Blogger Change Blogspot.com to Blogspot.in

Today i just check Facebook and got information from SEOLeaks about blogspot.com is changed. I saw there is one post from Ashvin Patel about recent change in Blogspot.com to blogspot.in, then i check Google but i am unable to find out.

I think there may be a change from Google that they will change all blogspot.com domain to their country domain. I am not sure, but this is the main reason for the change.

Share your comments on the same its beneficial for us or not.

Google Introduces Google Instant For Faster Searches

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.
Benefits

Faster Searches: By predicting your search and showing results before you finish typing, Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.

Smarter Predictions: Even when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, predictions help guide your search. The top prediction is shown in grey text directly in the search box, so you can stop typing as soon as you see what you need.

Instant Results: Start typing and results appear right before your eyes. Until now, you had to type a full search term, hit return, and hope for the right results. Now results appear instantly as you type, helping you see where you’re headed, every step of the way.

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5 tips for using Priority Inbox

Gmail has recently introduce the priority inbox where you can have a separate inbox only for VIP emails. Here are 5 ways to make the maximum out of it. You will able to save lot of time you waste to read all the email.

1. Customize your selection
By default, Priority Inbox has three sections: "Important and Unread," "Starred" and "Everything Else.” But that doesn't mean you have to leave them that way. You can make a section show messages from a particular label (like your “Action” or “To-do” label), add a fourth section, or change the maximum size of any section. Visit the Priority Inbox tab under Settings to customize your sections, or do it right from the inline menus.

2. Train the system
If Gmail makes a mistake, you can help it learn to better categorize your messages. Select the misclassified message, then use the importance buttons at the top of your inbox to correctly mark it as important or not important.

3. See the best of your filtered messages
You can set up Priority Inbox to show you not just the best of your inbox, but also the best of messages you filter out of your inbox and might otherwise miss. Just change your Priority Inbox settings to “Override filters” and Gmail will surface any important messages that would otherwise skip your inbox.

4. Use filters to guarantee certain messages get marked important (or not)
If you read and reply to a lot of messages from your mom, Gmail should automatically put incoming messages from her in the “Important and unread” section. But if you want to be 100% sure that all messages from your mom (or your boss, boyfriend, client, landlord, etc.) are marked important, you can create a filter for messages from that sender and select “Always mark as important.” Similarly, if you regularly read messages from your favorite magazine, they should automatically get marked as important. If you’d rather they end up in the “Everything else” section, you can create a filter to never mark them as important.

5. Archive unimportant messages quickly
One of the features that can help make you more efficient is the ability to archive all of the visible messages in the "Everything Else" section at once. Just click on the down arrow next to "Everything Else" and select the "Archive all visible items" option. If you want to be able to archive even more messages at once, you can increase the maximum number of messages that show in that section from the same drop-down.

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Google News changes reflect your feedback

Just two weeks after launching a new version of its Google News site, the web giant has changed the design in response to complaints from users. While the recent redesign is still the default — with a single main column containing “top news,” along with a customized stream of content called “news for you” — users now have the ability to change back to something more like the previous grid-style layout, which includes sections for each main news topic spread over two columns.

The main focus of the Google News redesign was the introduction of the customized “news for you” section, which expanded on the customization features that the site had before and brought them to the forefront. Many other news sites and services have been making similar changes, including Digg, which is working on its own major redesign aimed at making the service more social and allowing users to customize their sources of news. And the Washington Post earlier this week acquired a startup called iCurrent, which allows users to create a kind of personalized newspaper based on their favorite topics.

It’s worth noting, however, that some users didn’t like the personalized “news for you” feature much, judging by some of the comments in a Google News support forum on the topic, as well as comments on a Nieman Journalism Lab story on the new redesign. Whether the latest changes that Google has made will pacify some of those critics remains to be seen. Personalization may be the future of news, but the reality is that some people just don’t like change, period.

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Google Profiles - Great for Reputation and SEO

Have you seen Google Profiles yet? If not, go set up you profile at http://www.google.com/profiles/



It's no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else's. When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren't always what you want people to see — whether it's someone else with your name, or the finishing time from that 5K you ran back in 2002. We want to make that better and give you more of a voice.



To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the full profiles. We've also added links so it's easy to search for the same name on MySpace, Facebook, Classmates and LinkedIn.

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Google still dominating search engine marketing

Google is still the dominant player in the global search engine marketing sector, according to a new report from AdGooRoo.

The research firm said that Google held 80.9 per cent of the pay-per-click advertising market at the end of December, with Yahoo! taking a 19.4 per cent share and Live Search 16.4 per cent, Silicon Alley Insider reports.

Overall, Yahoo! saw its share of search advertisers fall in the last three months of 2008, while Live Search experienced a significant increase.

The average number of ads that Google displayed on its first page of search results for each keyword rose by 58 per cent in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three months, with Live Search seeing 42.3 per cent growth and Yahoo! 8.8 per cent, according to Information Week.

AdGooRoo said that should Microsoft acquire Yahoo!, Live Search would see the number of large advertisers in its network rise by 157 per cent, which could "have a dramatic effect on network costs-per-click".

According to Nielsen Online, Google accounted for 64.1 per cent of all US searches in November.

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How to Get Your Site Listed in Google in 24 Hours or Less

Wouldn't it be nice to start seeing your site in Google's search engine results in 24 hours or less? It should be first noted that if a site is crawled but not yet indexed, the results aren't visible to search users. For example, if you enter the full domain of your site with the "http://www." and your site hasn't been listed yet, it won't show up in Google's results. When your site does get indexed, if you enter the full URL, you'll see your site listed. This listing contains the URL, the title of your website, and a description.

To get your site indexed quickly, you won't use Google's submission form (google.com/addurl.html). Using this method may take 2–6 weeks to get your site indexed.

So, what do you need to do to get your website indexed in 24 hours or less? The first step is to visit Google and enter a broad, generic keyword that's relevant to your site. This is the rare time that the broader the keyword, the better. Don't worry about trying to go for niche markets with this step, because you're going to want to have access to sites with the highest level of traffic. Once you enter the keyword, you see the Google listings. Use the "Page Rank" indicator on the Google toolbar to see what the page rank is (or you could use SEO Elite or linkVendor, but doing it right from the browser is faster).

To refresh your memory, the higher your page rank, the more websites that are linking to you. Keep an eye out for sites that have a page rank of 5 or higher (with the higher ranking being the better one). Visit each of these sites to see if they offer a link exchange. Remember, if they do they'll advertise it in the same way you did yours, through a "link to Us" web page or something similar. Look for the contact information if it's listed. If it's not listed, use the Whois utility found through domain name services or SEO Elite to find their e-mail address. Use the same methods of e-mail etiquette you learned about before and send them an e-mail asking if they're interested in a link exchange. Remember to post their links on your site first before you send out the e-mail. And don't forget that you can still purchase advertising on the resources given throughout this book.

Just make sure the site you choose has a page rank of over 5. If you advertise your site on a site with a page rank of 5, your site will get indexed in three days or less. If you advertise your site on a site with a page rank of 6, you can get your site indexed in less than 24 hours.

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Getting ready to get indexed by Google

This goes out to all the new websites out there waiting to get indexed. While many prefer to believe that all the major SEO is done after the site is launched, I would hint that if you’re able to get indexed while in the best shape, that’s quarter battle won.

We all know that there are more than one way of getting indexed on Google. So while you are getting indexed, is there anything in particular that you got to watch out for ? Indeed yes.

A couple of things.
1 – Be in good shape while you get indexed.
Page Titles, Onsite optimization and Keyword highlights – if you’re able to get it all ready in good shape even before getting indexed, it’s better. So when the Google bots enter your virgin territory, they have a good first impression. I’ve seen that rather than making changes later, it’s better if you can get them convinced in the very first place.

2 – Get the best guy to link to you.
Forget the cheap directories. They’re no good. Instead, try out a link building strategy, or device your own and bait the suitable guy in your domain to link to you. (Guy with a decent PR, Authority etc)

3 – Get the sitemap ready.
Make sure you don’t miss to publish the sitemap. Both HTML and the XML one. If they are available to welcome the robots, nothing like it, a great indexing ensured.

4 – Get the links fixed.
Make sure you leave no broken links. They’re so amateurish. Run a link checker program, and make sure you plug those holes before the bots are here.

Basically the idea is to get all the metrics to be in good shape, ready to welcome the bots and leave no room for loose ends.

Google Releases AdWords Editor Version 7.0

Just two and half months after releasing Version 6.5, Google has launched the new version of AdWords Editor. Version 7.0 is now available for Windows and Mac. Be sure to back up your work before you upgrade. You can import your work into 7.0 once it's been deleted.

Here's what to expect with the new version:

First page bid estimates: AdWords Editor now uses first page bid estimates for your keywords. Minimum cost-per-click (CPC) bids are no longer used.

Keyword Quality Score: The Keywords tab now displays the Quality Score for your keywords.

Keyword Opportunities locale: Tailor your keyword suggestions to a particular language and location by changing your Keyword Opportunities locale.

Campaign targeting in the data view: You can view your targeting settings in the new 'Language' and 'Location' columns on the Campaigns tab. These columns are hidden by default, but you can select them with the column chooser.

Send feedback to Google: Help us improve AdWords Editor by enabling usage tracking in your AdWords Editor settings (Tools menu > Settings).

Other updates:

The 'Volume' column on the Keyword expansion tab of the Keyword Opportunities tool now shows absolute numbers (traffic for the last month) instead of scaled values.
The Keyword Opportunities tool isn't available for draft accounts.

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Google’s Countdown To 2009 Promotes Products & Services

Did you know Google has a countdown to 2009 calendar? It is available at google.com/countdownto2009/ and it basically is a dressed up calendar with ways to use Google for the holidays. Each day of the calendar has a new Google tip for the holidays. There is also a mobile version and it can be added to your iGoogle home page.

So far, Google has offered tips on using Google Product Search, using Google Docs for greeting cards, searching for scores, conversions, gifts, and many other services. It is a cute way for Google to promote their search services. Here is a screen capture of what I see on December 16th at the countdown to 2006.

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The Future of Search: Do You Ask Google or the Gaggle?

Late last month, media giant Google launched an online featured called SearchWiki, which allows users to rate, annotate, and store results they've found particularly useful. The notes have no direct bearing on public rankings, although individual comments are visible to all users.

On the company's blog, Google said SearchWiki moved search one more step toward a "dynamic" search experience – one in which a community will be able to shape, refine, and organize the raw matter of the World Wide Web.

The concept has a considerable amount of ballast in Silicon Valley, where developers have long predicted that the future of search lies not in proprietary algorithms, such as Yahoo or Google, but in the power of the hive mind.

Over the past few years, a score of so-called "people-powered" search tools have entered the fray, including Stumpedia, Mahalo, Sproose, and Gravee. Most of these sites couple the raw processing power of an algorithmic engine with the functionality of Digg, the community-controlled news aggregator.

"There are a lot of smart people who have looked at Google and Yahoo and said the fundamental way of searching has not changed in nine or 10 years," says Bob Pack, a founder and CEO of Sproose, which allows users to influence search results with a simple voting mechanism. "You've got algorithmic search results, organized into a set of blue links going down the page. Search needs to become richer and more intuitive."

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Why the SEO stakes are so high

In part, these numbers reflect Google’s dominance in web search–41/61 is a whopping 67%, which is within epsilon of Google’s reported share of the web search market. But the larger point is that most sites depend on web search for the majority of their traffic, which makes search engine optimization (SEO) a matter of life or death for commercial sites in general, but especiallty online retailers, publishers.

So it’s not surprising that SEO is a multi-billion dollar industry, comparable in size with the pay-per-click (PPC) advertising industry. And, to the extent that the SEO industry is helping to organize the world’s information, it’s earning its keep. But it’s hard to know how much SEO improves the efficiency of the information market vs. how much simply fuels an arms race.

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Google AdWords Allows Blackhat SEO Ads

A WebmasterWorld member is surprised Google is allowing ads with the titles "Blackhat SEO" to show up in AdWords ads for searches on seo.

Here is a screen capture I took yesterday, but it is still showing up today.



The member asked if there is something that can be done. One member replied that you can notify Google about this at this feedback form.

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Google Finally Showing Signs It's Not Completely Recession Proof

If your business has been feeling the pinch with all the economic doom and gloom, don't think you're alone. Even Google, whom we thought might be recession proof, is tightening its belt.

Reports have emerged this week that the world's largest search engine is cutting costs and axing projects in light of the dismal financial forecasts.

The Wall Street Journal summarized Eric Schmidt's (Google CEO) thoughts on the cost management initiatives.

"We have to behave as though we don't know what's going to happen... The
company will curtail the "dark matter”...projects that haven't really caught on
and aren't really that exciting. The company is "not going to give" an engineer
20 people to work with on certain experimental projects anymore... When the
cycle comes back, we will be able to fund his brilliant vision."
So what Google projects and initiatives been given the axe? Here's some of the victims:
- Searchmash - a test version of the search engine used for trialling UI enhancements
- Lively – their foray into the virtual world space
- Ad free web services (Finance and soon News will run ads to generate revenue)
- Free time for engineers to work on personal projects (used to be 20% of their work week)
- Reduced hours at its free cafeteria
- ...and layoffs of contract workers are in the pipeline

Those are just some of the changes and cuts that the search behemoth has actioned to help position it for a slightly less certain future.

Cost management aside, Google is still holding its own in the current market, with growth of 31% in the 3rd quarter compared to last year.

And given marketing spend continues to shift online as businesses seek measurable advertising options, the company is positioned to ride out the economic storm comfortably.

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Web Analytics: The Future, SEO, Tools, and Mistakes

Not to Mention the Survival of Your Online Business


It's no secret that web analytics are important to the success of a website. It looks like that importance might even increase in the future as change unfolds in the search industry, throwing a fork in the spokes of how Internet marketers drive traffic to sites.

Web Analytics and SEO

Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz lists web analytics as one of the top seven reasons that companies are investing in SEO during the economic downturn. "It's sad, but true," he says. "When a downturn arrives or panic sets in, someone, maybe the first someone in a long time, checks the web analytics to see where revenue is still coming in. Not surprisingly, search engine referrals with their exceptional targeting and intent-matching are ranking high on the list."

Word on the street is that web analytics are going to be playing an even more crucial part than ever in traffic heading into the new year. As both Bruce Clay and Matt Cutts talk about in their respective interviews with WebProNews, Google is going to be getting more personalized with search results, and this is going to make traditional SEO strategies more difficult, and perhaps some even obsolete.

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Google launches SearchWiki

Google has launched SearchWiki, billed as giving users "more control over their search experience".

Features included in the new addition to the existing service include the ability for users to add, delete, re-sort or common on results - generating a list of finds that are customised to their needs.

Speaking on the company's blog, Cedric Dupont - product manager - and Corin Anderson, software engineer, said: "The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers."

They added: "This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic."

Search engine marketing companies can see what others think of the search, by clicking on a link which will present them with an aggregated view of which pages have been moved up, deleted or added, along with comments that users have added for certain sites.

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Google updates its Toolbar PageRank

What is Toolbar PR, how can you see it and what does it represent?
You can get access to the PageRank values by installing the Google toolbar. Once you’ve installed it you’ll see that for each website you visit, the green bar will get longer or shorter (actually it’s a number from 1 to 10 - for those real geeks amongst you, you may be interested to know that Google actually stores it as a floating point number and that there are n numbers after the decimal point. But that’s not important and maybe even just a little bit dull…) .

If you visit Google then they get a nice fat 10 and if you visit other pages then they get a big fat zero (including this blog!).

So, most sensible people would assume that pages with a high PR are more popular than those with a lower PR. If that was the end of the story then it’d be great, but it’s not.

Relying on Toolbar PR has the following drawbacks:

1. The value that is displayed is the PR of a website at a fixed point in time, so when an update is published it is already out of date.

2. Toolbar PR is also rather unreliable in that sometimes it’ll give you a different number depending on what Google datacentre you’re looking at (short lesson: When you go to google.com you’re directed to one of many servers, each of which can have slightly different results to the other - the same goes for PR) and sometimes it’s been reported to just show weird numbers.

3. This is the most important part - the value in the toolbar PR has no relevance whatsoever to the keywords you’re targeting. A site with 0 PR can rank above a site with a PR of 8 for a search if the 0 PR site is deemed to be more relevant to the search topic.

Toolbar PR has its uses, but if you’re evaluating the worth of a website, don’t base it purely on Toolbar PR. You should be investigating a stack of factors and coming to a conclusion based on the sum total of those factors, not a flaky green bar in your web browser.

When the updates are finally visible in the next day or two, don’t go nuts if your PR goes up or down. Note it and see how it relates to the other factors you measure - only then can you make a comment on the current SEO-worthiness of your site.

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