Google Rolls Out April FOols Day Updates

Google+ Update:

Okay, lets start with Google+. Today Google gives you an option to add emoticon to your pictures in Google plus.

With the huge amount of data it got from the pictures shared around the world, Google has come up with tracking your emotion this time and it's real fun if the emoticons were perfect and but also funnier if they fail real bad.

Google Webmaster tools - New opt out feature

Opt out feature:

If you have your site that is being displayed in Google products like

• Google shopping
• Google+ Local
• Google Flights
• Google Advisor
• Google Hotels

and if you don't want your site to be displayed but finding tricky to use robots.txt or disavow, then Google has another option for you to choose, opt out from webmaster tools.

This works only for domain level sites only, not for blogs. Once done, your site will be removed within 30 days from those products and will not be displayed.

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Victory At last - SEO Contest

Victory At last - SEO Contest

It's been a busy month and the competition was tough. Wondering what's going on? From the beginning of Feb 2013 I was working to rank high for the keyword seocontestatiiithyderabad, a SEO contest held at IIIT Hyderabad college. 

During blogging into the contest I was thinking about deleting this blog once it's all over..but now just want to keep it as a souvenir and a documentary for SEO from which I'd learned a lot. 

Able to rank 1st in two(bing and duckduckgo) of the 3 search engines but Google had other ideas I believe.. Got to figure out why. Anyway, I came 2nd in this nation wide SEO competition which is great! 

Thanks for all Forum of Thoughts readers who'd visited and read these blogs! You guys are awesome :)

Just wanted to share my findings about SEO here.

• Link building still works but it's not the only criteria..the blog came 3rd had about 1300 backlinks and 1st blog had about 400 and mine 2nd blog had about 700.

• Wordpress with perfect theme is a great SEO.

• Author rank does seem to be having an impact. The blog came 1st had about 1000+ guys in his profile and he seems to be some what influential author.

• Keyword stuffing might be having some negative impact(Panda, Penguin). Even 3% to 4% of keyword usage is bad it seems.

• url relevancy is most important it seems. Next is title and then description.

• Overall, author rank stands out to me. Google+ is the future..

Grab a Google Glass, If You Can!

Grab a Google Glass, If You Can!

Sergey Brin

Yup, that's right. You might have seen the recent expedition of Sergey Brin's in NY subway, testing the latest gadget of the century Google Glass. But it seems like Google wants to test it more with different environment, for different activities or may be in some situations. So they need more human beings and that's where we fit in.

Valentine's Day - Google Doodle 2013

Checkout the new Valentine's day Google doodle for 2013. It's actually cute that you get to spin the giant Ferris wheel and with randomness animals fall in Love and eventually a Love story to end it. Smart and Cute..

Also today is 154th birthday of George Ferris and so Google kinda made a doodle both for Valentine's day as well as George Ferris. Nice!

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Page Rank Update by Google - Feb 4 2013

Hi guys, today I noticed there was a page rank update to my blog from PR0 to PR1 which is good but I was hoping for a PR2. 

As every one else I don't want to write a post on how important Page Rank is and what you should do to increase your page rank and bla bla bla..

Share your Page rank change with us, to see what is the pattern like this time around. I believe most sites/blogs would have stayed the same or 1 PR up. 

Only shocking update for me is that most of my "links to your site" is gone. Hope that is just a glitch :(

Update1:

That was indeed a glitch and got all my links back in webmaster tools. This has become a regular thing when there is a pagerank update.

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Fifa 13 - Have a better Defensive Tactics

"Winning is one thing, but winning by shutting the opponent completely is something!" - Isn't that a great comment. In this post we'll see how a simple change of defensive settings could change the score line for you.

How to Comment to get Traffic to your site - SEO

Every webmaster or blogger will like to have more eye balls going through their site/blog. Some like it for passion, some for financial benefits and some for both. But what ever the intention be, here I'm gonna tell you simple yet not always practiced method of using commenting to get more traffic to your site/blog.

Let Your Kids Doodle 4 Google - 2013

Google had announced today that its accepting submission for this year's, 2013, Doodle 4 Google competition. The concept is simple, based on the Google logo draw a doodle for the theme "My Best Day Ever.."

Google Maps Coordinate now available on iPhone & Android

This is just an update to what I was saying about Google maps coordinate to be one of our daily apps in the future. And the latest news is that it's available now on both iPhone and Android.

Best feature: You can share real time geo location of your friend, employee, family when you are on the go. You can coordinate well during party or meeting or get together etc., Here is the official post.

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Maps Coordinate now available on iPhone

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Google Plus - What does Ripples mean to you?

If you are using Google+, you should probably know what ripple is.But I know that Google Plus is not yet as social as Facebook and with our little spare time, you may find it difficult to engage in both the social the social media.

Blog SEO - Keeping Neat and Tidy

In this blog post we are going to see some basic and simple points to be taken care for Search Engine Optimization but yet always over looked more often. 

So lets all play fair SEO here and think in Google's perspective about what defines a Google friendly site/page.

Follow Santa Through Google's Santa Tracker

With Dooms day gone by the wind it's Christmas time to celebrate with your family and friends. As always, Google with it's Santa Tracker, we can have much fun following Santa around the world with his busy day just a couple of days left.

Learn to use the new Google Maps in iPhone

Photo by: Clarita

Google's new Maps app has new features and updates for both iOS and Android users that was released a week ago. And if you think you already know all the features of Google Maps, just check out the google support pages shared below if you are missing anything.

How about getting a fellowship in Journalism from Google!

With Christmas and new year around the corner, big companies and shops announcing offers to attract customers.

And Google offers Fellowship in journalism for this holiday for 8 lucky students.

Teenage Chat - A Problem for Parents?

The time has changed for teenagers to indulge in experiments like talking to an unseen/unknown girl/boy through, teenage chat rooms using internet. 

Why is it so popular? Because teenagers want to experiment and not all teenagers would go out and do stunts and be bold enough to talk to girls/boys. 

Google Releases Latest Maps App for iOS 5.1 and Higher

Finally the much awaited "Google Maps"app from Google for iOS is available to download from Apple app store. Previouly Apple removed Google Maps as its default  Map app in the latest release of iPhone5 and released Apples own maps app but one has to say things didn't go well as planned.

Google's Data Highlighter for Event Management

Google's Data Highlighter makes easy for web masters to do markup for pages having events and helps show the event data better and improve your looks in search results page.

Do list before THE WORLD ends - 12/21/2012

Photographer: schubert

So as you all know we are nearing the ultimate day or the judgement day and we have only 10 more days to go before the world ends as per "Mayan calendar" phobia. 

I know this sounds silly and we are going to sleep well(may be nightmares of meteorites colliding earth, its up to your  imagination) and wake up the next day, or maybe :)!

Google now Offers "Google Offers"

         


Yup, you heard it right. Now you can easily find available offers from the stores near you for your desired products with "Google Offers" app using your smart phone. This app is available to download for both android and iphone phones.