On Growing Demand for Real Time Search Engines

Posted by Sivarajan on July 1, 2009 · Filed Under Others · 2 Comments 

Couple of years back, around this same time when Twitter was launched, most of the major search engines have started to think about the idea of ‘real-time’ results and include a ‘freshness’ factor to the results returned for some of the queries that are performed on their search engines. Twitter is both more and less than a search engine, but there are lots of third parties doing search-like things around the Twitter data. Especially because Twitter search seems to be returning real time search results.

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A List of Cool Links - Bing Related!!!

Posted by tabsfiroz on June 30, 2009 · Filed Under Microsoft Live, bing · Comment 

I never thought I would say it, but hey after the release of Bing, the decision engine(hmm), this last month from Microsoft, I just said it to one of my colleague, Go Bing it dude! It is because I find it interactive and it gives a new look to the boring white screen of Google and more than that I quiet like its features and try it often and compare those results to Google.

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Website Architecture & SEO

Posted by Karthikeyan on June 26, 2009 · Filed Under SEO, Web Design & SEO · Comment 

Website architecture plays an important role in SEO. Actually SEO should start even before you host your website. The website should be designed in both user perspective and search engine perspective.

Everyone does SEO. Why everyone? It is just because to increase traffic, traffic in turn gives ROI. So in order to improve your traffic and attract people , your website design plays the game. As face is the index of mind, your website creates a good impression on your company.

Let me give you a practical example, you are in search of online sports watch selling site. You just Google it and choose two of the top results. Both the sites which you choose sell sports watches online, but one site looks awkward with contrasting colors and Ad banners scattered here and there, while the other site is designed with interactive gallery for all category of watches with specifications, pricing etc. Just answer me. Which site will you choose to buy a watch? Its obvious, the second site which offers an interactive user experience.

So here are some guide lines for designing a search engine friendly website :

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10 Funniest, Hilarious and Humorous Google Suggest Results

Posted by Mercy Livi on June 24, 2009 · Filed Under Google · 3 Comments 

Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google’s “Did you mean? Google is known for its relevant search results. But sometime Big Brother Google does display some hilarious results and here come few from “Google Suggest”. I have show caused the terms that are more into the business we are in. You must have heard and seen many such Google Suggest listing and watch out this post for some funniest Google Suggest results related to Google, Other Search Engines and Social Media.

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SEO Checklist for Website Server Migration

Posted by Royston on June 22, 2009 · Filed Under SEO · 2 Comments 

Planning to migrate the server of your website? Here is a checklist with a SEO perspective that one must follow before and after the migration process. (more…)

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Google, Yahoo and Bing Ad Preview Tools - Tools Review

Posted by immanuelruby on June 19, 2009 · Filed Under Adwords, Google, Yahoo, bing, ppc · 1 Comment 

Every Advertisers might be aware of Google Ad preview tool obviously. Using this tool everyone can see whether their ad is appearing for users in their targeted locations or regions, targeted Google domain and in their targeted language. For the keyword you enter, the tool shows search results and ads as they’d appear on a regular Google search results page, without accruing extra impressions for your ad.
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Event Tracking - Google Analytics (ga.js)

Posted by pandiya on June 16, 2009 · Filed Under Google, Google Analytics · 6 Comments 

Possible Events:

In any interactive environment, the program should be able to respond to actions performed by the user. These action can be mouse click, key press or selection of a menu item. What are the possible events we can track using ga.js as follows

  • If you have anchor tag for third party site link which you want to track how many clicks from our site.

  • If you have mailto: on anchor tag and you want to track how many of them click for mail link.

  • In your home page you might have request for quote image, follow us on twitter image etc.. where you want to track, how many clicks on the image.

  • If you have a button for email subscription button, newsletter subscription etc… Where you want to track the clicks.

  • When you want to track while you submit action in the form tag

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