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A Parameterless Search Could Be Coming Soon

The future for search means looking at a world in which no parameters exist. Yes, I said it.

Thanks to a really handy, cool guy who loves to read patents, and also happens to love SEO, we've learned of a new Google patent that looks at the feasibility of parameterless search. Really what the patent comes down to is that context is king. 

To even think about search existing without parameters, we have to look at what type of information would need to available. Google would need to understand the context and intent of the information that might be most desirable to the user at that time. To do, it would need to have access to:

• date and time
• location
• calendar
• contacts
• weather
• search history
• apps 
• favorite websites
• high engagement in social media
• the list can go on and on

To retrieve this type of context, Google would have to have access to something very personal to receive the correct data. Enter: mobile device. As referenced in the patent, Google refers to "receiving a parameterless search request, which was provided to a mobile computing device".

As Bill Slawski suggests, here is how a parameterless search may work:

For instance, imagine being driven to work at 50mph, and you shake your phone. It tells you that there's congestion ahead, and offers an alternative route. Or it shows you a map with color-coded traffic information for different streets nearby according to traffic conditions. Or, you may have an appointment with a client made by email and included on your calendar, and you want to find and check the email to make sure that you have the right phone number. It could show the number and offer to make the call on your behalf. If you regularly take a train at around 8:00 am on weekday mornings, shaking your phone at 7:50 am might trigger a realtime schedule for the rails.

It may be mind boggling, but this isn't too far off in the future. From looking at the patent, I think the hardest thing for Google is going to be capturing the ability to measure or determine a user's intent. To do so, Google will need much more information about a user, which beacons privacy issues. Whether or not privacy becomes more of a hot topic, I'm sure Google has already figured out a lot of the dynamics behind a parameterless search since the patent was filled in August 2010.  

How to rank well without unique content?

A Not So SEO Friendly Text

You know that feeling when you’re looking to buy something online and you land on a category page of some online store listing products they offer in a nice little grid, and you’re scrolling down this grid looking at their products and then… BANG


SEO for Multilingual eCommerce Websites

During the last 5 years of doing SEO for eCommerce websites, I noticed that most store owners have a hard time with optimization for multiple languages. In this article I’ll try to explain some common misconceptions and tell you how to avoid 7 most common mistakes!


PageRank Split Experiment

One of the commonly circulated SEO theories is that links from pages with many outgoing links are not worth much. Dejan Labs team put this theory to a test in hope to find out what really happens.

The Experiment Setup

Number of domains involved: 3 (2 test domains referred to as “A” and “B” and a buffer domain used to bridge PageRank)
Test domain characteristics: Very similar domain format with slight variation.

Learn Google SEO Resources

Some Useful resources links from Google about SEO

1. Google Basic SEO Guide – Cheat Sheet –  Click Here to Download

2. Search Engien Optimization Started Guide by Google – Click Here to Download

3. Google’s SEO Guide and Terms - Click Here to Download

4. Google’s Webmaster Academy - Click Here to Download

5. Google Webmaster Tools - Click Here to Download

6. Google Trends - Click Here to Download

What is Schema.org in SEO

This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.
Many sites are generated from structured data, which is often stored in databases. When this data is formatted into HTML, it becomes very difficult to recover the original structured data. Many applications, especially search engines, can benefit greatly from direct access to this structured data. On-page markup enables search engines to understand the information on web pages and provide richer search results in order to make it easier for users to find relevant information on the web. Markup can also enable new tools and applications that make use of the structure.
A shared markup vocabulary makes it easier for webmasters to decide on a markup schema and get the maximum benefit for their efforts. So, in the spirit of sitemaps.org, search engines have come together to provide a shared collection of schemas that webmasters can use.  

Sourcing the Latest on the SEO Front

Ever, so often you come across SEO websites that promise a content library, newletters, videos, discounts on conference passes, and so on. There are also professional search engine optimization services providers who promise a realistic rise in your SERP ranking. My take on these websites and services is that if you can determine the authenticity of the website or the service, they can prove to be a very useful tool indeed.

Consider this: Search engines constantly keep changing their algorithms, which determine how a given website will be ranked. After the recent Panda updates, everyone in the world is either far less or far more confident that they know what is happening on the SEO front. People, especially companies’ in-house SEO professionals, need to keep abreast of these changes to the algorithms. In fact, they need to be aware of the direction in which these algorithmic changes are taking the online world.

For that purpose, they need to know about everything that’s going on in the area of search engine optimization. They also need to keep an eye on Google, the most advanced of all search engines. Websites dedicated exclusively to the publication of news on developments in SEO, Google’s algorithm updates, and search engine optimization best practices need to subscribe to the memberships available with authentic websites.

Remember, SEO is about making sure that your website is indexed (or included in the search results for the relevant keywords/key phrases) BEFORE the search engine indexes your competitor’s website. As any SEO professional will tell you, that is the whole reason why search engine optimization is such a major part ofInternet marketing. Unless you actively promote and keep enhancing your online presence, chances are your competition will emerge winner in the race for branding and commercial success.

You need to be well informed regarding the latest developments in SEO because website optimization is going to first affect the performance of your website and then that of your business overall. It would be an excellent idea if you decide to go in for memberships of websites that offer premium content on the latest in search engine optimization and Google’s algorithms. It would be even better to source professional help from a seasoned SEO professional.

Source Refered: Yahoo

Google Plus Rolls Out New Page Manager Dashboard!

Google Plus has set afloat new +Page manager which is visually better and has added functionality. The dashboard will also provide some basic statistics about the pages managed by a user.

You will find on the dashboard red notifications icon for quick access to Page activity, links to the page settings and profile and a link to manage the page managers. You can also know the number of followers on each page and when the last update made.

The old dashboard only displayed various pages managed by a user with a button for each. The looks were not very exciting as well.

Possibly Google Algorithm Update on 17 January 2013

Dear Webmaster, SEO Executives and Web Promotion Companies,

Bad news for Webmasters that it seems possibly Google has done an algorithm update on 17th January 2013. Alot of webmasters and SEO companies have seen that this update has affected their rankings badly.

By Webmasters review it seems that this was a major update which almost affected 1% of search queries. Interestingly their is no official update statement given by update till now for this Google Algorithm Update on 17th January 2013. The way it has affected search results in SERP, it could be either Google Panda or Google Penguin Update.

Do you see any change in your website or blog. Share your suggestion and feedback on this Google Algorithm Update.

Advanced SEO Tips for Blogs – 2013 Edition

Over the years, blogs or weblogs have proven its effectiveness as a marketing tool for individuals and brands when used to communicate ideas and information.

Two apparent reasons why this platform for content publishing and community building is so effective in business marketing are:

• Its capability to easily spread awareness through interactivity and audience engagement
• Its ability to influence consumers’ buying decisions.

As many experts say, your blog is the most important social media tool. Everything else that follows will just support and propagate the content that your blog has – and this includes SEO.

SEO is an important process in blogging. Given that new and targeted visitors, leads and potential customers to the blog can be easily generated through this channel.

Even though SEO is an important area, it should never interfere with how you write your content. Because search engines are all about improving the online experience of their users, so your SEO approach should do too.

There have been so many improvements and changes in Google’s search algorithms these past few years. Optimizing a blog for search has also progressed along these changes, in which a few new signals, factors and methodologies where augmented.

So in this post, I’ll be sharing 11 actionable tips that you can implement to improve your blog’s visibility on search results and performance in driving constant search-traffic this 2013.

How to Export Email Addresses of Facebook Friends Facebook

And Normally each facebook user have about 60-80 friends. For any reasons if you want to connect any of your friends without facebook you need his/her email address. and now in these day almost users hidden there email address, because each one want privacy. so, here is a little tutorial to export email addresses from facebook.
You should follow following steps:
Step 1. Log In Into your yahoo account.
Step 2. Click On contacts tab.
Step 3. Select Import contacts.
Step 4. Click on the Facebook link




Simply enter your Facebook information, once and then you will be asked for a confirmation page that will prompt you to have access to your personal information. Click on the Allow and then all your contacts will be imported on your Yahoo account. Once you have Import Your all your contacts into your yahoo account. This can be performed by going to the Contacts and then select Actions and finally click on Export All that will generate CSV file that can be used in a variety of applications.

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How To Send Free SMS From Gmail To Mobile Read More

There are lots of websites available on the internet like way2sms, 160by2, anonymous SMS sites and many more through which you can send free SMS. Now Google has also launched a new service to Send SMS from Gmail account. Learn Here How To Send Free SMS From Gmail To Mobile.  

How it works 

 1. From Gmail, click on Settings, and go to the Labs tab   
2. Scroll down until you see “Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat” and select Enable.  
3. Also enable the “SMS in Chat gadget” and then Save Changes   
4. You can send free texts to your friends in the US and many countries around  the world.

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How to send a SMS from Gmail

1. Log into your Gmail account. In the Send SMS box above Chat, enter the phone number you want to send a SMS to.   
2. In the dialog box, enter Contact name of the SMS recipient and check that  country and phone number are correct. 
    Then, click Save  
3. Type your message in the chat window and hit Enter.  
4. Your message will be sent to the phone number you entered.

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55 Quick SEO Tips

1. If you absolutely MUST use Java script drop down menus, image maps or image links, be sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.

2. Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.

3. If content is king, then links are queen. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link. Remember, if there is no good, logical reason for that site to link to you, you don’t want the link.

4. Don’t be obsessed with PageRank. It is just one isty bitsy part of the ranking algorithm. A site with lower PR can actually outrank one with a higher PR.

5. Be sure you have a unique, keyword focused Title tag on every page of your site. And, if you MUST have the name of your company in it, put it at the end. Unless you are a major brand name that is a household name, your business name will probably get few searches.

6. Fresh content can help improve your rankings. Add new, useful content to your pages on a regular basis. Content freshness adds relevancy to your site in the eyes of the search engines.

7. Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your target is “blue widgets” then link to “blue widgets” instead of a “Click here” link.

8. Focus on search phrases, not single keywords, and put your location in your text (“our Palm Springs store” not “our store”) to help you get found in local searches.

9. Don’t design your web site without considering SEO. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. Doing a retrofit on your shiny new Flash-based site after it is built won’t cut it. Spiders can crawl text, not Flash or images.

10. Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.

11. Check for canonicalization issues – www and non-www domains. Decide which you want to use and 301 redirect the other to it. In other words, if http://www.domain.com is your preference, then http://domain.com should redirect to it.

12. Check the link to your home page throughout your site. Is index.html appended to your domain name? If so, you’re splitting your links. Outside links go to http://www.domain.com and internal links go to http://www.domain.com/index.html.

Ditch the index.html or default.php or whatever the page is and always link back to your domain.

13. Frames, Flash and AJAX all share a common problem – you can’t link to a single page. It’s either all or nothing. Don’t use Frames at all and use Flash and AJAX sparingly for best SEO results.

14. Your URL file extension doesn’t matter. You can use .html, .htm, .asp, .php, etc. and it won’t make a difference as far as your SEO is concerned.

15. Got a new web site you want spidered? Submitting through Google’s regular submission form can take weeks. The quickest way to get your site spidered is by getting a link to it through another quality site.

16. If your site content doesn’t change often, your site needs a blog because search spiders like fresh text. Blog at least three time a week with good, fresh content to feed those little crawlers.

17. When link building, think quality, not quantity. One single, good, authoritative link can do a lot more for you than a dozen poor quality links, which can actually hurt you.

18. Search engines want natural language content. Don’t try to stuff your text with keywords. It won’t work. Search engines look at how many times a term is in your content and if it is abnormally high, will count this against you rather than for you.

19. Not only should your links use keyword anchor text, but the text around the links should also be related to your keywords. In other words, surround the link with descriptive text.

20. If you are on a shared server, do a blacklist check to be sure you’re not on a proxy with a spammer or banned site. Their negative notoriety could affect your own rankings.

21. Be aware that by using services that block domain ownership information when you register a domain, Google might see you as a potential spammer.

22. When optimizing your blog posts, optimize your post title tag independently from your blog title.

23. The bottom line in SEO is Text, Links, Popularity and Reputation.

24. Make sure your site is easy to use. This can influence your link building ability and popularity and, thus, your ranking.

25. Give link love, Get link love. Don’t be stingy with linking out. That will encourage others to link to you.

26. Search engines like unique content that is also quality content. There can be a difference between unique content and quality content. Make sure your content is both.

27. If you absolutely MUST have your main page as a splash page that is all Flash or one big image, place text and navigation links below the fold.

28. Some of your most valuable links might not appear in web sites at all but be in the form of e-mail communications such as newletters and zines.

29. You get NOTHING from paid links except a few clicks unless the links are embedded in body text and NOT obvious sponsored links.

30. Links from .edu domains are given nice weight by the search engines. Run a search for possible non-profit .edu sites that are looking for sponsors.

31. Give them something to talk about. Linkbaiting is simply good content.

32. Give each page a focus on a single keyword phrase. Don’t try to optimize the page for several keywords at once.

33. SEO is useless if you have a weak or non-existent call to action. Make sure your call to action is clear and present.

34. SEO is not a one-shot process. The search landscape changes daily, so expect to work on your optimization daily.

35. Cater to influential bloggers and authority sites who might link to you, your images, videos, podcasts, etc. or ask to reprint your content.

36. Get the owner or CEO blogging. It’s priceless! CEO influence on a blog is incredible as this is the VOICE of the company. Response from the owner to reader comments will cause your credibility to skyrocket!

37. Optimize the text in your RSS feed just like you should with your posts and web pages. Use descriptive, keyword rich text in your title and description.

38. Use captions with your images. As with newspaper photos, place keyword rich captions with your images.

39. Pay attention to the context surrounding your images. Images can rank based on text that surrounds them on the page. Pay attention to keyword text, headings, etc.

40. You’re better off letting your site pages be found naturally by the crawler. Good global navigation and linking will serve you much better than relying only on an XML Sitemap.

41. There are two ways to NOT see Google’s Personalized Search results:

(1) Log out of Google

(2) Append &pws=0 to the end of your search URL in the search bar

42. Links (especially deep links) from a high PageRank site are golden. High PR indicates high trust, so the back links will carry more weight.

43. Use absolute links. Not only will it make your on-site link navigation less prone to problems (like links to and from https pages), but if someone scrapes your content, you’ll get backlink juice out of it.

44. See if your hosting company offers “Sticky” forwarding when moving to a new domain. This allows temporary forwarding to the new domain from the old, retaining the new URL in the address bar so that users can gradually get used to the new URL.

45. Understand social marketing. It IS part of SEO. The more you understand about sites like Digg, Yelp, del.icio.us, Facebook, etc., the better you will be able to compete in search.

46. To get the best chance for your videos to be found by the crawlers, create a video sitemap and list it in your Google Webmaster Central account.

47. Videos that show up in Google blended search results don’t just come from YouTube. Be sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites like Metacafe, AOL, MSN and Yahoo to name a few.

48. Surround video content on your pages with keyword rich text. The search engines look at surrounding content to define the usefulness of the video for the query.

49. Use the words “image” or “picture” in your photo ALT descriptions and captions. A lot of searches are for a keyword plus one of those words.

50. Enable “Enhanced image search” in your Google Webmaster Central account. Images are a big part of the new blended search results, so allowing Google to find your photos will help your SEO efforts.

51. Add viral components to your web site or blog – reviews, sharing functions, ratings, visitor comments, etc.

52. Broaden your range of services to include video, podcasts, news, social content and so forth. SEO is not about 10 blue links anymore.

53. When considering a link purchase or exchange, check the cache date of the page where your link will be located in Google. Search for “cache:URL” where you substitute “URL” for the actual page. The newer the cache date the better. If the page isn’t there or the cache date is more than an month old, the page isn’t worth much.

54. If you have pages on your site that are very similar (you are concerned about duplicate content issues) and you want to be sure the correct one is included in the search engines, place the URL of your preferred page in your sitemaps.

55. Check your server headers. Search for “check server header” to find free online tools for this. You want to be sure your URLs report a “200 OK” status or “301 Moved Permanently ” for redirects. If the status shows anything else, check to be sure your URLs are set up properly and used consistently throughout your site.

Google Authorship Markup and How It Affects Your Blog

Google Authorship Markup and How It Affects Your Blog

Now is when you should be paying attention to the Google Authorship Markup and how it can help you.  Google is the top search engine, and having a more personal approach to your posts is how you are going to get more traffic, not to mention the results it will bring you as far as SEO goes.


The Google Authorship Markup and What It Is

So in 2011, Matt Cutts announced that Google would be attributing Google Authorship Markup to claimed and verified blog writers. Since that time the blogging has evolved to a better scope of writing.
The simple story of what the Google Authorship is comes in place of an image, usually the author of that particular post. This allows the reader to see a more personal approach to the blog owner. That’s the easiest way to explain it. A picture beside of your post.
For example, I usually write posts and articles that help newbie’s write better or get more traffic socially. Since I have written a lot of posts in these categories the content I have written has established me as a trusted author on these topics. Once people get to view a great post, and it actually helps them, the next time they see you, it will help them to recognize you. I don’t know if that’s a legitimate statistic or not, however, I have had people tell me that before.
So here is what my Google Authorship Markup looks like when you search for a post similar to this one.

Why Google Authorship Markup Is Important

Well, for one thing, you need to keep up with the rest of us. Keeping your blog up to date is a good thing and this can help you get noticed even more than before by doing this. Like I said before, people will start to recognize you when you do this. It gets your face out there and people will remember you when they see you commenting on someone else’s post or even on a social site! It basically gets you out there.
I’m no SEO genius, but of course having this helps your ranking as well.  As you will see, I did a search online about the CommentLuv Premium plugin and mine was the 5th post on page one.  It definitely has its perks when you verify your authorship.
To have the Google Authorship it actually forces you to be on a social site. You probably already know this, but the social site I’m talking about is called Google Plus, and it’s taking it’s users by storm.
People have reported friends and family members missing only to find out that they had holed themselves up in their room while on G+. It’s really addicting.
So in order to have this Authorship verified, you must have a Google Plus account.
The Steps For Google Authorship Markup
My good friend Ian has a great post about how to set up your Google Authorship, and its all the same anywhere you go. So I’ll just go ahead and show you the steps that you need to take in order to get your pretty little picture on the search engine!

Step #1- Make sure you’re on Google Plus
This is the whole point of this tutorial.  If you’re not on Google Plus, then you’re going to have a hard time getting this to work.

Step #2-Linking your website to your Google Plus account


Ian has a great tutorial for doing this for your Blogger account. The one I am fixing to show you is for WordPress users.

What you want to do is edit your Google+ account to show everyone where your website is. When you click “Edit” scroll down until you see “Contributor to” like this:

The very top one is the blog you are on.  You can use a keyword that you want to promote your site.  I don’t know if that helps, but it sure can’t hurt!
The next thing you will do is go to your WordPress blog click on Users->YourProfile and from there copy and paste your Google+ account URL in the box like so:


Step #3- Downloading the Google Authorship Markup plugin

This is pretty straightforward.  Just download the Google Author Info plugin and upload it to WordPress.  Once that is done, its a simple task of just clicking a button.  Here is the way I have mine set up.
Once you download and activate the plugin, go to Settings->Google Plus Author the very top question will be “Replace author link with the Google Profile URL?” You will click that tab to say yes.
Get Your Google Authorship Markup Started

This is really going to benefit you a lot. When you verify yourself and get this Google Authorship Markup stuff complete, you are on the road to a more successful blog, a blog that shows integrity and trust. People want and like to see your face. Give them what they want with this powerful way to distribute great content!