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Twitterfeed will be shutting its doors on October 31st, 2016

2016-10-19T02:08:00.000+05:30

Twitterfeed will be shutting on 31^st October 2016, please transition your account to another service before that date. Twitterfeeders, you’re gone!

Google Webmaster Has Launched an Awesome robots.txt Testing Tool

2014-07-17T00:19:00.001+05:30

Today Google webmaster has launched awesome robots.txt testing tool, update revealed by +John Mueller itself, I've noticed this update on +Google Webmasters .

You can find the updated testing tool in Webmaster Tools within the Crawl section:

Official GWT Blog Reference - http://goo.gl/r0BfaY

Need Instant traffic? Use StumbleUpon to Get the Instant Traffic on Your Site

2014-07-10T00:29:00.001+05:30

As many of them doesn’t receive much traffic on site or blog specially on new blog/site, recently I’ve done much R&D to get the instant traffic for my client site which is related to Legal, actually in Legal sector some of the verticals doesn’t have much scope to promote and get the free traffic specially organic, so towards this we’ve to depend on the referral traffic. However, finally I've tried with StumbleUpon and succeed.

Today I’ll explain you the method which I’ve used to get the instant traffic using StumbleUpon.

First, Signup at StumbleUpon and complete the profile via filling complete details, after completing profile select your area of interest which actually you’ve or related to the site or blog.

Now StumbleUpon have many ways to submit the post, like using directly submit button on the site or by installing StumbleBar for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and InternetExplorer, as well as StumbleUpon mobile applications for Android and iOS. Visit Download Page for more information, for me StumbleBar & Android application are good to start. Here I’ll explain which I’ve used to get the instant traffic.

Let's start the postings, but keep in mind that always don’t post your own links, first start with like, Stumble, follow with other posts and stumblers to get the good number of followers and likes.

Now it's time to verify the visits from Stumbleupon, open Google Analytics and check Real Time Traffic Sources, definitely you will see the views, in a single post you can see around 3-4 views, the traffic could be mix of referral, organic and direct sources and location would be USA. See the below screenshot.

Code Tricks- Tips and Tricks to invite all friends to a Facebook Event and Page

2013-11-28T19:03:00.002+05:30

Working and very efficient trick code!

Instructions:
1. Click Invite Friends on whatever you are inviting people to
2. In the dropdown next to the search box, click Search All Friends
3. Scroll ALL the way down until names stop loading (I found it easy to click the first name and then hold down the spacebar or Page Down button)
4.
For EVENTS Copy this code:
javascript:elms=document.getElementsByName("checkableitems[]");for (i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if (elms[i].type="checkbox" )elms[i].click()}

For PAGES Copy this code:
javascript:var inputs = document.getElementsByClassName('uiButton _1sm');
for(var i=0; i<inputs.length;i++) {
inputs[i].click();
}

For Chrome:
5. Press (CTRL+Shift+J) for WINDOWS or (Command+ Option+J) for MAC on your keyboard.

6. Paste the code into the box at the bottom and press enter (next to the blue ">")
7. For large friends list, this may utilize all your resources and will cause the page to freeze and be unresponsive. Just wait a few minutes until all the names get selected.

For Firefox:
5. Press (CTRL+Shift+K) for WINDOWS or (Command+Option+K) for MAC on your keyboard
6. Paste the code into the box at the bottom and press enter (next to the blue ">>").
7. For large friends list, this may utilize all your resources and will cause the page to freeze and be unresponsive. Just wait a few minutes until all the names get selected.

For Safari:
5. Go to Preferences - Advanced - check "Show Develop menu in menu bar" and close the preferences window.
6. Go to Develop - Show Error Console (or Command + Option + C)
5. Paste the code into the box at the bottom and press enter (next to the blue ">").

For Internet Explorer:
5. Press F12 on your keyboard
6. Click the "Console" tab
7. Paste the code into the box at the bottom and press enter.
8. For large friends list, this may utilize all your resources and will cause the page to freeze and be unresponsive. Just wait a few minutes until all the names get selected.

Emotional Google India Reunion Advertisement Video Goes Viral

2013-11-20T10:35:00.002+05:30

An emotional Advertisement video for Google India tells the story of two friends separated by the partitioning of Pakistan and India who are reunited by a few Google searches. It’s really awesome.

Google Webmaster Tools Search Query Reporting Bug Will Normal Soon

2013-10-02T00:10:00.000+05:30

John mueller confirmed that they are aware about this and expecting report to return to normal in the coming days” as Google’s Webmaster Tools search query reports has bug now.

The Google Webmaster tool stopped showing data on September 23rd. This came shortly after Google stopped passing virtually 100% of referrer data to webmasters. Google implied the bug was unrelated and promised to fix it soon.

I currently am able to see data from September 25th and going back, so this is a two day improvement from when the bug was first reported.

Finally Google Keyword Tool is no longer available, replaced with Keyword Planner.

2013-08-27T16:52:00.001+05:30

Google says that with Keyword Planner, we've combined the functionality of Keyword Tool and Traffic Estimator to make it easier to plan search campaigns. That's why Keyword Tool is no longer available.

https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool - No longer available

Reference: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3141229

Yatra.com’s offline site impacts Rs. 20 – 30 crore in sales

2013-08-12T23:44:00.000+05:30

Salman Khan’s stake company Yatra.com has forgotten to renew the domain registration. The domain name had been registered on August 9, 2000, and expired on August 9, 2013. Now it’s still showing offline for most of the ISP’s, Yatra.com official Facebook page claims that now they are back on reliance network and working on for other ISPs, according to travel industry expert Yatra.com shutdown could have cost to the company between Rs. 20 – 30 crore in sales. It’s total failure of technical team who ignored the email alert for same.

Initially I couldn’t believe it that Yatra.com has forgotten to renew the domain. It seemed that someone is behind the whole story that to create a nuisance to get free publicity as breaking news in Industry. Even now everyone is talking about same Including on social media sites also. Now it’s breaking news for industry. It was a good strategy to be in News but Now (12-Aug-2013, 11:30 PM, IST) Yatra.com is still offline. It’s total failure of technical team.

It was really unexpected as Yatra.com is a big Travel brand in India.

Google Confirms Panda Update 26 Is Rolling Out

2013-07-19T00:18:00.000+05:30

Today most of us have noticed that the Google Panda update was rolling out. seoroundtable.com and http://searchengineland.com has also confirmed that “Yes” it’s rolling out and probably done. Wherever most of them and I personally feel that it’s likely a positive recovery of not sure at all still confirmed officially by Google.

Google Penguin 2.0 Update is Live

2013-05-24T11:37:00.002+05:30

Google Penguin 2.0 Update is Live on May 22^nd 2013, update was announced by Matt Cutts. About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice world-wide. However based on Matt Cutts we don’t know exactly what changes has been made so far. This was the fourth Penguin-related launch by Google and we’re referring as Penguin 2.0 update so far. Matt Cutts added if there are spam sites that we’d like to report after Penguin. For more information on what SEOs should expect in the coming months, see the video that Matt Cutts recently released.

Now after two days it has been a noticeable drop in rankings, don't panic. Fortunately, there are several steps that can be taken to recover and get back on track.

Image Credit- BlogMarketingBook.Com

Google Universal Analytics Beta Opens To All

2013-03-25T00:49:00.002+05:30

Today, Google has announced that Google Universal Analytics opens to all Google Analytics customers.

Universal Analytics, which uses a different collection method and hence involves the setup of a new code snippet on the businesses’ sites, focuses on giving online businesses a better understanding of how their customers interact with their sites across multiple devices. This new JavaScript code snippet, Google notes, is more flexible than the old one and gives users more options to customize their data. Businesses will also have to set up a new web property in their Analytics accounts to get started with using Universal Analytics.

The new tools offered by Universal Analytics via the new Measurement Protocol (an API that enables you to send your data to Google Analytics) can help you measure the how people actually become and remain loyal customers,” Google said at the time.

Google Analytics will soon include Change History, a log of account changes

2013-02-20T10:55:00.000+05:30

Image Credit : ClickOptimize.com

View the history of account changes

The Change History is available only to users who can perform administrative tasks.

Analytics now includes Change History, a list of user activities in Analytics so you have a record of who did what when. For example, on Monday, January 7, at 14:28:25 PDT 2012, UserA@gmail.com created the new profile User A’s Profile.

There is a new Change History tab at the account level, alongside the Data Sources and Account Settings tabs.
The Change History lists:

Date column: The date and time of the activity
Email column: Which Analytics user performed the activity
Activity column: The Analytics object (e.g., account, user, profile, goal, filter), and what activity was performed on the object (e.g., added to account, created, deleted)

using this information you can investigate things like who added filters to my default profile, when were those new users added to the account, or who deleted the regex include filter I spent all week writing? Rather than wonder if something just mysteriously changed or disappeared, you can open Change History to see exactly what happened when, and who was responsible.
Change History maintains a record of activities for the last 180 days.

For more information please visit:
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2949085&topic=1009690&ctx=topic

Linkedin has Revamped Personal Profile Page

2012-12-12T12:12:00.001+05:30

LinkedIn has revamped personal profile page.

The new-look page is more streamlined, providing a different experience when viewing people’s profiles by focusing on activities and connections.

Get the new profile sample page here - http://www.linkedin.com/profile/sample.

Google Releases Panda Update Panda #21 on November 5, 2012

2012-11-12T12:56:00.000+05:30

Google rolled out their 21st Panda update, roughly 5-1/2 weeks after Panda #20. This update was reported to be smaller, officially impacting 1.1% of English queries.

Source :

1. http://searchengineland.com/google-releases-panda-update-21-138902

2. http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-21-15918.html

Analyze Panda Update effect on your Site, check how Google's algorithm updates have impacted your traffic.

Tool : http://www.panguintool.com/

Microsoft’s new logo for first time in 25 YEARS

2012-08-25T23:15:00.000+05:30

Microsoft has just unveiled a new look and feel to its corporate logo. Following 25 years from its first introduction, this is the first major Microsoft logo change in the company's history.

Google Drive launches cloud storage service with 5GB free space, replaces Google Docs

2012-04-25T03:04:00.000+05:30

Google on Tuesday launched a long-anticipated “Drive” service that lets people store photos, videos, and other digital files in the Internet.

Google Drive accounts with five gigabytes of storage were available free at https://drive.google.com/ and upgrades to more space on servers in the California company’s data centers were available at rates set by size and country.

“The model is really designed at the core to help people live their lives in the cloud,” Google vice president for Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai said on a conference call with reporters. “Google Drive is something we see as central to the online experience at Google.”

Google Drive software has been tailored for Windows and Macintosh computers. Google Drive is available for

PC and Mac
iPhone and iPad (coming soon)
Android devices

Store your files in a safe place. if Your phone goes for a swim. Your laptop takes an infinite snooze. No matter what happens to your devices, your files are safely stored in Google Drive.
Now It’s possible that you’ll need to add yourself to a waiting list for access to Google Drive, so as for now I have added in wait list and waiting for my active Google Drive.

What is Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)?

2012-02-11T02:56:00.000+05:30

It's a synonym (LSI) Latent Semantic Indexing is one specific algorithm that the search engines use to evaluate site content through related keywords.

So what does this mean for you as a site owner? Well, suppose you’ve built up a page that revolves around the keyphrase “how to get six-pack abs”. In order to score high on the search engine rankings, you’ve used this exact phrase repeatedly throughout your text, without using any related phrases, like “how to get a flat tummy” or “how to tone your mid-section”. If a search engine robot using an LSI algorithm visits your site, it won’t be able to get a good feel for what your site is about since you’ve focused on only one keyphrase.

Whether you’re updating old content or working on new text for your sites, it’s important to vary the keywords you use to create more natural-sounding copy. If you’re having trouble thinking up keyword or keyphrase variations, you can use Microsoft Word’s synonym feature (simply right-click on a word and scroll down to “synonyms” to see more options) or consult an online or offline thesaurus. For example, a keyphrase like “SEO tools” could also be written as “SEO products”, “SEO courses” or “Search engine optimization ebooks”, depending on what your content is about.

However, it’s important to keep in mind that no one knows exactly what the search engine algorithms are, and we are dealing with software, not humans, so it’s still a good idea to include several repetitions of your target keyword or keyphrase. I still recommend including your target keyphrase enough times to reach a keyword density of 2-5% (which means you can pretty much write naturally). This will ensure that your site gets ranked for the specific phrase you’re targeting while still compensating for the new changes in semantically-related word algorithms.

Since the search engines will reward you for writing naturally and not forcing keywords and phrases, I suggest you just write naturally. Make sure the keywords and phrases you’re targeting are in your content, but don’t go overboard.

Post Credit : http://www.inlineseo.com/blog/2008/10/22/lsi/
Image Credit : http://www.123rf.com

Google Science Fair 2012: Everyone has a question. What's yours?

2012-02-07T14:41:00.000+05:30

The Google Science Fair is an online science competition seeking curious minds from the four corners of the globe. Geniuses are not always A-grade students. This is the largest global online science competition and it celebrates the curiosity and investigations of young scientists everywhere!

If you're 13 to 18 years old, you can enter by submitting your entry by 1 April 2012 for your chance to win fantastic prizes. This video tells you a little more:

Here's a video detailing some of the competition rules:

Submit your project

Google PageRank Update: 6th February 2012

2012-02-07T04:01:00.001+05:30

Google PageRank is just updated right on 6th February 2012. The previous PageRank update was in November, yea - three months ago. And before that, in August - so Google tries to stick to a 3 month PageRank update cycle, when they remember to push out the update. its Indeed that my blog http://rahulonlineblog.blogspot.in/ after redirecting .com to .in got PR 2 from PR 0 and the rest of them maintained. so are there major updated ??

Obama on Google+ and Youtube

2012-02-01T22:03:00.000+05:30

Barack Obama on Wednesday, Jan 31 knowledgeable the community that US is still continuous their search for terrorists who live or have taken housing in Pakistan. Government Applied Tribe Places (FATA) of Pakistan is consistently being stormed with National drone problems, said Obama during his Stay discussion on Google+ and YouTube.

It seems that Obama and his group have been continuous their initiatives to nab another Osama bin Laden-like enemy on Pak ground. Obama during his Stay discussion said, "A lot of these hits have been in the FATA, and going after al-Qaeda thinks who are up in very hard geography along the edge between Afghanistan and Pakistan."

"For us to be able to get them in another way would include probably a lot more invasive army measures than the ones we're already interesting in," included Obama.

Blogger Blogs Redirecting to Country Specific Domains

2012-02-01T04:56:00.000+05:30

If you accessibility any of the Writer put weblogs from India, The search engines will instantly redirect you to the corresponding blogger.in deal with.

To provide you with an example, if a blog’s deal with is http://rahulonlineblog.blogspot.com and you try starting that web page from an IP deal with in Indian, The search engines will deliver you to http://rahulonlineblog.blogspot.in A identical re-direction is developing for personal post websites as well. The new redirection policy has been made available in a Blogger help page (emphasis added).

I think the search engines is still doing the refreshing marketplaces to the ancient indian ancient blogs.

Due to this changes writer blogs are losing the they ratings and shows very reduced location now. So all the writer web entrepreneurs seems disappointed with the change.

Google's new privacy

2012-01-30T19:57:00.000+05:30

Google swap to get rid of more than 60 personal comfort pages on its products into a single one “that is a lot reduced and simpler to read” needs a fresh look by customers at how they use solutions such as Google mail, YouTube, Charts, Schedule and Google+, as well as Operating system mobile phones.

The on the internet review of the new insurance plan, which will go into effect on Goal 1, paperwork that The look for engines Internet explorer and Internet explorer OS, Books and Pockets keep have personal guidelines relating to comfort.

The relevance of the new comfort can be found in the way it combines on the internet habits details across solutions, for an consideration owner. By including public relationships and giving to the bag, The look for engines has fine-grained understanding of personal choice and utilization styles. The look for engines has always gathered person details, but now, the silos of live information from different solutions will be put together to produce powerful measurements that will match individuals with different activity that they engage in on the web when they are signed-in. This will benefit The look for engines by giving it new understanding into who is doing what, when and where using its solutions, and thus produce highly targeted marketing. The organization says this ability helps the person by providing more relevant google look for.

The beginning to understand the opportunity of the change is the The look for engines ‘Dashboard', where it is possible to review and ‘control' some of the details associated with a specific consideration. These include personal account, measurements, Operating system devices (and different The look for engines IDs used on them), Operating system Industry purchases, Writer, Schedule, Connections, Documents, Googlemail, Google+, Groups, iGoogle, Picasa web collections, Orkut, Audience, Cultural Connections and YouTube.

It is worth keeping in mind that under the recommended changes, the name that a person provides for an consideration will be used on all the solutions associated with it, even changing past labels associated with that consideration in different solutions. Online comfort supporters such as the Electronic Frontier Groundwork have required that The look for engines make it simpler for individuals to maintain individual identities— such as personal and professional — and not affiliate information merely because both IDs fit in with the same personal. An example given is that of Google+, which requires a real name, and YouTube, which does not. A forced merging creates problems for those who have concerns about personal language (such as publishing videos) that they would not like to affiliate with their established consideration.

Social relationships such as a Wp blog or Tweets consideration that can be followed to a Google mail ID are also accessible to The look for engines, and can be considered on the Dash panel.

Users who do not wish to let The look for engines have accessibility their look for habits, or the video clips they watch on YouTube can simply swap off their personal look for listing, and keep look for or look through in a “logged off” state. However, in the case of Operating system mobile phones, that creates complications as an consideration ID is needed for all but basic functions, accessibility the programs Industry in particular.

Some customers are limited to use anonymising solutions such as the Tor internet browser, to research with the new comfort system. The Tor hosts enable overlaying of the real location of the person and some Online Service Services have started selection accessibility them, especially in the U.K.

The lack of an opt out supply in the new comfort program has triggered negative feeling among many customers. Eight U.S. congress have asked to be informed by March 16, in information, the characteristics of details gathered, the methods implemented, and the real use to which The look for engines places it. Some side effects on Tweets talk about the possible revival of alternative email solutions.

There is also a swap by the Western Partnership to put in place new comfort guidelines, which would require precise approval from customers, for companies to gather, store and use private details. The look for engines has protested against the set up EU guidelines, reporting them as likely to break the Online.

India is a major growing sell for The look for engines, with significant marketing income potential. The organization reports that there will be a razor-sharp growth in the number of Online surfers in Indian by 2014, to 300 thousand, from about 100 thousand this year, with mobile fuelling the development.

Google to shutdown Google Wave Permanently on April 2012

2011-12-05T19:28:00.001+05:30

Google has officially announced that they will be permanently shutting down Google wave on April 30, 2012, Google has sent out an official email detailing what it plans on doing.

Dear Wavers,
More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.
If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.
For more details, please see our help center.
Yours sincerely,
The Wave Team

Now Yahoo Site Explorer is no more!- RIP Yahoo

2011-11-29T02:45:00.001+05:30

Now It’s official that Yahoo Site Explorer finally no more. That means how we will check the back links via yahoo, Its big question?

Now, when you go to check back-links via Yahoo, you are met with this below message screen:

so now what are the plans?

The New Inbox Styles for Gmail are Live Now

2011-07-15T19:00:00.000+05:30

New Inbox Styles for Gmail

Classic : Shows your most recent messages at the top of your inbox
Important First : Only important messages appears on top (including reads and unread messages)
Unread first: Puts all unread messages at the top of your inbox ; everything else at the bottom
Starred First : Starred messages appear at the top; everything else at the bottom
Priority Inbox : Important and unread messages appears on top, then starred messages and then everything else.

You can choose any style from tabs at the top of your inbox and use it for a week, then those tabs will go away. You can always switch back to your inbox style anytime by selecting it from Inbox labels’ drop down menu.