There is always a competition to be ahead and be on the top. Other than writing the useful and informative content, there are other things which should be considered for the promotion of blog, and they are listed as follows 10 ways to promote your blog The first and the foremost thing which comes into play for blog promotion is getting one way links for your website and to do that the following are the best ways 1) Directory Submission (DS) DS is one of the most trusted and the best way to gather one way links to your weblog. You just have to figure out your niche and submit your blog into. It sometimes takes time for your weblog to be listed in the blog directory, but its ok when it comes to provide result, and in this case it means one way link to your weblog. You can also consider the list of top blog directories for the blog submission. I won't mind going for some paid blog submission also. 2) Article Syndication (AS) AS is another good technique for blog promotion, all you n

Last week Google launched a new functionality for the web search result by providing a deeper access to the precise location of the page on the website. The normal trend for the web search result page was a Title, Description and the display URL (which normally speaks about the destination page). Now Google has provided more detailed access to some of the web search results, where it will also display the navigation hierarchy for the destination web page. The new display URL (which you can see green in color), now provides more valuable context and new navigation options. The image below shows the Google web search result for "chicken fry", which shows the host (main website) and hierarchy (which shows the other related navigational sections on the website) Image 1 Site Hierarchy Conclusion The new site hierarchy feature is really a nice option for the users to navigate/search for the particular information in a easy and a fast way. The display URL is offering not only the ho

Google launched some convenient, simple and extremely useful features to its translation product, Google Translate . Google Translate will from now on show the following three additional features, Translate Instantly Read & Write in any language Text to speech Image - 1 Google Translate All these features enhance the functionality of Google Translate, and makes it convenient and simple for the users to have fun with it. If you haven't tried it yet, then go ahead and check it out now!

Google has added another feather to it's Image search results, by adding a functionality to cluster the similar images into representative groups with exploratory interface. Example I did a search on Image Swirl for [statue of liberty], wherein I got 12 image thumbnail as shown below Image - 1 Google Image Swirl for Statue of Liberty You can find the group of images you are interested, and then you can click on the thumbnail and and a cluster of images will "swirl" into view. The below image shows the same Image - 2 Cluster of Image Swirl into view You can go ahead and further get into sub groups and sub-sub groups within any cluster. The sturcture is similar with the Google search - Wonder Wheel. It's still an experimental feature which is currently available in Google Labs. Not satisfied with the result or you were looking for something specific, Google is always ready to accept the feedback . Go ahead and explore the features.

YouTube is one of the best video social networking site on the internet. It typically used to show the videos with it's maximum output of 720p. But now YouTube is going ahead to provide the 'High-Definition' videos, i.e., 1080p in full resolution. This feature will be availabe next week, and the users will have a choice for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p. The high resolution which are already submitted will be recoded by YouTube and displayed accordingly

It's been 5years since the Gmail was launched and it came with the initial offering every user at 1GB of online storage space. Currently, Gmail offers more than 7GB of space to it's users without any charge. Now with the demands of users increasing day by day, Google is now offering a whooping 20GB online space with a little price of $5 for one year. This online storage space not only can be utilized with Gmail but with the Picasa Web Albums also. To be honest that's enough space for storing more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera. In case your need exceeds the storage capacity, you can further go ahead and can purchase up to 16 terabytes! You can visit PurchaseStorage to see all the plans and to buy more storage. So don't wait or think about storing the data online, go ahead and save as much as you can. Useful Link More extra storage for less

Google acquired the internet based calling company - Gizmo5 . Gizmo5 used to provide internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. Currently, the new user signup has been suspended and will return when it is re-launch. GoogleVoice has not launched any new feature to Gizmo5, or at least they have not announced it yet. The existing users will be able to use the service, with an exception of not able to sign up for a call-in number. Google aims to provide a continued improved performance to it's users. Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to continue improving the Google Voice and Gizmo5 experience.

Google currently launched a special functionality to its search results to avoid the sexually explicit websites and images from your search results. It provides you with the choice to keep the adult content out of the search results. While the Google SafeSearch option allows not to have adult sites included in search results, but it's not 100% accurate. To overcome this Google has now launched an option which completely removes the explicit content from your search results, and that is ' Locking SafeSearch ' When you lock SafeSearch, there will be two changes, You require to login by entering your password, in order to change the setting, and Google search results page will be visibly different (it will show colored balls) to indicate that SafeSearch is locked. Even from across the room, the colored balls give parents and teachers a clear visual cue that SafeSearch is still locked. And if you don't see them, it's quick and easy to verify and re-lock SafeSearch. Use

In my previous post about Google's New Search Engine Index Caffeine , I did mentioned that Google is working on it's new search engine indexing formula, through which Google would be able to focus on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. And now Google Caffeine is about to show it's real results, and is expected to arrive in next month. As in the post by Matt Cutts, one of Google's Engineer - Expect Caffeine after the holidays , the Google Caffeine will be made live at one data center, which will allow only a small percentage to users to be benefited by this technology. The full roll out is expected only after the holidays are over. Meanwhile you can provide your valuable feedback to Google

LinkedIn recently announced the smart integration through which you can sync your Twitter account with LinkedIn and allow the status updates via Twitter to be displayed on the LinkedIn profile page and your status updates on LinkedIn to the Twitter page. It's like a two way communication between your status updates and tweets. Here is how it works From LinkedIn, you need to check the Twitter box under your Network Updates box on the homepage and follow the process. You can specify the Twitter acount which you would like to sync with your LinkedIn profile. From Twitter, you can select to seen all or some of your tweets back to LinkedIn. In case you select to choose only some of your tweets, you need to add #li or #in to the tweet you want to be displayed on the LinkedIn page. This is really a nice combination for the information to be shared to the respective users. Image Source: Twitter Blog Official Announcement LinkedIn works with Twitter, and vice versa

This is the list of top 13 high-resolution Google wallpapers from Sesame Street characters. Google launched this on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. Google Sesame Street Wallpapers Sesame Street Cookie Monster Sesame Street: Boombah and Chamki Sesame Street: Big Bird Sesame Street: Bert & Ernie Sesame Street: Abigail Sesame Street: Abelardo Montoya Sesame Street: Oscar Sesame Street: Ieniemienie Sesame Street: Kami Sesame Street: Elmo Sesame Street: Count Von Count Sesame Street: Ensemble You might also be interested in Google's other logos for the 40th anniversary celebration of Sesame Street Google logo of Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street Google logo of Cookie Monster from Sesame Street Google logo of Big Bird from Sesame Street Google logo of Oscar The Grouch from Sesame Street Google Logo of Ensemble from Sesame Street Google logo of Count Von Count from Sesame Street

You might also be interested in Google's other logos for the 40th anniversary celebration of Sesame Street Google logo of Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street Google logo of Cookie Monster from Sesame Street Google logo of Big Bird from Sesame Street Google logo of Oscar The Grouch from Sesame Street