Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.
Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.
So, the next time we get the question, "I'm new to SEO, how do I improve my site?", we can say, "Well, here's a list of best practices that we use inside Google that you might want to check out."
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Google's SEO Starter Guide
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Free Google Adwords Vouchers
If you live in Australia, France, Sweden, Italy, Japan, United States of America or Singapore you can get a FREE Google Adwords voucher in your currency by following the relevant link below:
- Sign up for AdWords.
- Free $50 dollar Google Adwords voucher (Australia)
- Free Unknown amount of € (Euro’s) Google Adwords voucher (France)
- Free 500 Kronor Google Adwords voucher (Sweden)
- Free € 50 Euros free voucher Google Adwords voucher (Italy)
- Free ¥ 4,000 Yen Google Adwords voucher (Japan)
- Free $25 Google Adwords voucher (Singapore)
- Free Unspecified amount $US of Google Adwords vouchers from iTunes/Google (United States)
Google AdWords is a fast, measurable and cost-effective way to advertise. Using Google’s online tools, you simply write a brief description of your product and service, select a few keywords and indicate how much you’re willing to pay per click.
AdWords is a fast, measurable and cost-effective way to advertise. Using Google’s online tools, you simply write a brief description of your product and service, select a few keywords and indicate how much you’re willingto pay per click. Next thing, your ad is live on www.google.com,and you’re seeing results!
Benefits:
- Reach people actively seeking information on your products and services.
- Target prospects on Google, AOL and other top online destinations.
- It’s fast to arrange and simple to implement. Start getting new customers in minutes.
- It’s cost-effective. Pay only when people click on your ad.
- Maintain total control of your budget. And it’s 100% measurable.
I signed up for AdWords and learn how to use it with the free AUS $50 Google Adwords voucher I received so it was quite useful.
Note: You are not guaranteed to receive a voucher, and if you do get one they are:
Valid only for new Google AdWords customers with self-managed accounts. One promotional credit per customer, and it must be used within 30 days of opening the account.
Note: The above promotional offer may have already expired
Credit : http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/free-google-adwords-voucher/
Monday, June 16, 2008
Google Adwords Coupon Link
Follow the following steps to acquire a $50 coupon:
- You will need a new Adwords account (as the coupon only applies for accounts no older than 14 days). Sign up for AdWords.
- Go to the link below, and register your information according to the account information that you have provided in the step above.
- Allow up to 7 working days for Google to contact you via email. The email will contain a $50 promo code.
This method has been tested, and it works everytime. If you want more than one coupon, you can follow the steps above, and provide a different/unique email, name, address & credit card for each accounts.
Note that Google may require a deposit (for pre-paid billing), OR that you run advertising campaigns for at least US$5 (for post-pay billing). The exact amount depends on your billing currency.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
300 Top Paying Google Adsense Keywords
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student credit cards $23.45
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Debt Consolidation $22.65
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refinance $21.67
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Google Adsense high-paying keywords
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Monday, July 09, 2007
Gooooooooooogle It!
....there's much more to Google than you thought:
With the wealth of information currently available on the Internet, for many web-users, Google has long been the search-engine of choice. But Google is so much more than just a search-engine. For example, did you know that Google runs a shopping site called Froogle? Or that for a small fee, you can have Google experts answer even the most obscure of questions? No? Well read on!
For the Group-Focused
Google groups is a free service that helps groups of people communicate effectively using email and the Web. Not dissimilar to the well-known Yahoo Groups, each group is provided with its own home page hosted by Google. This is a space where members can start new discussions or reply to older topics. Not only does Google Groups offer the most comprehensive archive of postings, including more than 1 billion postings from the Usenet bulletin board service, but it also organizes messages in a much clearer fashion than most of their main rivals, adopting the principle of the three fast Rs: Read faster, Reply faster and Retrieve your messages faster. However, it does lack some of the personalization that some of its competitors offer. For example, it does not offer the option to add photos to your group, nor the opportunity to customize the design and layout of the introductory page. Still only running as a beta-version, however, these features may well be added shortly.
www.groups-beta.google.com
For the Buyer-Focused
Froogle (fru'gal) n. Smart shopping through Google
Froogle is a new service that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online, locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase.
To use Froogle, look for the Froogle Product Search box on the advanced search page or go directly to the Froogle home page. Type in the name of the item you want to find and click on "Froogle Search." Almost instantly, you'll see photos of relevant products, reviews and links to the stores that sell them with the option to compare each store's range. You can also add items to your own or a friend's wish list.
www.google.com/froogle
For the time challenged researcher
Don't have time to find the information you're looking for? Then have one of Google's 500 experienced researchers do the work for you. Ask your question, decide how much you're willing to pay and get your answer by email in 24 hours. You will only be charged for your question if and when an answer is posted to it. And for the more academically inclined, there is also the new Google Scholar, which allows you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
www.answers.google.com/answers
www.scholar.google.com
For the dictionary focused
To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results.
For the link focused
Got a website? Want to know who is linking to you? Then just type link:siteURL eg link:kto.co.jp and all will be revealed!
For the picture focused
Picasa helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open the program, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Editing your photos is made simple too. With one click you can crop, remove red eye and fix the contrast and color. And Picasa makes it easy to share your pictures, automatically resizing and attaching images to email messages at sizes your friends will be able to open.
www.picasa.com
For the wireless mobile focused
Google mobile lets you search and view the Web on your mobile phone taking HTML pages normally viewed on a computer and translating them so that you can see them when you're on the go. To get started, simply type in your search query, and Google will return the most relevant results in a format your phone understands.
www.google.com/jsky
www.google.com/imode
For the email focused
Although still in beta. Google's new web email service Gmail, offering users a massive 1gb of storage space, has already caused a storm. MSN Hotmail gives 250 mb to free users and Yahoo! Mail 100mb, both of which were increased when Gmail was announced. With its search engine backbone, any mail sent or received can be quickly found, meaning there's no need to file messages in order to find them again.
Using an innovative "conversations" view of email threads, entire threads can be viewed in the Inbox rather than just isolated, scattered messages. Another attraction for heavy e-mail users is that instead of folders, Gmail uses labels to help categorize mail. Working on the principle of 'search don't sort', users can apply multiple labels to the same piece of mail, making it a far more flexible method than folders. Adding file attachments to messages is also easy and each message has a 10MB attachment limit (again, more than most other mail services).
As a beta release there a number of drawbacks however. The address book lacks the sophistication of some other services (eg Yahoo's address book) and Google scans your messages serving up targeted ads based on their content, which may alarm some users concerned about privacy. It also lacks the ability to create HTML mail (although you can read it) and there is no virus filter, however it does block certain file (eg .EXE) extensions and a fully fledged virus scanning solution is planned.
Perhaps the biggest drawback though is that to use it you need to be invited by another Gmail user who has earned the right to bring in others. At present, the company won't divulge details on when-or even if-Gmail will be made more widely available. In the meantime, check out Isnoop where you can pick up an invite from an available pool, though you may need to be patient.
http://gmail.google.com
http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php
Google Desktop
And finally wouldn't it be great if you could search your desktop as easily as you do on Google to find your email, files, web history and chats instantly. Download Google Desktop and you can!
http://desktop.google.com/
Friday, July 06, 2007
Google Catalogs - Old Gashioned Mail Order Meets High Tech Search
In addition to Google's Froogle shopping service (still in beta), which features a searchable database of online merchants, Google is also beta-testing their Google Catalog service. Google Catalogs provides a searchable central repository of hundreds of mail-order catalogs.
The service includes the full scanned contents of the catalogs, not just a photo and subscription information. And these aren't database entries, but real high-quality images of the catalog images themselves. When you are browsing Google Catalog search results, you will see user interface controls at the top and bottom of each page. These are reminiscent of Acrobat and many other browser plug-in controls or common Windows print preview controls, and you can page through each catalog, zoom in/out, switch between one, two, and thumbnail views, jump to a specific page, and search within the current catalog. As with other Google searches, an advanced search feature is also available.
Available catalogs cover a full range of goods from business to consumer, from household names like Harriet Carter to obscure supply catalogs for specialty manufacturers. For easy online shopping, even the order forms, toll-free numbers, and vendor web sites are easily accessible. While beta testing, many of the catalogs are from one to three years old, but that's to be expected. When fully released, this service will almost surely feature not only current catalogs, but a lot more of them, as merchants become aware of the service.
Google recommends using a broadband internet connection to search their Google Catalog service. This is because all search results include images of the catalog pages themselves, and download speed over dialup will be too slow for most users. Google states that they aren't associated with the catalog merchants in any way, and receive no compensation when you buy something from an included catalog.
