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Official Gmail Blog: Better controls for buzz in your inbox

Saturday, March 13, 2010 1:44 PM Posted by Bruce DiBello, Software Engineer

When you participate in a conversation in Google Buzz, we bring that post to your inbox to make it easy to keep up with the discussion. But we’ve heard loud and clear that buzz in your inbox can get noisy — we feel it too, so today we're launching two features to help with this: 1) Settings to control what gets sent to your inbox From the Buzz tab of Gmail Settings, you’ll be able to choose whether the following buzz items get sent to your inbox: Comments on your postsComments on posts after you comment on themComments on posts after you are @replied on them2) Explanations for why posts get sent to your inbox and an easy-to-find “Mute” linkYou'll see a new message at the top of each post in your inbox that explains why it’s there: someone commented on your post, you were @replied, etc. We’ve also added an easy-to-find “mute” link that will stop subsequent comments from bringing the conversation back to your inbox. These are just the first in series of features designed to help control the noise level in Google Buzz, so stay tuned for more. If you have ideas for Google Buzz you'd like to share with the team, you can post your ideas and vote for others on our official Product Ideas page.

via gmailblog.blogspot.com

Ecommerce Using Vacation Settings or Not

When you go on vacation how do you handle your ecommerce sales?

CruiseReady of www.auctionsellersmotivators.com put this question out to the membership of ASM to see how others handle this situation.

Should you merely put a note on your site or on each item or on the shopping cart?

Should you remove your items from view?

And how do the shipping requirements for Google Checkout, Paypal or your own merchant account play into this question?

Find the above discussion along with other General Online Selling Questions at Auction Sellers Motivators.

Sending eMails with no Message

Ever send emails where the entire message is the subject and you get that pesky prompt, asking if you really want to send the message without text in the body? Well, if you use Gmail, there is an easy fix! Simply put the letters EOM (for End of Message) at the end of your subject and Gmail will know to send your email on its way without asking!

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/tip-sending-empty-messages.html

Boost Your Google Search Results by Registering Your Domain for Longer Periods of Time

Any easy way to boost your Google Search results:  Register your Domain for more than one year.

Apparently, among the things that google considers is the length of time for which a domain is registered.   If, like me, you own multiple domains, you may not want to do this for all, but it is certainly something to look at for your main domain. 

Google and Duplicate Content

From the horses mouth . . .

Duplicate content. There's just something about it. We keep writing about it, and people keepasking about it. In particular, I still hear a lot of webmasters worrying about whether they may have a "duplicate content penalty."
Let's put this to bed once and for all, folks: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.