Hot Tip Use the US version-google search

Hot Tip Use the US version-google search Being US based, Google tends to roll out all its new features to the US English version first, leaving the UK English version to languish. If you can stand a few misspelled words in exchange for shiny features:

Click the Settings link in the top right-hand corner

Change the Mail display language to English (US), scroll down and click Save changes

By Mohan

View Google's New Mobile Sitemap Format

The Search Gaint Google has changed it mobile sitemap format with new tag and additional name space requirement, below is the new format..

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-mobile/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://mobile.example.com/article100.html</loc>
<mobile:mobile/>
</url>
</urlset>

If the <mobile:mobile/> tag is missing, your mobile URLs won't be properly crawled. Each Mobile Sitemap must have a unique name. 

By Geethalakshmi

Googles recommendations for linking between mobile and non mobile pages of a site

Blogger tips and tricks not a fun. But we can try to create it fun . Friends ! Today i share an article how to Googles recommendations for linking between mobile and non mobile pages of a site for non responsive design..

Annotations for desktop and mobile URLs

To help our algorithms understand this configuration on your site, we recommend using the following annotations:

On the desktop page, add a special link rel="alternate" tag pointing to the corresponding mobile URL. This helps Googlebot discover the location of your site's mobile pages.
On the mobile page, add a link rel="canonical" tag pointing to the corresponding desktop URL.

We support two methods to have this annotation: in the HTML of the pages themselves and in Sitemaps. For example, suppose that the desktop URL is http://example.com/page-1 and the corresponding mobile URL is http://m.example.com/page-1 . The annotations in this example would be as follows:
Annotation in the HTML

On the desktop page, add:

and on the mobile page, the required annotation should be:

This rel="canonical" tag on the mobile URL pointing to the desktop page is required.

Taken from : https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/details 

By rajesh

This Xmas Building Links With your Staff

There has been much said about building links this year and we thought it would be a good idea to give you a quick and simple technique to help your search engine optimization process and give your staff a Xmas present. You are a great boss after all!

Solution

Simply ask all your staff who has a blog and ask your staff if they would consider placing a footer link in their blog that is keyword rich to your site. In return every year you will pay for the hosting fees for their blog on their own domain, if they are not hosting on their own domain name offer to pay for the domain name registration as well. This could make a great little Xmas present to your staff every year, but it is best get them something else as well!

Important

You should make it perfectly clear that the ownership of the blog is 100% theirs regardless of the hosting or domain name fees you will pay. Offer to sign a contract stating that you (your business) are not entitled to ownership of the blog or part there of regardless of the fees that are being paid. This may help them be comfortable with the idea.

One Step Further

After you have set up an army of bloggers within your business offer to allocate a set amount of time each week for them to blog during work hours. See some of the possible benefits below of implementing this.

Benefits

You will be cool boss because:

• you give your staff time to blog during work, saves them time after work as well.
• gives them a break from their everyday task
• re stimulates the minds of your employees and generates creativity
• employees are happier creating a happier working environment
• creativity in employees flows over into the work place increasing productivity and enthusiasm for their job and work place
• Customers have a better experience with your employees because they are happier
• YOU BUILD KEYWORD RICH LINKS that help your online marketing campaigns.

Advanced Option

If your staff are willing to do this it would be very beneficial to your search rankings.

When adding the keyword links to your employees blogs, change the location of the H1 HTML tags on the blog template and the individual page template to be surrounding the keyword link to the business site in the footer. You will need to change the CSS for the H1 tag so the links blends in and is not RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!

Optional

If you end up with a few bloggers for your cause, it would be a good idea to allocate pages for certain employees to link to.

For example, Blogger Employee 1 links to home page, Blogger Employee 2 links to sub page 1, Blogger Employee 3 links to sub page 2 etc.

 By Bradley J Davis