MICROSOFT IS CURRENTLY TESTING A keyword analytics tool, code-named
“Gatineau,” to compete with Google’s free analytics offering, Google
Analytics.
News of the early-stage alpha test surfaced late last week on blogs of
two of the project team members–Ian Thomas, who heads the Gatineau
project for Microsoft’s Digital Advertising Solutions team, and Reeves
Little, program manager with Windows Live Europe. Read more…
I was reading this great article 13 tips to get your blog noticed written by john. But i think he has written few points which can hurt you SERPs, so i thought to blog about it.
So here are 10 important tips to get your blog noticed:
- If you publish directly through wordpress then you can add this List of Ping Services for automatic pinging after every post. Simply add the list in your admin under Options…Writing after scrolling to the bottom of the page.
- Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on Pingomatic which allows you to ping a few services all at once.
- Submit your blog to Pingoat which allows you to ping over fifty blog ping services all at once.
- Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at RSS Feeds directory
- Sign up for My Yahoo & My MSN and add your blogs feed to your own “My Yahoo” & “My MSN” account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo & MSN very quickly. Read more…
There are lots of advanced SEO & marketing techniques, which you will be using but before that you must use these basic SEO stratagies before putting your effort on those things.
- Get-your-domain-name-dot-com/org/net( The main TLD’s are preffered but if you are focusing on local visiters of your country, then getting a countly specific extension like .us or .uk helps a lot)
- Hosting your site/blog on a reliable hosting company.(If you are using free services like blogger or wordpress.com then sooner or latter you will need those services which they don’t provide, so rather than wasting your time in those free services, spend few bucks on hosting & domain) Read more…
i found a great resource on wordpress plugins
Here is a list of some of my favourite wordpress plugins that i’m using now. I guess these are the most useful and most popular WordPress plugins!
Essential Plugins:
- Adsense-Deluxe: Put your adsense ads wherever you want them, including within your posts.
- Askimet: Checks comments on your website against their lists and determines whether it is just spam or a genuine comment.
- Ultimate Tag Warrior: Another tagging plugin with categories.
- Google Sitemaps: Makes a google compliant sitemap of your blog.
- No Ping Wait: Speeds up posting by changing the way wordpress pings your posts. Read more…