Search Engines and Micro Links

The are lot of speculations going on in the SEO world. There have been a lot of predictions for 2010. The big question now is will the microlinks gain importance in the eyes of Search Engines ?. Blogging has changed from Megablogging to Microblogging. Twitter and Plurk are the most famous microblogging sites. While twitter has build up a strong presence in the Internet social media world, plurk has build a strong presence among Asia social media users especially users from Taiwan. My answer to the question is that there is high chance that Google starts giving more weightage to twitter microlinks as Google has already started to track the real time mentions. They have started showing the title as well as homepage of the website that is tweeted as microlink using bit.ly or using URL's shortened by other microlinking websites.This is a great sign that the tweets might pass some significant data that might be taken into consideration while search engines compute SERP changes.





Now the most important question comes up as how Google will determine which tweets are more relavant and which are not that relavant?. I would have to say that Google will use a similar meterics which they have been using for website relavance. Google has been using a concept like a webpage becomes important as more and more external webpages links of which more authority webpages are giving the links which have more number of backlinks. The same principal might be applied in the case of twitter profile. A twitter profile will get more authority if a lot of twitter profiles link to the particular twitter profile of which some of them are most famous twitter who have lot of followers and who follow a few. This will really make search engine conisered the twitter profile as a priorirty one and the tweets will get more importance.

Here is supporting view.

"One user following another in social media is analogous to one page linking to another on the Web. Both are a form of recommendation,” Singhal says. “As high-quality pages link to another page on the Web, the quality of the linked-to page goes up. Likewise, in social media, as established users follow another user, the quality of the followed user goes up as well".

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SEO in a Decade

This is my first post in 2010.I hope you would all have been waiting for my post on this blog. I was a little busy as I had become a Guest Blogger in GSEO Blog. Today I am going to blog about how SEO changed over the decade. This has been a topic of discussion among a lot of SEO experts as well as webmasters. The major changes that evolved in SEO after 2000 will be discussed in this blogpost. In 2000 Yahoo directory listing for $199 as well as link popularity was an important element for Search Engine Optimization. In 2001 the Pay-for-placement concept concept became more popular in 2001. Google launched AdWords way back in 2001.Google started penalizing websites for selling PR on the same year. In 2003 Google started thinking about Spam. Yahoo purchased Inktomi, AltaVista and FAST in 2003. The year 2004 was a great year in SEO world as professional SEOstarted in 2004. Google introduced Google Analytics and "no follow" link attribute in 2005. In 2006 Google came up with minus 30 penalty. The year 2007 made SEO think more about ways on getting "targeted traffic" to the websites. In 2008 most of the real time social media websites got evolved. Twitter was started in 2008. In 2009 Bing became the new search engine released by Microsoft.I am grateful to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings a Boston SEO Consulting Agency for collecting so many facts about SEO evolution through the past decade.

Source of information: Experienced People

Google PR update

I have seen that the Page Rank update have happened yesterday. It is a PR update within 2 months. Many of the my websites and blogs gained higher PR. I have seen some domains which have also lost their page rank. My mma pound for pound have gained PR 0. This blog have not got any PR changes. The page rank of my blog still remains the same PR 0. I would be providing the latest SEO news on this blog. I hope that all SEO masters and SEO Experts had a great New Year. This was Google's New Year Gift to all SEO's and Webmasters around the world. SEO history has repeated its own as the PR update happened on December 31st 2009. The previous year update happened on December 31st 2008. It is Google's way to gift all SEO's and Webmasters. So what are you all waiting for just enter your website URL and check your Page Rank.

Navigate around locations using Google landmarks feature

Google India launches landmarks a new feature that will enable driving directions for users of Google Maps. Google map users can now navigate around locations using landmarks feature on their desktops and mobile phones to locate petrol pumps, colleges and schools, bus and railway stations,local businesses and much more. India is the first country in the world to get this feature on Google Maps.

This will be an helpful feature for all Indians as they can easily locate the places they want to travel. Google India has collected good landmark data through Google Map Maker to which users have added "points of interest" information. Googles uses a navigation algorithm determines the data based on importance, and closeness to the turns the user is making and other available informations. Google users can also enrich the current Google landmarks data with additional resources using Google Map Maker.

Source of Information: http://www.gseo.net/blog/post/179

Mobile Search - The top 10 websites in India

According to Opera, Google.com and other services by Google are popular on the mobile web in India. In addition, a report from the company shows a 208.4% unique user growth in Opera Mini users in India compared to November 2008.

Opera Mini has already got more than 41.7 million users worldwide showing a 5.3 percent increase as compared to the previous month, according to the report. The number of page views in November also went up 9.5% and the data consumption increased about 8.3% compared to October.

1.Google.com

2.Orkut.com

3.Gmail.com

4.Facebook.com

5.Wikipedia.org

6.Songs.pk

7.Youtube.com

8.Yahoo.com

9. Wap.in

10. Zedge.net

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Source of Information : http://www.gseo.net/blog/post/171

mma pound for pound

The mma pound for pound ranking discussions are now one among the top news. I lately decided to pick my favorite mma fighters. I picked the players based on my personal views. You can agree to my list or come up with a new list of mma pound for pound player rankings.

Here is my list of mma pound for pound players:

1.Anderson Silva
2. Georges St-Pierre
3. Fedor Emelianenko
4. Lyoto Machida
5. B.J. Penn
6. Jose Aldo
7. Gegard Mousasi
8. Miguel Torres
9. Mike Brown
10. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

I have left out Brock Lesnar from my list as he was suffering from injury. I am sure that he will make a come back soon. The WEC and UFC rankings for November is out and we have got the mma pound for pound fighting fixture for December. The MMA Forum discussions about the pound for pound fights have started. I have kept away from pound for pound ranking discussion as rankings are based on latest fights. The best players will also loose a game/fight when he is not at his best. The best players must be picked based on their previous career records. The fighting career will show how good the fighter is. The mixed martial arts pound for pound yearly ranking is a good way to get to know the best mma fighters of that particular year.

Latest SEO News 2010

The latest SEO news for 2010 would be the inclusion of Real Time Search by all major search engines. Google has started their efforts to make the Internet much faster. Google plan to buy Yelp will make them popular in customer review as well as social front. Twitter has made their plans clear as they are going to introduce contribute feature for business profile. Many businesses are using twitter for customer support as well as branding. The year 2010 seems to be more promising one as compared to 2009. The big thing about 2010 would be that it will make clear if the social networking sites are going to lead the race or the search engines are going to push their position's further ahead. Microsoft tried to dominate in China by introducing a Microblogging service like Plurk but the service was soon brought down because many users started to share the service was exactly a copycat of Plurk. Plurk is still ahead of twitter in the Taiwan and plans to dominate in Asia. Twitter have got huge plans as they announced that they will support business profiles. Google has started to show status updates from Twitter, Facebook etc. The new real time wave will be in its peak in 2010. There are also a lot of SEO Contests to come in 2010. SEO contest are great way to develop your SEO Skills and SEO knowledge. I look forward to participate in a lot of SEO Contest especially the once from Promo Junkie Forum.