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Googlebot for Smartphone

Accompanying the trend of increasing sales of smart phones, a number of websites have recently started providing content specifically designed to be accessed on smart phones. Googlebot-Mobile have now a initiated crawling smart phone user-agent in addition to its previous feature phone user-agent. The idea behind this is primarily to increase smart phone content and [...]

Google Search: GET or POST

With time Google keeps on updating its crawling and indexing capabilities. For instance Google have recently improved its indexing of flash and come out with a very robust Infrastructure called caffeine. With increase in usage of JavaScript and AJAX it has been noticed that more and more pages require POST request. This may be either [...]

Google Analytics Update

Google Analytics has recently released an update. Based on feedback from search queries data from Google webmaster tools, Google have added these reports in the traffic source section. a) Queries: impressions, clicks, position, and CTR info for the top 1,000 daily queries b) Landing Pages: impressions, clicks, position, and CTR info for the top 1,000 [...]

Site Health

Webmasters are typically very busy people. With dozens of website to manage, they have no time to waste. So to help out busy webmasters, Google webmaster has come up with a new idea to represent “site health”. The newly designed homepage of the webmasters tool allows you to see the site’s health immediately. Without even [...]

Website Reconsideration

A live website must be submitted to Google before it starts appearing on Google search results. However, a website may not appear in Google search even after submission or it may suddenly start ranking lower in spite of not violating any Google webmaster guidelines. This situation can make a webmaster nervous. The next step for [...]

Clouds and the Mobile World

In the past you used to have to send files by email or save your work on flash drives when you moved from one computer to another. This is no longer the case today as you can access your data from the clouds on computers and mobile phones anywhere in the world. With cloud computing, [...]

The End of the Road for Flash?

Adobe Flash is a popular multimedia authoring platform and Adobe Flash Player is a proprietary multimedia player created by Macromedia/Adobe Systems that is frequently added to a web browser as a plug in app for playing Flash-based animation, movies and games. Traditionally Flash has been an integral part of rich web designing. A website designed [...]

Alphabet Soup of Online Marketing

Internet marketing is full of acronyms and new ones keeping up quite regularly. Lets just start by clearing up the alphabet soup of Online Marketing. Here are some common acronyms. Online Marketing = Internet Marketing SEM : Search Engine Marketing SMM: Social Media Marketing SEO: Search Engine Optimization PPC : Pay Per Click SEM: Search [...]