Forge Web

With the recent announcement of Apple’s new iPad, the web world is divided into a few camps regarding the adoption of HTML5 for rich media in the web browser. Despite the fact that world has been without flash sites on the iPhone and many mobile browsers until recently honestly has nothing to do with the [...]

Google announced last week through Twitter that it’s now including Facebook Page updates into its search engine page results. We got a hint back in December of 2009 that something like this might happen when they first started to introduce real time data into search results; you’ll notice Google’s been tapping social networks MySpace and [...]

To be honest, I’m bummed that Google is heading down this road and getting rid of the affiliate marketers in their pay per click (PPC) program, otherwise known as AdWords. For the most part, I think what affiliates are able to do online in revenue is nothing but short of amazing and while I’ve never [...]

Not too long ago, Google’s Matt Cutts hinted that the speed of pages could become a factor in Google’s magic recipe for high rankings in their search page results. The idea of the change got a lot of people going, mainly because not too many people out there are running their sites on dedicated servers [...]

Last week Google’s head of Webspam Matt Cutts implied in an interview with Web Pro News that fast sites will receive a bonus in Google’s search engine rankings come 2010. Download speeds are currently not being used in search rankings as of yet, however it’s said that the Google Bot believes the web needs to [...]

For all you speed freaks, Google Analytics now has asynchronous tracking code that speeds up page load times. I personally never had a problem with the old ga.js tracking code but supposedly this new tracking code uses a “separate lane” as Google phrased it to handle part of the processing of your webpage. That’s great [...]

Google Checkout Merchant Center is Google’s web application for order processing activities through your web browser. It’s a great tool for merchants to consider because it integrates with Google Base and Product Search while offerring a reasonable transaction fee tiered structure. With enough sales volume, you can get transaction fees down to 2.5% + 30 [...]