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If you have purchased that product on the Internet, please try to remember which site you bought it from and get in touch with them for refunds. You should also inform to the concerned authorities like Interpol and FBI, and your credit card company to stop the recurring charges. These agencies can track the fraud. And please be wise and do not fall prey to such scam which promises free money on autopilot. You can find more information about this Google Success Kit scam here.

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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is an external style sheet which gives flexibility to web designers for styling their content within the html documents. CSS is basically used to separate the layout and style code from the main content of the page. In short, CSS is collection of rules which can help you to control appearance of your web page. CSS websites have many benefits over normal html websites, such as consistency in design, faster loading and ease of maintenance. And, if CSS is properly used, it can also benefit the website in on-page SEO(search engine optimization).

The benefit of using CSS is that all the layout and style is removed from the html file, so the size of html file becomes smaller. The Browser downloads the CSS file just once when the visitor visits the site and it is re-used for all other pages on a web site. The reduced file size helps your website to load fast and also be easily crawled by the search engines. Thus, CSS helps to decrease the code-to-content ratio, can make your entire site easier and more efficient to crawl, leading to more and better indexing of your site’s content.

As maintenance of website becomes easy with CSS, you can concentrate on adding fresher SEO content from time to time and make your website rank well in search engine.

Search Engine bots always give priority for content in the website. Search engine bots visit the site for a short duration; they do not like to go through long design codes to find the content for indexing. Tables and font styling tags which are used for designing, makes HTML code little bit difficult to read and reduces the accuracy of indexed content; whereas, with CSS, your HTML code will become cleaner, which improve your search engine rankings.

Also, with the help of CSS, you can move the elements which are important from search engine’s viewpoint to the top of the HTML file. Moving your important content to the top of the html file will help search engines to find your content and index it properly. For example, with little bit of CSS knowledge, you can change the position of your code for menu or header and make it appear below the main content in your website code, thus giving a boost to your search engine ranking.

Looking at all these points, you can see that use of CSS in website design is definitely useful from SEO point of view.

Technorati Tags: Cascading Style Sheets, CSS, on-page SEO, search engine optimization, search engine rankings, website design, SEO

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Bruce Clay, a top-notch SEO, who has been in the SEO Industry since 1996 - much before Google was founded - was recently interviewed by webpronews to discuss the evolution of search industry over the years.

This is a very interesting video, where Bruce Clay mentions about some key elements a of SEOs that are worth paying attention to, but are missed by many of today’s SEO practitioners.

Bruce says

He says links were not important then and PPC was not nearly as competitive as it is now. In 1996, users would scan many pages of search results, but now they hardly go past page 1. Overall, the entire search industry has become more competitive. This is due to several reasons including the additional options with social media and the fact that searchers have become savvier.

This “evolution” of the industry has brought about improvements, but the downside is that search has become more complex and technical. As search develops, these trends are expected to increase.

Clay also advises the following ways to keep up with search engiene industry :

- Attending SEO/SEM Conferences
- SEO Training
- Following Matt Cutts of Google
- Reading the right blogs on SEO/SEM

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Google recently showed a preview of their new application called Google Wave at the Google I/O Developer conference in San Fransisco. Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the Internet, which would be released later this year.

So what is Google Wave? As per Google

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

In essence, Google Wave is a hybridized email system that has features of instant messaging. To start a wave, two users start what is basically an instant messaging session. This session can be archived as a conversation. Other users can then be invited to join each wave or conversation. Users can embed photos, documents and other multimedia in the stream of conversation. People can join in or leave at any time, and they can track back the conversations using the playback feature.

Will this revolutionary technology from Google change the way we interact on the web? Go, take a preview of Google Wave at Google Wave Official Site and see it for yourself.

Technorati Tags: Google, Google Wave

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There is no doubt that quality backlinks from relevant sites are important for SEO success. If a page has good content, other websites will start linking to it in a natural manner; this is the main hypothesis for including backlinks as part of the search engine ranking algorithms. Thus, a page with better content will naturally have more backlinks, and will rank better. However, in practice, one will have go for other ways of gaining relevant quality backlinks, as a part of his SEO strategy.

Getting listed in web directories, article directories, posting in forums, and blogs are some of the acceptable methods of acquiring quality backlinks. Generally, search engines index forums frequently, so posting in forums is a good way to gain quality backlinks with the anchor text of your choice. While submitting articles to directories can be a time consuming process, it does not require much effort and time to post in forums; however, one has to do his homework and take some precautions in order to be successful using forums for gaining backlinks.

You must do some research before joining any forum. You should join forums that are relevant to the sites you want to get backlinks for. You should only choose forums that are popular and active. Backlinks for high authority forums are very valuable. The number of active members and the Google PageRank of the forum can give you a good idea about its popularity. You should keep your signature short and link it to your main website. You should never create posts that sound like a propaganda or which are irrelevant to the post topic. You should pay attention to the TOS of the forum, or you will risk yourself of getting banned and losing all the backlinks you built.

If you post something which is important or useful to other readers, they will visit the site in your signature. Thus, posting in forums can give a significant traffic to your website, apart from building relevant backlinks. Forums are also good for creating your brand or image – Some of the best bloggers, Internet Marketers and SEOs spend a significant time posting on forums to increase their publicity. SEOs like Aaron Wall became famous through the platform of SEO forums. That is another benefit you may get from forum posting apart from using it for link development strategy.

Technorati Tags: SEO success, search engine ranking, backlinks, SEO strategy, Google PageRank, forum posting

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How to add Description and Keyword metatags to Blogger blogs?

If you are a webmaster or site creator, you have to make sure that the site content reaches your target audience. One way of doing that is by carefully assigning title tags as well as meta descriptions and keywords to your web pages. Meta description tags also improve the chances of your site being found and clicked on in the SERPs.

Though Blogger is a Google product, blogs hosted on blogger do not have support for meta descriptions and keywords by default. If you have ever tried adding keywords or description meta tags to your Blogger pages, you might have seen that there is no easy way of implementing that. Here is a workaround to make changes to your blogger template in order to add description and keyword metatags of your choice to your blogger top page as well as to your posts.

In the Layout panel of your blog, click on Edit HTML.

Click on Download Full Template and save a backup copy of your template. This will come in handy to undo any changes in case the changes do not work as expected

Look for the following code in the template

Add the following code immediately after the code in step #3.

Replace the http://myurl.blogspot.com/ line with the URL of your blog top page.

Replace the word MY DESCRIPTION with a description for your blog top page.

Replace the word MY KEYWORDS with a list of keywords separated by commas, relevant to your blog top page.

You would need to to follow the steps 4 to 7 - for adding corresponding URL’s, descriptions and keywordsfor for all the individual posts from your blog. For example, if your first article is about your visit to New York, you’ll need to as follows.

Add this code again immediately after the

<b:include data=”blog” name=”all-head-content” /> line:

Replace the http://myurl.blogspot.com/ line with http://myurl.blogspot.com/my_visit to_newyork.html.

Replace the word MY DESCRIPTION with description of your visit to New York.

Replace the word MY KEYWORDS with keywords such new york, business visit, usa visit etc.

Please ensure that all the individual posts have titles and descriptions matching the page content. This will help you from preventing your posts to go in Google Sandbox.

Technorati Tags: Blogger blogs, webmaster, Google, keywords

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It is no secret that the title meta-tag is one of the most important factors when it comes to on-page search engine optimization. Search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN give quite a bit of importance to the title and description metatags in their algorithms. What many people, however, do not know that the same title tag could actually hurt your rankings, if you try to change it abruptly with a hope to improve your search engine rankings.

If you are currently ranking well with your page title, you should not risk with changing it to improve your rankings. You may often see your current Google rankings go down with such a change. I myself have experienced negative results when I tried to change the title tag for a site which was already ranking well. In fact, Google slammed the site with a -950 penalty.

Your page title is the main entry gate of search engines. Changing the title meta-tag could easily make your Google rankings fluctuate. If you change your title, Google and other search engines will take some time to reflect rankings for new titles. Especially, it would definitely look suspicious in the eyes of Google and other search engines if you have made the changes in the main title and description tags after a long time.

In short, changing the main title of your site, although it’s already ranking well is not a good idea. Instead of changing the page title to try to have improvements on certain keywords, it is better to work on adding content about those keyword phrases on your page, and add links with appropriate anchor text from sites with relevant content. Google always penalized over-optimization. Now it seems as if it frowns normal search engine optimization too. So the best policy is to optimize the website at the time of creation - Do it once, and do it right !

Technorati Tags: title meta-tag, Google, metatags, search engine rankings, -950 penalty

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Recently there was a rumor on the Internet that there has been a change in Google algorithm which seems to be helping big brands for ranking on major keywords. Matt Cutts, the Head of Search Quality group in Google, confirmed in the following video that the rumor was indeed true, and Google ranking algorithm update named ‘Vince’ is responsible for the sudden boost in rankings for big companies for major keywords.

As Matt Cutts explains in the video, this is not a major Google update, but just one of the over 300 changes which Google carries out a year to enhance the quality of their search results. He further explains that this change does not favor any specific brands, but rather gives a boost in rankings based on relevant criteria such as trust, authority, PageRank or reputation.

Here, you can read the complete transcript of Vince Update.

Technorati Tags: Google, algorithm, ranking, update, Vince, PageRank

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When many Americans are wondering if they could buy a new PC for aound US$100, the Indian government has come up with a new promise of making available a low cost computers at just US$ 10 within the next six months. The main goal of this mission is to take knowledge to every household and help students get information on every subject while sitting at home. Such a computer could be afforderd by most middle-class families in India.

This low cost PC is designed as a small equipment with LAN, expandable memory,  and Wi-Fi facilities. The Indian government also plans to produce e-knowledge database for every subject; students can access this information at no cost.

Technology for these small computers has been developed by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in India. India’s National Mission on Education (IME) and Information Communication Technology (ICT) are sponsoring this project for low-cost computers under the central scheme.

With such developments will India be another Taiwan or Korea, when it comes to Computer Hardware technology? Or, the project would get opposed and delayed like the Nano Car initiative by Tata? Or, would it be a successful one like the Chandrayan - unmanned mission to the moon? Only time will provide the answer.

Source: Yahoo India News

Technorati Tags: India, low cost computer, low cost PC, Taiwan, Chandrayan

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Is Google getting into SEO business? Well, such a move from Google would lead to a potential conflict of interest.  But even Google is telling us that there’s nothing wrong with SEO, and Google’s official Webmaster Central Blog is now formally offering a free “SEO Starter Guide” with practical search engine optimization tips for new webmasters about how to improve their website’s performance in Google.

This search engine optimization guide comes in a  22-page, pdf format. Google uses the same principles inside Google for optimizing its own sites such as YouTube. This starter SEO guide from Google covers dozens of topics such as

• Title tag
• Description Meta Tag
• URL Structure
• Site Navigation
• Content Creation 
• Anchor Text
• Heading Tags (H1, H2, etc.)
• Optimizing Images 
• Effective of Robots.txt
• Rel=”nofollow”
• Website Promotion
• Webmaster Tools
• Web Analytics
• More Helpful Resources

The guide is well written and is aimed at new webmasters and website owners who are looking for basic training in SEO techniques. I feel it is a good guide for newbies, to cover the basics of SEO before they go for more advanced stuff.

Technorati Tags: Google, SEO, free, search engine optimization, guide, training

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