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Using the rel="nofollow" attribute is a fairly simple SEO technique that can usually be implemented very easily and will give you a little bit of an advantage. If you’re working hard to build links to your website, it’s a shame to waste some of the PageRank flow through your website onto pages that you are not interested in ranking in the search engines, like your contact page, or your privacy policy. These pages are important to have on your site, but aren’t going to bring you a lot of search traffic.

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I was having a look at BarackObama.com yesterday and noticed that they are doing some multivariate testing on the namesqueeze page to increase the number of signups. The variables they are testing are the background image on the page and the message just above the signup box.

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I had a weird problem with Google this week at work where Google thought that I was in Japan and therefore redirected me to Google.co.jp. It was working fine for me during the morning, but all of a sudden every search I did took me to Google.co.jp and returned results in Japanese. This happened for at least two other people in the office.

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I've recently moved from my all in one Outlook setup to separate Google Apps for your domain instances which I'm really loving, but one thing that was bugging me was not being able to see my calendar from my other domains. I was able to share the calendar fine, but it was only giving me the option to share it with the permission "See only free / busy (hide details)", so I could see when I had things scheduled in my other calendar's but not what they were.

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Google has just announced Salesforce.com for Google Apps. This is something that I'm really excited about because we use Salesforce.com as our CRM system and we also work with several large enterprise clients to integrate their web marketing with their Salesforce.com CRM system.

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I just logged into to Google Analytics this morning and saw a new feature they have released as beta that allows you to group the points on the graph by Day, Week and Month. In the past it has always put one point for each day, no matter how long you set the date range to be. This is really useful if you want to see how much your visits have improved each month for 6 / 12 / 24 months.

Here is the data graphed by day (this should look very familiar).

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I've just moved another of my emails over to Google Apps (even after the trouble I had in the past) and needed to find a way to manage my multiple Google accounts. Some of thesugges ted solutions were:

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I setup Google Apps for one of my domains as a trial a couple of weeks ago, in the hope that it would live up to my expectations and I would be able to move all my emails across.

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