Search feature on website is the most important and crucial one and no one can search better than Google, even within your website. Google has made available custom Search engine option for all its AdSense accounts freely and it’s great option that every website owner must avail. Even if you don’t place AdSense ads on…
I stopped using Firefox sometime back when I accidentally upgraded to version 5.0 form 4.0.1 and regretted for several reasons. It was a minor upgrade from earlier version but it broke many add-ons as they were not compatible with many add-ons and Google Toolbar is also not available from Firefox ver 4 onward. So after…
Google Panda Update presumably initiated to target the Content Farms in the wake of J.C. Penny NY Times article to save the reputation of Google and the quality of its search results, it may have been in the pipeline anyway but that N.Y Times article incident did hasten it, but as the changes roll out,…
Here is what happened today! I got this dreadful Analytics profile deletion email notification from Google: Hello, We want to alert you that the Google Analytics account “Profile Name” has been deleted by “account email”. Please tell non-Administrative users of this account that the account has been deleted. Thank you for your cooperation. Sincerely, The…
Today, Google introduced Gmail Motion, Now you can control Gmail with your body A new way to communicate, Check it here, http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html I loved the “Start Messege” Gesture most. Come on Guys just try the Gmail Motion and then share how you feel about it. 🙂
The default WordPress search is not the best search result provider for WordPress posts. Fortunately, there are some very good alternatives such as Google Custom Search. I will show you how to use Google Custom Search to give your visitors a better experience when they search for blog posts on your website or blog. In…
Google announced late Thursday that they have launched a pretty big algorithmic update, most likely added another filter, which is targeted to improve Google SERPs. This update is quite important since it’s going to affect, according to Google, about 12% of all their search queries. Well, that’s big news and quite bad one for low…
The New York Times has an interesting article about white hat and some not so white hat SEO techniques The Dirty Little Secrets of Search . The NY Times article mentions that Matt Cutts had following to say when asked what Google was going to do about Paid Back Links issue: Matt Cutts noted, too,…
SEO usually is synonymous for “SEO for Google” and frankly if you optimize your website for Google, you’ll generally do well in most search engines but sometimes Bing won’t follow suit and you might miss out on some rankings which you could take with a little bit of more effort. I’m listing some of the…
Not that all SEOs were waiting for that to happen, and I never really believed in this theory anyway that putting Adsense Ads your pages and/or buying advertisement on Adwords will get you higher rankings or at least some favourable or preferred treatment in Google organic search results. That was never so and finally we…
Apart from implementing the absolutely necessary search engine optimization techniques on your website which will always be in vogue and should be starting point for any website launch from day 1, I’m listing some of the factors that in my view have lately come into equation and which, if taken care of, will eventually get…
After a long time, almost an year, Google finally updated the PageRank that you see in the Google Toolbar and it has been all good for all my websites, no disappointments and no heartaches, so far so good. Most of my websites and pages have got higher PRs or maintained the previous PR. Only one…
Google sent an email today to mark AdWords’ 10th birthday by thanking advertisers for advertising with Google with a personal ‘Thank you’ video to each Adwords advertiser. Seeing my domain show up in the story was completely unexpected and amazing. You can check here what I’m talking about. My Personalized Thank You Movie I think…
Installed Page Speed Firefox/Firebug Add-on and tested few of my websites today with this Add-on. It gave some very good suggestions to remove commented js and css code that I had never cared to remove before. It also suggested images optimization which I think is very good thing. Most web designers & developers never bother to check…