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A collection of Google Halloween Logos

Happy Halloween to all the readers! BOO.. This post is all about the collection of the Google Halloween logos. This represents my personal list of favorite Google Halloween logos. So what dress you are wearing today!

Google quitely updates the URL structure of search results page

Google updated it's search result page with a minor change. The search result page which initially used to display the Google search result for the respective search query, is now updated with the respective web page URL. To be honest the old structure was not at all user friendly. In order to check the results for the search query, you need to click the Google search link, which use to 301 permanent redirect the result to the website. But now it's easy and can be accessed by placing the cursor on the link and checking the link in the status bar of the browser.

Twitter enrolls a new feature by grouping the users into user generated lists

You might have noticed a little update on your twitter profile. Yes, I am talking about 'Lists'. Your profile page is refelecting the following lists option, Listed - the first one, wherein it displays the people who have listed you in their lists, and Lists - where you have the option to create lists and group the people you follow. Now you have the option to organise the people you follow on Twitter, via your 'Lists'. You can create lists as per your requirement or interest, and can start grouping the people you follow. You can further make your list as 'Private' or 'Public'. Twitter has recently added this feature all with the aim of discovering new and interesting accounts and segregating them from your huge list of the people you follow. The image below displays the lists page, Eventhough the update is small, but it is quite useful and interesting.

The anatomy of a web search page for a search engine

The web search result page is the page where all the queries for our keywords are listed. For people who are new to search engine this post would be of great help. The below is the listed anatomy for the search result page for search engines. GOOGLE web search page anatomy The image below gives an idea for the anatomy of the web-search main page for Google Image-1 show the anatomy of Google search main page The image below gives an idea for the anatomy of the web-search page for Google Image - 2 shows the anatomy of the Google search page

A new feature in Google image search for searching similar images

Google image search is now rich with one more exciting feature with what is know as ' Find Similar Images ' in the image search option. Just to give an illustration for finding similar images, I did a search for 'United Kingdom' in Google Image search and was displayed with the search result. If you observe carefully below every image, you can find a tab named as ' Find Similar Images '. I clicked the tab to find out the similar images about Similar images for - Maps of United Kingdom as shown below , Similar images - 'About United Kingdom' Google, is still enhancing it's find similar search tab; would you be interested in providing your valuable feedback, you can place it directly to Product Ideas for Google Images Reference Link Similar Images graduates from Google Labs

Google social search allows you to search the material written by your friends

Google has now launched a service which provides you to access what the people you care about are searching. A paragraph from Google Blog explaining what Social Search means A lot of people write about New York, so if I do a search for [new york] on Google, my best friend's New York blog probably isn't going to show up on the first page of my results. Probably what I'll find are some well-known and official sites. We've taken steps to improve the relevance of our search results with personalization, but today's launch takes that one step further. With Social Search, Google finds relevant public content from your friends and contacts and highlights it for you at the bottom of your search results. When I do a simple query for [new york], Google Social Search includes my friend's blog on the results page under the heading "Results from people in your social circle for New York." I can also filter my results to see only content from my social circle by cli...

How to get 15 backlinks for your website in 15 minutes

To many of you the title may look spamy, but this is to provide a good resource for getting link backs to your website. Link Building is one of the important step for website promotion and as such getting link back to your site becomes important as having a good content, a good design and proper marketing for your website. Gaining popularity and getting found on the web search results is the main concern for any of the businesses online. As such getting links to the website becomes a necessary tasks. Obtaining backlinks for your website is the most important task, other than optimizing the site. When it comes to obtaining backlinks for your site, it becomes sometimes unstructured and sometimes quite tedious. As such follow the below mentioned points to quickly obtain backlinks for your website. Here you will find the places where you can get 15 link back to your website in almost 15 minutes. 15 Backlinks in the next 15 Minutes 1) Twitter Twitter is the darling of the social networking...

The quick reference guide to deal with duplicate content on your websites

This article highlights the following in serial order Duplicate Content Table Definition Duplicate Content Issue What is not considered as duplicate? How to address duplicate content issue? Google's Parameter Handling tool Reference Links Duplicate Content Duplicate content is a substantial block(s) of content within or across the domain that completely matches the other content or are appreciably similar. Duplicate Content Issue Duplicate content has always been a major issue in the optimization of the website. Search engine spiders always consider fresh content and as such provides the most relevant result for the search query. If there are duplicate articles within the website, then it becomes difficult for the search engines to decide which is the actual article that needs to be displayed for the search query. It makes it difficult for the search engine spiders to crawl and index the content. Moreover, the page rank juice towards the actual article gets shared across the artic...

10 plus free directories where you can get quality links easily

Link Building is one of the key aspects for ranking of the website in the web search along with the various other factors which Google considers for ranking of the website. More about link building and it's aspects can be found in my previous post about the Important aspects of link building , how to obtain quality one way links for your website and the 3 way link building and its importance . If your website is new or you are looking for some quick link building for your website, then here are 10-plus free directories which provide free one way link to your website. Here I go, Jayde URL | Submit Website | Edit Website Jayde is a B2B search engine and one of the oldest business directory, which offers website listing. The submission is almost instantaneous and all the websites, either new or the established ones find the place in the directory. One Mission URL | Submit Website One Mission is a user built directory, which also provides instantaneous acceptance of the website...

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