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Google India Search Quality Team Wants To Review Your Website !!

January 8, 2010January 6, 2010 by bharath

Google India Search Quality team has called for a very interesting campaign called Google India Site Clinic, this is a real chance for webmasters to get their site assessed by Google Pros.

According to the campaign plan, interested webmasters can submit their websites to the Google Site Clinic.The Search Quality team will analyze the websites submitted and will provide advice on improving the accessibility and other factors that will in turn affect the visibility of your website in Google search results.

The Requirements:

If you are the owner of the website that you want to submit to Test Clinic, you must first have a verified Google Webmaster tools account associated with your site(If you haven’t yet, get an account from this page)

The website to be submitted must be in accordance with the Webmaster quality guidelines.

The Dates:

The Site Clinic will accept websites for analysis from Jan 6, 2010 to Jan 20, 2010.

The Benefits:

You get a chance to get your website reviewed and hear suggestions right from the Google employees.After all who else can give you better suggestions to make your website more Google friendly than the ‘big G’ guys??
If your website is worth for showing other sites to follow, your site may feature as an example in the future posts of Google India blog under Site Clinic campaign.

The Procedure:

To submit your website for Site Clinic, just fill out this Google Docs form.

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Google Doodle For Newton B’Day

January 4, 2010 by bharath

Google is celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday this time with and animated Doodle on its homepage, something that is very rare, as we don’t see animated Doodles on Google usually (this might be the first such thing, according to Amit )

Anyway, that’s a great work which reminds us of the Newton-Apple story quickly into our minds.It’s 366th birthday anniversary of the genius.

BTW, if you observe, this animation is via just a JavaScript stuff, folks.

Go visit Google homepage now.

Google Nexus One Coming This Jan 5 (2010)

December 30, 2009 by bharath

"Android Press Conference" which is scheduled to be held on January 5, 2010 in Google’s Head Quarters, Mountain View, CA might feature the release of Google’s Nexus One phone.

The scanned copies of the innovation for this event are making rounds in the internet one.(check out a copy in this Gizmodo post)

The Text of the invitation:

With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation.And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.

Google Nexus One pic

The last line “just the beginning of what’s possible” might just give us a hint about what the Android conference is going to reveal to the world, most likely the Launch of Google Nexus One officially?

There is some leaked information about what the price of this device going to be,

Nexus One Phone Unlocked – $529.99 (Rs. 25000 INR aprrox)

Nexus One Phone + T-Mobile 2 Year Contract — $179.99

Image:Gizmodo

I’m Feeling Lucky Now Shows Countdown to 2010

December 26, 2009 by bharath

Yesterday I just opened Google as I usually do but I hit ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button without actually entering any search term in the search box.

And I observed something different at the bottom of the page.It’s actually a countdown.

As you can see it is showing 465198 seconds to 2010, Jan 1st as of the time this post being published.You can use Google Calculator (via search) to convert this into hours.

google calculator seconds to hours

WebPage In Search Result Even After Disallowing in Robots.txt ? Read This

November 10, 2009November 10, 2009 by bharath

The Problem: I have disallowed one of my WebPages in my robots.txt file, and it’s still appearing in search result. What’s the deal ??

Have you blocked any of your webpage/sub-folder of your website using robots.txt, and still wonder why it is showing up in search results? If so, read on..

This is the most common complaints from many webmasters and fortunately we have an answer from Google Webmaster Guru Matt Cutts,

Let me take an example to show you how this can happen.Take robots.txt of the Google.com itself.

It’s located in google.com/robots.txt , you can find many entries in that file which are part of the Google and blocked by Google itself.Let’s pick any one of them at random, here I’ve picked up

google.com/m/trends

For some reasons Google has blocked this URL from being crawled by search engines.So if you search for google.com/m/trends, you’ll probably see something like this in the snippet of the search results :

example-google trends robots txt blocked

Sometimes you’ll find similar results for your sites too and may not be sure why is that URL is showing up in results? in general, something like this:

search snippet after robots txt block

According to Matt Cutts, this URL is not the indexed one.It’s just showing a link that Google finds it may be of some use to the search users.

So even if you have disallowed a URL in robots.txt, if someone links to it Google still may consider it of some value to the users and may show it up in results even though it hasn’t really crawled it.Sometimes it may even take up the description snippet from places like Open Directory project if that is listed there.

“If you truly don’t want that page to be in the search results, use ‘Noindex’ HTML meta tag at the top of the page.Another options is to use the URL Removal Tool from Google Webmaster tools.”

Watch this video for more details:

So the next time if you see any such URL blocked in robots.txt being shown up in search results, you need not worry, you may want to try the above said alternatives instead.

Special thanks to Matt Cutts and Google for letting us know about this.

Google Analytics Desktop Client Trakkboard

January 20, 2010November 8, 2009 by bharath

Google Analytics is a great data management that everyone must use for their website, isn’t it? Not a big deal if you just have one or 2 websites.But these are people getting compromised with just having gone or two sites? Not really, right. But how to manage all analytics of those sites at one place? Luckily, there is a much simpler solution in town.

Trakkboard is a desktop application that draws data across different Google Analytics logins and different Google Analytics profiles to display top level metrics all within the same view.

Built using the Google Analytics API, this application works based on Adobe AIR platform.So you must have first installed Adobe Air package first in your PC.

Pre-canned report widgets display the data from the API.What’s more interesting is that this widget can pull data from API every hour.

How to get Trakkboard?

Enter Trakkboard site,

Enter your email and select accept GTC and click “request key”

Trakkboard registration email

The key will be delivered to your email.

Open your mail and verify your registration, and download and install the Trakkboard application

After installing, you must complete the next 3 steps

enter your license key that has been mailed to you.
choose a password for the application
fill in your Google account details associated with Analytics in the step 3

That’s it, add your various Analytics profiles and use it straightaway.

Have you tried it already? leave your comment

Note: Trakkboard is also available in German and Spanish

Google Dashboard Launched

November 5, 2009November 5, 2009 by bharath

Google has today launched the “Google Dashboard” which consists of summary of the all the Google products that a the user is using.

[ Visit http://www.google.com/dashboard/ to check your own Google dashboard.]

google accounts dashboard

Alma Whitten, adds in a post in the official Google blog,

In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings.

[Dashboards are very common right? like WordPress dashboard, Blogger dashboard etc. it’s much like a control panel for your own data.]

Google Dashboard has been built to offer greater transparency and control over the users own data, according to Google.

At present Dashboard includes more than 20 Google products like Gmail (last sent mail, received mail, last chat conversation etc.) ,Docs, Web Search History, Orkut (Last scrap received, Scraps To Friends, Albums shared), YouTube, Calendar, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude etc.

Google claims to be the first internet company to offer something like this Dashboard to let the user have all his data at one place for a quick review.

Google Dashboard Link in Manage Profile

Watch Google Dashboard introduction video :

Watch Google Dashboard Video

Today’s Google Doodle Galli Galli Sim Sim

November 4, 2009 by bharath

It’s 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street [American educational children’s television series ] today and Google reminds it’s worldwide search users of the same.Regular Google’s doodle has been replaced with different styles using characters of the Sesame Street

Sesame Street has also been adopted to Indian televisions as Galli Galli Sim Sim in Feb 2006.

40th Anniversary of Sesame Street

[Characters: Boombah, Chamki ]

Google doodle

[ Big Bird from Sesame Street]