How to target and rank high for low competion keywords

How to target and rank high for low competion keywords Don’t try to optimize your website with keywords that have too much competition. As an example. If you did a google search for the keyword “SEO” it returns a result of 716,000,000 pages! You don’t need be a marketing genius to realize that there is a lot of competition for this keyword and that it is going to be extremely hard to rank for this term. So instead concentrate your efforts on keywords that are much more attainable and easier to rank for.

By now you understand the importance of doing proper keyword research. So you probably want to know how you do this.  Well it is important to point out that, people have different methods and tools for achieving this research. In the first instance I believe that your primary goal is to find and optimize your website for ‘Low competition keywords’.

‘Low competition Keywords’ are those keywords that have a good monthly search volume but relatively low competition. I classify good monthly search volume as anything over 1,000 searches per month and preferably 3,000 searches. By low competition I mean that the sites occupying that first 10 places in Google can be beaten.

Good monthly search volume + Low competition = SEO success.

High monthly search volume + High competition = SEO failure.

Now is it easy to find these ‘low competition keywords’? The answer is no! The internet is extremely competitive, when other seo firms find these ‘low competition keywords’ they take advantage of them for clients. However that is not too say that there aren’t still a lot of excellent ‘golden keywords’ still to be found.

Start with understanding, that the goal of proper seo keyword research is uncover keywords that have a good monthly search volume and relatively low competition. When I am conducting keyword research I look at it as a process or in stages.

Firstly I decide upon a niche or business category that I might want to get into, this could be something like  ‘NY commercial Insurance’ or  ‘home renovation’.

Secondly, I use keyword research tools to ascertain the interest in the niche or category and look at keywords and search volumes. Then I look at the bigger picture, i.e.: how competitive is the niche overall for certain keywords?

Finally I look at the top 10 websites and ascertain what my chances of out ranking them. After all ultimately your goal is to be no.1 on Google, or at least on 1st page. So in reality the only real competition are the 10 websites that occupy the position on the first page.

Ok lets look at each stage in more detail.

Stage 1 – Deciding What keyword Category To Get Into

Really this is a decision that you have to make on your own. You might be really passionate about a particular business sector or subject. You’d be really surprised at what interests other people share as well. One tip is to check out Google Trends. You can see what is popular at the moment and you can also see a chart of topics popularity. Initially it doesn’t what matter what niche or category you choose because you’ll soon find out whether there is any market for it.

Stage 2 – Determining if there is a market for the category

Once you have decided on the business category that you want to get into you need to ascertain whether there is a market for it. Now, there are many different ways to do this but the easiest way is to use the Google Keyword Tool or the free wordtracker keyword tool. Use the tool to analyze monthly search volumes. As mentioned if the monthly search volume is over 1,000 then it might be something that you want to get into. You want to get a list of keywords related to your business ready for stage 3.

Stage 3 – Looking at the ‘bigger picture’ for certain keywords.

Once you have your list of keywords, you now need to have a look at the bigger picture. This will help you get an idea of the chances for ranking. This does take quite a lot of time and effort but believe me it is well worth it.

*Note this information I am about to give you is the real juice of seo keyword research.

I am assuming that from stage 2 you have a list of keywords that get over 1,000 monthly searches. Take the keyword and type it into Google and do the following:

Step 1 – General Search

Type the keyword into Google and make a note of the results. There are no hard and fast rules, use your own judgment. If the search results return over 100,000,000 pages then the chances are that the keyword is quite competitive. Conversely if the results are less than 1,000,000 then it is possible that the competition is not so bad. Use a general search to get a feel for the size of the competition.

Step 2 – Perform “inanchor” search ** very important**

The next step is to perform the following search into Google.

inanchor:”keyword”

The inanchor search command shows us how many websites have the keyword as anchor text pointing back to their website. We may assume if they have the exact anchor text pointing back to their website that they have done some sort of linking building campaign for that keyword. Therefore it is logical to assume that they are the competition.  Generally a result of under 1,000 is good and definitely under 100,000 search results.

Step 3 – Perform “intitle” search

The next step is to perform the following search into Google:   intitle: “keyword”

This result will reveal how many websites have the keyword in the title tag. It is generally accepted by most seo professionals that the title tag is extremely important for seo, as it is one of the first things that the search engines look for. This command can help give us an approx figure of the number of website competing for this keyword. Granted some websites may have put these keywords in their title tag by accident but the majority have put it there for a reason; i.e., they want to rank for a particular keyword. No hard and fast rules about the numbers, obviously the lower the better.

Step 4 – Perform “intitle” and “inanchor” search

Now you want to perform both the inanchor and intitle search term. Input the following into Google

intitle:”keyword” inanchor:”keyword”

This will give you an approximate result of serious SEO competition. Smart SEO marketers will have the keyword in the title tag and will be building backlinks using the keyword as the anchor text. Therefore I think this helps to give us a fairly good idea of the competition. Remember the lower the search results from this command the better. Results of less than 1,000 may indicate to us that we can beat them with a relatively small amount of back link building. The higher the number the more competition.

Stage 4 – Analyzing the top 10 websites for your keyword

That concludes stage 3. Hopefully by now you have chosen a keyword that has a good monthly search volume and relatively low link building competition. However we can’t stop there. You now must analyze the top 10 website on page 1 of Google. So far we have only compared the number of competitors. However we haven’t looked at the strength of the competitors. It is my opinion that you only need to try and beat the first 10 website after all your goal is to rank number 1 or at least get on the 1st page for the keyword. So we now need to analyse the strength of these top 10 competitors.

Step 1 – Type keyword into Google

The first step is simple, type your keyword into Google and make a note of the top 10 results.

Step 2 – Take each site and have a look at its backlinks.

The second stage is to have a look at the backlinks that each site in the top 10 results shows. Now as I have mentioned before I believe that it is impossible to get an exact result on the number of backlinks that a site has pointing to it, however we can still get an idea.

Try going to Yahoo site explorer or One Utility. Enter the domain name and have a look at the number of backlinks the site has pointing to it. The more backlinks means the more backlink building competition for you.

Step 3 – Have a look at the age of the domains.

Most seo pro’s believe that older sites are more trusted by Google. Do a quick search to ascertain the age of the domain.

Step 4 – Have a look at the onpage optimization of each site.

For each site go to the homepage and then right click “view source.” This will allow you to see the source code. Check to see if you can find the following:

A. Keyword at the beginning of title tag.

B. Keyword in the keyword tag

C. Keyword in the description tag

D. Keyword in the h1 tags.

E. Keyword sprinkled throughout the page.

An absence of these might indicate that the site isn’t properly seo optimized and could mean that you could take advantage of this. It is my opinion that it is ‘offpage’ factors, i.e., the number of backlinks that a site has pointing to it that is the most crucial!

Step 5 – Analyze if any sites have your keyword in the url.

The search engines put some weight on keyword rich domain names. If one of the sites in the top 10 results has the exact keyword you want to rank for as the domain name then it may be harder for you to beat it.

Step 6 – Check the Page Rank of the domains.

Page rank is a way of Google showing us how important it thinks a web page is. You want to have a look at the page rank of the top 10 websites. Now it is quite possible to outrank a site with a higher page rank than yourself, however it is useful to help build an overall picture of the domains strength.

Step 7 – Check for prominence of Web 2.0 properties

A SERP (search engine results page) that has a lot of web 2.0 properties (e.g.Squidoo,Flixya,Hub pages) may indicate to us that we are going to be able to rank well. Unless the web 2.0 properties have been heavily backlinked, then with our own back linking tactics we have a definite chance of beating them.

Perform all 7 of these steps and you should be able to get a good feel of your likelihood of getting your site on 1st page of the top 10 websites. This is a lot of information to take in, especially if you are just starting out in seo. Hopefully by now you can see the importance of it. So before you do any search engine optimization make sure that you perform proper keyword research. Visit our blog for more information.

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5 Reasons to Blog Anonymously (and 5 Reasons Not To)

This guest post is by Phil (not his real name) of somehighschoolblog.

It used to be impossible to run a business anonymously. Sure, some authors could pull it off, but if you worked at an office, what were you supposed to do? Go to work with a bag over your head? But today anyone can accomplish this, because anyone can author a blog (and you thought I was going to tell you to work with a mask on, or something).

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Depending on your motives, you may or may not have considered blogging anonymously. You probably didn’t contemplate blogging anonymously if:

• your only motivation is to become “famous”

• your blog connects to another part of your life

• you are blogging to build more connections with your friends or boss.

You should consider blogging anonymously if:

• you’re planning on touching on a sensitive or taboo subject

• you don’t want to be identified with your blog

• you are worried about negative real-world consequences that could arise from your blog.

If you’ve already started your blog, it is too late to change to an anonymous persona (but you can always create another blog). However, if you are thinking of blogging anonymously, you should consider these points.

Reasons to blog anonymously

The concept of anonymity has always held a special enchantment for some people, and, for others it is purely practical. Whatever your blog topic, there are a five strong reasons to blog anonymously.

No pressure

If no one knows the “real you,” then they can’t tell you, in person, any thoughts they have on your blog. This means that no one will be able to make fun of, disagree strongly with, or ask to be featured on (using peer pressure) your blog. If your blog is a total flop, you won’t be publicly embarrassed.

While I wouldn’t advise disregarding your manners and morals, you don’t have to worry about close acquaintances or family members being offended by your posts.

A fresh start

Creating an anonymous identity also allows you to create a new character, if you so choose. Let’s say you are working full-time as an auto mechanic, but you are trying to create a blog on entrepreneurship. Your readers might not think you could be an authority on this subject as an auto mechanic, but an anonymous identity removes this doubt.

Instead, you could create a back-story to fit your blog; for this case, it could be something about how your latest entrepreneurial project is to build a blog anonymously.

You’re shy or unsure

Were you one of those people who is unwilling to put yourself on a blog for all to see, you should choose to blog anonymously. This way, you can hide behind a fake identity and not worry about what others think (similar to there being no pressure). You could also use anonymity to discover how people will react to your content before associating yourself with your content.

It’s a gimmick

Blogging anonymously might fit your content. For example, if you were to start a blog involving content that you received anonymously. Also, blogging anonymously places a shroud of mystery around the author and limits your personality to how you network and write your blog.

Additionally, you could make it into a marketing scheme, such as offering to reveal your true identity after reaching a certain number of subscribers.

Reasons not to blog anonymously

As an anonymous blogger who uses a pseudonym, I’ve been able to experience many of the negative aspects of choosing to remain anonymous firsthand. However, I have not yet encountered any one thing that was impossible to work around or ignore, so I have remained an anonymous blogger.

It’s harder to build traffic

Some of the initial things that many blogs recommend new bloggers do to build traffic cannot be done anonymously, and, thus, must be ignored or adapted to anonymity. For instance, many of the tips here and around the web encourage you to put your link in your email signature.

The only thing I use my anonymous e-mail address for is my blog, so this is redundant (it would be odd to have it in my real email). Also, linking to your blog from your Facebook page or Twitter account ruins your anonymity.

And, while you can (hopefully) trust your family not to share your blog’s identity, you can’t tell your friends or acquaintances to check out your blog and to spread the word, which is a great initial traffic builder.

More pressure

This is the exact opposite of “No Pressure,” but depending on what type of person you are, blogging anonymously could actually be more stressful than blogging as yourself.

You have to constantly watch yourself to make sure your anonymous identity never reveals your true identity (even in something as simple as signing your name to an e-mail) and vice-versa. Often, extra measures must be taken to ensure anonymity, and, while I won’t delve in to all of those, you must always check when giving any real information that it is not easily accessible.

Take this into account when creating user profiles for services or when registering a domain name (but you can choose to keep your information private for an extra $10 in this case).

No real-life connection

Since you can’t tell your friends about your blog, you can’t ever reference your blog in conversation.

You will need to depend on the digital world for feedback, and there will be no “Did you like my last post?” conversations. Instead, you will have to rely entirely on comments to gain a sense of how your readers feel about your blog.

The truth always appears

In such an interconnected society, if enough people put effort into it, they will discover your true identity. If/when this happens, you need to consider whether or not your readers will feel betrayed or angry towards you. You should consider this even if you plan on going public with your identity yourself at some point.

Feeling a loss of accountability

Many people think blogging anonymously protects them from whatever they write, so they are incredibly rude, untruthful, or worse. You should always know that people can find your true identity, and it is just plain useless to write this way. After all, no one will want to read it.

Furthermore, though, (and I can attest to this) it may sometimes be easier to excuse not posting for an extra few days, or not pursuing a guest-posting opportunity, because no one holds you accountable but yourself (no inquiries from friends or family). Therefore, you must be responsible and motivated to successfully blog anonymously.

Should you blog anonymously?

While there are both pros and cons to blogging anonymously, I feel that the negatives don’t outweigh the positives in certain situations. Each blogger is different, but, in my case, it is the lessened pressure combined with the creation of a new character that led me to blog anonymously.

Also, because it is harder to build initial traffic with previous connections, I think it is more challenging to build an anonymous blog (therefore, any experienced bloggers looking for a new project should try building a blog with an anonymous persona, disregarding any previous connections they’ve accumulated).

Do you have any experience, or advice for those thinking of blogging anonymously?

Using the pseudonym of Phil, Phil is a high school freshman who writes for, markets, and manages a humor blog about all aspects of high school life. Phil is unsure of what career he wants to pursue, but a few possibilities can be found here.

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

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How Google's Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by Aaron Wheeler

It's here! Google has released Panda update 2.2, just as Matt Cutts said they would at SMX Advanced here in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. This time around, Google has - among other things - improved their ability to detect scraper sites and banish them from the SERPs. Of course, the Panda updates are changes to Google's algorithm and are not merely manual reviews of sites in the index, so there is room for error (causing devastation for many legitimate webmasters and SEOs).

A lot of people ask what parts of their existing SEO practice they can modify and emphasize to recover from the blow, but alas, it's not that simple. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses how the Panda updates work and, more importantly, how Panda has fundamentally changed the best practices for SEO. Have you been Panda-abused? Do you have any tips for recuperating? Let us know in the comments!

 

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Howdy, SEOmoz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week, we're talking about the very exciting, very interesting, very controversial Google Panda update.

Panda, also known as Farmer, was this update that Google came out with in March of this year, of 2011, that rejiggered a bunch of search results and pushed a lot of websites down in the rankings, pushed some websites up in the rankings, and people have been concerned about it ever since. It has actually had several updates and new versions of that implementation and algorithm come out. A lot of people have all these questions like, "Ah, what's going on around Panda?" There have been some great blog posts on SEOmoz talking about some of the technical aspects. But I want to discuss in this Whiteboard Friday some of the philosophical and theoretical aspects and how Google Panda really changes the way a lot of us need to approach SEO.

So let's start with a little bit of Panda history. Google employs an engineer named Navneet Panda. The guy has done some awesome work. In fact, he was part of a patent application that Bill Slawski looked into where he found a great way to scale some machine learning algorithms. Now, machine learning algorithms, as you might be aware, are very computationally expensive and they take a long time to run, particularly if you have extremely large data sets, both of inputs and of outputs. If you want, you can research machine learning. It is an interesting fun tactic that computer scientists use and programmers use to find solutions to problems. But basically before Panda, machine learning scalability at Google was at level X, and after it was at the much higher level Y. So that was quite nice. Thanks to Navneet, right now they can scale up this machine learning.

What Google can do based on that is take a bunch of sites that people like more and a bunch of sites that people like less, and when I say like, what I mean is essentially what the quality raters, Google's quality raters, tell them this site is very enjoyable. This is a good site. I'd like to see this high in the search results. Versus things where the quality raters say, "I don't like to see this." Google can say, "Hey, you know what? We can take the intelligence of this quality rating panel and scale it using this machine learning process."

Here's how it works. Basically, the idea is that the quality raters tell Googlers what they like. They answer all these questions, and you can see Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts were interviewed by Wired Magazine. They talked about some of the things that were asked of these quality raters, like, "Would you trust this site with your credit card? Would you trust the medical information that this site gives you with your children? Do you think the design of this site is good?" All sorts of questions around the site's trustworthiness, credibility, quality, how much they would like to see it in the search results. Then they compare the difference.

The sites that people like more, they put in one group. The sites that people like less, they put in another group. Then they look at tons of metrics. All these different metrics, numbers, signals, all sorts of search signals that many SEOs suspect come from user and usage data metrics, which Google has not historically used as heavily. But they think that they use those in a machine learning process to essentially separate the wheat from the chaff. Find the ones that people like more and the ones that people like less. Downgrade the ones they like less. Upgrade the ones they like more. Bingo, you have the Panda update.

So, Panda kind of means something new and different for SEO. As SEOs, for a long time you've been doing the same kind of classic things. You've been building good content, making it accessible to search engines, doing good keyword research, putting those keywords in there, and then trying to get some links to it. But you have not, as SEOs, we never really had to think as much or as broadly about, "What is the experience of this website? Is it creating a brand that people are going to love and share and reward and trust?" Now we kind of have to think about that.

It is almost like the job of SEO has been upgraded from SEO to web strategist. Virtually everything you do on the Internet with your website can impact SEO today. That is especially true following Panda. The things that they are measuring is not, oh, these sites have better links than these sites. Some of these sites, in fact, have much better links than these sites. Some of these sites have what you and I might regard, as SEOs, as better content, more unique, robust, quality content, and yet, people, quality raters in particular, like them less or the things, the signals that predict that quality raters like those sites less are present in those types of sites.

Let's talk about a few of the specific things that we can be doing as SEOs to help with this new sort of SEO, this broader web content/web strategy portion of SEO.

First off, design and user experience. I know, good SEOs have been preaching design user experience for years because it tends to generate more links, people contribute more content to it, it gets more social signal shares and tweets and all this other sort of good second order effect. Now, it has a first order effect impact, a primary impact. If you can make your design absolutely beautiful, versus something like this where content is buffeted by advertising and you have to click next, next, next a lot. The content isn't all in one page. You cannot view it in that single page format. Boy, the content blocks themselves aren't that fun to read, even if it is not advertising that's surrounding them, even if it is just internal messaging or the graphics don't look very good. The site design feels like it was way back in the 1990s. All that stuff will impact the ability of this page, this site to perform. And don't forget, Google has actually said publicly that even if you have a great site, if you have a bunch of pages that are low quality on that site, they can drag down the rankings of the rest of the site. So you should try and block those for us or take them down. Wow. Crazy, right? That's what a machine learning algorithm, like Panda, will do. It will predicatively say, "Hey, you know what? We're seeing these features here, these elements, push this guy down."

Content quality matters a lot. So a lot of time, in the SEO world, people will say, "Well, you have to have good, unique, useful content." Not enough. Sorry. It's just not enough. There are too many people making too much amazing stuff on the Internet for good and unique and grammatically correct and spelled properly and describes the topic adequately to be enough when it comes to content. If you say, "Oh, I have 50,000 pages about 50,000 different motorcycle parts and I am just going to go to Mechanical Turk or I am going to go outsource, and I want a 100 word, two paragraphs about each one of them, just describe what this part is." You think to yourself, "Hey, I have good unique content." No, you have content that is going to be penalized by Panda. That is exactly what Panda is designed to do. It is designed to say this is content that someone wrote for SEO purposes just to have good unique content on the page, not content that makes everyone who sees it want to share it and say wow. Right?

If I get to a page about a motorcycle part and I am like, "God, not only is this well written, it's kind of funny. It's humorous. It includes some anecdotes. It's got some history of this part. It has great photos. Man, I don't care at all about motorcycle parts, and yet, this is just a darn good page. What a great page. If I were interested, I'd be tweeting about this, I'd share it. I'd send it to my uncle who buys motorcycles. I would love this page." That's what you have to optimize for. It is a totally different thing than optimizing for did I use the keyword at least three times? Did I put it in the title tag? Is it included in there? Is the rest of the content relevant to the keywords? Panda changes this. Changes it quite a bit.

Finally, you are going to be optimizing around user and usage metrics. Things like, when people come to your site, generally speaking compared to other sites in your niche or ranking for your keywords, do they spend a good amount of time on your site, or do they go away immediately? Do they spend a good amount of time? Are they bouncing or are they browsing? If you have a good browse rate, people are browsing 2, 3, 4 pages on average on a content site, that's decent. That's pretty good. If they're browsing 1.5 pages on some sites, like maybe specific kinds of news sites, that might actually be pretty good. That might be better than average. But if they are browsing like 1.001 pages, like virtually no one clicks on a second page, that might be weird. That might hurt you. Your click-through rate from the search results. When people see your title and your snippet and your domain name, and they go, "Ew, I don't know if I want to get myself involved in that. They've got like three hyphens in their domain name, and it looks totally spammy. I'm not going to get involved." Then that click-through rate is probably going to suffer and so are your rankings.

They are going to be looking at things like the diversity and quantity of traffic that comes to your site. Do lots of people from all around the world or all around your local region, your country, visit your website directly? They can measure this through Chrome. They can measure it through Android. They can measure it through the Google toolbar. They have all this user and usage metrics. They know where people are going on the Internet, where they spend time, how much time they spend, and what they do on those pages. They know about what happens from the search results too. Do people click from a result and then go right back to the search results and perform another search? Clearly, they were unhappy with that. They can take all these metrics and put them into the machine learning algorithm and then have Panda essentially recalculate. This why you see essentially Google doesn't issue updates every day or every week. It is about every 30 or 40 days that a new Panda update will come out because they are rejiggering all this stuff.

One of the things that people who get hit by Panda come up to me and say, "God, how are we ever going to get out of Panda? We've made all these changes. We haven't gotten out yet." I'm like, "Well, first off, you're not going to get out of it until they rejigger the results, and then there is no way that you are going to get out of it unless you change the metrics around your site." So if you go into your Analytics and you see that people are not spending longer on your pages, they are not enjoying them more, they are not sharing them more, they are not naturally linking to them more, your branded search traffic is not up, your direct type in traffic is not up, you see that none of these metrics are going up and yet you think you have somehow fixed the problems that Panda tries to solve for, you probably haven't.

I know this is frustrating. I know it's a tough issue. In fact, I think that there are sites that have been really unfairly hit. That sucks and they shouldn't be and Google needs to work on this. But I also know that I don't think Google is going to be making many changes. I think they are very happy with the way that Panda has gone from a search quality perspective and from a user happiness perspective. Their searchers are happier, and they are not seeing as much junk in the results. Google likes the way this is going. I think we are going to see more and more of this over time. It could even get more aggressive. I would urge you to work on this stuff, to optimize around these things, and to be ready for this new form of SEO.

Thanks everyone for watching. Look forward to some great comments, questions, feedback in the post. I will see you again next week for another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Take care.

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New Google Products Will Impact SEO

Google recently completed their Inside Search event where a number of new products were announced and presented for demonstration. This recap discusses some of the products that may impact the future of SEO.

Search by Image

Perhaps the most exciting and interesting development from Inside Search was the announcement of Search by Image. Users may upload, drag and drop or paste the URL for images that Google will then treat as a search query.

The demonstrator searched Google by uploading an old picture near a beach. Google determined where the picture was taken, and returned the top result of a Wikipedia page on the location, followed by “similar images” of the surrounding area. In another example, the “y u no” guy (an Internet meme) was dropped into the search. Google returned two results about the image, in addition to a few similar images.

How does this impact search engine optimization? Optimizing images to be found by search engines is an often underrated organic SEO tactic. Image search volume is likely to increase due to the new Google features. While the majority of image searches will continue to be informational, an increased number of users may be searching with purchase intent.

Suppose you are an online retailer selling shoes. A buyer goes into a shoe store and takes a picture of the shoe itself in order to find more information. As users become more familiar with Search by Image, this kind of activity will likely become increasingly common.

The prospective buyer may be searching for competitor pricing, reviews or additional information. Depending on a multitude of factors, your product page and/or image may appear, and you increase your chance of a link and/or sale – even if they don’t buy from you until next time.

Businesses can increase their chances of showing up for standard image results and Search by Image through keyword-targeted filenames, alt text and optimizing surrounding text. In addition, having multiple angles of the same product will be more likely to trigger Google’s “similar” image results on Search by Image. In the world of online retail, multiple product views are almost always a good thing, and Google’s new service makes multiple product images a worthwhile goal.

Google Instant Images

Again, image optimization is a rarely discussed method of bringing relevant users to a site. Image visitors can raise your site’s visibility, spread your brand and attract links that may otherwise be impossible to obtain.

Even if a user has typed in two letters, Google will begin showing images. If your images are eye-catching, users may pause queries or stop their search because they have found what they were (or weren’t) looking for. There is only one piece of advice I can offer for taking advantage of Instant Images: investing in quality, attractive images is more important than ever.

Google Voice Search (for Desktop)

The vast majority of Google voice searches in the past have been performed on mobile devices, but, with the announcement of Google Voice search for desktops, that may change. In my experience, people tend to search using very different queries when speaking and typing. With a six-fold increase in speech-assisted queries since May 2010 (according to Google’s presentation), there will likely be slightly fewer broad search queries and a slightly increased volume of “long-tail” keywords to optimize for.

Obsessed With Speed

If Google is “obsessed with speed,” and they have found that faster speeds lead to improved user experience, perhaps we, as website owners, should be obsessed with speed. Specifically, we should be obsessed with the time it takes for a user to find what he or she is looking for. This is good advice for both conversion optimization and organic SEO.

Google has, at several points, mentioned that they are concerned with the user experience of pages within search results, though the method of measuring the user experience and the impact on rankings is still a matter of speculation. Whether user experience is measured directly through user metrics or algorithmically, a bad user experience is increasingly bad for SEO, and a bad experience has always meant fewer natural links. SEOs would be wise to suggest and implement improvements related to page load time, navigation and a better user experience.

What announcement are you most excited about? Do you see any of Google’s other new products having an impact on how we do SEO?

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How Google's Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices Forever - Whiteboard Friday

Posted by Aaron Wheeler

 It's here! Google has released Panda update 2.2, just as Matt Cutts said they would at SMX Advanced here in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. This time around, Google has - among other things - improved their ability to detect scraper sites and banish them from the SERPs. Of course, the Panda updates are changes to Google's algorithm and are not merely manual reviews of sites in the index, so there is room for error (causing devestation for many legitimate webmasters and SEOs).

A lot of people ask what parts of their existing SEO practice they can modify and emphasize to recover from the blow, but alas, it's not that simple. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses how the Panda updates work and, more importantly, how Panda has fundamentally changed the best practices for SEO. Have you been Panda-abused? Do you have any tips for recouperating? Let us know in the comments!

 

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Howdy, SEOmoz fans. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week, we're talking about the very exciting, very interesting, very controversial Google Panda update.

Panda, also known as Farmer, was this update that Google came out with in March of this year, of 2011, that rejiggered a bunch of search results and pushed a lot of websites down in the rankings, pushed some websites up in the rankings, and people have been concerned about it ever since. It has actually had several updates and new versions of that implementation and algorithm come out. A lot of people have all these questions like, "Ah, what's going on around Panda?" There have been some great blog posts on SEOmoz talking about some of the technical aspects. But I want to discuss in this Whiteboard Friday some of the philosophical and theoretical aspects and how Google Panda really changes the way a lot of us need to approach SEO.

So let's start with a little bit of Panda history. Google employs an engineer named Navneet Panda. The guy has done some awesome work. In fact, he was part of a patent application that Bill Slawski looked into where he found a great way to scale some machine learning algorithms. Now, machine learning algorithms, as you might be aware, are very computationally expensive and they take a long time to run, particularly if you have extremely large data sets, both of inputs and of outputs. If you want, you can research machine learning. It is an interesting fun tactic that computer scientists use and programmers use to find solutions to problems. But basically before Panda, machine learning scalability at Google was at level X, and after it was at the much higher level Y. So that was quite nice. Thanks to Navneet, right now they can scale up this machine learning.

What Google can do based on that is take a bunch of sites that people like more and a bunch of sites that people like less, and when I say like, what I mean is essentially what the quality raters, Google's quality raters, tell them this site is very enjoyable. This is a good site. I'd like to see this high in the search results. Versus things where the quality raters say, "I don't like to see this." Google can say, "Hey, you know what? We can take the intelligence of this quality rating panel and scale it using this machine learning process."

Here's how it works. Basically, the idea is that the quality raters tell Googlers what they like. They answer all these questions, and you can see Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts were interviewed by Wired Magazine. They talked about some of the things that were asked of these quality raters, like, "Would you trust this site with your credit card? Would you trust the medical information that this site gives you with your children? Do you think the design of this site is good?" All sorts of questions around the site's trustworthiness, credibility, quality, how much they would like to see it in the search results. Then they compare the difference.

The sites that people like more, they put in one group. The sites that people like less, they put in another group. Then they look at tons of metrics. All these different metrics, numbers, signals, all sorts of search signals that many SEOs suspect come from user and usage data metrics, which Google has not historically used as heavily. But they think that they use those in a machine learning process to essentially separate the wheat from the chaff. Find the ones that people like more and the ones that people like less. Downgrade the ones they like less. Upgrade the ones they like more. Bingo, you have the Panda update.

So, Panda kind of means something new and different for SEO. As SEOs, for a long time you've been doing the same kind of classic things. You've been building good content, making it accessible to search engines, doing good keyword research, putting those keywords in there, and then trying to get some links to it. But you have not, as SEOs, we never really had to think as much or as broadly about, "What is the experience of this website? Is it creating a brand that people are going to love and share and reward and trust?" Now we kind of have to think about that.

It is almost like the job of SEO has been upgraded from SEO to web strategist. Virtually everything you do on the Internet with your website can impact SEO today. That is especially true following Panda. The things that they are measuring is not, oh, these sites have better links than these sites. Some of these sites, in fact, have much better links than these sites. Some of these sites have what you and I might regard, as SEOs, as better content, more unique, robust, quality content, and yet, people, quality raters in particular, like them less or the things, the signals that predict that quality raters like those sites less are present in those types of sites.

Let's talk about a few of the specific things that we can be doing as SEOs to help with this new sort of SEO, this broader web content/web strategy portion of SEO.

First off, design and user experience. I know, good SEOs have been preaching design user experience for years because it tends to generate more links, people contribute more content to it, it gets more social signal shares and tweets and all this other sort of good second order effect. Now, it has a first order effect impact, a primary impact. If you can make your design absolutely beautiful, versus something like this where content is buffeted by advertising and you have to click next, next, next a lot. The content isn't all in one page. You cannot view it in that single page format. Boy, the content blocks themselves aren't that fun to read, even if it is not advertising that's surrounding them, even if it is just internal messaging or the graphics don't look very good. The site design feels like it was way back in the 1990s. All that stuff will impact the ability of this page, this site to perform. And don't forget, Google has actually said publically that even if you have a great site, if you have a bunch of pages that are low quality on that site, they can drag down the rankings of the rest of the site. So you should try and block those for us or take them down. Wow. Crazy, right? That's what a machine learning algorithm, like Panda, will do. It will predicatively say, "Hey, you know what? We're seeing these features here, these elements, push this guy down."

Content quality matters a lot. So a lot of time, in the SEO world, people will say, "Well, you have to have good, unique, useful content." Not enough. Sorry. It's just not enough. There are too many people making too much amazing stuff on the Internet for good and unique and grammatically correct and spelled properly and describes the topic adequately to be enough when it comes to content. If you say, "Oh, I have 50,000 pages about 50,000 different motorcycle parts and I am just going to go to Mechanical Turk or I am going to go outsource, and I want a 100 word, two paragraphs about each one of them, just describe what this part is." You think to yourself, "Hey, I have good unique content." No, you have content that is going to be penalized by Panda. That is exactly what Panda is designed to do. It is designed to say this is content that someone wrote for SEO purposes just to have good unique content on the page, not content that makes everyone who sees it want to share it and say wow. Right?

If I get to a page about a motorcycle part and I am like, "God, not only is this well written, it's kind of funny. It's humorous. It includes some anecdotes. It's got some history of this part. It has great photos. Man, I don't care at all about motorcycle parts, and yet, this is just a darn good page. What a great page. If I were interested, I'd be tweeting about this, I'd share it. I'd send it to my uncle who buys motorcycles. I would love this page." That's what you have to optimize for. It is a totally different thing than optimizing for did I use the keyword at least three times? Did I put it in the title tag? Is it included in there? Is the rest of the content relevant to the keywords? Panda changes this. Changes it quite a bit.

Finally, you are going to be optimizing around user and usage metrics. Things like, when people come to your site, generally speaking compared to other sites in your niche or ranking for your keywords, do they spend a good amount of time on your site, or do they go away immediately? Do they spend a good amount of time? Are they bouncing or are they browsing? If you have a good browse rate, people are browsing 2, 3, 4 pages on average on a content site, that's decent. That's pretty good. If they're browsing 1.5 pages on some sites, like maybe specific kinds of news sites, that might actually be pretty good. That might be better than average. But if they are browsing like 1.001 pages, like virtually no one clicks on a second page, that might be weird. That might hurt you. Your click-through rate from the search results. When people see your title and your snippet and your domain name, and they go, "Ew, I don't know if I want to get myself involved in that. They've got like three hyphens in their domain name, and it looks totally spammy. I'm not going to get involved." Then that click-through rate is probably going to suffer and so are your rankings.

They are going to be looking at things like the diversity and quantity of traffic that comes to your site. Do lots of people from all around the world or all around your local region, your country, visit your website directly? They can measure this through Chrome. They can measure it through Android. They can measure it through the Google toolbar. They have all this user and usage metrics. They know where people are going on the Internet, where they spend time, how much time they spend, and what they do on those pages. They know about what happens from the search results too. Do people click from a result and then go right back to the search results and perform another search? Clearly, they were unhappy with that. They can take all these metrics and put them into the machine learning algorithm and then have Panda essentially recalculate. This why you see essentially Google doesn't issue updates every day or every week. It is about every 30 or 40 days that a new Panda update will come out because they are rejiggering all this stuff.

One of the things that people who get hit by Panda come up to me and say, "God, how are we ever going to get out of Panda? We've made all these changes. We haven't gotten out yet." I'm like, "Well, first off, you're not going to get out of it until they rejigger the results, and then there is no way that you are going to get out of it unless you change the metrics around your site." So if you go into your Analytics and you see that people are not spending longer on your pages, they are not enjoying them more, they are not sharing them more, they are not naturally linking to them more, your branded search traffic is not up, your direct type in traffic is not up, you see that none of these metrics are going up and yet you think you have somehow fixed the problems that Panda tries to solve for, you probably haven't.

I know this is frustrating. I know it's a tough issue. In fact, I think that there are sites that have been really unfairly hit. That sucks and they shouldn't be and Google needs to work on this. But I also know that I don't think Google is going to be making many changes. I think they are very happy with the way that Panda has gone from a search quality perspective and from a user happiness perspective. Their searchers are happier, and they are not seeing as much junk in the results. Google likes the way this is going. I think we are going to see more and more of this over time. It could even get more aggressive. I would urge you to work on this stuff, to optimize around these things, and to be ready for this new form of SEO.

Thanks everyone for watching. Look forward to some great comments, questions, feedback in the post. I will see you again next week for another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Take care.

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Basic Website Optimisation Tips

So youʼve learnt all there is to know about building your website from the ground up and the importance of dedicated servers for big internet players. But what about all this talk of website optimisation? The fact is that schools of thought on how to successfully optimise your website are constantly changing but there are a few things that remain constant. Weʼve listed them here:

Get to know how people are searching for websites like yours

Using Googleʼs free online keyword tool you are able to search for the keywords that are being used to find services and products like yours, using search engines. This is the first and most important step in building a high quality optimised website so take your time, test out keywords, and test a number of long and short keyword phrases in a search engine like Google and see who comes up. You should see a few competitors right up there. This is a good indication that perhaps the search term you have just used is one that is valuable to you.

Quality Content

While keywords are extremely important, one of the main things to remember is to keep your content relevant, easy to read and not too keyword heavy. Of course though, you should select a number of keywords to be used in each new post/web page. By heavily bombarding your content with keywords Google might even penalize you, so be aware of this.

Itʼs also a good idea to constantly update your content. Websites that are static for long periods of time are not seen favourably by Google however websites that constantly have new content and are updated regularly are given priority.

Internal links

Creating relevant links from one page to the other on your website is a great way to help boost your ranking and optimise your website without having to begin with your external link building.

From the ground up

From domain names to the structure of your site the optimisation needs to begin right from the early stages. Make sure that the developer you are working with knows the best practices for building a highly optimised site. This will make a big difference in the future. This includes things like using keywords and key phrases in your HTML title tag.

Domain names

Choosing the right domain name is another important thing to consider when you want to build a website that is able to generate lots of traffic. The name of your business should be relevant. Consider branding, rank in the search engines and the linkability. Using a keyword in your domain name will not only give people an idea immediately of what you offer, but it also helps with the search engine optimisation of your site, not to mention branding in your chosen industry.

Search engine optimisation practices are constantly changing as the world wide web itself changes. But as long as you know some of the basic optimisation tips and implement them effectively, you will be on your way to increasing your web ranking in no time.

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SEO Techniques How Do They Benefit Your Business

SEO Techniques are Necessary Today

Since the last few years, the online business has boomed extensively throughout the world and competition has never been so stiff. You need to do something to make your business a success and stay ahead of your competitors. Having a website that is beautifully created is not enough. Online marketing involves substantially more than that. You and our site must be found by the internet public who are looking for information, products or services to buy. One way to do this is by tapping the various SEO techniques.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of the most sought after internet marketing services for online businesses. SEO techniques are methods that you should use to make your website more prominent on the search engines and be better ranked at the same time. There are various SEO techniques and they all focus on gaining more traffic and visitors to your website. Some examples of these techniques are article writing, choosing a domain name and link building.

Following is a list of the benefits you can expect to get out of using SEO techniques

1. Your website becomes more visible or gains an online presence via the search engines. The whole world will know about your business through an effective SEO technique.

2. Through a proper keyword selection, your company can be easily found globally by prospective customers who are looking for the product or services that you offer.
3. You get your targeted traffic that can increase the number of visitors to your website. Through a SEO technique, these visitors can be converted into buying customers.
4. SEO techniques can bring your business a high return on investment (ROI).
5. Once your website gains a high ranking position through SEO, it can stay there for as long as you want. Because SEO is an ongoing job, your site can gain long term positioning.
6. SEO techniques is very cost effective. You do not need a big amount of money to do it, yet get maximum exposure of your online business.
7. SEO is so flexible that it allows you to reach the audience of your choice.

SEO Techniques will result in increased sales

Your company may register an increased sales volume shortly after making use of SEO techniques. For others, it may take sometime for the profits to become visible. The number of clients may not increase immediately for the next day, but with the right marketing campaign its benefits will be enjoyed by website owners. It is enough that your website or product is popular on the web to effect a profitable sale.

Businesses who used to be placed at the back of the list and not enjoying any visibility gets first position ranking in the search engines after adapting the SEO techniques.

People looking for something to buy generally browse the web and stop at the first 2-3 products at the top of the page. It is very seldom that the back pages are visited. So if your business is listed at the top, it is very likely that you will attract more traffic and more customers that can result in more online income due to use of seo techniques.Related Blogs

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Hands on, Swipe finger on the Nokia N9 screen

Nokia recently introduced the N9 at Nokia Connection 2011 event. Here it is Nokia's first smartphone with MeeGo operating system. What are these about? Intrigued, we did not waste the chance to try it. In first saw, the impression that seen in this phone is a 'box'. Even Marco Ahtisaari, Nokia's Senior Vice President of Design who presented the handset is agreed.

'If you look at the designs, it may seem rigid to form a perfect box. But that's not true because the N9 has an elegant curve at the edges,' said Marco. True enough, although the box, a form of this phone still looks elegant. Also looks fashionable with a wide selection of bright colors. The entire body is a touch screen. No wonder if Nokia dubbed all smartphone screen.

There are different with a touch-screen smartphone Nokia on this one, is the use of the touch screen by swiping finger on the screen has been more widely applied. That's because Meego-based smartphone presents three new HomeView display. That is the main menu, notifications - for email, SMS, incoming and outgoing - and featuring multitasking features or applications that are being opened.

So when will switch from one display to another HomeView, only a finger sweep to the left and right. Easy is not it?

Made from polycarbonate, Nokia N9 claimed to have better performance in signal reception and clearer sound quality. 8 megapixel camera is also quite satisfactory. When tried, the picture looks clear and the video recording had already qualified high definiton.

To support the activities of surfing, N9 is equipped with a Nokia browser that has been developed further so more quickly. But for about surfing speed is dependent on network service is used.

Finally the most interesting, in the N9 embedded with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. It can be used to transfer a variety of content making it easier and faster. For example when you want to transfer photos, simply paste the N9 to other mobile phones - phones that accept the need to support NFC anyway - then the image was immediately sent to the mobile phone. The same can also be done to transfer other content such as video, telephone number, and even can be also used as a means of payment.

Here are some other specs of Nokia N9:

Display: 3.9 inch WVGA (854x480) AMOLED technology gorilla glass
OS: 1.2 MeeGo Harmattan
Dimensions: 116.45 mm x 7.6-12.1mm
Weight: 135 grams
Battery: 1450 mAh

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The Most Complete Mobile Phone Security is Kaspersky Antivirus

What is the most complete Symbian, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile Phone Antivirus security ?
What is the most high antivirus security for our mobile phone devices ?

Questions above are major asked, we will tell you something, that is Kaspersky has made a good job for Mobile Phone / Handphone Protection. It has a good protection on computer, and it has a good securities on mobile devices because all in one pack ( on one antivirus ).




As we know about Kaspersky, That is a good Antivirus to prevent all harmfull effects. So, Kaspersky Mobile Phone are have the same affects.

What good Kaspersky Mobile Phone / Handphone Antivirus Security is ?

1. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security can download Antivirus Definitions Automatically depends on settings.

2. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security has Doable Protection on Mode, Privacy Mode and Normal Mode.

3. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security has Theft Protection, So if your handphone was stolen or lost, then with something systems it can track location of your Mobile Phone / handphone with GPS, and it can give you information about new number if your SIM card was replaced.

4. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security has encripted security systems, so with something comands, if your mobile phone was stolen or lost, you can encript your data or automatically DELETE data on your Mobile Phone devices just with a sort SMS.

5. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security has Parental Security, So with this systems you can Track what activities that your kids was doing on his/her mobile phone devices, includes ingoing or outgoing sms, email, and call. You can Block sms or call from certain number to interacts with your kids mobile phone.

6. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security can block ingoing sms or call by whitelist and blacklist.

7. Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security have a FireWall systems. With differents level protections.

So, Kaspersky Mobile Phone Antivirus Security are complete Antivirus Isn't ?

Works on major Symbian : Symbian S60v3 / S60 3rd Symbian S60v5 / S60 5th And on Nokia Nseries, Eseries, Xseries with Symbian, Cseries with symbian, Classic Series with Symbian.

Works on Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile.

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Symbian Mobile Phone / Handphone Icon Message

How to send sms with icon message ?
What is best Mobile Phone / Handphone Icon Message ?
What is best Symbian Icon message ?

You certainly ever get bored with SMS (short message) it is not have graphics at well. Want to use MMS, May your provider charge it for a bit expensive Than SMS.

So, is there any software that can be used as an application for
sending IMAGE / ICON Message?

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Here are Mobile Phone / Handphone Tips Alternative.
Especially at Icon Message Alternative.
Zlango Icon Message is what you need. Zlango is an additional application that runs on smartphones. Commonly used in Symbian Mobile Phone.

Compatible series :

Symbian S60 3rd / S60v3
Symbian S60 5th / S60v5

This application lets you send SMS with regular sms text format, so you spend at the same cost as SMS. But that is icon massage included displayed on your messaging.





Conditions: Your Mobile Phone / Handphone and in person that you send the SMS, both should be have pre-installed Zlango Icon Massage.


You Will Be Truly liked this application, because this application compatible with many smartphones include your Symbian Mobile Phone / Handphone.

I recommend this software, because it is user friendly.



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TiVo App for Android and iPhone Coming Soon

It has been a long time coming but it appears that TiVo might finally be ready to roll out software for the iPhone and Android.

While TiVo hasn’t confirmed anything just yet, ZatzNotFunny discovered some details in the June issue of CEPro which reveals TiVo’s plans to release apps for both operating systems in the near future:

One of the biggest trends to sweep through the consumer electronics industry is the adoption of software delivered through Apple’s iTunes App Store. For TiVo owners, the California-based company developed control and management apps for the iPad and (soon) the iPhone and Android OS products. Williams says that TiVo approached the development of its control apps with the goal of making it easy for users to maximize the power of its products and extend the TiVo experience to a “second screen.”

As you might know, TiVo does in fact have an application for the iPad but nothing out yet for Android and iPhone users. That however will be a thing of the past in the near future if this little tidbit speaks the truth.

It’s also unclear as to whether or not the software will come to both Android smartphones and tablets or if the company will start with one and then release it for the other later on like it did with the iPad and iPhone.

Either way, TiVo owners with iPhones and Android should be on the look out for an official announcement.

Via: IntoMobile

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Nokia finally announces its N9 MeeGo phone, but what is it trying to accomplish?

We’re still months away from Nokia’s first official Windows Phone 7 device, but the company had another phone up its sleeve to introduce tonight at its Nokia Connection event in Singapore: the N9, its long-rumored MeeGo-powered smartphone.

The mockups of the N9 are indeed gorgeous (check out the video demo below), but I’m finding it difficult to work up excitement for the device when it’s clearly a side project for Nokia. The company’s main goal now is to deliver flagship Windows Phone 7 devices — not to pretend as if a MeeGo phone is anything but a curiosity today. And I don’t suspect that the N9 will attract many third-party developers, as beautiful as it is.

As a sequel to last year’s N8, which had some great hardware that was shackled by Nokia’s aging Symbian OS, the N9 appears to be a success on paper. It sports a 3.9-inch curved glass AMOLED display that leaves little room for anything else on the front. There’s no home button to speak off (the phone is unlocked by a double-tap). The N9′s case is made from a polycarbonate material that Nokia says will have better antenna performance than some competitor’s designs. The phone sports a unibody design that sits somewhere between Nokia’s design for the N8 and an Apple device.

Nokia has included a powerful 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics (natch), which is capable of recording HD video. The N9 also has NFC capabilities, which makes it suited for mobile payments and communication between NFC-enabled accessories (like Bluetooth headsets). Nokia also saw fit to include a revamped Maps applications that includes free in-car navigation, and the N9 is also the first phone to support Dolby Digital Plus.

The images and video Nokia has released of the N9 are clearly mockups, but from the looks of it the phone’s MeeGo interface resembles a cross between Android and WebOS. The phone sports three home screens arranged in a carousel, including a typical screen full of icons for apps, a multitasking screen for switching between open apps, and a screen dedicated to social networking alerts and other notifications. There’s also a Webkit browser with wide HTML5 support. The N9′s software definitely seems more polished than any previous version of MeeGo that I’ve seen, but again it’s important to note that we’re not looking at actual hardware yet.

In the end, the N9 just seems like a mark of pride for Nokia. As gorgeous as it is, I have a hard time believing that developers would pay much attention to the phone when there’s no guarantee that Nokia (or other manufacturers) will ever deliver another MeeGo device. In fact, Nokia previously said that it’s approaching the N9 as a sort of experiment. Intel, Nokia’s partner in crime for MeeGo, hasn’t had much success convincing developers to bring apps to MeeGo netbooks and tablets either.

Indeed, it seems more prudent for developers to pay closer attention to Nokia’s work with Windows Phone 7. With Nokia’s support, that platform could end up being somewhat competitive against the iPhone and Android. But unfortunately for MeeGo, all seems lost.

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iPad 2 Will Launched March ?

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple mentioned would launch a second generation tablet iPad or over is often called the iPad 2 in March 2011. A trusted source who told Reuters on Wednesday (02/23/2011), said that the launch will probably be done in a special event that had been prepared Apple.

As usual, Apple did not confirm or deny the news. However, the information that Apple will release iPad 2 in March came after speculation that the product would be delayed until June as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, who always appeared on stage to introduce new products Apple is still sick.

'Apple has a track record of consistent,' said Daniel Ernst, analyst with Hudson Square Research. iPad 2 possibilities was launched in the same season as when iPad is launched for the first time, namely in April last year.

Previously, stock brokerage firms in Taiwan, Yuanta, the blog All Things Digital, Tuesday, stating that the launch of the iPad 2 could be a retreat for a number of reasons. In addition to Steve Jobs about health, other reasons related to design changes Apple made yesterday ahead of the Lunar New Year so that companies that make it must repeat the assembly process. The news circulated that could make Apple's stock fell 3 percent.

iPad 2 based on information from sources at the companies that supply components is said to be equipped with front and rear camera. The size is the same as the iPad the first generation, but much thinner and lighter. The screen is also referred to would have a higher resolution. KOMPAS.com

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Laptop Maintenance and Fixing Broken Laptops

Laptop Care

Laptop maintenance is not as easy as maintaining your desktop computer because a laptop is a mobile gadget that is vulnerable into different atmosphere and temperature attacks which where you may use it or keep it, thus if you don’t follow mindfully and diligently some tips on laptop maintenance, you laptop will be in the list of a broken laptops in town.

Having more useful Mobile gadgets one has is really very helpful in terms of their usage and purpose in the kind of lifestyle you or one has, like having a laptop which is useful for freelancers whose work depends online. Moreover, not only for freelancer workers but also having a laptop is useful for business owners to track their business anytime and anywhere they were through some other gadgets that can be attached to laptop or some built-in additional functionality like built-in camera that can be used for instant video conferencing or video messages.

Mobility, Functionality, Usefulness and Handiness are the assets of a mobile gadgets or mobile equipments which one could tap or take advantage of. However, acquiring one would be easy if you can afford their very expensive price (much more if the technology installed on it is above the average software from a normal to average gadgets) because the more its technology is above the average the more it is reliable and efficient and very good gadget. Like high-tech laptops are very expensive but promises increase reliability, efficiency, effectiveness, functionality, handiness, and mobility. Thus, if you would like to buy one or could afford to buy one, ultimate care of it is highly should because why waste your great money for it if you could not do a laptop maintenance or could not take care of it well?

Cleaning the hardware of your laptop or laptop hardware maintenance will be easy task if you just follow diligently and careful some steps about laptop hardware maintenance but the difficult task in laptop maintenance or taking care of you laptop is the laptop battery maintenance. Yap, you can do some search on the web about laptop hardware maintenance and laptop battery maintenance but executing them actually hands on will not be just one click of the mouse because sometimes we willfully forget the maintenance instructions like we eat our food or drink our coffee in front of our laptop forgetting the liquid or food might spill into the hardware especially to the keyboard. Most often also, when we are writing some things on paper and would type them on Word, we tend to forget our pens or pencils roll into the hardware especially on the folding side between the laptop LCD and the laptop keyboard. We only notice it when we fold our laptop, is not it?

There are times also, we tend to become naïve about the external sockets or external outlets especially if it is not a USB portals, thus we plug-in some devices which we do not know if this device we plug-in is the right device or not. Moreover, some of us tend to insert devices harshly on the outlets and not carefully plugging it in the right angle, and this careless plugging will ruin the external outlet of your laptop. Another problem regarding plugging is the tugging of the power cord of your laptop from the power socket rather putting your hand on it and unplugs it gently.

The most common failure of some in keeping their laptops that results into a broken laptops even though they have observe some of the laptop maintenance instructions, is they keep and used their laptops in a well enclosed areas where heat escalates rather than in a well-circulated area, thus their laptops end up into a broken laptop.

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Software – Advantage and Disadvantages of Free Antivirus Software

The anti virus software market for the most part has been a thriving one. With new viruses coming up everyday, anti virus software companies were always assured of good revenues.

But things started changing with the advent of free anti virus software. Given free anti virus software may not be as good as their commercial counterparts but they nevertheless, are pretty good for most computer users. Most free anti virus software come with even advanced detection technologies. What’s more, these free anti virus software keep their virus signature database updated regularly like any other commercial anti virus software!

Many people are of the opinion that commercial anti virus software are rip-offs. Most of them require renewal of licenses every year by asking a user to pay certain amount of money. If licenses are not renewed, such commercial anti virus software would stop detecting newer viruses. Free anti virus software, however, does not require such renewal of licenses. They are free to download, install, run and update as and when necessary.

One of the most popular free anti virus software is Grisoft’s AVG anti virus software. This free anti virus software is as good as a free software can get. There are no hidden malware and neither does one have to pay anything for using it. The virus signature database can also be updated without paying a fee! Unfortunately, this free version is however, meant for personal and non-commercial use only.

There are many other free anti virus software out there. Not all of them are however, good enough to provide proper security to computers. Some free anti virus software do not come with advanced detection technologies and therefore, may fail to detect different variants of viruses. Such free anti virus software are not simply worth anything. If you are planning to get a free anti virus, it is important you do some homework on the software. Check the reviews of other users to find out how good, in reality, the free anti virus software is before you start trusting it wholeheartedly!

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How i must to-do with Li-ion Laptop Battery

Li-ion or Lithium Ion are often used in newly produced laptop and mobile device. Actually i wrote about Laptop Battery Maintenance before, it's about how to maintain your laptop battery by doing regular fully cycle (fully charge and then fully discharge). But, later i know that those methods are only work on Ni-Cad and Ni-Mh battery.A fully cycle don't work for Li-ion battery, even worse"

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GPRS and MMS settings

General Instructions
Except for the card IM3, penyetingan GPRS or MMS require activation process first.
Activation process is done in a way to contact the operator of the appropriate card is used.
About making the details of the activation can be seen on the GPRS penyetingan detailed below.

Setting GPRS Matrix / manual Mentari
Profile Name: Satelindo
Homepage URL: http://wap.klub-mentari.com
IP Address: 10.19.19.19
Bearer: GPRSUser
Name: indosatPassword: indosat
APN: indosatgprs
Activate GPRS: ACTGPRS to tell 888
Call Center: (021) 5438 8888 or 222 (from mobile)

Setting GPRS SIMPATI (Telkomsel)
Using a mobile phone with GPRS facility.
Still have a minimum balance Rp. 500, - under the value you can not use GPRS services, SMS and MMS.
Register as subscribers to GPRS, which can only be done through SMS. Type the message is the SMS: GPRS [card number] Example: GPRS 6210009922069556 Send to: 6616. Note: send SMS messages Rates: Rp. 350, - / message.
Card number is the number ICCID (Integrated Circuit Card Identification) of 16 (sixteen) digit number on the back and there is a chip card SIMPATI Nusantara you.

Make communication settings on the terminal that is used with the parameters as follows:
Connection Name: Telkomsel APN
Data Bearer: GPRS
Access Point Name: Telkomsel
Username: wap
Prompt Password: No
Password: wap123
Authentication: Normal
Homepage: http://wap.telkomsel.com
WAP Gateway IP Address: 10.1.89.130
Port: 9201 (standard), 8000 (proxy)
Located in the region GPRS.Untuk services using WAP GPRS Telkomsel with, make sure you have already registered on http://www.telkomsel.com.
To use the WAP GPRS Telkomsel with, make sure you make the handset settings to use Access Point Name (APN) Telkomsel.

Setting GPRS kartuHALO (Telkomsel)
Using a mobile phone with GPRS facility.
Register as a customer GPRS, registration can be done in GraPARI or contact Caroline on 111 numbers, toll-free service from kartuHALO you, or can be made via SMS: how: Type the message SMS: GPRS Example: GPRSKirim to: 6616. Note: send SMS messages Rates: Rp. 250, - / message.

Make communication settings on the terminal that is used with the parameters as follows:
Connection Name: Telkomsel APN
Data Bearer: GPRS
Access Point Name: Telkomsel
Username: Password wapPrompt: No
Password: wap123Authentication: Normal
Homepage: http://wap.telkomsel.com
WAP Gateway IP Address: 10.1.89.130
Port: 9201 (standard), 8000 (proxy) Located in the area of the GPRS service.
To use the WAP GPRS Telkomsel with, make sure you have already registered on http://www.telkomsel.com.
To use the WAP GPRS Telkomsel with, make sure you make the handset settings to use Access Point Name (APN) Telkomsel.

Setting GPRS XL

Automatically
Send the following SMS to 9667, only Rp. 350, - (including VAT free for users and has not been included for the user Xplor).
Settings for GPRS: GPRS (space) (brand mobile phone) (space) (mobile phone)
For MMS settings: MMS (space) (brand mobile phone) (space) (mobile phone)
example: GPRS and MMS SE K600i SE K600i
Writing and the types of mobile phone brands (not case sensitive)

MERK & TYPE (select one)

NOKIA or NOK3650, 3660, 5100, 6100, 6108, 6200, 6220, 6225, 6230, 6340i, 6600, 7610, 6610, 6610i, 6650, 6800, 6810, 6820, 7200, 7210, 7250, 7600, 7650, 7700, 8910i, N-Gage, N-Gage QD, 9500

ERICSSON or SonyEricsson or SET39m, T68, T68i, T230, T300, T310, T610, T630, P800, P900, P910, Z200, Z600, K700i, K500i, S700i, K600i, K750iSIEMENS: S57, SL55, SX1, C62, S65, SL65, CX65

SAMSUNG: X100, X600, E700

To activate GPRS / MMS in the system, contact Customer Service on the XL 818 through the free / Xplor you (toll free) 021 57959818 or through the other (subject to the tariffs in accordance with applicable).

Manual

Parameter Setting GPRS:
Connection name: GPRS XL
Data bearer: GPRS
Access point name: http://www.xlgprs.net
User name: xlgprs
Prompt Password: No
Password: proXL
Authentication: Normal
Homepage: http://wap.lifeinhand.com
Connection Security: - off
Session mode: permanent
Phone IP address: Automatic
Primary name server: 0.0.0.0
Secondary name server: 0.0.0.0
WAP Gateway IP Address: 202.152.240.50
Port: 9201 (standard), 8080 (proxy)

Setting GPRS IM3

Automatically
Send SMS to 3939 with the message: GPRS [Brand HP] [HP Type]
Example: - GPRS Nokia 7650 - Ericsson T68 GPRS-GPRS SE P800

Manual

Parameter Setting GPRS:
Connection name: M3-GPRS
Access point name: http://www.indosat-m3.net
User name: gprsPassword: IM3
Authentication: Normal
Homepage: http://wap.indosat-m3.net
IP address: 010.019.019.019Port: 9201 (standard), 8080 (proxy)

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5 Great SEO Tips for Bloggers

Last week I wrote a post emphasizing the importance of why bloggers too should be SEOs and the post got quite a few comments from people agreeing with my points. That proves further that since people know the importance of being an SEO as a blogger they are also interested in learning tips that can help them improve their blog SEO significantly.

This post will be giving you 5 major SEO tips to help improve your blog SEO significantly.

1. Optimize Your Permalinks

When it comes to optimizing a blog to get the best from search engines wordpress is one of the best platforms available online but you need to realize that the default permalink structure wordpress uses isn’t effective for SEO as it only uses some random number that has nothing to do with your article. Instead you should optimize your blog post title to reflect your post keyword.

For example, instead of your post title being www.blogname.com/p?33 it should rather be something like www.blogname.com/article-keyword

You can easily change your default wordpress permalinks by visiting the permalinks section of your wordpress blog (this can be accessed by going to SETTINGS>>PERMALINKS) and then selecting the custom option, you should then enter /%postname%/. Once you’ve changed the default permalinks to the postname permalink your new post will automatically be having your post name in the title.

2. Optimize Your Titles

I’ve seen bloggers trying to rank for keywords that isn’t even anywhere on their blog. To increase the chances of you ranking for the keyword of your choice make sure you optimize your blog post titles to reflect your desired keyword.

When it comes to optimizing your titles this means you should optimize your blog title, your post titles and your H1 tags as this will ensure you have increased chance of ranking for the keyword of your choice.

Your title is what tells the search engines what your blog is about and it is the first thing users see when they are searching for your keyword, so aside your title increasing your chances of ranking it will also increase the number of people who visit your blog from the search engines

3. Optimize Your Blog Posts to Reflect Your Desired Keyword

If there are two authority blogs trying to rank for the keyword “hot potatoes” and the first blog writes an article about fishing while the other blog writes an article about potatoes, the importance of eating potatoes and how hot potatoes can be good for the body etc. which blog do you think will dominate the SERP for the “hot potatoes” keyword? I can assure you it is the second one.

Search engines need to know clearly that your article is truly relevant and that it truly covers what people are looking for so they will use every relevancy measure they have to ensure this happens. Nothing confirms the relevancy of your article in the search engines more than the keywords used in it.

4. Your Meta Description

Another very important and underutilized part of your blog you should optimize when trying to rank for a particular keyword is your meta description. The reason for this is that your meta keyword has two major advantages, first, if it includes your keyword it can increase the chances of you ranking higher and, second, if properly written it will have a huge impact on your click through rate from the search engines.

There is no point in ranking #1 for a high traffic keyword if nobody clicks, so the best thing to do is optimize your meta description to show people why your article is what they need to read.

5. Build Quality Links

Links control the web.

It doesn’t matter how great and relevant your content is you need quality backlinks to get results. Instead of focusing on writing content only why not also try your best to be building quality backlinks to your blog regularly. This can be done either by guest blogging, article marketing, commenting on the top dofollow blogs in your niche and writing quality content that provoke backlinks.

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8 Tips To Decrease Your Blog’s Bounce Rate

Bounce rate is a term used by Google Analytics; it refers to visitors who land on your blog and leave without going to any other page. The higher the bounce rate, the more people are “bouncing” when they land on your blog.

Keeping your bounce rate low is a wise move, as it keeps people on your blog for longer. Here are some tips to help you do just that.

1. Don’t display entire posts on your homepage.

It might seem convenient for readers to see an entire post on your homepage. Perhaps they wouldn’t read it all if you only displayed an excerpt. And maybe you just like seeing complete posts on the homepage.

But your homepage needs to grab people’s attention – and it’s a lot harder to do that when it’s a wall of text.

Including an image might help, but an entire post will push a lot of other content down the page. So you’re basically giving impatient visitors one thing to look at when they find your blog.

Chances are, if it’s the same post as when they last visited, they won’t bother looking much further.

Don’t lose people at the first hurdle. Do more with your homepage. A really good example is my recently redesigned personal blog.

2. Make good use of the Read More tag.

If you landed on the Quick Blog Tips homepage and clicked through to this post, did you notice how I was careful with how I chose the placement of  the “Read More” tag?

In WordPress, this tag allows you to break a post at any point. Readers will be greeted with a “Read More” link, which once clicked, will take them to the full post. This link will show on your homepage and category pages, but not in your feed – and not on the post page.

I’d highly recommend using it instead of an automatic excerpt, which breaks your post after a set number of characters. This isn’t great as you don’t have any control over where the break occurs. You could install an excerpt plugin, but then you’d have to write an excerpt for every post. I’d find that a bit annoying.

The “Read More” tag allows you to address the problem of displaying entire posts on your homepage. It also pushes you to write better post titles, and better opening paragraphs – two things that are massively important if  you want to get people clicking through.

3. Keep adding new posts.

Flooding your readers with endless new posts – especially if they’re not any good – isn’t the greatest way to keep people interested.

But you shouldn’t slow your posting frequency to a mere trickle, either. A lack of new content will make regular readers bounce until you publish a new post.

Be particularly careful about repeatedly buying adverts when you haven’t posted anything new since the last time you advertised.

4. Stop using sites that increase your bounce rate.

Google Analytics will show you the bounce rate for each of your referring sites. So if a social network is sending you loads of traffic but a very high bounce rate, that may suggest you’re not getting much in the way of quality traffic from that site.

A high bounce rate doesn’t necessarily mean you should ditch the social network though, especially if you benefit from it in other ways. But let’s face facts – if it’s a very popular site and everyone who hits your blog is simply bouncing away, you may want to look at the quality of content on your blog before you blame the social network.

5. Display related content links.

There are some plugins that will help you display related content on your posts. Go for the ones that use tags to locate related posts on your own blog, rather than posts that may be related but are actually from other blogs.

The benefit of displaying related content is that a reader who reads to the end of a post can easily find other posts on the same topic, or that have some similarities. This helps keep people on your blog for longer.

6. Link your posts together.

Once you have a few posts on your blog, you may find that writing a new post can lead to thoughts or ideas that relate to your earlier posts.

Don’t just rely on automatic related content links to bring these posts together – instead, make sure you include links between related posts so readers can get a bit more background on what you’re writing about.

This can create a much richer experience for readers. Think of Wikipedia – I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve looked up one article, only to lose track of time and end up on a totally different page an hour later!

7. Keep your navigation simple.

As you add more content to your blog, it’s important to help readers find their way around. Don’t use too many different types of navigation – use a few, and make them easy to use.

Also, be careful not to keep changing your navigation around, as your most loyal readers may get totally confused.

8. Don’t use “nag” popups.

If the first thing I see on a blog is a box that nags me to subscribe, I’m highly unlikely to stick around – let alone subscribe. Subscription is something that not everyone understands, and most people wouldn’t want to do just a couple of seconds after landing on a blog for the first time.

Lose the sales pitch! You might get a few more subscribers than usual, but you’ll probably piss off a lot more people than usual, too.

Something To Remember

Although these tips can help you, there is a limit to how much you can do. Don’t obsess over your stats – some people may just not be interested in your blog. That’s OK. Some things are out of your control.

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