SEO EXPERT DELHI : Sonika Mishra

About Google Scholar

2010-06-22T03:08:00.000-07:00

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Features of Google Scholar

•Search diverse sources from one convenient place

•Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions

•Locate the complete document through your library or on the web

•Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research

How are documents ranked?

Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.

Try new product of google ...Google Scholar

Sonika Soni

Google Analytics Individual Qualification Test Notes

2010-05-20T04:56:00.000-07:00

These notes were extracted from the Google’s Conversion University test preparation presentation (where possible), and are not my property.

Introduction to Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free, web analytics tool that is hosted by Google.

Google Analytics shows you how visitors actually find and use your site, so you’ll be able to

• make informed site design and content decisions

• improve your site to convert more visitors into customers

• track the performance of your keywords, banner ads, and other marketing campaigns.

• and track metrics such as revenue, average order value, and ecommerce conversion rates.

Features

Google Analytics has been designed to meet the needs of novice users as well as web analytics experts.

Some of the features include:

• Map Overlay which can help you understand how to best target campaigns by geographic region

• AdWords Integration which makes it easy to track AdWords campaigns and allows you to use Google Analytics from your AdWords interface

• Internal Site Search which allows you to track how people use the search box on your site

• Benchmarking so that you can see whether your site usage metrics underperform or outperform those of your industry vertical.

• Funnel Visualization so that you can optimize your checkout and conversion click-paths

How GA Works?

Here’s how Google Analytics works.

When a visitor accesses a page on your site, a request is made to the webserver to display the page.

The page is served and the Google Analytics Tracking Code JavaScript is executed.

The Google Analytics Tracking Code, which is a snippet of code that you place on each page of your site, calls the trackPageView() method.

At this point, the Google Analytics first-party cookies are read and/or written.

The webpage then sends an invisible gif request containing all the data to the secure Google Analytics reporting server, where the data is captured and processed.

Data is processed regularly throughout the day and you can see the results in your reports.

What happens if?

Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies, which are considered safe and non-intrusive by most internet users today.

Although many people block third-party cookies from being set by their web browsers, this won’t affect Google Analytics.

Someone who blocks all cookies, however, won’t be tracked by Google Analytics since all the data is passed to the Google Analytics servers via the first-party cookies.

Someone who deletes their cookies will still be tracked, but they’ll be identified as a new visitor to the site and Google Analytics won’t be able to attribute their conversions to a prior referring campaign.

People delete cookies for many reasons, one of which is to prevent personal data from being captured or reported. But, note that Google Analytics does not report on personally identifiable information. You’ll learn more about cookies as they relate to Google Analytics in a later module.

A much less common scenario is that a visitor to your site has disabled JavaScript on his or her browser. A visitor who disables JavaScript won’t be tracked since the Google Analytics Tracking Code cannot be executed.

Cached pages are saved on a visitor’s local machine and so they’re not served by the webserver. Google Analytics will still track visits to cached pages as long as the visitor is connected to the internet.

JavaScript errors occur when an element of a web page’s script contains an error or fails to execute correctly. If an error occurs before the Google Analytics Tracking Code is executed, the visit to the page won’t be tracked. This is because the error will prevent the remainder of the JavaScript on the page from running. Since we recommend that in most cases you place your Google Analytics Tracking Code at the bottom of the page, JavaScript errors are always a possible cause for data not appearing in your reports.

Google Analytics can track visits from a mobile device as long as the device is capable of executing JavaScript and storing cookies. You can see which devices have been used to access your site by looking at the Browsers report in the Visitor section.

In general, no reporting tool can ever be 100% accurate. You’ll get the most out of web analytics if you focus on trends. Knowing that 20% more visitors converted following a marketing campaign is more powerful than knowing that exactly 10 people visited your site today.

Data Confidentiality

All data collected by Google Analytics is anonymous, including where visitors comes from, how the visitors navigate through the site, and other actions they may perform.

No personally identifiable information is collected.

Google does not share Analytics data with any 3rd parties.

Furthermore, Google optimization, support, and sales staff may only access a client’s data with the client’s permission. You can give permission verbally, over email or through a support ticket that asks for help with a problem or asks a question about your data.

You may elect to share your Google Analytics data “with other Google products”, and Google will use the data to improve the products and services we provide you. Electing to share your data “Anonymously with Google and others” allows you to use benchmarking.

To provide benchmarking, Google removes all identifiable information about your website, then combines the data with hundreds of other anonymous sites in comparable industries and reports them in an aggregate form.

If you select “do not share my Google Analytics data”, you will not be able to use benchmarking and may not have access to specific ads-related features such as Conversion Optimizer.

Again, regardless of your Data Sharing selections, Google does not share Analytics data with any 3rd parties.

Initial Screen

Understanding the Google Analytics interface will help you find and analyze information more effectively.

When you first login to your Google Analytics account, you’ll see a screen similar to the one on the slide.

In this example, the user has access to three Google Analytics accounts.

Click on the name of the account you would like to access.

Analytics Settings

This takes you to the account-specific page where you manage the set-up and configuration of your account and profiles.

You can toggle to your other Analytics accounts using the drop-down menu at the top right of the page.

Each profile for the selected account is displayed under “Website Profiles”.

From this screen you can access reports for each profile.

You an also edit configuration settings, add filters, add or change user permissions, and add or remove profiles altogether.

Report Interface

Click the “View Reports” link for a profile, and you’ll be taken to the dashboard for that profile.

A sample dashboard is shown on the slide.

We’ve called out the user interface features that are available on all reports.

Your report navigation, scheduled email settings, Help links, data export options, and the calendar.

Note that there are several places to find help information. The Help link on the top right of the page takes you to the Google Analytics Help Center.

Also, on the left margin of the page, you’ll see a Help Resources box with links.

Dashboard

The dashboard is where you put all the summary information about your site that you want to see at a glance.

To add a report to the dashboard, just go to the report you want to add and then click Add to Dashboard.

On the dashboard itself, you can position the report summaries however you like and delete the ones you don’t need.

Report Structure

In the left hand navigation, you’ll see that your reports are organized into categories: Visitors, Traffic Sources, Content, Goals, and Ecommerce.

If you don’t have an ecommerce site or don’t have ecommerce reporting enabled, you won’t see the ecommerce section in your navigation.

To view reports, click on any of the categories and the reports available within that category will appear.

Some reports contain additional sub-reports, like the AdWords report under Traffic Sources.

Click the arrow to see the sub-reports.

Setting The Active Date Range

To change your date range, click the arrow next to the active date range displayed at the upper right of all reports.

You can then use the Calendar or the Timeline to select a new date range.

The “Calendar” tab allows you to select date ranges by clicking on the day and month within the calendar or you can type dates in the “Date Range” boxes.

The “Timeline” tab has a date slider that you can resize and move to cover any range of dates.

You can see your site’s traffic trends in the Timeline.

Setting A Comparison Date Range

You can select a date range to compare to the current selected date range.

When using the Timeline to set a comparison date range, you’ll see two date sliders instead of just one.

You can use a comparison date range to see how your site is performing month over month, year over year or even from one day to another.

The date range and comparison date ranges you select will apply to all your reports and graphs.

Graphic By Day, Week And Month

Most reports include an over-time graph at the top. You can make this graph display data by day, week, or month.

Multi-Line Graphs

You can also compare two metrics on the same graph to see how they are correlated.

Click the arrow in the top left of the graph.

Then, click the Compare Two Metrics link and select which two metrics you want to compare.

In this example, we’re graphing visitors versus average time on site.

Graph Roll-Overs

You can roll your mouse over the graph and see actual numbers.

Exporting Report Data

You can export data from any report. There are four formats: PDF, XML, CSV and tab-separated.

Simply click on the Export button at the top of any report page and select the format you want.

Email Reports

Next to the Export button, you’ll see an Email button.

Click it and you’ll see a screen with two tabs: Send Now, and Schedule.

You can schedule reports to be delivered daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly.

You also have the option to select what format to send them in, such as PDF or CSV.

The email scheduling feature provides an easy way to automatically distribute specific report data to the people who need it.

Curriculum Links

The Overview reports in each section contain a set of Curriculum links. You can use these links to quickly find information that you need.

In some cases, these links access reports that are not available from the left report navigation.

Title And Breadcrumbs

You can always see where you are in a report hierarchy by looking at the title and the breadcrumbs at the top of the report.

Look at the example on the slide.

From the title, you can see that you are in the Referring Link report and that you’re looking at traffic from the link blogger.com/home.

From the breadcrumbs, you can see that you are in the Referring Sites report hierarchy.

You can click on any of the breadcrumb links to go back to that report.

Narratives And Scorecards

Nearly every report contains a short narrative that summarizes the traffic that’s included in the report.

The scorecard below the narrative provides metric aggregates and averages for the traffic.

Each box in the scorecard contains a question mark button. Clicking it opens a small window that explains how the metric is calculated.

Report Tabs

Most reports provide tabs that show different sets of data.

The Site Usage tab shows metrics such as the number of pages viewed per visit, the average time on site, and the bounce rate.

The Goal Conversion tab shows the conversion rates for each of your goals.

If you’ve enabled ecommerce reporting on your Profile Settings page, you’ll also see an Ecommerce tab.

This tab shows metrics such as Ecommerce revenue, number of transactions, and average value.

The AdWords Campaigns reports have an additional tab called Clicks. This tab contains AdWords related metrics such as clicks, cost, revenue per click and ROI.

Quick Segmentation

You can segment table data in different ways using the Dimension pulldown menu.

So, for example, if you want to see the traffic in your keywords report broken out by City, you just select City from the pulldown menu.

Keyword Reports

In the Keywords and Search Engines reports, you have the option to analyze just paid, just non-paid traffic, or all search traffic.

Simply click on the links above the scorecard to make your selection.

Hourly Reporting

Some reports allow you to view results by hour.

On these reports, you can select the view you want by clicking on the clock button in the top right corner next to “Graph By”.

Report Views

There are five different Views available in most reports. The first icon organizes your report data into a table. This is the default view for many reports.

The second icon allows you to create a pie-chart based on any one of the metrics in the report.

The third icon shows a bar-graph based on any metric you select.

The fourth icon is the comparison bar graph view. It allows you to quickly see whether each entry in the table is performing above or below average.

The fifth icon allows you to instantly see a summary report with graphs for the traffic you’re analyzing.

Sorting Data

Columns within tables can be sorted in both ascending and descending order simply by clicking on the column heading.

The arrows next to the heading title indicate the order in which the results are listed.

A down arrow indicates descending order and an upward arrow indicates ascending order.

Expanding Numbers Of Results Desplayed

By default, all reports with tables display ten rows.

To display more than ten rows, go to the bottom of your report and click the dropdown menu arrow next to “Show rows”.

You can display up to 500 rows per page.

Find Box

You can use the Find box at the bottom left of your reports to narrow or refine your results.

For example, if you are looking at the All Traffic Sources report and you want to only see traffic from the Google domain, you can type in Google and select “containing”.

Or, to exclude all traffic from the Google domain, you would select “excluding”.

Contextual Help Resources

You can get information about any report you’re looking at by clicking one of the Help Resources.

About this Report offers a brief description of the report.

Conversion University provides insight into how you might use and interpret the data.

Common Questions links to Help Center articles that are related to the report.

Create Context For Your Data

When analyzing your traffic, avoid focusing on just a single metric. This pageviews result by itself isn’t actionable because you don’t know what the number really means.

But, when you look at pageviews in the context of other metrics, you start to get clearer picture.

For example, look at the bounce rate. Half of the time that people entered the site through this page, they left the site without looking at any other pages. This page is very important. By comparing the pageviews to the site average, we can see that this page accounts for over 28% of all the pageviews.

How has the performance of this page changed over time?

This page is receiving 20% fewer visits than it did last week and people are spending 10% less time on it. And last week, the bounce rate was only 24% — now it’s double that number.

So, putting data into context can help us ask the right questions and decide on a course of action.

Let’s look at another example.

Creating Context With Visualizations

Here we are looking at the Content by Title report.

We’re using the Compare to Site Average visualization to see which pages have significantly higher bounce rates than the site average.

The bounce rate for the first title is nearly 20% higher than the site average. The red bar shows that it’s performing worse than the site average.

Looking For Trends

Analyzing trends is another useful way to bring context into your analysis.

The graph on the slide shows us that pageviews peaked in May. Did visits increase or did each visitor look at more pages?

Investigating Changes In Trends

Using the Graph Mode to compare Visits and Pageviews, we see that Visits and Pageviews have increased proportionally.

Data Driven Decision Making

Now let’s identify which traffic sources led to the increase in traffic and revenue. We do this by looking at the All Traffic Sources report and clicking on the Ecommerce tab.

Comparing two days of traffic, we find that — although several sources sent an increasing number of visitors to the site — only Google organic and Google referral had a significant impact on revenue.

Therefore, we know that although other campaigns increased overall traffic, they did not bring in purchasers.

This kind of information can help you decide where to focus your promotion and site content resources.

Pageview

In Google Analytics, a pageview is counted every time a page on your website loads.

So, for example, if someone comes to your site and views page A, then page B, then Page A again, and then leaves your site — the total pageviews for the visit is 3.

Visit

A visit — or session — is a period of interaction between a web browser and a website. Closing the browser or staying inactive for more than 30 minutes ends the visit.

For example, let’s say that a visitor is browsing the Google Store, a site that uses Google Analytics. He gets to the second page, and then gets a phone call. He talks on the phone for 31 minutes, during which he does not click anywhere else on the site.

After his call, he continues where he left off. Google Analytics will count this as a second visit, or a new session.

Note that throughout these modules, the words “visit” and “session” may be used interchangeably.

Visitor

A visitor is uniquely identified by a Google Analytics visitor cookie which assigns a random visitor ID to the user, and combines it with the timestamp of the visitor’s first visit.

The combination of the random visitor ID and the timestamp establish a Unique ID for that visitor.

You’ll learn more about the visitor cookie in a subsequent module.

Pageviews, Visits, And Visitors – The Basics

Generally, the Visitors metric will be smaller than the Visits metric which in turn will be smaller than the Pageviews metric.

For example, 1 visitor could visit a site 2 times and generate a total of 5 pageviews.
Pageviews Vs. Unique Pageviews

A pageview is defined as a view of a page that is tracked by the Google Analytics Tracking Code.

If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview.

If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, an additional pageview will also be recorded.

A unique pageview represents the number of visits during which that page was viewed–whether one or more times. In other words, if a visitor views page A three times during one visit, Google Analytics will count this as three pageviews and one unique pageview.

“Absolute Unique” Vs. “New vs. Returning”

The “Absolute Unique Visitors” report counts each visitor during your selected date range only once. So, if visitor A comes to your site 5 times during the selected date range and visitor B comes to your site just once, you will have 2 Absolute Unique Visitors. Remember, a visitor is uniquely identified by a Google Analytics visitor cookie.

The “New vs. Returning” report classifies each visit as coming from either a new visitor or a returning visitor. So when someone visits your site for the first time, the visit is categorized as “Visit from a new visitor.” If the person has browsed your website before, the visit is categorized as “Visit from a returning visitor.”

A high number of new visits suggests that you are successful at driving traffic to your site while a high number of return visits suggests that the site content is engaging enough for visitors to come back.

You can look at the Recency report to see how recently visitors have visited. You can look at the Loyalty report to see how frequently they return. Both the Recency and Loyalty reports are under Visitor Loyalty in the Visitors section.

Pageviews, Visits, And Visitors In Your report

The Pageviews metric can be found in the Visitors Overview and in the Content section reports. Most of the other reports show Pages Viewed per Visit instead of Pageviews.

Unique Pageviews is only found in the Content section.

Almost all of the reports show Visits.

The Visitors metric — in other words the number of visitors who came to your site — is found in the Visitors section.

Time On Page

To calculate Time on Page, Google Analytics compares the timestamps of the visited pages.

For example, in the slide, the visitor saw page A, then page B, and then left the site.

The Time on Page for page A is calculated by subtracting the page A timestamp from the page B timestamp.

So, the Time on Page for page A is 1 minute and 15 seconds.

In order for this calculation to take place, the Google Analytics Tracking Code must be executed on both pages.

The Time on Page for page B is 0 seconds, because there is no subsequent timestamp that Google Analytics can use to calculate the actual Time on Page.

Time On Site

Now, suppose the visitor continued on to a third page before exiting.

The second page now has a Time on Page of 1 minute 10 seconds.

The Time on Site is now calculated as 2 minutes and 25 seconds.

“Avg. Time On Page” VS “Avg. Time On Site”

For Average Time on Page, bounces are excluded from the calculation. In other words, any Time on Page of 0 is excluded from the calculation.

For Average Time on Site, bounces remain a part of the calculation.

To calculate Average Time on Site, Google Analytics divides the total time for all visits by the number of visits.

Flash Based Sites

Some sites make extensive use of Flash or other interactive technologies.

Often, these kinds of sites don’t load new pages frequently and all the user interaction takes place on a single page.

As a result, it’s common for sites like this to have high bounce rates and low average times on site.

If you have such a site, you may wish to set up your tracking so that virtual pageviews or events are generated as the user performs various activities.

You can learn how to do this in the module on Event Tracking and Virtual Pageviews.

“Length Of Visit” VS “Avg. Time On Site”

The Length of Visit report categorizes visits according to the amount of time spent on the site during the visit.

The graph allows you to visualize the entire distribution of visits instead of simply the ‘Average Time on Site’ across all visits.

You can see whether a few visits are skewing your ‘Average Time on Site’ upward or downward.

The Length of Visit report can be found under Visitor Loyalty in the Visitors section.

Traffic Sources Reports

The reports in the Traffic Sources section show you where your traffic is coming from on the internet.

You can compare your traffic sources against each other to find out which sources send you the highest quality traffic.

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Fresh new look for Google Calendar.

2010-05-20T04:06:00.000-07:00

A small group of engineers in Google was putting the finishing touches on a calendar application. A few of us started using it, and I remember thinking, "Wow! It's so fresh and shiny and new!"

But over time the shiny new Calendar started to feel a little bit old, a little out of step with other Google Apps. So we rolled up our sleeves and we tweaked the layout, we twiddled the colors and we tuned the text...and this week we're pleased to show off a fresh new look for Google Calendar.

Official Gmail Blog: 5 more Buzz tips: post by email, follow the Buzz team, and more

2010-02-23T02:27:00.000-08:00

Monday, February 22, 2010 11:23 AM
Posted by Brian Stoler, Tech Lead, Google Buzz

1. Post by email. You can post buzz by emailing buzz@gmail.com — super handy for posting photos you take on your phone. Photos that you attach to your email will appear along with the subject line of your message. You can choose who can see posts you email into Buzz from the connected sites menu (click "Buzz," then "Connected Sites").

2. Prevent your boring chat status messages from being posted to Buzz. By default, your chat status messages are posted to Buzz and shared with your chat contacts. Don't want a boring message like "be right back" to turn into a Buzz post? Just put parentheses around it. If you don't want any of your chat status messages to get posted, you can always disconnect chat from the connected sites menu.

3. Look for the yellow line to see what's new. Can't figure out what's new on the Buzz tab? Posts and comments new since your last visit have a light yellow line along the left hand edge (if you're using a different theme the color may vary).

4. Link to a post. Each Buzz post has a permalink, so you can link to it. Click the down-arrow in the upper right-hand corner of a post, and select "Link to this post." Of course, you'lll only be able to see the posts you have access to.

5. Follow the Buzz team in Google Buzz. Visit buzz.google.com/googlebuzz and click "Follow Google Buzz" to get updates about what we're working on and send us your feedback.

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Buzz tips: post by email, follow the Buzz team, and more

2009-12-21T23:06:00.001-08:00

Hi ,
Testing Feeds.

Google Wave???????

2009-11-26T01:57:00.000-08:00

Google Wave, what is it?

I have recently received an invitation to use Google Wave, in which some "social networking experts" think it is going to be one of the BIG hits in the coming years!But as a tool, should Google Wave be categorized as:
*An instant messenger?
*A social networking site?
*An online document/project sharing platform?An improvement to Gtalk?Or
* just another communication tool?

Google's official words about Google Wave:

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversationand a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Tested it lately. Seems like Google Wave can be used as:

1. A brainstorm tool in which many people speak at the same time for ideas.
2. A communication tool in which a project team with members in different and remote locations can discuss their project and work together.

Google Wave would be a great tool to support the "remote" office idea, after all, when it is used "correctly".

List of 107 Free and Paid Press Release Sites

2009-06-29T04:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.prweb.com/ - PRWeb

http://www.pressflash.com/ - PressFlash

http://www.prleap.com/ - PRLeap

http://www.prnewswire.com/ - PR Newswire

http://www.prwebdirect.com/ - PRWeb Direct

http://www.sbwire.com/ - SB Wire

http://www.theopenpress.com/ - TheOpenPress

http://www.hotmicrocap.com/ - Hotmicrocap

http://www.billhartzer.com/ - Billhartzer

http://www.free-press-release.com/ - Free-press-release

http://www.dbusiness.com/pressrelease.htm - D Business

http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/ - Software Marketing Resource

http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/ - Press Release Network

http://www.macgo.net/news/submit.php - Macgo

http://www.devpress.com/addNews.html - Dev Press

http://www.betanews.com/ - Beta News

http://www.softpressrelease.com/ - Soft Press Release

http://www.devarchive.com/ - DevArchive

http://www.ideamarketers.com/ - IdeaMarketers

http://www.i-newswire.com/submit_free.php - I-Newswire

http://www.afreego.com/ - A Free Go

http://www.lunareclipse.net/pressrelease.htm - Lunareclipse

http://www.hspstreet.com/pr/ - HSPstreet

http://www.marketwire.com/ - Market Wire

http://www.mediapost.com/ - Media Post

http://www.baygo.com/press/ - Baygo

http://www.urlwire.com/ - URL Wire

http://www.webwire.com/ - Web Wire

http://www.press-base.com/ - Press Base

http://www.newspad.com/ - News Pad

http://www.storebuilder.co.uk/ - Store Builder

http://www.creativecommons.org/ - Creative Commons

http://www.emediawire.com/ - EMediaWire

http://www.businesswire.com/ - BusinessWire

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi - Pressbox.co.uk

http://www.pressmethod.com/ - Pressmethod

http://www.click2newsites.com/ - Click2NewSites

http://www.newswire.ca/ - Canada Newswire

http://www.cdn-news.com/ - Canadian Corporate News

http://www.malebits.com/ - MB Publishing Press Releases

http://www.internetworldstats.com/press.htm - Internetworldstats

http://www.forrelease.com/ - For Release

http://www.hungarynewswire.com/ - Hungary newswire

http://www.groupweb.com/ - GroupWeb

http://africa.emailwire.com/africa/a...edia_list.html - Africa Newswire Service

http://www.prfree.com/ - PR Free

http://www.openpress.com/ - OpenPress

http://www.downloadjunction.com/submit_press_release - Download Junction

http://www.majon.com/advanced/advanced-pr.html - Advanced Press Release

http://www.itilcommunity.com/modules...me=Submit_News - ITIL Community

http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/ - Press Release Network

http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/cpress1.htm - Ideasiteforbusiness

http://www.media-press-release.com/ - Media press releasean

https://www.promaxum.com/promaxum_newsflash.html - Promaxuml

https://www.prudentpressagency.com/ - Prudent Press Agency

http://www.dime-co.com/ - Dime-co.com

http://www.thehostingnews.com/gate.h...me=Submit_News - Host News

http://www.webazar.com/ - Webazar.com

http://www.software-review-center.org/act/addnews.php - Software-review-center

http://searchwarp.com/ - Searchwarp

http://www.tmcnet.com/ - TMCnet

http://www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm - Biz Europe

http://www.symbcity.com/new/public - Symbcity

http://www.programmersheaven.com/ - Programmers Heaven

http://www.openpr.com/ - Open PR

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/ourwo...ish/index.html - Our World

http://www.eceurope.com/index.htm - ECEurope Buy Sell offers

http://www.press-release-writing.com/ - Press Release writing

http://www.seo-pr.com/ - SEO-PR

http://www.internetwriters.com/ - Internet Writers

http://www.gebbieinc.com/ - Gebbie Press

http://www.xpresspress.com/ - Xpress Press

http://www.imediafax.com/ - Imediafax

http://www.earthvision.net/market/addstory.cfm - EarthVision

http://www.webnewswire.com/ - WebNewsWire

http://www.opportunityupdate.com/articles/ - Opportunity Update

http://www.internetnewsbureau.com/ - Internet News Bureau

http://www.ereleases.com/ - eReleases

http://upload.it/shareware_soft_000005.htm - Upload.it

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/ - 24-7 Press Release

http://store.1choice4ystore.com/articles.html - YStore

http://www.ideasiteforbusiness.com/cpress1.htm - Click Press Direct

http://www.threadwatch.org/ - Threadwatch

http://www.eworldwire.com/ - EWorldWire

http://www.afly.com/ - aFly

http://articlecity.prwebdirect.com/ - Articlecity Press Release

http://www.powerhomebiz.com/BizNews/pressrelease.htm - Powerhomebiz

http://newslink.org/ - NewsLink.org

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ed...ewsstatsca.jsp - MediaINFO Links

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi - Pressbox

http://www.bizeurope.com/pressrelease.htm - Biz Europe

http://www.pr-scotland.com/addpr.htm - PR Scotland

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/pressrelease.asp - Fashion and Garment News

http://www.e-syndicate.net/ - e-syndicate.net

http://www.our-hometown.com/ - Our Hometown

http://www.emailwire.com/ - Emailwire

http://www.africanewswire.net/ - Africa Newswires Service

http://www.express-press-release.com/ - Express press release

http://www.prbot.com/ - PRBot

http://highwire.stanford.edu/ - Highwire Press

http://www.newzalert.com/ - Newzalert

http://www.addpr.com/ - Add PR

http://www.click2newsites.com/press.asp - Click2newsites

http://www.profnet.org/press.html - Press Release Resources

http://mediapeak.com/ - Mediapeak

http://www.softwarewire.com/SubmitRelease.htm - Software Wire

http://news.baou.com/ - OfficalWire

A press release gives you numerous benefits, including high powered links to your sites, possible media exposure and reaching new customers.

When writing your press release you must cater to two totally separate audiences. The first would be the media, if they smell a sales pitch they won’t even consider contacting you. The second is your customer, if there is nothing to interest them, they won’t pay any attention to you at all.

To write the best press release, study a few of the ones that are already out there. Always be sure to put a link to your website in every press release.

List of 180 Social Bookmarking Sites in Page Rank Order

2009-06-29T03:58:00.000-07:00

List of 180 Social Bookmarking Sites in Page Rank Order

http://del.icio.us/ - PR8

http://www.fark.com/ - PR8

http://www.furl.net/ - PR8

http://www.kuro5hin.org/ - PR8

http://www.technorati.com/ - PR8

http://www.bloghop.com/ - PR7

http://www.blogpulse.com/ - PR7

http://www.connectedy.com/ - PR7

http://www.digg.com/ - PR7

http://www.google.com/notebook - PR7

http://www.icerocket.com/ - PR7

http://kinja.com/ - PR7

http://www.librarything.com/ - PR7

http://www.newsvine.com/ - PR7

http://www.nextaris.com/ - PR7

http://www.shadows.com/ - PR7

http://www.stumbleupon.com/ - PR7

http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ - PR7

http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml - PR6

http://www.beanrocket.com/ - PR6

http://www.blinklist.com/ - PR6

http://www.blogmarks.net/ - PR6

http://buddymarks.com/ - PR6

http://www.citeulike.org/ - PR6

http://www.cluebacca.com/ - PR6

http://www.diigo.com/ - PR6

http://www.feedmarker.com/ - PR6

http://frassle.net/ - PR6

http://www.gibeo.net/ - PR6

http://www.hanzoweb.com/ - PR6

http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/ - PR6

http://www.jots.com/ - PR6

http://www.kaboodle.com/ - PR6

http://linkfilter.net/ - PR6

http://www.linkroll.com/ - PR6

http://listmixer.com/ - PR6

http://maple.nu/ - PR6

http://www.mecanbe.com/temp/default.aspx - PR6

http://myprogs.net/ - PR6

http://www.mystickies.com/ - PR6

http://www.netvouz.com/ - PR6

http://www.nowpublic.com/ - PR6

http://www.rollyo.com/ - PR6

http://scuttle.org/ - PR6

http://www.simpy.com/ - PR6

http://www.spurl.net/ - PR6

http://suckingfish.com/welcome.do - PR6

http://supr.c.ilio.us/ - PR6

http://www.tailrank.com/ - PR6

http://www.wists.com/ - PR6

http://www.wurldbook.com/info/ - PR6

http://www.yoono.com/ - PR6

http://www.30daytags.com/fresh - PR5

http://adoppt.com/ - PR5

http://www.ambedo.com/ - PR5

http://www.blogmemes.net/ - PR5

http://www.bookmark-manager.com/ - PR5

http://www.bookmarktracker.com/ - PR5

http://www.browsr.com/ - PR5

https://www.chipmark.com/ - PR5

http://www.connectedy.com/ - PR5

http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/ - PR5

http://www.fantacular.com/ - PR5

http://www.feedalley.com/ - PR5

http://www.filangy.com/index.jsp - PR5

http://www.gather.com/ - PR5

http://gnafi.com/ - PR5

http://www.gravee.com/ - PR5

http://www.igooi.com/ - PR5

http://www.jeteye.com/ - PR5

http://www.kmfavorites.com/ - PR5

http://www.lifelogger.com/ - PR5

http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Home - PR5

http://www.lookupthis.com/online/signin.asp - PR5

http://www.lookmarks.com/ - PR5

http://meneame.net/ - PR5

http://www.millionsofgames.com/ - PR5

http://motor.crispynews.com/ - PR5

http://www.mybookmarkmanager.com/ - PR5

http://www.myhq.com/ - PR5

http://www.mylinkvault.com/ - PR5

http://www.mypip.com/home/ - PR5

http://www.myvmarks.com/ - PR5

http://www.openbm.de/ - PR5

http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ - PR5

http://www.peoplefeeds.com/ - PR5

http://www.phigita.net/ - PR5

http://www.pligg.com/ - PR5

http://www.plugim.com- PR5

http://www.portachi.com/ - PR5

http://www.rrove.com/home - PR5

http://segnalo.alice.it/ - PR5

http://www.shoutwire.com/ - PR5

http://www.sitejot.com/ - PR5

http://www.squidoo.com/ - PR5

http://www.stylehive.com/ - PR5

http://www.tabmarks.com/ - PR5

http://unalog.com/ - PR5

http://uvouch.com/ - PR5

http://yummy.printfu.org/ - PR5

http://www.youtube.com/ - PR5

http://www.zurpy.com/ - PR5

http://aworldofhelp.com/home/index2.htm - PR4

http://www.allmyfavorites.net/ - PR4

http://articletag.com/index.php - PR4

http://www.blinkbits.com/ - PR4

http://www.bmaccess.net/ - PR4

http://www.bookkit.com/ - PR4

http://www.butterflyproject.nl/ - PR4

http://www.clipclip.org/ - PR4

http://www.clipmarks.com/ - PR4

http://www.esnips.com/signin/index.jsp - PR4

http://www.favmark.com/ - PR4

http://3form.com/ - PR4

http://www.givealink.org/ - PR4

http://www.guicookies.com/ - PR4

http://indiagram.com/index.php - PR4

http://www.linkarena.com/ - PR4

http://www.linkologia.pl/ - PR4

http://www.oyax.com/ - PR4

http://www.peoplefeeds.com/ - PR4

http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces - PR4

http://www.stanmx.com/sabrosus/ - PR4

http://www.stylefeeder.com/ - PR4

http://www.taghop.com/ - PR4

http://www.ticklr.net/ - PR4

http://www.urlex.info/ - PR4

http://my.xilinus.com/ - PR4

http://www.de.lirio.us/ - PR3

http://www.eigology.com/dogear/ - PR3

http://dohat.com/dohathome3.html - PR3

http://www.favoor.com/ - PR3

http://feedmelinks.com/portalc - PR3

http://www.flipskipper.com/ - PR3

http://www.i89.us/ - PR3

http://www.lilisto.com/ - PR3

https://ma.gnolia.com/ - PR3

http://www.meme-stream.com/ - PR3

http://www.onlywire.com/ - PR3

http://tagsy.com/ - PR3

http://6-clicks.com/ - PR2

http://www.bloglot.com/ - PR2

http://www.crispynews.com/global - PR2

http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/ - PR2

http://www.indiamarks.com/ - PR2

http://www.listible.com/ - PR2

http://www.sitetagger.com/ - PR2

http://www.smarking.com/ - PR2

http://www.30daytags.com/fresh - PR1

http://www.getboo.com/ - PR1

http://www.syncone.net/ - PR1

http://www.blabb.com/user/blabb.php - PR0

http://bookmarks.blauerbote.com/ - PR0

http://bluedot.us/friends/dots - PR0

http://www.collectfavorites.com/ - PR0

http://www.complore.com/ - PR0

http://www.eggkeg.com/ - PR0

http://www.fatredfish.com/ - PR0

http://www.forumsofindia.com/ - PR0

http://www.fungow.com/ - PR0

http://mybookmark.gokodo.com/ - PR0

http://www.goobtoob.com/ - PR0

http://linkatopia.com/ - PR0

http://www.linklog.nl/ - PR0

http://www.markaboo.com/ - PR0

http://www.minddeposit.com/ - PR0

http://www.pixelmo.com/ - PR0

http://popurls.com/ - PR0

http://recommendit.dehsoftware.com/ - PR0

http://www.reddit.com/ - PR0

http://www.rojo.com/ - PR0

http://say.something-everything.com/ - PR0

http://www.searchles.com/ - PR0

http://www.shoppersbase.com/ - PR0

http://socialbookmarking.org/ - PR0

http://www.taganiche.com/ - PR0

http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag - PR0

http://thumblicio.us/ - PR0

http://www.tutorialism.com/ - PR0

http://www.ticklr.net/ - PR0

http://www.wirefan.com/ - PR0

http://www.clipfire.com// - PR6

These sites do NOT utilize the No Follow tag:

Blinkbits.com

Blogmarks.net

Chipmark.com

Clipmarks.com

Connectedy.com

Digg.com

Dzone.com

Feedmarker.com

Furl.net

I89.us

Indiamarks.com

Jots.com

Linkagogo.com

Linkatopia.com

Ma.gnolia.com

Metafilter.com

Nachoo.com

Rawsugar.com

Reddit.com

Stumbleupon.com

Saysaid.com

Shadows.com

Shoutwire.com

Simpy.com

Sphere.com

Spurl.net

Techtagg.com

List of Social Bookmarking Tools:

Onlywire - Submits to 19 Top Sites with 1 Click

The Socializer - Helps to automate Submission to over 50 sites.

Bookmarking Demon - Get Social Bookmarking automation software and blog commenting software for one small investment!

Take a moment to listen to the Podcast below to utilize these sites to the fullest!

List of Video Hosting Sites, Tools, and Podcast

2009-06-29T03:54:00.000-07:00

http://www.addictingclips.com

http://www.blinkx.tv

http://www.blip.tv

http://www.bofunk.com

http://www.bolt.com

http://www.break.com

http://www.brightcove.com

http://www.castpost.com

http://www.clipshack.com

http://www.dailymotion.com

http://www.dropshots.com

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/tags/video

http://eefoof.com/gallery/videos

http://www.expertvillage.com

http://www.eVideoshare.com

http://www.eyespot.com

http://www.fark.com/video

http://www.fliqz.com

http://www.funniestspace.com

http://www.funnyplace.org

http://www.gofish.com

http://www.grouper.com

http://www.guba.com/home_free

http://www.holylemon.com

http://www.ifilm.com

http://www.imageevent.com

http://www.JuiceCaster.com

http://www.jumpcut.com

http://www.killsometime.com

http://www.leechvideo.com

http://www.lulu.tv

http://www.metacafe.com

http://www.motionbox.com

http://www.myspace.com

http://www.myheavy.com/videos.php

http://www.openvlog.com

http://www.panjea.com

http://photobucket.com/videos/

http://www.pixparty.com

http://www.putfile.com

http://www.revver.com

http://www.sharkle.com

http://www.stickam.com

http://www.stupidvideos.com

http://www.theshoutout.com/

http://www.thevideosense.com/

http://www.tmz.com/videos

http://www.unoriginal.co.uk

http://www.vsocial.com

http://www.vmix.com

http://www.vimeo.com

http://www.vidilife.com

http://video.aol.com

http://video.google.com

http://video.yahoo.com

http://videoaddon.com

http://www.video-clips.co.uk

http://www.videoegg.com

http://www.videowebtown.com

http://www.viewdo.com

http://www.veoh.com

http://www.yikers.com/

http://www.yourkindatv.com

http://www.zaable.com

Video Marketing Tools:

Affiliate Video Brander: This tool allows you to have your affiliates brand your videos and boost their conversions. I personally tested it against a standard email and had an increase of 434% in my own conversions.

Camtasia: This is hands down the top video tool for an internet marketer. Perfect screen captures and powerful audio functions make this the best video software online. Download the 30 day trial and make it pay for its $299 price tag!

TubeMogul: Submits your videos to the top video directories all at once and for free!

Regards,

Sonika Soni

http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Search-based keyword tool: New keyword tool for advertisers

2008-12-09T21:56:00.000-08:00

The Adwords Insider Blog has announced the launch of a new keyword tool for advertisers - the "search-based keyword tool".
Interestingly, it will give keyword suggestions based on spidering data (you supply a domain name - it matches keywords within title and on-page keywords of URL in that site). If you use it for sites within your Adwords account, it won't suggest keywords you're already using.

From an initial play around, it looks like it will be very useful for campaigns that potentially have lots if missed opportunities for good paid keywords - particularly for larger sites where there may be product pages and the like that are easily overlooked. Spreadsheet export is nice too.

Data returned for sites you don't have Adwords for seems pretty screwy, unfortunately ;)

The tool's located at http://www.google.com/sktool/
Regards,
Sonika Soni
http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Good News for (Alcohol) Product sale marketers in UAS

2008-12-08T23:54:00.000-08:00

Google Allows Alcohol in the USA on Search. This is firsrt time when google allowed such type of ads on SERP. I have seen Ads for blackhat SEO also on google SERP.
May be google will allow alcohol Ads in India also
See compleate News at Inside AdWords: An update to the AdWords alcohol policy

Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website

2008-11-19T00:01:00.000-08:00

Google Friend Connect is a much-awaited service from Google that lets you add social features to any website or blog. For instance, your blog readers can join your site (remember MyBlogLog) via their Google Account and then add comments, rate pictures or even interact with other members who are part of your blog.

If you like to see Friend Connect in action, go to Orli Yakuel’s blog and check the Friends widget in the right sidebar – that’s an OpenSocial Apps powered by Google Friend Connect. The Google blog has more details about how Friend Connect works while this press release touches upon some more possible uses of Friend Connect.

Benifits:

* Anyone can join your site with one click by using their existing Google, Yahoo and other accounts.
* Visitors can evangelize for your site by inviting their friends and publishing their activities to their social networks.
* Social gadgets will keep these visitors more deeply engaged with your site, and with each other

Regards,

Sonika Soni

http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Separate metrics for Google and search partners are now available

2008-10-21T03:05:00.001-07:00

Adwords advertisers will (finally!) be able to see separate metrics for Google and the search partners.
One cool feature that isn't mentioned in the post is that there is now a drop-down menu which allows you to choose how you want to see the stats: all rolled up, search rolled up but content separate, or all separate. Very cool.
Search Engine Roundtable has a nice screen shot.

Even more exciting is this upcoming feature, from the blog post
"Additionally, separate Google and aggregate search partner statistics will soon be available in the Report Center."

Yes! While search partners generally perform well for most advertisers, we've been asking for a while for more transparency into what's working and what's not, so we can improve our campaign ROI. Hats off to Google for once again leading the pack in giving us some of the transparency we crave.

Regards,
Sonika Mishra
http://hr-horizons.blogspot.com/

Google Content Central: Grow your audience, reach more users

2008-09-29T04:09:00.000-07:00

Grow your audience - reach more usersGoogle can help you reach out to the world by distributing your content on Google Web Search, Maps, Product Search, iGoogle, and more

Google introduces a new section named as ‘Content Central’ a one point shop for webmasters to submit their websites to various Google services. They also have launched an official blog http://contentcentral.blogspot.com/ from the Content Partnerships team - includes people from the YouTube, Book Search, and the Local/Core Content Partnerships teams;.
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From the Content Central page you can go with the following options:
Submit a URL for inclusion in Google’s index. Increase your visibility by submitting and optimizing your website for Google search, and distributing your content across Google and the web at large
Submit a Sitemap through Webmaster Tools.
List your business in Local Business Center. Drive traffic by sharing information about your business - whether it's customers through your front door or users to your website.

Also YouTube and Product Search are available at present. Grow your audience by promoting and distributing your media to millions of Google users around the world.
You can also submit different types of content such as:
Website
Business Info
Events
Gadgets
Real Estate Listings
Blogs
RSS and much more…
Regards,

Sonika Mishra

Google's 10th birthday celebration

2008-09-25T02:46:00.000-07:00

Our Favourite Internet company Google is 10 years old and they have launched a special section on their website marking this milestone. This section presents a timeline with major developments at the company. Check out its interactive timeline, Project 10 to the 100, and stories about how to use their products.

For More Info : Click Here-->http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/

Regards,

Sonika Mishra

http://www.einduztry.com/

Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

2008-07-24T02:16:00.001-07:00

Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles

Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects.“, “The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content.”
The main principle of Knol is the “moderated collaboration”, meaning that the readers can suggest changes of a knol and the author will accept it or not. It’s the author’s option to include ads from the AdSense program, and to be paid this way.
It will become Google Knol a better authoritative source than Wikipedia? The fact that the articles will be owned by Google and paid through AdSense tells us that there will be a heaven for spammers (it seems that already Knol articles are better placed than Wikipedia in the Google search results). Also, comment links don’t have rel=nofollow, untill now, at least. It depends on how Google will manage it. On the other hands, the payment of the article will attract more and better authors than Wikipedia.
Anyway, unlike Wikipedia, where the articles are managed and valued by the community, in Google Knol the articles are managed by the authors and valued by the users.

For more information log on to Google official Blog.

Regards

sonika

Google's latest update the "Dewey" April 2008.

2008-07-24T02:16:00.000-07:00

Well, you probably already know about the new Google update. While the last several updates don’t have a distinctive name, this past update which came roaring in during March and April wreaking havoc to all SEO’s deserves a name like a great storm- this one named “Dewey” after a code word used in Matt Cutt’s blog. Following is some of the information I have been able to collect on Dewey, hopefully giving SEO’s information that can be useful for their clients and websites.

The Dewey update has ruined many spammy sites.

1) Old sites that have bought paid links suddenly dropped down Google's index around the end of February, early March. This seems to be particularly affecting thin affiliate sites.

2) Cache data has been inaccurate and appallingly unrefreshed even though the index reports that new content and links are working. Which is probably due to the delay with which an update gets rolled out accross the multiple data centers.

3) New sites take an excruciatingly long time be indexed whereas up until late February/early March it was a fairly quick and painless process. We have seen clients crawler activity diminish. Googlebot seems slot to drop out the old URLs as well.

4) Site: queries don't match up with inurl: queries. There doesn't seem to be a tremendous amount of consistency in the number of results returned based on queries that should return the same number. Less relevant results have floated to the top of many queries because more relevant pages have either dropped out of the index or have been penalized for having most of their inbound links being reciprocal or paid.

Many directories have fallen off the map as well. I would recommend comparing your rankings in multiple data centers using the SEO chat tool. one more thing that domain name values are diminished the links pointing to them that use unbranded keywords are not therefore a domain like cars.com continues to have value because people will link to it using the unbranded keyword "cars".

Hope this update help you in understanding goolgle Algo.

Thanks,

Sonika

Google Adwords Update July 17th

2008-07-17T23:44:00.000-07:00

Now keywords and placements can work together in your AdWords campaigns. Set placement bids to improve your content network results or mix keywords and placements to pinpoint the best pages for your ads.

If you log into your AdWords account, click on a campaign, and then click on an adgroup, you’ll see the following new feature.

Google’s Inside Adwords blog explains this new feature:
Keywords and placements - together!

As of today, both keywords and placements can be targeted in all AdWords campaigns. Use both to get better control and pricing power on the content network.

#What can you do with keywords plus placements?

* Bid more or less for specific placements. Let contextual targeting with keywords place your ads across the content network, while you set placement bids for sites that have a special value for you.
Selling soccer shoes? You might bid £1.00 for clicks from any content network pages that match your keywords, but £2.00 when those clicks come from a soccer fan site that's converted well for you in the past.

* Show your ad only when both keywords and placements match. You'll get the benefits of keyword targeting while also limiting the places where your ad can appear. For instance, set your campaign to appear only on your favourite soccer fan site and only when the site content matches the keyword soccer shoes. You may see less traffic, but AdWords contextual matching will help to make sure your placement pages are highly targeted.

Placements are always optional. They're an advanced feature with no impact on your search network advertising. You can add keywords or placements to existing ad groups or you can leave those campaigns as they are and create new ones with keywords plus placements.

* Search volume statistics in the Keyword Tool
You can now see statistics on the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords. This data allows you to better plan your budget and pick keywords that are most likely to return quality leads, which in turn can help improve your ROI.

for more information please check google official blog

32 Useful AdWords Tips for Intermediate to Experienced Users

2008-06-14T02:01:00.000-07:00

This is by no means a definitive list। Here are just some straight forward tips that I have learned over the years from experience with pay-per-click, AdWords in particular, as well techniques I have learned from gurus’ books and newsletters.

I am not merely repeating a combined list. These are in my words, and in no particular order. I believe in all of these and am currently using or have used these techniques in the past for multiple client accounts.
Some of these might require more explanation, which you are welcome to ask for here.Each are split into categories that should help for reference.
Improving CTR & Conversions
1.) Use the core/parent adgroup keyword three times in the ad text and display URL.
2.) Bid on all three match types for every keyword/keyphrase: broad, phrase, and exact.(This will get you more clicks for your money).
3.) Bid higher on terms that have been converting well.
4.) If continual ad performance improvement is one of your goals, on campaign settings, change Ad Serving to “Rotate: Show ads more evenly” from the default “Optimize: Show better performing ads more often. Then A/B split test your ads.
5.) Sign up for LowerYourBidPrice’s Winner Alert’s, letting you know which ad wins statistically without having to manually check every adgroup all day long.
6.) Use a relevant call to action in your ads (Avoid clichés such as “Click here.” which won’t be approved by Google anyway).
7.) Here are 13 calls to action verbiage ideas: Browse our store, Submit Your RFP (RFI), See our client list, Free Shipping, Order today, ship tonight. Download our brochure, Free Consultation, Free demo, Free quote, Free Report, Start now, Call 24/7.
8.) Make ad display URLs more relevant by adding a slash /keyword. Example Keyword: ladies Kurtis. ttp://www.swaniexportsindia.com/ladies_top_kurti_exporter.htm
9.) Make separate ad groups for keyword plurals for better bolding (note YSM bolds plurals in ads, Google does not, unless keyword is plural and keyword in ad is plural).
10.) Use prices in ads if:-Lower than competition-Competitors are not using prices.-You are selling highly competitive commodity item in which people shop on price.
*May reduce CTR, but improve conversion rate by weeding out a certain percentage of non-buyers.
11.) Use specifics in ads: Percentages, names, product specs. Examples: Raise profits by 25%. Cut margins by 20%. Decrease skin oil by 10%.
12.) Use quotes & third party endorsements when factual and can be verified by Google. Ebert “Best movie 2007.” Oprah “My top five book.”
13.) From time to time use hyphens instead of commas as a slightly less common, and possibly more attention grabbing grammar tool.
14.) Use the words New and Free when true and appropriate.
Account Efficiency Techniques and Time Savers
15.) Download the AdWords Editor to copy and paste campaigns and adgroups easily (a must before doing #16)
16.) Separate & duplicate all campaigns and use one for Google + search partners and the other for the content network so you can see how each is doing from quick bird’s eye view without having to drill into each campaign.
17.) Clean out account of keywords with zero impressions after two months.
18.) Cross channel all other ppc platforms in order to see clicks and conversions from Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, Miva, Business.com, etc, all from your AdWords interface.
19.) Download account info into a csv using the AdWords Editor and send it to Yahoo! and MSN so they can bulk upload it. Do this after thoroughly optimizing the account, so your other ppc platforms mirror the same structure and keywords as your efficient AdWords account.
**Yahoo! is doing this for free just for a limited time because of the platform change. They will accept bulk uploads regularly if you spend 6k a month for three months. MSN only offers you one chance to do this. Give them a call and get the details.
Optimizing & Cutting Untargeted/Wasted Clicks
20.) Incorporate account wide and adgroup negative keywords by studying raw query strings which trigger your ads and eliminating non-relevant terms.
Increase Targeted Local Traffic
21.) For every campaign, duplicate it. Have one campaign that is manually geo-targeted for generic key terms/phrases and the other campaign for the same terms but with city and/or state added to the beginning or end. Example, one campaign has an adgroup for the key phrase Contract lawyer dallas which shows to all of US, another campaign adgroup had the generic key term contract lawyer, but will only show in Dallas.
22.) On the city/state stemmed keyword campaigns and adroups, use the state or city terms in the ad description text for more bolding and higher CTR.
Decreasing Cost Per Click
23.) If working with a larger budget, and you plan on constantly improving your ads, bid high to be #1 long enough to allow quality score to continually decrease your cpc.
24.) Enable content bids and bid separately for the content network. Typically start ½ - 2/3 lower and bid higher according to conversion rate.
Ad Space Savers
25.) Instead of using the word “and” use an ampersand (&). It takes up two less characters and gives you more room to sell.
26.) Use certain understood and acceptable abbreviations to save space.
Using AdWords As Market Research for SEO
27.) In the Reports tab, run a keyword report and look at high search impressions (not content targeting) on exact matches. Check for organic competition under those, and put your organic SEO efforts toward those keywords for even more clicks and conversions.
28.) Use a savvy analytics supplement to GA and study the raw query strings (GA does not show without special scripts and/or filters) that triggered your Google ads. Use the relevant buffering terms for added SEO as well as specific and relevant keywords for new ads.
29.) Keep ads running even when high on organic search for specific keywords. Having an organic listing and an ad has a 1 + 1 = 3 reinforcing each other and increasing the likelihood at least one will be clicked.
Miscellaneous No Brainers
30.) Set up at least two conversion codes. This is a no brainier and belongs on a beginner’s list. If you don’t do this, you are flying blind or basing results on the “gut feeling” email leads and incoming calls are coming from ads and web presence.
31.) Apply for pay-per-action and use it. Bid according to how much you are currently paying for leads. If you don’t know that, run a keyword report and find out how much you have to spend before a click turns into a lead. This should be simple if you have your conversion codes set up.
32।) Progress through numbers 1-31, constantly improve, and repeat.

Thanks & Regards,
Swani SEO
http://ww.swaniexportsindia.com

I have lost my rankings, Google has dropped me

2008-05-12T02:34:00.000-07:00

Okay it seems like a trend hitting us lately. "My rankings have disappeared", "Google hates me", "my competitor who only has 2 links is beating my 23 billion links"

I am going to attempt to explain some of this in the hopes it might help clear out some of these excess threads. I hope I do a good job of it. Please let me know if I am unclear about something.

First I should explain what causes rankings to drop and/or fluctuate. There are a variety of reasons. Here are a few:

1. Some of backlinks to the site have been disvalued or are no longer around
2. A competitor has gotten the edge on you and taken your positions. Generally only a loss of a couple of positions is effected by this.
3. New algo changes that put more value on a certain factor or dis value another factor.
4. Earthquake... site structure disrupted causing pages to be down/missing etc
5. Penalization or banning

Okay I will not attempt to explain each one.

1 - Some of backlinks to the site have been disvalued
Where are the majority of your backlinks coming from? Reciprocal, links pages, directories? If so it is likely they have been disvalued/discredited by Google. This happens overtime. These are the easiest forms of linkbuilding and as such are not seen as very high quality by Google.
The relevancy of the directory/links page has a great deal to do with how much value is originally passed and whether it will be disvalued. Directories or links pages that allow irrelevant, low quality trash to be listed will lower the value of your link. As more of such links are added the value of your link drops even lower. This can cause rankings to drop. Directories and links pages which only have a few links which are related, preferably authority and high quality will have the most value and are not likely to be disvalued that much. That is why it is a good idea to watch where you get your links and to make sure it is quality and selective.

There are sites created for the sole purpose of building links. They put up some make-shift content and then allow webmasters to add links. Such pages generally lose value quite quickly as more and more sites are added. A good many of these are lower quality sites as well.

When reciprocating links look for quality sites which are particular about who they exchange links with. Sites that have only a few link exchanges instead of 500 pages of links.
Sites who are careful who they exchange with will hold their value much better and you will get more out of the exchange. Sites which exchange links directly on content pages have a much higher value and tend to not lose value, instead the value is likely to rise if the content is good and draws links from other sites.

You must be very careful that you know who your linking to.

2 - A competitor has gotten the edge on you
This generally only effects a few position changes. Such as a drop of 1-2-3 positions. However if you are slacking and haven't been working as hard as you should to keep your rankings then a good many of your competitors could rise above you just because they are still working and you aren't.
A good many sites in business fields pay for continued seo/link building so if you stop working you will likely go backward.

Also some of these factors I am mentioning combined may do alot of damage. Say you are slacking on your links and not only that but the links you are getting are low quality links which are being disvalued overtime. Your competitor on the other hand is building up linkbait, or content/tools which are attracting a huge amount of link love. Some of these links are of very high value. In such a situation you could lose alot of ground. That is why I always suggest building up the quality of the site. The backlinks will follow. Without a good quality site you are going NOWHERE!

3 - New algo changes that put more value on a certain factor or disvalue another factor.
This factor is similiar to the first, actually it is the same in a way. Algo changes can put more or less value on a certain factor resulting in lose of rankings.
Google seems to be updating as they please lately which means you will see changes all the time. Massive updates such as the bigdaddy can cause alot of unhappy webmasters though. But again this is generally because of disvalution of low quality links or because Google is finding new ways of deciding your site is not as good as they once thought. Google is getting smarter.

4 - Site structure disruption
If the page that used to rank well suddenly disappears and is not immediately fixed the ranking is likely to also disappear.
When moving to new pages use 301 redirects from the old to the new but if at all possible keep the old pages as it is better safe than sorry.

5 - Penalization or banning
You need to understand the difference here. When your site is banned a site:mydomain.com query will show no site. However a new site will also appear this way until indexed so you can't be sure a site is banned unless you know for a fact it once was indexed. Also as long as there is atleast ONE PAGE indexed you are not banned.

Your site can be penalized without you even knowing.
Don't use methods such as hidden text, cloaking, or other bh techniques. Some sites do rank WHILE using these methods but NOT because of them. When in fact removing them could improve their rankings. -30, -49, -950 and other such penalties are myths IMO. I have yet to see prove of them. Ohh no today my site dropped 7 positions. I got the -7 penalty. This is nonesense.
Design and build your site as though search engines were none existent. Design and build your site for the visitor not the spider. If you do this you will find your sites are more quality and will actually rank much better, because links are more easily obtained.

So to end if you have recently lost rankings it is probably a result of one of the above factors. I suggest you work on building up the quality of your site as a whole and your pages, create new content regularly, write on unique subjects(within your niche) which other bloggers miss. Provide answers to questions not easily found, provide an easy navigation both for your visitors and your robot friends. Create a HTML sitemap - the xml version is not needed.

Google is working at a more relevant search engine than even now. Content is a very high priority. Don't under-estimate that. I can't over-stress that. And I mean content as in Wiki quality content. That is content, it is unique, quality and very informative. As such it attracts links very well. I am not saying create your own wiki. I am saying create wiki-quality article. If you do you will soon find webmasters linking to you because of it.

Doing this will improve your chances of using your site as a linkbait in and of itself. This will cause webmasters to link to you without you even asking. This type of linkbuilding is the most effective, highest value and easiest to get.

Build sites based on your knowledge. Don't start a mesothelioma site JUST BECAUSE it has high CPC. Build sites based on subjects you are very knowledgeable in, are excited about and which you can provide useful information of. These types of sites perform very well in Google.
I see many of the ranking drops for sites that are not following this method. The webmasters of a good many of these sites are not very knowledgeable about the subject they are writing about but they thought there was some good money behind it.
As google develops sites like this will continue to drop. Instead of blaming Google use the tips I gave to create sites on what you know.
Thanks,
Swani mishra
http://www.einduztry.com/

AdWords and Search Advertising Terms

2008-04-29T23:17:00.000-07:00

Account: A Google AdWords account provides the Web space in which you design and operate a campaign. Opening an account costs nothing; activating your account costs five dollars. Account holders have access to Google’s keyword research and traffic estimation tools, even before activation. Therefore, you can conceive and budget a complete ad campaign before spending a dime.

Activation: To activate a Google AdWords account, you select a payment method and currency and provide billing details. After you activate an account, you’re ready to launch a campaign.

Activation fee: A five-dollar fee is charged when AdWords advertisers first activate their accounts. An additional five-dollar fee is imposed every third time you reactivate a campaign after Google has stopped it due to underperformance.

Actual cost-per-click: As compared to cost-per-click, the actual cost-per-click is the billable amount charged by Google when a searcher clicks your ad. This amount might be the same as or lower than your maximum bid for your ad placement, but it’s never higher.

Ad Group: The main subdivision of an ad Campaign, an Ad Group consists of one or more ads associated with one or more keywords. Keywords define the Ad Group. New Ad Groups in a Campaign are associated with different keywords, though they might have the same ads.

AdRank: Advertisements are placed in sequence based on AdRank, with the top-ranked ad at the top of the column. AdRank is measured as a combination of bid value (maximum CPC set by the advertiser) and clickthrough rate (CTR). Successful ads with high CTRs are sometimes ranked and placed higher than less successful ads with higher CPC bids. The measurement, ranking, and placement of ads are automated.

AdWords column: The right-hand stack of AdWords advertisements on a Google search results page. Ads are placed in that column according to AdRank, which is a calculation of maximum CPC and clickthrough rate.

Affiliate (aff): Affiliate marketers direct their clickthroughs to third-party destinations that sell products or services. The affiliate receives a commission when the clickthrough results in a sale. Google’s guidelines require advertisers to indicate in their ad copy if they’re engaging in affiliate marketing. To save space, the aff abbreviation is often used.

Broad match: The default keyword-matching setting in Google AdWords. Broad match displays your ad on search results pages that match your keywords and a large peripheral universe of keywords that Google determines is relevant — so your ads appear on the results pages of keywords you might not have directly chosen. Broad match is an easy way to spread your ad out to keywords that haven’t occurred to you. In choosing this option, however, you’re relying on Google’s relevancy algorithm to choose keywords related to your selections. (See also keyword-matching options, expanded match, exact match, and negative match.)

Call to action: Google recommends using short phrases that command the viewer to do something. These calls to action encourage clickthroughs with phrases such as “Learn more,” or “Download now for free.” Some marketers dispute the effectiveness of calls to action. A good way to test the value of calls to action is to use multiple ads in an ad group, some with calls to action and others without.
Campaign: The largest subdivision of a Google AdWords account, a Campaign holds one or more Ad Groups. Campaigns can be paused, resumed, budgeted, networked, and scheduled — these settings affect all Ad Groups simultaneously and equally. Ad Groups have their own settings for finer control.

Clickthrough: Clickthroughs occur when a viewer clicks your AdWords ad. Clicking through generates a charge to your account.

Clickthrough rate (CTR): The CTR is a calculation of an ad’s clickthroughs divided by its impressions (the number of times it’s displayed). CTR measures the effectiveness of an ad.

Content network: Non-search-engine sites that publish Google AdWords make up the Google content network. These sites participate in the AdSense or premium AdSense programs. AdWords advertisers decide whether or not they want to release their ads to this expanded network.

Content-targeted ads: AdWords ads targeted to the information pages of the content network and distributed through Google’s AdSense program.
Control Center: The Control Center is the entire suite of ad-creation and campaign-reporting tools located in Google AdWords.

Conversion: Conversion occurs when a site visitor performs an action planned and desired by the Webmaster. In a business context, conversion usually involves a capture of information (such as registering at the site or joining a mailing list) or a transaction (such as buying a product). In the context of AdWords, conversion is the final step of a successful clickthrough.

Conversion rate: A calculation determined by dividing a site’s conversions by AdWords clickthroughs. Conversion rate measures the success of an AdWords ad and, ultimately, the return on investment (ROI) of the campaign.

Conversion tracking: A tool in the AdWords Control Center that measures conversions resulting from ad clickthroughs.

Cost-per-click (CPC): The maximum or billable cost of a viewer clicking an AdWords ad. In Google’s system, unlike competing systems (at the time of this writing), actual CPC is often lower than the maximum CPC established by the advertiser. Cost-per-click is assigned to an entire Ad Group, or to individual keywords of that Ad Group, or both. You can think of your maximum CPC as a bid for placement in the AdWords column.

Cost-per-thousand (CPM): A measurement of the cost for each thousand impressions (displays) of an ad. CPM is not used in Google AdWords, which employs a cost-per-click (CPC) system. However, some other search engines sell advertising on a CPM basis.

Creative: The text copy of an AdWords ad. Google is reducing its use of this word to describe ad text, but it remains in widespread use in forums and articles about the AdWords program.
Daily budget: Set at the Campaign level, the daily budget establishes a ceiling on Campaign expenses. Google recommends a daily Campaign budget based on projected impression frequency and clickthrough rate. The actual ceiling is set by the advertiser.

Destination URL: Not necessarily visible in the ad, the destination URL points to the ad’s landing page.

Display URL: Visible in the ad, the display URL doesn’t necessarily match the destination URL. The main purpose of a different display URL is to reduce the destination URL to a size that fits in the small ad box. The shortened URL makes it easy for viewers to see the ad’s target site before clicking.

Distribution preference: This setting allows the advertiser to release or not release a Campaign’s ads to Google’s content networks.

Exact match: One of Google’s keyword-matching options, exact match forces Google to display your ads only on search results pages that exactly match your selected keyword or key phrase. Exact match may be selected for individual keywords in an Ad Group. (See also keyword-matching options, broad match, expanded match, and negative match.)

Expanded match: Expanded matches are variations of your selected keywords (such as plurals, synonyms, and misspellings) that Google deems relevant and helpful to your ad’s success. Expanded matching is included in the broad match option. (See also keyword-matching options, broad match, exact match, and negative match.)

Geo-targeting: Google enables advertisers to target ads by geographic region, according to a preset list of countries, American states, and certain American metropolitan areas. Geo-targeting works by identifying the searcher’s IP (Internet Protocol) address, thereby locating the searcher geographically. Geo-targeted ads are displayed only to searchers viewing Google in the targeted area.

Google advertising network: The total reach of Google AdWords, consisting of Google.com, Google Groups, the Google Directory, and Froogle, plus its search partners (AOL Search, Netscape, AskJeeves, and others), and the Google content network of AdSense sites.

Impression: A single ad displayed on a user’s screen.

Keyword: The specific word combinations and phrases users search on and advertisers bid on.
Keyword Suggestion Tool: This interactive tool is Google’s in-house keyword generator for AdWords users. The Keyword Suggestion Tool spits out long lists of words and phrases related to a selected keyword.

Keyword-matching options: Google offers four keyword-matching options for expanding or restricting how your ads match keyword searches. These options are broad, expanded, exact, and negative. Refining the keywordmatching options can turn around a faltering campaign.

Landing page: A Web page represented by the destination URL. The landing page usually seeks to convert visitors to customers.

Negative match: This option prohibits an ad being displayed once a negative term has been applied. (See also keyword-matching options, broad match, exact match, and expanded match.)

Optimization: In the context of Google AdWords, optimization has nothing to do with Web site design. AdWords optimization is about the distribution of multiple ads in an Ad Group. Google tracks the relative success of ads and manages their rotation accordingly. This optimization can be turned off by advertisers who prefer a random rotation of ads in an Ad Group.

Overdelivery: Overdelivery refers to Google’s optimization allowance. In the Terms of Service agreement, Google is permitted to exceed your daily budget by 20 percent but must reconcile this overdelivery of ad impressions (and resulting clickthroughs) every month. Your monthly budget, which is determined by multiplying the daily budget 30 or 31 times, can’t be overcharged. Furthermore, if Google overshoots the daily budget by more than 20 percent, it issues an overdelivery credit for the additional clickthroughs.

Paid placement: Search result listings paid by sponsors, these listings might be indistinguishable from index results. Some search engines accept paid placement as a form of advertising, but Google does not.

Pay-per-click (PPC): Pay-per-click is another term for cost-per-click (CPC).

Phrase match: One of Google’s four keyword-matching options, phrase match forces Google to restrict the placement of your ad to search results pages that exactly match your key phrase, including matching the word order. Other words might be included in the user’s keyword string, but the exact phrase specified in your phrase match must be present.

Return on investment (ROI): A general business and advertising term, return on investment measures the profitability of a campaign. Simplified, ROI calculates a formula by which expenses are subtracted from sales to measure revenue gain. As an AdWords measurement, ROI is about conversions exceeding clickthrough expenses.

Rotation: Rotation is the formula by which multiple ads in an Ad Group are selected for display. In Google, rotation may be random or optimized.
Start and end dates: Google enables AdWords advertisers to determine in advance the start and end dates of a Campaign.

Traffic Estimator: The Traffic Estimator is an indispensable tool in the AdWords Control Center that enables advertisers to gauge the clickthrough rates of individual keywords

Thanks & regards,

Swani Mishra

http://www.swaniexportsindia.com/

Free Social Bookmarking Networks

2008-01-02T02:25:00.000-08:00

Free Social Bookmarking Networks

A1-Webmarks - a free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking

Aboogy- create a list of links to the Web sites that You like! - createcategories of Web sites that are logical to You only! - access them all in just one click! - access them from any computer in the world! - keep them for your eyes only

Backflip- Web-based bookmarks under your control and privacy. Free, easy-to-usetool that automatically organizes personal bookmarks into a searchable hierarchical directory

BandBuzzer- a free social bookmarking website for independent music bands andartists of every genre. It allows you to vote for the bands you loveand thus make them more popular or to submit your own band to the website and thus showcase your work to thousands of music hungry visitors

BibSonomy- a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. When discovering a bookmark or a publication on the web, you can store it on our server. You can add tags to your entry to retrieve it more easily.This is very similar to the bookmarks/favorites that you store within your browser. The advantage of BibSonomy is that you can access your data from where ever you are. Furthermore, you can discover more bookmarks and publications from your friends and other people

Blinklist- allows you to rapidly bookmark, label and comment on any web page on the Internet. Your sites are organized intuitively using a new system called 'tagging'. You can then access your list of sites from anymachine or share your lists with anyone on the Internet

BlinkPro- subscription service caters to the needs of sophisticated researchers, librarians, teachers, and other professionals for whom Weband Internet research is a vital part of their careers. BlinkPro makesall of your vital Internet-based data available from any computer atany time: at work, at home, or on the road. And because its asubscription-based service, BlinkPro doesn't bombard you with advertising or annoying email marketing. Today, BlinkPro is managing millions of bookmarks for its rapidly growing member base

BlogMarks- a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-wordtagging. Build on a blog basis, BlogMarks is an open and free technology

BlogMemes - International network of social bookmarking and news search engine

Blue Dot - Social networking service that allows users to save and share bookmarks

Blue Smiley Organizer - Manage Bookmarks, Contacts, Diary, To-Do List, Reminder, Knowledge

Bookmark Base- a feature-rich application. You can use it the way you like: just for checking bookmarks for validity, for transferring bookmarks from one PC to another or for synchronizing bookmarks between different browsers on one PC

Bookmark Buddy- a sophisticated yet intuitive favorites organizer and login manager that keeps your Internet favorites, log-in details and notes secure and accessible no matter what browser you're using. It also lets you organize program, document and folder shortcuts with the same simplicity and reliability

Bookmark Commando - Allows you to securely store bookmarks, view them through any web access device anywhere you access the Web

Bookmark Magic- Get fast and easy access to your bookmarks online from any Internet-connected computer with the free Site Bar service at BookmarkMagic.com. Browse through your bookmarks in an explorer-like fashion or in a standard internet directory way. Integrate the service in your browser for fast and easy access. Import/export bookmarks from/to different formats like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox,Opera, RSS, XBEL. Make some bookmarks private, share other bookmark with others,use different skins, etc. It currently supports 23different languages. Test the service by logging in asdemo@bookmarkmagic.com and password: demo

Bookmark Tracker - Web-based bookmark database service that will keep track of your bookmarks for you

BookmarkSync- a social bookmark community offering real-time automatic synchronization services that allow you to access your bookmarks and favorites from any computer or any browser, anywhere in the world.Real-time RSS feeds power your PC and mobile devices

Bookmarx- Nifty utility which will scan all your Netscape bookmarks and/or IE Favorites and notify you when each Link changes, or becomes invalid

Bookmax.net - you can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you need

BuddyMarks.com - store all your bookmarks on-line and be able to get to them from anywhere

CiteULike- a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library

ClickMarks- Manage your book marks on-line. Get Global access, Single up-to-date bookmark set, Complete Privacy, and the Coolest Management Tools for Your Bookmarks

Clipmarks- clip and save just the stuff you want from any web page.Then sign in with your free account to search, browse and share your clipmarks. You can also search the Public Clipmarks to see what's being clipped and who's clipping it. Find information that matters to you and connect with other members of the Clipmarks community who share your interests

CommonTimes - An interactive news site where you select the top stories and share your views about the day's events

Complore- derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research). As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds, from traditional research areas such as the sciences and engineering to non-traditional fields such as theater and music,through collaboration and networking and provide them a common platformto collectively explore their areas of interest. Thus complore provides people to think and work as a team

Connectedy.com- lets you establish a personal link directory online. As you surf the web, you collect links, categorize them in a way that makes sense to you, and optionally make them visible to others on the web

Connotea - free online reference management service for scientists to store or share articles and links

de.lirio.us - Open source clone of del.icio.us with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and notes

del.icio.us- a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites youlike to your personal collection of links, to categorize those siteswith keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others. Once you've registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser. When you find a web page you'd like to add to your list, you simply select thedel.icio.us bookmarklet, and you'll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others

Digg- a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community(that would be you). After you submit content, other digg users read your submission and digg what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see

Diigo- (dee'go) is about "Social Annotation". By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search,easy sharing and interactions, Diigo offers a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform for knowledge users, and in the process,turns the entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive media

Dohat.com - Store your web bookmarks/favorites on the web

Dude, Check This Out! - a tool to create a blog-level abstraction of the Internet

EasyBM- allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites without telling the world which sites they are regularly visiting

Favmark- Bookmark management and favorite management. Synchronise your bookmarks between computers. Share your favorites with your friends on your blog or website quickly, easily and for free

Favoor.com- is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses. Add notes. Simply and elegant, access your data whereeveryou are online

Finety - a tool for you to manage your Bookmarks online

Frassle - helps you read and publish weblogs, track bookmarks,and find relevant content organized your way

Freelink.org- Provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime.Better than bookmarks, these pages are always available to you and they are free

Furl- a free service that saves a personal copy of any page you find on theWeb, and lets you find it again instantly by searching your archive ofpages. It's your Personal Web. Furl offers the best ways to share the content you find on the Web, and recommends new Web pages that mayinterest you. You can also search Furl to find the best sites that other people are saving

GlobusPort - Free online bookmarks manager and a starting page service

Google Bookmarks - Allows users to save and create bookmarks that can be accessed anywhere

GUIcookies - dynamic bookmark manager that leverages the benefits of drag-and-drop technology

Hotlist Anywhere- An online hotlist manager for people who access the Web from multiple locations. Full-featured interface also lets you send bookmarks toother users, remove duplicate URLs, and much more

HumDigg - an Indian community news site that gives editorial controls to the people who use it. This is done through "Stamps"

HydraLinks - utility offered by iLor that streamlines the way hyperlinks are accessed, managed, and shared

Hyperlinkomatic - bookmark list manager

IC Soft, Inc.- offers software including a tool for database application developers,a web-based project management system, and a bookmark manager

iFaves- a new, free bookmark manager that saves users time and frustration by replacing the "add-to-favorites" functionality of existing browsers with features such as remote access, instant sharing, descriptive notes, tag-based organization and a customizable start page

iKeepBookmarks.com - Pop up feature allows you to add links while surfing the web

itList - keep your favorite sites and email addresses on the Web

Jots - collaborative bookmarking system that allows users to store, share, and discover relevant links

Kaboodle - makes it easy to collect, organize, and share information for shopping, travel or any other research

KMFavorites- Store your bookmarks online. Register, sign in and add your favorites to your personal online bookmark database. You also can browser the public bookmarks and add them to your online favorites or make yours public

Link2Mark - User-friendly, wap access, import/export capabilities and privacy

Linkroll- a free link blogging service. At a personal level you can bookmark,categorize and comment on all the great web pages/links you find. All your bookmarks are then sortable and searchable by category and date.All bookmarks are also accessible, by category and/or user, in the form of RSS feed (for your news aggregator), or JavaScript (for syndicationon your own web site)

Links2Go - Link directory service that also supports "personal" link management on their server

LiveFavorites - a sleek web-based manager for your bookmarks, RSS feeds, contacts and memos. Use it to access to your favorite information from any Internet connection

Lounge - Share, Store and Tag Your Favourite Links

Ma.gnolia - where people discover, save and share the best of online life

MarkaBoo- Bookmark websites, files and notes side-by-side from your browser,email, or mobile phone to organize your data and share it with others.The source code is Creative Commons to encourage collaboration

memFrag- Online bookmark & personal information storage. Toolbars for web browser integration make storing & retrieving online bookmarks justas easy as using your browser's current system. Your existing bookmarkscan be imported with ease and the built in search engine makes finding information you've previously stored a snap. The fast, Ajax enabled web interface allows you to manage your bookmarks easily. Upcoming features include the saving of every page you bookmark, when you bookmark it, so you can see it again even if the site is taken offline or changes

MindDeposit- developed specifically for ambitious individuals with personalpurpose. It combines journaling, blogging and networking with new waysto record, categorize and organize your posts. Mind Deposit encourages you to invest in you -- to develop, cultivate and create your "self."

Mobleo- allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends, family, and colleagues using your desktop computer. Simply add your links to your link pool and organize them into related groups using tags for instant access on your mobile phone

MURL - My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks Community

My Bookmark Manager - manage and store your bookmarks online for easy retrieval from any computer at anytime

MyBookmarks- access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Free productivity tool for business, student or personal use. Benefits: fast and simple; no banner ads. Unique "remark" facility allows one click import from either Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers

myFavorites Anywhere- a web based application that lets you store favorites on a web server so they can accessed from any computer with Internet access

myHq - Clean, banner advertising free site for managing your bookmarks in aunique tabular format. Allows complete control over color/background/fonts. You can also import/export bookmarks fromNetscape/IE/Opera

MyLinkVault- a free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be soclumsy to use - trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow andfrustrating. With MyLinkVault, we've created an easy drag-and-dropinterface, so you can rearrange your links and categories quickly andeasily - it's just as easy as rearranging the icons on your WindowsDesktop

MyWebDesktop - a collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as "generic" and easy to use as a telephone and email

Netvouz- a free social bookmarks manager where you can store your favoritelinks online and access them from any computer. On Netvouz you get yourown bookmarks page which gives a good overview of your favorite websites and easy access to them. You organize your bookmarks incategories and tag each bookmark with keywords and can then browse themby category or tag, or search for them. Public/private bookmarkssupport, intranet bookmarks, Hotpicks for your most used bookmarks,regularly validates your links, import/export capabilities, RSS feeds,easily add new bookmarks via the Add2Netvouz button (bookmarklet),clean user interface, no advertising. Also available in Swedish!

Newo17 - is a new search generation system where you can bookmark and vote for web pages

Online Bookmark Manager- a free bookmark & favorites service. Store and manage yourpersonal link list in the world wide web. Keep your bookmarks in syncbetween multiple computers. Join the Online Bookmark Manager now. Signup in a few seconds and test it

openBM - a little tool for everybody. openBM just keep's your bookmarks and provides them for other people on the web

PeerMark - Automatically organize and share your favorite browser bookmarks. Requires Windows XP, Windows 2000

Philippine Country Bookmarks- Store all your favourite links in one place, accessible fromanywhere. Share your bookmarks with everyone, with friends on yourwatchlist or just keep them private. Tag your bookmarks with as manylabels as you want, instead of wrestling with folders

Pluck Web Edition (PWE)- manages your bookmarks and research in a central location that youcan access from any browser. You can easily store, annotate andinteractively share links and folders with friends and coworkers

Powermarks- Award Winning Bookmark Manager and Personal Search Engine for theInternet. Backup and synchronize your bookmarks across the Internet,browser independent, and the innovative search interface provides fastand easy access to your bookmarks

RawSugar- a social search engine powered by user contributions. We're an onlinecommunity, with over 130,000 URLs already tagged by our members. Findthe answers you need by incrementally selecting member-designated tagsto refine your search. RawSugar's patented technology determines thebest topics you can apply

Save Your Links - Bookmark and favorites manager with anywhere access to your public and private accounts

Scuttle- Store all your favourite links in one place, accessible fromanywhere. Share your bookmarks with everyone, with friends on yourwatchlist or just keep them private. Tag your bookmarks with as manylabels as you want, instead of wrestling with folders

Searchles- the intelligent social search platform that gets smarter every timeyou use it. We take popular Internet tools like bookmarking, taggingand sharing content and fully integrate them with in-depth searchfeatures. This means that you, your friends and the Searchles communitycan actually do something that matters -- discover, connect, find,share, collaborate and discuss - rather than wondering, "Why the heckam I posting content on this site? What's in it for me and my friends?"

SearchFox- is a privately held company, founded in December 2004. Our mission isto help people collaboratively search, organize and publishinformation. Our BETA product lets you tag web favorites with your ownwords so you can get back to them. It also lets you find what peopleyou trust find useful, valuable, and interesting. SearchFox is designedto integrate seamlessly with the way you search for information and getback to things you use frequently

Shadows- a social bookmarking service with some important additional featuressuch as comments and ratings. With the Shadows toolbar, you're oneclick away from a discussion forum for any page on the web

Shoppersbase.com - shopping information bookmark site where you submit, share and bookmark all your shopping related information

Simpy- social bookmarking service where users can save, tag, and searchpersonal bookmarks or browse and search other users' links and tags

SiteBar- a solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and wantto have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need tosynchronize them or take them along

SiteJot- free online bookmark manager. It allows you to store all yourbookmarks/favorites in one online location, making them easilyaccessible from anywhere. Your bookmarks (organized by category) aredisplayed on a simple, well laid out page. SiteJot will even integratewith your web browser, allowing you to bookmark any site you arecurrently visiting with a click of your mouse

Smarking - a social bookmarks manager

Social Bookmarking - A social networking community

SportsLister.com- a bookmarking site focused on sports and games. You can add links,vote on other peoples links, start comment threads on posts, vote onour weekly polls, read our weekly features, consume our RSS feeds,search the site and generally add to the SportsLister community

Spurl.net- a free on-line bookmarking service and search engine. It allows youto store and quickly access again all the interesting pages you find onthe web from any Internet connected computer

Start Aid- Online Bookmark and Favorite manager. Quickly access your Links bysetting your "StartAid Personal Area" your browsers default start page.Never lose, forget, or misplace a bookmark or favorite again. Thumbnailimages of your links for quick identification. Access all of yourfavorite web sites with a single click. Your profile follows you to anycomputer you use, and more

StumbleUpon- helps you discover great websites. With a single click you can findand share interesting sites recommended by friends and like-mindedpeople

SV Bookmark - bookmark manager that works with popular browsers and has a smart user interface

Sync2It- a real-time automatic synchronization service that allows you toaccess your bookmarks, favorites and favorite files from any computeror any browser, without changing the way you use the Internet

Technorati- the recognized authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs.We help people search for, surface, and organize bloggers and theirdaily posts

unalog- you can look at what various people and groups of people are readingon the web here. You can get an account and add your own links, andcreate and join groups here too. If you get an account, or create agroup, either one can be made private, so nobody but you (if a privateaccount) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see yourlinks

URLBlaze- URL sharing tool and multi-file search system integrating verifiedweb search features and a decentralized, peer-to-peer search system

Web Feeds- a social bookmark site with a difference. Users moderate and decidewhich items make it to the home page, only rules being no links toadult related or illegal activity sites. Full RSS Search included

WhatLink.com - allows users to easily annotate, organize, and manage bookmarks as well as take screen shots of web pages

Whitelinks- Securely store and quickly access your favourite websites wheneverand whereever you are connected to the internet, regardless of whetheryou are using a computer at work, at university, at home or abroad

Wink- a social search engine. We surface the search results that otherpeople have found to be the best stuff for your questions. Wink alsolets you create what we call "Collections". Collections are simply away for you to share your knowledge of a subject with other people byputting the best links for a topic all together in one place

Wists - Search the web visually and bookmark search results

Womcat Bookmarks - a new open source protocol and referenceapplication for sharing web bookmarks efficiently and effectively on a very large scale

World Wide Wisdom - Free bookmark manager with hierarchical categories

wURLdBook - a bookmark managing service plus RSS news reader

Yahoo! Bookmarks - store bookmarks and access them from any computer

yourMarks- an online bookmark manager, allowing you to save your bookmarksonline and access them with any browser, any computer, anywhere!

Zoogim.com Online Bookmarks- 100% FREE. Access your bookmarks from any computer. Easy to use andmaintain. Only you can view your bookmarks. Create separate accountsfor home and work. Hide sensitive bookmarks while viewing the rest.Sort your bookmarks alphabetically or by creation date. Assign multiplecategory labels to each bookmark

Zurpy- Save your bookmarks, text clippings, images, files, and news feeds inone place. Tag and find what you've saved. Access your stuff from any computer anywhere

Thanks & Regards,
Swani Mishra
Internet marketing & SEO Professional
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Directory of Internet content portals to hand-submit your websites to for free:

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*** Yahoo free subs only as registered yahoo user

*** MSN under "for site owners" menu

*** Agada add via categories (may also use a meta spider)

*** MySearch Australia looks like a meta feed from msn, but has an add form....

*** WebSquash< also looks like a meta feed below advertised links

*** MixCat looks like a Meta feed from msn, but has an add form....

** Useroo Read info, click on ... now here ....

** Niche-Listings own dir. as well as a google feed

** SearchSight with screenshot thumbs, also provides results for other se's

** GoArticles not a dir. but more then useful to write articles with links to your site/s

** Add-Page List yourself instantly, no adult stuff,editors do check

* Google we hope for better solutions from competitors....

* Acoona easy

* Searchit easy

* Time Clicker one wonders about these same from phplinkdirectory.com.. .

* Pegasus Directory and another one of those same same, but they list

* Global Weblinks easy

* JDGO very easy

* CANLinks a bit long this form, but it's one of the good old ones

* MyClassifiedAds create an account, classifieds with link to your website

* Suchnase Germany form in german, but they list

* SearchtheWeb easy, just looks long

* Search Ramp easy

* SearchWarp also for article writing, article submission option to a no. of SE`s

* AnooX easy, takes a few weeks perhaps, but they do list nicely

* NetInsert Insert extra meta tag to verify your ownership, then via categories

* PaidPostHelp go via categories, Add Url link appears on top of sub category

* Insitor Germany european se with english content as well, slow search results

* Beamed easy, best to check the meta tags first

* W8 not the grandest, not the fastest, but they list some

1/2* Pedsters Planet 2 submission options, via categories to dir and via simple form to se

1/2* Eweb7 may not list in their own dir but have another meta feed

Land of Links go category hoping

ODP go endless category hoping - just to perhaps never get listed anyway

Scrub The Web easy, but seems unatended since years....

Entireweb changes, changes, now free and paid, do they keep on listing?

Splat easiest

FyberSearch easy

Cipinet easiest, dir and se, but do they list?

BigClique multi URL submissions

Zeezo classified listings with URL

ArticlesAZ another article portal

NetWhat easy, but indeed, what are they listing?

Zorkk via categories free and paid subs, do they list?

Cyber-Find 3 to 6 months to list, what are they, in hibernation?

Acoon Germany easiest, in german, but lists international

InfoTiger easiest, but do they really list?

Amidalla easiest, slow search results, do they list?

Thanka & Regards,
Sonika Soni

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