Google Update : Mixed-media XML sitemaps

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Hello Friends,

Last few weeks were really challenging for me & was passing throught the ups & downs of life, though it was difficult but enjoyed it too. Google is no more behind in updating its own algorithm for changes & one such update recently they have announced for the webmasters. Yes, today, I would like to share about the changes / updates announced by Google for XML sitemaps.

Google Update : Mixed Media XML Sitemap

Google announced that they’re now accepting mixed-media XML sitemaps. Now, you must be thinking about, what does it mean ? Well, It simply means that, now you can put images, video and regular page URLs all into the same map. I have tried my hands on this when I got notified about this update. According to Google’s post, you have to use all sorts of fancy code to insert images and video into normal XML sitemap. The sample XML sitemap structure will be as shown below, Contunue Reading

Google and No-Follow Attribute

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Its been a month since I posted my last post on this blog & my mail box have flooded with the emails with complains that the blog is not getting updated. Well, I can not afford to let go my readers like that & hence here is some interesting post for you friends. No, Its not an ordinary article on “NoFollow” attribute, but this is purely based on my research which I have done as a part of my project recently. I would love to know your thoughts & experience about this. So, here you go.

How Google treats “No-Follow” attribute ?

Last week, I was working on an interesting project. The site is comparatively old but does not have a good PR for home page as well as internal pages. The main objective was to get the Service / Product pages in Google SERP ranking. So, I was working hard on back link analysis of successful pages as well as competitor websites which have good rankings in Google. I did good comparative analysis & found few strange patterns.  Yes, you get it right, something strange in Backlink patterns. I studied the Google Webmaster Tool to get an idea of how Google treats backlinks patterns.

Now here the great surprise comes to me. I found that, Google shows hardly 10 links for a page which I am targeting & 4 out of 10 links are “No Follow” which has been shown in Google Webmaster Tool. STRANGE … Isn’t it ? As per the Google’s stand on rel=”nofollow”, Google crawler supposed to not follow that particular link. That simply means that, this link is just for the information of visitors & have no value in terms of Google Search Engine, so Why Google needs to count & show this backlink in Webmaster tool ?

On the contrary, I have very good other backlinks for the same page (backlinks from EZine & other reputed PR sites) which has been indexed & shown by Yahoo but Google is not showing up this high reputed backlinks & instead showing up the “No Follow” backlinks. So, Couple of queries arise in my mind. Contunue Reading

Google PR update : April Page Rank Update

Category : Google, Search Engines

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Hello Friends,
Since last 3 months many of my friends who are in the business of Online Marketing & SEO are eagerly waiting for Google PR update. As we all know, Google update its Toolbar PR every 3-4 months and last Google Page Rank update was in January,10. I am fortunate that, after hosting my blog on a new domain I got the Google PR -1 for InnovativeSEO.net, Thanks to all who have shared the link on their blogs & website :)

Normally, we get notifications of Google Toolbar update through various forums & groups or social media, but still If you are the busiest person & need some kind of automated reminder which notify & track your PR history & show you the changes as per Google update then I have something to share with you. Contunue Reading

Google PR Update – First Google PR Update for 2010

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Hello Friends,

I was just checking up my twitter profile & suddenly I noticed the Google PR update for my Twitter profile. Its a surprise by Google as just in 1 month, Google has update its Google Toolbar Page Rank information 2 times. As always, this turn out positive for me & my Twitter profile got the PR of 4.

Google Toolbar PR Update

I have confirmed the same in many forums & sites as well. There is one site which gives us the confirmation of Google Toolbar PR updates,  http://googlepagerankupdate.com/ , you can also check it , below is the screen captured image of this site. You can observe the date & time mentioned when the Google toolbar PR update happened for January, 2010.

Google PR Update

Google Toolbar PR Update for January, 2010

As you can see that, the recent Google Toolbar update is observed on January 18th, 2010 & last checked on 21st January, 2010.

But What’s interesting in this Google PR update? Contunue Reading

Google Caffeine Update : SERP Dance

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To-day, I was just checking up the SERP rankings for my client website & noticed something unusual. Yes, for few keywords SERP rankings were literally dancing for different data centers. I also checked the various forums of SEO & Webmasters & observed that, people are talking about this, but no one is sure that whats going on. Some believes that, this is all awaited Google caffeine update & some denying it with their own set of arguments, but one thing is for sure that, something going on in the Google data center.

Is it Google Caffeine Update or just a routine update ?

Well, this is the One big question webmaster asking to-day in various forums & threads on the web. A lot of discussion going on with the experience & analysis by respective individuals. Well, I will say that, lets have a look at quick update whats going around the SERP.

  • SERP rankings are dancing for the same keywords
  • Seems blogs are getting priority on the business website listing
  • Local listings are messing up
  • Few data centers shows the dancing results whereas few data centers are stable

So, What it is exactly ? Contunue Reading