9 Quick Google+ tips and tricks

9 Quick Google+ tips and tricks

Do you use Google+ everyday? These 9 quick tips or tricks will help you to do more in less time…

9 Quick Google+ tips and tricks

• While you are in google+ stream (google+ page), press J key to read next post (or move down)
• Press K key to read previous post (or move up)
• Clicking on the Google+ bar will scroll to the top of the stream irrespective of wherever you are reading
• Drag and drop any picture, link or video into Google+ share box
• Click on the drop down icon on the top right of a post to get the link for that post
• Don’t like a post, click on the drop down on the right of a post and choose Mute this post, It’ll disappear from your stream
• Don’t understand the language or want translation of a post? Install the google+ translate plugin and it’ll translate to the language of your choice
• Interested in a topic and want to read posts as it arrives? Search for that keyword and save the searchand it’ll appear in the middle left of your stream as a link, you can click on that link to read at anytime
• Don’t want to upload media from your mobile? Turn off Instant Upload in Google+ mobile

Google Plus Pages with Places Search Results

Is Google Starting to Integrate Google Plus Pages with Places Search Results?

It makes sense that Google would integrate Google Plus pages with their Local results. What better way to both allow a business to highlight the Page’s presence and incent other businesses to claim their Google Plus Page and keep it updated with meaningful information.

Read more -http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/11/23/is-google-starting-to-integrate-google-plus-pages-with-places-search-results/

New Google patent

How Automated Evaluations Might Help Decide Upon Rankings for Search Results at Google

A number of years back, I remember being humbled by a homework assignment crayon drawing by a friend’s son which listed what he was thankful for, and included his parents, his sister, and shoes that Thanksgiving. We take so much for granted that we should be thankful that we have. A few friends and I had gathered over my friend’s house, and we were all knocked somewhat silent by the picture when he proudly showed it off to his father. Thank you to everyone who stops by here to read, to learn, to share, and to add to the discussion. Thank you too, for the chance to share the things I find and the things that I learn from you all.

Read more : http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/11/automated-evaluations-search-results-google/

How to turn more visitors into customers?

Five tips with examples: how to turn more visitors into customers
Tip 1: Make it as easy as possible
Tip 2: Create a trustworthy website
Tip 3: Use a clear call-to-action
Tip 4: Avoid complicated forms
Tip 5: Tell your customers why you're better

4 most important - Google ranking algorithm

Recently Google made around 10 changes to it's ranking algorithm. But out of these here I am discussing 4 that are most important for webmasters and website owners.

1. Google seem to be putting more emphasis to links from the actual content body of the page than the header, side navigation or footer links.

2. Queries that need fresh results impact around 6-10% of the search results to a noticeable degree and the business websites that have news in their content will get benefit from this.

3. Google seems to be paying more attention to the page content than the backlinks. They also say they are de-emphasizing the "exact anchor text" backlinks. This means you should look at altering your "exact anchor text" approach if you have not already done so.

4. Google will tend to rank official websites even higher on Google's result page. And this change is intended to provide the users with more relevant and authoritative results.

eLegacy understands that SEO should be applied keeping in mind the functioning of the search engines and the pattern of search followed by the users. Therefore, we apply methods for clients that will make the website friendly for the users and the search engines and rank them high for their chosen keywords.

Contact us for the best SEO Services India.

Google's new Search App for iPad

Google announced a new Search iPad App.

In fact, zdNet says this app is Chrome OS on the iPad - which in a sense it is, but not fully, since Apple can control it.

The new features include:
> Google Instant Enables Results As You Type
> Web Page Loading On Slide-In Pane
> Image Search Adds Image Carousel
> Visual Search History Browsing With Swipe Controls Of Page Snapshots
> Instant Previews By Tapping On Icon At Top Right
> Search Within A Web Page With Magnifying Glass Tool
> +1 Button Integration On Web Pages

You can download the app for free on your iPad over here -

Google’s New Advanced Search Page

Google’s New Advanced Search Page

New Google Advanced Search Page Drops Links to Page & Removes top 100 options.

Google has updated their advanced search page with the new design, cleaned up some search options and removed some page specific search tools.
The removed tools include the ability to:

(1) Find pages similar to the page
(2) Find pages that link to the page

They have also renamed some of the search options like show top 100 results, but most of the other search features remained.

Here are before and after screen shots:
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Microsoft goes Socl!

It turns out Microsoft has been testing this service with a select group of friends and this week. Microsoft is nearing the end of its private testing period and will roll this out to a bigger public audience through an invite system. Stay tuned!

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Bing-powered share of searches at 29%

"The combined Bing-powered search comprised 28.62 percent of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 15.39 percent and 13.23 percent, respectively. Google share of searches was at 65 percent in October 2011. [...]

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What is new in Google's ranking algorithm?

Last week, Google's Matt Cutts published a list of 10 recent ranking algorithm changes in an official Google blog. Do these changes affect your website rankings? Do you have to adjust your web pages for the new algorithm?

What is new in Google's ranking algorithm?

Here's the official list:

1. For queries in languages where limited web content is available (for example Hind or Icelandic), Google will translate relevant English web pages and display the translated titles directly below the English titles in the search results.

2. The snippets on the search result page now show more page content and less header/menu content.

3. Google finds that boilerplate links with duplicated anchor text are not as relevant, so they are putting less emphasis on these. The result is more relevant titles that are specific to the page’s content.

4. Autocomplete predictions in Russian have been improved.

5. People who are searching for software applications will see more rich snippets, like cost and user reviews, within their search results.

6. Google retired a signal in Image Search related to images that had references from multiple documents on the web.

7. Some queries get fresher results. This change impacts around 6-10% of search results to a noticeable degree and better determines the appropriate level of freshness for a given query.

8. Google adjusted how they attempt to determine which pages are official. This will tend to rank official websites even higher on Google's result page.

9. Date-restricted queries have been improved to ensure that users get the results that are most relevant for the date range that they specify.

10. Autocomplete predictions for Hebrew, Russian and Arabic have been improved.

Matt Cutts does not go into detail. The most important change seems to be that boilerplate links with duplicated anchor text are not as relevant as before.

This probably affects the texts in your website navigation most. If the navigation text was "green widgets" before, this would give the linked page a boost for the term "green widgets". Matt Cutts says that this has changed.

How do you have to change your web pages?

Google says that you shouldn't focus on the ranking factors above:

"Before you go wild tuning your anchor text or thinking about your web presence for Icelandic users, please remember that this is only a sampling of the hundreds of changes we make to our search algorithms in a given year, and even these changes may not work precisely as you’d imagine."

Google uses many different elements to specify the position of your web pages on the search result pages. If you want to be on the safe side, analyze your web pages with IBP's Top 10 Optimizer.

The Top 10 Optimizer analyzes all important elements that determine the position of your web pages and it also tells you how to adjust your pages so that they get the best possible rankings.

Google is continually improving the ranking algorithms. If you want to keep your rankings, and if you want to get better rankings, regularly check your web pages to make sure that they are compliant to Google's latest ranking algorithm.

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Google+ getting better day by day!

Google+ getting better day by day!

Google plus announces it face detection feature. Google plus is the fastest growing social network in present era and is considered the future of social networking my many experts. Google plus is improving its store in the fight with competitors like Facebook and Twitter. Google’s newest addition in its depot is: ‘Face Detection’. This technology allows users to tag the photos quicker and easier than before, without manually entering the identity for every individual and individual pictures.

When any user upload and chooses to publish their entire photo album, the new face detection feature will display all the faces found in that album in one place. Then grouping all photos according to the persons that appear in them will be much easier and then tag them with their respective name and the email will be ready within few keystrokes. Users can access this new feature from three different ways.

1st - Create an album from the sharebox or add photos to an existing album. Once the upload is successfully complete, Google will recognize the faces and the tagging feature will appear.
2nd - Add photos from sharebox. Follow the same steps and tag people when the option appears.
3rd - Tag an entire album using button just above the photo previews.

Don’t worry Google respect the people’s right to privacy. If any user or your friend don’t want to get themselves tag in photos Google will inform every tagged person in the album after the tagging is complete so that users can decide if they approve the tagging or not.

Initially, Google provided face detection features with Picasa, but later on, this feature was renamed to Google Photos. To gear up for more enhancements, Google acquired PittPatt, and its copyrights for the technology used in face detection and live tracking. So, now whatever Google have in its inventory is fully accessible for Google + users to relish.

Yahoo Site Explorer shut downs and merged with Bing Webmaster Tool

Yahooo Site Explorer shut down on November 21, 2011. They said:

'As we announced in July, Bing Webmaster Tools are supporting the Yahoo! Site Explorer community. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic from Bing and Yahoo!.
Since the middle of August 2011, the Bing Webmaster Tools have also been integrating traffic data from Yahoo! into its reports. Please check out the Bing Webmaster blog post for more information.

We have been making great progress in transitioning organic search results to the Microsoft search platform in various markets, as part of the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance. The Site Explorer website will continue to be available until organic results are completely transitioned to the Microsoft Search platform in all markets (expected to be completed by the end of the year). Webmasters may continue to use the Site Explorer website and all its services until then.

As previously announced, the SiteExplorer YDN API’s are no longer available as of September 15, 2011. We thank all the YDN developer community who used and supported the APIs.

For FAQ’s please refer to Microsoft Webmaster Tools to support Yahoo! Site Explorer Community'

Don't be surprise with the Yahoo's decision on closing down it's site explorer. Yahoo announced publicly that it would happen sooner or later this year but since November 21st was the last day for site explorer but it is some what of a kinda shocker that it has finally happened for all webmasters. Some webmasters said: "It is basically the last nail in the coffin for Yahoo Search."

Site Explorer was launched in 2005 as one of Tim Mayer's babys at Yahoo and was adored by all webmasters. I personally used it frequently for business and personal reasons and I'm very sad to see it saying goodbye to us, and I am sure it upsets Tim and team a bit more. But you can still experience it features in Bing webmaster tool as Yahoo site explorer merged with Bing webmaster tool to give much better results and I and other webmaster hope that It will bring out new opportunities in Search Industries and Challenge BigG.

5 M’s of Marketing

In developing a marketing strategy, marketing managers must always start it marketing campaign by identifying the target market and the buyer’s motives on the product or services. Then they can make the five major decisions in planning, developing, executing an advertising their product or services, known as the 5 M’s, viz.

Mission: what are the advertising objectives?
Money: how much can be spent?
Message: what message can be sent?
Media: what media should be used?
Measurement: how should the results is evaluated?

Personal Blocklist by Google

Want to get rid of spammy site - Check out Personal Blocklist by Google itself which has 84% of sites in its new Google Panda update.

Most of the Google Panda updates are based on Feedback received to Google through various source which also includes Google's own "Personal Blocklist Chrome extension", which Google launched last week. Google compared the Blocklist data gathered with the sites identified by their algorithm and were very pleased that the preferences Google users expressed by using the Google's Personal Blocklist chrome extension are well represented. Google stated in its blog - "If you take the top several dozen or so most-blocked domains from the Chrome extension, then this algorithmic change addresses 84% of them, which is strong independent confirmation of the user benefits."

Google is very excited about this new ranking improvement because as it is a big step in the right direction of helping people find ever higher quality in Google search results. Google have been tackling these issues for more than a year now and working on this specific change for the past few months and continues working on many more updates that believed to be substantially improve the quality of the pages in Google search results.

Source - Google Blog

Marketing Tip to attract Targeted Traffic

Accurate traffic for a website is like a principal nutrition!! Not only link Building helps website attract traffic but also improve the website Page rank, keyword rankings on search engines and link popularity. Here are few ways to build your website link popularity:

• Excellent unique content on your site that provides value to your visitors will encourage links without your having to ask for them.

• Participate in online discussion forums which are relate to your niche/business. When you provide good advice to someone, a link to your website in your signature line is a valuable addition to your link popularity with draw target traffic.

• Write guest posts/article for other domain/niche related authority blogs and when post/article is live, each one has a link pointing back to your website.

Google makes Google Analytics v5 the default for all users.

Google is excited to share that its new version of Google Analytics. In addition to a redesigned interface that makes it even easier to explore your data, you’ll also notice some significant new features. Here are a few of our favorites -

Google Analytics Real-Time:
Real-Time reporting shows you what’s happening on your site - right now! The reports are updated continuously and each pageview is reported seconds after it occurs on your site. You’ll find Real-Time reports in the ‘Home’ tab.

Multi-Channel Funnels:
See which channels your customers interacted with during the 30 days prior to converting or purchasing. Conversion path data includes interactions with many media channels, including clicks from paid and organic searches, affiliates, social networks, and display ads.

Mobile Reporting:
More and more, visitors are using mobile devices to browse the web. Mobile reports in the new version of Google Analytics help you understand how mobile visitors are interacting with your site. You can even see which mobile devices your visitors use and optimize for those devices.

Flow Visualization:
Flow Visualization is a beautifully designed and highly sophisticated tool for graphically showing how visitors navigate through your site. Google have completely re-imagined and redesigned the navigation tools available in the old version of Google Analytics.

Over the next few weeks as Google will make Google Analytics v5 the default for all users.

Source - Google Analytics

Holiday Seasons for Internet Marketing

With the holiday season just around the corner, now is the best time to start search engine optimization efforts for products or services you want to target specifically for shopping season. Google Insight for Search shows increase in search volumes of keywords such as “christmas gifts” and “christmas ideas” right from the start of the October. Also, this is the right time to begin so that you can ...EditExpand this post »With the holiday season just around the corner, now is the best time to start search engine optimization efforts for products or services you want to target specifically for shopping season. Google Insight for Search shows increase in search volumes of keywords such as “christmas gifts” and “christmas ideas” right from the start of the October. Also, this is the right time