Google suggest feature, what does it do?
Yahoo search by default has a keyword suggestion tool which gives the closest match to your query when you type in the Yahoo search Box.
This is a useful tool when you’re not sure of what keyword you need to type-in to get the desired result. You might also have observed that Google doesn’t have this [...]
Free SMS updates with Google SMS channels
February 23, 2009 by Sriraj · 13 Comments
Google SMS channel gives the subscribers latest information from their subscribed channels through SMS. Whats more, its completely free to use.
Users from India Can login to Google SMS channels (and users from other countries, if SMS channels exist just replace the google.co.in with your countries google domain in the Google SMS channels link) and subscribe to [...]
Adsense for domain is now within Adsense
February 18, 2009 by Sriraj · Leave a Comment
Adsense for domain is now included within Adsense. When I logged into my Adsense account today, I saw an Adsense for domain-Get started link along with other Adsense tags like adsense for content, mobile, search and feeds.
This is done as a result of many publishers requesting Adsense to be available for parked domains or under-developed [...]
Gmail is not free
February 12, 2009 by Sriraj · Leave a Comment
The title may be a bit misleading but Gmail is not actually free if you exceed your free storage limit.
I found this today when I looked at my settings.
When I clicked on that link , the following price rates turned up.
Although the rates seem to be pretty low for a Google quality email service, I [...]
Google gram panchayat puraskars
January 7, 2009 by Sriraj · Leave a Comment
Google going a step further now reaches the Gram panchayats in India.Yes,Google has announced the Gram Panchayat puraskar to the best public service done by the panchayats.Currently this puraskar is only offered to gram panchayats of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh only.
Google.org says
The Google.org Gram Panchayat Puraskar recognizes that innovations in governance are happening every day [...]
Google sitemap guidelines
January 7, 2009 by Sriraj · 2 Comments
Ever since Google introduced sitemaps,it set very strict guidelines in the making of a sitemap.
For your sitemap (which ever format it be) to receive no error, always make sure that :
It contains only URL’s of all pages(URL’s for individual images should not be submitted) or list of other sitemaps.
Even if individual image URL’s are submitted [...]
Google version of explaining robots.txt timeout sitemap error
January 6, 2009 by Sriraj · Leave a Comment
In one of my previous posts I described what could be the cause for the above problem.
Now Google has its own definition for this. Whenever Googlebot crawls a site it first looks for the robots.txt file to get the information about the blocked URL’s.
If your server was down at that instant, Googlebot just defers (postpones) [...]
Google India introduces voice search for Delhi, Hyderabad users
No wonder Google has introduced a voice search in India, after its ‘well accepted’ WAP search using India mobile phones.
They always want to take it to a new level. Although this is a pilot project being experimented in Delhi and Hyderabad, there is no doubt that Google is gonna implement this across the country in coming [...]
Sitemap.xml error URL timeout:robots.txt timeout
I recently came across this error when I logged onto my webmaster tools.I searched the web to find out the solution and finally I did solve the problem.
But how?
Some say this is a Google bot’s bug
Some say there is a problem from your webhost who are blocking Googlebot using a firewall.
While you can’t do much [...]
Never put your keywords in a hidden text
In one of my previous posts I described how few bloggers manipulate the keywords in title and permalink.That,to an extent is ok.But putting you keywords in hidden text can degrade your ranking in Google’s index.You should be able to present your article to both your readers and the searchbots in the same way.But since you [...]
