http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com Answering your Google questions one hangout at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 16:29:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters48/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=webmasters48 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters48/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 18:38:50 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=450 Hosted by Archie Watt To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: Introductions (0:00) AdSense & Webmaster Guidelines (1:35) Geotargeting & Generic TLD list (3:15) Bing releases geo-targeting and malware evaluation tools (5:50) Rich snippet hacking (6:25) Penguin recoveries (7:45) (Moderator question) [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters48/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters47/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=webmasters47 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters47/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:49:55 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=447 Hosted by Archie Watt To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: Introductions (0:00) Webmaster Tools Error – Can’t access your site message (1:55) Google+ Comments Plugin for WordPress (3:15) (Moderator question) – Interlinking sites (6:55) (Moderator question) – Can using rank [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters47/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/docs3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=docs3 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/docs3/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:11:21 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=416 Hosted by Ted Juch To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: Usability (0:00) Agenda (1:55) iOS App Issue (3:35) Adding Fonts (4:45) =split() function in Google Sheets (14:35) Limiting responses to one submission per user (Apps domains only), queries, functions & [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/docs3/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters46/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=webmasters46 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters46/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:33:47 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=392 Hosted by Archie Watt To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: Introductions (0:00) Conflicting data from different tools (3:50) WordPress Security & Basic HTTP Authentication (8:25) Google+ Comments (10:00) Moderator question – Bold text (17:00) Moderator question – Removing FTP Content [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters46/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/securing-wordpress-admin-basic-http-authentication/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=securing-wordpress-admin-basic-http-authentication http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/securing-wordpress-admin-basic-http-authentication/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:44:55 +0000 Eric Wu http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=368 With the recent brute force attacks against WordPress, here’s a quick tip to add an additional layer of security to your WordPress admin pages. Adding a Second Login with .htaccess If you’re like most webmasters, you should have access to an .htaccess file. By adding HTTP Authentication to a directory, you essentially add another login [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/securing-wordpress-admin-basic-http-authentication/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters45/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=webmasters45 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters45/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:38:22 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=362 Hosted by Archie Watt To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: Introductions (0:00) WordPress Security Issues (3:00) Aftermarket Domains (8:35) Google’s digital afterlife (24:25) Moderator question – would you recommend Drupal? (26:35) Moderation question – penguin recoveries (30:45) Moderation question [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters45/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/toxic-aftermarket-domains/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toxic-aftermarket-domains http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/toxic-aftermarket-domains/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:03:06 +0000 Sasch http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=343 Over the past couple of days or so I’ve noticed a growing storm-in-a-teacup with regards to the potentially negative consequences of buying an aftermarket domain. With much clamor and verve a growing number of people is bewailing its collective lot and branding Google’s decision to retain penalties for expired domain names as grossly unfair. What I [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/toxic-aftermarket-domains/feed/ 1 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/docs2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=docs2 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/docs2/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:25:42 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=404 Hosted by Ted Juch To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: Agenda (0:30) Issue with iOS App (1:50) Vocabulary / Terminology (2:25) Drive for Desktop vs Drive for Web (9:00) Offline & Mobile (13:05) Table of Contents with Google Docs (18:05) [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/docs2/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters44/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=webmasters44 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters44/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:29:25 +0000 Archie Watt http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=365 Hosted by Matt Storms To skip to discussion of a particular topic, move the slider to the relevant time shown below in the above video recording: robots.txt issue now resolved (discussed last week) (0:00) Sitemaps & generators & WordPress plugins/tips (6:15) Blocking javascript/parameters & internal search pages (31:00) Infinite scroll (56:10) Tracking parameters (57:10) Expanding into [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/webmasters44/feed/ 0 http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/totally-unbingable/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=totally-unbingable http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/totally-unbingable/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:55:32 +0000 Sasch http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/?p=325 A couple of days back I caught an article on the BBC website, informing me that the Swedish government had decided to remove the word UnGoogleable (OGooglebar) from its list of new Swedish words, because of a challenge from Google’s legal team concerning its definition, which was listed as “cannot be found on the Internet [...]]]> http://www.helpdeskhangouts.com/totally-unbingable/feed/ 0