Latest SEO Industry News 2009

The major news in SEO world is that Yahoo has got Patent for Human Enhanced Search Engine. The latest social networking news is that Google launched Google wave. Google wave has already hit the Social world like a wave. Google also changed the criteria for Google Maps. The Google PR update happen on October 30, 2009. The PR update went as expected. Google meanwhile removed Page Rank from webmaster tools. Google thinks PR is major internal reference factor rather than a factor for webmasters. Google translator was another big revaluation. It was launched on the World Translation Day. Google has added a new feature Intelligence to Google Analytics which is still under the Beta version.World Translation Day. Google now shows relevant World Bank data which comes from the World Development Indicators. Bing has integrated Twitter Search and now Bing started providing Twitter updates in real time. Yahoo is expected to make a tie up with One Riot a Real Time Search Engine to provide real time search results. You can get the latest SEO news from my blog. I will try to update all the latest SEO news through my blog.

Google Supports The Usage of Cross Domain Canonical Tag

Cross Domain Canonical Tag is the second generation canonical tag. In the latest SMX East conference session Joachim Kupke, senior software engineer of Google's indexing team announced that by the end of the year the search engine will offer cross-domain support for the canonical tag. The announced that it will support the usage of rel=”canonical” link element across different domains is a great help to webmasters.

The new update will help webmasters maintain the same content on two domains without having a content duplicate issue. The priority will be given to one domain/page and only one domain/page will appear in the search result. Danny Sullivan one the experts recalled the announcement in an interview with Mike McDonald of WebProNews, adding that he and other webmasters had been eager for such a solution for some time. So it is great time for all the webmasters. This change will help in increasing traffic to the original source. Traffic Creation will be one of the features this new change is going to bring in. I have been waiting for this change. Bing and Yahoo will not support Cross Domain Canonical Tag. The tag is going to improve search results in Google search engine. I hope that soon Yahoo and Bing too accepts this standard canonical tag format.

Shoemoney CRS and Ad:Tech contest

Why I should win the Shoemoney CRS and Ad:Tech contest ?

The answer is pretty simple I need to learn a lot more about making profit from contextual advertising.

I have got some blogs where I use content based advertising. I want learn a lot of things on how to make more profit by doing contextual advertising. I have already been doing the same for some years but I have made little earnings from that. I hope that this is the chance for me to learn more about making profit and a steady income from contextual advertising. I want to earn a huge sum of money from contextual advertising. I want to double my Adsense earnings or even make that three times to what I earn now. I would like to know what is the better way to product more profit from the contextual advertising that I have been doing. I want to know how to pull more traffic to my blogs and make them popular in the niche.

I will use all the information I acquire to improve the quality of my blogs and make it worth for the visitors. I hope that this is a one time opportunity that I should never miss out. Thanks for considering my entry and giving me an opportunity to express my thoughts.

Negative Factors That Affect Google Local Business Listings

In this post I am going to mention what are the negative factors that affect Google Local Business Listings.

Negative factors that affect Google Local Business Listing are:

1) Multiple Local Business Listings with same business names

2) Multiple Local Business Listings with same address

3) Multiple Address on the website contact page.

4) Negative ratings on Google Local Business Listings

5) Including #800 phone number as the primary phone number on Google local business listings.

6) Including #800 phone number on website contact us page.

7) Lisiting Postal Box number without physical address.

8) Multiple Local Business Listings with same phone numbers.

Meta Keyword Tag is not used in Google Rankings

Google has announced that Meta Keyword Tag is not used in Google search ranking at present. The keyword tag lost its importance long back when SEO and Webmasters started misusing the tag to gain higher search engine rankings for keywords which are not relevant to their website (the misuse of keyword tag can also be referred as keyword stuffing which is a black hat SEO technique). Google started to make modification to their algorithm so that this misuse could be stopped and finally they made a more advanced algorithm which looked into more off-page factors rather than on-page factors. Google still support most of the other meta tags including meta description tag.

Ashton Kutcher, @aplusk‎ the first twitter profile to reach 1M followers

Today I reports that first twitter profile to reach 1M followers was Ashton. The top 2 contestants for the place were Ashton and CNNBrk. CNN was the second to cross 1M mark. The twitter users are increasing dramatically. In February 2009 twitter users where 4.3 million and it increased to 9.3 million in March 2009.

Google interest-based advertising launched

Google has launched its interest-based advertising beta version. This will help the publishers to choose whether to increase their brand awareness or to increase their ad responses. The success of a campaign will increase as well as it should increase the earnings as advertiser participation increases. This interest-based advertising is a big news for all. The beta version is expected to run till late 2009. I am planning to test out the Google interest-based advertising beta version. I am waiting for some reviews.