Think Klout sucks? Try Klouchebag, Its fun.

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Klout is undoubtedly the leader in measuring social influence on the web. A great app that does some really cool things with your social data. However, its difficult to comprehend how it works and the ratings are speculative. There are many grey areas in their algorithm (which I guess they admit as well), but clearly there’s a lot of effort put in, to make sense of all those data. At least, they have great graphics and the data in perspective is better than anyone else out there – though it Read full article [...]

Google’s update is called “Penguin”, but the Wire Cutter?

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So far, there are no official declarations or tweets from Google (Writing this at 5pm PST), but Danny Sullivan claims that the latest Google update is called “Penguin” within Google. WebPronews reports that the only evidence we have is a picture Matt Cutts tweeted, a while back. No word from Matt yet, though. It could be a joke, a hint or just a co-incidence. What’s hilarious is that there’s a wire cutter seen in the background, in the picture he tweeted. Someone at Google Read full article [...]

Updates from Google this week you need to know about

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So, this week was pretty active. With Google rolling out its updates and people complaining about losing and gaining traffic, there was lot of hub-bub over the changes. Google kept us busy with couple of product launches as well – which added to the excitement. So, what happened in Search Marketing last week? Google Drive launched on April 24th. It had nothing to do with SEO or SEM directly, but this website (Sanil) found something interesting. Google was ranking its own page for the search Read full article [...]

Do Interstitial Ads affect SEO? Is Google favoring the biggies?

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We’ve all come across it. You click on a very reputed site’s link from Google results and while at the site, before the actual content the ad pops up (actually fills up) and you got to click some tiny “x” somewhere there to move further ahead that it almost becomes a mini game in itself. So, there are technically two parts to the whole process soon after the click. One – the game (err.. the Ad) and then the clicking part which takes you to the actual content. Typically, from examples Read full article [...]

WTF is a “High Quality Site”, Google?

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If you have noticed Google’s official blog or press releases, you will notice that they keep repeating certain phrases time and again, never really bothering to explain what exactly it means. They sure give you hints and pointers but never the beef. It looks like “High Quality Content” tops the charts of the most used phrases from Google. WTF does high quality site mean, after all? While all of us (website owners and webmasters) are striving to create amazing content, trying to keep readers Read full article [...]

What Google’s New Update means to websites

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It looks like, Google has updated its algorithms significantly recently (Apr 24), and webmasters are as usual, looking very agitated. SEO forums are reporting ups and downs in traffic, but these are not sure signals at the moment, as anything solid can only be seen over the coming days. Google’s new update is all about fighting webspam this time – “leveling the playground” – in Matt Cutt’s words. The official blog warns – “In the next few days, we’re launching an important algorithm Read full article [...]

Google Wallet now available on more Android phones

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Just when we thought that Google Wallet is getting no where comes the news that Google has decided to open it up to more devices. Earlier, there were several criticisms on Google Wallet being restricted to Google’s own Nexus phone and not being of any particular help to “regular folks”. Now, Google Wallet is available on three new phones from Sprint, including: Galaxy Nexus, LG Viper 4G LTE and LG Optimus Elite. Google Nexus unlocked was made available last day and is now available for buying. Read full article [...]

10 Free SEO Tips from Search Engine Experts

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Be very cautious whom you take SEO advice from. There are several free tips and resources out there on the web that one cannot figure out which one to rely on. Implementing SEO advices is easy, after all, it’s a small tweak here and another there – is it not? Wrong. Professional SEOs who’re serious with their stuff will always study your website well before giving advices. While general SEO tips can be given (as you’ll find on this blog) its probably not a good idea to assume that they’re Read full article [...]

Combine Google Analytics with SEO Data

- - SEO Software
Using Google Analytics to analyze your SEO performance is probably the most easy and significant way to evaluate your SEO efforts. With an overwhelming amount of data flowing through the backlink channels and pages, its tough but inevitable to measure every little detail of things like where most referrals come from, which backlink sent you the most conversions, which link building campaign gave you the most organic traffic etc. I make it a point to note down and record every small change I make Read full article [...]

Which is the fastest 4G Mobile Network?

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Which is the fastest 4G mobile network, is the million dollar question today. After all, one knows that all that’s said on TV and Ads aren’t entirely true. 4G has really taken off in the U.S last year (2011 - 2012) and the 4G services has improved a lot over this time. Early adopters to 4G mobile broadband had complained of sluggishness, limited connectivity and dropped connections. Today there are over five 4G mobile broadband network providers in the US. PC World does a comparative study Read full article [...]