Share a gDrive Folder

Note: You can share your gDrive with a non-google email securely IF that user has a google “account” See Instructions: https://www.marypainterdoss.com/uncategorized/create-a-google-account-with-your-business-email/

Login to Gmail
Click on the block of dots next to your profile picture in the top right
Then click gDrive
Under “My Drive” choose the folder you want to share, or create one.
Right click on the folder and click share

Enter the email address of the gmail user OR business email if they have a google account
Choose how much access they have Editor (full access), Commenter (limited access), Viewer (they can only view the files)
Add a message if you desire
Click Send

Anything you put into that folder (or the folders below) that person will have access to if they login into their google account and click gDrive and “shared with me”

Create a Google Account with your Business Email

Goto google.com/accounts/NewAccount
Enter your name
Click “Use my current email address instead” – input your business email
Enter a new password (twice)
Next

Check your business email – copy the verification code
Enter the code in the box where it says “enter code”
Next

Enter your phone, dob & gender
Next

Verify your phone
Next

Connect your phone number or skip
Skip

Agree to the privacy terms

Click on box of dots next to your profile pick and click Drive

Shared with me


New Google Analytics to WordPress

October 2020 Google updated Analytics to version 4. AND Of course they have moved things!!! Ugh
Login to your Gmail and then go to Google.com/analytics

  1. Sign in to your Analytics account.
  2. Click Admin.
  3. Select an account from the menu in the ACCOUNT column.
  4. Select a property from the menu in the PROPERTY column.
  5. Choose Data Stream Webpage
  6. Tagging Instructions Choose Globle Tag and Copy
  7. Go to your WordPress –> Plugins –> new search for insert header footer (by ) Install & Activate
  8. Go to Settings –> Insert Headers and Footers –> Scripts for Footer & paste the code from Google Analytics

    BUT a bunch of things are missing!!!!!! To force analytics to use version 3….
    1. Click Add Property
    2. Enter Property Name
    3. Enter Time Zone
    4. SELETCT CREATE A UNIVERSAL ANALYTICS PROPERTY
    5. Enter URL
    6. CHOOSE CREATE A UNIVERSAL ANALYTICS PROPERTY ONLY!!!!!
    Now your Audience & Acquisition & Behavior Folders are all back!! Yea!

The only updated source I could find was this…..thankfully!

Create a Movie from Your Photos

Windows Movie Maker is no longer available, what do you do when you want to make a quick movie?

Log into your google account and goto Photos icon in the pull-down menu top right.
Goto Albums & Create an Album|
Back on Google Photos Main Page, Select Assistant from the Menu on the left.
Click the +Create at the top & Select Animation
You can then download the animated.gif
(Cons – can’t set the time between frames)

The movie option only creates template stories.

Want to know what mobile browsers are looking at your website?

This site has a nice graph of who is wining the browser war on mobile phones!

It this new day and age, it is important to keep up on who is coming to your site, and what software they are using to view it.

In another article we talked about how important it is that your site is mobile friendly sites.

Below is a graph showing that as of Aug 2015 – surprise, Chrome browser is winning 35% & Google’s search engine at 79%!

35% Chrome – Google or course
18% Safari – Google
16% UC Browser – Yahoo
14% Android – Google
13% Opera – Google

It is also important to know which search engine is pre-loaded on these browsers so you can check on your placement in each.

Important Note: As of August 2015 79% of the browsers use Google’s search engine, so be sure to check your placement on that – It will be different than your placement in Google on your desktop.

2017 update: The site with the interactive graphs is no longer available.

Google’s Algorithm Changing Again! Favoring Mobile Friendly Sites!

Rumor is that on Tuesday April 21, 2015 Google is going to change their algorithm favoring mobile friendly sites.

So what does this mean for you? If you have a fairly new site that was developed in something like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla, chances are you are fine and have a responsive website that is considered mobile friendly. And if not, these programs offer many templates or themes and all you will have to do is download one that is responsive.

But what if you have had your site for years and it was designed with older html that was not set up with a different version or page to show properly on smartphones? Google has pages and pages explaining what you can do to gain a “green light” from the Google Mobile Friendly Test Page. I have broken it down to the bare minimum required, since time is now of the essence.

How to get from

TO

First, you need to add code to your index.html (or php or whatever your home page is)

Add this to index.html page

<link rel=”alternate” media=”only screen and (max-width: 640px)”
href=”http://yourdamainnamehere.com/mobile.html”>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
if (screen.width <= 640) {
document.location = “mobile.html”;
}
//–>
</script>


Next, you need to create a mobile.html page. This page should be fairly bare without videos, flash, etc.
Add this to your new mobile.html page

<!– Must add this for Google –>
<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://yourdomainhere.com/“>
<meta name=viewport content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1”>
<!– End Google Mobile Requirements –>

I usually have the site logo, under 250 px wide, although you can probably go up to 600. The logo is immediately followed by a mobile friendly phone number and link to the contact form if applicable. 
An example of a mobile friendly phone number would be <a href=tel:3215555555>321-555-5555</a>

Then I place the main text from the site, followed by a list of the top level pages.

And finally at the bottom, your copyright, contact and form links again.


Upload your updated index file and your new mobile.html file to your server and check out the Google 
Mobile Friendly Test Site
 to see if you need to make an more alterations.

And you are done!Please Note: You need to do this for every page of your site by creating a duplicate mobile page of that pages content.

Google Indexing Drop in Mid August Was No Mistake

It appears many sites with duplicate content and bad business practices were penalized with no recovery even a year later.

seroundtable.com

The reason … Google’s algorithmic changed. This isn’t the first, but it was one of the hardest hitting when it comes to how many pages of your site Google is indexing.

Here is a great article showing you the time consuming steps to slowly regain some of your exposure:

Things we can do to fix:

1. Better Content
2. No Farm links
3. No Short Posts (300+ words)
4. Don’t overly optimize called Black Hat SEO
5. Duplicate content will affect your search engine presence – use URL canonicalization
6. Social Media Helps! Google+ votes, Facebook likes, Twitter and Delicious

Just a few bad pages affects the entire site – it is a domain level penalty.
More: shoutmeloud.com

More soon….