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Weekly Search Buzz (01 Oct 08)

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Oh Guys !! I know its a Month now since I updated this weekly section, My Appology for this. Believe m bad at managing time .. and as a result I didn’t got time for a update last month .. however I was available for updates on weekdays … We’ll here are some of the hot stories and articles hot this week including in my bolg and round the search industry .. I hope u guys will enjoy reading this.

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 !!

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Weekly Search Buzz (31 Aug 08)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

This week I was busy with my personal stuff and was busy with setting up a Office for my company at gurgaon, Delhi-NCR.

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

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Weekly Search Buzz (25 Aug 08)

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Firstly, My appology for not able to post this on sunday, I know many subscribers who are just subscribed to this weekly feeds must be angry on me … :-)

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:

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

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Weekly Search Buzz (17 Aug 08)

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

This week was slow as compared to earlier weeks, Here are some of the topics hot this week on my blog:

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 :-)

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