Here are some Hot Topics this week on my blog:

• Google’s 3rd Webmaster Chat Recap: The 3rd Webmaster chat was held on October 22nd and noon (EST) or 9am (PST).
• Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share While Microsoft Loses Its Share In US: According to Bloomberg, Yahoo has jumped in its search share in the month of September 2008 while Microsoft has lost some of its share likely to Yahoo and Google in US.
• Google Can Now Read Text From Images: Now you can see scanned documents in search results.

Some hot topic on other search engine blogs and sites:

• Google AdWords Accounts Continued to Hacked this time by Chinese.
• Google’s Digg-Like Social Search = SearchWiki.
• Microsoft’s business record in Google Maps Hijacked!.
• Google Now Penalising “Free Gift” Blog Reviews?.

Will be back with some good updates and some valuable resources on Monday. Till then enjoy

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

However, here are few updates i posted this week on my blog:

• Stopping Google From Translating Your WebPages with NoTranslate Tag.
• Integrate Your AdSense With Analytics Account.
• AdWords API V13 Released.
• Gmail 2.0 For Mobile Launched.

Some hot topics this week on other blogs:

• Google Integrates Product Images In Sponsored Results.
• You Can Get a Quality Score of 10.
• Yahoo Search Marketing Rolls Out Desired Features.
• Myths and Truths About Google GrayBar PR.
• Key Relevance Compendium of Google Patents.

Well thats all for this week will catch u guys later Happy Diwali and a New Year to all of you !!

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Here are some of the resources this week:

• Tips for Successful Landing Pages.
• 10 Secrets of the Best Social Media Users.
• Niche specifig blogging : Why and How.

Well here are some of the hot topic on my blog this week:

• Firefox Better Then Chrome: Conducted a Poll, and asked webmasters about There favt Browser ?
• Yahoo Improves Relevancy Of Ads For Publisher Network: According to Yahoo!! Official Search Marketing Blog, they have improved the quality and relevancy of their ads in Yahoo! Publisher Network.
• Google AdWords Planning To Use Twitter: I’m still not sure about this if they will connect to there users like this or not .. But Yes!! there is a thread from Adwords Pro. Sarah at Google Groups where they have said about the possibility about this in near future.
• Google to Launch gPhone in India for INR-8000: So all your users who felt disappointed or fooled by the iphone pricing .. are u listening ?
• Crawl Error Sources Now Available At Webmaster Tools: Google Officially announced, that you can now find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site.
• Google Dropped Home Page Crawl Date From Webmaster Tools: If you are a regular Google Webmaster Tools user then you must have notice about the latest changes from them that Google has now removed the date from the Home page crawl field from the site overview page.
• Google AdWords Finally Showing Search Partner Network: The Google AdWords Blog officially announced that you can now easily separate the traffic coming from Google.com and the traffic coming from Google’s search partners (Like AOL and Ask.com).

Here are some of the Hot Topics on other search blogs and sites:

• Time to Lose Your Money Gamble in the UK: Looks like Google AdWords UK is allowing gambling ads, so you may get suckered when you least expect it.
• Neil Patel Wants to Give You $250,000:If you need some cash Neil Patel’s VC company is looking for startups to invest in.

Best Article of This Week:

• Travel PPC: 10 Ways to Improve Your Google AdWords Campaign: Quick hit list of tips for travel industry specific PPC campaigns.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Change In Google’s Algorithm - Anchor Text Again Important: Earlier we discussed about Change in Google’s Algorithm where Anchor Text was considered Less Important and Patrick did a great post at BlogStrom in August about the situation.

Did I Got a Google Penalty ? Do I Require a Reinclusion Request?: A Great question Did I Got a Google Penalty ? Do I Require a Reinclusion Request ?

10 Effective Uses For Google Trends: There are probably 101 applications for the data that can be extracted from Google trends but here are 10 that could easily be applied to help in business and marketing planning.

Google Rolls Back PageRank Update For September 2008: Looks like Google Rolled back its PR update last week, Many webmasters over DigitalPoint reporting this sice Saturday.

Yahoo! To Help Mumbai Cops Against Terror: Yahoo Corporation which used to employ one of the alleged terrorists of terror group Indian Mujahideen, has finally agreed to cooperate with the Mumbai police, after its employee was arrested for allegedly sending terror e-mails for the Indian Mujahideen.

New Google SMS Channel For India: So, If you’re from India, and wan’t to suscribe my Feeds and Updates from your Mobile you can do that without spending penny ..  Yes! You can now subscribe My Feeds via SMS, using Google’s SMS channels in India.

Google Testing Thumbnails In SERP’s: Looks like Google is testing Thumbnails in SERP’s, Just got a screen shot from one of our visitor who reported thumbnails in Google SERP’s.

Hey MattCutts Ru Hacked ?: Lol, No not this time .. actually he got unexpected amount of visitors from Digg.com and as a result his bog went offline for few hours.

YouTube Adds Audio Preview: A good news for all Youtube fan’s, Now you can hear comments posted on the video’s.

Firefox User Gain Geo-Location Tool: Mozilla Firefox has released a new technology which will help websites to detect the physical location of computers.

Google and Yahoo to Delay Ad Deal: Both Yahoo!! and Google had agreed to delay there Yahoo and Google Ad Deal, the main reason behind the delay is because thay want to give Justice Department some more time to investigate its antitrust implications.

Here are some of the hot stories round the search industry this week:

Make Money from Google Maps with AdSense: So you’re searching for something and find it using Google Maps. You may also find another targeted result that you never anticipated due to Google AdSense’s integration into Google Maps. Who didn’t see that coming?

Yahoo Rolls out Web Analytics: Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition with a new service Web Analytics for Business websites.

Google Confirms RSS for Web Search Results: After resisting for many years, Google are going to provide RSS for their main search results. SearchEngineLand get the scoop.

SEOmoz Announced Index of the Web and the Launch of there Linkscape Tool: Exciting new features at SEOmoz, including an Index of the World Wide Web (30 Billion pages and growing!), the Linkscape Tool (extensive link data based on own index), a fresh design and a comic book.

Directory Links Next? Google Drops Yahoo & ODP Directory from Guidelines: Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.

Who Coined The Term SEO?: Someone’s trying to trademark the term SEO, which has roiled the SEO community. The someone is named Jason Gambert and he has persistently filed with the Patent and Trademark Office, claiming to have coined the term “SEO”.

Well thats all for this week … I will be back with more stories from money .. enjoy ..

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Here are the stories hot on my blog this week:

Google Testing Snippets Size in SERP’s: Looks like Google is testing and allowing users to set the size of the search result snippet.

Yahoo!! SERP’s Update for October: Update for Oct are here and webmasters started reposting about this from September 29th, Looks strange but it was an update for October.

Google Toolbar 5 Available For Download: So finally the version is available for Firefox Lovers.

Google Limits Webmaster Tool To 500 Websites: Do you have more then 500 websites and wan’t to use Google Webmaster tool for all of them ? Its not possible so you have to make multiple accounts if u have more websites.

Google Translated URL’s For Landing Pages At AdWords ?: The Google AdWords system automatically flags destination URLs that start with Google domains, which is unfortunate in the case of translated sites because it’s actually your site and not a Google property.

Google Blog Search Re-Designed With News Front Page: The new design show’s categories on the left hand side of the Google Blog Search website organizing blog posts within categories into a clusters, which is basically groupings of related posts about the event or the story.

Search Google As It Was in 2001: In honour to Google’s 10th birthday, Google brought back there oldest available index archive.

Google SERPs Update For October 2008: Looks like some major update in Google SERP’s for October, Many webmasters reported some major fluctuations in there search engine rankings and traffic this week.

Yahoo!! Introduced New Site Explorer Design: Looks like a nice move from Yahoo!! This new release have a new look + some more additional and helpful features.

Yahoo News Beta Testing Its New Design: Looks like Yahoo!! is much concerned about its users and started working on the user end.

Well thats all for this week will update more from monday !! Enjoy Reading !!

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Okay here are the hot topic this week on my blog:

Google Suggest Feature Now At Google.com: After lots of testing Google Suggest is finally coming to Google.com, With the help of this feature when you start to type in the search box.

Google Confirms Edit My Search Feature: Google officially Confirmed about Edit My Search Experiment, This experiment lets user to comment on search results and move them around on the result page.

Microsoft Updates adCenter keyword research tool: Microsoft adCenter blog, officially announced about the redesigned of there keyword research tool according to The adCenter blog this tool will help Advertisers more efficiently in finding the right keywords and plan campaigns in adCenter.

Google Continues New Experiments With SERP’s: How about If Google will have Just 7 organic results a page ? Yes this is true and Google is testing something similar.

Google To Display Adword Under Search Results ?: Looks like google is testing something to display ads under its Organic Search Results, This is not new and was noticed earlier in 2005.

Here are some of the post hot in other search industry blog:

Digital Point’s Shawn Hogan Sued for Cookie Stuffing: Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and Brian Dunning and Thunderwood Holdings.

‘Googlebomb’ blows up in Daily Mail hack’s face: A journalist at British paper the Daily Mail wrote a piece about what she thought was a case of Googlebombing. It wasn’t. But now the journalist in question is (kind of) a victim of a Googlebomb herself.

Google AdSense Stops Displaying on Google Cache Results?: A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many publishers have started to notice that their Google AdSense ads are not showing up when someone accesses their pages via the Google cache.

John Andrews Is Going to Work for Google: Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post.

Well thats all for this week, will bring more next week Have a nice weekend .. wana join me for a beer .. hun .. ?? hehe

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

This week was exiting and was really intresting, as this week we had some intresting findings and discussion.

Here are some of the hot topics on my blog:

Google Still Playing With AdSense Ad Fonts: Looks like the Google Test is not yet over and they are still playing with Google Adsense Ad Fonts.

Google Updating SERP’s: Looks like Google Dance is going on, As many webmasters ove DigitalPoint repoted that there websites are flying up and down sometimes from page 50 to page one and for sometime Page one to 100+.

Yahoo Buzz Now Open For All Publishers: Yahoo Buzz, is now open to all publishers. Yahoo announced that any Yahoo user can now “buzz up” any content from any publisher on the Web.

Wan’t To Exchange Links With Google ?: Someone created Link Exchange thread over Official Google Webmaster Help Forums asking for reciprocal links.

9 Simple Video Search Engine Optimization Techniques, By: Gregory Markel: According to Gregory Markel, Video Search Engine Optimization is extremely popular as web2.0 is growing fast, It’s helpful for branding and reputation management.

Google Testing New Adsense Style: Looks like the Adsense test is going on. However, I haven’t noticed any major effect on my CTR may be because of much Tech-Savy users on my blog !!

Global Search for the B2B SEM, SES San Jose 2008: For more then 10 Good reasons, I have some great interest in B2B industry. Here is the Live Coverage from SEM San Jose 2008 in the Session Global Search for the B2B SEM, This is orignally covered and Posted by Virginia Nussey at Bruceclay.

Rediff No.1 Local Indian Search Brand: According to the latest comScore release, Google search share in India is 81.4%, with over 1 billion searches conducted in June and Rediff.com Ranked as Top Local Indian Search Brand with over 18 Million Searches last month.

Internet Explorer 8 Is Now Available With Privacy Mode: Often called porn mode or secret mode, There are few names given to this. The latest version of the Apple Safari browser already has this mode and it works well on Apple OS.

Anchor Text, No-More Important For Organic Rankings ?: I think something was Going on about this since the starting of august, As after the Google Update for August webmasters continue reporting about major loss in there rankings … and everyone was confused about this situation.

Yahoo! Site Explorer Gets New Features: The new design boosts a new Site Summary page providing interesting statistics for sites that have been authenticated with Yahoo!! Site Explorer and have some more advanced features.

Google Integrating AdSense Click Tracking Data into Google Analytics: If you are using Google Adsense then a Good news for you. Google is soon going to Integrate Google Adsense Click Tracking Data into Google Analytics.

Toolbar PR Update For Aug 2008 ?: Its confirmed there was a minor update last week :-).

Here are some of the topics hot on other blogs in search industry this week:

Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2008: So what did you miss this week? All in all, the 4 days were packed with great informative sessions and seroundtable have the liveblogs for you:

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4

Well thats all for this week. Will bring more next week Till then enjoy !!

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Western Union Now A Payment Option For Google Adsense: Google Adsense has introduced Western Union as a payment option for Bulgaria, Egypt, Lithuania, Morocco and Taiwan.

Google, Yahoo disclosed terms of ad pact.

Google Launched Adsense For Feeds: So finally they launched adsense for feeds, But will this really going to help us ? As we all know that peoples who use feed readers are tech-savvy !!

T-Mobile To Be First Carrier For Android: Google has officially confirmed the phone is coming this year.

Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Got A Notice From Indian Supreme Court: The Supreme Court of India issued a notice to the Centre, Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation on a petition seeking a ban on popular online search engines promoting sex selection techniques.

Some resources written by me today:

Magic Of External Links.
Trick To Allow Specific IP To View A Web Page.

Some other topics hot on other Blogs this week:

Google Shuts Down FeedBurner’s Ad Network (FAN): This week, Barry spotted the thread where Google announced the end of Feedburner’s Advertising Network.

How a Search Engine Might Handle Singular and Plural Queries: When you’re searching for something on the Web, does it matter whether you use the singular or plural version of a word in your search?

Bloggers Selling ‘Sex’ Like Prostitutes: Worth reading.

iPhone Search Result Optimization Tip #1: Phone Numbers in Meta Tags: Are iPhone type PDAs the way of the future. Will most searches be performed from such devices?

Does PDF metadata have any significant effect on ranking in Google search results? : PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets.

Teaching Advanced Link Building and Why Pagerank Will Never Die: One of the difficult things of trying to share ideas, or teach a concept to large group of people is the different levels everyone is at.

Word Visualization on Search Marketing Blogs: Lee Odden writes “Lists and ranking resources can be tough and controversial. A while back we ranked top blogs on the topic of search engine marketing (SEO and PPC) that publish their RSS subscriber counts via Google’s Feedburner.

Well thats all i loved this week, will share more next week

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Hot On My blog:

Major Changes In Yahoo SERP’s - Yahoo!! did some marjot changes in its SERP’s, Without any priour notice letting everyone wonder whats happening.

Another CashBack Live Search Promotion - Microsoft announced another cashback Live search promotion :-).

SERP’s For Gmail 302 Hijacked - Looks like, 302 Attacks are back again .. this time it was no one other then gMail itself which was 302 Hijacked into Google SERP’s.

Google Redirects IP Based Data Center Searches To Google.com - Google redirected its IP based Datacenter Searches to Google.Com

Google Insights Search Launched - Again a Good news for Advertisers and Marketers, Google launched Insights Search.

Case Sensitive SERP’s, at Google ? - I Bellieve this is not new thing, Looks like soon everyone will start something similar with almost every SERP’s.

Google AdWords Schedules Downtime - Google AdWords will be unavailable on August 9th between 10AM and 2PM PDT on Saturday, August 9th, from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PDT.

Google Sold Performics To French Company - Finally Google SOLD Performics the SEO Division of Double Click to a French Company.

WebPosition Ranking Software Blocked By Google - Looks like Google had finally done something about this tool.

Major Updates In Google SERP’s For August - Google did major updates for August. Hope you all guys will be happy with this Update

Google Not Crawling Custom Domains Based On Blogspot - Looks like the last date Google Bot crawled Custom Domains based on blogspot on 30th July 2008. This Might be a Bud as the robots.txt is unreadable for crawlers and webmasters don’t have any acess to edit this.

Now AdSense Features With DoubleClick Cookies - Google Blog announced some key enhancements that Google Adsense will now be offering a better experience for users and better value for advertisers and publishers, with the help of the technology they have acquired with DoubleClick.

Yahoo!! To Give Users Option About Choosing Custom Ads - Yahoo!! Will be allowing its users to customize advertising on its website by the end of August.

Hot on other Blogs this week:

Advertisers Are Happy But Scared Over New Google and DoubleClick Cookie Tracking.
Searching For Olympics News And Video.
StumbleUpon is Finally Removing the 200 Friend Fan Limit.
SEO Have A Bright Future According To Google Insights.
New Features at Mixx - Nested Comments, Domain Endorsing & More.
How relevant is Cuil?.
Google Upgrades Webmaster Central to Handle More Sitemap Types.

Well guys thats all for this week, I will try to give more next week
2 much tired as of now, Was not able to sleep last night .. Some personal probs … Gonna have a beer now , Yummmmmmmmmmy !!

Bookmark It

Hide Sites

Here are the hot topics this week on My Blog:

Google No-More Interested in Digg - We had a discussion earlier this week on Google to buy Digg for $200 Million, Seems like Google had walked away from this deal.

Cuil Goes Offiline - The new search engine Cuil.com, which was believed to be a new competitor for Google went offline just after the few hours of its release. Seems like it got lil-bit more traffic then expected !!

Yahoo!! Improved Search Add Performance Report - The Yahoo Search Marketing Blog announced they have improved the Ad Performance Reports to include a few new columns.

Google Going To Do Some Changes In Its Design Of Search Listing Pages ? - Some wired images in Google Search.

I Did a post, Yes, Backlinks are The Most Important Factor for Organic Rankings, I saw a post from Barry, Where Barry said a post from Shimon Sandler is controversial. I’m sure Barry is aware of the fact that Backlinks are really one of the most important factors for organic rankings.

Tool To Find PR Of All The Pages Of Your Website - Sometimes your internal pages have more PR then that of the homepage. Now the Question arise how to findout which page have how much PageRank ?

Del.licio.us Now Delicious.com, With Lots of Improvements - Delicious has now relaunched and moved under Delicious.com with lots of new Improvements.

New Favicon For Google Analytics - So finally after the suggestion from Michael Gray, Google had finally changed its favicon for Google Analytics.

Google To Provide More Transparency In Customized Search Results - Google had officially announced a new feature in its Google Web Search that will help a user to understand how there search results are already customized.

Google Testing “Related” Links Under Individual Search Listings - Google experiments are going on, This time another new experiment Related Links under Individual Search Listings.

Google To Add Titles To Web-Pages With Missing Titles in their SERPs - Seems like Google is going to add Automatic relevant Title’s according to the content of the page into its search Index.

Here are the hot topics this week on Other Blogs:

Microsoft Live Gets Redesigned.
How Cuil Is The SEO Industry?.
5 Powerful Local Search Marketing Tactics: My SMX Local 2008 Presentation.
An Engaging Collection Of Links - This Month In SEO - 7/08.
Google Knol - Google’s Latest Attack on Copyright.
Google Suggests Disabled Dating Clubs For Cheap Dates.
Google AdWords Dropping Average Position From Content Network?.
Google AdWords Search updated its desgin.
Google Webmaster Tools May Report 404 Errors that Don’t Exist.
StumbleUpon Ratings Can Now Be Seen in Yahoo Results.
Reddit & Digg Launch Mobile Versions.

Google Analytics Has Bugs Too - Some Google Analytics reports have come in that confirm that some people cannot log into their accounts due to redirect issues. Additionally, people have seen errors that the tracking code is not installed on their site (even though it is). Finally, there are reports of duplicate cities in the reporting.

Introducing the New Froogle Performance Dashboard - Google have finally released a new Froogle Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your Froogle impressions, clicks and feed items.

Thats all of this week, If you wan’t to suscribe to a specific category on my blog then this post will be helpful. Will post more Next Week

Bookmark It

Hide Sites