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Facebook Introduces New Like and Share Buttons

2013-11-22T23:27:00.000-08:00

Facebook introduces a new design for both like and share buttons to help people in sharing the content globally. If you are using a like and share button in your website then it will be automatically upgraded to the new like button. Your new like and share buttons will look like this.

Like and share button are really a important part of facebook it helps the people in sharing the content and news with other members . According to Facebook, Like and Share buttons are viewed more than 22 billion times a day and have a home on more than 7.5 million websites. Facebook’s Ray C had said on Facebook developers blog that “we already seeing a favorable increase in Likes and Shares with the new design and will be rolling these buttons out to everyone in the coming weeks” So, If you are still not using like and sharing button on your website or blog then go through and add these buttons to increase the referral traffic of your website.

What Are Google Carousel Results and How To Optimize For Carousel

2013-10-20T00:16:00.001-07:00

Carousel Results is basically a row of images which appears on the tops of google search result which a dark background. Currently Carousel Results contains only 20 results and it appears mainly in search results of hotels, colleges and hospitality. Suppose if you will search for “best colleges in California” in google then you will see the Carousel Results on the top of google . Below is the screenshot of it.

How Google’s Carousel affect current optimization techniques

It is safe to mention that marketers and company house owners haven't any reasons to panic and might currently rest comfortable, knowing that Google’s new improvement couldn’t risk impact the profit of native businesses. On the contrary, its main goal is to make a superior user expertise whereas growing the web presence of various native places (bars, restaurants, and so on), in spite of their size and profit margins. If you would like to preserve your competitive edge and improve reputation of your brand

Impact of Google Carousel

BrightEdge analysis shows that carousel presently impacts 14 % of keywords across all industries. Travel and welcome businesses area unit the foremost affected, with carousel results showing on 33% of their keywords.

Restaurants area unit a detailed second, with 27 % of keywords receiving carousel results. presently we have a tendency to see carousel results showing on solely 5 % entertainment terms, however which will be expected to grow as Google rolls out the capabilities to a lot of question sorts.

How To Optimize For Carousel

· Set up a Google Places for Business and Google+ page.

· Make sure that you images are high resolution, unique, and order them in terms of your priority.

· Encourage your customers to give a review and rating to your business on Google. Research shows that reviews play a important role of optimization in the carousel result.

· Measure performance and establish a new baseline.
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Google Penguin 2.1 Update Impacted About 1% Of Search Queries

2013-10-12T00:53:00.001-07:00

On 4th Oct Google Rolls Out Penguin 2.1 update and it impacts plenty of websites. Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam declare that this update affects 1% of search queries. Penguin 2.1 seems to possess known newer link spam – those links that were created at a later date than at a later date than the Penguin 2.0.

Google Penguin 2.1 Update mainly affects the following link spam:

Forum biography spam: Profile of forum users which contain exact match anchor text links in their forums signature
Forum spam: This spam includes comments in forums with exact match anchor text links in signatures.
Do follow blogs: Those blogs which provide do follow attribute to the links posted also face it .
Spammy directories:If you have used spam directories for getting links and your links are still present in those directories then you will also face this update, Gabe said "nuke them, have them nofollowed, or disavow them."
Blog comment signature spam: If you leave signature in your blog comments then ready to face this update

Gabe's suggested top five recommendations to recover your website from Google Penguin 2.1 Update

Understand that Penguin heavily targets unnatural links. Your new content and group action will not trigger a recovery.
Thoroughly analyze your link profile, whereas keeping a keen eye on actual match and wealthy anchor text. that is what Penguin targets.
Remove those links if you'll, and deny the remaining links. And use the domain operator within the deny file once the domain is low-quality. Don’t try to target specific URLs on a spammy domain, after you will nuke the complete domain.
Make sure additional unnatural links aren’t being supplemental as time goes on. Gabe aforementioned he is had variety of business owners suppose they cleansed up their scenario, solely to urge hit tougher throughout Penguin 2.1. Once checking their link profiles, you'll clearly see additional spammy links were supplemental throughout the spring, summer, and fall. This can be what got them hit by Penguin 2.1.

Google Announced Hashtag Search Which Shows Google+ Posts On The Right Hand Side Of Search Results Page

2013-10-01T09:23:00.000-07:00

The integration of Google+ across Google properties continues in a very huge method nowadays with the launch of hashtag search.

Simply put, if you search Google for a hashtag, you may see Google+ posts exploitation that hashtag to the proper of the regular search results.

Google’s Zaheed Sabur declared the new feature this morning on Google+, spoken language that it’s accessible at the start for English language searches on each Google.com and Google.ca.

The only posts which will show abreast of Google searches area unit people who were shared publically, or shared with you (if you’re a Google+ user). Clicking on one in all the Google+ posts leads you to Google+ wherever the search is reproduced.

By pure coincidence, a Google.com search just for the #googleglass hashtag showed a Google+ post last night from our origination editor, Danny Sullivan, within the right column.

The Google+ posts can scroll mechanically, otherwise you will management them manually via the up/down arrows at the highest.

Note, too, that Google is making an attempt to pre-empt anti-competitive claims by together with links at all-time low to try and do a similar search on different social networks. during this case, my choices were to try and do a similar search on Twitter and Facebook. It’s not clear at this time if different social networks (Instagram, Vine, etc.) are going to be other, or area unit already able to seem looking on the hashtag being employed.

How to format text in Google+

2013-10-01T09:04:00.002-07:00

Google+ is designed to focus on one thing and one thing only: engagement.

Make your text stand out by adding a little formatting variety to your next Google+ post. Use appropriate line spacing and paragraph breaks to make it easy for readers to scan your content.

Use bold, italic and strike-through text to highlight important headings or passages and your post will stand out in the stream.

Top ten points which every webmaster have to keep in mind while making the promotion of any website

2012-01-02T06:52:00.006-08:00

1. A website must be user friendly so that user can easily go from one page to another.The page loading timing of the website must be good.

2. Always use unique content in website and content must be useful for the users.

3. Always choose the right keyword for a website. Keyword must be related to your services and high searchable on the net.

4. Always link the keyword with th right page. For example If you are using "silk bed sheet" keyword in your signature then you have to bind this keyword with silk bed sheet page. This will improve the bounce rate and increases the chances of business conversion.

5. Avoid keyword stuffing and always use maximum 50-60 character in the title tag of your web pages.

6. If possible then use enquiry form on the front page of your website

7. Always target the right area for promotion. If you want to promote your website in UK region then use UK forums , directories and website for this.

8. Try to optimize the every page of the website. It will increase the traffic of website.

9. Never use any type of hidden link or text in the website.

10. Social networks like facebook twitter and social bookmarking programs like stumbleupon, technorati are helpful in the promotion process. So, try to maximize its uses.

Google Places and its benefits

2011-12-15T18:18:00.001-08:00

Google Places is the service of google which provide local business listing facility. Through Google Places we can advertise our website in particular city. Google places is the good alternate of paper directories. The one thing which I like in this service is that it is totally free we do not have to pay single amount for adding our listing in Google Places. If we properly optimize our Google place page then our website will soon appears on the first page of Google.

Below you see the example of Google places. The listing which you have seen in the circle is Google Place listing. When someone search for advertising agency in new delhi then your website will shows in Google places local listing of new delhi advertising agency. If your listing is properly optimized then it will appear on the first page like below websites.

Following are the main benefits of Google Places:

1. Google place is the good way of online advertising. Through this we can advertise website in our local city.

2. Google Place is totally free.

3. It is the good choice of marketing for the new website owners . Through this new website can gain quality traffic on his website without paying anything.

4. In Google Places listing we can display important information of our company like physical mailing address, your phone number, website name, working hours, company description, payment options etc.

5. Mobile phone and Iphone users can easily find our listing

6. It attached with the Google Map so its easy for the user to find our location.

Importance of traffic exchange programs

2011-11-19T22:45:00.000-08:00

We all know that traffic plays a important role in the success of any website and business.Search engines also gives important to those websites which has getting higher traffic.High amount of traffic help us in gaining good PR and SERP.

That's why plenty of peoples uses different marketing techniques for getting traffic on his website like SEO, PPC, SEM and SMO etc.

Traffic exchange program is also the one way of grabing the attention of the user towars the website.Traffic exchange programs helps in improving the alexa ranking and page rank of the webiste.Now a days plenty of website provides traffic exchnage services. Traffic exchange programs runs on credit system means In traffic exchange program we earn credit by visiting the website of other members and we can return visit on our website by using our credit.

For example:

If we get 1 point by visiting one website then we can earn 20 points by using visiting 20 websites and we can use our credit points for getitng visitors on our website.

Some traffic exchange programs send unique visitors and some send repeated visitors.

In my opinion traffix exchange programs is the good choice for those peoples who just started his website and using Affiliate programs on it. We all know that affiliate programs demands huge traffic and we can not earn good income from it without getting decent traffic.

So, In this case we can use traffic exchange programs for maximizing our affiliate marketing commission but we have to make some precautions while using traffic exchange programs because sometimes traffic exchnage programs increases the bounce rate of the website which is harmful for our business.

So here I only have to say that traffic exchange program is the good way of getting traffic but we have to take some precautions while using it

(Always keep in mind that traffic exchange programs are not only used to improve the traffic and alexa ranking of website. According to my experience traffic exchange programs do not generate any type of business sales means its conversion rate is "zero" )

Difference between long tail keyword and short tail keyword

2011-11-02T19:52:00.000-07:00

Long Tail Keywords: It contains three or more words. Usually long tail keywords are less competitive than short tail keywords and we can easily attain high ranking through long tail keywords. It brings less traffic to our website but the traffic which comes from long tail keywords are very directed and there will be a higher chances of conversion.Examples of long tail keywords are Online diet program, Advertising agency in Dubai etc

Short Tail Keywords: It contains one or two words. Short tail keywords are high competitive because the searches on these keyword are very high that's why mostly peoples targets short tail keyword phrases.It brings large amount of traffic to our website but the conversion rate of short keyword are less.Examples of short tail keywords are Diet Program, Feng Shui, Currency Convertor etc

PPC is a costly part of Internet Marketing

2011-10-10T19:56:00.000-07:00

PPC refers to pay per click . It is a very well- known part of internet marketing.Now a days PPC advertising technique is mostly used by the peoples. In PPC advertising search engines show our ads in sponsored links.

But In my opinion PPC advertising is a costly part of Internet Marketing. In PPC first of all we have to se our budget and per visit cost which we like to pay to the publisher and users. Suppose If we like to invest Rs2000 in a advertisement and we set per visit cost Rs10 then in this case we cab get 200 visits on our website and our website can get these 200 visits anytime means in a day, in a week or in a month also.There is no restriction and fix time limit for this. Once we get 200 visits then quikly after than our campaign is over and our ad has disabled.For re-enable the ads or to continue the advertising we have to again invest some money in it.Its depend on us that we want to continue our campaign or not.

I had seen that some people invest more than Rs50,000 per month in PPC advertising and some invest only Rs 5000- Rs10,000. Its totally depend on advertiser thinking.

PPC is related to present . It do not provides any type of benefit in future. Whenever we stop our PPC advertising then the traffic and benefit which we get from PPC advertisement quickly stops.

But In SEO If someone stop investing money in his website promotion after getting high ranking in search engines then in that case the benefit and traffic which he get from his web ranking not stops. Because his website ranking and backlinks provides him traffic in future.In SEO there no limit of traffic. We can get unlimited visits and traffic on our website

Here I have only want to say that PPC is costly part of internet marketing and it demands continuous investment. So,If you have a high advertisement budget for advertisement then you can definitely use PPC technique.

Which search engines is best for PPC advertising

2011-10-02T19:16:00.000-07:00

We all know that there are 3 top search engines available online Google, Yahoo and Bing. Because 95% of the searches is made by these three search engines.

But In starting we have to start our campaign with that search engine which is mostly use by the people for searching and PPC advertising. I have seen that plenty of peoples uses Google for PPC advertising because the user chain of Google is huge and everyday plenty of users comes to Google for searching his desired term. In this respect Google is the good choice for PPC advertising. Here, I am not say that Yahoo and Bing are bad search engines.But In starting we have to use only best search engine for PPC advertising and then expand to other sources when they are needed.

Difference between Do follow and No follow

2011-08-19T09:29:00.000-07:00

Do Follow Links- Do follow links are those links which is crawl by search engines. Do follow links plays a important role in the promotion of website. If our aim is to promote the website in search then in that case we have to make do follow backlinks of our website

No Follow Links- No Follow links are those links which is not crawl by search engines. It do not provides any type of benefit in search engine optimization.We can use no follow tag for reference and traffic generation purpose but we can not use it for website promotion

Both are the good for getting traffic on website. If our aim is to only increase the traffic of website then in that case we don't need to think about no follow and do follow links.

Role of keyword in website promotion

2011-08-16T09:17:00.000-07:00

When we start making SEO of any website then first of all we have to select right keyword for our website because our entire SEO campaign depend on this.

Keyword plays a most important role in the promotion of website and we can use Google keyword research tool for selecting the right keyword for our website.

Through Google keyword research tool we can check the stats of our keyword means how many people searches our keyword on internet and how many company uses that keyword for his web promotion In simple words this tool show us the competition and traffic of the keyword.So through this tool we can easily select the right keyword for our website.If we would not choose right keyword for our website then we can not get good traffic from on our website. For example

Keyword Competition Traffic

First keyword Low 22,000 monthly searches

Second keyword High 24,000 monthly searches

In this case we select first keyword for our website promotion because the competition on first keyword is low and searches is high. So If we select first keyword then we can easily achieve good SERP in search engines and also get higher traffic . On the other hand the traffic of the second keyword is higher than first keyword But If we select second keyword then in that case It is difficult to achieve a good SERP because the competition on the second keyword is really high means too many peoples are using this keyword for his web promotion and it is difficult for us to beat him in quick interval of time.

So here I only want to say that we need to use low competitive and high searchable keyword for our website promotion. If we do this then we can get good SERP and huge traffic to our website.

What is PPC and How it works

2011-07-26T22:29:00.000-07:00

PPC refers to pay per click advertising. It is the most important part of internet marketing. It is mostly use to drive traffic on website.

In PPC advertising we have to pay per click cost to publisher means when some user click on our ad then in that case we pay some fix amount of per click to publisher.

This process run on Bidding system means high bids sends high traffic. Bid is in the form of money and we have to set Bid according to the competition of the industry.

Google Adwords is the most popular PPC advertising programs and mostly people use this program. Google shows all the PPC ads on the right hand sidebar of search result which is called sponsored links.

What is quality backlinks and how to make it

2011-07-22T02:12:00.000-07:00

Quality Backlinks means those backlinks which comes from high PR websites and niche forums. Quality backlinks plays a important role in the promotion of website. Quality backlinks consist of two things first is content of post and second is PR of the website through which backlinks comes. Always keep in your mind that Google gives more priority to quality backlinks.

Suppose If we are promoting SEO tips related website then for this we need to use SEO discussion blog , SEO forums,SEM blog ,Blogs of SEO, PPC blog and PPC forums for its linking.

In link building process we need to work on quality of backlinks not quantity. Some good forums which you can use for making quality backlinks are:

1. Digitalpoint.com

2. Warriorforum.com

3. V7n.com

4. Webicy.com

5. Forum.triphp.com

6. Webcosmoforums.com

7. Associateprograms.com

Google Launches Instant Pages

2011-07-21T06:48:00.000-07:00

Google Instant Pages

Google launches a new service called Instant Pages. Through this service we can see our search result instantly . In normal searches it takes 3-5 second to show result but through Instant Pages we can get the search result instantly.

For Demo: http://www.google.com/instant/

Difference between On Page Optimization and Off Page Optimization

2011-07-20T19:57:00.000-07:00

On Page Optimization- On page optimization is the important part of SEO.In On page we work on meta tags, title tags, head tags, keyword, SEO friendly URL, content of website. In short words we work on our website for our web promotion

Off Page Optimization- Off page optimization is the second part of SEO. In off page we work on link building techniques like forum posting, blog commenting in SEO blog, directory submission, article submission and reciprocal linking.In short words we use other's website and forums for our web promotion.

So both are important we can not promote our website with only On page or Off page. We need to work on both for good ranking

What is PR and how to increase the PR

2011-07-04T19:28:00.000-07:00

PR means page rank . It is the number between 0 to 10. This number is assigner by the google according to the quality and value of website.

How to increase PR:--

(1) Use of effective and unique content in website

(2) Regular posting in forums

(3) Commenting on blog

(4) Exchange your website link with your niche website

(5) Bookmarking your website in social bookmarking website

All this things will definitely increase your website PR and SERP both.

Importance of SEO

2011-06-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

Following are the main importance of SEO:

(1) It increase the visibility of website on search engines
(2) It increase the visitors of a website
(3) It is the cost effective way of marketing
(4) SEO increase the reputation of company on internet
(5) It generate real business leads

Official Google Blog: Helping homeowners harness the sun

2011-06-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

Official Google Blog: Helping homeowners harness the sun

What is SEO

2011-06-09T08:20:00.000-07:00

There are plenty of good methods of internet marketing but SEO is one of the effective method. SEO means search engine optimization it is the process which is mainly used to advertise and promote the website in search engines. It is the most important part of internet marketing and now a days most of the companies are using this technique to promote his business on internet.In SEO we use different link building techniques to rank our website in search engines.

SEO consist of two parts :

1. On Page optimization

2. Off page optimization

On Page optimization: In On page optimization we work on the title tag, meta tag, meta description, content , link structure and sitemap of website. On page optimization is the important part of SEO. It helps in crawling of website. For better and fast SEO result we have to properly do On page optimization.

Off Page optimization: After On page optimization we work on Off page. In Off page optimization we make backlinks of our website with some anchor text (anchor text means keyword). For this we use different link building techniques like forum posting, blog commenting,directory submission, social bookmarking etc. For better ranking and results we have to make quality backlinks of our website (Quality backlinks means those backlinks which comes from high PR and niche websites) because Google always gives priority to the quality and relevant backlinks.

Our entire SEO process is depend on these two methods and If we properly follow both the methods then we can achieve good ranking in search engines.

Top Webmaster Do follow Forums List

2011-05-31T03:09:00.000-07:00

2011-05-24T09:42:00.000-07:00

Tips to improve website traffic:

1. Make content of your website effective and unique
2. Make forum posting and insert your website link in signature
3. Comment on blog
4. Share your website URL on Social bookmarking websites
5. Submit your website article in Article Submission websites
6. Exchange your website link with Niche websites
7. Submit your website in high PR directories
8. Share your website URL in yahoo answers

Ashish Bhatnagar Blog: List of High PR Directories

2011-05-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

Ashish Bhatnagar Blog: List of High PR Directories: "Hi! Today i am sharing the list of High PR Directories with you.If anybody want to make directory submission then he can use this list. ..."

Ashish Bhatnagar Blog: Google adsense implementation guide

2011-05-12T06:33:00.000-07:00

Ashish Bhatnagar Blog: Google adsense implementation guide: "First of all submit your adsense application through following link https://www.google.com/adsense After registration Sing into your acco..."