Search Effectively on Google

Here are a few tips to make your Google search effective. Make use of them when you google. :)

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In-depth Articles Update by Google - An Analysis

Google with it's updates has come harsh against article and PR directories. But it didn't take long for Google to understand that many people use Google for getting information. Google couldn't forget the fact that articles are an important part of search. And hence it has come up with an update - "in-depth articles". Now you can find a section called "In-depth Articles" in the first page of search result for generic queries. But how relevant are those results? Will it serve the way it is intended to be? Is it still in its beta version? Read this analysis done by me to know more.

Read it here...

 Open to comments and suggestions.
http://bit.ly/1bGMaJt

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Content Marketing - Why and How

The only way a webmaster gets to expose the services of his website is through the content on his webpage. Thin content was a norm before but now content has to be unique with rich information. It not only must be attractive but be worthy enough to keep a reader engaged. Quality content is a key to search engine rankings. In this case study, importance is given to Google since 83% of users prefer using Google to other search engines.

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Why my Blog's Home Page Shows Only 1 Post?

Today I thought of sharing a small tip to bloggers. I encountered the problem a few days ago. I wrote a fairly long post with a lot of images, and when I hit "publish", it happened. Just one post in home page! I rechecked my settings. Everything ok. I have set to show 6 posts in homepage. The problem troubled me for a while and I found the solution after a few Google searches and here I'm sharing that.

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How to Use Google's Disavow Tool

Webmasters always suffer from low quality links that point to their site without their knowledge. These low quality links are a kind of spam or may be a result of negative SEO tactics by your competitors and they can harm your site’s ranking in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Hence you should remove unnatural backlinks. Google has announced the Disavow tool to help the webmasters in overcoming this issue and here is the step by step procedure on how to use this tool.

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How to View Local Languages in Opera Mini Mobile Browser

With its simple user interface and highly reduced bandwidth, Opera Mini has evolved into the favorite browser of smartphone users. With more than 50,000,000 downloads in Google Play alone, Opera Mini holds a firm place in the market. 

Smart phone users may have experienced the difficulty in viewing local languages in Opera Mini which shows nothing but an array of boxes while displaying local languages. It irritates us many times, when we see our screen like this. 

We can easily make our Opera Mini Browser to show these languages in just a couple of short and easy steps. So, let's start.

1. Open Opera Mini and in the address bar type "about:config" (without quotes) and tap "go".
2. The below screen comes up. Scroll down till you find "Use bitmap fonts for complex scripts". From the drop down menu select "Yes" and hit "Save".
   
   
   
3. That's it. Enjoy reading your mother tongue from your favorite browser. Your screen will be lile,
   

I hope this small tip might have helped a few of you. Thanks for reading. Keep coming back.:)

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Which is Best - PS4 or Xbox One?

PS4 vs. Xbox One is more of a battle between the top companies- Sony and Microsoft. Sony PlayStation has always managed to overcome the Microsoft Xbox each and every year, with its trendy and user friendly gaming experience.

The two gaming consoles vary in each every perspective, starting with the controller to the internal hardware. Even though both the consoles are associated with the same hardware specifications, they differ in their RAM type. PS4 makes use of DDR5 8GB RAM, whereas Xbox One uses DDR3 8GB RAM. The GPU in PS4 has a performance rate of over 50% better than that of Xbox One. The PS4 has even faster graphic memory than Xbox One, providing a better gaming experience.

Even though both the consoles have revolutionized their controllers and look a lot better than their predecessors, the PS4 controller includes a clickable touch pad, which provides the developer with better options. The major drawback with the Xbox One is that it requires an internet connection to play games and can’t play games offline. Sony has kept it simple as always, and simplicity correlated with excellence is what PS4 is all about. Another major pro benefiting Sony is that it owns the best game developer studios till date.

With both the consoles hitting the market in November, PS4 starts with a price of $399, whereas Xbox One opens with a relatively high price of $499. Xbox series is in its initial stages of development, and paying $499 for something that PS4 did several years ago isn’t going to take you anywhere. With a price $100 cheaper than Xbox One and 40% more power, PS4 clearly has the upper hand over Xbox One.

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Travel Around the World in Just 6 Hours!!!

Is this the time of a completely new mode of transportation? May be. Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies(ET3) may take over all the conventional transport mechanisms in the near future. Scientists claim that this method of transportation is safe, green and affordable to all. This mode of transport is literally space travel on earth and the most amazing part of it is that we can travel around the world in just 6 hours!! Amazing! 

Here are a few points to be noted

• Capsules carrying 6 passengers are accelerated along an evacuated tube.
• This technology can provide 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric trains or cars.
• Speed: Interstate - 600km/hr, International - 6500km/hr.
• The weight of the capsule is just 183kg.
• ET3 is open consortium of licenses and you can contribute to its development too.

The video below describes the technique briefly.

For those who're interested in this, here is a video which explains the concept in detail.

For more information on this technology visit ET3 

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Modern Resume - Your Resume is Just a Click Away

In this fast and modern digital era, conventional methods of presenting your resume gathers very low attention. Here's a completely new way to present your resume. You can print, send as mail, embed or even share your resume in Social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn so that you create more chances of getting hired.

Your resume is presented in a completely as an infographic image so that your potential employer can get a complete look of you in just a glance. 

You can sign in using your LinkedIn credentials. If your LinkedIn profile is complete, your resume preparation gets far more easy.

If you don't have a LinkedIn account, don't worry, you can still signup and create your resume.

Click the link below and sign in to create your resume. 

Create your Resume

Here are a few samples of resumes that are created using Visualize. Have a look at them and get inspired.

Sample 1

Sample 2

Sample 3

So what are you waiting for? Start creating your resume....

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Importance of Content Marketing - Infographics

Here's an infographic image created by me on the importance of Content Marketing.

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Importance of Content Marketing

With the frequent updates in Google's Algorithm, the focus of SEO is shifting towards producing quality content and gaining natural backlinks. Here's a presentation prepared by me showing the importance of content marketing.

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SEO for Beginners - Part 2 - Crawling and Indexing

In Part 1, we have discussed about what is organic search, SERPs, etc. Now here's the important question. How search engines find the web pages? How are they organized?

There are two main process which helps the search engine to find web pages and store them so that it can retrieve the pages when you search for that particular page. They are crawling and indexing.

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SEO for Beginners - Part 1 - The Search

When I told my friends that I'm working in an SEO company, the first question that my friends shot at me is "SEO?!! What's that?". This question is the reason why I'm making this post. I will post the basics of SEO in parts.So, here's the first part.

Well! I kept on repeating the word SEO in the first paragraph. What does it stand for? SEO - Search Engine Optimization. As simple as that. But when you dig it deep, you will find it to be an ever expanding and ever evolving universe.

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Audio Editors - they are great!!!

Music fascinates me always. Even though I'm not a good singer, I love music a lot and it brought me close to these audio editing software. As a beginner, I struggled a lot to pick the best one for me. This experience helped me in drafting this article which is now published in Ezine Articles. Read my article here.

Below are a few songs that are sung by me with the help of Audacity software. Listen to these. Music freaks out there, please forgive me for the injustice I've done to these songs!!

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The First Buck I Earned

We were towards the end of our first week's training. It was a complete fun ride for everyone of us. The new world of SEO started showing its effects on us. We started wondering to ourselves when we used the words optimization, html, header tags, page rank etc. rather involuntarily. Thus we started diving into the deep sea of SEO. 

We were more shocked than surprised when our CEO wanted us to do a Whitepaper on "Digital Marketing Industry Analysis". What is a whitepaper? I seriously had this doubt. I was such a dumbass!! And I had a sigh of relief when our CEO explained what exactly is a whitepaper. And we were all set for drafting our first whitepaper.

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The Evening Ride

It was 6 in the evening. After a long and tiring day at office I was happy to go home. I hurriedly came out of the office just to see a few of my colleagues already waiting for the lift. I had to walk all the way to ground floor by stairs and the bad time continued. My bike was unhappy with me for some reason. I could't start him. I wondered why he is troubling me even after I feed him petrol for 100 Rs. daily. May be he is angry with me for leaving him in the sun.Finally after a few harsh and censored words, and of course with a few brutal kicks he obeyed me.

I plugged in my earphone and played some random songs in high volume so that I can be out of this hectic world at least for another one hour. My bike accelerated and I was riding leisurely on the National Highway. Just then I felt a few drops of H2O falling on me. (That's just water right? I think I'm getting more chemical!!) Yup, in simple words, it started raining. Even though I love rain, I just didn't want it to soak me that day. But to my disappointment, it grew stronger and stronger and in no time I was completely drenched.

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That's how I Started my Career

It was on 2nd July, 2013. I was browsing through some pages in the web when I came across "Whitelake Technology Solutions". The name sounded familiar because they came to my college for campus recruitment. As I had nothing worthy to do, I browsed through the pages of the website and accidentally I saw this.

I thought for a while. Why shouldn't I send my resume? For the first time in my life, my thought process did me some good. That was the first time I tried to create a resume for me. It took a while to prepare my resume. Again my thought process interrupted me. "Hey Jeen, don't send it. You're not going to get this anyhow" - this time my thought process discouraged me. Finally I have sent my resume with zero hope.

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Tips to Write a Good SEO Article

1. Understanding the target audience

Know thy audience. This is the basis of writing a good SEO article. Think from the audience point of view. You will get to know what they expect from you.

2. Research

Perform a thorough research on what you are going to write. Your readers will probably know the basics of the topic you are going to write. So writing some general and vague content won’t help. Your article should give a thorough knowledge to the reader.

3. Title Selection

The title of an article is what people see first. The time you spend on selecting your topic will affect the end result of your article. Use some catchy phrase which the reader finds interesting and probing them to read further. Also from SEO point of view, remember that a keyword in the title gets more importance. But make sure that you don’t spoil the effectiveness of your title.

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Penguin 2.0 - The Cleaner

It was the afternoon of May 22, 2013 and about 2.3% of English-US search queries were affected. Sites those appeared in the fourth or fifth pages showed up in the first. Those at first were pushed back. The changes were apparent even to the common users. Yes, Google penguin 2.0 has been rolled out and the effect of which could easily be noticed even by a common user.
Whom did penguin 2.0 actually affect? And to which degree? The answers were quite vague and it required in-depth knowledge about what the update is all about. One thing was very clear. Google wanted to be user friendly. It didn't want rubbish websites with unworthy content to appear on top of SERPs. The following things became prominent.
1. Anchor text
2. Relevancy
3. Authority
4. Link velocity
5. Social metrics
6. Traffic from links

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