'The Day We Fight Back' Campaign - February 11th 2014

What was "The Day We Fight Back Campaign against Mass Surveillance" all about?

Here's what a few media giants think about NSA and mass surveillance. Take a look.

The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."
 - The New York Times

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The NSA collects the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else from fiber-optic cables "that carry much of the world's Internet and phone data."
 - Washington Post


We invite opinion from readers if they think 'mass surveillance is a violation of inalienable human rights'.

A sweet birthday for the Flickr team

Birthdays are times, when everyone gets a chance to start ‘new’. Join us to see, how Flickr celebrated its 10th Birthday.

Flickr turned 10 today! Happy Birthday!

Birthdays are time for reflection...! Best wishes to Flickr from the Web Listings Inc team. 

The Google Cast SDK

"Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK": http://t.co/54ftwVNFwZ
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) February 3, 2014

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The Holiday Storefront of today

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"The web has become the holiday storefront of today" - learning from our recent quarter.
— Nikesh Arora (@nikesharora) January 31, 2014

Nikesh Arora (Google - Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer)

SleepBot for better mornings @GooglePlay

Everyone heard a lot about GoogleBot – the web crawling bot/spider of Google. Now, what is this SleepBot all about? Join Web Listings Inc to GooglePlay store to explore it.

Sleep Bot - Sleep Cycle Alarm

Worried about link building and ranking in search engines?

Wonder – how search engines rank websites? Leave your link building worries aside for a while and try to build authority sites for the Internet community that people trust.

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Pubcon Vegas 2013 - Matt Cutts on Google Hummingbird and more

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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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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)

‘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.

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.

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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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

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.

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.

What do readers think about it? Join us for this forum.

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.

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.

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.

Watch this Web Listings Inc space for further updates.

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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