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02 Apr 2008

Live Q&A With Google Webmaster Team – Summary

This is Part II of Google Webmaster Chat. You may also want to read Part I. Web Design – CSS, Javascript, Hyperlinks 1. Googlebot does not ignore all Javascript code on web pages. So if you are trying to keep some text, image or hyperlink out of Googlebot’s eye through the use of Javacript, that(…)

28 Mar 2008

Why You Need To Submit Website Sitemap To Google Webmaster

Q: What are the benefits of submitting a sitemap to Google Webmaster dashboard if your website is already crawled  well by Google? In other words, what are we missing out if we don’t submit a  sitemap? Google: By submitting a Sitemap we see which URLs have been added and changed.  We can crawl those earlier(…)

21 Feb 2008

The Most Expensive Part of Google Homepage

The I’m Feeling Lucky button automatically takes you to the first web page returned for your query on Google website. An I’m Feeling Lucky search means less time searching for web pages and more time looking at them.

04 Feb 2008

Google Images Prefers Showing Fresh Pictures In Search Results

We have no clue how Google decides the ranking of pictures in Google Images but they are probably giving more preference to fresh content in image search results. For instance, a search for "Google" on Google Images shows the following three pictures within the top 10 positions on the first page of results.  

23 Jan 2008

Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search Queries

All these web domains are hosted on the same web server as google.com (64.233.167.99) and they are replicas of Google. Now even Google records your search queries for genuine reasons but if you are not convinced, theres a way to prevent Google from recording search habits.

14 Dec 2007

Difference Between Pageviews and Unique Pageviews

From GA Support – A pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to(…)

27 Nov 2007

Buy an Old Web Domain for Backlinks, History/Age

Search engines love to find things that search engine optimizers have a difficult time in manipulating — such as domain age — because they feel like this helps them to keep their index/rankings pure.

20 Nov 2007

Golden Triangle Suggests How People Scan Google Search Pages

This visual heat map suggests how web searchers navigate scan the search results shown on Google pages and which areas on the Google web page tend to get the maximum attention. The areas highlighted in red are noticed by almost Google user but the visibility decreases drastically for search results that show up below the(…)

30 Oct 2007

5 Things that Yahoo! Search can do but not Google

Some things that you can do only with Yahoo! search not Google. That includes song lyrics search, compose email, search shortcuts and the incredibly useful linkdomain search operator of Yahoo!

22 Oct 2007

Special Search Engines That Are Not Google or Yahoo

There exists dozens of specialised search engines that are extremely efficient and innovative though not very popular. Let’s discover some of these hidden or unexplored gems on the internet that are not Google or Yahoo – they will help you quickly find the information you are looking for.

12 Oct 2007

Google Search on Airtel Mobile Phones

Airtel and Google have entered into a partnership where Google Search will be made available on Airtel Live! WAP portal. Google Search on wap.google.com only displays search results on the internet, and will not be the same as search results on Airtel Live! portal.

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