Friday, June 17, 2011

Google Start Showing +1 Button on Google Webmaster Tools

+1 Button on Google Webmaster Tools

Are you using Google webmaster tools ? and Today, you logon to Google Webmaster Tools and notice some changes in Google Webmaster Tools ? You may notice Google start showing +1 button on Webmaster Tools.

You can see their are around 10k +1 for Google Webmaster Tools. See image as below

Google Webmaster Tools + 1 Button

It means Google will give very mach importance to +1 button in coming days. You can also add +1 button in your blog or website.

Yahoo Celebrating Father's Day with Small Flash Video

Father's DayYahoo make New Logo for Father's Day

Father's Day (You can say Papa's Day or Dad's Day) is coming (on 19th June 2011 - 3rd Sunday of June) and Yahoo make a very interesting flash video related to Father's Day which can be seen at Yahoo home page.

You can also see this flash on Yahoo home page

I captured some of interesting view of this small flash video. You can also see the images of this captured flash video as below.





Read Father’s Day Fun Guide on Yahoo

What is +1 Button ? How to Add +1 Button of Google to Your Website ?

What is Google +1 Button ?

You may notice Google +1 button is very important in these day. Google launch this button in March 2011. The people who love your content may recommend on Google Search with the help of +1 button. Google launched the code of +1 button so that every one can add this button in their website for promotion in Google search.

Adding +1 Button in Website

+1 Button is same as that of facebook like button, If some one likes your website then he or she may give you +1 and by this your website may get more importance in Google search.

How to Implement +1 Button on Your Website ?

Adding +1 button +1 button on your website is very easy.

For adding Standard +1 Button in you website you can use the following code.

<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

You can add various sizes +1 buttons in your website. Following sizes are available for +1 button.

(a) Small (15px)

(b) Standard (24px) +1 button

(c) Medium (20px)

(d) Tall (60px)

Get various sizes code of +1 button from here Google +1 Button in Various Sizes

Partners of +1 Button

(1) Addthis - www.addthis.com
(2) Mashable - www.mashable.com
(2) HuffingTon Post - www.huffingtonpost.com
(4) Rotten Tomatoes www.rottentomatoes.com
(5) Nordstrom - www.nordstrom.com
(6) O'Reilly www.oreilly.com
(7) Reuters - www.reuters.com
(8) The Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com
(9) Best Buy - www.bestbuy.com
(10) Tech Crunch - www.techcrunch.com
(12) Bloomberg - www.bloomberg.com

You can also see +1 button on various Google Products.

You can read full details about +1 Button at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

Thursday, June 16, 2011

How to Start SEO of a Website ? First Step Analysis of Website to Start Search Engine Optimization

How to Start SEO of Website ?

To start SEO i.e. Search Engine Optimization for a website, First you must do On Page Optimization and first step for On Page Optimization is Analysis of Website.

Staring Analysis of Website for SEO Activities

If you want to do SEO for a website then your first step will be Analysis of Website. Before starting SEO for a website it is recommended note down the following SEO activities for your record.

Step 1:
First of all check the domain name of website (Check it includes any important keyword related to theme of website) Check the theme of website.

Step 2: Check the content of website whether its related to theme of website.

Step 3: Check the content on Home Page (Not be too less, Must be rich content)

Step 4:
Use five important SEO operators and note down all the information as follows.

(a) Site: Check how much pages are indexed by various search engines. Note down in search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing.
(b) Link: Check how much backlinks are showing by various search engines.
(c) Info: Check the information of the website whether its is showing on the search engines or not.
(d) Cache: Check when Google Robots visits s last to the website.
(e) related: Check competitor websites with this operator.

Step 5: Note down the alexa rank of website.

Step 6: Note down the page rank of Website.

Step 7: Check the age of domain with help of www.who.is

Step 8: Check backlinks of the website with various tools like www.backlinkwatch.com

Step 9: Check Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer is integrated with website or not.

Step 10: Install Google Analytics code if it is not presented.

Step 11: Use keyword analysis with help of Google Adwords Keyword Tool.

Step 12: Use brainstorming (What people are searching on the internet related to theme of website)

Step 13: Make meta tags for all web pages

Step 14: Check their is any image then do image optimization, Check how much video are presented on website also check website is using any flash file.

These are just basic steps for starting SEO of website. You can read details about Advanced SEO at here What is SEO ? What is On Page and Off Optimization ?

Stack Overflow - Ask any Programming Language related Questions and Get Answers at Free of Cost

Stack OverflowStack Overflow Great Website for Professional Programmers

Stack Overflow is great website for programmers where programmers may get answers for their questions at free of cost. You can ask any type of programming question at Stack Overflow and programmers from all over the world will try to give answers of your question.

If you are working on any important project related to any language like C, C++, .Net, PHP, Java, iPhone Application Development, SQL, SAP, Oracle, HTML etc. and you are getting bug in your project then you can ask your bug related questions at Stack Overflow.

Soon some one who will be expert in programming try to give your query related answers. By this way you can resolve your bug in your project.

Also, You may also help to other programmers by giving answers.

Just Ask Question, You do not need to Register.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Total Lunar Eclipse on Google Home Page

View of Total Lunar Eclipse on Google

If you are using Google then you will see Google is showing Total Lunar Eclipse on the home page using Google Doodle.

At this time when I was writing this post then 12% Eclipsed was Completed

Total lunar eclipse in progress - 12% eclipsed

Maximum at 08:13pm GMT (1 hour 43 minutes from now)

Visible from: Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, S.America

See the snap shot below of Total Lunar Eclipse at Google Home Page






What is Image Optimization ? What is Alt Tag ? How to do Image Optimization ?

Image Optimization: Image Optimization is one of the part of On Page Optimization. If you have images in your website and you want to promote your images then you can do this by the image optimization. Nowadays Google search engine is giving importance to images. Many people are searching only images in search engines.

What is Alt Tag ?
Image Optimization can be do with help of Alt Tag. Alt Tag is used for image optimization. Alt Text may be used for image name.

How to do Image Optimization
?

(1) First of all give proper image name for your image.

(2) Second use Alt Tag.

See the Example below

For Example: I want to add image related to "Computer" in my server (in my website). I will do the following activities for this.

(1) I will upload image

(2) I will give good name of the image specially "Computer" so that my URL should be http://www.example.com/images/computer.jpg Your image may be of any format .gif, .bmp, .jpeg, .bmp, .jpg

Importnat Always ignore

http://www.example.com/images/img_4.gif (Ignore this types of name like "img4" or "123img" etc. only give relevant theme based name to your image)

(3) Use Alt Tag in your website image URL as follows

<img src="http://www.example.com/images/computer.jpg" alt="computer" />

By this you can do image optimization.