Yesterday search engine land reported that Yahoo going to shut down Yahoo site explorer!Hemant Minocha, Product Manager,Yahoo! Site Explorer, make a blogpost that Yahoo going to off the Yahoo site explorer.He wrote “Once organic results are transitioned to Bing in all the markets, we plan to shut down Yahoo! Site Explorer and Microsoft’s Webmaster Tools will be the source for Bing and Yahoo! webmaster site and analytics data.”
Yahoo site explorer is a great tool for free analysis, I am a bit upset to hear this news, I think most of the YSE lover’s feel same.
The site explorer API will close on Sept,15th this year.
Now Google search becoming more and more powerful for image searchers!How?Now you can put your image and Google will find the similar and the exact matching image for you!Impressive!huh!
How can you use the search feature?The process are:
There are a few ways to search by image:
“Visit images.google.com, or any Images results page, and click the camera icon camera icon in the search box. Enter an image URL for an image hosted on the web or upload an image from your computer.
How to enter an image URL
On any webpage, right-click an image and select the option to copy it. In most browsers, this option’s name starts with “Copy image,” except Internet Explorer for which you’ll select “Properties” and then copy the URL that’s then displayed. Visit images.google.com, or any Images results page, and click the camera icon camera icon in the search box. Paste the copied URL into the search box Click Search
How to upload an image
Visit images.google.com, or any Images results page, and click the camera icon camera icon in the search box Click the Upload an image link Click Choose File Select the image from your computer
Tip: You can also drag and drop an image to initiate a search in Chrome or Firefox 3.0+. Simply click on an image, hold down the mouse, and begin dragging it toward the search box. You should see a blue box appear, and then you can drop the image into that box.”
Are you concerned about your banner ads?Should you put ant nofollow?As a SEO consultant we know, that we can restrict Google bot to block the specific ads portion,to reduce unnecessary penalty.But for a common people , it’s a valid question.
Here is Matt Cutts answer on this,hope it will help you guys!
Finally Google took a strong step against terrible spamming from .co.cc domains.Personally I am tired of getting unlimited spam comments and message’s from those domain’s.This news published on every where like on Seoroundable,webmaster world and other forums as well.
Matt Cutts point on Google Plus that “This is not a new webspam policy. Other parts of Google do similar things. For example, http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html talks about “bulk subdomain providers” (treat it as the same thing as a freehost) and they mention “To help protect users we recently modified those [malware scanning] systems to identify bulk subdomain services which are being abused. In some severe cases our systems may now flag the whole bulk domain.”
We would be more happy if Google act more strongly to avoid such stupid spam technique’s.
If you are going to launch your new website/blog, then you should know the basic process that how Google find your website.We all know link popularity,xml sitemap or directly add your website to Google is simple process to get indexed by the Google.
Here are the simple steps,how Google can discover your website:
This morning I read some post on Google webmaster central found about two interesting cartoon’s from DILBERT.COM , I think you people love to watch this true facts about black hat seo:
On Webmaster Central Channel on YouTube ,Matt Cutts answer one question which is:
“Why do Amazon.com pages tend to rank well for product queries?Search for a physical product usually ranks Amazon #1, even though it may not provide the best user experience. What is being done to prevent large corporations from dominating search engine results? Steve K, Pennsylvania”
Here is Matt Cutts Answer:
According to my practical experience’s domain authority,link popularity,end user satisfaction(including review,social metrics) are key determinant’s for successful product page on Google search.
Google start’s supporting canonical supporting HTTP header’s.Google made the change’s according to the webmaster’s feedback.The HTTP header’s syntax is described in details here:section 5 of IETF RFC 5988.
On a WebmasterCentral Blogpost Pierre Far, Webmaster Trends Analyst, notified this enhanced addition.He wrote”
To see the rel=”canonical” HTTP header in action, let’s look at the scenario of a website offering a white paper both as an HTML page and as a downloadable PDF alternative, under these two URLs:
http://www.example.com/white-paper.html
http://www.example.com/white-paper.pdf
In this case, the webmaster can signal to Google that the canonical URL for the PDF download is the HTML document by using a rel=”canonical” HTTP header when the PDF file is requested; for example:
Another common situation in which rel=”canonical” HTTP headers may help is when a website serves the same file from multiple URLs (for example when using a content distribution network) and the webmaster wishes to signal to Google the preferred URL.”
To know more about cannonical link element,watch this video:
