Goodbye Alexa : Google Trends for websites is here!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Earlier, every now and then I would go to Alexa to see my ranking to massage my ego. Now, Google has come up with a reality check - Google Trends for websites. Google announced a new layer to Google Trends in an official blogpost. Matt Cutts and Barry Schwartz also blogged ...

Me won Google schwag!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

On last week's Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz, Barry Schwartz of seroundtable.com said he would is expecting schwag from a few companies, and he ran a video contest. The contest was to predict which companies schwag would arrive first. The correct entries would get the schwag as a prize. ...

Secrets of Google News…What I learnt the hard way!

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Just now I noticed an interesting post from seroundtable on my feed-reader and it immediately caught my attention. Nice to hear things directly from the horses mouth, most of them are what I assumed. searchengineland also posted some comments on this issue. Having an image next to your article improves your ...

Google Webmaster tools now on iGoogle homepage!

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Just noticed a new feature on Google webmaster tools. Now we can get important information directly on iGoogle homepage. Adding this gadget is very easy. Simply log in to webmaster tools and under tools there is a new option called Gadgets. Thank you Google and keep coming up with cool ...

SEOs Dance with Google - Tuesday 26th Feburary 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Yesterday was Google Dance day and the SEOs are perhaps still dancing today (Tuesday in US). Some say that page rank is useless, but i tend to believe it has some relevance. At least it is an indicative of the link authority of the site. First noticed it yesterday evening(early a.m. ...

Google Adsense text ads in Youtube’s embedded player?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Today while searching for photography tutorials, i landed up on Cameratown's tutorial page. Surprisingly, there was a contextual text ad for "Canon Flash Photography" on it. Wonder if it is a new phenomenon, searching on Google would only lead me to articles/posts about the adsense video ad units. Take a ...

How to Negotiate - Tips for Yahoo!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Awesome video reached homepage of digg from 2 separate links!

Google dance day today - How has been the response for you?

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Today I noticed an update in the pageranks of my websites. Most pages going up 1 or 2 ranks. However one news sub-site that I launched on mid-November went up from 0 to 5 at a go! It was 0 till 11th but on 12th January morning (Thai time) I was ...