Now, Yahoo Glue Pages In India

Glue Pages unite your Classic Search with visual information from the best sites anywhere on the web. Yahoo released a new type of search result for India called “Glue Page.” Instead of the usual text listing, some queries – like Computers – will now trigger a comprehensive and very visual result page. Glue pages are the combination of organic search results with visual images of your query from the best sites anywhere on the web.

The results contain images, videos, articles and more. Searching on Glue Pages Beta will help Users to receive more relevant, visually appealing search results from across the web. The new Glue Pages Beta feature for Yahoo! India Search supports the strategy to make Yahoo the starting point on the Internet and demonstrates commitment to provide a compelling online search experience.

For example a search 'Laptops' returns standard search results on the left, in the middle results with images from ebay and in the end some videos. See the link http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=laptops&rd=r1&fr=

How to get Your Website Crawled Early

The main motive of SEO is to get your website crawled early by Spiders. It is very important that your website should possess some things that tend the crawler to come to your to index it. Below are few tips which would help you to get your website crawled soon by spiders:

• Update your website with more content as regular as you can. Whenever crawler comes to your website, it will show crawler that your website contains something new.
• If search engines don’t see any potential links to your site then Search engines crawl yours site late. So your major concern should be to get good links to your site. More quality links are pointing to your site more search engines faster it crawls your site.
• Host is also a very important point one should take care off. If your website is hosted on slow server the possible that your website will get crawled soon will reduce a lot. So switch your website to a host server which is fast and specific.
• Sitemap on your site is one of the most important things. Create sitemap soon with all your website links located in it and pace that on the server. Sitemap should be at the top of the homepage, so that when your homepage gets crawled your sitemap too gets crawled with all internal page links.

Flash sites are not obstacle for SEO

Flash pages attract visitor easily, as visitors would not have to read anything and they are given everything what they want with flash movie. Another reason for why people are attracted by flash design is that flash pages are very interactive. Flash design push direct traffic to site which ultimately ends up with online sales, so shouldn’t we use flash? Today most of SEO professionals use best techniques for high page ranks in Search Engines, but what exactly client want is ‘SALES’ and Flash help you to get sales.


Most of SEO professionals ask this question: “How can I optimize my Flash website?” It may be surprising that your problem is not with Flash. Reason is that Search engines still lack the ability to extract content from within a Flash file (swf). Because Crawlers are designed to index HTML and still have difficulties reading content from within a Flash file. But there are some points, which must be taken care of:

• Place your content within object tags
• Use keyword descriptive meta tags
• Place your content within no script tags
• Use keyword descriptive title tags

Local Search Engine Marketing

Search engine optimization marketing (SEM) is today’s trend. Everybody is looking to get high ranks on major search engines as it increases online business. Marketing your website by local search engine and directories submission is one of the most way to get found by local customers. Local search engines are called regional search engines, which target audience from particular region.

Local search engines are very successful if you are focusing some particular region for your online business. Its major benefit is very specific and targeted visits which is mostly likely to convert into sales.

Local search engine marketing basically includes:

• Local Search Engine Submissions
  
• Local Directory Submissions
  
• Local Yellow Pages Submissions
  
• Local Classifieds Listing

On-page Optimization: Need to be major area of concern

For crawler or spider, Meta tags are very important. So, from SEO point of view, Meta tags should be in proper order and patterns. On-page optimization means dealing with elements that are in the code. Amongst parts of SEO, title tag is the major element of concern. Here are some points to be taken care of:

• Make your title tag and attractive, and try to use keywords in title.
• Do not make your title keyword-stuffed, as this will display in the search engine listing for your website.
• If you are a well-recognized brand, such as Nokia, your name at the beginning of the page title is good for building trust in your brand.
• If you are not very renowned brand, try to add your name near the end of the title, so that crawler's focus goes to the keywords in your title.

Google Search Box Now for Longer Queries

Have you ever noticed that it’s difficult to edit long queries in search box of Google because Google optimized the size of the box for short queries. But now, scenario has changed. You can search your topics with longer queries too. Now, Google will adjust the size of search box after you enter your query.

Google has expanded the query length limit to 32 words. The average number of words in a Google query was 4 at the end of 2007.

New features of Google

New features of Google : Google has now added a few new features which definitely enhances its multi speciality. Have a quick look at them:

Now Google Earth is also Google News:
Google has now added Google News to Google Earth.

Google News Comes To iPhone:
Google News launched a special interface for the iPhone. To access it, go to http://news.google.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

In addition to it, You can use some more features that make Google complete are:

Everyday Essentials: Some features that we use daily

Weather
Stock Quotes
Time

Choosing Keywords:

Synonym Search
Dictionary Definition
Spell Checker

Search by Number:

Package Tracking
Patent Numbers
Area Code