More Real-Time Updates in Google

MYSpace added in Real-Time Search
As discussed earlier Google includes real-time updates in search results for hot buzz topics. Now Google officially comprise MySpace content to real-time search. Similar to tweets and facebook relevant MySpace photos, blog posts will be listed in Google which are just seconds old. You can activate MySpace updates in real-time mode by clicking on "Show Options" and then "Updates."

Image Filtering
Use [Site:] operator to filter the image results from particular website. Images are filtered based on the image source URL. Now you can remove the surplus and control search results.

Google focus more on Social search results

Earlier Google introduced Social Search in labs help to find more relevant content (blogs, tweet updates, etc) from your social connections and online contacts. Social search results are specific to you and can be viewed after signing into Google Accounts. Today Social search is available to everyone in Google Beta.

You can filter search results to view only content from your social networks by clicking “show options”. After entering search query [Seattle] Google Social Search includes your friend’s blog, tweets related to the search under "Results from people in your social circle for Seattle". This feature is available in Google Images search.

Also, the two new links for "My social circle" and "My social content" displays content source and how you are connected with the author.

Images with descriptions and labels helped bot to crawl and display in the search results. Some images were not shown in the result due to less information. Now users can include labels to the images and enhance the collection.

Google disclose 2009 searchers Report

Back to 2009, Internet usage is keep progressing for the years and search giants are providing frequent updates/features to retain the users. Today, Google revealed Internet users statistical information.

• 7/10 Google search queries comes from United States

• 1/10 Google users from United States use 10 search queries

• More than 1/3 of new search queries used by searchers, Excluding duplicates

• More than 1/5 of new search queries used by searchers, Including duplicates

• Google Users take Average of 9 seconds to enter a search query

• Google responds search query in Less than ¼ second

• 1 in 13 search result pages show Google map listings

• Country with the greatest increase in Google web search traffic in 2009 vs. 2008: Indonesia*

Statistical Data on Internet Users

Most of the user statistics is related to United States. 2010 would be a tough war between Internet search giants to increase and facilitate the user level experience.

2010 Begin with Drop in Page Indexing

Parties Over! Started 2010 with great hopes and turning points. Google updates PageRank at the end of 2009 and dropped page index in the beginning of 2010. Some of webmasters/site owners achieved progress in PageRank along with Backlinks but fall in page indexing.

Many SEO Experts who tested the Caffeine performance shared that Google Caffeine will index and prefer fresh contents. But this update starts fresh indexing count from level zero and increases rapidly in short time. And not much affects in search engine ranking for the existing targeted keywords.

Hope its time to sit and watch for the Google Caffeine Updates.

Kick Start 2010 with Google PR Update

Spending final moments of 2009 and stepping into 2010 with lots of expectations. Google gives a surprise gift for webmasters and site owners by updating PageRank in late 2009. Generally PageRank is updated once in 3 months but this update is unexpected by everyone.

In 2008, Google officially announced PageRank update at the year end. Similarly it occurred this year end too and expecting in 2010. Congrats to site owners/webmasters for attaining boost in PageRank. Others don’t panic as it won’t affect search engine ranking for the targeted keywords. Google Caffeine will be released in early 2010 and it will bring lots of surprise to you.

Have a wonderful New Year!

Google New Tool for Shortening URL

Visitors often face difficulties while sharing lengthy URL. Twitter automatically shortens the long URL due to character limit and sharing is made simple. Google launched Google URL shortener service available only in new Google Toolbar and FeedBurner version.

• Stability: Google's scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users.
• Security: Shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites.
• Speed: Product ensure this service is quick and continued to improve the speed of Google Url Shortener.
  

Some Important guidelines about Google Caffeine

Few months back Google search team announced about revolution of new search methodology called “Google Caffeine”. The sandbox version was functioning in http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ to get performance feedback. At present the URL is shutdown and will be released after holidays. Meanwhile most of the SEO experts, webmasters & developers tested the new search engine performance and published their feedback about the new search methodology. Following are some vital instructions to be pursued to retain site listing position for the targeted keywords/key phrase.

Google Caffeine focuses primarily in crawling large amount of pages and documents. Users will find more search results instantly compared to the previous version with minor variations in site listings and additional real-time updates like tweets, news, blogs etc.

Still domain age plays important role in attaining top listings position for the targeted phrase. Better site architecture helps bot to spend more time on your site and in indexing additional pages. Google Caffeine trails Keyword Stuffing firmly and penalize without delay.

Google Translate Element

Planning to translate the page content to user’s local language. Earlier owner spent lots of effort and investment to rewrite the copy and integrate functionality to translate the content. Now Google makes it easier by introducing new functionality called “Translate Element”. Implement the Translate Element code snippet in pages which you would like users to read in their local language.

Implementing the code snippet will generate pop up “Translate” button at bottom right-hand side of the page. Users can select their choice to translate the content from Google supported language list. Currently Google supports 51 languages (Arabic, Chinese, Danish, German, Hindi, Russian, Thai and more) to translate content on your website.

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Browser Size: To identify Visitors impression

People design and develop web pages based on their unique ideas to drive visitor’s attention. Generally everyone begins SEO immediately after launching the site and looking for better ranking position. When the “time spent on site” reduces owner get confused how visitors reacting to their site layout and to reduce visitors bounce rate.



Google developed “Browser Size” tool to portray how everyone looks into your site. This tool provides graphical presentation of visitor’s attention to page segments. Low % indicates visitor spent less time on that page segment and displaying offers at that section won’t create much impact. Also Browser Size tool helps designer to develop better layout by reducing page scroll and make sure that the important parts of the page are always prominent to audience.

Sharing Web Page using Google Toolbar

Google Toolbar users can now share interesting web pages to all local and major social network. Discovered any hot topics while browsing and would like to share with your friends at one click. Toolbar team announced “Share Feature” which makes easier to share any page over various social networks, blogs and mail.

Share Feature is available in Internet Explorer and Firefox. New Toolbar Feature supports sharing through sites like Blogger, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Gmail or other services. Check the video demo for more user experience.

More Search Updates from Google

Real-Time Search
For hot topics, along with general search results, videos, images get real time updates from twitter, facebook, myspace, friendfeed, jaiku and identi.ca in. Tweets are updating instantly without page refresh.

New trick in Google Suggest
Google provides more results and information for general terms in keyword suggestion bar including weather, flight status, local time, area codes, package tracking, answers, definitions, calculator, unit conversions, and currency conversions. Soon it will be available in Google supported language.

Relevant Travel Information in Search Result
During local business search nearby transit information will be displayed in the map appearing at the beginning of the search result.

Similar Pages Beta Version
Alike “Similar” link appearing next to every URL in search result. Google announced a new Chrome extension, Similar Page beta to identify similar page wherever you are on the web.

Extension to find Text Occurrence
Finding difficult to recognize the search query/text on the landing page? Use Google Quick Scroll to avoid this complexity. Quick Scroll tool automatically pop up black color panel at lower right corner of the screen highlighting “search query”. Clicking the panel will take you directly to the part of the page. This feature is not available for all queries.

Google New Toolkit: Speed Tracer

Does your Web application is taking more time to display to the user. Google introduced new web toolkit called Speed Tracer (available in Chrome Extension). Tool helps to identify and fix specific performance problems caused in your web page with "Sluggishness Graph" and other metrics.



After installing Speed Tracer, "green color stopwatch" icon can be spotted at top right corner near to the address bar. Browse to a page and click the stopwatch icon to track performance details. Using Speed Tracer locating problem cause is simple. Now you can fix the page load time and execute the page instantly than before.

Search updates from Google

Google announced list of search updates last week. Much of them are interesting and effectively handy for the user.

• Fresh Home Page: Links fade during mouse over on search box.

• New layout for Images: More small images appear along with larger image to narrow the options. Example: panda

• Automatic spelling correction on Related Searches.

• Extended personalized search: Provides relevant search result by analyzing 180 days of search activity.

• Site Performance Data: Obtain Site load information from Google Webmaster tools.

• Translated Search Results: View quick options for multilingual search results with more than 40 different languages.

• Region tags: Region name appears next to the domain in the results to identify location of the website.

Google Top Search Query

Internet search engine giant released 2009 top search query list for 2009 year. As discussed earlier, king of pop lists in top followed by brand names and movies. 2009 had some major incidents like swine flu effect, Microsoft new OS, etc. Michael Jackson death has affected globally.

Internet giant evaluate billions of search queries typed in multiple Google search bar filtering duplicate entries. Also, top queries are available based on the Geographical regions.

Top Google Search Queries

1. Michael Jackson
2. Facebook
3. Tuenti
4. Twitter
5. Sanalika
6. New moon
7. Lady gaga
8. Windows 7
9. Dantri.com.vn
10. Torpedo gratis

Google Analytics - Installation Guide

Need to know who is reaching your site, from where, which page they visited, etc. Google Analytics Tool (Free) provides comprehensive information about site traffic, visitor information and activities within the website. Follow below steps to complete the installation process:

1. Sign-up with Google Analytics or use existing Google Account (Gmail)

2. Type the website address without http:// and click continue after filling other details



3. Finally reaching to “Add Tracking Code” page with three different options:

• Tracking single site.


• Site having many sub-domains.


• Trailing Multiple Domains.


• Tracking Mobile sites.


• Traditional analytics code.

Google provides unique code while choosing each option. ("UA-XXXXXXXX-X") is the identity and will generate unique analytics code for each site.

Finally provided code has to be placed immediately before closing of the "" tag. Also you can easily integrate existing Google Adword campaigns and track conversions with the analytics account. Following above steps will be more helpful to track site performance

Basic Help for using Google Webmaster Tools

After launching the website, webmaster next step is to improve the site visibility on search engine perspective. Submitting website to major search engines like Google, yahoo, Bing helps to crawl the website quickly but takes more time to index all the web pages. Sometimes Google bot fail to index few pages due to crawl errors. Problem in identifying the reasons? Submit your website to Google webmaster tools to identify the crawl error and to identify bot status on your website.

• Adding a Site: Multiple websites can be managed on a single account.

• Verification File: Each website should be verified to complete the submission process. Either you can META tag code on Home Page or upload the html file to the root directory of the website.

• Track Inbound links, Internal links and Top search queries used by the visitors to enter the website.

• Crawl Information: Identify Crawl status, Crawl error and Broken links details from the “Diagnostic” tab.

• Removing URL: Webmaster can remove specific pages from Google indexing using Robots.txt file.

• Settings: Webmaster can customize the Crawler rate to increase Google bot traffic on your website.

• Sitemap: Submitting sitemap to Google webmaster tools helps for better indexing.