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Social Media Cheat Sheet – Infographic!

Navneet Kaushal — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:41:27 +0000

Businesses of all sizes are now using social media. If you are still teetering on the edge of the social sea with no idea how to swim in it, let this highly informative ‘Cheat Sheet’ from Flowtown help you. Read more on Social Media Cheat Sheet – Infographic!… Post...

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Google Rules 500KB Crawl Limit For Robots.txt Files!

Navneet Kaushal — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:38:45 +0000

Google's John Mueller has stated that Google is limited to only processing up to 500KB of their robots.txt files. John made a statement on his Google+ page that read, “#102 of the things to keep in mind when working on a big website: If you have a giant robots.txt file, remember that...

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Google Analytics Product Update – New Content Navigation & Site Search Features!

Navneet Kaushal — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:44:26 +0000

As the first month of the New Year draws to a close, Google Analytics has updated and presented before webmasters a whole new version of Google Analytics. According to the Google newsletter, the Google Analytics team is focusing on features including email, scheduling, pdf export, profile copying...

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Updates to Google Webmaster Tools’ Sitemaps!

Navneet Kaushal — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:12:57 +0000

Recently Google announced the an update to Webmaster Tools sitemaps. Now onwards sitemaps page will also display statistics from Web, Videos, Images and News, thus retiring Video Sitemaps Labs. This new addition will let you know how many items of each type were added and for few content types,...

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Google Offers More Options to Google+ Badges!

Navneet Kaushal — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:01:06 +0000

Google+ badges were introduced to promote Google+ pages. Now Google is providing more options to integrate Google+ badge into your website. This provides the flexibility to configure the badge with the desired width to fit your website design and choose the one that works with site...

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Google Confirms Panda 3.2 Update!

Navneet Kaushal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:17:24 +0000

In 2012, Google has continued its Panda Update with a Panda 3.2 update rolled out on January 18, 2012 (estimated date of the roll out). Google has revealed to search industry professionals that it has done a data refresh of the Google Panda algorithm with no algorithm changes. Webmasters...

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Average Search Rankings Redefined By Google!

Navneet Kaushal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:54 +0000

The definitions of average position in the search query report in Google Webmaster Tools and search optimization report in Google Analytics is being changed by Google. The change was revealed in the Google Webmaster Blog and Google Analytics Blog. Read more on Average Search Rankings Redefined By...

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Presenting Google’s Whole New Submit Content Page!

Navneet Kaushal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:35:51 +0000

Google has a newly redesigned Submit Your Content page. The URL submission tool page has also been updated. You can now submit content at google.com/submityourcontent. This page was launched in September 2008, and now has been given a facelift by Google. The purpose of the page was to act as an...

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Google Rolls Out New Privacy Policy : Information to be Shared Across All Google Products!

Navneet Kaushal — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:19:05 +0000

Google Inc. has announced through their official blog that they will be changing their current Privacy Policies and Google Terms of Service. These changes will assist Google to link their users across all Google products like Gmail, youtube, Google+ and so on. Google has indicated that the changes...

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Matt Cutts HangsOut With Indian Webmasters!

Navneet Kaushal — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:28:35 +0000

The head of Google’s Webspam Team, Matt Cutts in on a trip to India and did a ‘HangOut’ with Indian Webmasters from Hyderabad. This HangOut was a part of his webmaster outreach program with a group of Googlers involved in the same. In order to interact better with the Indian...

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Punctuation Search Results Upgraded By Google!

Navneet Kaushal — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:45:02 +0000

In a fresh upgrade involving punctuation marks, Google has updated its search results. So, now when you search for a “;” as in semicolon, you will now get search results. While some of the results are relevant, some may be not (the search for “/” slash reveals a music band...

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Google’s ‘Page Layout’ Algorithm To Penalize Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold!

Navneet Kaushal — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:52:59 +0000

If you are a surfer , then Google’s new move will do good for you. For webmasters, it means of lot of damage control. Google has brought in a new change titled the- ‘Page layout algorithm’ which is designed to penalize sites with pages that are top-heavy with ads. Read more on...

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Now Download Search Queries Data In Google Webmaster Tools!

Navneet Kaushal — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:59:15 +0000

Google has provided programmatic access to the search queries data in Webmaster Tools with ‘Python’. The Python script for downloading search query data was brought by Google in December 2011 and now has new download options that make the data download highly more useful. With this...

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How Google Made Money In 2011- Infographic!

Navneet Kaushal — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:30:29 +0000

Wordstream has put together an insightful infographic showing how Google earned a substantial $37.9 Billion in 2011 Advertising Revenues. The research was done by WordStream independently and is a follow up of the Google’s announcement of a “disappointing” 2011 Earnings. Read...

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Google AdWords Expands Automated Rules, Includes Undo Option!

Navneet Kaushal — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:59:54 +0000

Automated Rules is a time saving feature that allows auto-scheduling of changes to your account, based on user-defined criteria. Based on feedbacks from previous users, Google Adwords, through their official blog, announced that they have made automated rules even more user-friendly and flexible....

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Google’s Doodle Blackened In Protest Of SOPA & PIPA!

Navneet Kaushal — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:21:50 +0000

Google has joined Wikipedia and other sites in the protest against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) being debated in Congress. Google has a link on its home page leading people to sign up in the protest against SOPA and PIPA. The link also notifies users of Google's...

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Jerry Yang Exits Yahoo!

Navneet Kaushal — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:57:55 +0000

Yahoo’s! co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang has stepped down from the company’s board. He announced his exit on Tuesday as he also gave up his posts on the boards of Yahoo Japan Corp. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Read more on Jerry Yang Exits Yahoo!… Post from: PageTraffic...

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Bing Ousts Yahoo!, Takes The No 2 Position In December 2011-comScore Reports!

Navneet Kaushal — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:31:50 +0000

Bing is the second most popular search engine in the US (finally!), pushing Yahoo! to the third spot. The number one position is held by Google (no surprises there) as revealed by comScore’s latest figures. At present Bing has a 15.1% market share in the United States, a gradual increase from...

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How to Leverage From the New LinkedIn Company Pages!

Navneet Kaushal — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:37:01 +0000

In the social media sea, LinkedIn is considered to be the truly ‘professional networking platform’. Company pages always existed on the network; however, it was only recently that LinkedIn announced an update to company pages facilitating companies and small businesses to become more...

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Google Expands Flight Search!

Navneet Kaushal — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:19:52 +0000

Google's Flight Search feature was launched in September 2011. Though Google hasn't shared the exact number of routes added but have hinted that Flight Search has expanded to almost double its size since inception. Read more on Google Expands Flight Search!… Post from: PageTraffic...

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