Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Google Analytics - Summit 2013 - what's next?

How people navigate through your website? How many people visit your site? What drives web traffic? Which page is more popular? Google Analytics can help with all your queries. Here's a video from Web Listings Inc of Google Analytics - Summit 2013. Take a look!

Friday, October 18, 2013

Twitter: who visits it the most?

Twitter Facts and Figures

Here, are details about Twitter country-wise visits. The US tops the chart preceding India and other countries.



Twitter - Monthly Active Users


Monthly Visits - Quarter 3



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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

TOP Search Engines, Browsers and OS

Graphical representation from Web Listings Inc: Top browsers, Operating Systems and Search Engines, from September 2012-September 2013. (Source: StatCounter)

Graphical representation from Web Listings Inc - Top 5 Browsers (Sep 2012-Sep 2013)

Graphical representation from Web Listings Inc - Top 5 Search Engines (Sep 2012-Sep 2013)

Graphical representation from Web Listings Inc - Top 7 Operating Systems (Sep 2012-Sep 2013)

Monday, September 16, 2013

‘Babylon and Ask’ to share advertising revenues

What’s your question? Has Babylon joined hands with Ask.com?

Yes, for better business prospects - Babylon (free translator and dictionary) joined hands with Ask.com. This partnership guarantees better search engine web searches for the Internet users.

Babylon ltd signed a cooperation agreement with Ask. Media sources report this is short-term agreement for 3 months and Babylon will evaluate possibilities and decide about the long-term agreement, later.

Under the agreement, both parties will share the online advertising revenue.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Spokeo - to find and locate someone...

Founded by a group of Stanford graduates in 2006 – SPOKEO is not new to many. Be it - a person’s name, email address, phone number, username or physical address, SPOKEO makes it easier to locate just anyone, with a click of the button.

Recently, it launched a new search feature for Smartphones, to refresh the look and feel. It introduced first mobile web product in 2010.

Affiliated to various social networks and email services providers, Spokeo has been helping many with people search features. Its mobile users are on the rise.

Testimonials and success stories on the site vouch for the site reliability. What does everyone wait for – why not find/locate someone through Spokeo, right now?

Stay tuned for search engine news and updates.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Baidu’ Qunar with plans of US IPO

The travel site Qunar.com of Chinese search engine (Baidu) prepares for a US Initial Public Offering.

As per the latest media news report, Qunar is in discussion with Goldman Sachs [Investment banking company] and Deutsche Bank [the global banking and financial services company] for sale.

For a majority stake in Qunar, the Chinese search engine Baidu paid about $306 million in 2011 to capture the mobile travel app market.

Qunar generates revenue mostly through advertising. The CEO Zhuang Chenchao said the company expects to double sales, this year to about $163 million.

The company even prepares for a recruitment drive and will hire many software engineers, corroborates the CEO.

Monday, September 9, 2013

If Google killed the Reader, then is back with Google Alerts - RSS Feed option

If the search engine giant Google disappointed many after discontinuation of Google web feed reader service in July 2013, then it is back with feed delivery option [added] to Google Alerts.

Now, everyone can receive web alerts through RSS, once again. Google introduced RSS support in Alerts, in October 2008 which disappeared in July 2013.

People worried about possible alternatives of Google Reader can now breathe a sigh of relief.

The Internet users can log into Google Alerts and create new entries to receive RSS feeds - news, blog, videos etc.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Google Plus over Facebook: which is more popular?

Never did Facebook – the social networking service provider know that Google will pitch Google Plus against its social networking site and win the Internet customers over.

Founded in 2004 by Mark, Eduardo, Andrew, Dustin and Chris - Facebook as of September 2012 (about a year ago) had over 1 billion active users. Of them, many were fake users [suggest media reports]? Facebook serves the global audience, including ‘under aged kids’ that normally violate the site’s terms of service.

One may want to know, which is more popular: Facebook that launched in 2004 or Google Plus which hit the Internet market two years ago, in 2011.

Just two weeks after the launch, Google Plus reported about 10 million active users and its user base continue to grow than that of Facebook.

Be it blog hosting service, social information processing, networking sites or other products/services of Google – everything with the ‘Google’ label sells like a hotcake.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

[Image] Google Auto Complete – Questions that need to be addressed

Here is something 'interesting' about the 'Auto complete/word completion' attribute of Google. The general text-editor feature helps the Internet users with search queries, as and when someone types/writes something to search.

The auto complete feature helps to improve the computer-human interaction and provides better and faster results. Let us look through a few questions found in Google Auto complete (Courtesy: Matt Cutts).

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Questions found in Google Autocomplete

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Report not only SPAM but even recommend quality sites to Google

Why people only report or have tales or information about ‘spam websites’?

If Google asked the Internet community to report spam websites/links after Penguin 2.0 algorithm update, then it again requests everyone to suggest websites that deserve to be ranked on search engines.

Here’s the feedback form to recommend SMALL quality websites that [users think] could do better on search engines.

Small Website Survey


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Thursday, August 22, 2013

What ‘Google’ Matt Cutts proposes for Gmail account security?

Hackers are on the prowl. What preventive measures your business has taken to secure your Gmail account?

Let us see, what the Google Web-spam team head suggested one of his friends to secure the Gmail account. (Courtesy: Matt Cutts Google)

Matt Cutts on Gmail Account Security -

Matt Cutts of Google on Gmail Account Security after a possible hack

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Wonder why search engine ranking took a toll? Perhaps Google took a manual spam action

Not sure, whether your site is still in the Google Index? Perform a site search on Google with your website details (e.g. site:domain.com). If the site does not show up, this indicates that your website gets prohibited for breach of Google webmaster guidelines.

In a case, Google prohibited a website, businesses can request for ‘reconsideration’ after necessary corrections and updates (in accordance with rules and principles of Google) on their website.

After the latest Penguin 2.0 algorithm update, Google has started taking SEVERE actions against all SPAM links on the web, to keep the search engine a ‘less polluted’ and a ‘friendlier’ place for the Internet users.

If your website used to rank earlier and the rankings dropped all of a sudden after the Penguin update, then this is a ‘warning sign’ that Google took manual spam action against your website.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Google Matt Cutts video on Meta Tags

Meta tags to optimize your website for Internet search engines: to own a website is not enough, but to be seen and found out by people should be your primary concern.

This educational video from Matt Cutts (of Google) will help readers comprehend - how much time one should give to Meta tags and the ones that matter.



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Friday, August 2, 2013

Link schemes that Google detests and can land your online business in trouble

Know, what all can negatively impact your online business? Here are a few SEO tips from Web Listings Inc to alert businesses that practice unethical way to improve search engine ranking:
  • Do not sell or buy links to increase Page Rank. This includes exchange of money to post or include content that contain links.
  • Say no to excessive link exchange (cross-linking) programs with intent to create a win-win situation, for both parties.
  • Keep away from automated programs and services and the use of keyword-rich anchor text links during article marketing or guest blog post promotions.
Google forbids sites that manipulate links (incoming/outgoing) by any means. Beware!

Friday, July 26, 2013

Blog and forum comments for participation and to establish connection

‘Blog comments’ - how effective are these for search engine page rankings?

Comments, notes on blogs and articles of others, feedback, opinions and reviews do help to establish a relationship with the writer. We can consider this an online ‘trust building exercise’.

The Internet domain is not different from the real-life world, where ‘real communication’ and social relationships matter the most. To create or run a weblog (along with a website) will be a better idea for businesses to stay connected with people.

No wonder, for online success – business enterprises not just maintain websites but also ‘blog pages’, to drive web-traffic through different sources and means.

Why not blog regularly and stay connected with the customer segment, in a better manner?

Some say their blog comments take time for approval (comment moderation). The reasons are obvious – SPAM. Google web-spam team may chase your sites. Thus, try to avoid spam posts/comments by all means and keep search engines less polluted.

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Inclusion of Sitemaps to help search engines decipher the website structure

It takes efforts to maintain online business in the competitive marketplace. People often ask us why Google does not index their website or slow to file/register their website in its directory.

Google is an automated search engine - and one does not require ‘manually’ submitting their websites to it. Try to include Sitemaps (an XML file/Extensible Markup Language) that help Google crawlers/robots to visit and index your website URL.

Google does not guarantee that the search engine will list all website URLs. Inclusion of Sitemaps helps to make spiders/crawlers comprehend the website structure.

In case after a site or URL modification/changes, one can update Google webmaster by submission of their website through the following, to ask the search engine crawl your page/website:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url

Friday, July 19, 2013

Old sites rank, even without dedicated SEO?

What to do if older sites rank, irrespective of any dedicated SEO efforts on it? The problem is not new to various online marketing companies that handle different client portfolios.

After Google Penguin 2.0 updates, web-page rankings of many websites took a toll. Some that ranked on Page 1 moved to oblivion. Some online businesses could not even save their businesses, even with organic SEO tactics (including fresh and quality content, long tail keywords etc).

On the other, there are many who did not focus much on SEO, but their websites rank high on Google search engine. One may wonder what to do in such cases – when old sites rank, out of the blue?

In such cases, one needs to: play safe. It is not advisable to tinker with the URL, by any means, except for change in look and feel of the website. Ascertain the site load time. A thought to change the URL structure at this point can be harmful.

In case one wants to change the URL, create 301 redirects to newer URLs/pages.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Social Media and Network Sites – Participation does help

With loads of players in the competitive business market, everyone wants to know tips and secrets to help their online business rank high on different search engines.

If some try a free business listing, then others seek web SEO companies to increase traffic on the website. Every strategy works, but campaigns need to be executed in a proper manner.

People often ask how social media and networking sites help one in SEO. Yes, it does help. Membership/active participation in various social media and networking sites (like Facebook, Twitter etc) would help to: spread the message across, to build trust and generate traffic from various sources.

Facebook even has an option [on site], which lets users promote their pages and get more LIKES on a daily basis by PAYMENT. Some may even wonder if this is an acceptable method to boost rankings on search engines.

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Is your website down? What about Google page ranking?

Is your website down due to any of the following reasons: browser related issues or DNS (Domain Name System) problems?

Have queries about your website, which was down for a day and doubt if it would affect your search engine rankings? The video (courtesy: Matt Cutts) should be of help. Take a look.



Monday, July 8, 2013

Yahoo with a strong market grip after many acquisitions

After MileWise.com, GoPollGo.com and PlayerScale.com in May 2013, Yahoo declared its intention to acquire Tumblr, the very month.

David Karp established Tumblr (micro-blogging site) in February 2007. On 20th June 2013, Yahoo completed the acquisition of Tumblr.

Innovation takes center-stage of Yahoo, this year. Under the leadership of Marissa, the California based technology company continues to do wonders by coming up with novel ideas for business growth and development.

After getting hold of Tumblr, Yahoo even expanded business in La Vista and filled in new positions at work.

Yahoo acquired the New York based Qwiki and San Francisco based Xobni, this July. Stay tuned for technology news and updates.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Google, occupied with Android Game Console

A top search engineer from Google feels strict EU regulations would harm innovation and affect the Internet search industry.

The grapevine is that the always innovative and resourceful Google is working on an Android game console, which would hit the market soon.

Google even plans to come up with the next generation Nexus Q (media streaming entertainment device).

The first-generation Nexus Q released on 27th June 2012. Hang around for Nexus Q sequel - time to see, if Google will recover from the past failure.

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Yandex browser goes mobile

The Russian Internet company launched Yandex browser for mobile gadgets. Be it web searches or images - now, everyone with an iPad or Android Smartphones can look for things online, through their touch-screen devices.

The browser takes into consideration particulars of mobile Internet and helps everyone find quick and relevant results, suited to different search queries.

If small screens of mobile devices are drawbacks for many, then Yandex browser solves this problem by supporting with a voice search feature.

On Yandex mobile browsers, one can even navigate through favorites and frequently visited websites, at ease.

Mobile phone users can load Yandex browser through Google Play, Yandex and App Stores. Downloads available for iPad - iOS5 and higher and Android Smartphones - 4.0 and higher versions.

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Wavii is already in, and Waze is in the pipeline

After Wavii, Google is on the chase again – and this time after Waze.

The California based company acquired Wavii on 30th April 2013. Mergers and Acquisitions are not anything new to Google as the company gets its hands on just about everything.

This time, Google is after Waze Mobile, an Israeli software company, which is into mobile-route planning software.

The Google-Waze deal is worth about $1.03 billion. Industry sources say Google may finalize the deal any time next week.

Even Facebook was in the race, to acquire Waze. Let us wait and see.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Natural link building after Google Penguin 2.0

After Penguin 2.0 updates, everyone feels – link exchange is a BAD idea.

Link building online (virtual bonds) or real-life bonding with human beings works the same way.

As the adage goes - A person is KNOWN by the company he keeps. The concept is nothing different with Google and websites that link from one to the other.

One should build up links with websites that are relevant to one’s website. A wrong company or inappropriate website (with spam) will be of no use to anyone.

Google is not in opposition to natural link building, but SPAM websites. To solicit links through payment to increase page rank is illegal, and Google web-spam team may argue and take action against such websites.

On the other, if websites provide relevant content to the Internet users, and have natural inbound links from others (without any payment) then Google should have no problem with websites.

Matt and the web-spam team of Google are after unnatural and paid links. What do readers think about it?

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Google Penguin 2.0 is out, to chase SPAMMERS

Google rolled out the latest Penguin 2.0 version on 22nd May 2013.

The web-spam team Head, Matt Cutts, said through the blog that this is not a data-refresh, but an algorithm update.

With the Penguin web spam algorithm, Matt looks forward to making Google a SPAM-FREE portal for the Internet users.

Now, everyone can report spam websites to Google, through the following form: Penguin Spam Report.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Google Play Music All Access to compete Xbox Music, Spotify and others

Google is here with music subscription service (‘Radio without rules’) to give a tough time to Xbox Music, Spotify, Pandora, Rdio and many others.

The US users will be the first to benefit from this service of Google, and listen to millions of musical tracks, through their tech-gadgets.

After a free trial for a month, users will have to pay $9.99 to utilize this service. A discounted service is available for the early adopters.

Some say, Google Play Music All Access will not be ‘game changer’ thing or be able to leave a mass impact on people as there are other key players around.

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Google Penguin 2.0 updates in a few weeks, says Matt

The head of web spam team at Google, Matt Cutts, gives a hint about Penguin updates, through his Twitter post.

In the next few weeks, Google plans to roll out Penguin 2.0 version, to ward off SPAMMERS from its search engine page results.

When some rejoice over the Next Generation of Penguin, there are some who may want to re-examine their website content and online marketing strategies.

First Penguin update was on 24th April 2012. The second Penguin version came on 25th May 2012, and the third was on 5th October 2012.

After this data, some may wonder, whether this would be Penguin 2.0 or Penguin 4 updates, from Google.

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Friday, May 3, 2013

The explorer edition of Google Glasses

Google glass had been making headlines on media, and finally some have their first pair of project glasses.

The explorer edition models cost some $1500. It was time for them to try, what’s so remarkable about Google’s futuristic glasses. Unlike usual spectacles, Google glasses have a digital lens on the right, attached to the frame.

Google feels everyone is right-eye dominant. One may have to cope with the right-sided lens pair (of Glasses) as Google does not have any plans at present for the left-sided pair.

One can take photos with the 5-megapixel camera attached with the Glasses, through the touch-sensitive right arm or voice commands.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Google to axe Meebo, for other projects

Every business is here to make profits and it is no wonder that Google has decided to close one more service, which did not generate much interest in people.

After Google Reader, this time Meebo is in the ‘line of fire’. Google plans to shut down Meebo bar publishing tool on 6th June, 2013.

The JavaScript plug-in let the visitors chat with friends and share content on the social network.

The word is that Google wants to focus ONLY on key projects that could help the company generate more profit.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Know search engine basics, prior an SEO campaign

Every company with an online presence should understand the importance of SEO, for success in business.

Whenever a user visits Google or other search engine, one has a goal to find something relevant and useful. Website owners should try to understand the purpose of the user, to be able to deliver quality content.

Businesses should try to understand - page results, search engine algorithm, ranking system, and know how any Internet user scans the results page, or what web-pages most of them click on, and why.

One should have a clear SEO objective, and should do thorough research prior any Internet marketing strategy.

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Monday, April 1, 2013

What does the Title say?

A well-written TITLE tag is essential for SEO. A title or headline is the first thing that anyone finds about a page, on search engine page results.

One should include keywords relevant to the company’s products and services at the beginning of the title tag. Character limits for the title differ for different search engines.

Try to keep the title tag short (64 characters or less), which should be EASY TO UNDERSTAND. A title tag helps the search engine to determine the webpage content, and a well-written title will help one’s website position better on search engine page results.

Besides, with zillions of websites around with similar products/services, the Internet users look for information, relevant to their searches. Hence, the title should not confuse readers.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Relevance is the objective of Google

Unlike before, today the search-engine algorithms are not easy to interpret.

Earlier people used to include keywords here and there on the web page, and that helped with search engines, then. Today, the situation has changed. The search engine giant Google no longer tolerates keyword spamming by any means, to improve web-page ranking.

Today, the mantra for online success is: relevance and quality. The search algorithms of Google evaluate websites on relevance of information. Whether title, or inward links, the algorithm assesses everything to determine the value of the website/page.

Daily millions of people use Google for different searches and queries. More people use Google than any other search engine (Bing, Yahoo, Ask and AOL). Thus, for targeted web-traffic, one should never ignore Google guidelines.

For high conversion rate, the landing page should have relevant and high quality information. Please assess the landing page of your website. Is it relevant for the Internet users?

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Understand the audience, prior to SEO campaign

How People search and what they search on the Internet does matter. No wonder, search engine optimization requires a lot of patience.

It is essential to understand search engine results and analyze web-page ranking factors. One needs to set SEO objective, find the niche and determine the website audience prior any campaign.

Businesses should try to understand the purpose of a site visitor, and aim to provide fresh and relevant content pertaining to their needs.

Whatever be the case - branding, sales, lead generation, direct marketing or online reputation management, a good SEO strategy can help one’s online business.

Hence, identify business competitors and understand market trends, before making an SEO strategy for online marketing campaigns.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Google Reader (2005-2013)

For Google Reader users, it is time to say good bye to the web feed reader.

Because of declining usage, Google has taken this decision to close Google Reader on July 1st 2013. The web feed reader grew in popularity after the launch on October 2005.

The Internet users which relied on Google Reader, for news and information may now have to look for alternatives.

The latest is the New York based social news website (Digg) plans for a Google Reader replacement.

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Monday, January 21, 2013

SEO takes time to get results

In this IT era, search engine optimization is essential for everyone with an online business. Most often people say – SEO is not working for them, no matter how hard they try to improve search results, on Google or other search engines.

It takes time, and one should have enough patience for real SEO results. For targeted search engine traffic, one should consider submitting website to different business directories of high page ranking.

Rather buying links to improve search results, one should follow ethical SEO link building techniques. Some may think directory submission is a time consuming thought, but high quality web directories help in effective search optimization, and better page ranking.

Every business directory is different, and one should not stick to any standard approach, everywhere. Try to understand unique characteristics of every web directory, prior submitting any business website.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Search Engine Friendly URLS

Poorly designed websites can never help anybody, in this era of Internet.

One should provide enough importance to the design of the URL. Search engine friendly URLs play a vital role in web-page ranking as a search engine spider may overlook or fail to index a badly-designed URL.

404 Page Not Found error message is quite common, but not every user may grasp the technical jargon. Hence, the site should either have a search box, or a link to the home page, or a site-map to help out the user, for not getting lost anywhere.

During a 404 page error, never automatically redirect the Internet user to any other page, to avoid confusion.

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Friday, January 4, 2013

SEO white hat techniques

What about refining search terms, with two-to-five-words in a phrase? Confused? We talk about long tail keywords for the SEO campaign.

Long tail (highly specific) keywords draw less but QUALITY traffic than generic keywords, which draw high but not always quality web traffic.

For people that think about keyword stuffing - a method for search engine ranking and page visibility should note that it is no longer a successful tactic, and an unethical practice.

Practice ethical SEO methods only, and avoid unnecessarily stuffing keywords or hiding text from the visitors, by making it invisible or setting in an image background.

Work on RIGHT keywords (most effective ones) related to the product/service one offers, to engage the customers, for long.

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