Are you a blogger who’s been wanting to try promoting your blog with Google ads but are afraid it’ll be too expensive for your advertising budget?
Well, now there’s a very easy way to give Google Ads a try and get Google to help pay for it.
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Are you a blogger who’s been wanting to try promoting your blog with Google ads but are afraid it’ll be too expensive for your advertising budget?
Well, now there’s a very easy way to give Google Ads a try and get Google to help pay for it.
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Question from Emily: I just accepted a new job within my company that will require me to travel to various countries in South and Central America.
A couple of years ago I had a temporary (two week) assignment in Ecuador and Google insisted on displaying the search results in Spanish even when I typed my search query in English.
I read Spanish moderately well but it would benefit me greatly if I could always have Google display the results from my searches in English.
Is there any way to make that happen? [Read more…]
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Have you ever done a Google search on a topic only to discover that most of the search results consisted of pages that were created years ago?
That isn’t always a problem when searching for “facts” because many facts just don’t change over time.
For example, if you type largest planet in our solar system into Google, the answer you receive should be Jupiter whether the article you click on was written in 1998 or 2023. After all, Jupiter hasn’t gotten smaller and the other planets haven’t grown any larger.
On the other hand, if you search for latest medical research some of the pages returned by Google could possibly be woefully out of date.
Luckily, there’s an easy way to ensure that your Google search results are at least fairly recent… [Read more…]
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Do you receive a lot of packages via UPS, FedEx or the U.S. Postal Service?
If so you’re no doubt familiar with the process of tracking your packages via the handy tools on those carriers’ respective websites.
It’s actually pretty easy to track a package: Simply visit the shipping company’s website and type (or copy and paste) the tracking number into the form on the tracking page.
But what if the person shipping the item to you didn’t mention how it was shipped?
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These days you can find virtually anything you’re looking for with a Google search.
But as you’ve probably noticed, the search results pages can sometimes be confusing and cluttered with results that have little or nothing to do with the topic you’re interested in.
But by using a few tricks you can eliminate many of the distracting non-relevant listings and find the info you need in a jiffy.
With that in mind, here are eight tips for searching Google like a pro: [Read more…]