Breaking News: Google Page Rank Update

PageRank is the most important metric that we can use to get an idea of the potential value of a website.

There are a lot of rumors on the internet that Google Page Rank is dead and no Google Page Rank Update was done from April, 2010.

Excited? Upset? Sad? Angry? ......

Yes, Here is good news for all those who have been waiting for Page Rank update from long time and Finally, Google rolled out a major Page Rank update on January 20, 2011 and you can see changes on all major websites.

Though it’s a bad news for some websites Page rank dropped from higher Page rank to lower. Anyways, I hope that in next update We will be able to bring it back to get higher or better Page rank. icon smile.

Congratulations to all blog and web owners, it’s time to celebrate! If you can’t see any changes in your Page Rank then please wait for few days, Google will definitely give you the results of your hard-works and SEO techniques.

Social Media Marketing

Many of you interested in search engine optimization or internet marketing may have heard of the term social media. Social Media Marketing (SMM) has become a popular alternative for online business branding. They are valuable Internet marketing and networking resources for business.



What is Social Media?
"Social media essentially is a category of online media where people are talking, participating, sharing, networking, and bookmarking online."

"Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques."

There are many categories of social media sites. A few examples of these social media websites are:

Social Networking:
Social networking websites are online services, platforms, that focus on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Widely used examples of social networking sites are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Bebo and Orkut.

Wikis:
Wikis are websites that allow you to create, edit and share information about a subject or topic. Wikipedia, wikiHow, Wetpaint and WikiFAQ are good examples of wikis.

Video sharing:
Video sharing websites allow users to distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the large majority of them offer free services. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. Video sharing services can be classified into several categories. YouTube, Yahoo! Video, Vimeo, Metacafe, GoogleVideo and Dailymotion are great examples of Video sharing sites.

Photo sharing:
Photo-sharing websites allow users to upload pictures and images to a personal account which can then be viewed by web users the world wide. Major photo-sharing websites: Flickr, Fotopic.net, SlideShare.net, MyPlick.com, Slide.com

Social Bookmarking:
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online and Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet. StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Digg.com and Reddit are good examples of social bookmarking sites.

Advantages of Social Media Marketing:

• Increase traffic to your website/blog.
• Increase Brand Awareness
• Increase Leads and Revenues

Free SEO Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox

The Mozilla Firefox has been one of the most widely used internet browser in the world and there are many free SEO add-ons available for Firefox. In this post, I'll share some of the best Mozilla Firefox add-ons:

1.) SearchStatus: It displays the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.

2.) SeoQuake SEO extension - Seoquake is a Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization(SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet.

3.) Flagfox: Displays a country flag depicting the location of the current website's server and provides a multitude of tools such as site safety checks, whois, translation, similar sites, validation, URL shortening, and more...

4.) SEO Doctor: SEO Doctor allows easy SEO diagnosis and problem solving for webmasters.



5.) SEO Status PageRank/Alexa Toolbar: See Google Pagerank (PR) and Alexa rank for each website you visit. Simple and customizable. You can see and use everything the toolbar offers, or strip it down to the bare essentials and place it in the status bar. Simple, quick, and very useful.



5.) SEO Workers Web Page SEO Analysis Tool: SEO Workers Analysis Tool extension allows you to perform a basic analysis of the page in your browser with a single click. The results from the SEO Workers Analysis Tool are structured into the following useful groups:



General status, meta tags listing, meta tags analysis, the pages displayed within search engine results, keywords found in the anchor tags, keywords found in the image "alt" attribute text, keywords found on the page, URLs found in the page, headers returned from the server.

6.) Google Global: Google Global is an unobtrusive Firefox extension that allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations.



7.) Shareaholic: Shareaholic is the easiest way to share interesting links using Facebook, Twitter, Google Mail, Reader, Bookmarks, Evernote, Bitly, StumbleUpon, and more... from one simple ALL-IN-ONE add-on. This is the ultimate tool for the link sharing addict!


8.) ShowIP: Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.



9.) Echofon for Twitter: Echofon (formerly TwitterFox) notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter. Syncs with iPhone.


10.) Foxy SEO Tool: Foxy SEO Tool offers tools for search engine optimization (SEO), web traffic and page analysis for webmasters and web professionals.