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Touch Screens Explained

2012-01-24T22:12:00.000-08:00

Stand-alone classic vector infographic on the cover of the Health and Science Section about different types of touch screen technology and future developments. Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Online version: www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/touchscree... Touchscreens: How they work

Bing Roadmap to SEO Success

2012-01-03T04:30:00.000-08:00

Just before the launch of the Bing decision engine from Microsoft, Rick DeJarnette, a member of the Microsoft Webmaster Center Team, announced a new series of community posted geared toward website owners (diy seo) and search engine marketing professionals. Basically, the new series runs under this pretense: “We know you are going to be performing search engine optimization (SEO) to try

Graphic's Negative Effect

2011-12-26T10:46:00.000-08:00

Many copywriters think that they must have all of their keywords written in the copy to be effective and end up with a full page of text. Remember people like a sense of things being “real”, they like to be part of something. That is the benefit of graphics. I often think of graphics to have the same effect of having an office with a window. It gives you a “break” from work. Well, graphics give

Graphics And Good SEO

2011-12-25T08:56:00.000-08:00

Webmasters and online internet marketers, we sometimes lose sight of what the real goal in marketing is – to sell products/services. It often happens that we end up writing most of our content to please the search engines. Let me tell you, search engines do not buy shoes! Where am I going with this? 1. Make sure to provide alternate text representations for every single graphic on

Importance Of SEO

2011-12-24T08:52:00.000-08:00

Up-to-date Content. Keep your site very content rich. Have a lot of pages. Update the site even twice a day if you have the time. Content is a golden word in SEO. If your content is Original then it’s a big plus. High ranking websites in Google, Yahoo and MSN have a plethora of content. You can gain much on a poorly updated site. No Spam and No Duplicates Updating your site does not mean

SEO TIPS for Sites and Blogs

2011-12-18T05:17:00.000-08:00

SEO TIPS for Sites and Blogs If you read SEO forums often you hear many posts about a San Diego real estate agent no longer ranking for a generic term such as real estate. Since the term is too generic for most of his target market (and his service would not be fitting for most people searching for that term) it makes sense that the search engines would not want to show his site in those

Conflicting Keyword Advice

2011-12-17T12:03:00.000-08:00

Online "experts" are always offering conflicting keyword advice. This is because different keywords are good for different reasons. Once you know the factors involved, you can decide which ones are best for your web site. 1. Make sure there is enough total demand for a keyword. This will vary according to the nature of your site. If you are making a few cents per visitor an average, you

Look at the Google’s Panda 2.5 “Flux”

2011-10-20T22:16:00.000-07:00

Look at the Google’s Panda 2.5 “Flux” Panda-related flux? Indeed, this seems to be the case, with site owners reporting Panda-related changes on at least October 3rd and October 13th. In several cases, I saw sites with Google organic traffic declines on 9/27, recovery on 10/3, and decline again on 10/13. Google to find out more about the flux and what site owners could expect. Google

19 Mind-Blowing Mobile Commerce Features

2011-09-12T23:23:00.001-07:00

19 Mind-Blowing Mobile Commerce Features When planning your mobile commerce project, it’s key to figure out what you want it to do. The following is a round-up of unique mobile commerce website and application functionality to get your creative juices flowing: Leveraging Unique Properties of Mobile Phones GPS, baby Crutchfield offers a shipping cost estimator that leverages GPS. Using HTML5,

Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 Launch!

2011-09-12T04:24:00.001-07:00

Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 Launch! Samsung is all set to launch its latest Android powered tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 also known as Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 on Wednesday, 10th August 2011 in New Delhi. The Galaxy Tab 750 is the slimmest mobile tablet at present that measures 8.6mm (ultraslim). Also the new tab 750 is incredibly light weight weighing 1.25 pounds (565 grams).

CDN Sync Tool Works with WordPress

2011-08-11T01:20:00.000-07:00

CDN Sync Tool Works with WordPress Page load time is becoming increasingly important, not only for Google’s page ranking but also for capturing users’ attention and ultimately more sales. Every WordPress site that is experiencing any level of success needs to have a caching plugin in order to maintain a high level of performance under heavy traffic. CDN Sync Tool is a new plugin that

Free Keyword Research Tools

2011-06-22T23:13:00.000-07:00

Free Keyword Research Tools SEO is very easy to overuse and do even worse, if you for example start to do keyword stuffing or repeating the same words over and over again without good thought. For regular content like blogs, people always like to argue about what you need to put in the first place – SEO or your readers. I am thinking you must do both – using simple but consistent

Local Search & Web Analytics SMX Advanced London 2011

2011-05-19T04:33:00.000-07:00

Local Search & Web Analytics SMX Advanced London 2011 From Martijn Beijk

Optimize Your Videos for SEO

2011-05-10T22:56:00.000-07:00

Optimize Your Videos for SEO Although YouTube isn't the only option in video distribution, it's hard to deny that if YouTube was a search engine, it'd be the number two search engine in the world behind Google. A strong argument could be made for producing and optimizing video for SEO results, especially if you think about how much time you devote to content marketing to garner rankings

Duplicate Content or No Content

2011-04-21T05:10:00.001-07:00

Duplicate Content or No Content Crawlers rely on content to determine what a page should rank for in the search results. Because Google wants to give the best user experience, they are making a big push to show only websites with high quality content. Duplicate content, shallow or poorly written content was the focus of the Farmer / Panda Update. Expand on your content where the webpage has

Video Tutorial for Webmaster Tools on YouTube

2011-04-19T23:33:00.000-07:00

Video Tutorial for Webmaster Tools on YouTube SEO for images and videos takes little time to implement and can provide significant results in niche markets. Search Engines can’t index the actual content of an image or a video, but with our help, we can provide them with greater meaning and context using simple and practical (but often neglected) techniques. Kontakt for further details

An Interview with Gillian Muessig

2011-04-18T04:28:00.000-07:00

An Interview with Gillian Muessig | SEOmoz Team in Search Marketing Summit India,

Bing for iPad

2011-04-07T22:13:00.000-07:00

Bing for iPad Bing has released an incredible new search app for iPad. Available for free in the App Store, Bing for iPad was designed from the ground-up for the larger iPad screen to deliver a visually rich experience. At the bottom of the screen, the App Bar features large, tiled, up-to-date content areas. The App Bar is used to exploring various vertical search properties, such as

Showcase of Automobiles Brand Pages in Facebook

2011-03-29T03:19:00.000-07:00

Showcase of Automobiles Brand Pages in Facebook Catch the 30 eye-catching Facebook Brand Pages. some of them inspired us to create cool Facebook masterpiece. We are happy to hear more from you. Let us know if we missed any Automobiles Brand Pages

Facebook Brand Pages

2011-03-10T21:05:00.001-08:00

Facebook Brand Pages 20 eye-catching Facebook Brand Pages. If some of them inspire you to create the next cool Facebook masterpiece we’ll be happy to hear from you in the comments! McDonalds Nike Football Heinz Ketchup Victoria's Secret Skittles Nokia BlackBerry BMW Domino's Pizza UK and Ireland CocaCola RedBull Para obtener más detalles Aquí Visita

The Two Faces of SEO

2011-02-18T21:09:00.001-08:00

The Two Faces of SEO Often, when people in the industry talk about the two sides of SEO, they’re talking about black hat and white hat tactics. Two Sides Of Link Building This SEO refers to herself as a link builder, and spends all day checking reports from the software that automatically sends out reciprocal email requests. She doesn’t necessarily care if they’re

2011-02-11T00:24:00.000-08:00

Local Search Tools Local search got a bit more popular & over the last year there was some pretty cool tools that made their way into the local search space. Citation Building/Tracking 1.WhiteSpark Local Citation Finder This powerful tool queries Google for citation sources (business name, address, and phone number mentions) across deep Google search results and a list of

SEO Mistakes Made by Designers and Developers

2011-02-07T21:53:00.000-08:00

SEO Mistakes Made by Designers and Developers Why Should You Learn About SEO? SEO isn’t only for online marketers. As a web designer or frontend developer, most on-site SEO is your responsibility. If your site is not search engine friendly, you might be losing a lot of traffic that you’re not even aware of. Remember, besides visitors typing in "www.yourwebsite.com" and backlink referrals

Social Media Infographics

2011-01-27T22:22:00.000-08:00

Social Media Infographics The explosion of social networking sites over the past decade has facilitated a transformation in the way we communicate with each other. Here we look at some of these communities with over 1 million users, both active and defunct: Facebook’s World Facebook is the most dominant brand in the world of social media. Ever wonder how? Click the image below to

Pros & Cons of Google Website Optimizer

2011-01-20T00:50:00.000-08:00

Pros & Cons of Google Website Optimizer Google Website Optimizer allows you to test different versions of a landing page so you can gather user performance data and select the page (or different elements of a page) that generates the most conversions. Google Website Optimizer Pros Google Website Optimizer is a free tool. So if one of your concerns is budgetary, know that you

SEO Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox

2011-01-13T04:04:00.001-08:00

SEO Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox SEO Doctor - Allows easy SEO diagnosis and problem solving for webmasters. SeoQuake SEO Extension - Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization(SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet SenSEO - Eextension checking

You're Invited to the Search Marketing Summit India in Bangalore.

2011-01-06T21:40:00.000-08:00

You're Invited to the Search Marketing Summit India in Bangalore. Search Marketing Summit, the premier event for marketing professionals, is coming to Bangalore, India this February. Start your 2011 with new inspiration and strategies for success with 1,000 of your marketing peers as they share ideas, hear from expert practitioners, and learn best practices in the areas of: Social Media, Search,

Facebook Overthrows Yahoo

2010-12-27T20:51:00.000-08:00

Facebook Overthrows Yahoo To Become The World’s Third Largest Website We’ve seen this one coming all year. Facebook is now the third largest website in the world, taking the No. 3 spot from Yahoo, according to comScore. Facebook drew an estimated 648 million unique visitors from across the globe in November, 2010, compared to 630 million for Yahoo. In October the two sites were dead

Border Visit

2010-12-27T03:39:00.000-08:00

After a long visit for remote place there is nothing but a long windy roads which never ends

Freemium Business Model

2010-12-27T03:27:00.000-08:00

Freemium Business Model Generating business model for the Web is through advertising, but with advertising payouts being smaller than they once were, freemium has come along as a solid alternative. Freemium business model is good: Giving your product away for free indefinitely will give users time to think about upgrading Viral benefit Network benefit more people you have using the

2011 Online Marketing Strategy

2010-12-16T03:46:00.000-08:00

What is the best way to prepare (SEO-wise) for 2011. Where will you be focusing new efforts? What would you like our industry to do next year? What do you want Google, Bing, and Yahoo to do? Will Facebook continue to develop and refine its products for location-based businesses.? Will Google's local business center to improve with better stats and insights for small business owners.? Are we

Web Tools to Detect Useful Insights & Trends

2010-11-23T22:11:00.000-08:00

In order to create a successful SEO campaign, you need to have a good understanding of the way that people search, predict what keywords they will use for a given query and have a good knowledge of the market and of the industry. Modeling the way that people search can be considered as the holy grail of many SEO and Search Engine experts, because if this was possible, we would be able to

Social Media & Reputation Management Tools

2010-11-12T03:38:00.000-08:00

Social Media & Reputation Management ToolsBrand and online reputation management has become a growing concern for a lot of companies because of the multiple ways people can interact with each other online. People now are communicating via blogs, forums, discussion boards, wikis, Q&A, and video sites. Do you know what people are saying about you? Online reputation management consists of

Google’s New Local Search Results

2010-11-04T05:33:00.000-07:00

Google's New Local Search ResultsGoogle changed the local search landscape again. it has slowly been rolling out new local features across its properties, is now adding a new format for local search results Google BoostGoogle also rolled out an ad service that will help small and medium sized businesses in particular. The new ad service, called 'Boost', allows businesses to place local

Google AdWords Keyword Tool Study

2010-10-14T06:19:00.000-07:00

Google AdWords Keyword Tool StudyGoogle AdWords: Keyword Tool This tool does is give you a laundry list of keywords that Google believes are relevant to whatever keyword or phrase you entered into the tool. Why do these keywords matter? Good search engine rankings in Google and/or getting a good (and cheap) position in Adwords we better pay attention to what the Google Adwords Keyword Tool

R.I.P. Google Keyword Tool. Long Live SEO!

2010-10-11T01:09:00.000-07:00

Attendees sat stunned at #SMX East as Baris Gultekin, Group Product Manager, Google AdWords, Google, Inc. clarified that the ubiquitous AdWords Keyword Tool now only provides keywords Google deems "commercial." It's been obvious anyway by degraded results over the last few weeks. This represents a shift of seismic proportions to those who utilize the tool for demographic research purposes, in

The New Twitter improved user interface for its Web site

2010-09-15T00:06:00.000-07:00

Twitter’s new Web functionality is a significant evolution that promises to attract more visits to Twitter.com, improve Twitters’ interactions with content and each other, and ease adoption for Twitter newbie’s. Twitter is about to make the biggest change to its interface in years when it adds photos and videos in the stream. What will it look like? New design: You will now find @mentions,

SEO for Mindshare/Branding

2010-07-28T03:13:00.000-07:00

SEO for Mindshare/BrandingA less popular but equally powerful application of SEO is its use for branding purposes. Bloggers, social media/community websites, content producers, news outlets, and dozens of other web publishing archetypes have found tremendous value in appearing atop search results and using the resulting exposure to bolster their brand recognition and authority. The

Learning from Google Webmaster Tools Caffeine Data

2010-07-13T03:26:00.000-07:00

Learning from Google Webmaster Tools Caffeine DataSome of you may have noticed that your link counts in Google Webmaster Tools have increased somewhat recently, we are seeing amazing numbers up to 1000 times higher than previous figures. The reason for this is very interesting, following the roll out of the new Caffeine infrastructure Google is able to spider sites far deeper than

Three Primary Goals of Social Media

2010-06-26T00:22:00.000-07:00

To build a social media strategy around specific goals instead of simply launching a presence because "everyone else is doing it." Today, I'm going to map out the three primary goals most social media outreach campaigns fall into. If you're still trying to figure out how and why to get involved in social media outreach, consider these three categories and ask yourself how they might apply to

8 Canonicalization Best Practices In Plain English

2010-06-19T08:05:00.001-07:00

Canonicalization sounds like a process for recognizing sainthood, or maybe a training course in aiming large projectile weapons. But it’s actually one of the most important aspects of organic SEO. Good canonicalization means search engines crawl more pages of your site; it means that link authority and PageRank get consolidated, so you have a stronger link profile; and it means fewer broken

Next Generation of Digital Marketing

2010-06-17T22:38:00.000-07:00

Next Generation of Digital Marketing The evolution of search and social, and more broadly the interaction of the public at large with the internet and the available media online, is naturally of huge interest to all those that offers services in the industry. As search engines continue to evolve and social media stretches its own boundaries, this set-up really tests the agility of

Google Vs. Bing and Yahoo

2010-06-17T02:04:00.000-07:00

New webmaster tools strategy and a partnership with Yahoo will make Bing more significant. Will Bing SEO be as important as Google SEO? has been the hot debate ever since Bing was launched. Soon Yahoo and Bing will come together forcing on-line marketers to take Bing more seriously in SEO positioning. At the SMX Advanced conference Janet Driscoll Miller of Search Mojo spoke on this topic.

The Limitations of Average Time on Page and Average Time on Site in Google Analytics

2010-06-08T22:11:00.000-07:00

I’ve been told that I don’t have a very good poker face, and I’m ok with that. I find it actually helps my clients, since they can tell almost immediately when I don’t agree with something or when a point needs more clarification. For example, there are times I see marketers heavily focus on time-based metrics like Time on Page and Time on Site (as if those metrics were 100% accurate).

Steps to follow for SEO Client

2010-05-16T22:55:00.000-07:00

Steps to follow for SEO ClientWebsite Analysis. Client requirements. Keyword research Content Writing Website Optimization process (Onpage Optimization) Website Submission ( Off page Optimization) Link Building Reporting Website Analysis. This steps comprises of Website review, Competitor analysis, Current site positioning. The initial analysis serves as a benchmark and used to track the

SEO Value Pyramid & Time Line

2010-05-16T22:41:00.001-07:00

SEO Value Pyramid & Time Line Doodling to explain the SEO Value Process to a new batch of SEO students, and we came up with the following SEO Pyramid. I thought of sharing this as it will be a useful “Guide” for SEO enthusiasts to better understand the SEO process, SEO value and SEO timelines. SEO Expert Services - Week 1 Keyword Discovery and Analysis. This is the foundation of any

Heading for an SEO Interview?

2010-04-22T23:28:00.000-07:00

Heading for an SEO Interview?A few Ideas to Help You Along… On the back of all these interviews, I thought what better chance to share a little empathy (considering how tough the interview process can be at times!) and a couple of observations that might help SEO folk prepare for the opportunity of their dreams! So here goes; a few ideas to help get you SEO interview fit… Prepare and

Creating a Social Media Analytics Action Plan : Part 1

2010-04-19T22:02:00.001-07:00

Creating a Social Media Analytics Action Plan – Part 1: Defining KPIsLast week I spoke at PubCon South on the Analytics Strategy panel on the topic of social media. This is something I’m very passionate about and during my preparation for the presentation I uncovered some scary statistics. According to a survey conducted by BazaarVoice in 2009, on average businesses have no idea what

6 Ways to Optimize Your Site for the iPad

2010-04-19T21:51:00.000-07:00

6 Ways to Optimize Your Site for the iPad The iPad is no Apple Newton. It truly is a revolutionary device. The whimsical blog of “Fake Steve Jobs” calls the iPad a “life-changing, mind-altering product”. Although that may be an overstatement, the iPad is certainly important — to the computing industry, to computer users, and to online marketers. The launch of the iPad marks a

Types of Site Changes That Can Affect SEO

2010-04-13T22:11:00.000-07:00

Types of Site Changes That Can Affect SEOOrganizations make many changes that they do not think will affect SEO, but they have a big impact on it. Here are some examples: Content areas/features/options added to the site (this could be anything from a new blog to a new categorization system). Changing the domain of your site. This can have a significant impact, and you should document when the

Factoring Time into SEO

2010-04-08T21:06:00.000-07:00

Factoring Time into SEOWe all know that it takes time for your rankings in the SERPs to change. Although they do fluctuate frequently, long-term improvements in your SERPs rankings take time to produce.Some time needs to pass before the Search Engines are confident you deserve increased rankings. Things that can happen during the days, weeks or months before you see some real results

SWOT ANALYSIS & SMART PLAN

2010-03-09T19:50:00.001-08:00

SWOT ANALYSIS & SMART PLANThere are many methodologies for business planning. One of the more well-known ones is the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) Analysis. There are also methodologies for ensuring that the plan objectives are the right type of objectives, such as the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-lined) Plan. Next we will take a look at both of

Do’s & Don’ts of Social Media Marketing

2010-03-01T21:22:00.000-08:00

Do’s & Don’ts of Social Media MarketingSocial media marketing (SMM) may appear like child’s play. After all, what is there to it? Create a bunch of profiles, Digg a little, Stumble a bit and you are set, right? Wrong! That is the exact attitude that can kill your social media campaign (and dreams) before it can begin.I don’t mean to suggest that it is beyond a social media novice to

Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash

2010-02-01T22:46:00.000-08:00

Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe FlashThe Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash component makes it easy for you to implement Google Analytics in your Flash-driven content. This component, developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., contains all of the functionality of the Google Analytics Javascript code. The Flash Tracking component is a compiled

7 Simple Geo Targeting Tips for Your Site.

2010-01-10T23:06:00.000-08:00

7 Simple Geo Targeting Tips for Your Site. How do they do this? By looking at a number of factors, such as:. Country-specific domain name - eg. .com or .com.au or .co.uk etc. etc.Where your site is hosted - be careful with this as a lot of hosting providers may have their offices in one country, but use servers and equipment based overseas.Language used in your website content - even things like

5 Sure Fire Ways To Win Your SEO Clients’ Hearts

2009-12-28T21:01:00.000-08:00

5 Sure Fire Ways To Win Your SEO Clients’ HeartsYou just snagged a deal with a client. Everything seems to flow smoothly and according to plan. You’re able to deliver the goods, but somewhere along the way, you client become restless and starts playing hardball.And you wonder what could you be possibly doing wrong? Why is the deal running not so smoothly, where in fact you’re doing everything

Great blogging services

2009-12-27T19:51:00.000-08:00

A professional can fudge his personal blogs but on the other hand, layman need to think twice about the tools, services and the way to have their own blogs.Many technology consultants earns heavily for providing technical consultancy of "dos and don’t".In different purpose a blog site feeding different interesting topics with unique frequently posts can make a blog site popular in short time. On

30 Resources on Google; SEO Changes in 2010

2009-12-21T02:11:00.000-08:00

Google changes faster than you can blink right now. Just some buzzwords that will bug you in 2010:Google CaffeineGoogle Real Time searchGoogle Personalized search resultsGoogle Living StoriesGoogle PhoneI could go on like for a while. It’s not my intention to confuse you even more though. I want to shed some light on the near future of Google, search and SEO. It’s a daunting task as I’m

10 Promising Free Web Analytics Tools

2009-11-30T23:19:00.000-08:00

10 Promising Free Web Analytics ToolsWeb analytics is the process of gathering and analyzing your web content’s data in order to glean meaningful information about how your site is being utilized by your users. There are plenty of Web analytics applications out there, and you probably already know the big guns such as Google Analytics, Crazy Egg, and remote-site services such as Alexa and

Web Analytics: Google vs. Yahoo

2009-11-27T04:18:00.000-08:00

Google Analytics & Yahoo Web Analytics ComparisonThe last 12 months have seen the Google Analytics (GA) product evolve into a serious contender for a do-it-all product for most businesses, a period that has also seen Yahoo! get serious with analytics through the purchase of the not-so-well-know European product called Indextools - the decision by Yahoo! to make the Indextools product free with a

Create a Facebook Page for Your Business

2009-11-25T22:26:00.000-08:00

Create a Facebook Page for Your BusinessThe social networking site Facebook is used by more than 150,000,000 million people to share personal information with friends online. With those kinds of numbers, you knew it would be belong until businesses saw the potential. If you're looking to tap the marketing potential of Facebook, you can create free Facebook Business pages—leveraging Facebook

Google Ad Planner: right audience for your campaigns

2009-11-20T22:18:00.000-08:00

In our ongoing effort to give you in-depth data for your media plan, we've released a number of Google Ad Planner enhancements that provide a more granular view of where your audience can be found.Subdomain dataWe've added subdomain data to Google Ad Planner to give you a more detailed view of sites. This information can help you refine your media plan by providing more information about specific

Google Ad Planner

2009-11-20T22:16:00.000-08:00

If you're a media planner at an ad agency, you know that planning an online display buy can be challenging, particularly in scaling your campaign's reach while keeping it relevant for your target audience. Plus, how do you keep track of the millions of sites out there that might be just right for your campaign?To make your life easier, we're introducing Google Ad Planner, a research and

Advanced Filtering in Google Analytics

2009-11-11T22:02:00.000-08:00

Advanced Filtering in Google Analytics simplifies narrowing down data in the reports table by allowing threshold filters to be created. Instead of creating standard profile filters or weeding through rows and rows of data, Advanced Filters can be created on the fly for any report.Here is another in-depth look at one of our recently announced new features: Advanced Filters (or Advanced Table

Free Google Analytics API Dashboard Application

2009-11-10T22:27:00.000-08:00

Free Google Analytics API Dashboard ApplicationIf you manage many Google Analytics profiles, it can be difficult to stay on top of all your top line metrics across accounts -until now. Trakkboard is a free, easy to use desktop application that allows analysts to create dashboards that pull data across different Google Analytics logins and different Google Analytics profiles to display top level

MSN Dramatically Improved Redesign

2009-11-04T02:51:00.000-08:00

Microsoft has introduced a dramatic new look and feel for the MSN portal. The redesign simplifies and cleans up most elements on the site. Among other things, it makes video more central, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search.MSN, which Microsoft says now has 600 million users globally (which would make it larger than Yahoo), is a huge asset

Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options

2009-11-03T21:17:00.000-08:00

Google Operating System noticed Google has added a new search option named “page preview.” If you go to Google, search on something and click on “show options,” you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click on “page previews.” For example, here is a view of a search for apple with page preview selected.Google added a new option to the web search toolbelt: page previews. If

Search Engine Basics

2009-10-28T00:23:00.000-07:00

As the Internet started to grow and became an integral part of day-to-day work, it became almost impossible for a user to fetch the exact or relevant information from such a huge web.This is the main reason why ‘Search Engines’ were developed. Search engines became so popular that now more than 80% of web-site visitors come from them. What exactly is a Search Engine? According to webopedia, a “

10 reasons people criticize SEO

2009-10-16T03:49:00.000-07:00

10 reasons people criticize SEOSEO is a polarizing subject. Bring it up in the company of the tech set and chances are you'll get a debate not unlike one you might get when talking about religion and politics.A lot of the criticism of SEO is misplaced while some of it isn't. When addressing SEO criticism, it helps to have an understanding of why critics are so skeptical. Here are top 10

SEO Video Technology Strategy

2009-10-14T21:14:00.001-07:00

Time changes and accordingly everything in the nature redefines itself. So, the latest magical marketing innovation or SEO (search engine optimization) are also upgrading itself. We already are enough aware about traditional bookmarking, link building, submission, etc sorts of stuffs but recently introduced video SEO work is gaining tremendous response and almost all premier SEO service providers

Twillist Wants The Ultimate Resource For Twitter Lists

2009-10-08T21:42:00.000-07:00

Ever since Twitter started increasing in popularity, there’s been a clear need for a more efficient way to manage groups of users than Twitter natively provides. We’ve seen desktop clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic build their own grouping functionality, as have standalone sites like WeFollow. TweepML has even created an open standard for managing and sharing groups of Twitter users. Today, you

5 Reasons Not To Use Flash

2009-10-07T00:46:00.000-07:00

Despite the documented problems over the years, businesses and web development firms are continuing to use a flash base in site design, without regard of the challenges an all flash site poses for search engine rankings and SEO (not to mention usability). Sure, some hybrids of flash and text work well, with the mutual understanding that flash is embedded within a site.. and not the site itself.

9 Tips For Ecommerce SEO's

2009-10-05T22:44:00.001-07:00

9 Tips For Ecommerce SEO'sThe below tips are especially for search engine optimizers (SEOs) actively working in the ecommerce field. Hopefully you can make use of these, and maybe even provide some tips of your own in the comments (or on your blog).With that out of the way, let’s focus on these 9 Tasty Tips for Ecommerce SEOs, shall we?1. Implement a recommendation engineThe king of upselling

Yahoo Buys Full Page Front Page Ad in TOI

2009-10-05T04:47:00.000-07:00

India’s largest English-language newspaper, the Times of India, has an interesting print edition front page today – a huge yellow advertisement for Yahoo’s It’s You campaign first announced last month. You can view the print version here.The newspaper’s circulation as of 2008 was 3.14 million, making it the largest selling English-language daily newspaper (here’s the whole list). Yahoo already

New Update in Google Webmaster Tools

2009-09-22T22:04:00.000-07:00

New Update in Google Webmaster Tools: Submit URL Parameters to IgnoreA good initiative by Google, allowing the webmasters to let the Googlebot know which URL parameters to ignore while crawling or indexing the site web pages. Log in to your Google Webmaster tools account Click on the ‘Site Configuration’ link on the left and then on ‘Settings’ At the bottom you will find ‘Parameter

SEO Tips for Flash

2009-09-18T00:23:00.000-07:00

SEO Tips for FlashCreating accessible flash content for search engines is odd for you to preserve your online presence and drive traffic to your site. Follow these Flash Optimization Tips to get most out of the major search engines. Adding SWF content to your HTML source An iron-clad way to guarantee that a SWF’s content is picked up and ranked by search engines is to extract the content

Best Blogger Widgets and Addons

2009-09-10T21:26:00.000-07:00

Best Blogger Widgets and AddonsI have used Blogspot as my main blogging system for over 1 year! I have discovered that system can works just great, and also everything is completely free! From web to domain hosting. This is my recommended blogging system for all blogger beginners and amateurs. Through, to use and design your Blogspot blog right, you might know little more about it. I have

Video Optimization Practices

2009-09-09T20:56:00.000-07:00

We have spoken lot about Search Engine Optimization in the past, and even a little bit about Social Media Optimization, optimizing your social media presence. My list of popular social media websites include sites like YouTube and MetaCafe.When submitting your video to these online video sites, did you know that you can optimize those videos so that they are bound to get more views? We all

Best Practices and Tips for SEO Video Optimization

2009-09-07T01:04:00.000-07:00

Best Practices and Tips for SEO Video OptimizationVideo optimization as part of your search engine optimization efforts can be a great way for you to expose your brand to users who may have otherwise not been familar with your brand, your product(s) or your service(s). With the launch of Universal Search from Google, you can expect to see more and more video results occupying the search

SEO Best Practice Guide

2009-09-07T00:41:00.000-07:00

Search engine marketing (SEM) is the single biggest opportunity in online marketing, which is unsurprising given the growing popularity of search engines for researching products, services and organizations. In this section we will set the scene…SEO Best Practice Guide

Video Blogging The Next Generation

2009-08-05T22:09:00.000-07:00

Video Blogging The Next GenerationVideoblogging is the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet. Everybody knows about textblogging. Now they use videos for a better way of expression. This form of communication may entail a lot of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say a thousand words, videoblogging exceeds that by far.A videoblog requires larger disk spaces

Video Optimization

2009-08-05T04:47:00.000-07:00

High Quality Live & On-Demand Entertainment Experiences over the Internet People love watching video. Professional online video for business stands out. Video is a brand differentiator in crowded markets. Google bought YouTube years back. Then there is MSN Soapbox, Yahoo video, Blinkz and Daily Motion. The tidal wave is coming into shore. It is plain to see that Video is a key component in search

2009-07-31T04:08:00.000-07:00

Types of E-CommerceE-commerce is the use of Internet and the web to transact business but when we focus on digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals involving information systems under the control of the firm it takes the form of e-business. Nowadays, 'e' is gaining momentum and most of the things if not everything is getting digitally enabled.

Keys To Great Email Strategy

2009-07-27T21:29:00.000-07:00

Keys To Great Email StrategyThe foundations of strategy don’t change, but transferring it to email require a different level of thinking these days. I was teaching my daughter backgammon and talking about the strategy of the game. She very simply said, “My strategy is to win.” After laughing, I said “Winning isn’t a strategy, it’s a result.” But she had a good point; we seem to think

Search Engine Optimize (SEO) an AJAX or Web 2.0 Site

2009-07-14T20:32:00.001-07:00

Search Engine Optimize (SEO) an AJAX or Web 2.0 Site One of the three major pillars of Search Engine Optimization is a website’s content, and onsite content optimization. All of the major search engine ranking algorithms have components that relate to the content that is contained on the website. Typically these components relate to Keyword Densities, number of words, content location, and

Is social media backlinks really worth?

2009-07-09T22:09:00.000-07:00

Is social media backlinks really worth?Social networking profilesOne of the fastest ways to build backlinks is to register on social media sites with high PageRank: Facebook, Xing, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ecademy, Twitter etc. These sites allow you to set up a user profile with information about you and your company, including a link to your website. The only catch is that not all of these sites

SEO Video Strategy

2009-06-07T21:15:00.000-07:00

Google Upgrades Custom Search Box On Blogger

2009-06-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

Google’s blog publishing platform, Blogger, is bringing its Custom Search Box gadget out of its beta version, also known as Blogger in Draft. The search gadget a blog’s readers search posts, web pages linked from the blog, other blogs on the blog roll, as well as pages on the shared links list.Google initially launched the gadget on its Blogger in Draft platform, which offers users a version of

Google Local Lures Small Businesses

2009-06-02T00:52:00.000-07:00

Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, starting tomorrow it will give local businesses in the real world with physical addresses a free dashboard akin to what Websites get for free with Google Analytics (see screenshot above). Except that it will show

Google Webmaster New Look

2009-05-12T22:47:00.000-07:00

Google Webmaster New Look Google Webmaster Tools began as a way for webmasters to submit Sitemaps. Over the years they have constantly been adding and updating new features. The result was a set of tools we're pretty proud of--but also a site that had become pretty unwieldy and often difficult to navigate. That's why we decided to redesign Webmaster Tools from the ground up. We wanted a

Differences in web analytics systems

2009-05-04T02:01:00.000-07:00

Differences in web analytics systems (TNO report)One of the presentations was the research TNO in the persons of Almerima Jamakovic, Bart Gijsen and Martijn Staal has to "differences in Web Analytics. One of the presentations was the research TNO in the persons or Almerima Jamakovic, Bart Gijsen and Martijn Staal has to "differences in Web Analytics. The subtitle is: Facts, myths and

Google provides backlink tool for site owners

2009-04-19T22:44:00.001-07:00

Google provides backlink tool for site ownersOne of the common requests I hear from webmasters is “Why doesn’t Google show me most or all of my backlinks?” Well, as of today, Google’s webmaster console will now let you see your site’s backlinks. Major props to the webmaster console team for this new feature. A few things to know: The backlink tool doesn’t show 100% of the backlinks from

Latent Semantic Analysis Gathering Titles

2009-04-15T06:33:00.000-07:00

In order to give an example of Latent Sematic Analysis, I went to Amazon.com, searched on "investing", and took the top 10 books titles that were displayed. One of those book titles only had one index word so I dropped it. Here are the other 9 titles with the index words underlined. To be an index word, the word must occur in 2 or more titles, and not be a "noise" or stop word such as "the", "to"

Latent Semantic Analysis

2009-04-15T06:30:00.000-07:00

Latent Semantic Analysis TutorialLatent Sematic Analysis or LSA is a way of finding patterns among a collection of documents such as web pages. It is increasingly used by major search engines, such as Google, in ranking websites and determining what AdSense ads to show on a page. To see how Latent Semantic Analysis works, imagine that you have a collection of documents such as web pages, or in

Benefits of Social Book marking

2009-04-08T21:59:00.000-07:00

There are a lot of similarities and differences between SEO & SMO. Because of this, and the idea that one cannot take over the role for the other, it is important to know when and why to use each optimization technique.Social bookmarks help you to share your favorite website links with your friends at the entire Internet world. This is the way, you can make other people familiar with your

Gmail Can Now Tell Which Of Your Contacts Are Awake

2009-04-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

Gmail Labs continues to make an awesome product even better. Tonight the site has introduced ‘Sender time zone’, a feature that allows users to quickly tell if their contact is likely awake or sound asleep, based on the time zone their Emails are being sent from.The feature takes advantage of the time zone data often included in Email headers, showing a green light for contacts that are

Road to Web 3.0

2009-03-24T03:37:00.000-07:00

Out of all the Internet buzzwords and jargon that have made the transition to the public consciousness, "Web 2.0" might be the best known. Even though a lot of people have heard about it, not many have any idea what Web 2.0 means. Some people claim that the term itself is nothing more than a marketing ploy designed to convince venture capitalists to invest millions of dollars into Web sites. It's

Web 3.0 Will Work

2009-03-24T03:29:00.000-07:00

Internet experts believe the next generation of the Web -- Web 3.0 -- will make tasks like your search for movies and food faster and easier. Instead of multiple searches, you might type a complex sentence or two in your Web 3.0 browser, and the Web will do the rest. In our example, you could type "I want to see a funny movie and then eat at a good Mexican restaurant. What are my options?" The

Video Marketing Trends

2009-03-13T06:28:00.000-07:00

Video Marketing TrendsVideo Marketing or let’s say video publication which is most recent techniques in the today’s world which is important in driving backlinks and traffic to a website. This process is recently gaining the popularity among the sharp internet marketers as it’s easy to get started with. Video compliance is a process where you create a video which is based on Text or

Dos and Don'ts for Social Networking Sites

2009-03-02T00:15:00.000-08:00

Dos and Don'ts for Social Networking SitesDOSDo update your profile regularly"Keep your profile updated, even when you're not looking for a job," recommends Patrice-Anne Rutledge, author of "The Truth About Profiting from Social Networking." "Recruiters love to find top-notch passive job candidates and having a current profile can help you land your dream job when you least expect it."Do