Alexa is Amazon owned website that tracks a website’s traffic history, and gives a ranking based upon the number of visitors using Alexa toolbar, A9 Toolbar and other web tools. 
As blogger John Chow recently mentioned in his argument about Alexa, the main problem with Alexa is its rankings are based on users who have installed the Alexa [...]

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Google AdWords has recently released a new tool for advertisers using Google Adwords to enable them to easily test conversions on varying landing pages, headlines and ad copies. The tool shows advertisers to determine which of their designs gains the most conversions from site visitors. 
Technorati Tags: Google AdWords, landing page

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Many websites use Javascript these days in their code. Javascript can definitely make your web pages more exciting, dynamic and interesting for the user, but it can certainly harm your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts.
Most search engines do not interpret Javascript, and those that do interpret Javascript mainly want to find if your site is using sneaky redirects [...]

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Today I came across an interesting news. Yahoo is creating an Internet Time Capsule to teach the future generations how the world looked in 2006. Yahoo will accept contributions from October 10 to November 8.  Anybody from any part of the world can contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, home movies and art to this giant digital snapshot. [...]

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  The author of Read /Write Web claims that 2007 will be ‘make it or break it’ year for RSS. RSS is already making waves through Yahoo Mail Beta, Google Reader, and MySpace Widget Platform.  Microsoft is expected to release the new version of internet explorer IE7 soon. RSS integrated into IE7 and Outlook 2007 will [...]

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The rumors of YouTube acquisition are finally over, and the winner is Google which really isn’t that big of a surprise. Today Google bought the King of online Video – YouTube for $1.65 Billion in a pure stock transaction throgh an official press release.
Google announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media [...]

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Google has recently announced the facility of pinging Google Blog Search (Google’s search service dedicated to the blogosphere), in order to get Google to re-crawl and re-index your blog after you post new content, so that your brand new posts can be found by someone searching on Blog Search. As people will find your posts faster, you’ll also build traffic faster. That’s [...]

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Google has silently launched a new ‘Search Sandbox’ (not to be confused with Google Sandbox) at SearchMash.com.  The privacy policy and Whois records reveal that the site is owned and operated by Google.  
It appears that Google will test new search engine features such as Ajax URL menus, integrated A9 style image search, and the ability for [...]

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Google reecently announced that their flagship Instant Messenger - Google Talk, is now available for anyone to try. It is no more necessary to have a Gmail account to try Google Talk. All you need is an email address; you can login to Google Talk with any non Google accounts too (of course with some limitations compared to [...]

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It looks like that Google has pressed the dreaded red button of  Pagerank update today. The name Google Dance has often been used to describe the index update of the Google search engine.  The Google search engine pulls its results from thousands of servers which are used by Google for economical reasons. Naturally, an index update cannot [...]

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