Tag Archives: Search Engines - Page 2

SEO guide for Understanding Sitemaps to Increase Search Engine Discoverability of your website

Sitemaps play an important role in the Search Engine optimization. Why & How? All this  I will be discussing here.

Understanding  Sitemaps

According to Google.com

A Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

Sitemaps.org defines it as

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

So, Sitemaps is a name give to a URL map of a website which lists all the web pages URLs linked in the website with the necessary meta information required by the search engines to discover a website.

Types of Sitemaps

Sitemaps are of two type,  HTML Sitemaps which consists of the listing of the webpages present in a website XML Sitemaps consists the same information hierarchically but in a more organized order. Below you can see the difference in the content of HTML & XML Sitemaps of Inforids.com

HTML Sitemap of Inforids.com

HTML Sitemap of Inforids.com (Click to Enlarge)

XML Sitemap of Inforids.com

XML Sitemap of Inforids.com (Click to Enlarge)

XML Sitemaps are most common in use today.

Why Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are helpful for site to catch

  • Dynamic content
  • Discovering pages by Searchbots during the crawl process
  • New meta data and has new links
  • Large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Sitemaps informs search engines about the

  • How often the pages on your site change.
  • The date each page was last modified.
  • The relative importance of pages on your site.

Increase Blog Traffic: Submit your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

Search engine results makes all the differenceThe Primary Step in Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is submitting(or more specifically registering) your websites and blogs to the search engines which are the real source of traffic on any websit and blog. To increase search engine friendliness & traffic to your websites, you need to add your website/blog URL to different search engines & website directories so that your blog URLs get indexed in search engine’s databases.

Here you can can submit your website to about 100+ search engines & directories.

Read more »

The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Article content decides it all. Your articles decide the audience, their responses & their credits. When you start a blog (Don’t have a blog yet,  See 10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power, create an article there are ten ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. What needs to be done before taking pen on the paper is really important to know because it answers how you can write an article more effectively.

Almost every writer likes to put the best content for the readers & a little pondering before putting their fingers on the keyboard can produce best results. Brainstorms, outlines, and research are all part of the planning and preparation steps that many writers work through before they sit down to actually string words together. But there are ten important questions that every writer must ask before creating that first draft & publishing it.

1. Knowing & attracting your Audience

curiosity_small

Rather than focusing your topic you can focus your audience. This is a tradeoff between these two. You identify a motivated audience, cater your blog articles specifically to them, and then can select anything that interests you that will interest that audience too.

2. Decide on an identified, focused subject

1810357551_bd5a27da50_m

Identifying the right key for the lock is the art of subject identification. Audiences love when you are ultra-specific in your goal and articulate it well. It works especially well when you identify a pressing need.

3. The Power of Titles

Any article is first identified by the title. The title should be appropriate & put the major idea of the content. The title has the ability make or break a blog post. It impacts how (and if) it’s found in search engines and social bookmarking sites, it influences whether people visit your blog in News Readers, it affects whether people leave a comment and is vital in whether people actually read what you have to say.

4. Good Images conveys it All

Image gives life to simple words on the paper & every image you use must say something related to the topic. This technique can be used for providing an additional point of interest in your posts. I do use images in every post on this blog but find that when I do that those clicking through on the post in my feed reader increases. Images have the power to communicate in ways that words cannot – use them.

5. Be Original & Creative

keep_thinking

Try to speak your own words. Come up with your own content. It helps giving readers an assurance that they reading a fresh & new content. They have got something new. You can think something unique to say and say it in a creative and fresh way. Say what everyone else is saying in the same way that everyone else is saying it and you’re almost guaranteed of being largely ignored. Stick away from any type of copyright infringement.

6. The Presentation stands for 50% of all your work

bestman1_420

Many times online readers tend to scan content & images on the website. As a result if you place visual cues in your posts that draw their eye to important points you’ll find people stick with you longer into your posts. Think like what you will like if you visit a website that is, think like the reader’s point of view & it will help you how to present the things more simply & beautifully.

See also: Top 8 Website Killer & Common Blog Design Mistakes | Dont Let them Go

7. Work on content organization & structure

A single well written list post can launch a blog to great heights in the blogosphere. While the prolific nature of lists in the blogosphere can also mean your lists get ignored, but listing the thing helps keep your article more organized. I find that when writing the same content as a list that you write as an essay like article the list will almost always get more attention. They easily caught the attention of eye & let readers to stick to the content until they catch the idea behind them.

8. Style of your writing

Writing

There can be some difference in the tone of your writing that could not match with what readers want. A fiction piece will have an altogether different tone than a well-researched article. The language you choose, and the styles in which you write are largely directed by your target readership. Always pick a up a tone & style that is simple, clear & understandable.

9. Publishing & Socializing on a Right Platform

Few pieces of writing are publishable across different formats. You should at least have a general idea of the final format; especially be aware of whether your piece is headed for print versus electronic publication. For choosing the right socializing platform for your article after publishing it, you need to think on the need & effect of the article content on the set of readers & audience. Once you understand that, socialize it across suitable platforms.

10. Impact of the Article

Almost every writer wants to make readers feel something. It is important to think the impact of your article on the readers.

One of the positive impact can be Decrease in the Visitors Bounce rate on your website & can yield high traffic to you blog.

See Tim Ferriss View on Building A High Traffic Successful Blog [Video]

What do you want your readers to feel? Hope? Anger? Joy? Controversies? Is your article is imparting knowledge? Is it going to affect a specific set of people thinking? Writing informs, entertains, and sells. It intrigues, educates, and inspires. It’s imperative to know what impact your work will have on readers. Otherwise, it may end up having no impact at all. It is always to look up the results of what you are planning to do.

What do you think now? Share your views with us & comments below.

How To Index Your Blog In Search Engines Within 6 Hours

SEO, the most heard headlines among bloggers to optimize their blog. Its a kind of optimization which allows to index the blog in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. In simple words, the Search Engine Optimization is done for getting traffic through Search Engines. So, if you also want to instantly index your blog/website in Search Engines and optimize your blog’s SEO, then you can follow the steps and instructions.

Submit Site to Search Engines

In order to index your blog in popular search engines, you have to first tell them about your blog and URL. The best way to do this is to use some sites like AddMe, Submit Express etc. which automatically submits your sites to several Search Engines including the popular ones.

Compelling Content

Its only the content which attracts the readers to your blog and makes them visit again and again. Its one of the most important factor to grow your blog. So, put the best content you can in front of your readers. Write compelling content on topics in which you are professional or expert.

Indexing your blog and blog posts in Search Engines is directly related to the content you are posting on your blog.Write your content in simple and plain English so that it will be understood by the readers easily. Lastly, provide the best topics on your blog.

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious etc. are very useful sites for bloggers and used to drive traffic to the blog. Only what you have to do is submit your respective site to the above mentioned social sites and constantly submit your blog posts to the sites.

Social Networking Sites

You can also submit your blogs to other blog networks like Blog Catalog, Technorati etc.

Ping Search Engines

Other way to notify the Search Engines about the existence of your blog is to ping Search Engines. WordPress comes with ping services but you can do it manually at Pingomatic.

Submitting Sitemap To Google

Google, is a popular Search Engine and it drives a lot of traffic to blogs. In order to submit your blog posts to Google Search Engine, get the sitemap generator plugin for wordpress. Activate the plugin from Plugins Panel and Generate the sitemap from the XML-Sitemap under settings tab.

Cutout of the Administration Interface

Sitemap Generator Plugin Settings

Image Source

Sign Up or Sign In at Google Webmasters Tools and jump to Sitemaps Tab and then click on Submit a Sitemap button and add then URL of the sitemap example (http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml). After Submitting the sitemap, google’s search engine will index your blog links in the Search Engine.

Google Webmasters Tools > Sitemaps

Conclusion

After optimizing your blog with above factors, you will be able to get your blog indexed within 4-6 hours. Google keeps on updating the links from the web, so you will get some of your links in the Google. You can search with your blog’s name and hope you will get the desired result.

Microsoft new search engine, Bing.com ready to apply decision approach to its searches

The competition in the search engine market is not all about search engine market & their providers but its all about the technology that makes the difference.

Bing.com, yes the rebranded version of Microsoft Live Search system, launched last week, is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s search engine, and it’s innovative enough for Microsoft introducing the new “Decision Engine” approach focusing & helping customers use search to make better decisions.

Innovative Addons in Bing.com:

  • Decision Engine approach
  • Explorer pane on the left hand side
  • Easy Navigation between Categories/Related Searches
  • Text results early previews
  • A more smarter search engine
  • More easy searching related areas: making a purchase, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.

Google Search Engine is far ahead in the respective heuristic market & many other new technologies are still going in the race. Microsoft with its newly featured Bing.com, lets see how it tackles Google’s huge market dominance & search empire.

Make your Web Searches More Effective & 10 Times Faster | Use Operators & Limiters

Everyday more than billions of searches are done on various search engines & more than half of that on Google, each search yielding about another thousand results. Nobody wants to spend time scrolling through thousands of search results to find the page that contains the information they’re looking for. In fact, few people bother looking beyond the first page of 10 results, choosing instead to re craft their search phrase and try again. Some go for more advanced searches but its complexity in taking inputs is even more time taking.

But with the help of a few search operators, you can increase substantially the chances that you’ll find what you’re looking for on your first search try. So, here comes the role of operators & limiters to make your searches more effective & about 10 times faster in showing the exact result.

Using (~) Operator

Place a tilde (~) directly in front of your search term to find pages with words similar to the term in question. So searching ~inexpensive domains will return pages that have the term “cheap domains,” “affordable domains,” and “low-cost domains” as well.

Using (+) Operator

Use the plus sign (+) to search for two terms appearing together.

Using (-) Operator

Use the minus sign (-) to find pages that contain one term but not another.

Using (*) Operator

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to search for a term along with any other word, and quotes (“blah de blah”) to find an exact phrase.

Using (site:) Limiter

If you looking for on the site by going to Google or another search engine, and entering a search term along with site:www.thesitename.com (or .org, .edu, etc.) will yield you the exact website with specified URLs.

Using (define:) Limiter

Use define:word to return a definition.

Using (link:) Limiter

Use link:url to find pages that contain a link to a specific site or page.

Using (inurl:) Limiter

Use inurl:searchterm (or allinurl:searchterm) to retrieve pages whose URL contains a specific word or phrase.

Using (intitle:) Limiter

Use intitle:searchterm (or allintitle:searchterm the find pages with the word or phrase in their title; and,

Using ( info:) Limiter

Use info:url (or id:url) to get information about the page.

Using (safesearch:) Limiter

To keep adult-oriented content out of the results, use safesearch: searchterm.

To Find Weather

If you’re looking for a weather report, simply enter weather place or zip code and press Enter to see the temperature, conditions, and forecast for that locale.

Using (related:) Limiter

And to see pages similar to another page, type related: url.

**Javascript Bonus

Curious about when the page you’re on was last updated? Just type javascript:alert(document.lastModified) in the address bar and press Enter to see the date and time in a pop-up window.

Find that interesting. Suscribe us & Follow us on Twitter to get more tips & information.

How To Use BitTorrent to Download Torrents | Step by Step Guide for Beginners

In my previous article on Torrents, Ultimate Beginners Guide for Torrents, Ken asked me this in his comment

I do not know how to start a Torrent, search for a torrent or download a torrent because I Know Nothing at all about Torrents and would like to know if you can help me, Please?

So, here is a step by step tutorial to

1. Download and Install a BitTorrent Client

2. Find and Download a File

If you want to learn from basics & understand more about torrents, torrent trackers, BitTorrent Clients, Limewires & how does torrent works? you can see this & can learn about a faster & better search engine for torrents, Kisckasstorrents here.

Download and Install a BitTorrent Client

  • Click on Save File.
  • When the download is finished, go to BitComet Setup(.exe File) double-click on it.
  • Click Run, Ok, Next, I Agree, I Agree, Next and Install. The program will install. Click Finish. The program will start up.

Find and Download a File

  • Click on the text field near the top left of the page, and type in your desired ebook, game name etc. Click Search.
  • You will be taken to a search-results page.
  • You will probably see a page like this, with a mix of files with different sizes.
  • Click on the name (widest column) of a torrent that sounds good. That row will expand to display some ads, a Download .torrent link, and information about the files that the torrent links to. Click on the Download .torrent link.

To the right you see a number of Seeds and Leechers for each Torrent. A Seed is a user who has the whole file and is sharing it. A Leecher is someone who, like you, is in the process of downloading the file.

So you’ll want to pick a version of the file that has lots of Seeds and Leechers, so that the download is faster and more certain to be successful.

  • If you have never downloaded a torrent before, a window will pop up, asking what you want to do with this file. Choose “Open with BitComet”, check “Do this automatically for files like this from now on” or “Always use this program to open similar files”.
  • BitComet should open automatically and ask you if you want to download this file. Click OK.
  • Wait patiently for the file to download. When it’s done, the file will be in the C:Downloads folder.

Install BitComet Free BitTorrent Client & Speed up Downloading[Video]

Looking on Common File Extensions

  • If the file is a .MP3, .RM then it is an audio file which you can play in a music player.
  • If the file is a .AVi, .MP4, etc, then it is a movie file you can watch on your computer or transfer to a DVD, iPod, PSP, etc.
  • If the file ends with .RAR or .ZIP, then it’s basically a kind of archive ZIP file, and you need to decompress it using WinRAR.
  • If the file ends with VOB, ISO, CUE/BIN, or if it’s a VIDEO_TS folder, then it can be burned onto a DVD for viewing on a DVD player.

Remember, downloading media on BitTorrent is illegal.

Did you liked the way we put using BitTorrent client to download torrents? What are the Clients you use for downloading torrents? Share with us your views & comment.

Using META Tags for Search Engine Optimization: Meta Descriptors that Search Engines look for

Getting a top ranking in search engines is  a No problem Now! All you need to do is add a HTML “meta tags” to your web pages, and you’ll elevate to the top of the listings in the search engine results. Meta Tags the most useful for search engine optimization. Other techniques includes Increasing Blog Traffic: Submitting your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

Read more »

Michael Jackson, Twilight, WWE, Naruto Topped Yahoo Searches for 2009

Yahoo, the well known search engine has released its top 10 searches for 2009. Analyzing these top web searches of the year is what can be very interesting. Lets go to have on a  look on these searches.

While Michael Jackson topped Yahoo’s overall searches for 2009, actress Megan Fox landed in the top spot of mobile searches. Those were the only search terms to make it into both the top 10 mobile and PC searches.

The hottest video games of the year can’t be played on the Wii, PlayStation 3, or Xbox 360 Web-based RuneScape took 10th overall postion. The NFL was the most popular sport search term for 2009, outpacing both the NBA and NASCAR.

TOP TEN OVERALL YAHOO! SEARCHES FOR 2009

1. Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, Twilight, WWE, Naruto Topped Yahoo Searchs for 2009

2. Twilight
3. WWE

Michael Jackson, Twilight, WWE, Naruto Topped Yahoo Searchs for 2009

4. Megan Fox
5. Britney Spears
6. Naruto (Japanese Anime)

Michael Jackson, Twilight, WWE, Naruto Topped Yahoo Searchs for 2009

7. American Idol
8. Kim Kardashian

Michael Jackson, Twilight, WWE, Naruto Topped Yahoo Searchs for 2009

9. NASCAR
10. Runescape

TOP TEN MOBILE YAHOO! SEARCHES FOR 2009

  1. Megan Fox
  2. Mobile Games
  3. Michael Jackson
  4. Movies
  5. Rihanna
  6. Mail
  7. Lady Gaga
  8. NFL
  9. Ringtones
  10. iPhone

TOP TEN YAHOO! ECONOMIC SEARCHES

1. Coupons
2. Unemployment
3. Stimulus Plan
4. Cash for Clunkers

Did you like this post? Any questions, views ?? Comment below.

KickassTorrents – Torrents Search Engine Review

Torrents is a great way of downloading very large files from Internet & they have become very popular downloading method in recent years. Also there are a large number of torrents search engines available on the web and all of them have some or the other pros and cons. So, the information and accurate review of all such torrents search engines can be helpful & time saving to search torrents & get the best results for those torrents that you are looking for downloads.

KickassTorrents is such a torrents search engine which is quickly gaining popularity among downloaders. This site has a very simple, user friendly but attractive, efficient design which lets you make your torrents searches very easily & quickly access the  results. Site home page is also equiped with tag cloud of the most popular searched torrents, that makes searchs one click away.

KickassTorrents search engine allows you to search & download torrents in Anime, Applications, Books, Games, Music, Movies, TV Shows, XXX & other categories. People can search for files manually by entering the title, subject or search term they wish to download, or they can search by browsing the categories. The site have files from seeders who are the file uploaders, and anyone who wishes to download certain files are free to do so. The site also offers free user registeration & after registering you can set up your own preferences, bookmark torrents you like & upload your own torrents.

When any search is made, resulted torrents are listed in different categories with their health status, size, date uploaded, seeds & leechs which helps you to analyse which one is best to download. The good thing about this website in particular is that it contains some user comments and thank you notices next to each result. A number of thank you messages potentially indicates that the file is safe and working to download, other irrelevant messages and where the users say the file is not working, allows the viewer to avoid these torrents.

The torrents take a variable amount of time to download and depend on your internet connection and also on the file size being downloaded. The more demand on a particular file, the more users that will have the file, and the faster it will download. The site also provides direct downloads for some popular items. However, The torrents with the majority of files are safe to download and install, some contain viruses which are hazardous to computers.

Further, KickassTorrents provide Firefox search plugin so as to directly search torrents from your firefox web browser. Their blog will keep you informed about updates & announces. Its Community with 170,000+ member will help you connect, share & solve your problems.

As a good search engine requires a good level of relevant results, KickassTorrents actually delivers reliable and accurate results.

Related Posts with Thumbnails