Friday, September 25, 2009

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.

Friday, September 18, 2009

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.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

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.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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.

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