Google Blog Search blogroll detector algorithm has finally gone through a change. As a result bloggers may find the number of incoming links to their blogs getting reduced in the Google Blog Search. Here is what Googler Jeremy Hylton has to say about the change:
Google has just released Google Services for Websites – an all in one webmaster service package that can easily be implemented by the hosting providers in their own service. It is an enhanced version of the Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program that was released last year.
Yes, I don’t mean adding PDF file, I mean embedding. Obviously you can easily hyperlink a PDF file. But the user has to download it or open it with Adobe Reader from the browser as a separate file. What about embedding a PDF widget where necessary? Readers can see the PDF directly from your site or blog post. They can even resize the widget to full screen to read it & come back again to your site. Also there is option for downloading the file. Acrobat just do that for you. Sign up for a free account there. Upload your PDF. Now copy the embed code & paste it where necessary. It’s quite simple. Here is an implementation.
HyperWebEnable has become quite popular in recent times. It is quite obvious though. After all, it is hard to resist the temptation of free domain & free hosting at the same time. But take a note of these few points that I am about to mention.
Would you like to add a Yellow Pages like directory to your WordPress blog? Then you can use a simple plugin from Business Directory for WordPress. Install & activate it. Create a few pages. Add a few snippets of code there. You are done. Let your readers or advertisers use it to submit an advertising on your blog. Or you can use it for your link building purpose.
Today I received an email from Adsense about their new feature interest-based advertising. It sounds pretty cool. They are trying to serve ads on the basis of user interest. But how are they going to track individual interest? They will drop a cookie on the user’s browser when he clicks or views an Adsense ad in a site. This cookie will track his visits to that site & other sites. So it will know the trend of user & figure out a corresponding category to show ads that may interest the user. It’s pretty simple. you don’t have to change your ad code or account settings or anything. I am looking forward to it.
It is a long standing method for webmasters to choose one url version, either www or non-www (for example: http://www.yourdomain.com & http://yourdomain.com) while link building. And there is a strong point to do so. Google gets confused with these two versions of the same url while crawling links. They can treat them as separate references to separate pages even if they point to same page actually. Here lies the danger of duplicate content. Besides it may take long time before Google merges these links. So your total number of backlinks gets reduced leaving you with a less PR score. So choose one version at the start & stick to it all the way to your link building.
I am talking about a very popular theme. It’s UDB Moneymaker theme. Perhaps you have seen it in other blogs if not yours as thousands of bloggers use it. It’s a great theme no doubt. But do you know one thing? You can remove the credit link from the footer if you wish. Most of us don’t like to show it. Here is what it says in Usage Agreement:
There has been a talk on the increasing importance of branded search results in Google. I have found this useful video about Matt Cutts talking on this new discussion. Listen to this & you will have a clear idea about Google’s point of view on branding search results.
When you try a new design you check your site on your favourite browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera. But what about other numerous browsers across differnt OSes? No doubt, the users of these browsers are small in number. But it is your duty as a webmaster to reach as many users as possible & give them statisfaction while browsing. Would you like to see how your site looks in different browsers of Windows, Linux, Mac OS or BSD? Don’t get afraid. I am not going to tell you to download & install all these broswer on your OS. Try BrowserShots instead. It will test your site on its server & upload the screenshots of your site on different browsers. You can see them easily by clicking the images. You can choose to check from about hundred of different browsers with very little effort.