you to screen grab from Chrome AND annotate,…

A very good Chrome extension, which allows you to screen grab from Chrome AND annotate, Useful feature allows you to blur out sensitive info too!. Great for bloggers! #Thunky Embedded Link Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info,…

Google+: How to get more from it!

When I tell people what an amazing asset Google+ is for me and my business, they often seem surprised. Many have opened Google+ accounts, tried it and seen little reason to keep coming back. Here are what I see as 3 keys to getting the most from it. Please add your suggestions below! 1. Learn…

Google+ into WordPress

You may have noticed that the past half dozen posts here, have a slightly different format to the previous posts. Google+ posts on WordPress This is because I am running an experiment, using a plugin, which pulls in selected updates I share on Google+.  I simply add a hashtag to any of my updates I…

Think before you backlink!

It’s common knowledge that the best way to massively boost your ranking in Google’s search results, is to get as many great links as possible, from other sites into your site.  In short, these backlinks (or inlinks) are seen by Google as votes and the more votes your site gets, the higher Google places it….

Google and me, sitting in a tree…

Here’s a quick update: For those of you following the progress of this thunky social media experiment. Over the past 7 days, Google has been my primary source of traffic.  The number 1 traffic term is Jim Connolly, followed by, Jim Connolly Facebook and then avatar pictures.  I am especially pleased with the first 2,…

Google SEO Starter Guide: A free ebook from Google!

If you want to know what Google suggest, in order for your site to rank well in their search engine results, here’s your answer! The Google SEO Starter Guide The link at the bottom of this post takes you straight to a page on one of Google’s sites, which is a pdf that you can…

Google Page Rank getting thunky

Exactly 1 month and 5 days since my first thunky update here, Google has awarded this site a Page Rank of 3, from it’s previous rank of zero. Of course, there are almost 1,700 pages linking here at time of writing AND I used the same URL jimconnolly.com on a website a few years ago,…

How many links does your site get from a blogroll?

How many links do you think you get, when someone links to your site from their blogroll (or the links section of their blog)? The answer might surprise you!  When you link to someone from your blogroll, their site gets 2 links for every post and page on your blog.  So, if your blog has…