Google Introduces Keyboard Shortcuts for "Accessible View" on SERPs

Recently Google Introduces "Accessibility Search" on Google Labs. Simply by using the keyboard you can find your most accessible pages on the sERPs. You can navigate your search results very quickly and easily through this Accessible Search. If you want to use the keyboard shortcuts, just join the experiment of "Accessible view" in the tool. Note down that you can join only one of the experimental search at a time.

Currently, You can use keyboard shortcuts for accessible view which includes:

Key - Action

j or DOWN - Selects the next item.
k or UP - Selects the previous item.
l or RIGHT - Moves to the next category (results, sponsored links, refinements).
h or LEFT - Moves to the previous category (results, sponsored links, refinements). Opens the selected result.
/ - Puts the cursor in the search box.
n - Moves to the next result, and fetches more results if necessary.
p - Moves to the previous result, reloading earlier results if necessary.
= - Magnifies current item
- - Shrinks current item
A - Switches to Accessible Search Results
W - Switches to regular Web Search Results.

Google - "For now, you need to use the Firefox 3 web browser with this "accessible view" experiment. This note will be updated as other browsers are added. Magnification already works with Google Chrome and Apple's Safari".

If you have more questions in the Accessibility Search, you can clear through this Accessible Search FAQ...

Now Share Any of Your Web Page Using Google Toolbar

One new feature has brought by Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. This makes it very easy for the user to share any of your webpage with your beloved ones over social networking services, mail, Gmail, Hotmail, Blogger, Facebook, Google Reader, Yahoo bookmarks and all the social bookmarking sites.



You can just share with 1 click by clicking directly on your favorite icon on the "Share" feature... For example, if your click on twitter, that icon created a new window with the page's title, space for your comments and a link to the page. So be quick and start sharing your favorite web pages with everyone.

Better Shopping with Advanced Google Product Search

Google Product Search has optimized with advanced feature for this holiday season. Google has made some recent improvements with this product search such as gallery view, review summaries, store locations and video product reviews. The video product review, a very useful feature which gives an in-depth look to the product before you buy.



A New Gallery View shows larger thumbnails for some of the products like gold rings, mens watches etc.,



You can also check the review summaries of the product pages to see what people said about the products. Then you can get some clear idea about this product before you buy. Also, you can compare prices and view technical specifications for the suitable products. Google Product search also provides the location of the stores nearby to the ZIP code, City or State and this Google Product Search is in beta stage shows only those located in U.S.

With this product search, You can choose any brand you like, any store you want to buy and choose your desired price by using any price option. These useful features really help a lot for this holiday season. You can get more recent products (by default) while refreshing the Google Product Search page again. Get the best product deals for the holiday shopping using Google Product Search.

New Feature - Advanced Filters Announced in Google Analytics

Google Analytics has recently announced the new features of advanced table filters. For the user, it is one of the most useful features that can filter their reports and can do deep analysis. This new feature can filter more data based on any of the particular dimensions and metrics. For example, if you want to see the table with the desired keywords that have a low bounce rate (less than 30%). Then the advanced filters will be very useful for you to filter out the keywords with the less bounce rate using the new feature of "Advanced filters".

After clicking the advanced filters,

You dont go to export the data and then filter your desired one. This is a simple and easy way to find your information what you needed within a few seconds. If you want to edit the filter what you have created, you can edit the filters. With the help of "Add new conditon" button you can add another conditions with the following filters to make your reports perfectly. Start to do your reports by using "Advanced Filters".

Google Analytics IQ Test Launched

Recently, Google launched Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test, a new
qualification program for the Google Analytics Experts to test your expertise in interpreting and using Google Analytics.

In the past, Google - "we are offering an online course in web analytics techniques and Google Analytics implementation, administration, and analysis tools. The course is offered free of charge to everyone who is interested. In addition, we're also offering a test you can take to prove you are qualified in Google Analytics -- the Google Analytics Individual Qualification -- or IQ test". This was in the past 7 months.

Using the Google Testing Center, you can now able to create and publish your link to the test record. Your test record shows your contact information, the date completed your test and remarks for your IQ Test i.e. Pass/Fail.

Visit the Conversion University and get the free Google Analytics Online course. Learn the free tutorials and prepare yourself for the Google Analytics IQ test.

Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test is only available in US English. Also this IQ test costs $50, it requires a passing score of 75% and you should answer 70 questions in 90 minutes. After passing your Google Analytics IQ Exam, you will then receive a proof/certificate of qualification. Are you a Google Analytics Expert? then take the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Test....

New Feature "Fetch as Googlebot and Malware Details" Launched in Google Webmaster Tools

Now Google introduces two new features such as Fetch as Googlebot and Malware Details in Webmaster Tools under the "Labs" label.



Fetch as Googlebot provides you to submit pages on your website and get feedback on what Googlebot sees on the page. This new feature helps you to find out when you re-implement your site with new technology stack, whether some of your pages have been hacked and not ranking for keywords that you optimized. After clicking "Fetch as Googlebot" feature you type the page name or leave it blank for the home page and click "Fetch." After refreshing the pages with few minutes you can see the word "success". Then Click on "Success" to see the output of what Googlebot sees on your web page.

On the other hand, Malware details the second feature under "Labs" label helps you to decide which pages on your site is distributing malware by giving snippet of codes. This useful feature will help you to remove the malware on your site as soon as possible.

These are the two useful features launched by Google under Google webmaster tools labs.

Now PDF File Shows "Quick View" in Search Result Pages

Before, Google search results shows PDF Files in the browser with providing "View as HTML". That was the only way to easily view the pdf files as html in a browser by simply clicking "View as HTML". But with that option we loses some of the graphics, images, table, fonts from the orginal pdf document.



Now Google has added new option such as "Quick View" PDF's in the browser to view these documents easily and completely original without downloading the pdf file. This option will be very useful for the internet users to view the pdf files quickly by google documents.

After clicking the "Quick View" option, you can find the pdf document having several options such as download, print, plain HTML etc.,

Add Google Analytics In-depth Report to your Dashboard

To add a deep-level report to the dashboard in your Google Analytics account, then choose your targeted report like, you need to add visitors of the particular city i.e chennai. For this, you'd need to go to map overlay under visitors, next you have to click "India" under the Country and then you will search for Chennai. This is the long process of 3 to 4 clicks. So better you can save your time by simply add this report to your dashboard. Please see the below figure.

You will now see the report on your dashboard at the end. The next time you log on to your Analytics account, you'll be able to see the visits from "Chennai" on your dashboard. If you want to bring the report on to the first, you can drag the box and move it. You want to delete the report, then click the "x" button to delete it. To view the full reports, click on the view report option in the report summary. Try it now with one of your favorite reports.

SEO Tips and Guidelines for Bing Optimization

Bing is improving more and getting popular with in a short period of time and giving big competition to most of the major search engines. Bing is giving quick search results with related searches in the left side and displays more information about the site in the right hand side while mouse hover in the particular results. There are some tips for seo optimization for Bing search engine.

1. To bring it to the top of Bing, be sure to have a title that correlates to the subject and also make sure your site content matches with your keywords.

2. Bing giving more preference to the domain age of the website.

3. Get more backlinks to your website which quality as well as quantity.

4. Try to add more text as bing really likes pages with more content. Bing gives importance to keyword density of the content.

5. Bing, as all search engines loves original content. So make your content as unique.

6. Bing gives more preference to On-page Optimization than Off-page optimization.

7. The title tag is of very importance for Bing. Make sure to add your important keywords in the TITLE. Without the relevant keyword in this title, your complete efforts on SEO could be wasted.

8. Create and submit a Sitemap. Use xml sitemaps to give Bing a list of URLs to index for your site.

Google Introduces Google Web Elements

Google launched Google web elements to easily add your favorite google products on your website. Add Google web elements to your site to include google products such as calendar, conversation, google custom search, google maps, google news, presentations, spreadsheets and you tube news.

To insert the various products of google, you can easily copy and paste the snippet code in to your webpage. Also, you can choose your own size, type, topic, presentation etc., to be shown on your website. This tool will be very useful for the webmasters to make them to use more Google products on their website. To clearly see the above and below figure, please click on it.

Download Bing Daily Wallpapers

Download Bing daily wallpapers is easy that you just right click and save it as your background. But downloading all Bing wallpapers is not an easy job but it is possible through Bing Wallpaper Downloader.

Bing Wallpaper Downloader is a freeware tool that allows you to download all colorful and attractive Bing wallpaper images to your computer and change your desktop background with these images on a regular basis automatically. In the first present, it will download the past Bing wallpaper images. After, it will regularly check for new images and download them automatically. Also, Bing Wallpaper Downloader can change your desktop background with the downloaded images in a slideshow mode. So start downloading bing wallpapers using the bing wallpaper downloader and make your desktop as colorful.

Top 10 New SEO Trends and Techniques

"Content is King" - that everyone knows. But sometimes content may be useless when there is duplicate i.e. copied from some other website. Give fresh content for your website using your own thoughts and make it as easy for the readers who visit your website. There are some of the useful and latest trends in seo which makes your site better in the search engines.

Here are 10 SEO techniques to improve your website traffic and visibility in the search engines:

1. Content Optimization - Always content is important for the website. Optimize the content well. Use main keywords in the content related to the page but don't stuff the keywords in the content. Use simple words for the readers while optimizing the content and limit the images also.

2. SEO Awareness - Nowadays the awareness of SEO is increased. Most of the peoples who is doing business become aware of what SEO is and why it is needed.

3. Links are constantly important. Get quality backlinks pointing to your site.

4. Image Optimization - Optimize the image names and give alt tags for your images. It will be better for your site to improve traffic through images.

5. Flash Optimization - Optimize your flash files using the various approaches here, http://www.webconfs.com/optimizing-flash-sites-article-14.php

6. Blogging & Posting lot of useful content is one of the greatest way to improve traffic.

7. Social Bookmarking - Create your own tag. But there is huge potential in building backlinks to your site through this method.

8. Article Marketing. Post your articles to various article directories to create backlinks and traffic for your site.

9. SEO Scams - The downside of increased interest in SEO is that many small business owners will continue to spend money making unethical scam artists rich. Read what several search industry leaders had to say about SEO scams and make sure this is one trend you avoid in 2009.

10. Video Optimization is going to be a key in SEO based on a latest research. So do video optimization well and make title for your videos as good.

Best and Easy ways for Optimizing Image Names

Image Optimization is an effective way to get your products found in search. These may definitely generate a lot of traffic. Note that all the major search engines now includes image search option in the web search results. If you have done your image optimization correctly, you can get yourself a very attractive top 10 position by tagging your images correctly. Let's take a step by step approach to inserting and optimizing images on your website.

Do's:

1. Use keywords in the image file names and also make sure that the file name describes the image with keyword phrases searchers are likely to use.
Example: www.domain.com/images/aston-martin-car.jpg

2. Give Title for your image names. Image Title is similar to Alt Text.

3. Use short and meaningful text for the alt tags that are based on search keywords.

Example: image name="www.domain.com/images/gold-jewellery.jpg" alt="Gold Jewellery Online"

4. Image Links: Provide link from the image if it is needed for your website.

5. If your are maintaining a large website then the images should be categorised.

Example: www.domain.com/images/cars/mercedes-benz-car.jpg

6. Check your pages have limited images.

7. Include descriptive text near to the picture. That text may also be used by the search engine as a snippet which describes the image.

8. Using your targeted keywords as alt tags may increase your keyword density in the page.

9. Use high quality images with high contrasts, bright and clear. Because the search engines will make small thumbnails for your images to include in the search engine results.

10. Use photo sharing sites like flickr, picasa, photobucket and more. Upload your images to the social photo sites and get link back to the relevant pages of your site. This is also one of the way to generate traffic while the images searched by the photo sharing site.

11. Finally, If you want to check what images google has indexed for your website, then go and check the number of images google has indexed,
http://images.google.com/images?q=site:domain.com or in the image search, put site:www.domain.com

Dont's:

1. Don't save your images in an external location.

2. Don’t save your images in your root directory like www.domain.com/image1.jpg.

3. Also, don't save your image like this, www.yoursite.com/images/photo-356789.jpg.

4. Don't use image names more than 127 characters.

This is the basic and simple ways for image name optimization. But make a note that the search engines takes longer to crawl the images than the text.

Now bing offers more image optimization tips on how to optimize your images.

Free SEO Analysis Tools

The following are the free tools which are using more for SEO analysing purposes. Using those tools, we can check out SEO quality of the site.

• W3 Optimizer
• Website Grader
• SEO Workers
• DN Fame
• The Reaction Engine
• Spydermate
• SEO Header Checker Tool
• Keyword Density Analysis Tool
• Spider Test

Check your page load time using the below tools which will be very useful.

• Pingdom Tools
• Web Page Analyzer
• Uptrends
• Submit Plus
• LinkVendor

Yes, now start to analyse your website....

Google Launches Google Insights For Search

Google has launched Google Insights for Search, a tool that helps advertisers and marketers to understand searcher activities. With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. This tool offers you a comprehensive set of statistics report based on search volume and also you can compare,

i) Seasonality
ii)Geographic distributions

iii)Categories

iv)Properties

Comparing 2 years of 2008 and 2009 for the searched keywords gives,

Google allows you to see “rising searches” that defined as searches that have experienced
significant growth in a given time period, with respect to the proceeding time period.



If you are an advertiser or a small business owner, Insights for Search can help you to estimate interest in related search terms.

Best Perform for Product Search in Google

Are you a website owner and you are having an e-commerce site? Then you'd like your products to be shown in Google search results. So check out Google "Product Search for Webmasters" video as given below. In addition to the basics on Product Search, it covers:

- Attributes to include in your feed
- FAQs like - Will my products' rankings improve if I include custom attributes in my feed?




Google Product Search helps the customers to find and buy products across the web. As a seller, you can submit your products to Google Product Search, allowing buyers to quickly and easily find your website in the online.

Google product search allows,

a) Increase traffic and sales
b) Submit products for free
c) Reach qualified shoppers

If you want to know more about product search on google, go to product search help center.

Filter out your own IP Address - Google Analytics

The website you are tracking with Google Analytics now offers that filter your own IP address makes that not tracking irrelevant visits to your website. Excluding your own IP, you can get accurate visitors on your site every day. To start filtering out IPs, use the following link for more details to take into step by step.

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/06/back-to-basics-filtering-out-your-own.html

Google Launches New Local Business Center Dashboard

Now Google announces local business center dashboard for the Local business owners who wants to know the visitors from where they are coming to find. You can get a better understanding of how those visitors are finding you and also you can get better information on how to drive more traffic to your local business and attract new customers.

Recently, Now Google offers you the new dashboard in the Local Business Center(www.google.com/lbc). This LBC is a free tool that provides you the detailed information on how the users interacting with your local business on Google, how many times your listing appers in Google Search and Google Maps. Now its is the first time to get this type of data like,






a) Impressions
b) Actions
c) Top Search Queries
d) Zip codes where driving directions request comes from

This useful reports launched by Google which is mainly for local business owners. It will be really useful for them.

Now Google Introduces "Show Options" in SERP

Recently Google has introduced "Show Options" in the Search engine result pages. It will be useful for the visitors to search the results with videos, forums, images, related searches, timeline and more using the show option link. See the below to understand:

After clicking the show options you will get,

Why SEO is important?

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is the process to promote the website and bringing the quality of traffic from the search engines(Google, Yahoo, MSN). SEO helps you to find your business online using targeted Keywords. Search engines find and index your web pages through spidering software.

Why SEO is important? One who wants the business to be shown in the online without spending money then he needs SEO. SEO brings your business in the search engines and also thousands of visitors. But it has some simple techniques that to follow in SEO mainly as title tags and meta tags. Optimize your website with keywords throughout the content in a exact way that the particular search engine will like.