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How To Get Ethical Link Creation Partner

2011-03-18T02:59:00.001-07:00

It is a hard suggestion to hire a progressive and reliable link building company for the reason that there are quite a lot of such websites in the market and several of them are truly proficient and competent in most parts of the task. The majority of websites are expensive as they accuse high fees, which you must be careful to recommend for the right firm to get positive and effective results.

If you are anguish from the tough condition of costs, you should look for skilled firms in this area, who offer similarly effective service at an affordable price range. You have to do some searching in the internet to point out such providers. Contact such a professional link building service provider for the desired experience of your website in a valuable manner.

You have to make sure that the company of link establishment work understands the functioning of search engines and specially search engine algorithms in facts. This knowledge helps the professional to integrate the idea in the scheduling of link connections to increase the website in search positions. The expert must possess a clear knowledge of marketing promotions, the search engine promotion work and related activities to build it a self-sufficient enterprise to affect the website completely for enhanced rankings. It should be demonstrated by the website of the seo services company, which should be benefit from a high page rank and search ranks as well.

You should verify the profile of the seo or link creation company or past success records of the firm. If there are testimonials from diverse individuals or companies, you should realize the meaning of statements. Check whatever claims the company formulates about the achievement to verify such high claims. If you discover the link building company all accurate after such testing, you can effortlessly add in the company as your reliable and ethical link creation partner.

Improvements in Buzz Based on User’s Feedback

2010-02-19T20:18:00.000-08:00

It’s been few days since Google first launched Google Buzz. Since then, tens of millions of people have checked Buzz out, creating over 9 million posts and comments. Plus, Google is receiving over 200 posts per minute from mobile phones around the world.

There has been plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback. In particular there’s been concern from some people who thought their contacts were being made public without their knowledge (in particular the lists of people they follow, and the people following them). In addition, others felt they had too little control over who could follow them and were upset that they lacked the ability to block people who didn’t yet have public profiles from following them.

Like Gmail’s chat service, Buzz helps you create a social network by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with most. You can change, delete or add any contacts you want to follow.

So here is some more information about how Buzz works, and some immediate improvements are made based on the feedback.

The first time you create a post or comment in Buzz, Google asks you to create a limited public profile (at a minimum it’s just your first and last names). We do this so we’ll know what name to display next to your posts — and so the people you follow know who you are. As you do this, we notify you that the lists of people you follow and the people following you will be displayed on your public profile. You can view, edit, and even hide these lists. The lists of your followers/people you follow are not made public on your profile until after you go through this profile creation step.

Google gathered from people that the checkbox for choosing not to display this information was too hard to find, and based on their feedback, they have changed the notice to make it very clear. They had rolled these changes out to all Gmail users.

1. More visible option to not show followers/people you follow on your public profile

If you don’t want to share the lists of people who are following you and people you are following publicly on your profile, you can always opt out during the profile set-up when you first use Buzz or at any time from the edit profile page. We are making this option more prominent in the set up process, to ensure everyone who wanted to hide these lists can do so easily.

Improvements in Buzz Based on User’s Feedback

2. Ability to block anyone who starts following you

We are making it easier to block anyone, by adding "Block" links to the list of people following you. Previously, you were only able to block people from following you after they had created a public profile. Now, you can block anyone, regardless of whether or not they’ve already created profiles for themselves.

Improvements in Buzz Based on User’s Feedback

3. More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can appear on your public profile

Initially, we showed you a list of all the people who would be following you once they created a public profile. However, only those contacts that had already created a public profile would show up on your public follower list. They’re making this clearer by explicitly distinguishing which of your followers have public profiles and will show in your public list of followers. With this change you’ll be able to see who is on the public list of followers that everyone else sees.

Improvements in Buzz Based on User’s Feedback

We designed Buzz to make it easy to connect with others and have conversations about things that interest you, and it’s great to see millions of you doing this already. It’s still early, and they have a long list of improvements on the way. Google is looking forward to hearing more suggestions and will continue to improve the Buzz experience with user transparency and control top of mind. For more information about the choices you have when using Google Buzz, please visit Google Help Center.

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From idea to application - Trademark of a Great Custom Logo Design.

2009-12-04T21:41:00.000-08:00

The logo you choose for your company can help determine your company’s success or failure. It is significant that your logo design be unique to your business. If the logo design is not customized it may look similar to that of a different business and do much to detract from your business and give clients to a potential competitor. custom logo design can be designed by individual business owners utilizing software and freehand talents or can be created by specialized graphic designers who are trained in custom business logo design.

Customizing

Whether you decide to make the logo yourself or have an expert to do the designing, the design must be customized. It is significant to browse the logo designs of competitors, especially locally based ones, to ensure that your logo does not have any similarities with any existing designs. After getting an idea about what themes and color schemes you do not desire to use in your logo design, you can begin working on customizing your own logo. It is significant to avoid the use of clip art when designing your own logo because there is a greater chance that your logo will resemble a different and become confused in the minds of your clients.

If you choose to make a logo without top notch assistance, you can make use of any of the software available online or in shops. Most computers come equipped with some form of photo editing software and more advanced types of software can be found in popular electronics shops or from websites.

Specialized Design

Specialized logo graphic designers can develop a custom logo design in a short period of time, but of course it will come at a cost. The price range varies accordi

Boost your business!

2009-10-21T08:16:00.000-07:00

Hiring an SEO firm to help boost your business is vital if you have a website. SEO firms will carry out different projects to ensure your website and business is successful.

These projects vary from web designing, where your site will be refurbished to ensure it is not only easily accessible for the readers, but also so it's better than your competitors sites!

It also focuses on copywriting in terms of texts, guides, news and articles as well as link building to ensure that your site is getting noticed by search engines.

Once these search engines begin to pick these up, your site should begin to rank higher on these search engines according to keywords.

The higher it ranks, the more traffic you get on your site, which means more consumers, and more income!

It is possible to attempt taking on these projects yourself, but for this a lot of time for research is essential. You must know what to look at in terms of your products, your site and what your competitors are doing.

But because SEO can be complicated and may prove to be expensive if you are unaware of where to start and how to move on, it is advisable to approach a good respectable SEO firm with proven figures!

In the present situation Internet marketing has a big value of consequence. Most of the top firms as well as latest ones are willing to reach their targets. The most excellent way of having a good quality market is to get the top rank on the major search engines. Here comes the need of search engine optimization services.

Every website owners want a good rank of their website on the search engines, but unfortunately some of websites get a good rank in appropriate keyword. If the sites are not listed or if they don’t get a good ranking in search engines search result, it refers that these websites are going to suffer failure in their online business. So if you are stay in Internet Market, you must need a good and reliable search engine optimization campaign for your site.

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SEO Processes: Search Engine Submission

2009-09-25T04:54:00.000-07:00

The web site has been designed, so what should you do next? Do you want to sit around hoping that it will be discovered by the web crawlers to find it, or should you take a more active approach? Given that the submission process is easy to do, why wait? This is probably one of the easiest things in the search engine optimisation process. You could use a site submittal service if you don’t want to do it. Several of these sites don’t charge any fees for this service.
Having your site included in each search engines web index really is worth the short amount of time it takes to accomplish it. What should you look for if you are going to do this SEO process yourself? It’s as simple as finding the submission page for each search engine you want to be included on.
The top three are listed below:
Yahoo!: siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit/
Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Windows Live Search: search/msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
It will take you a very short time to type the information and then you can devote your time to composing great search engine optimisation content for your web pages.
If you decide to go with one of the submittal services though it isn’t complicated either. Once you find the submittal service you want you will be instructed to enter your URL once. Then submit it to several search engines and directories. That’s all you have to do. The submittal service will handle the details that each search engine requires.
So if your website is ready to go you just need to choose which way you want to complete the submittal process. If you had a professional web designer they may handle this part of the SEO process for you. Either way, make sure this is one area that doesn’t get left out.

Back Link Cheker Tool

2009-05-08T10:41:00.001-07:00

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Google’s New Competitor Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Coming This May

2009-05-07T11:28:00.000-07:00

The long-expected Wolfram Alpha search engine is due to be launched this month. We are waiting for it anxiously as unfortunately we didn’t get the opportunity to test it, however, others did and it looks amazing. I will start with the fact that many said that this is the Google Killer, but in fact Wolfram Alpha is not a conventional search engine, it is more a computational knowledge engine which is based on ideas from Stephen Wolfram. Recently, Google launched its public data search, and not even that can be compared to Wolfram Alpha.

Don’t think of Wolfram Alpha as a Google Killer, though, because frankly Google doesn’t really have anything like it—except for maybe Google’s new public data search, which, while impressive, doesn’t look nearly as robust as Wolfram Alpha. (Then again, we’ll have to wait and see how well Wolfram Alpha works when it gets in the hands of the public.) Either way, Google will still corner the market on most normal search. (We’re not always looking for the kind of answers Wolfram Alpha provides when we hit up Google.) As for how this editor uses Google and Wikipedia, I’d actually imagine that Wolfram Alpha could be more of a Wikipedia competitor than a Google competitor.
The system, Wolfram Alpha, was developed by Stephen Wolfram (49), a British physicist, and showcased at Harvard University in the U.S. last week. “Revolutionary new web software could put giants such as Google in the shade,” the daily claimed. Although the system is still new, it has already attracted massive hype among technology pundits, it added.

“Wolfram Alpha will not only give a straight answer to questions such as ‘how high is Mount Everest?’ but it will also produce a neat page of related information — all properly sourced — such as geographical location and nearby towns, and other mountains, complete with graphs and charts,” it said. “Or ask what the weather was like in London on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, it will cross-check and provide the answer.”

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Easy Web Design Methods

2009-03-13T11:27:00.000-07:00

Nowadays, web design has become easier than ever. Compared to the old methods, now with the new various software available anyone can be a web designer. You would not even need to know HTML, as you can easily design websites with the new and powerful WYSIWYG editors. (What You See is What You Get- WYSIWYG)

A good and professional web design will help you communicate your ideas across more easily. This way people will be able to understand the products, services, and ideas that are presented to them. It is not too late to be a web builder as you can learn how to do it easily with the many new software available all over the Internet.

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Gmail down??? (Temporary Error 502)

2009-02-25T09:03:00.000-08:00

I m not able to access my gmail account for the last 5+ hours. This is what I see when I login into Gmail with my account :

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Temporary Error (502)

We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.

Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.

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However, my friends are able to login. Also I m able to login into other Google services!!!

Dear Google, 5+ hours is not temporary!!! Please solve the problem before I sue you!! [;)]

UPDATE:
I can access my GMail account now (1900 hours - after 9 hours!) Hope the
problem is solved for others too..
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Google Internet Bus Comes to India

2009-02-04T20:48:00.000-08:00

Internet Bus Project is an attempt educate people about what the Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the Internet experience to them through a customised Internet-enabled bus, which will travel to several towns and cities across India.

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White House email system crashes

2009-02-01T08:48:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK: Barack Obama's aides, who ran the most tech-savvy US election campaign in history, were forced into a red-faced admission on Monday -- the White House email system has crashed. "Our email system is not working so well," press spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters at the start of his daily briefing. "We'll endeavor to get you information from earlier in the day, hopefully in a little bit more of a timely manner, if we can get the email to work." At one stage, Obama aides were forced to turn back the clock and hand out copies of memoranda signed by the president on cutting global warming, not via email as is normal, but by the dead tree method, on paper.

`Outsourcing faces new era of scrutiny`

`27^th January 2009`

Adding to the sector's troubles are the massive corporate fraud uncovered recently at Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India's fourth largest software services provider. The scandal has Satyam customers scrambling to find alternative providers. Other offshore services providers report stepped-up scrutiny from clients of their own corporate governance and financial viability. It has also revived questions about the trustworthiness of Indian accounts and the adequacy of corporate controls. That's a big black eye for an industry that sells risk management and corporate governance services as a major client offering. It may raise the risk premium investors require for holding these stocks. Rising competition isn't the only threat to offshore outsourcers' margins. Many of the more profitable, longer-term contracts worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars are being put on hold as companies scramble to reassess their business strategies. Customers want more control over projects and are demanding fixed-price deals that are more likely than not to limit margin growth. Infosys, Tata and others say they are doing their best to make up for price cuts by driving greater sales volumes.

`Infosys confident can meet Q4 revenue view`

`28^th January 2009`

DAVOS: Infosys Technologies Inc is confident it can meet its fourth-quarter revenue target, Chief Operating Officer S D Shibulal said on Tuesday. "Given where we are today, we are confident that we can meet Q4 guidance," Shibulal said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Infosys said in early January that it expected to pull in revenue of $1.13 billion to $1.17 billion for the March quarter. Also on Tuesday, Shibulal said the Indian technology company does not expect it will need to tap the capital markets.

UK launches "Google for films" search engine 28^th January 2009 LONDON: Fancy checking out the classic 1960s Japanese horror flick "Onibaba", or indulging in a bit of old-fashioned British comedy with "The Lavender Hill Mob"? The UK Film Council is launching a search engine that will help British moviegoers track down their favourite films, from the mainstream to the obscure. The website is free to use and contains records of more than 30,000 films, or roughly seven years' worth of viewing, and they come in 20 genres and over 60 languages. "Like a Google for films, it is the first time anything like this has been delivered on the Internet that indexes all available films in the UK and is totally free to use," the council said in a statement.

Headstrong buys Lydian Data Services 28^th January 2009 NEW DELHI: Headstrong, the $200 million global financial services consulting firm, on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Lydian Data Services (LDS), headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The company will be closing one more buyout this year, the company's MD Harsh Singh Lohit told ET. Headstrong has a large presence in Noida with about 1600 employees and plans to hire another 350 for its mortgage BPO services division.

Nokia outsourcers its desktop maintenance and support to HCL 29^th Jan 2009

MUMBAI: Handset maker Nokia has outsourced its desktop maintenance and support in 76 countries to IT services firm HCL Technologies in a multi-million dollar contract spread over five years, starting this April. The deal also involves transfer of employees from Nokia. The contract will be serviced from HCL's centres in India, China, Po-land, Finland and US. It involves providing multi-lingual helpdesk services in 13 languages, creating and maintaining new user accounts, and workstation management and security. The value of the contract and the number of employees being transferred to HCL Technologies was not disclosed. The contract is being moved from Nokia's existing vendors. HCL said it had won the deal against competition from global and Indian players.

TCS leads race for Sony's $100-million outsourcing deal 30^th January 2009

BANGALORE: India’s largest software exporter TCS is leading the race to win an outsourcing contract worth $60-100 million from Sony, the Japanese electronics giant struggling under huge losses and a high cost operating structure. “As part of its attempts to reduce cost of managing IT operations, Sony is discussing a contract to manage its desktops and servers over 3-5 years,” a person familiar with the discussions told ET on condition of anonymity. While ET could not independently verify the details of this contract, at least two people familiar with the development confirmed that Sony is evaluating vendors. When contacted on Thursday, a TCS spokesperson said the company would not comment on specific customer contracts yet to be awarded.

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Attractive Web Designing to Catapult your Site

2009-01-28T22:18:00.000-08:00

In today’s tech savvy world it has become very important for the online business owners to have an effective and eye catching website with increased stickiness. This requires pragmatism and expertise in the fields of design, graphics, content writing and SEO. A good website is always the one that appeals to the viewers and at the same time is informative. Web designing is a process that creates a site and molds it according to the needs of the users. The style and graphics should be striking and pleasing to the eyes and be compatible with the web browser.

Why do you Need to Impress your Visitors by a Good Website Design?

Website that is a perfect combination of background colors, graphics and images will impress the visitors and have a lingering effect on them that is enough to make them stay hooked to the website. Designing such a website requires great efforts but the benefit lies in the fact that it targets the audience who can reap the harvest of a well designed site and transform into paying clients. The key to web design is chiefly to bring more profits to the company and a perfectly designed website that considers the needs of the visitors will definitely result in increased sales and returns.

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Benefits of Search Engine Optimization

2009-01-14T10:41:00.000-08:00

If you are planning to establish online presence for your businesses, the
first thing to do is to consult an SEO expert. The process of SEO starts
right from picking the domain name and this should be done with the help
of experts in order to rank well in search engines. Of the various methods
to drive traffic to your website, natural SEO or organic SEO traffic is by
far the best method that can churn out huge profits without having to
spend much.

While other forms of marketing can work if luck favors you, there is no
guarantee on ROI. Today most intelligent online entrepreneurs don’t mind
spending a few bucks to rank their websites naturally for competitive
keywords. This is a time-tested way to obtain regular and free targeted
traffic in the long run. Whereas, other forms of marketing require heavy
investments and could be suitable only for a short period. For instance,
it takes several months for an SEO expert to place your website naturally
on top of search engines for desired keywords. Paid listings or PPC
bidding methods will help you place your website on top for the bidden
keywords get you targeted traffic.

However, you need to pay for every click on your ad and this if not well
planned could be a disastrous one, ruining you financially. In organic
SEO, the expert optimizes every part of your website including design,
coding, titles, meta, urls, alt img tags, and the like to obtain top
position for desired keywords. While onpage SEO can assist your site to
rank high for keywords, offpage SEO will also obtain you a good traffic
through the backlinks.

Apart from getting you high traffic from the backlinks, offpage SEO can
increase your PageRank too with the number of relevant backlinks. Natural
SEO is also the best method through which a number of potential customers
can reach you. The authenticity of your site is determined with its
natural ranking ability. Statistics reveal that conversion rates of
naturally ranking websites are far higher than those that use paid
listings and other marketing techniques. High conversion rate again
attracts affiliates and thus increase your sales in multi-folds within a
short period.

A few other advantages of natural or organic SEO include a lot of savings
on money and time. It requires only minimum effort to maintain your
websites rank in search engines. However, you should not forget that SEO
is an ongoing process and if neglected your website will lose its position
to competitors. This is why it’s worth spending a few bucks to retain your
position in search engines.

Although SEO is comparatively an easy job for quick learners, it requires
some sort of dexterity to handle sensitive issues. An experienced SEO
expert or a team can do the job with ease and relieve you of your burdens
so that you can concentrate on your core businesses. It is not a bad idea
to try your SEO skills by hosting an informative website or a blog before
you could try them on your commercial sites. You should not forget that
there are no set rules that could be followed and experts with their
experience are able to only guess some of the secrets to attain top ranks.

A Brief Introduction Into TCP/IP

2009-01-05T10:31:00.000-08:00

Many people may not know what TCP/IP is nor what its effect is on the Internet. The fact is, without TCP/IP there would be no Internet. And it is because of the American military that the Internet exists.During the days of the cold war, the defense department was interested in developing a means of electronic communication which could survive an attack by being able to re-route itself around any failed section of the network.They began a research project designed to connect many different networks, and many different types of hardware from various vendors. Thus was the birth of the Internet (sorta). In reality, they were forced to connect different types of hardware from various vendors because the different branches of the military used different hardware. Some used IBM, while others used Unisys or DEC.

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) were the protocols they developed. The first Internet was a success because it delivered a few basic services that everyone needed: file transfer, electronic mail, and remote login to name a few. A user could also use the "Internet" across a very large number of client and server systems.
As with other communications protocols, TCP/IP is composed of layers. Each layer has it's own responsibility:

IP is responsible for moving data from computer to computer. IP forwards each packet based on a four-byte destination address (the IP number). IP uses gateways to help move data from point "a" to point "b". Early gateways were responsible for finding routes for IP to follow.

TCP is responsible for ensuring correct delivery of data from computer to computer. Because data can be lost in the network, TCP adds support to detect errors or lost data and to trigger retransmission until the data is correctly and completely received.

How TCP/IP works

Computers are first connected to their Local Area Network (LAN). TCP/IP shares the LAN with other systems such as file servers, web servers and so on. The hardware connects via a network connection that has it's own hard coded unique address – called a MAC (Media Access Control) address. The client is either assigned an address, or requests one from a server. Once the client has an address they can communicate, via IP, to the other clients on the network. As mentioned above, IP is used to send the data, while TCP verifies that it is sent correctly.

When a client wishes to connect to another computer outside the LAN, they generally go through a computer called a Gateway (mentioned above). The gateway's job is to find and store routes to destinations. It does this through a series of broadcast messages sent to other gateways and servers nearest to it. They in turn could broadcast for a route. This procedure continues until a computer somewhere says "Oh yeah, I know how to get there." This information is then relayed to the first gateway that now has a route the client can use.
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Google’s 101 tips, tricks and hacks

2008-12-29T18:58:00.000-08:00

1. The best way to begin searching harder with Google is by clicking the Advanced Searchlink.

2. This lets you search for exact phrases, “all these words”, or one of the specified keywords by entering search terms into the appropriate box.

3. You can also define how many results you want on the page, what language and what file type you’re looking for, all with menus.

4. Advanced Search lets you type in a Top Level Domain (like .co.uk) in the “Search within site of domain” box to restrict results.

5. And you can click the “Date, usage rights, numeric range and more” link to access more advanced features.

6. Save time – most of these advanced features are also available in Google’s front page search box, as command line parameters.

7. Google’s main search invisibly combines search terms with the Boolean construct “AND”. When you enter smoke fire – it looks for smoke AND fire.

8. To make Google search for smoke or fire, just type smoke OR fire

9. Instead of OR you can type the | symbol, like this: smoke | fire

10. Boolean connectors like AND and OR are case sensitive. They must be upper case.

11. Search for a specific term, then one keyword OR another by grouping them with parentheses, like this: water (smoke OR fire)

12. To look for phrases, put them in quotes: “there’s no smoke without fire”

13. Synonym search looks for words that mean similar things. Use the tilde symbol before your keyword, like this: ~eggplant

14. Exclude specific key words with the minus operator. new pram -ebay excludes all results from eBay.

15. Common words, like I, and, then and if are ignored by Google. These are called “stop words”.

16. The plus operator makes sure stop words are included. Like: fish +and chips

17. If a stop word is included in a phrase between quote marks as a phrase, the word is searched for.

18. You can also ask Google to fill in a blank. Try: Christopher Columbus discovered *

19. Search for a numerical range using the numrange operator. For example, search for Sony TV between Â£300 and Â£500 with the string Sony TV Â£300..Â£500

20. Google recognises 13 main file types through advanced search, including all Microsoft Office Document types, Lotus, PostScript, Shockwave Flash and plain text files.

21. Search for any filetype directly using the modifier filetype:[filetype extension]. For example: soccer filetype:pdf

22. Exclude entire file types, using the same Boolean syntax we used to exclude key words earlier: rugby -filetype:doc

23, In fact, you can combine any Boolean search operators, as long as your syntax is correct. An example: “sausage and mash” -onions filetype:doc

24. Google has some very powerful, hidden search parameters, too. For example “intitle” only searches page titles. Try intitle:herbs

25. If you’re looking for files rather than pages – give index of as the intitle: parameter. It helps you find web and FTP directories.

26. The modifier inurl only searches the web address of a page: give inurl:spices a go.

27. Find live webcams by searching for: inurl:view/view.shtml

28. The modifier inanchor is very specific, only finding results in text used in page links.

29. Want to know how many links there are to a site? Try link:sitename – for example link:www.mozilla.org

30. Similarly, you can find pages that Google thinks are related in content, using the related: modifier. Use it like this: related:www.microsoft.com

31. The modifier info:site_name returns information about the specified page.

32. Alternatively, do a normal search then click the “Similar Pages” link next to a result.

33. Specify a site to search with the site: modifier – like this: search tips site:www.techradar.com

34. The above tip works with directory sites like www.dmoz.org and dynamically generated sites.

35. Access Google Directory – a database of handpicked and rated sites – at directory.google.com

36. The Boolean operators intitle and inurl work in Google directory, as does OR.

37. Use the site: modifier when searching Google Images, at images.google.com. For example: dvd recorder site:www.amazon.co.uk

38. Similar, using “site:.com” will only return results from .com domains.

39. Google News (news.google.com) has its own Boolean parameters. For example “intext” pulls terms from the body of a story.

40. If you use the operator “source:” in Google News, you can pick specific archives. For example: heather mills source:daily_mail

41. Using the “location:” filter enables you to return news from a chosen country. location:uk for example.

42. Similarly, Google Blogsearch (blogsearch.google.com) has its own syntax. You can search for a blog title, for example, using inblogtitle:

43. The general search engine can get very specific indeed. Try movie: to look for movie reviews.

44. The modifier film: works just as well!

45. Enter showtimes and Google will prompt you for your postcode. Enter it and it’ll tell you when and where local films are showing.

46. For a dedicated film search page, go to www.google.co.uk/movies

47. If you ticked “Remember this Location” when you searched for show times, the next time you can enter the name of a current film instead.

48. Google really likes movies. Try typing director: The Dark Knight into the main search box.

49. For cast lists, try cast: name_of_film

50. The modifier music: followed by a band, song or album returns music reviews.

51. Try searching for weather London – you’ll get a full 4-day forecast.

52. There’s also a built-in dictionary. Try define: in the search box.

53. Google stores the content of old sites. You can search this cache direct with the syntax keyword cache:site_url

54. Alternatively, enter cache:site_url into Google’s search box to be taken direct to the stored site.

55. No calculator handy? Use Google’s built in features. Try typing 12*15 and hitting “Google Search”.

56. Google’s calculator converts measurements and understands natural language. Type in 14 stones in kilos, for example.

57. It does currency conversion too. Try 200 pounds in euros

58. If you know the currency code you can type 200 GBP in EUR instead for more reliable results.

59. And temperature! Just type: 98 f to c to convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade.

60. Want to know how clever Google really is? Type 2476 in roman numerals, then hit “Google Search”…

61. You can personalise your Google experience by creating a Google account. Go to www.google.com/account/ then click “Create Account”.

62. With a Google account there are lots more extras available. You’ll get a free Gmail email account for one…

63. With your Google account, you can also personalise your front page. Click “iGoogle” to add blog and site feeds.

64. Click “Add a Tab” in iGoogle to add custom tabs. Google automatically populates them with suitable site suggestions.

65. iGoogle allows you to theme your page too. Click “Select Theme” to change the default look.

66. Some iGoogle themes change with time…”Sweet Dreams” is a theme that turns from day to night as you browse.

67. Click “More” under “Try something new” to access a full list of Google sites and new features.

68. “Custom Search” enables you to create a branded Google search for your own site.

69. An active, useful service missing from the list is “Personalised Search” – but you can access it via www.google.com/psearch when you’re logged in.

70. This page lists searches you have recently made – and is divided into categories. Clicking “pause” stops Google from recording your history.

71. Click “Trends” to see the sites you visit most, the terms you enter most often and links you’ve clicked on!

72. Personalised Search also includes a bookmark facility – which enables you to save bookmarks online and access them from anywhere.

73. You can add bookmarks or access your bookmarks using the iGoogle Bookmarks gadget.

74. Did you know you can search within your returned results? Scroll down to the bottom of the search results page to find the link.

75. Search locally by appending your postcode to the end of query. For example Indian food BA1 2BW finds restaurants in Bath, with addresses and phone numbers!

76. Looking for a map? Just add map to the end of your query, like this: Leeds map

77. Google finds images just as easily and lists them at the top, when you add image to the end of your search.

78. Google Image Search recognises faces… add &imgtype=face to the end of the returned URL in the location bar, then hit enter to filter out pictures that aren’t people.

79. Keeping an eye on stocks? Type stocks: followed by market ticker for the company and Google returns the data from Google Finance.

80. Enter the carrier and flight number in Google’s main search box to return flight tracking information.

81. What time is it? Find out anywhere by typing time then the name of a place.

82. You may have noticed Google suggests alternate spellings for search terms – that’s the built in spell checker!

83. You can invoke the spell checker directly by using spell: followed by your keyword.

84. Click “I’m Feeling Lucky” to be taken straight to the first page Google finds for your keyword.

85. Enter a statistics-based query like population of Britain into Google, and it will show you the answer at the top of its results.

86. If your search has none-English results, click “Translate this Page” to see it in English.

87. You can search foreign sites specifically by clicking “Language Tools”, then choosing which countries sites to translate your query to.

88. Other features on the language tools page include a translator for blocks of text you can type or cut and paste.

89. There’s also a box that you can enter a direct URL into, translating to the chosen language.

90. Near the language tools link, you’ll see the “Search Preferences”. This handy page is full of secret functionality.

91. You can specify which languages Google returns results in, ticking as many (or few) boxes as you like.

92. Google’s Safe Search protects you from explicit sexual content. You can choose to filter results more stringently or switch it off completely.

93. Google’s default of 10 results a page can be increased to up to 100 in Search Preferences, too.

94. You can also set Google to open your search results in a new window.

95. Want to see what others are searching for or improve your page rank? Go to www.google.com/zeitgeist

96. Another useful, experimental search can be found at www.google.com/trends – where you can find the hottest search terms.

97. To compare the performance of two or more terms, enter them into the trends search box separated by commas.

98. Fancy searching Google in Klingon? Go to www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon

99. Perhaps the Swedish chef from the muppets is your role model instead? Check www.google.com/intl/xx-bork

100. Type answer to life, the universe and everything into Google. You may be surprised by the result…

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Google Holiday Doodle Happy Holidays Logos Through The Years

2008-12-22T19:25:00.000-08:00

I love the Google Doodles and Special Holiday Logos that Google produces throughout the year. This Google Doodle was designed to wish everyone a Happy Holiday! Below is a look at some of the Google Holiday Doodles from years past.

Troubleshooting Windows Defender in Vista.

2008-12-16T23:49:00.001-08:00

Cannot Update Windows Defender !?

If you ever encounter an error code (e.g. "error code 0x80240029 - cannot update" which btw is the most common one), when updating Defender, here is a solution which will help you. This usually happens if the distribution database is broken and needs to be re-created.

Here are the solutions to address the issue :
1) As far as Vista goes (don't know if this applies to XP) you can do this by clicking start > all programs > windows updates> change settings > uncheck Automatic Updates, Uncheck Recommended Updates and uncheck use Microsoft Update Service. This will switch from Microsoft Update back to using Windows Update.
Reboot. If it works for you fine; you can now reset the update settings to as they were earlier.

2) I also came across this download from Microsoft (Vista/XP). This actually FORCES defender to update !

3) To manually update Windows Defender visit Microsofts Malware Protection Center for instructions.

4) Lastly if none work, there is another way you can try this:

Boot into safe mode. Find the folder named Software Distribution.

Rename SoftwareDistribution to SoftwareDistribution.old OR Delete all its contents (FLUSH it !) Reboot. Now try to update the Defender (at this point a new SoftwareDistribution folder will be created if you have renamed it).

Additional help can always be found at Microsofts Windows Defender HelpGroup .

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Advance Internet Marketing and SEO Technique

2008-12-03T02:48:00.000-08:00

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How to hiding icons on the bottom of your screen?

2008-11-09T01:19:00.000-08:00

By using this tip you can hide the useless icons on the bottom of your system screen (right end of the taskbar). Because some of the icons will useful for you on system tray area but may be others list of icons not useful for you so you can hide all extra icon very easily. Many programs that run in the background on your computer but you are not using regularly such as antivirus software, volume controller, backup applications. The system tray can get cluttered with useless icon, so you may not wants to display them on the tray.

To hide those icons that you do not use regularly, follow these steps.

First of all right-click on the windows taskbar and choose Properties.

You choose to hide the program’s Icon, when it is inactive, to always hide the icon, or to always show it.

Select the option you want and click on OK button, then again click on OK button to finish the process.

Under Current Items area, select the program that you want to change the behavior. On the right of the program name a drop-down menu appears for example "Always hide, Always show and Hide when inactive".

Now again a new dialog box will appear with title "Customize Notifications".
Here a new dialog box will appear with title "Taskbar and start Menu Properties" and then click on "Customize…"button that appears on lower right portion.
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Press Releases - Helping Raise Business

2008-10-19T04:37:00.000-07:00

It has been noticed that businesses, whether small or big, puts in huge amounts trying to find ways to get best publicity for their organization and its achievements. Publicity is nowadays widely considered in company’s budgets to enhance profits.

Reaching to your customers has become more essential, and intricate. There are many methods available on net to publicize and market your business, but one of the cheapest methods is to use online press release websites, as many of these offers free of cost or low-cost PR options.

With online press release one can simply reach the targeted online community. PR web-sites offers article submission database of free content and reprint articles. Publishers, who are in quest of free reprint articles and the business community, who wants to shoot their business, make the best use of this significant resource to enhance their marketing weapon.

Here are ten effectual tips to write well drafted press release.

1. Starting should be solid: Your title and initial lines should cover, what you want to convey. The remaining part of your press release should depict the detailed information.

2. Draft it for journalists & media agencies: The journalists receive thousand of press releases on daily basis. The media agencies and journalists would grab your press release and only if, with slight editing or no alteration.

3. Consider addressee’s Interest: The audience’s interest consideration is most important to be keeping in mind that if you were a part of audience, would you be interested like to read the press release, you have written.

4. Make it appear practical: Point out real facts of your company or organization, as people are also intellectual enough to make out what is true and what is not? Present information on product and services in what they are interested.

5. Tie the story with real facts: Don’t put bluff and add-ons. If you find the content using much added extras, make it natural and real. If content seems too good to be true, turn down the tone little, as it may possibly hurt your own credibility.

6. Use only necessary words: Don’t use extra adjectives, extravagant language, or unnecessary expressions like “The most powerful”. Describe your story with lesser words, as verbosity distracts from your content.

7. Avoid using jargon: Limited use of jargon could be allowed, if you aim to optimize news release for search engines. The finest technique to communicate your press release is to speak neatly, using regular language.

8. Avoid exclamation: The use of exclamation point (!) may hurt your press release. But, if you have to use an exclamation point, use only one.

9. Company permit: Companies are very defensive about their name and credibility. Get written permission before putting in an information or quotes from officials or associates of other companies/organizations.

10. Company Information: The press release should conclude with a short description of your company, which illustrates your company, products, service and a brief history of company. But if you are making a combined press release of two or more then two then you should, provide information of all the companies.

Writing quality press releases is a process that requires immense skill and experience, as every single word of a press release may be examined. This is why many companies hire public relation firms for official press releases and other media contacts.

Inaccurate or poorly drafted information in an official press release can be a point to slicing a company or organization’s credit.

SEO is an essential part of Internet Marketing

2008-10-08T05:20:00.000-07:00

SEO also known as search engine optimization is an essential part of Internet marketing, my reasons for this are that SEO allows you to advertise directly to your target audience. There are no middle men, no sites in between just you and your target audience.

So why not perform SEO?

If you don't have a clue about how to optimize your website and increase its popularity in the search engines then i can understand why at first glance you would pass up the opportunity to gain an increase in traffic and for most of this increase to be targeted.
But think again, if someone was to ask you if you wanted 90% or more targeted traffic straight to your website? You wouldn't turn around and say no, so why miss this opportunity. Although i do realise SEO is not the easiest form of increasing traffic it can be one of the best long term marketing strategies you can use, and with such targeted traffic you just can't say no.
SEO has two different forms on page SEO and off page SEO, as you can probably imagine on page SEO is the optimizing that you perform on your website, where as off page SEO is the optimizing you perform externally. These can be things like link building and the different strategies used for link building.

Here are some on page factors to consider optimising:
Title tag: Add your keywords that your focusing on in this tag Meta Tags: Add your keywords again here, making sure the description is easy to read, eye catching and makes people want to click.
Body: Content: You want to add your keywords to your bodies content, make it readable. Write for your users not the search engines.

Want to Know about Google Blogger?

2008-10-01T05:43:00.000-07:00

Google Blogger is one of the easiest and most complete blogging solutions currently available on the Internet. Anyone can sign up and start blogging in a manner of minutes with the easy to navigate interface and tools it provides. But, there are a lot of things you probably don't know about Blogger, hidden within the more advanced features of the site. These clever add-ons make it easier and more fun to post to your blog each day and can give you a slight edge over your fellow bloggers in drawing new traffic. Google Blogger is one of the easiest and most complete blogging solutions currently available on the Internet. Anyone can sign up and start blogging in a manner of minutes with the easy to navigate interface and tools it provides. But, there are a lot of things you probably don't know about Blogger, hidden within the more advanced features of the site. These clever add-ons make it easier and more fun to post to your blog each day and can give you a slight edge over your fellow bloggers in drawing new traffic. No Bandwidth or Storage Limits In a world where storage has become incredibly cheap and video super sites are the norm, it makes sense that Blogger would not instill any limits on your website for storage. In addition though, Blogger makes it so you can receive as much traffic as you are capable of generating. No matter how much content you post and how many visitors you draw,
Blogger remains free for the life of your blog and that's a great deal considering how many features are built in. Free Catch Support for Anti-Spam Spam is a major problem, especially for bloggers.If you talk to anyone who owns a private blog on their own server, or even those individuals with blogs on other services, you will learn that they constantly receive large quantities of spam. Blogger, by default, is built with spam detection and blocking device that can keep your blog from getting over run by unwanted spam comments. You can not only turn on the CAPTCHA software that requires a code to be entered whenever someone makes a comment; you can also require logins to Blogger to post comments or put commenting in a separate window so that spammers with automated software are tripped up. All of these options are available from Blogger's settings pages.
Blog by Email and SMS By far one of the coolest additions to blogging in recent years, Blogger allows you to post blog messages from a cell phone or email inbox. From the settings menu of Blogger, you can set a specialized email address that will post anything you email to it directly to your blog.This allows you to make blog posts from a smart phone or via a work or school computer on which Blogger might be locked. SMS features allow similar functionality, posting remotely to your blog. Post in HTML you can get very creative with your posts if you desire and post directly in HTML. Most people choose to use the built in text editor in Blogger, but what few people realize is that they can change almost any feature on the page by using the HTML editor. This allows you to use different colors, change font sizes, insert tables, or use a template for posts from a third party website. The possibilities are endless. Themes and Skins When you sign up for Blogger, you are asked to select the visual depiction of your blog using a specific template. However, you can change this template any time you want by installing a new one.
Located across dozens of websites are templates that allow you to change the color, number of columns, location of posts, and any number of visual features on your blog.
Do a quick search on Google for "Blogger Templates" and you will find hundreds waiting to be used. Google Tool Integration Google operates countless services for webmasters and that includes some of the most useful ones for bloggers. AdSense integrates directly into Blogger through a simple to select Blogger option in the Template menu. Simply click on "Add new page element" and choose AdSense and you can add your AdSense account to your page. Other great tools offered by Google include Analytics, which allows you to track the visitors to your website, including where they came from, what keywords they searched for, what pages they viewed, and dozens of other statistic. Webmaster Tools is another essential tool that Google operates that allows you to track how your blog appears in the search engines.
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Search Engine Optimisation

Major Search Engine's Spider or Crawler Name

2008-08-29T04:59:00.000-07:00

A crawler is a program of search engines which visit on the web pages automatically to read, store and index them; whatever on the web pages. Its another name are web spider, web robot, ants, bots, worms etc. but here I am talking about the name of major search engines spider. Below is the list -

Search Engines -- Spiders or Crawler Name

Google -- Googlebot

Yahoo -- Yahoo Slurp

MSN -- MSNbot

Ask -- Teoma

Excite -- Architext spider

Inktomi.com -- Slurp

Alexa -- ia_archiver

Altavista -- Scooter

Lycus -- Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex)

Cuil -- Twiceler (New Search Engine)

Looksmart -- MantraAgent

These are the name of major search engines crawler.
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Internet Tubes

2008-07-30T10:28:00.001-07:00

The Internet was probably one of the fastest growing inventions of all times. People of all ages access the Internet on a daily basis for numerous reasons. The Internet can be a source of income, it can be a method of communication, it can be the fastest way of staying informed or it can be the means for having fun and interacting with people from all over the world.

Of all the reasons for using the Internet, having fun and communicating with other people are the top ones. Since 2005 these two methods have improved considerably due to a new concept, called video sharing. Youtube had a huge impact with this concept and millions of people access the site daily. Due to this enormous success, the concept of video sharing has been adopted by many other web sites, including porn tube.

Unregistered users can watch video clips for free as long as they desire. Youporn is a concept adapted from youtube and created especially for porn videos. The videos are categorized according to their contents, so people can easily find what they are looking for. Searching for the video a friend had recommended, looking at the top rated videos or looking at new videos is much easier due to porn tube. The web site hosts thousands of videos to choose from, so instead of searching web page after web page, you can simply watch youporn and get everything that you have wished for.

Video sharing allows people to find everything they are looking for on a single web site. Moreover, on Youtube, for example, if you register, you can also upload videos or comment on the videos you watch. So you can communicate with people and have a lot of fun at the same time. You can make your opinions known and enjoy some of the most interesting videos at the same time. A porn tube gives you the opportunity to watch some of the most amazing videos without having to browse thousands of web sites. Moreover, youporn is free, so you will know that once you have found the video you were looking for, you can watch it without having to pay any money.

Porn tube also allows you to interact with gorgeous men and women through web cams. If you are lonely and need somebody to talk to, you can use live web cams free of charge. You can also request private shows and have a lot of fun without having to leave the comfort of your home.

Porn tube videos are categorized by content. You just have to know what you would like to see and, in just a few minutes, thousands of videos on that topic will be available to you. Moreover, if you only have one thought in mind, you can search for the video you think you would like to see. Youporn is a great alternative to porn movies, because it is free, you have unlimited options and you do not have to waste precious time in order to watch the videos.

Buying Text Links

2008-07-12T06:21:00.000-07:00

Buying text links. It's all the rage.
Is it evil? Is it good? Will it help your search engine rankings? Will it get you banned? Will it increase your PageRank? Will it increase your link popularity? Will it bring targeted traffic to your site? Should you do it? Should you hire a broker to do it?
These are the questions on webmasters' and search marketers' minds. What follows is my take on buying text links.

There's nothing wrong with purchasing an ad on a website that links back to your website. Advertising your site is good. Advertising it on popular sites where your target market hangs out is even better. After all, the name of the game is to bring in targeted traffic. Your advertisements on other people's sites are none of the search engines' business and will not get your site banned or penalized. They will not hurt your site in any way. How you market your site is completely up to you, and you don't need to worry about the search engines if you decide to purchase text link ads.

So what's the big deal?

Here's where it gets tricky. A good portion of ads that are bought on websites are not purchased for the targeted traffic they will bring, but as an attempt to artificially inflate the link popularity of the site being advertised. No big news to you, I'm sure, and no big news to the search engines. Since having a popular site can often help with natural search engine rankings, people have been looking for cheap and efficient ways to boost their site's popularity for years.

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do -- but so do search engines.

To the search engines, a link is supposed to mean that someone found a site useful and wanted to tell others about it. This may very well have been true at one point in time many, many years ago. But today a link could mean something completely different. A link might be a simple trade between webmasters, or an ad, or even a vote *against* another site. With no way for a search engine to really know the intent of a link, things have really gotten complicated for them.

Ads used to have tracking links so that webmasters could measure their return on investment; however, today's text linkers often prefer to keep the tracking codes off because their web analytics software no longer needs them. And besides, if you're going to buy an ad, you might as well get the possible link popularity credit that comes with it. That's more likely to happen with a plain old, stripped-down href link.

Unfortunately, this is wreaking havoc with search engine algorithms. On the one hand, they know it's not their place to tell people whether they should or should not advertise on other sites -- especially since most of the engines are advertising companies in their own right. On the other hand, without any way to figure out which links are truly a vote for a site, and which are simply a paid ad, the relevancy of the search results for any given keyword phrase can be skewed towards those who are willing to put their money where their mouth is.

The good news for search engines (and I guess the bad news for link brokers) is that most text link ads and the sites that sell them tend to leave noticeable "footprints" behind in the code. It would be no trouble at all for a search engine to do a little digging into what the latest footprints are, seek out all pages that have them, and simply not allow them to pass any link popularity. This is not a penalty, mind you. It would just be a way for the search engines to count only votes and not ads. Your ads would still be worthwhile for the exposure and direct traffic they bring, but not for providing you with link popularity. So although your site wouldn't technically be penalized, its rankings could drop if it was dependent upon the link popularity of paid links.

For those of you who don't believe the search engines can or would do this, you obviously haven't been paying attention over the years. What do you think every major update at Google has been about? They haven't been specifically about purchased link ads, but they have been about finding a subset of pages that all have similar characteristics and no longer allowing them to count the way they used to count towards rankings. Which means every page using the technique in question suddenly finds their rankings have dropped like a rock.

It's not a matter of *if* this will happen with paid text link ads, but *when*. It could be next week, next month, or next year. Regardless of when the engines decide to lower the boom, you can bet we're going to hear a lot of crying in the forums about it! For now, if you're buying text link ads, or have been thinking about it, I wouldn't really worry about it. Just make a mental note to yourself that whatever boost to your rankings they may provide now could vanish at any time. It's no big deal if you're getting real traffic from your ads, or if you're simply using them to jumpstart your SEO campaign. It's going to be a problem only if your livelihood depends on buying or selling text link ads to boost link popularity.

Adsence For Search

2008-07-02T03:37:00.000-07:00

Google Alerts – Enroll for Google Alerts & Stay Ahead from others

2008-06-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

Google Alerts – Enroll for Google Alerts & Stay Ahead from others

Most of you must be aware of Google Alerts. Google Alerts is service that lets you receive email notifications when new web sites appear in the top results for your query. You can get alerts for results from web search, blog search, Google Videos, Google News & Google Groups.

Important Note: This blog post is for those who have not given a shot or tried, one the most powerful service offered by Google for online users. Google Alerts helps you to stay ahead from your competitors in mining the latest news across various Google channels as mentioned above.

I would say Google Alerts is very useful service for every one, if you explore it in effective way to get relevant results.

The greatest advantage of enrolling for Google alerts is that:
* Keep eye on your competitors, keeping current on a competitor or industry
* Track what people are saying about your business by monitoring them.
* Google alerts let’s you updated by keeping tabs on important industry news or discussions.
* Get information about recent and important events or topics of your interests and many more….

Now you must be interested in knowing “How to create Google Alerts” – As like all other Google services, getting alerts is very simpler.

All you need is to visit Google Alerts Login Page and follow step by step instructions written as below:-

Screenshot of Google Alerts Login Page:

First Tab - “Search Terms” --> Enter your search terms out here that you want to follow.

For example: I am using Google Alerts to know on which Website/Blogs my name is been published, so I have given Search Terms – Afzal Khan, Afzee, Toprankseo (within “Quotes” to get the exact results) and few other combination of my blog name and key terms which I want to track.

Second Tab – “Type” -->It shows following drop down option. You can set your key phrases to get alerts from below channels (news search, blog search, web search, video & Google groups).

If you want to receive alerts, which combine the results from all Channels, select for “Comprehensive” which is also called as Universal Alert.
1. News
2. Blogs
3. Web
4. Video
5. Groups
6. Comprehensive

Third Tab – “How Often” --> There are 3 types of alerts, depending on how often you want to receive alerts, you can opt for any of them: -

1. As It Happens – instant alert.
2. Once a Day
3. Once a Week

Fourth Tab – “Your Email” --> Enter your email id where you wish to receive alerts.

Click on Create Alert and you are all set to receive latest alerts. You can also manage all these alerts and can edit the properties as per your requirements. Note that Google's alerts only include the top results sorted by relevance.

You will receive alerts like this in your mailbox.

So now you are familiar with Google Alerts & its effectiveness. Want to explore more, visit Digital Inspiration Blog for more Google Alert Tips, which I found very useful.

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The Long-Tail of SEO for Blogs

2008-05-26T12:23:00.000-07:00

Blogs are a Google favorite. By now, they’re also an internet marketers’ favorite. Blogs have the ability of reaching high Google rankings faster and for a wider variety of keywords, thus covering a wider range of audience. As the internet grows, so do the numbers of niches. how can you utilize that?

SEO for a blog conjures up the first grade, for me. Remember when you were reading a story and asked to decide what the main idea was? What’s the meat and what’s insignificant? This is the gist of SEO for blogs. To show you how simple it is, here’s a step-by-step guide:

Step-by-Step Guide to SEO for Blogs
1. Decide what you want to write about and make it your temporary title. (e.g. “World War II Bombers’)
2. Make a list of the things you want to write about. These are your subtitles. (e.g. what’s a bomber, the importance of the bomber in WWII for the US army, who were famous bomber pilots, etc. )
3. Fill in the content under each subtitle.
4. Now that you’ve finished your article, you might have already noticed that the title could be more specific. Reread what you wrote, see if there are any words that repeat a lot. In our example, the words WWII and bombers probably repeat a lot. Check for the order of the words, you typically used in the article. Was Bomber before WWII? Did you use the phrase “World War II”, “World War 2”, “World War Two”, “WWII”, “WW2”? Whichever one you used, it should be in the title.
5. Change your subtitles as you did for your titles.
6. This is the step, where we go back in time to grade school. When typing in your tags, you should scan your article from top to bottom, searching for the most commonly used phrases. These common phrases should also be relevant phrases. If it’s common but irrelevant, you may be found on Google, but your potential reader will click out immediately.

Ok, you’ve separated the meat from the bones. Now it’s time to chew on the bone, for all it’s worth:

Know your Long-Tail
The quick-rotation aspect of blogs (which Google is a sucker for) allows you to concentrate on long-tail keywords. Everybody’s looking for “WWII Aircraft”, but there’s a huge amount of people looking for sub niches of that phrase. These people are looking for specific models, pilots, war heroes…. These sub-niches are divided to hundreds of names (like “P-16 Black Widow”, for example). These names are your long-tail phrases.

Why would you want to concentrate on long-tail? Say you’re a WWII Aircraft blog. My guess is that someone searching Google on this subject will look for the phrase “WWII aircrafts”. Do you know what this person will find? 237,00 results! That’s what! (as of writing this article.) That’s your competition.

It’s All About Market Segmentation
This is a tip for everyone, not just bloggers. If your market consists of 237,000 competitors, you must segment your market again! If your a blog is an American aircraft specialist you can go after the aircraft “WWII Aircraft” niche, but you’ll have better success in the “WWII American Aircraft” niche, which has “only” 210,000.

Ok, I know what you’re thinking: “I still have 210,000 competitors!” This is where the blog comes in: Because a blog can include so much text information, you can focus each article on a different key-phrase. Your blog is now the “ WWII American Aircraft” blog. Each article focuses on a specific model. Each article is tagged with a few of the blog’s title keywords (“WWII”, “American”, “Aircraft”, etc.) and also its specific relevant keywords (“P-16 Black Widow”, “F4F-3S Wild Fish” etc.), which are the long-tail phrases. There are many people, out there, searching for “WWII American Aircraft”, but there is also a huge number of people searching for “P-16 Black Widow”, “F4F-3S Wild Fish” and the likes. With a blog, you can cover both groups.

Microsoft could still snag Yahoo, experts say

2008-05-07T01:08:00.000-07:00

That's a prevailing sentiment among Wall Street stock analysts and Internet advertising experts following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's withdrawal of the software giant's sweetened $47.5 billion offer to acquire Yahoo.

The unfolding of that scenario assumes angry Yahoo shareholders file lawsuits against CEO Jerry Yang for not accepting Ballmer's offer, and that Yahoo's recovery plan stalls out.

Ballmer could plausibly return a few months from now with a similar - or even a lower - bid for Yahoo. Venture capitalist Todd Dagres of Spark Capital calls it the crocodile strategy.

"Instead of trying to swallow Yahoo while it's still thrashing about, you let the stock drop and let the shareholders get good and nervous," says Dagres. "In essence, you drag Yahoo to the bottom of the river, stick it under a rock and eat it later, when it's cold and soft."

Ballmer declined an interview request. However, on Saturday he issued a memo to Microsoft employees signaling that he will no longer pursue Yahoo, and instead will focus on internal growth of the company's numerous online initiatives.

"We are 100% focused on executing this strategy, and we have made good progress in a very short time," Ballmer wrote to employees.

Yet, Microsoft's pivotal weakness remains as glaring as ever. Despite pouring billions into its MSN and Live.com Internet properties, the company has been unable to win more than 9% of Internet search queries. Google (GOOG) dominates the all-important search query market with a 60% share, followed by Yahoo's 21%, according to measurement firm ComScore.

Search queries are like gold to advertisers. The words you type into a search box clue them into what you're thinking about buying. Acquiring Yahoo would have given Microsoft a 31% share of search queries - and instantly put it within striking distance of Google.

But Yang's holdout for a higher price gave Microsoft executives time to thoroughly hash out the proposed merger with subordinates, many of whom came from Yahoo. Senior managers had months to dwell on how difficult the blending of two tech giants with disparate cultures would be, says Kevin Lee, executive chairman of Didit.com, a search advertising consultancy.

"It is extremely difficult to integrate and innovate simultaneously," says Lee. "And Microsoft already has several integrations underway."

Internet advertising analyst Shar VanBoskirk at Forrester Research says "the astronomical price" Yang tried but failed to get from Ballmer can now support "a lot of internal research and development" at Microsoft.

Ballmer still clearly wants to supplant Yahoo as a strong No. 2 in search queries as quickly as possible. "Now, they just have to do this without Yahoo," says VanBoskirk. "And after going through the soap opera of the last three months, I think Ballmer might be a bit relieved."

However, the spotlight now reverts to questions about Microsoft's inability to grow its share of the search query market internally.

At least some of the billions Ballmer was willing to spend on a recalcitrant partner can now be directed at more aggressive plans to get folks to regularly use MSN and Live.com search.

"Investments will likely be across multiple fronts, such as product development and marketing and promotions," says Sid Parakh, tech stocks analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen.

The software giant could additionally seek alliances with other players who command notable shares of the search query pie, such as AOL, Ask.com or eBay, says Didit.com's Lee. And it should do something about what it calls its search engine, he says.

"Microsoft needs loyal searchers on either MSN or Live.com," says Lee. "Both are poor brand choices, in my opinion. Microsoft needs a search brand name that can become a verb in order for people to refer to a search there. You can Google someone, you could even potentially Yahoo someone, but you can't Live or MS someone."

Microsoft shares closed Monday at $29.08, down 16 cents.

Blog Tips - Five Ways To Make Money

2008-04-13T11:59:00.000-07:00

There are many easy ways to make money from your blog. In this article, we'll cover just five of them. Since blogs have become mainstream, new opportunities to monetize your blog are becoming available every day.

Don't have a blog? Then you're missing out on an easy income stream. Many people are turning their blog - or a stable of blogs - into a profitable home business.

So let's look at five easy ways you can make money by blogging.

1. Sell advertising

Since blogs are content Web sites, they can be monetized in much the same way as print publications, with advertising.

When you sell advertising on your blog, your blogging becomes a matter of developing and leasing real estate. Just as in a magazine, the more pages your blog has, the more advertising you can display. So if you choose this form of blog monetization, your primary focus needs to be on creating pages (writing blog posts), on which you can display advertising.

There are many Web advertising services which will sell the space on your blog for you, but you can also sell the space yourself.

2. Sell a product

Another popular income stream is to sell a product from a blog. If you're only selling a single product, your blog can be smaller than one on which you sell advertising.

Affiliate marketers, who sell products and services on commission, create small blogs of around five pages (posts) to sell a particular product.

Blogs are perfect venues for affiliate marketers because they're fast to create, and get indexed quickly. This means that you can start getting free traffic from the search engines and make sales within days.

For this way of making money blogging, your focus is on creating many blogs, each selling one product.

3. Sell a service

If you're selling a service - you're a writer, designer, or Web developer, a blog is an ideal venue on which to sell those services. However, as the popular Tin Basher blog, (it sells sheet metal fabrication) shows, you can sell any business or service from a blog.

4. Blog for others

If you enjoy blogging, you can blog for others. Many businesses want to create and maintain a blog, but they don't have the staff to do this in-house, so they hire professional bloggers.

There are many "blog job" sites online which display listings of blog jobs, and blog jobs are often advertised on the Web's huge job hunting sites too.

Of course, you can also advertise your availability to blog for others on your own blog.

5. Create and sell blogs

Blog "flipping", that is, creating blogs strictly for the purpose of selling them, has become popular over the past year. Many people want a blog, but don't want to go through the hassle of creating one for themselves, so blog flippers create blogs to sell them.

If you're interested in flipping, you can create several blogs in a week, and sell them all. This is a great way of making money blogging.

So there you have five ways of making money blogging. Blogs are a perfect home business, because there's little or no capital outlay or startup costs. I wish you much success with your blogs.