SEO
Enhancements in Digg
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.
Downgrade options for Windows 7 by Microsoft
With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft hopes to overcome the stains caused by Windows Vista.
Matt Cutts’ Explanation about Google guidelines
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.
Latest version of Internet Explorer launched by Microsoft.
Expo and Razorfish collaborated to publish Video SEO white Paper
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.
SEO mostly to overtake paid search in 2009
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.
Canonical link element
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”/>
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Offline gmail – New in google Labs
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.
Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8
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.