SEO Blog: 2010

Creating Video sitemaps is the best way to help Google index your videos. You can include the URL of the pages where videos are uploaded, title for your videos, keywords, thmubnail images and other essential information. A blog post by Nelson Lee, Product Manager Video Search shows that the video Sitemap also allows you to define the expiry time for each video. This will be helpful for Google to remove the content from it's index when the video expires.

For more information, Visit Google Webmaster Central Blog

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Google includes Site speed in search ranking algorithms

Google included site speed as a target for search ranking. An official blogpost on Using site speed in web search ranking posted by Amit Singhal & Matt Cutts had the following list of free tools that can be used to evaluate the speed of your website.

Page Speed, an open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.
YSlow, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
WebPagetest shows a waterfall view of your pages' load performance plus an optimization checklist.
In Webmaster Tools, Labs > Site Performance shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world.
Many other tools on code.google.com/speed.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

You can now add Images to your Google Sitemaps

Use Sitemaps extension to provide Google with image information. Here is an example from Google Webmaster Central blog.

< xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">

<>

<>http://example.com/sample.html

<>

<>http://example.com/image.jpg

< /image:image>

< /url>

< /urlset>

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

StatusNet - Microblogging platform

One of my Ecademy contact Lucas Wyrsch invited me to read his blog post on StatusNet a microblogging platform.

Read through the highlights from his blogpost.

StatusNet is a network of microblogging sites that uses opensource software to run a microblogging service. If you are looking for a way to handle your twitter account then visit StatusNet.

StatusNet allows you to

schedule recurring tweets
send broadcast DMs to all your followers
synchronize your friends and followers lists and more

http://status.net is in private beta phase. You can reserve the name you name right away.

Here is the link to the comprehensive list of sites - http://status.net/wiki/ListOfServers

Adding to that SocialOomph integrates with all the StatusNet sites and all the future StatusNet sites.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Blogger Tip: How to Show Date and Time in Title Bar

Source: Blogger Tips And Tricks - http://www.bloggertipandtrick.net/

How to Show Date and Time in Title Bar

Friday, April 2, 2010

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Keyword Competitor Releases New Lifetime Free Trial Version

KeywordCompetitor releases life time free trial version keyword tool. This new tool helps search marketers to track the keywords and monitor the competitors. Here goes the press release..

PRESS RELEASE SOURCE: KeywordCompetitor Blog

Durham, NH, October 29, 2009: After the formal release in September 2009 of a fully functional version of its keyword tool, Keyword Competitor released a “Lifetime Free Trial” version this week. In response to a need for people to test-drive this search engine optimization (SEO) tool on their schedule, this version does not time-out after 10 or 14 days like some online software. With inside knowledge regarding the singularity of the world’s first real-time keyword research and competitor monitoring software, Keyword Competitor is confident about continuing the trend of an increased conversion rate from their free trial: “Our tool is so far superior to our competitors because of the real-time accuracy of our data. We know we just have to give our users enough time to show their clients, or their bosses, how timely information can save a critical sale, and how targeting the right keywords and staying ahead of competition makes Keyword Competitor cost effective. You can subscribe for only about $3 a day—the equivalent of what you might spend on a cup of coffee.”

EASY REPORT MANAGEMENT
The lifetime free trial version provides 1-page Keyword Research and/or Competitor Discovery reports and continues to make the keyword marketer’s job easy:

The user can sort the report on the topic of most concern.
The reports may be exported in PDF or CSV format.
When the user needs to make the case to a boss or a client, to demonstrate to him where the company is presently being beaten by a competitor, a report can be promptly emailed in HTML format or as a PDF attachment.
There is also a report management widget to save reports for future retrieval.

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"We know we just have to give our users
enough time to show their clients, or their
bosses, how timely information can save a
critical sale, and how targeting the right
keywords and staying ahead of competition
makes Keyword Competitor cost effective."

— Keyword Competitor

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KEYWORD TRACKING AND COMPETITOR MONITORING
The lifetime free trial will let the user track two keywords among the user’s home domain and one competitor. Like the subscription version (which allows 40 keywords to be tracked among 6 domains) the Monitoring function provides graphs, reports, and email alerts regarding daily changes in page rank; organic and paid keywords used; ad copy that inspires click-throughs; and new competitors.

About Keyword Competitor: Small to medium size businesses, big brand advertisers, and the best marketing agencies leverage Keyword Competitor’s keyword research and competitive intelligence tools for search engine marketing. The critical nature of the up-to-date information Keyword Competitor provides gives Internet marketers the edge they need to gain advantage over their competition. http://KeywordCompetitor.com

Contact: Tina Dussault

Email: Tina@KeywordCompetitor.com

Keyword Competitor

118 Piscataqua Road

Durham, NH 03824 USA

Friday, January 29, 2010

85% of Online Consumers want the choice of click to call or click to chat to get live sales or service assistance.

ATG Live Help Online Survey (2)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Lower Bounce Rates = Right Audience

Why should you lower your bounce rate?

Say if you have 1,00,000 unique visits to your website but you have a 70% bounce rate which means 70% of your traffic is useless. Your website has failed to engage with visitors.

Measuring unique visits is an useful metric for marketing. However having a low bounce rate you can stay assured that you are reaching the right audience.

Follow Changes to any Website - Google Reader's new feature

Google recently rolled out a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on web pages that doesn't have its own RSS feed. This feature enables to follow on web pages for changes.

For full story, visit http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/01/follow-changes-to-any-website.html

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

URL Rewriting Tools

Before listing down the tools that can be used for URL Rewriting I would like to brief on URL Rewriting(for beginners)

What is "URL Rewriting"?

Dynamic websites has variables in the URL that instructs the site on information that needs to be shown to the user. The problem with dynamic URLs are they are not search engine friendly. URL rewriting is the quickest way to modify dynamic URLs to static URLs. Rewritten URLs appear more search engine friendly and relevant.

Here goes the list of websites that has instructions and tools to help you with your URL Rewriting:

http://www.webconfs.com/url-rewriting-tool.php
http://www.iwebtool.com/htaccess_url_rewrite
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/url-rewriting/
http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/url-rewrite.html
http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml
http://www.akamarketing.com/mod-rewrite-tool.php
http://www.syncrat.com/articles/rewriting-urls-with-mod-rewrite-apache-url-rewrite-tool
http://www.promotefirst.com/resources/seo-tools/free-htaccess-url-rewrite-tool/
http://tools.lilengine.com/rewriter/

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Tools for ORM(Online Reputation Management)

http://www.backtype.com/ - Shows the number of comments made on your website/products/services in social media sites.

http://www.123people.com - People centric search engine that merges your profile information from social media websites and presents an executive summary.

http://samepoint.com - Helps you check your online popularity. Samepoint combines the results from social networking sites, bookmarking sites, wikis and more. Samepoint highlights the positive and negative keywords used in your documents.

A screenshot from samepoint when a did a search for myself.

Monday, January 4, 2010

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