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There is a myth that exists among several companies that SEO is meant for companies that exist in the IT field.But one company has proved this incorrect by utilizing the concept of search engine optimization in order to increase their sales figures.EmbroidMe,which is the largest embroidery franchise has succeeded in increasing their sales figures tremendously by incorporating a SEO campaign. EmbroidMe utilized the feature of Social Media such as Twitter and Facebook to order to improve their visibility.As more and more people are actively using the search engines to obtain information in the internet,companies are turning towards SEO in order to improve traffic.EmbroidMe found that there was a tremendous improvement in branding in all of their 450 locations. Labels: Facebook, seo news, Social Networking, Twitter
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Digg, the popular social bookmarking site had utilized the feature of Shout.This allowed its users in order to share their links with one another and it was the only communication tool. Now the feature of Shouts is replaced with Facebook and Twitter. Shout made it easier for users to send a story they liked the most directly to other people who employed Digg.In certain circumstances,it was very useful and it helped in some of the stories to catch more attention.On the other hand,shouts was mostly utilized for spamming due to which some users decide to turn it off.Another major problem with this feature was that those links, stories that received shouts were better rated .Due to this, all the users started shouting most of their stories. Digg in the beginning tried to reduce the value of Shouts tool,in order to eliminate the above problems,but finally removed it completely.Now Digg had added buttons to enable sharing of stories on Facebook or on Twitter.This big move has a possibility of driving more people to Digg,though it enables people to drive people to other sites.
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Yahoo adds additional features for its service in building custom search engines,BOSS.Delicious,Language Capability as well as News are the new features added in Yahoo search Boss. Yahoo Search BOSS, for Build Your Own Search Service, is a new Web services platform that enables Web developers access to Yahoo's search technology. Precisely,it's opening up access,initially in the form of so-called application programming interfaces and in future through custom services from Yahoo and other partners to its Web, news, and image indexes.The goal of BOSS is to nurture innovation in the search industry.BOSS allows access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms including powerful infrastructure.The popularity of Delicious has let to several tools from Yahoo and the Delicious community browser such as add-ons, APIs, and Search Monkey applications.The Delicious data which is available today through BOSS includes Delicious saves, top tags including count information.BOSS has included the Advanced Language functionality to enable filtering of specific language results for a given market.Yahoo BOSS presently supports Czech, Hungarian, and traditional Chinese.BOSS News Service can now be sorted by a date or a specified time range of days, weeks, or hours. Labels: seo news, yahoo, Yahoo Boss
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posted by Treesa
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The social bookmarking site Digg has improved significantly.The main aim of digg is to deliver the best stories at the top of the results.In addition to the improved user interface,the following additional changes have been implemented: 1.A faceted model for filtering results means that it is possible to cut your results by factors like Digg count, topic, time, etc. It provides sufficent information about your query and enables you to drill down to your result much more effectively. 2.Advanced shortcuts enable those who are searching for stories with specific promotion characteristics to filter in an effective manner. Include +p to your query for only promoted stories, +u for upcoming stories, and +b for buried. 3.Widely used search tricks like putting your query in quotes for an exact match and adding a negative sign before the term (i.e., -term) to remove that term from your results is possible. 4.Digg has ensured that search is faster now too. 5.A graph depicting the relative number of search results by month for the past several years provides some visibility into the trend of a particular query term over time. Labels: digg, latest seo news, seo news
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Microsoft provides the option of downgrade for Windows 7 Customers. The options are available to Windows Vista as well as to Windows XP. Microsoft intends to offer n-2 downgrade option with Windows 7 to enable customers to plans their migrations from XP. Thus this download option is a good news for users of Windows Vista and Windows XP. The Vista version of Windows was not received well by many Microsoft users. Microsoft doesn't usually provide active support for more than 2 versions of Windows. Hence there has been a great deal of apprehension about the loss of XP support when the new OS was announced to be released soon. With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft hopes to overcome the stains caused by Windows Vista. Labels: microsoft, seo news, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
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Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team has delivered an explanation regarding the Webmaster guidelines provide by Google.This was one of the suggestions provided by the Search Engine Giant.."Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number." Here are some reasons Matt Cutts cited why it is better to maintain the number of links less than 100.He went on to explain that previously Google indexed just around 100 kilobytes of a page.In case the page exceeds 100 links, it usually exceeds 100kb and the remaining links will be completely ignored or truncated by Google.Suppose, there are more than 100 links on any page ,people who reach the page might be completely overwhelmed and may be unable to find what they were looking for and might decide to leave the page.Google classifies this as a "bad user experience". However, in some situations, where a large resource library is provided ,it is absolutely necessary to maintain a page with more than 100 links.In these cases Google won't consider these pages as spam,instead Google will either choose to exclude these links from being indexed or might tag them as nofollow. Labels: google, links, Matt Cutts, SEO guidelines, seo news
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Microsoft has made the latest version of Internet Explorer IE 8, the world's most popular web browser to be available for download .Microsoft revealed that the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is much faster, user-friendly and extremely secure than the previous versions of IE. Internet Explorer is presently utilized as the main browser by around 67 per cent of the world. This is a clear reduction from 91% in 2004,due to rival's such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari as well as Google's chrome. Due to the ubiquitous occurrence of IE,it has become a target for hackers trying to prey on its programming areas.For Microsoft to get back its lost market share it needs to convince the net users that the latest version is more secure. Steve Ballmer, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, has conveyed that Microsoft promises to deliver a browser through which people can get apt information in a fast manner.He also stated that IE 8 provides protection which is incomparable to other browsers.A new feature known as "Accelerators" has been added. Through this feature, users can look an address on a map, without the need to navigate to a separate website. In addition,"Web Slices", which are redesigned flash sites helps in accessing favorites for a net user. Labels: ie, ie8, internet explorer, microsoft, seo news
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Expo and Razorish have partnered to Publish Video SEO White Paper: 'How Non-Video Sites Can Employ Video for SEO'.Expo is the first video-based community targeting consumers to enable them to share their opinion about the products they buy as well as extol the brands they are passionate about. Razorfish, formerly Avenue A is one of the largest interactive digital marketing companies in the world, in addition to being one of the largest buyers of digital advertising space. Till now,tradional SEO is granted utmost importance for online publishers,whereas video SEO is not given its due importance.Several publishers opt to upload to just upload to video sharing sites ,which eventually causes harm to their sites potential in the long run.The publishing of this paper will ensure the preferences will turn towards video as the universal choice for people.Eventually publishers will be prepared with with abundant search optimized video on their websites.The complete white paper can be downloaded from the following location http://www.expotv.com/about/video-seo-white-paper. Labels: Expo, razorfish, seo news
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The online marketing agency Razorfish has revealed in the Digital Outlook Report 2009,that search engine optimization will become an important method of marketing,by even overtaking paid search like PPC. It has been predicted that companies might witness a fall by around 10% compared to the year 2008 in the case of paid search budgets. This is the first year that companies would be witnessing a fall in the area of PPC's. On the other hand ,it would be the year when many companies would shift to SEO for its marketing. Some factors which is causing this shift could be due to the following: 1.Advertisers,after several years of being grounded in the area of paid search are quite confident now and willing to shift to the unpaid listings of SEO. 2.Due to the lower cost of SEO when compared to PPC, companies will be drawn towards SEO. A recent report from eMarketer predicted that there will be tremendous growth in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) during the next five years. Labels: paid listings, PPC, search engine, seo news
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The top 3 search engines Google,Yahoo and Microsoft have come together in order to launch a new "canonical" link tag which will handle the problem of duplicate content.This tag assists webmasters in order to determine which URL they require the search engines to concentrate on when the website contains a lot of vastly similar or duplicate contents which is pointed to by many URLs. Joachim Kupke, senior software engineer, and Maile Ohye, developer programs tech lead at Google have mentioned that this tag provides an opportunity to have greater control over the URL's which are returned in search results,if your site has identical contents,corresponding to different URL's Assume the following 2 pages contain similar contents http://www.canonicaldemo.com/product.php?items=allequipments http://www.canonicaldemo.com/product.php?items=equipments Suppose we need the search engine to display this page in the results page http://www.canonicaldemo.com/product.php?items=equipments, then the canonical tag has to be used in the following manner <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.canonicaldemo.com product.php?items=equipments"/> Labels: canonical element, canonical tag, google, link tag, microsoft, seo news, yahoo
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A major conference focusing in the trends in assistive technology including persons with disabilities is to be held on March 16-21,2009 at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott and Renaissance Montura Hotel .This 24th Annual International Technology and persons with Disabilities Conference also emphasizes on adaptive technology targeted for aging as well as international practices. The Chief Executive Officer of SEO Incorporation, Garry Grant will be doing a presentation at this year's conference and it will be based on practical web accessibility solutions for people with disabilities and the practical benefits of discussing these issues.Garry Grant has a genuine desire to make internet accessible for everyone, especially the disabled, including his daughter who is born blind. The conference is organized by the California State University Northridge's Center(CSUN) on Disabilities. Labels: CSUN, Garry Grant, seo news
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Google Inc with its mobile tracker tool aids in keeping track of the location of people.This is an upgrade to the already existing Google's Mobile Maps.This tool assists people with mobile phones and other wireless devices to inform their friends about their present locations.The user has the choice to decide who can keep track of their location. One of the major drawbacks of this feature is the question of privacy concerns.But in order to resolve this issue, Google provides a facility by which the user needs to turn on or off the tracking software manually.In addition,Google assures that all of the information about the users locations would be retained by them.Only the last information regarding the person's location would be stored by Google's tracking service. A user's location is displayed by means of a picture appearing on Google Maps.The information about the location is fetched with the help of cell phone towers,GPS (Global positioning system) as well as Wi-Fi Connections. Labels: google, Latitude, Mobile Tracking Tool, seo news
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Google is always setting out to include new stuff into their already existing huge features.In addition the latest information is that they now provide an opportunity for accessing gmail while offline. In order to make use of this feature,we need to install Google Gears .Google gears is an open source software which enables storing data locally in a database.Also it enables web applications to communicate with desktop.Gears will download emails onto your desktop, and it will accumulate any actions that need web access to perform them next time you are connected to the net. Once Google Gears is installed, we can see an Offline option under the Lab tab in Gmail's settings. Choose Enable next to Offline gmail. Click the option "Save Changes". Once the browser is reloaded, an 'Offline 0.1' link appears in the top-right corner of the main Gmail window where you will be asked to click this link to begin the installation. Labels: gmail, google, google gears, offline, offline gmail, seo news
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Microsoft has releases IE 8 which is included in Windows 7.This can included for XP,Windows Vista or Windows Server also.The Beta version of IE 8 had arrived last year,but now the Release Candidate (RC) has arrived. The browser has several add-ons included with it.the company has opted a customization approach with "accelerators" and "web slices".Some of the accelerators created were for Facebook ,Stumble Upon and digg.Other features include private browsing,which eliminates the worry for some people who would browse regularly.Though IE8 has included some new features,when compared to IE7,IE8 looks much more simpler. Labels: ie, microsoft, seo news
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posted by Treesa
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Microsoft and Google have lot in common than the dominance of their respective markets. Both have utilized their cash flows to pursue many side projects in order to move into wider segments.And neither of them have had much success.The recession has had a severe impact on their efforts. Google,just cancelled its print advertisement ambitions,and Microsoft have managed to sell its long-held stake in the cable operator Comcast. Microsoft's main expertise still in software - its operating system and other programs. These hold around 82 percent of its revenue and nearly all of its operating income. The company has used a lot of those profits to diversify into products like video games and online search,though they haven't obtained much profit from these areas. Microsoft's Xbox game console just had had its first profit last year after being for nearly 7 years on the market.Microsoft's online search effort has also not been very successful. Its MSN portal has a dismal 8.5 percent share of American search market, and the unit which holds it lost around $480 million last quarter. Google makes virtually all its revenue from advertising related to Internet searches. Still, that has not stopped it from pouring money - and employee time - into online video, cloud computing and lobbying for renewable energy projects. Analysts say the video site Youtube remains barely profitable.The same goes for Google's free online software initiative, in which it has invested a huge amount. Source: Google news Labels: google, microsoft, seo news
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Google still needs to stop the increasing number of spammers from abusing Google Docs, its Web-based collaboration and spreadsheet application,according to junk mail watchdog Spamhaus.Lately, Google changed the position from fourth to third in a list of spammy ISPs (Internet service providers) and other Web services providers updated daily by Spamhaus. Similar to Microsoft and Yahoo,Google's free e-mail accounts are often utilized to send spam.Antispam filtering software is unlikely to block messages coming from the domains of those companies due to their wide use, although spam can be stopped through more sophisticated analysis of an e-mail. But the greatest problem is how spammers are manipulating Google Docs. The application has a feature where users are able to share a document which is assigned a URL (uniform resource locator).If opened, those documents contain a "redirect" command that pushes them to spammer Web sites, which often sell pharmaceuticals.Spamhaus has had problems in obtaining complete attention from Google about the problem.That's in contrast to Microsoft, which took methods recently to stop spammers from putting redirects on free Web pages and sending out the links as spam. Labels: google, seo news, spam
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In July,the new search engine 'Cuil' was launched with great hype,but was followed by a sequence of bad publicity.Six months since it has been launched and the performance of this search engine has not been good. Techcrunch reveals the traffic of the search engine in the alexa chart which was updated in another site.A seen from the chart the levels of reach experienced by the search engine has been dropping extravagantly since launch.The site witnessed a large amount of launch traffic,mostly by bloggers checking to see if it was really as bad as reported, before a huge drop off occurred.  Cuil was launched by ex-Google employees and should have performed much better than it has so far. It's also been funded to the tune of $33 million, which also is not a very investment at this stage of the game,considering that Google has established itself in the area of web search. Labels: cuil, search engine, seo news
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People who attend the next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) could get the first glance at Windows 7,the next version of Microsoft's client OS.At its Professional Developers Conferencewhich was held in Los Angeles in October, Microsoft informed about the release of the beta early in 2009. Though everything has not been confirmed, signs are pointing that the release date could possibly be the CES show in Las Vegas.CES is scheduled for Jan. 8-11. Microsoft will be releasing Windows 7 in early 2010, although some industry observers expect it may be out by the end of 2009 because of feeble customer response for thier operating system Windows Vista. Several business customers in particular have opted to skip Vista and run XP till Windows 7 is released in the market. Labels: microsoft, seo news, windows
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An wholesome new look included with new features makes Windows Live Messenger into a real competitor for Yahoo!Messenger.As usual,one can send instant messages,call a computer, dial a phone number, post a mobile message or send an e-mail. Editing of status display and starting a video chat with friends is possible. Skins and emoticons are some of the new features included in Windows Live Messenger. During installation , users are also prompted to install the Rhapsody Music Service which enables one to play and share music from the Rhapsody catalog. The main features include that we can create custom emoticons by choosing an image on our computer which will be automatically resized. Additional best features of Microsoft Live Messenger are the Whiteboard, Remote Assistance and Application Sharing. A major drawback is ,when we receive a file,it will be saved in the default directory instead of prompting to the user to choose the location yourself.The Web Calling service is available for long distance calls for selected countries.The important offline messages feature is not working at all. Labels: microsoft, msn, seo news
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posted by Treesa
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Reports are being evolved that there has been several security problems in Internet Explorer.Several computer users out there use Microsoft's Internet Explorer. So it's a genuine drag that there may be a serious security flaw in the browser.The public is being urged to use other browsers while this security flaw is fixed and Microsoft prepares a suitable patch to fix this issue. The entire network of people using the internet is at risk. This problem is extremely serious as it could give opportunities to criminals to tap into your computer and steal your password which could be disastrous. Until now , what this flaw has managed to steal are game passwords, but it's clear what the hackers intentions are.Several experts are suggesting users to find alternate browsers to overcome security risks but this is what John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's group said "I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw." Labels: ie, internet explorer, microsoft, seo news
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Microsoft Corporation has chosen NAVTEQ to supply map data for Microsoft's Live Search Map in India.NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of digital map india ideally for vehicle navigation and location based solutions.Live Search Maps from Microsoft allows people to locate and share local information which is important on the web. As updated in a blog are the the various features of Microsoft Live Search Maps which includes Business Lookup,Category Browsing,1-Click Directions which provides instant directions to a destination from most major routes and the capability to share maps and direction through Microsoft Office Outlook. Labels: microsoft, navteq, seo news
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Google and MySpace are combining to combat FaceBook Connect.This is made possible by combining MySpace ID with Google Friend Connect.Though MySpaceId is still in development,Google Friend Connect has been released. With Google and FaceBook releasing their web services and data portability being the trend on the web,this was a much predictable move.Also with Myspace's huge collection of user base and Google's popularity and excellent services,this combination turns out to be interesting. My Space has been facing heavy competition from FaceBook for a long duration.The best option they had was to combine with Google and to compete with FaceBook.We need to wait and see to view the outcome of this deal. Labels: google, MySpace, seo news
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Ben Turner, the programmer of Mozilla has informed that the second Beta version of firefox 3.1 would be released soon.The biggest change is the inclusion of "Web Workers", which allows the browser to process tasks in the background.This is a great leap as it gives multicore computers to utilize their processors abilities. The release also includes performance and stability fixes. As published in a blog,here is one illustration of Web workers...Running a JavaScript program that emulates a decades-old processor design, the 8080. One thread emulates the processor in the background while another handles user interaction such as checking for typing on the keyboard. Labels: firefox, mozilla, seo news
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Microsoft filed lawsuits against online auctioneers in 12 countries who sold pirated copies of MS software on sites including its own MSN shopping network.Nearly 63 lawsuits have been filed until now including countries like US,Gemany,France,Japan,Mexico,Argentina,UK etc.The most targeted software is the product windows XP. In a blog, Microsoft ass. general counsel David Finn in a statement said "Dishonest auctioneers are too often using these online auction sites to sell counterfeit and illegal copies of Microsoft software, taking advantage of unsuspecting customers around the world." Labels: microsoft, msn, seo news
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Users who download or upgrade Java for Internet Explorer will be prompted to install a MSN search bar that will set Microsoft's search engine as the predefined one.The deal announced by Microsoft for US surfers only, will enable several users to shift from Google in a couple of days. Those who are installing the Java Runtime Environment for the first time will get a prompt to download and install the MSN and to make Microsoft the default choice for their browsers; those users who have previously installed Java on their personal computers will instead get the same prompts from the Java update interface. The deal between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft is one of their very first on the the consumer side. However, there are some who suspect that the deal may not have such a big impact,as most users would still revert back to the very old Google. Labels: java, microsoft, msn, seo news
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Microsoft Corp is taking up a new management team to take control of Yahoo Inc.'s Internet search business and sign a partnership deal following its failed takeover attempt. Microsoft will put up $5 billion to back Jonathan Miller, the former chief executive officer of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media. Microsoft is seeking ways to revive its online advertising business as the global recession stifles spending and Google Inc. wins more search users. For Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, which spurned Microsoft's bids of as much as $47.5 billion this year, a deal may help shore up revenue after losing out on a partnership with Google. The terms would give Microsoft a 10-year operating agreement to manage Yahoo's search business, plus a two-year option to buy it for $20 billion. Senior directors of the companies have agreed to the outline of the deal, the newspaper said, without citing anyone. However Levinsohn denied the report, according to a blog post by the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital. Source:Google News Labels: google, microsoft, seo news, yahoo
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Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research Redmond have released a beta of SearchTogether,which is a free Internet plug in that allows groups of people to collaborate on Web Searches. Meredith Ringel Morris, a researcher spearheading the project conveys that SearchTogether is just a portion of a larger project about collaborative search. As updated in one of the blogs, Microsoft's SearchTogether is a breakthrough and different from traditional search, which is executed solo. SearchTogether gives opportunity for people at different locations to execute searches as a team.It basically enables people to divide responsibilities and pooling results in a shared Web space on the browser. Existing search Engines enable users to find Web content on an individual basis.Search interfaces have not yet been able to support collaborative search. Collaborating on search generally means that while one person is at a keyboard,the other makes suggestions.It could also be possible that while two people,each viewing a Web browser, they would be using instant messaging or a phone.The product is expected to become very popular among schools,colleges and universities, where students would have to work on multiple projects. Labels: microsoft, searchtogether, seo news
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Google has launched a search feature that provided an opportunity for net users to re-rank, delete and add comments on search results.SearchWiki, is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic,providing people tools that make search even more useful. Suppose a user does the same search, frequently.Later,the user can remove a site from the results that isn't of interest.Users are also given the option to add comments to a site, which pops up every time that site is in the results.Users can further personalize search results by typing in the URL of a site they want to add to their search results for a particular search,or even move a site to the top of the search results.To enable SearchWiki,the user need to be signed in to a Google account and English must be the chosen language. Additional feature is that users can keep track of all the changes that has been made with the option "see all my SearchWiki notes".One can also remove any changes that have been made to the search results and can revert back to the usual search results. Labels: google, searchwiki, seo news
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WebmasterWorld's PubCon, or "PubCon", is an educational conference and industry trade show focussed specifically for web professionals and website owners.Although the conferences center piece is search engine marketing, WebmasterWorld Conference and PubCon events are for leaders in search engine and Internet marketing professionals.These professionals gather to share the best methods in the design, development,promotion as well as marketing of their businesses and brands. This year,WebmasterWorld's Search & Internet Marketing Conference, PubCon was held from Nov 11-14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas,Nevada USA.Several Search engine marketers,optimizers,webmasters,marketing executives,program and channel managers purchasing agents were present for this conference. Source:Pubcon definition-Wikipedia Labels: conference, pubcon, seo news
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 Yahoo Glue displays a result of search pages in a more visually appealing manner with the text,images,photos,news,videos and blogs displayed on one page.Yahoo Glue for India was unveiled in May and now Yahoo has rolled out its U.S. beta version of its Glue Pages.With this tremendous effort,Yahoo has succeeded in putting related content all on one page.One needs to wait and see if net users would prefer Yahoo or its competitor Google where the display consists of text links with additional linksto related videos, blogs, photos etc.To get a glued result of your search pages, type this link in your browser, http://glue.yahoo.com Labels: glue, google, seo news, yahoo
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 During the Web 2.0 Summit, the Mayor of San Francisco,Gavin Newsom, pointed out that the internet is undergoing a major change due to YouTube.Each and every significant and insignificant dialogue is being recorded, and the videos are available on YouTube.Through out the summit, it got revealed that YouTube could be the second largest search engine after Google.ComScore's most U.S search engine Rankings for August 2008 revealed that YouTube has obtained a larger level of search traffic than Yahoo.Thus Google would be fetching the top two positions for search engine traffic.Labels: google, search engine, seo news, youtube
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Microsoft has updated its online services and has transformed its live site to a social network.The changes include photo sharing,email,instant messaging capabilities as well as including contents from around 50 companies.The Web Services include Flickr,LinkedIn Corp,Twitter,Wordpress.org etc., through profiles and a news feed.The Web 2.0 industry observers have received several positive reviews regarding these updates. Live.com users can now access several online services like mail, calendar, photos, online storage,etc.,including downloaded services like a mail client, instant messaging,Movie Maker,Photo Gallery,the Toolbar and other services. Eventually,this has become one huge social network.Check out http://www.windowslive.com/ for more. Labels: microsoft, seo news, windows live
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Video and Voice Chat has been added to Google,creating a major update for Gmail.In order to make this functionality work, we need to install a small browser plugin,available at the location http://mail.google.com/videochat .This update can function on all browsers and will work on PC's with Windows XP or Vista, including Macs with OS X 10.4 or later. We need to intially enable this new functionality from the 'Options' menu which is at the bottom of a Gmail chat window.Then we need to select the contact you want to speak with and click on 'Video & more' located in the lower-left part of the chat window.From here on,you can then start a voice or video chat. Point to note that Google's Gmail desktop chat program has not yet incorporated any video functionality yet, although voice chat is available for Google Talk long time ago.However Google has become a major competitor for skype for which video chat has been one of the major functionalities. Labels: google, seo news, yahoo
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Microsoft Corporation Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that his company has no plans to make another bid to buyout yahoo. "We made an offer, we made another offer, and it was clear that Yahoo didn't want to sell the business to us and we moved on .We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition. I don't know why they would be either, frankly. They turned us down at 33 dollars a share, said Ballmer as published in a blog. On the contrary,Yahoo Chief Executive, Jerry Yang said that Yahoo would welcome Microsoft if it was ever willing to offer another bid with the former.Yahoo made these remarks after Google stayed out of the ad deal with Yahoo after the Justice Department notified the two companies of an antitrust suit. Labels: google, microsoft, seo news, yahoo
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posted by Treesa
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After Microsoft opted for a bid for Yahoo in February, Google and Yahoo began several conversations to see if Google could help Yahoo to remain independent. Thus came the advertising agreement which the two companies signed in June. This deal was supposed to deliver Yahoo $250 million to $450 million in additional operating cash flow in the first year. However,Google chose to abandon this controversial deal after the Justice Department notified the companies that it would file an antitrust suit to block it. Google's Chief Executive Eric Shmidt said in an interview which was posted in a blog,"We canceled the deal with about one hour to go before a lawsuit was going to be filed against our deal. We concluded after a lot of soul-searching that it was not in our best interest to go through a lengthy and costly trial which we believe we ultimately would have won." On the contrary,Yahoo said it would have preferred to defend the deal in court. "Yahoo strongly believes we would have prevailed in court if the Department of Justice had filed a lawsuit, but unlike Google, we were prepared to defend our agreement,"said Tracy Schmaler, a Yahoo spokeswoman in a blog.Yahoo's Chief Executive Jerry Yang said that he was upset that Google had chosen to walk away. Labels: ad deal, google, seo news, yahoo
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posted by Treesa
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SMobile Systems has released SMobile VirusGuard-the first mobile security solution for Android phones.It is specially developed in order to protect mobile devices which uses the Google Android System.The viruses usually infect and cross the mobile devices through the memory card.This antivirus allows users to scan mobiles and their memory cards for nearly 400 known viruses,including variants of mobile Malware. Labels: antivirus, google android, seo news
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posted by Treesa
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Google Chrome version 0.3.154.9 is released.This release fixes several issues,especially with regard to plugins which people have put forward in the top issues.Check the following site http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes for details on the changes that have been made since 0.2.149.30. Following issues have been fixed: 1.Scrolling with laptop touchpads works fine now. 2.Improved performance for plugins (like Flash, Silverlight, QuickTime, and Windows Media).Several issues like video not loading, stopping after a second, and slowing down were fixed. 3.When you close a tab that was showing PDF using Adobe Reader 9,a 'chrome has crashed' message appears.This has been fixed. 4.Data from secure sites are not stored.We can still search the history for the site contents. 5.Performance Improvement for people who use web proxies. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
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Google turns PDf files generated from scanned paper into digital text using OCR optical character recognition(OCR) technology. Google product manager hasaid in a blog post "In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results as we couldn't be sure of their content.We had occasional lues from references to the document, so you might get a search result with a title but no snippet highlighting your query. Today, that changes. We are now able to perform OCR on any scanned documents that we find stored in Adobe's PDF format". The converted text of scanned files are available in search pages through the "View as HTML" link. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
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 Google has now introduced the speech search solution,through a new Toolbar for Internet Explorer called VoiceSearchBar.com.This is the first program which allows searching the web using a voice.It is a microsoft component,which is available as a free toolbar for all users.The program can be installed through the Internet Explorer add-on.Once the installation of this add-on is complete,users with thier voice can enter a search phrase.Then when the voice command "search" is said or when the click button is searched,the user will be redirected to the site www.voicesearchbar.com.In this location,the results of Google will be visible. In order to improve the quality of speech recognition, we need around 3 to 4 launches of the training mode program.This new program is dedicated to Bill Gates who has been a great supporter of speech recognition softwares. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
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Google releases a version of Google Earth for the iPhone as well as for ipod Touch,which allows users for zooming in and out of a virtual globe.Though Google Earth was available for the desktop for nearly 3 years,the iphone deployment is its first mobile version. The other familiar comparative product for iphones is Google Maps for Mobile (GMM),which emphasises more on localised street mapping and less on a visual reproduction of the earth's topography.In a blog post by Peter Birch, product manager for Google Earth, the iPhone's touch interface allows a user to "swipe [their]finger across the screen and fly to the other side of the globe", while the in-built accelerometers make it possible to adjust the viewing angle by tilting the phone. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
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The release of Brute Force SEO has become a success story for Australian internet marketer Peter Drew.The sales statistics for the first release is a 10% page conversion.It also brought a 60% retention after the 7 day trial. The software combines all the previous versions of Drew's software products and have evolved as a complete website tool.The full 1000 trial memberships has sold out in less than 3 days.Those who hacve missed out this can secure a membership spot which will be opened again in the forthcoming weeks. In one of the blogs,this is what Peter Drew has mentioned."Search engine optimization is ever-changing and can be difficult, particularly for those new to search marketing. However, the combination of Brute Force SEO software, the members-only forum and bonus software tools,even a newbie can effectively compete in the search engines." Labels: seo news
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Google ,which was formerly Google Personalized Homepage and Google IG,is a personalised service of Google.The main features of iGoogle is that it allows the users to include web feeds and Google Gadgets. Google on July 8,2008 had announced that it was beginning the testing period for a new and improved version of iGoogle, which includes several additional new features .On October 16, 2008,Google released its latest version and retired its old version.The new features to be included were replacing tabs with left navigation,including chat functionality ,as well as a canvas view gadget for RSS. Unfortunately,users have complained of this redesign as most people have disliked this change.The main changes to iGoogle include the ability to increase a gadget application to a full screen, called canvas view and a new left-hand navigation bar.Until now,there had been at least one online petition, requesting that iGoogle users get the option to reset their pages to the previous design,which they preferred.A common complaint is towards the new left-hand navigation column,which many gripe that it takes up valuable screen space and causing a hindrance to their user experience.Another complaint has been that the Gmail gadget had made links in e-mail messages inactive.Above all, there has been objection to Gmail messages which is showing up by default via Gmail gadget.This is a major hindrance for people at work, who don't want their information to be viewed by others.In one of the discussion forums, Google's representative had responded in one of the forums that Google is trying hard to sort these issues. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt brought forth the following view point when he spoke to analysts on October 17th in a conference call.He reported that there has been a 26 percent increase in third quarter profits and attributed this to the efforts of all his employees.He mentioned that in some ways search engines have benefited from the slow down and every year search queries traffic have been seen to increase in every vertical. In one of the websites,Eric Schmidt quotes "We believe that these results reflect the fact that as marketing budgets are squeezed, targeted, measurable ads are becoming more valuable to advertisers. As consumer budgets are squeezed, people use the web for comparison shopping to hunt for bargains online and in stores." However he hinted that it would be difficult even for the search engine giant to compete during the harder times of recession in future. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
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A recent survey by Comscore showed that 25% of Internet users play games every week.This records to around 200 million users worldwide.Following this survey,Google has launched adSense for Games.Through this,online game developers and online game sites get an opportunity to gain additional revenues. Adsense for Games will be displayed on specific parts of a game chosen by game developers.The ads displayed can be either video ads,image ads or text ads.The ads can be displayed in the form of interstitial frames which would occur before a game starts,middle of a game or at the end of a game. Labels: seo news
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posted by Treesa
@ 6:00 AM
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Google Webmaster Tools lately had launched the Crawl Error feature,which gives information about various site URL's for which Google's crawling was not a success.Previously,this tool displayed only the URL's which couldn't be accessed, along with the errors.Later administrators had to trace the cause of these errors. Now,the Webmaster Tools has been improved to include additional features.The site diagnostic portion of the Webmaster Tools currently includes a "Linked From" column in addition to the "Not Found" and "Errors for URLs in Sitemaps" reports.The Linked From column specifies the number of pages which link to a specific "Not Found" URL and the date when the error was found.All the above details can be downloaded from webmaster tools. The above features are very helpful for tracking crawling errors.With the help of this tool specific URLs can be identified.In this way,webmasters can detect if the errors were caused by any external links.In that case , they will be able to contact webmasters of the external sites in order to correct the errors. Labels: seo news
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With YouTube,Google has become a dominant player in online video,which is an emerging field.Though YouTube had gained popularity,it is yet to find success in the financial area.Making financial popularity its aim,Google provides internet users opportunity to buy songs and games in videos that they watch in YouTube. Net users who are interested in buying a song featured in a video can click on a location which directs them to either Amazon.com or Apple's iTunes store.From this location,the tracks can be downloaded for a fee. Through this ecommerce ad on format for YouTube, they get a share of the revenue for every transaction that is made.Presently music is available only from EMI and Universal Music Group for "click to buy." In future,Google is hoping to include other companies and also other varieties of content including film, print and television. If this project is successful, it would help counter YouTube's image as a haven for copyright infringement which is damaging the entertainment industry. Labels: seo news
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Gmail, Google's free e-mail service, added a new feature to the service called "Mail Goggles". This feature gives one the ability to double-check if you are sure that you want to send an e-mail message, specially late at night.This feature can be very helpful in avoiding to send hasty e-mails either in your profession or personal life. This is how it works.One needs to solve a few quick and simple maths problems before actually sending a mail.If you have succeeded in these calculations,then Google assures that you are in a sober state to send the mail. To enable Goggles, Gmail users need to click the "Settings" link at the top of a Gmail page.From here,we need to go to "Labs" section. Here,we can add settings to include on which days and times,this feature needs to be enabled. So lets admit we all need some extra help at times before sending mails..and Goggles is there for us. Labels: seo news
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Mozilla Labs, plans to announce a plug-in called Geode which gives the Firefox Web browser a better ability to understand and utilize geographic information on the Web. Doug Turner,in one of the blogs had said this about Geode, "a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content." Today, the real estate term 'location, location, location' is very much applicable to the Web.This is due to the fact that "where you are" is equally important as the information you're seeking.Mozilla's Geode, a Firefox geolocation add-on is one which will enable localized content.At this stage, the details of geode have not been disclosed much,but this is what is explained in one of the blogs "With Geode, a user who is looking for restaurants while they are out of town will be able to load up their favorite review site and find suggestions a couple blocks away and plot directions there." This is more relevant for GPS-enabled mobile platforms that utilise location-specific information in order to simplify the method in which people access and share content on a regular basis. Labels: seo news
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