Google Launches Google Analytics Application Gallery
Google launched an application gallery to list applications that enhance the power of Google Analytics. There are awesome load of applications that already made on to the list, under various categories
- Business Intelligence
- Campaign Management
- Content Management
- Data Collection
- E-Commerce
- Email Marketing
- Mobile Solutions
- Phone Call Tracking
- Reporting Tools
- Search Optimization
- Site Audit
- Widgets & Gadgets
There are some i’ve already used and liked like Tatvic Plugin for Data exporting, Wordstream keyword management for SEO, Klipfolio Dashboard and Analytics Visualizations and ofcourse Google analyticator plugin for wordpress. There are loads more that I haven’t tried or even knew about. So this is going to be an awesome place I’ll be visiting more often.
Oh btw, developers have an invitation to submit their apps. Isn’t that cool?
http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/
Do you have a list of favorite Google Analytics Apps? If you want to share them, use the comment box below.
25 Alternatives To Squidoo For Link Building
Many SEO experts are looking for sites like squidoo and hubpages.
Link building is an important SEO strategy to get tell Google that your site is indeed important. The more links, the better your site will get indexed and ranks better. A popular link building strategy is to make a squidoo lens and link back to your website.
So here is a list of 25 sites, where you can submit content and get free links (and some share revenue generated by your content).
1. Hubpages.com – A popular site similar to squidoo to publish online with easy to use, non-techie tools.
2. Gather.com – a user centric information sharing website where you can put all your information.
3. 43things.com – a Goal sharing website where you can make your lists about anything, mostly what you want to do. Allows to make Free blog to publish our own articles that link with our site.
4. Zimbio – Mesh of Rss feeds and articles, mostly deals with entertainment and celebrity related content.
5. Tumblr – Allows you to create your own blogs like url.tumblr.com where you can blog.
6. Knol – Google “product” though full with health articles. I have yet to see any positive reviews from it as far as link values are concerned.
7. advogato.org The site allow us to publish articles. After having an account we can publish articles.
8. asmallworld.net A community site that allows you to publish press releases and articles. You can share your views with others.
9. Weebly Weebly is a cool website that allows you to build your own web page for free. It offers some nice, user-friendly features that make it easy to create a professional looking site that will give you increased visibility and a place to link your Hub Pages, Squidoo lenses and Knols to as well as other domains.
10. Ligit: Ligit is a search powered web application for publishers. Unify your content and make it searchable.
11. Jimdo: Create Free Web Pages. Jimdo is easy to create web-pages, just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want
12. Oondi: Oondi is a place for writers to publish their work, without having to worry about anything else. This allows them to focus on the writing itself instead of having to build a website, find visitors, find a reliable host, monetizing the traffic and so on.
13. Spongefish: SpongeFish is the place to share and show off your personal knowledge and expertise, and learn from others. People come to SpongeFish to show what they know and win prizes.
14. LaunchTags: Build a mini-page about your expertise, interests and know-how using text, pictures, video, links and blog feeds. Earn revenue brought in by your mini-pages.
15. Viviti.com lets you create a web site easily, with drag and drop. Start by choosing one of 100′s of templates (or design your own), then edit your site in place with content management toolbar.
16. Qassia: Share Your Intelligence and get exposure for your website in return. Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.
17. wetpaint.com: Create your own social website with wetpaint. you can create websites that mix all the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks into a rich, user-generated community based website.
18. InfoBarrel: Write information and how-to guides and get paid
19. ScriblNotes: Education related site allows you to publish notes, upload typed documents, share study guides and earn money for top submissions.
20. Vox.com: Blogging platform which integrates with YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket, Amazon, iFilm and iStockphoto.
21. Ning.com: Ning is a social networking site that allows to create blog posts with photos, files and videos.
And of course the popular blogging and social platforms:
22. wordpress.com
23. Yahoo 360
24. blogger
25. Windows Live spaces
I’m convinced that this cannot be an exhaustive list. What would you include in this list?
Smiles,
ShriNagesh 
Official Google SEO Starter Guide – Free To Download
Google webmaster tools has released an official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide in Nov, that covers many areas that webmasters might consider optimizing to get better Google ranking and indexing. Take a peek at the Index of contents
- Create unique and accurate page titles
- Make use of the “description” meta tag
- Improve the structure of your URL’s
- Make your site easier to navigate
- Offer quality content and services
- Write better anchor texts
- Use heading tags appropriately
- Optimize your use of images
- Making effective use of Robots.txt
- Be aware of “nofollow” tags for links
- Promoting your website in the right ways
- Make use of free webmaster tools
- Take advantage of web analytics services
Download the Official google seo starter guide the Official Google SEO Started guide (.pdf) today and see what Google expects from your site structure and functionality.
Image Search-Importance Of Image Optimization For Search Engines
Blog Traffic 101 tips series: Image optimization for search engines to drive traffic to your blog.
This is an interesting story I found on this website http://www.takeoverpageone.com/blog/web-20/image-search-brings-in-17500-visitors by Tim
An Image Search Brings In 17,500 Visitors And HubPages NoFollow Tag Rules
Hi all,
We’ve have a couple of interesting finds in the past few days that I would like to share with you.
Firstly, I happened to see an email come in from hubpages (I use this site a lot in web 2.0 promotion, and suggest you should as well).
If you’ve used it, and signed up for their newsletter, or whatever it is, you get an email from them every now and again.
I usually delete the emails without looking, but this one caught me eye.
Your Hubs have been viewed 24,356 times.
WOW !
A website that we threw up in January of this year, and have never been back to since had received over 24,000 visitors!
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Canonicalization
Canonicalization (pronounced KAH-nahn-nihk-uhl-ih-ZAY-shun or just c14n) in simple words is telling googlebot that “www.yourdomain.com” = “yourdomain.com” and not two different sites. If you don’t Canon…ze (what the heck :-L) your domain, search spiders will consider it as two different sites and get confused has to be awarded the page rank etc.
We need to process a 301 redirect between www.domain.com and domain.com.
Wikipedia definition
It is a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a standard canonical representation. This can be done to compare different representations for equivalence, to count the number of distinct data structures, to improve the efficiency of various algorithms by eliminating repeated calculations, or to make it possible to impose a meaningful sorting order.
Wikipedia example
As an example, Wikipedia uses canonicalization in its processing of links between articles (see Wikipedia:Canonicalization). The first letter in the article name is capitalized, leading and trailing spaces are removed, and embedded whitespace is replaced by underscores. For example:
[[Egg_salad]]
[[egg salad]]
[[ egg_salad ]]
all refer to same article.
Here is how you can do it.
Download a plug-in from http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/
and install it just like other plugins. You’ll find more options under the options tab.
Or simply place the following code in the .htaccess file (Manage > files > .htaccess ).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^smartadvise\.info$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.smartadvise.info/$1 [R=301,L]
(replace smartadvise.info with your own domain and extension)
(Warn: Make sure you click on ‘viewsite’ open in a new tab before attempting to change your .htaccess file). I recommend the 1st method unless you are a whizz in htaccess files and you know what you are doing.