After the peaceful launch, Google Chrome is slowly grabbing the internet market, regardless those Beta version issues so far reported. On today (09th September, 2008) the published stats as per GetClicky, Google Chrome stands at the Fourth position with 2.618 % of the marketshare – data from over 45,000 unique web sites.
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A great event happened without much noises. They didn’t celebrate a Download Day or even force an email invite as they did in past. They don’t even own the domain name of their Product. Google has launched their first and most awaited browser, Google Chrome (BETA) today. I’ve downloaded and installed it in my notebook. It looks simple and feels simple as any other Google products.
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Time to Remove your Adsense Referrals Code
Last June, there was an official announcement from Google Adsense team:
‘We are retiring adsense referrals’.
“…we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August.â€
AdSense Referrals will be retired at the end of August 2008. Please remember to remove any remaining referral ad code from your pages before the end of the month, and don’t forget to check out our FAQs for more information.
The time has arrived. Remove your Adsense referral code from your websites and stop wondering why you are seeing just a blank space.
Most of the time I have seen companies start adwords campaigns and leave it as it is. They invest a lot of time, money and effort for setting up campaigns and that’s it. A few understands the importance of Quality Score and achieve top positions with a lower CPC. The rest, continue paying higher CPC for the position below the smart advertiser. Post launch campaign management is very crucial in Google Adwords, especially now, as Google Adwords team has introduced more realistic Quality Score calculation this week.
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From last one week I was trying hard to learn Magento – an ecommerce platform for shopping cart websites. Not the development side but how flexible it with respect to SEO. They got a forum but at this stage there is not much under the search engine optimization section.
Lot of developers support Magento as it allows more flexibility and clean code compared to any other ecommerce platforms. No wonder we see hundreds of websites already been developed and gone live, within just 6 Months Magento get launched.
Blogs create communities. They are grown up from being personal notes to a strong open platform for collective thoughts, a communication channel, or a medium for collective expressions. None ask your ethnicity, color, not even your real name. You can communicate with hundred other bloggers online, just what you blog and how authentic you are on the subject matters.
I daily contact many, only I know their nick names. IM, mails, phone and more to make you comfort virtually, it’s rare to get a chance to meet face-to-face. That makes any conferences precious by itself.
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You have a website. Money and effort has been invested in design, you’ve added content, it’s popular. You are still working hard to improve performance. Ever tried to measure it?
You might have tried but were scared off by different metrics and reports staring at you, confusing conclusions?
You have an answer now, ‘Bounce Rate’.
Definition for Bounce Rate: The percentage of single page visits. Or in detailed, percentage of web site visitors left from the entry pages itself without going any deeper into the site.
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It is not always easy to identify the reasons behind poor website performance, as it requires a thorough website analysis based on various factors. An SEO expert can carry out this analysis for a fee, but there are some things that you can check yourself using this handy checklist.
I am not claiming this as an ultimate checklist. But if you follow this, you may able to identify at least a couple of errors which might be causing poor performance in search engines. The checklist will also suggest solutions for each of the errors.
Here you go.
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Over the last couple of years, the Analytics industry evolved into a hot spot on the web. After the launch of Google Analytics, the analytics industry exploded amongst world wide web masters. At present, Analytics holds a vital role in inter-department communications and decision makings for all web dependent issues. Individuals as well as corporate giants now have in-house or offshore teams for analyzing their website stats.
You should be using analytics tools to study your visitors and refine your website performance. Let me ask, are you sure you are looking into the right numbers?
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Can you do SEO for just 5 pages of my website? This is one of those interesting query requests I get for proposals from clients. I really get mad explaining why I can’t do that, if you really looking for results. By doing SEO, most of them mean On-Page optimization and the sad part is above 50% among them still believe SEO means editing Meta tags.
I could notice that most of those website owners have bitter experience with their previous SEO and they say, ‘I don’t have much budget this time, so please do 5 pages for now’.
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