Backing up picture files from Picasa-web-albums

Google Takeout (called Takeaway in a little places) lets you backup your Picasa-web-albums, Gmail contacts, Circles, +1s and lots of other things, into single single zip funnel, which you can afterward stockpile in a safe, off-line place.

More categories to ban from your AdSense ads

AdSense has added 88 new-fangled categories to the register of advertisement-topics so as to can be blocked from your sites, counting apparel, commercial, type and sports. The might turn into it easier to keep ads in support of competitors inedible

How long does it take your average blog-page to load?

If you service Google Analytics on your blog, afterward you can progress data almost how fast your pages(*) load. This is seen in the the Site Speed shot which was bowed on in support of all users in standard November

Analytics allow at the moment in print more in rank almost could you repeat that? It contains, too.

Google CSE API documentation upgrade

Google's custom search engine API is promptly fully familiar  (announced here).

It won't mean something if you truly consume a regular Google Custom Search on your blog,

Analytics "old" interface to live a little longer?

Back in Nov 2011, Google Analytics held to facilitate the "old" version would interrupt working in January.

However this week's publication makes it sound like they're still workign on a quantity of recipe skin tone, and so the deadline has been extended.

Google Search has a penalty if you don't have "enough" content above the fold

Google search own tainted their search-formula:   Sites with "not enough" content exceeding the fold won't rank as high spot in search results as they did or - in effect from the then stage the blog is crawled.

Picnik is ending on 19 April 2012

The chief roll of Google relevance retirements representing 2012 includs Picnik, a photo cutting tool to facilitate was clear via Picasa-web-albums (and perhaps from other sitting room too) - it was an in effect, though long-winded, way of tallying a watermark to pictures.

I'm convinced to facilitate PWA has a replacement tool representing responsibility this ... Don't own stage to delve into come again? It is justification promptly.

Sources for official news about Google products.

Today, I found a record  of Google's blogs around their products, and furthermore around operations and policies et cetera in discrete countries and regions.

An opportunity for blogger photographers

Bloggers who are furthermore photographers may well would like to check improbable Google's Trusted Photographers programme.  The message announcing this to businesses says:

Why you can't ignore Google +

Just in case you're still hoping you can ignore G+ and it will go away.

It's kinda like that "If Facebook was a country" vid that did the rounds a while ago, but with less numbers and cuter cartoons.

Country-specific Blogspot URL may affect your earnings - and other things too

This week, Blogger announced they are redirecting blogspot.Com blogs to nation state individual URLs.

This way to facilitate what time someone in India looks next to http://blogger-hints-and-tips.Blogspot.Com/, they will in reality be directed to http://blogger-hints-and-tips.Blogspot.In - and similarly representing other countries, so far I know it's been useful to Australia and New Zealand too.

Customizable styles in Google Docs

Google Docs promptly own Customizable styles in ID.

This is a trait to facilitate MS Word has had representing a long stage, which makes a gigantic productivity difference to everybody who is script long ID.

Google Knoweledge Graph will change how Google searches for our blogs

You may well own seen references to Google Knoweledge Graph, and how it has the latent to modernize search.

The chief a small number of posts I maxim were large on excitement, but with very little substance. However this article from Mashable explains things a lot in life more.

AdSense has a new ad-size

AdSense has introduced a quantity of modern ad-unit sizes.

The mobile banner is 320px spacious by 50px high spot, and designed representing mobile applications.    However if you comprehend your ad-code from AdSense (rather than using Blogger's AdSense gadget), it's offered to plunk on several type of locate. 

Getting blog videos indexed, with schema.org

You can plunk videos into blog pole using an icon on the post-editor toolbar - they are solitary type of organizer to facilitate you don't need to host elsewhere.

If you look after this, Google will (eventually) file the contents of your blog pole, based on the text in the pole, and the file-names of the file(s)you've used.

Blogger Help Forum (English) is moving

There's nothing almost the amend in Blogger Buzz, but they've posted a long declaration in the current BHF, and linked to a Getting Started Guide which shows the pedestal skin texture of Google Product Forums, and an instance working GPF-based forum (the single in support of Google Plus).

Sharing Google Analytics reports with other people

Google Analytics has added a Share button to

• Custom Reports: (Actions menu on the table that lists your reports)
• The dashboard: (top-left corner)
• Advanced Segments: (Admin tab > Advanced Segments)

AdSense for Domains

AdSense have decided to stop offering AdSense for Domains - a product that let domain owners show AdSense ads when someone tried to visit a URL that's not currently pointing to any website. (Because, of
course, they cannot use regular AdSense for Content ads on URL like this because the Terms and Conditions say it can only be shown on websites that actually have "real" content.)

Blogger developer documentation has moved

Blogger have announced that the documentation for people who write tools using the Blogger APIs has moved to https://developers.google.com/blogger/

This iinformation is what you need to know to create and share you own gadgets. It is also very useful for blogger-helpers who want to understand the data / schemas that Blogger uses, in order to work out hacks for the rest of us to use to control the look and feel of our blogs.

The blogger developer forum is another very handy place too.

Test HTML rich-text post snippets before publishing them

Rich snippets. Area tool so as to Google uses to break website-managers a little control greater than how their sites appear in search-results (while enhancing the quality of search results, of course).