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Inside Google: How Google Works

Dan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:50:09 +0000

Ever wondered what it takes to support that simple-looking homepage? Watch this video to learn about Google’s “backbone” and those who maintain it.

It’s not a secret that Google uses some of the coolest technologies to maintain their services. But seeing it once is much more impressive than hearing mind-blowing numbers and examples many times. Pay attention at the colors of the pipes inside the building. They are just like the ones used on the web. Is that stylish or what?! By the way what do you think of all that? (Leave us a comment)

SEO Jumpstart for Bloggers

Dan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:41:50 +0000

The BlogSEO team has laid the foundation for our new project that we decided to call The SEO Jumpstart Guide. It is our collaborative attempt to help every novice, as well as an advanced blogger, to assess and optimize his or her blogging platform for a top-notch performance.

Blogging is no longer just an online diary; it has been accepted web wide as a great marketing and community building means. And since keyword competiveness will be important for many commercial blogs, they has to be designed and fine-tuned for crawlers as well as visitors to increase the chance of being well indexed by search engines. Our intent is to make our SEO guide comprehensive for people who do not poses any special knowledge of web design or programming, although some topics will have to be decorated with code examples and some tech lingo.

We will gladly accept any comments and recommendations from the readers. So, do not hesitate to contact us with your feedback. If you happened to be an expert on the subject and would like to participate in writing, editing some sections of the SEO Jumpstart Guide, we will gladly review your propositions.

PubCon South 2009

Dan — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:53:38 +0000

For the first time PubCon by WebmasterWorld will be hosted at Austin, Texas. Therefore, we are guessing, the upcoming event is called PubCon “South”. It will start off Wednesday, March 11 and will be buzzing through Friday, March 13. So if you are in the area, don’t forget to drop by.

For those who are not familiar with this event we are going to say that this is one of the coolest gathering of Internet search and marketing gurus and those who want to learn something from them. For more information visit PubCon’s website (http://www.pubcon.com/austin2009.htm).

The key-note speakers for this event will be Guy Kawasaki, whom you might have met at Twitter for he happens to be one of the most popular Guys out there, and Matt Cutts – Google’s lead quality control engineer.

Guy Kawasaki, besides being everywhere on Twitter, is also the author of eight famous books, among which are “The Art of the Start” and “How to Drive Your Competition Crazy”. Back in 1984 Kawasaki was on the marketing team for Macintosh. He has got quite a few tricks up his sleeve, which, we hope, he will gladly reveal and share with us at PubCon this time.

Extra Fun for PubCon Visitors

Austin is well known for its live music events. This year’s PubCon South is being held back to back with Austin’s music, film and interactive media festivals. Make an extended stay and experience first-hand the fun spirit of the party capital of the South.

The Summary of Updates for January 09

Dan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:21:43 +0000

We have added a page on the best SEO page layout. If you are about to design your own template for your blog, make sure you check out this page it will save you some time on designing the basic optimized structure. So you can spend more time on bells and whistles that will make your site look good.

We have also laid a foundation for our SEO Checklist for Bloggers. It is a quick guide to some of the main points in structural optimization for blogs. The checklist will be updated regularly, so bookmark it for the future and come back to check for updates regularly.

And finally, we got some updates for the review page of all main features of the major blog solutions available at the moment. It will help one to make the right decision as for which blogging software to go with. If you are new to blogging, don’t forget to check it out.

PageRank in Chrome

Dan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:55:52 +0000

Most of us who have installed Google’s “freshly baked” Chrome (for a test drive or for good use) did not hold back their surprise when they found out that the legendary PageRank status bar is nowhere to be found. More than that, there is no Google Toolbar-like plugin for Chrome whatsoever.

What’s the message?

Some may interpret the absence of the PR bar as a hidden (not!) message from Google’s development team about the insignificance of this measure in their search algorithm. I have come across people saying that the browser’s creators were so concentrated on timely release of the product, that they had to sacrifice some of the planned features, including the PR bar. There is been enough time since the moment Chrome was released to the public for this feature to show up among other tools. However, it has not happened in spite of the simplicity with which such feature could be added to Chrome.

For those who misses PR bar

If I were Google, I would include this feature no matter what kind of role it played in my ranking process. You know, just for the sake of healthy reviews of the browser from the fans of this feature. But it is up to the marketing department to make such a decision (who knows, maybe they will). But for those who like the simple, i-pod like interface, but who -totally misses the PR bar, I’ll say this – there is a great number of websites that offer easy to add scripts that will give you a means of checking PageRank status within Chrome. Just Google this thing out (since we do not want to endorse any of’em at this point) and you’ll find quite a few solutions in no time.

If you know of one that you think is worth mentioning here, let us know and we will review it here, at BlogSEO.