Your favourite website doesn’t offer updates via feeds.So you can’t follow the latest changes in the site.
The Solution:
1.There is popular Page2RSS, that creates RSS feeds for any webpage whenever there’s an update to the page.
2.NowGoogle Reader has also implemented very similar feature that let’s you keep track of the changes in any website as RSS feeds in the reader.
How To Do This?
Open Google Reader and click “Add Subscription” just enter the URL of the website (or webpage) that you want to keep track.Google Reader will automatically generate the feed for it (if it can’t detect any RSS feed).
That’s it, you can now see the changes/ updates of that website in your Google reader feed items.
For some sample feeds generated through this, read this post from Google reader blog.
Webmasters should always be conscious about the comments that they get in their sites.Spam comments in any form would affect his own website probably more that what he might have expected and sometimes even may get injected with spam content inside the website domain (read this example).
Webmasters are the responsible for comments on their site and sometimes comments also are considered as the site content.Spammers might leave their site links in the comments which may contain malware or other disgusting content that may be annoying to the typical reader of your site.This is particularly too for blogs.Thankfully, there are plugins like WP-SpamFree (my favourite).
I have come across another possible solution to this comment spamming problem when I came across this post from Google webmaster blog.
Using reCAPTCHA
CAPTCHA, (short name for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a technology that allows us to make sure only humans can post comments or interact with other features of your website.
reCAPTCHA, is a free service owned by Google allows you to use CAPTCHA technology on your site for free.Just signup for reCAPTCHA, get an API key and use this key to setup reCAPTCHA on your site.If you are using WordPress, just install this WordPress CAPTCHA plugin and configure reCAPTCHA for your blog with your API key.
reCAPTCHA Email Protection (Mail hide):
reCAPTCHA also offers “Email Protection” for free.It works this way:
You may have to reveal your email address somewhere on the web and then the spammers through automated programs try to get access to your email and bombard your inbox with loads of spam mails.
When you use reCAPTCHA Email Protection enabled for your email, you email address will be shown fully only to users who enter the code through CAPTCHA, others will see it hidden like this one for example:
Google has just announced a new “recrawl” feature in Google News that sends Google newsbot to visit the publisher sites more often than ever.
What does this mean?
This means that if a news publisher site publishes a new article in a day and later corrects the article for any mistakes,typos, incorrect references, wrong headline or even if publisher updates the URL, Google news will make sure that it includes the most recent version of the article in its news section.
From the moment we discover a new article, we’ll keep revisiting it looking for changes. Since we’ve noticed that most changes to articles occur just after they’re published, we revisit articles most frequently in the first day after we’ve found them. In some cases, we’ll even revisit articles we had trouble crawling the first time around. After that, we visit them less often.
The readers will no longer see broken links or outdated headlines, broken links in the news section.Publishers would be greatly benefited by this new move as Google newsbot keeps tracking the article almost live.
That’s a very welcoming change in Google news crawling, it would be more useful for bloggers if Google implements such a feature for blogs.
FeedBurner is the service I use for serving RSS feeds of my blog to our readers as most of the others, FeedBurner being the most popular feed service in town.One feature that I most like in FeedBurner is its ability to offer RSS feeds via Email to those who have subscribed to the site RSS feeds by entering their email address.
FeedBurner keeps sending your newest posts as emails to the subscribers using your email address as “from” address whenever you add new content to your site.
But how to keep track of the number of users who have subscribed via email to your feeds?
Well, the number that FeedBurner shows in “Subscribers’ list isn’t actually the total no of email subscribers, keep in mind that it also includes those who have subscribed using other RSS readers and news aggregators.
I just dug into this to know how to find the real number of email subscribers of my blog feeds.
Thankfully FeedBurner does show this number but this may not appear to common FeedBurner users like me at first sight.Ok, let me show you where in the world you find this number.
Click ‘”Email Subscriptions” link under “Services’ menu
Find “Subscription Management” link under this menu
Under Subscriber Management section, you can see the “Total Subscribers”.Now this is the number we wanted, this is the actual number of email subscribers of your feeds.
You can also search your subscribers list or you may export your subscribers list as CSV (Comma-Separated Values) file.
If you liked this post and want to follow more posts from our blog, just enter your email address to get updates directly to your mail box.
Google India has just struck a nice deal with Indian Premier League (IPL) organizers that would enable to stream the IPL season 3 cricket matches live from it’s video-sharing site YouTube.
Google now holds the exclusive online rights of the IPL matches for two years.All the matches would be broadcasted with a delay of 5 minutes from the original live feed.
With around 60 matches to be played, the tournament would be starting from March 12, 2010 and will run till April 25, 2010 in India.
It’s probably the first time that Google is broadcasting a live sporting event.However IPL fans in USA may just have to stick to other unofficial live streaming sites as they wouldn’t be able to watch this coverage from YouTube.
BTW, the coverage also includes match highlights, interview of the man-of-the match player for that day, all wickets, top sixes of the match,award ceremony, pitch report etc.
Google Webmaster central has today announced that it’s going to conduct a fun and educational quiz for the interested webmasters.The quiz consists of 40 basic questions on topics that every single webmaster should know for successful SEO.
Of course, some questions and answers seem funny, ultimately it’s fun answering those questions.
Quiz will be open till Wednesday, January 27 at 5PM PST.Go take the quiz and If you get them right, as kept in as am options for one of those question, Do the Google dance.Answers to the questions in the quiz will be posted in the Webmaster Central blog after Jan 27.What more? if you are the top scorer of the quiz, your username will be posted in the Google Webmaster Central blog post.That’s lot of free publicity !!
I got the idea of posting this post after seeing a funny picture of Google suggestions for Twitter at this page.I wanted to know what these search engines think about themselves (or at least suggest us), that would the next funniest thing to know.I went ahead using "Search Suggestions’ feature that all the major search engines launched sometime back, and took the screen shots of the major 3 search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo..GBY, the great 🙂
Orkut has launched another new feature called “Auto-Magic Groups”.
Auto-Magic Groups automatically suggests friend groups (to filter updates) and suggests labels for them too.Just like friend suggestions that are coming in Orkut off late, you can either accept the suggestions or you may just ignore them.
As you can see in the below screen shot, a link called “edit groups” will appear at the right corner of the ‘Friend updates’ tab.If you click ‘edit groups’ link, it will open all existing groups (that you have created) plus new groups suggested by orkut.You can further customize them from there.
This is what Orkut engineers have to say about this new feature in orkut blog.
This new feature makes it easy to filter your friends’ updates based on relevant groups, right on your orkut homepage, so now you can easily see only the updates from a specific group of people at a time. Try it out by selecting a group from the "groups" drop-down menu on your homepage!
This feature I guess initially available to few selected users and will soon be rolled out for all.
Google has announced the launch of “Browser Size” (@ http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/), the newest of Google labs features that lets you see your website using standard view as it appears to the typical visitor of your website.
It depicts the most visible parts of your website and the part of the website which doesn’t strike to the visitor at the first sight and that requiring a scroll of the page to bring it visible to the visitor.
Just visit Browser Size page, and key in your website URL, to check the visibility of your website/ webpage.It produces lines of different bands of colours for different visibility percentages.For instance if your support website has a button (call for action scenario) “Donate” that falls in the 80% band, it means that 20% of your visitors can’t find it at first sight and they are forced to scroll down to see that button.
The above is a screen shot of the Browser Size tool test for techrena.net.You can test the results with choosing different opacity.The percentages here refer to the visitors coming to Google, like the “90%” contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger.
Google today has announced that it has officially added Google Fast Flip to Google news homepage.Fast Flip, the article-reading service which was launched in September 2009 is still in Google Labs though. You can find Fast Flip at the bottom of the Google News Homepage (U.S).
Fast Flip grabs the screen shots of the newest articles from the popular news papers, magazines, blogs etc. (total news sources at present 90).Google decided to add this feature based upon the positive feedback that it got from the users (??).
We’ve found that the speed and visual nature of the service encourages readers to look at many articles and, for the ones that catch their interest, click through to the story publishers’ websites.
Currently Fast Flip service in Google News is available only in the U.S. English version.
Google India has just struck a nice deal with 
