Yahoo also about to launch Real Time Search Engine

October 28th, 2009 by admin 1 comment »

TechCrunch reported that Yahoo also about to launch real time search engine. This battle has been started with First Bing announced that they will soon provide real time search results by integrating results of Twitter and Face book, Why Google stay back in this battle so they will also provide real time search results by integrating results of Twitter.

Now time for Yahoo to announce about real time results with integrating twitter and face book but yahoo is come up with different strategy by launching new Real Time Search Engine – OneRiot, as it rumor or real news still don’t know because There is no official announcement for this. But Yahoo! Updated to TechCrunch like:-

“Update: Yahoo’s response: “We can’t comment on rumor or speculation. Real-time search is important and we’re currently conducting several tests designed to discover if showing such content is useful to people using Yahoo! Search. Yahoo! is focused on creating the most innovative, easy-to-use and valuable search experience for people, and after these tests we will carefully evaluate whether we should integrate such results for everyoneusing Yahoo! Search.”

So Now what’s your take on Battle of launching real time search results ? Share your views by commenting here.

Have u noticed that Face book is changing?

October 24th, 2009 by admin 5 comments »

Since some couple of days seems that face book is changing its internal structure of accounts. When today I logged into my face book account I’ve seen below changes such as Live News Feed and In Friend suggestions (Completion % of Profile)

Facebook

Face-book-friend-

In live News feed it shows latest updated status and latest shared link as illustrated in below image.

Live news feed

Have you noticed any changes expect from which I’ve been missed then shared it through by commenting here. I would love to hear from you. :)

How to increase traffic using social media website towards your website ?

October 23rd, 2009 by admin 12 comments »

Social media and networking websites are buzzing for promoting business or blog or for gaining more visitors etc. every one is talking about tips on to promote on Face book or Twitter or Stumble Upon and many more

Social media are the best medium for increasing traffic towards websites. For that you need to prepare unique and killing content for your blog or your website for diverting traffic. . In spite of sharing tips on single social media website, today I am going to illustrate how to use popular social media website for increasing traffic.

Let’s start Socializing with me!

Twitter -

  1. Create Your business profile with customization i.e. add your own logo, back ground image of your website and one important thing choose your business name as url like – http://www.twitter.com/xtend2india
  2. Follow peoples who are into your niche (i.e. web design, web development). Follow back who is following you and send all your followers to welcome message (you can use it through by scheduling Automated Messages like from Social oomph.
  3. Update your twitter status frequently with article of blog or what you like within just 140 characters. You can update your twitter status automatically by just using Twitter Feed, after signing up twitter feed you can take breath peacefully with out taking tension of status update. Your twitter status will automatically update while your blog will update. You can retweet posts or articles which is you like. While updating status don’t forget to Hash (#) for gaining your tweet on top in Twitter Search.
  4. Now start promoting your twitter by submitting twitter profiles into twitter directories like wefollow.com, tweetfind.com. Search for question on topics which you like and give answers of that for promoting your self as expert.
  5. You can track on topics which you like as Google Alters. You can also set up Twitter Alerts by using Twitter Beep.

Face book –

  1. Create Face book account and customize it as your business needs. i.e. add your business logo and set your business name as vanity URL, same as twitter. Add friends and groups of your niche.
  2. Create Face book page of your business and customize it by adding your business logo, website URL and about your business. And invite friends to become friends of your business fan page.
  3. Now you can start promotion of your face book account by updating your face book status. You can update Face book status automatically by using Twitter Application. You can share links, video of website into your Face book profile.
  4. You can promote your blog with using importing your blog through Notes Application, whenever you update blog, note will shared to profile. You can also promote your blog through Networked blog Application. In that you need to add your blog into network blog and
  5. By commenting and staying active in you can increase traffic and gaining brand visibility of your business.

Stumble upon –

  1. Set up a Stumble upon account and customize it as your business needs. i.e. add your business logo and set your user name as business name Add friends and groups of your niche.
  2. Write review of some blogs and web pages in your niche. Now start promoting your business in stumble upon. Share your links with friends and see magic. :)

Share your idea for increasing traffic of website through Social Media.

Google is about to launch a Music Services

October 22nd, 2009 by admin No comments »

Google is every where and about to dominate each and every industry by providing services. You can see the many of example such as you tube, Recaptcha, Google, Web Analytics tool and many more.

Now Google is about to launch music services and it will known as Google Audio as we’ve heard from TechCrunch. But thing is that there is no any official announcement form Google. Let’s see how soon this mystery will be resolve either by their official announcement or by declaring this music services as rumors.

This new services will be available for U.S. users, but it isn’t still cleared that it will available for download or streaming services or for both.

If Google is about to launch music services then what kind of services Google will provide either like as Yahoo! Music, which is streaming services with the capability for streaming radio programs or like as Apple iTunes Store is a music downloading site ?

What do u think about launch of Google Audio Services is likely to be have same as Yahoo! Music or Apple iTune or mixture of both?? Share your views. :)

Google Analytics come up with more powerful, flexible and intelligent features

October 21st, 2009 by admin 1 comment »

After updating new interface and features of Google Docs, now turn for Google analytics is come up with more powerful, flexible and intelligent features. With these features Google Analytics is now become more powerful.

Here are the highlights of the new features of Google Analytics:

Goals – 2 types of new goal allows you to measure user engagement and branding success of website. You can define up to 20 goals per profile and new goal types allow you to set thresholds for Time on Site and Pages per Visit.

Expanded Mobile Reporting: – Google Analytics is now tracking mobile websites and mobile apps also. GA also tracks mobile websites visits from web-enabled devices also. For tracking just you need to put snippet on your mobile website.

Advanced Analysis Features – Advanced Table Filtering feature is being added to the arsenal of power tools you can use to perform advanced data analysis.

Unique Visitor Metric: You can select Unique Visitors as a metric against any dimensions in Google Analytics. This allows marketers to see how many actual visitors (unique cookies) make up any user-defined segment.

Multiple Custom Variables – Custom Variables provide you the power and flexibility to customize Google Analytics and collect the unique site usage data most important to your business.

Sharing Segments and Custom Report Templates – You Share Advance Segments and Custom Report Templates to a

Analytics Intelligence & Custom Alerts – Google Analytics Intelligence will provide automatic alerts of significant changes in the data patterns of your site metrics and dimensions over daily, weekly and monthly periods. You can set daily, weekly, and monthly triggers on different dimensions & metrics, and be notified by email or right in the user interface when the changes actually occur.

Search Meet up Schedules of SEOmoz in India

October 20th, 2009 by admin No comments »

Gillian Muessig, co-founder of SEOmoz is on world tour for speaking at various Search Meetups.

Below are schedules of Search Meet Ups in India:-

SearchMeetup New Delhi – October 20-22
SearchMeetup Bangalore – October 28-30
SearchMeetup Mumbai – October 30-Nov 1
World Brand Congress Mumbai – November 2-4

This is the next round of Gillian’s worldwide tour as she heads from London to New Delhi (already oversold – they’re looking for a larger venue as I edit) to begin her next round of speaking gigs at various SearchMeetups. She ends in Mumbai to pick up the 2009 World Brand Leadership Award and speak at the conference before heading over the pond to join us at PubCon.

For more details, you can refer SEOmoz.

Twitter announced Partnership with Indian Telecom Giant Bharti Airtel

October 15th, 2009 by admin 2 comments »

Twitter announced partnership with Indian Telecom Giant Bharti Airtel, which is India’s largest integrated telecom company.

This development lead to Bharti Airtel stays one step leap ahead from other telecom companies. Now subscribers of Airtel by just texting can send their tweets at standard message rates without internet connections. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000.

And spread the word!

Bharti Airtel

Biz Stone explained on the Twitter Blog, “Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees.”

he also wrote, “There are more than four billion people with mobile phones and Twitter can work on all of them because even the simplest of these devices feature SMS. . . . As long as you keep asking for Twitter, we’ll keep working to activate full service in your region with no extra charges.”

Don’t forget to activate your mobile—visit the Devices page or text START to Twitter.

Google Docs updated with new interface and services

October 13th, 2009 by admin 1 comment »

Google is working on updates of the features on their services such as web master tool and now Google docs. Google docs are gradually working on improvement along new sharing folder and upload multiple items.

Google-docs-new-sharing-folder

With this new sharing folder feature, you can share whole folder containing group of items or files easily by sharing with teams and groups to collaborate on documents easily. Ones you share a folder, anything that you add in that folder will automatically be shared. if you add somebody to the list of people who can access that folder they can instantly access all the items contained in that folder. This means that you don’t have to share files one by one anymore.

Another update on Google Docs has the “Items Not in Folder.” In addition, here are the instances when files are categorized as such:
•When you create a new item or an item is directly shared to you, it’s in “Items not in folders”.
•When an item is shared to you via a folder, it’s not in “Items not in folders”.
•When you add an item to a folder, it will no longer be in “Items not in folders”.
•When you remove an item from all its folders, it will once again be in “Items not in folders”.

Last but not the least updates is in look of the interfaces like changed color, spacing and improved old “Move to” dialog and new “Folder” dialog which completely gives you control on folder or folders an item is in.

why search engine optimization is essential for business

September 9th, 2009 by admin 2 comments »

With this context in mind, many people are continuously struggling for being notice in the world of the Internet. Websites are growing like mushrooms everywhere, every time. How can one’s website get past the millions of other websites and eventually noticed by its target audience?  Search engine optimization is the answer of this question.

Search engine optimization (SEO) generally considered as the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”)

Search engine optimization aims to achieve the goal of getting more visitors to a website by helping it get higher rankings in the search engines. This simply means that search engine optimization’s goal is to make a website appear on the first pages, if not the first page of a search done through the search engine.

There are two ways to be able to get notice by search engines. One is through pay-per-click-advertisements. A good example of a pay-per-click system that is the Google Adwords system. It has created a hype and has given Google around 5 billion dollars in terms of revenue per year. Webmasters can place their bids to be shown when a surfer searches a keyword. The highest bidders will get their sites to appear first when the search is being done.

The second way of GETTING high rankings from search engines is through organic searches. Search engines evaluate websites by using what they call “spiders.” These programs scan the websites and collects information about them. They then collate the information and pass it on to the search engine. This area is primarily the main arena of search engine optimization. It utilizes a set of methods to be able to get search engines to list the website on high ranks.
Traffic
The main purpose of search engine optimization is to increase the traffic generated by a website. Websites are building to see by Internet surfers and search engines can help it achieve this goal. The power of the search engine should not be underestimated. It is one of the building blocks of the foundation of the Internet. A survey showed that 90% of all Internet users employ search engines to aid them in their Internet-related activities. Google, the dominant player in the search engine industry, generates 70% of all search-related Internet activity.

People and Search Engines are alike

Search engines behave like people. They like websites that contain substantive information about a certain topic. The best sites usually appear first in search engines because people like them as well as the search engines.

Search engine optimization does not only generate traffic, it helps maintain the traffic. The behavior of the search engine is indicative to the behavior of the people who visit the website. Search engine optimization leads to the optimization of a webpage or a website. It will lead to a website that is more organized and a website that contains substantive information.

The use of the Search Engine to be able to target one’s target audience is one of the most effective Internet marketing strategies. It is not like other on-line marketing techniques (such as email marketing) which can lead to many leakages in terms of targeting the right audience.

Search engines segment the market and connect the right people together. People search for topics, which they are interested in and this is the main strength of search engines in connecting markets together.

Cost Effectiveness

One can do search engine optimization under the ASSUMPTION that he knows what he is doing. Search engine optimization is a full-time job and has a very long learning curve. This is why most people would resort to out-sourcing the job to experts who are good at what they do. One should be cautious, however, in hiring a search engine optimization company or consultant. Factors such as pricing and service should carefully be assessed before signing a deal. If done properly, search engine optimization is a very cost effective way of getting more people to know about one’s products or to know about a certain issue or event that a website is disseminating.

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Web Design Services from Xtend2India

September 4th, 2009 by admin 1 comment »

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