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Google Started Showing Full-page Preview in SERP

Now Google has started showing the full-page preview of the site in SERP.      

Google Launched Music Search in India

Two days before Google launched music search in India . Currently you can listen to thousands of full songs from Hindi. To enable this wonderful feature Google has partnered with In.com, Saavn, and Saregama. You can easily search the music files by artists, albums or songs. Also Google has included music block in web search. Below is the screenshot of Google search for the movie “ anjaana anjaani ” Lets we expect this same feature for other regional languages too.

Google webmasters tools updated the links to your site feature

Google Webmaster Tools is now updated the "Links to your site" feature to show you which domains link the most to your site, in addition to other betterments. Now on the links to your site overview page you'll notice that there are three main segments: * Which domains linking most to your website * The pages on your website with the most backlinks * Sample of the anchor text external sites are using when they link to your website. Click here to read more about " Links to your site " feature

Link Reports & Link Explorer to be added in Bing Webmaster Center

In yesterday’s sponsored panel (named “Bing Webmaster Tools and Search Alliance), Bing have showed off Link Reports, Link Explorer and more new features coming to the Bing Webmaster Center toolset. In July they have removed linkage reporting feature from webmaster tools while they revamped their webmaster tools. Yesterday, Bing Search Engine has demoed the new link report feature. And they have also demoed another new feature named link explorer that shows you what Bing’s spiders see on a link by link basis. Through this new feature, you can even block URLs and ask Bing spiders to recrawl those URLs as soon as possible. These new features are not yet added in to live. But, you can check out the screen shorts at SEroundtable.com

Google Updated SEO Starter Guide

Are you new to SEO? and looking to improve your website visibility in Google Search Engine? Then don’t forget to go through the Google’s SEO starter guide before you start optimizing your website. About two years before Google published their first SEO starter guide (Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide) to help webmasters to optimize their website for Google Search Engine. This SEO starter guide covers topic like improving title, description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text optimization and more. On July 22, 2009 they have translated the SEO starter guide into 40 languages. Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English English (GB) Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portugues

Google New Keyword Tool Out of Beta: Drops Old Interface

For last one year, Google has been testing the new keyword tool. Last week Google announced they are confident enough with to make it out of beta. This means that the previous Keyword Tool and Search-based Keyword Tool is no longer available in AdWords. There is now a single keyword tool and it is available when you sign your account or via adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal . Google said the new keyword tool offers: * Flexible search options: Search by any combination of keyword, website / URL, and category (if available) and receive a single set of results. * Easy keyword refinement: You can filter the results by word or keyword match. * Negative keywords: You can easily add the keywords as negatives directly from your keyword list. Just click on a keyword and get the drop-down menu and save your negative keyword. * Advanced Options: View stats for the mobile search and use of data filters on the local search, search and ad share, and more. Most of them say

Page Tracking Feature Stopped by Google Reader

In in the beginning of 2010, Google Reader started permitting users to track any web page via Google Reader. Last week (Sep 22, 2010), Google Reader declared they are taking off the feature as of September 30th. All those pages you set up for tracking, might gone! You have to switch them over to a new tracking program. Google Said: As of September 30th, we’ll be turning off track changes in Reader. While this isn’t a widely used feature, we wanted to let you know in advance so you can set up a suitable alternative (such as http://page2rss.com ). Your previous updates will not go away, but you will stop receiving new updates from any custom feeds you have set up. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes -- and as always, please feel free to visit our help forum if you have any questions. Start using page2rss.com, if you are not using it before. You have to set up everything you set up in Google Reader to work with page2rss.com. SEroundtable.com Says: It woul

Dashboard of Google URL Shortener

As I said in my previous post about Google URL Shortener . Here you can find the screen shots of Goo.gl dashboard. Below is the details page screenshot for the shorten URL http://goo.gl/dHbQ Like Bit.ly, Goo.gl URL shortener is also giving two hours, day, week, month & all time data for the particular shorten URL under the “Clicks for the past”. Goo.gl URL shortener is giving different shorten URL’s for same long URL. Under clicks section use can see the total clicks on all goo.gl short URLs pointing to the particular long URL. Also, Goo.gl provides a graph to show the timeline for the clicks. Referrers section is providing the referral websites detail. In above screenshot you can see linkedin.com, facebook.com, twitter.com as referral paths. Under visitor profile, Goo.gl is showing details like visitors country, browsers and platform (Operating System).

Blue Arrow at Google Instant Search

I’ve noticed the blue arrow which is showing next to the listings in Google’s search results. It’s one of the keyboard navigation system that Google rolled out for Google Instant Search this week. Today morning I saw them for the first time. It maybe there since Google’s update earlier this week, and I didn’t notice. I maybe part of a broader rollout. But look below for closer look. Notice that there a blue arrow next to the Google search result: It can be moved by using your keyboard navigation keys. Below you can see how I’ve moved down to the fifth result in the same search. Arrow is also appearing at Google sponsored links. If they are at top of the organic search results: Blue arrow is not appearing next to the OneBox-style listings: It senses rather unknown to me.Google Instant Search is already focusing so much care on whatsoever is at the top of the page. This blue arrow is looks like overkill that. But pushing the keyboard navigation keys, having some t