Showing posts with label google hacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google hacks. Show all posts

Sunday

Cuil, The new big search engine challenging Google

A big new search engine launched today, The Cuil. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson,
They says that the engine is launching with 120 billion pages indexed.
Cuil is bigger, faster, and better than Google's search engine in every way, Costello said to webware.

Costello also claims that Cuil's Web crawler is three times faster than Google's.

This is an image taken from Cuil search results page for the google.
You will see why Cuil is different from
Google at the first look of their earch result page.

One important difference between Cuil and Google is its ranking system. Rather than assigning priority to pages based on inbound links as Google does ("Pagerank"), Cuil analyzes the content of Web pages to divine their relevance to a search query. Costello said Cuil's search is "contextual," and that, "we're trying to understand the real world, not the Web."
(are you remember what google said few days ago !)

When you search for a common name, for example, Cuil will give you a categorized results under tabs. It will also break out sub-topics related to each name. If you search for "Google," there are different tabs for "Google" and all other related things with Google.
Cuil says these categorization and adding more info to search page, will add value to Cuil.

However Some important industrial features are still absent from Cuil, like image search etc.
Cuil browser toolbar, and widgets are coming soon.

The other thing is Google has not indexed the Cuil yet.

We will see in next few how Google respond to the newly emerged buddy.

Google reveals the scope of Web-crawling.

Official Google blog was announced that they has knew the web was big and discussed some details about challenges of web crawling.

they said that....
"How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages.

Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day"

further saying..
"So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer."

We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.

Google likes to talk about how users have choice and competition just one click away, and that's a fair point. But the blog post also makes it even clearer just how high barriers to entry are in the search market. That's one of the reasons Yahoo's BOSS (build your own search service) program is intriguing: it lets search start-ups take advantage of Yahoo's crawling, indexing, and search technology in exchange for advertising or revenue-sharing partnerships.

Wednesday

Google introduces Knoll

To help you share what you know

The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their knol, their voice, their opinion. google expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and they think that is good.

With Knol, google introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call "moderated collaboration." With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!

Features:
write any thing you like
collaborate with other authors
search for knols on a specific subject

create your own knoll

Friday

Gmail and Google Calendar goes Offline


Gmail and Google calender is preparing to give an offline experience to their members.
Gmail and Google Calendar will add offline support in approximately 6 weeks.
In the past months, Google accidentally enabled the option in Google Calendar and some users saw the dialog illustrated below: "To view and edit the next 3 months of your Google Calendar when you're not connected to the Internet, click OK." Also it is said that Google will add SyncML support for Gmail contacts next month.
This is "related to the sync that they worked on with Apple for 3G iPhone". SyncML is a standard for data synchronization supported by a lot of companies. "SyncML is most commonly thought of as a method to synchronize contact and calendar information between some type of handheld device and a computer (personal, or network-based service), such as between a mobile phone and a personal computer."

Sunday

Tell the Google to add your blog within their search results


By default google is indexing all bloger sites within their search results.

But the default process is taking much time.
Instead You can use "Google web master central" It is the one-stop shop for webmaster resources that will help you with Crawling and indexing web sites, and to resolve all your questions regarding your web site.


Using google web master central you can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
Google web master central equipped with enhanced and advanced feature rich tools to help you in finding answers for all your questions regarding indexing and crawling.
G. web master is also plays a major part in your SEO project.

Some of the tools and features within Google web master:
Robots analyzer
Robots.txt generator
Define the rate of crawl (high or normal)
target specific geographic locatons (such as google.us or google.uk)
enhanced image search
Gadgets (you can add gadgets to your igoogle home page, which analyze and displayed valuable information regarding your site)
Get statistics
analyze internal and external links
Diagnostic your site

It is easy to works with google web master central and don't forget to visit frequently to web master central till your site is indexed by google.
happy blogging

Thursday

Importance of feeds for blogger optimization.

feeds

Importance of feeds for blogger optimization.


You may already know what are the feed and how they perform.
In simplest terms, feeds are the latest updated content of a web site. They are acting as alerts.
When new content appears on a site feeds are alerted.
Which usually publcly viewable. You can read feed contenet at any time using your browser or any other method, like 'igoogle'.


How You can view content of Other web sites.
For example go to CNN or any other web site which enabled feeds.
You can recognize whether feeds are available or not on a site by looking at address bar of the browser.
If feeds are enabled, a tiny squared icon (similar to above image)appears on right side of the address bar.
then you can click on that icon to view feeds or search the site for specific feed links.

Firefox Live Click

There's a good extension for firefox called "firefox live click". which you can view feed contents within your browser toolbar without going to or loading any web page.
Download "live click" here.
Firefox liveclick

After you installed 'liveclick' on firefox, Just left click on feed icon or a feed url of a web page and select "live bookmark this feed link" or "live bookmark this web page".

The importance of feeds to optmize blogger.

I have realized that adding feed content of web sites (specially popular web sites such as google or CNN) may dramattically improve your site's availability on search engines.
Because when google or any other search engine crawls our web site they crawls all the content of web site including feed content.
For example: If you have added feeds of CNN to your blog, the crawler assumes that feed contents are originally within your site and ultimately list the blog on search engine with a high rank.

Then if someone search google for "US flood", the probability to appear CNN content is very high,plus your url .
I have realised the fact long ago and that's why you can see some feed content within my blog.

Wednesday

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

seo / search engine optimization

What is SEO?

SEO is the process of optimizing a web site/pages by improving all aspects related to your web site, in order to

increase the traffic to your site receives from search engines such as google, yahoo and msn.
webmaster discovered good search engine placement meant more traffic the idea and the term SEO started to

emerge in web culture.

Why do you need a SEO?

Most of the web site traffics generate from well known search engines that we discussed above.
Almost all of the web masters main objective of running a web site is providing some content to world.
Whatever your site provides content, services, products or information, the search engines are the main method of navigation for almost all Internet users.
The traditional methods of advertising is now obsoleting. Internet has become the major source of information providing to the world.
In brief SEO is the main driving force that generates traffic to your web site.

Get ready to optimize your web to search engines.

some says SEO is an art, amoe says it's depend on luck or expert.
But I think, search engines are not operates as humans they are automated processes.
So getting listed on google's top 10 is not may hard process.

What you have to do, to optimize web site for Search Engines.

1. Select the most apropriate kay word(s).
If your site decsribe on 'flowers'.
You just imagine you don't have a web site but you want to search about flowers.
Then you will find for many types of flowers.
Such as 'rain forest flowers', 'flower wall papers', 'roses','flowers of england/usa', 'hybrid flowers, and so on'.

2. Place your web site or page address/link wherever possible.
search engines finds how popular your site, if he can find more links back to your site then more chance to get listed on top.
What are the types of web sites that you can place your link.
when you place a link to your site ensure that the site is popular enough.
Ex : CNN, BBC, or other popular NEWS sites.they have comments sections and simply write a comment about their article and place your site link with it. (note: don't try to spam)

*google groups are also one of the good method.
*Try Social Bookmarking sites (delicious, technorati, digg, de.lirio.us , BlogMarks.net ,feedmarker , FriendSite , frassle, FuzzFizz, Jumptags, Reader²

For Full list of social bookmarking sites: http://sri.890m.com/?p=9



How to write a proper link which place value from search engines

3. Anchor text strategies

what is an anchor text ?
look at this: a href="http://cracksl.blogspot.com
output: the tech-blog

above link describes'the tech-blog' is goes to 'http://cracksl.blogspot.com'.
search engine identified 'the tech-blog is relevent to 'http://cracksl.blogspot.com'.


another type of link:
the tech-blog
above link appears on the web as follows:
the tech-blog

when the link is hovering, you can see as 'SEO tips' appears.
The title provide additional information, telling the search engine that http://cracksl.blogspot.com,
is relevant to the phrase "SEO tips", in addition to being related to the "the tech-blog".

If you more interesting read this about how to write a good anchor text:

Anchor Text Tips That Rocket Your Rankings

The On-Page Search Engine Optimization
On-Page Search Engine Optimization Techniques
On-page SEO is the process of making changes to existing pages on your website in order to rank better in the search engines.

Your Title Tag :
It is the most influentioal thing in seo.
your title tag which goes between and < /title> is best describes the content of the page.
search engine first go to the title tag when crawling web pages.
If your title tag cotains the site key words, then you can expect better results.

Now continue with our flower example.
Your site name is 'the flower country'
one of Your page contain the article as 'red flowers'.
So you should have key word as 'red flowers'.
as well as your title tag should contain one of any key word.
Ex: : this title best optimized your page.

Keyword density:
How often your keywords appear on your page?
This is measured as a percentage, such as 5.8%. So let's say you want to rank on Google for
"asian flowers". On most pages of your site you'll want to include the text "asian flowers" and also variations of this phrase, such as "expensive asian flowers", "endemic asian flowers", "asian flowers", etc.

There's no rule, but you generally want a keyword density of about 7-12% for the keywords you want to rank for. That means that if you have 100 words on your page, 7-12 of them should be "asian", "flowers" or "endemic". You can check your keyword density at www.ranks.nl.

Keywords at the very top of the page:
You should always include your main keywords as close to the top of the page as possible, because Google will look at the text on your site from top-to-bottom and will treat the text closer to the top of the page with a higher importance.

Header tags:
You absolutely MUST include the keywords you want to rank for in atag on your site. H1 tags tell the search engines that the text between them is important, and you should aim for just onetag on each page as close to the top as you can. In our example you might useHigh value asian flowers on one page and 'expensive red asian flowers'on another page.

Internal linking structure:
You want to use the keywords you want to rank for to link between pages on your site. For example, on your home page you might link to a category page using the text "red flowers" and on that category page you would link back to your home page with the text "red asian flowers". This is an internal two-way link, and although internal links don't hold nearly as much weight as external ones, you should link to different pages on your site using a few different combinations of your keywords.
Link Building and Link Development
Links from trusted authoritative websites tell search engines that your website is more reliable and valuable.

Common SEO Problems:
You can build a website with great content and institute an effective marketing plan, yet still be foiled by technical issues. Here are some of the most common problems:

A common mistake is blocking search engine spiders from a section or entire site you want indexed.
Google's Webmaster Central has a tool to let you verify that your robots.txt file is performing how you'd like.

learn how to create a robots.txt file
1. A robots.txt file communicates what pages or sections of your website you want search engines to crawl.
if you want to list all of your web pages on search engine, then alow the robots to crawl your web pages by placing a 'robots.txt file' in each directory of your web site.

What is a robots.txt file:
it is vary simple - Do this : open your notepad and insert this

User-Agent: *
Allow: /

then save it as robots.txt, and place it in each directory.

Response and Header Codes

* When your web server serves a page there is a special code that tells the browser or spider the status of the file served.

1. A '200 response code' means the page serves normally.
2. If not configured correctly, some web servers will serve a 200 code even when a file is missing.
3. This can create a problem when search engines index a lot of blank empty pages.
4. A 404 is the response code when a page or file doesn't exist.
5. To improve usability, set up a custom 404 page with a message explaining what happened, a search box, and links to popular pages from your website.

Duplicate Content

The content from any page should only exist on one URL.

1. If the same content exists under multiple URLs, search engines will interpret this as duplicate content.
2. Subsequently, the search engines will try to make a best guess as to the best URL for your content.
3. If this condition is true for a large amount of your pages, your website may be judged low quality and be filtered out of the search results.


Duplicate Titles
* Every page of your website should have a unique title. When a search engine sees duplicate titles it will try to judge the better page and eliminate the other from the index.


Duplicate Meta Descriptions
* If a large number of pages have identical or very similar meta descriptions, these pages may be filtered for low quality and excluded from the index.


Poor or Low Quality Content
* In an attempt to create a large number of pages very quickly, many people will employ automated solutions that end up generating pages with fill-in-the-blank or gibberish content. Search engines are getting better at catching this condition and filtering these sites from the index.

Coclusion:
Don't be expect your page appears on google in overnight.
It depends on your hard work.
Your web site becomes more popular over time if it has good articles, which expects from world.
[try the link building]
article is continuing..................

Monday

How To Get Top 10 Position In Google


If you are a website owner, you will definitely want to get your website rank well in Google organic listings for keywords phrases that are most relevant to what you are offering. Getting your site to the first page of Google is not an impossible dream, as long as you choose the right keywords for your optimization plan.

Do not make the mistake of trying to optimize one-word phrase such as "flowers" or "golf". There are 2 reasons why you should not do this. First, it is almost impossible for a new site to get into the first page of Google for these types of keyword phrases, as it is way too competitive.

Secondly, a good search engine optimization plan is to optimize keyword phrases that are more targeted. For example, "golf" is too general and the traffic that comes to your website may not be very eager to buy golf equipments from you. They may just be interested to find out more about golf. On the other hand, if you optimize keyword phrases like "discount golf clubs" or "used golf clubs" you stand a higher chance to convert your website visitors to customers.

Now let me share with you 4 best SEO tips to get to the top on Google:

1. Choose the right keywords. Again is back to what I have shared with you above. Choosing the right keywords for your optimization plan will determine whether you succeed in getting to the top on Google. Choose keyword wisely and make sure that they keywords you choose have substantial search volume to justify your effort.

2. Good onsite optimization. A good onsite optimization is the basic of all successful SEO case studies. You need to place keywords in areas such as the title tags, meta tags, header tags, alt tags and content. By getting a keyword targeted domain name such as "mygolfclubs", you will score extra point with Google.

3. Good original content. Google dislikes non-original content and penalize duplicate content. If the content of your website is not original, no matter how much optimization you do to it, it will not rank high. It is definitely worth your effort to spend time developing quality and original content. Update your site with fresh content frequently and you will score another big point with Google.

4. Intensive linking campaign. Google takes into account the number of links pointing back to your website. With more links pointing back to your site, it shows that your site is important and popular. However, links pointing back to your website need to be relevant to what your site is providing. Relevancy plays a very important role if you want to achieve successful optimization. You can get links pointing back to your site by submitting your website to directories, and writing articles and distribute them to the various article directories online.

With good organic ranking on Google, you can be sure to see a surge of traffic to your website and hence more exposure of your business.

Sunday

Mozilla shows Firefox Mobile concept


Mozilla shows Firefox Mobile concept
Now that Mozilla is all set for next week’s Firefox 3
Download Day, the company’s head of user experience, Aza Raskin, has taken some time to show off a video with the latest developments in the mobile version of the popular open source browser.Despite being just a concept video, it provides an early look at how Mozilla is tackling the issue of having to browse short of screen real-estate by hiding all navigation buttons and allowing the user to invoke them by simple touch gestures. Other interesting features include opening up new tabs, kinetic scrolling, and zooming in or out.

All in all, Firefox should be a welcome addition to the mobile-browsing experience; hopefully they’ll be able to bring as much innovation, usability, and extensibility to the mobile space as they have in the desktop. Check out the video of Firefox Mobile “in action” after the jump.

Thursday

Use your 6GB Gmail space to host files

GMail Drive

GMail Drive is a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension ("add-on") for Google's Gmail. GMail Drive is not supported byGoogle. It allows a user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail e-mail account by causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network share on the user's workstation. In order to use this add-on, the user needs a Gmail e-mail account. The add-on enables the user to use the standard Windows desktop file copy and paste commands to transfer files to and from the Gmail account as if it were a drive on the user's computer.
More info: Please visit


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it is different to GmailDrive.

Gspace is the FON friendly site that provides FREE Online Storage to access your files everywhere.

Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface.

Listen your favourite stored music directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage your Gdrive files as well.

How it works
  1. Once installed Gspace, open your Firefox browser. To access Gspace go to: Tools > Gspace. The Gspace console will appear on screen.
  2. Manage your Gmail accounts. You can set up as many as you want. Remember that each one provides 2Gb of storage.
  3. Login to any of your Gmail accounts.
  4. Gspace console is divided in 4 key areas for you to manage your files: My Computer / My Gspace / Transfers / Status.
  5. Enjoy Gspace features:
    • File Transfer: to manage files
    • Player Mode: to listen your stored music files directly from Gspace
    • Photo Mode: to view your collection of pictures
    • Gmail Drive: to manage your Gdrive files as well
    Download it here: http://www.getgspace.com

Create a your own search engine.


We all know the Google Advanced Search page that lets you refine your searches and find what you need faster. But how many of us understand the complicated URLs the search engines generates?

Well I am not saying that I’m some sort of expert but here are some information regarding the URLs generated by Google. Let’s start by looking at one such URL:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=nintendo+wii&hl=ro&num=10&btnG=C%C4%83utare+Google&

as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=

You don’t understand much and it looks quite long but it doesn’t have to be this way. Many of the variables included are not even used in the query. Here are the basics:

What you should know is that you always start with: http://www.google.com/search?. This tells Google it’s an advanced search and that there are some variables to come. Besides, remember that all the variables must be connected with ampersands (&; ex. as_q=nintendo+wii&hl=ro) and if you want to use more than one search terms just use ‘+’ (ex. nintendo+wii) between them. Speaking of variables here are the most important tags you can use:

as_oq -> This tells Google to find pages in which at least instance of nintendo OR wii is found
as_q -> This means that you look for nintendo and wii in the same page
as_epq -> Google translates this as a Google search of “nintendo wii”, searches the exact phrase ‘nintendo wii’
num -> The number of results you want displayed, it ranges from 0 to 100. If you set num to 0 you will get the ‘No match found” message
safe -> If you set this to active the Google Safe Search is on and the adult material will be filtered
as_eq -> Use this to exclude a term from your search
as_qdr -> Shows only results that have been updated in the given time interval. Possible values: y (year), m6 (6 months), m3 (3 months).
as_sitesearch -> Limits the search to a specific domain or TLD (.us; .gov; .co.uk; .ro; etc)
as_occt -> This is set by default to ‘any’ but if you change it you can search in: title, url, links

The goal of this article is not exactly for you to use from now on hand-made search URLs but yo better understand how the Google search engine works and if you please to create some URLs for yourself.

Examples:

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=nintendo&as_eq=wii&as_sitesearch=.com&
num=50&as_occt=title&as_qdr=m3
-> Note that when you create your own URL it should not be this long as you can easily get lost in all the variables used
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=nintendo+wii&as_sitesearch=.com

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=nintendo&as_eq=wii&as_sitesearch=.com

For more information regarding Google searches take a look at: Pro guide to Google searches. Part I andPro guide to Google searches. Part II.