Changing Face of Facebook….

Facebook and the Changing Face

As we know that Facebook has acquired the half of share among all social media sites in the world of Social Media. Now people have become addicted to it, meanwhile why not so? It’s the main Social media sites having enormous global audiences. I think internet savvy must login in facebook at least one time in a day. They love to share they wish, uploads photos, videos and many more.

Well through this post I would like to share my personal experience about facebook which I have been seeing for last 2 years. Facebook is changing gradually; lots of changes have been introduced in last two years. Now a day’s facebook has lots of updates. Its face is changing regularly; it has divided in slices for user convenient few months ago.  The left navigational (chat section) has changes and now it again divided in two parts. Well now the upper part of the right navigational area is for quick status updates and the lower part is for chatting buddy with smooth scrolling buttons.

Now I think it is better than previous one. Now its smooth and scrolling icon added the thrilling experience to work with. Whether it is scrolling wall, updates or the scrolling chat section all are fantastic.

The Gravity of Google (+1) in Social Media

Since Google +1 continues to accelerate gradually, there's a big question to be answered: 

Is this skyrocketing or a crash down toward earth that we're witnessing? It's not surprising that +1 has taken some time to get results, especially ones that are highly visible on the search engines.

As with many social web elements, +1s gain more power the more any user sees their friends +1ing. But will it be enough?

For Google, the +1 mechanism isn't a small deal. Beyond being the equivalent of a "like," which will be an important part of the Google+ social network, Google is relying on +1 to provide social search features.

If +1 doesn't succeed, Bing, Yahoo, Blekko, and anyone else who can establish partnerships with Facebook – the established social medium – will get a leg up on social search, a vital part of how information will be found in the coming years.

Latest Google Page Rank Update June 2011...

Google Page Rank updated. As many of you know this news update from the desk of Google. Well it was the second update after January this year. Various sites got its PR or various lost too. But I think there is more good news than bad one in this update of PageRank. I thrilled to know that my 70-80 percent websites get benefited from this recent update.

As soon as I heard about this through search engine news site, thought we should share my experience of recent Page Rank update with the webmasters. Then I decided to write something about this.

But whenever there is a Google PageRank update in the toolbar, I feel compelled to report it to the world community about this. Whenever there is a PageRank update, SEOs and Webmasters spend a lot of time and force discussing over it. So, we shouldn’t ponder over this update as it the Richter Scale of Google for measuring the quality of the websites.

The last one was about 6 months ago, and this comes about a month since Google's Matt Cutts said a PageRank update is coming soon.

So maybe Google will start updating the PageRank values twice a year instead of quarterly and earlier, monthly. 

How to improve Internal Link Structure of a website?

Improving or editing your internal link structure may sure help to get higher rankings for your home page as well as other pages of your website. Here you can find some useful tips that can help you to improve the rankings of your website:

1. Accessibility: Always make sure that all important web pages of your site are easily accessible from home page and not away more than two clicks from your home page. Search engine spiders also prefer pages to visit or index which are just few clicks away from home page.

2. Relevancy: Relevancy is also so important to get higher rank in search results so always link to the pages for which you want to have higher rankings from all pages of your website that are relevant to that page. It will be better idea to get related links to a web page is to link from your own website.

3. Keywords In Anchor Text: Make sure that you have added your targeted keywords in the anchor text of your internal links to pages for which you want to have higher rankings on major search engines and also remember to you use keywords that are highly relevant and targeted.

4. Add No-follow Attribute: Add no-follow attribute to all links that are not so important for purpose of search engine rankings. For example, web pages that includes terms and conditions, privacy policy etc. of your website are not have much importance for ranking so its better to add a no-follow attribute to them as these pages have not any need to be listed in search engines.

It will be better to have fewer links on a page as it increases the importance of a single link to the other on your site. You can also remove all unnecessary links from your page if possible.

5. Use Robots Meta Tag: Using robots.txt file or the robots meta tag can also help to improve ranking as it help to exclude duplicate or irrelevant pages from indexing. If search engines don't crawl your pages which are not so important then there will be great possibility that they can take a closer look to the pages for which you want to be ranked well on major search engines.

6. Check For Errors: It is also so important that your all internal links should be error free so always check your website that it doesn't contain any errors like 404 not found errors etc. and if found then immediate correct them or redirect these links to the most appropriate pages. You can use online web tools like Xenu to check errors in internal links of your website.

After optimizing the link structure of your website, you can start link building campaigns to get more and more quality links for your website that will help to get higher rank to your site. 

If you have a well optimized internal and external link structure, then it will be hard to any other website to beat your site in terms of ranking.

10 Reasons Commenting is Good For Bloggers

I don’t think we comment enough and I put that down to bloggers not realising the benefits. Here are the benefits as I see them, let me know if I miss any:

1. It’s the right thing to do – people complain about not enough comments on their own blog but don’t take enough time to comment on others. We all like some attention or an occasional pat on the head for a job well done. Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself!
2. Make friends and influence people – Blogging is partly a networking activity. People are more likely to link to you (or more) if they have heard of you. Get yourself out there, make friends.
3. Clicks – People click your link to see what other interesting stuff you write about. Obvious but true.
4. Develop a Bloggers Eye – Find the point of interest in a story. By commenting you are training your brain to think of something interesting.
5. Create Commentable Content – By observing which posts you commented on and which you did not (or couldn’t no matter how hard you tried!) you develop an awareness of what works to attract comments.
6. Comments = Ideas – You managed to comment. Could your comment be expanded into a post …?
7. You never know who is reading – It amazes me who reads my comments on obscure blogs that I thought only myself and a handful of others read. My comments on one blog lead to a consulting gig. You never know unless you try.
8. What you give you get more of – I strongly believe what you put out comes back to you. You will get more comments yourself. Try it.
9. Keep Match Fit – Exercise your writing muscles, the more your practice the more you improve. Comments should be short, fast, to the point and make an impact. They are excellent tests of your writing skill.
10. Comment on Fresh Blogs For Fresh Perspectives – If you are always among the same crowd you will find inevitably the same thoughts being reflected back over and over. Break out! I advise people to comment on new blogs every day. By not commenting on the same old blogs, or especially setting a goal to comment on more blogs than the day before, you will be forced to leave your blog-reading comfort zone and visit new blogs. This exposes you to new ideas, different ways of looking at things, and hopefully a way out of the echo chamber.

Blogging is not just about saying your piece; it is also about going out and joining the conversation where it is happening. It’s about reaching out to people and exposing yourself (steady!) to new ideas. Some giving as well as all this taking back we focus on.