Archive for April, 2010

5 Hard to Die SEO Myths

April 26th, 2010

Domain Age Affects Search Engine Ranking of your Page

It’s good to secure your domain for longer period if you have found your desired domain name. But this is purely to keep your domain reserved and not out of any SEO requirements. It’s the quality of your site and its content that affects search engine ranking and not the domain age.

It’s Necessary to Maintain an Ideal Keyword Density on Your Page

Keywords in your page copy helps search engines to understand what your site is all about and when someone types similar or same key phrases, search engine may show your site in SERP. But there is nothing which is ideal keyword density. All those formulas on Keyword Density are just crap. Forget them all. Do not overstuff your content with any particular keyword or phrase. Using it 2-3 times is sufficient.

Submit your site to Multiple Search Engines

If your SEO team is spending time on submitting your site’s URL to to multiple Search Engines, it’s just a waste of time and nothing else. 5-6 years back it may hold some truth but it’s useless now.

Having Google Sitemap Ensures High Rank

This is good practice to have .XML or .txt sitemap but this simply helps search engine in understanding your site structure and find out the pages on your site. This can never ensure better ranking. Breaking the myth further, just having links on sitemap can never guarantee that it will be indexed by search engine.

It is important to update your pages frequently to ensure better ranking

Frequent updates ensure frequent crawling and not better ranking. If you are updating your pages just for the search engines, please don’t waste any more time on it. If you need to update for your visitors, go ahead and do it.

With Sency Know What’s Going Around Your City

April 22nd, 2010

As you know Sency makes it easy for anyone to search the real time web to see what’s being said right now.  Today, they have just launched the capability to let users find out what people are saying right now frs Going om 13 major US Cities.

In addition to letting the user search for what’s being said inside an actual city for a given keyword, Sency for Cities will also show the 10 most talked about topics right now in a given city.

The 13 cities included in this launch are: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC.

Sency

There are many potential uses for Sency for Cities, here are a few of them:

-Sports fans can now see, in real time, what people in their city, and rival cities, are saying about a given team or player.

-When a new movie, commercial, or product launches; businesses can now see how the sentiment from the public differs in each of the major cities.

-When there is an important event or breaking news inside a major city – anyone can see how people inside the city, whom are directly affected, are reacting.  This can be compared with what outsiders are saying from cities not directly involved with the breaking news or event.

-The current hot topics for a given city can show what is happening and being most talked about in a city right now.  This can introduce new events to users  while highlighting the topics that a city is buzzing about right now.

More information can be found at sency.com

Google Follow Finder will Help you Find Tweeps

April 15th, 2010

Back to back Google made two announcements through their blog. First, Replay feature in their real time search and second a new experimental service that helps in finding right people to follow on Twitter. The new experimental service called Google Follow Finder and it will help in expanding our networks on Twitter.

All we need to do is to enter our twitter account name in the search box and click the search button. The result will show suggestions of tweeps that you may find interesting to follow.  If you like the suggestion of tweeps suggested by Google find follower engine, you can click on the follow@username on twitter, log in to your twitter account and they will be added to your following list.

google follow finder

The recommendation seems to be pretty simple and based on the fact that the people you follow also tend to follow the suggested users.  If you are following Mashable and Techcrunch and most people who follow Mashable and Techcruch also tend to follow Google then suggested tweep would be Google.
It also shows the list of “Tweeps with similar followers”. This is simple list of other twitter users with similar follower lists to yours.

Cisco WebEx on iPad-Tap URLs and Get Connected To Meetings

April 12th, 2010

On this Saturday, Apple officially announced sales of 300,000 iPads in the U.S on the first day of its launch. This includes deliveries of pre-ordered iPads to customers, deliveries to channel partners and sales at Apple Retail Stores.” The volume of sales itself speaks for its success.

Cisco WebEx

But some discussions were going in the corporate arena that whether or not the iPad is of any use for business world?

Now with the launch of Cisco WebEx Meeting Center for the iPad makes it exciting even for corporate. The top management would now be soon seen joining meetings by simply tapping the URL in the email or calendar meeting invitation. Functionally, the experience of WebEx meeting is no different from joining it using your desktop or laptop computers. You can see the meeting attendees chat privately or see who is talking.

About 15,000 WebEx app has been downloaded for the iPad and it currently remains #1 in the Top Free Business App category on the App Store.

Instapaper Pro., Memeo Connect Reader and iWork for iPad are some other Must-Have iPad Apps for Business Professionals recommended by PC world.

Does the Speed of your site affects ranking on Google?

April 11th, 2010

Google has recently announced that out of more than 200 factors that are taken into account, Site speed will also be one.
Though the relative importance of this factor is much lesser than others such as backlinks, content and good code, still it is good if we now put a little more emphasis on keeping our site faster. This is beneficial for both the visitors of your site and the search engines.
According to Google blog post, less than 1% of the search result is actually affected because of the admission of this new factor in ranking algorithm. At this point this new factor is launched only on English Google.com
The report on the site speed and your site comparison with the average speed value of all the sites around the world can be tracked in Google webmaster tools. Google through its blog has also suggested a few tools that can be used to evaluate the speed of your site, here is the list
Page Speed, an open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.

YSlow, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.
WebPagetest shows a waterfall view of your pages’ load performance plus an optimization checklist.