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Friday, February 18, 2005

Gmail now available to all users who left their email ID to google

Gmail an ultimate product from google is now rolled out to all users who gave their email ID to google, Initially gmail was registered only be invites, First set of invitation was sent out to adwords and adsense advertisers slowly a massive webmaster crowd started using Gmail,



Got the following mail to one of the account where our email ID was given to google,
Hi there,
Thanks for signing up to be updated on the latest Gmail
happenings. We hope it's been worth the wait, because we're excited to finally
offer you an invitation to open a free Gmail account! Just click on this link to
create your new account:
gmail.google.com/**** Since last April, we've been
working hard to create the best email service possible. It already comes with
1,000 megabytes of free storage, powerful Google search technology to find any
message you want instantly, and a new way of organizing email that saves you
time and helps you make sense of all the information in your inbox.
And here
are just some of the things that we've added in the last few months:
- Free
POP access: Take your messages with you. Download them, read them offline,
access them using Outlook, your Blackberry or any other device that supports
POP
- Gmail Notifier: Get new mail notifications and see the messages and
their senders without having to open a browser
- Better contacts management:
Import your contacts from Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Outlook, and others to Gmail in
just a few clicks. Add phone numbers, notes and more. Even use search to keep
better track of it all.
We also wanted to thank you. For showing us your
support and for being so patient. And to those who have already signed up for
Gmail, thank you for giving it a try and for helping us make it better. Our
users are what have made this product great. So whether you're just signing up
for your account or you've been with us since the beginning, keep letting us
know how we can build you the best email service around.
That's it for now.
We hope you like Gmail and will share it with your friends. We've got lots of
cool new stuff planned and we can't wait for you to see our work in your Gmail
accounts! Stay tuned...
Thanks,The Gmail Team
==We sent you this message
because you signed up to be updated on Gmail. If you do not wish to receive such
updates in the future, you may opt-out of receiving Gmail updates by visiting:
(If clicking the URLs in this message does not work, copy and paste them into
the address bar of your browser)
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Now it has started reaching not too web savvy users too,

Google has recently sent out 50 invitations per active User ID,

Think slowly gmail will be available to general public, If they make it
public they have to handle 1000s to millions of registrations, So they will give
a deep thinking before making it public, Anyway everything is google news,

Http list of header status Important tip of the header status of a site - seo tip friday 18 feb 2005

list of HTTP status :-

100 Continue

The client SHOULD continue with its request. This interim response is used to inform the client that the initial part of the request has been received and has not yet been rejected by the server.

101 Switching Protocols

The server understands and is willing to comply with the client's request, via the Upgrade message header field (section 14.42), for a change in the application protocol being used on this connection



200 OK
The request has succeeded. The information returned with the response is dependent on the method used in the request

GET an entity corresponding to the requested resource is sent in the response;
HEAD the entity-header fields corresponding to the requested resource are sent in the response without any message-body;
POST an entity describing or containing the result of the action;
TRACE an entity containing the request message as received by the end server.

201 Created

The request has been fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created.

202 Accepted

The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed.

203 Non-Authoritative Information

The returned metainformation in the entity-header is not the definitive set as available from the origin server, but is gathered from a local or a third-party copy.

204 No Content

The server has fulfilled the request but does not need to return an entity-body, and might want to return updated metainformation.



205 Reset Content

The server has fulfilled the request and the user agent SHOULD reset the document view which caused the request to be sent.

206 Partial Content

The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource.

300 Multiple Choices

The requested resource corresponds to any one of a set of representations, each with its own specific location, and agent- driven negotiation information (section 12) is being provided so that the user (or user agent) can select a preferred representation and redirect its request to that location.

301 Moved Permanently

The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs.

302 Found

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.

303 See Other

The response to the request can be found under a different URI and SHOULD be retrieved using a GET method on that resource.

304 Not Modified

If the client has performed a conditional GET request and access is allowed, but the document has not been modified, the server SHOULD respond with this status code.

305 Use Proxy

The requested resource MUST be accessed through the proxy given by the Location field.

306 (Unused)

The 306 status code was used in a previous version of the specification, is no longer used, and the code is reserved.

307 Temporary Redirect

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection MAY be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests.

400 Bad Request

The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications.

401 Unauthorized

The request requires user authentication.

402 Payment Required

403 Forbidden

The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

405 Method Not Allowed

The method specified in the Request-Line is not allowed for the resource identified by the Request-URI. The response MUST include an Allow header containing a list of valid methods for the requested resource.

406 Not Acceptable

The resource identified by the request is only capable of generating response entities which have content characteristics not acceptable according to the accept headers sent in the request.

407 Proxy Authentication Required

This code is similar to 401 (Unauthorized), but indicates that the client must first authenticate itself with the proxy.

408 Request Timeout

The client did not produce a request within the time that the server was prepared to wait. The client MAY repeat the request without modifications at any later time.

409 Conflict

The request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the resource.

410 Gone

The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known.

411 Length Required

The server refuses to accept the request without a defined Content- Length.

412 Precondition Failed

The precondition given in one or more of the request-header fields evaluated to false when it was tested on the server.

413 Request Entity Too Large

The server is refusing to process a request because the request entity is larger than the server is willing or able to process. The server MAY close the connection to prevent the client from continuing the request.

414 Request-URI Too Long

The server is refusing to service the request because the Request-URI is longer than the server is willing to interpret.

415 Unsupported Media Type

The server is refusing to service the request because the entity of the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.

416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

A server SHOULD return a response with this status code if a request included a Range request-header field (section 14.35), and none of the range-specifier values in this field overlap the current extent of the selected resource, and the request did not include an If-Range request-header field.

417 Expectation Failed

The expectation given in an Expect request-header field (see section 14.20) could not be met by this server, or, if the server is a proxy, the server has unambiguous evidence that the request could not be met by the next-hop server.

500 Internal Server Error

The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
10.5.2

501 Not Implemented

The server does not support the functionality required to fulfill the request. This is the appropriate response when the server does not recognize the request method and is not capable of supporting it for any resource.

502 Bad Gateway

The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.

503 Service Unavailable


The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server.

504 Gateway Timeout


The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, did not receive a timely response from the upstream server specified by the URI (e.g. HTTP, FTP, LDAP) or some other auxiliary server (e.g. DNS) it needed to access in attempting to complete the request.

505 HTTP Version Not Supported

The server does not support, or refuses to support, the HTTP protocol version that was used in the request message.

SEO Blog Team,

Keywords in domain name do the help ? Search engine optimization tip Thursday feb 17 2005

Lots of people in SEO industry are still worried about having keywords in their domain names, So are they worth having it, NO,

In our opinion best domain name is a domain name good for the users, Usually keyword domain names ar hypenated and they dont have good value from users, These days search engines place so little value on keywords in domain names it is just a negligible factor,



There are more important factors than just keywords in domain name, Keywords in domain name help if you are spammer, Say if a spammer wants to do automated blog comment spam and guest book spam he might not always get the backlinks with the anchor text he expected, that time if the keyword is in domain name search engines give value to them,



For legitimate search engine optimization keyword hypenated domain names are a waste of time and effort, Best we recommend select a domain name best your brand and business, Keyword domains are a thing of the past dont worry about keyword rich domain names unless you are spammer who want to spam search engines,

We hate spam and we hate people who do that,

SEO BLog Team,

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Yahoo! Search Tips for Webmasters: Saving Bandwidth

Yahoo has helpfully provided sometips on saving bandwidth for your sites, Yahoo slurp is known to hit hard on dynamic sites consuming a lot of bandwidth, Now there is a good solution for it provided by the yahoo search guys itself,



Some effective features they mention,

Gzipped files
Crawl Delay
Smart Caching:

An extract,



If you run a public webserver, you have likely seen our webcrawler, named Slurp, in your logs. Its job is to find, fetch, and archive all of the page content that is fed into the Yahoo! Search engine. We continuously improve our crawler to pick up new pages and changes of your sites, but the flip side is that our crawler will use up some of your bandwidth as we navigate your site. Here are a few features that Yahoo!'s crawler supports that you can use to help save bandwidth while ensuring that we get the latest content from your site:

More info here, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000078.html

Is sitemap necessary for a site? Search engine optimization seo tip wednesday February 16 2005,

Site map is a term coined and used for a site to show a list of important pages of a site, To avoid the homepage or any other page look cluttered sitemaps are created and connected to an important page of the site, Mostly it is connected to the homepage of a site,



There has been various debates across various forums whether a sitemap is essential for a site, As an opinion of search engine genie we suggest adding a site map to your site, Site maps help in various ways both for visiting search engines and regular visitors,

Some benefits of sitemaps on a site,

1. Users wont get lost of your site if you run a big site, If you connect your important pages in your site map users can navigate easily to any page listed in the sitemap and return to the main page without loosing their path,

2. For large sites it is difficult to navigate deeper and deeper, A good sitemap prevents this and users can navigate to any page without getting lost, Also most of the inner pages will come more closer to the homepage and this helps effectively in good navigation,



3. Not all search engine crawlers crawl a site deeper and deeper, Some crawlers like yahoo slurp tend to go into a site only to a certain extent, For crawlers like slurp pages shouldnt be buried deeper, A sitemap will combat this problem, When a site map is used pages will come closer to top level and this help yahoo's crawler slurp to reach inner pages too,

4. Also suppose if a site has javascript menus, DHTM menus and other menus that are not search engine friendly a sitemap will definitely help in better crawling of a site, A sitemap with text only links to inner pages is very much useful,

5. Sitemaps also help in better spreading of a pagerank, Pagerank google's trademark algorithm

Site maps are good for large sites as well as small sites, Hope our tips on sitemaps will give your site a better exposure to search engines,

SEO Blog team,

Keyword research an important step towards effective search engine optimization - Seo tip tuesday feb 15 2005

keyword research is a vital part of search engine optimization, Targeting wrong keywords for a site will put all efforts in vain,

An effective keyword research and finding the right keywords will bring in targeted traffic to a site, Targeted traffic means good business,



Points to keep in mind when doing keyword research,

1. Compare the keyword suggestions of overture, wordtracker and adwords and see which are most searched and most popular,

2. Try running an adwords or Overture PPC campaign and check which keywords convert best,

3. Dont try optimizing for all keywords, eliminate keywords which are too low competitive and which are bound to bring very less business,

4. Always research for both singular and plural keyword phrases/keywords,

5. Dont go for spelling errors for a legitimate business site, it makes the site look bad,



6. Apart from the suggestion tools suggestion on the popularity of a keyword phrase we can analyze the competitiveness of a keyword/keyword phrase by checking the number of pages having that term in google/yahoo/msn, checking the number of pages added in title using allintitle: command, checking the targeted keyword distribution by using allintext: command in google, this command will reveal all pages having that keyword phrase on the page,

7. Short list keywords which are good for optimization, Seperate words that are useless, words that are too authoritative and too competitive, Optimize for lower competitive keywords first and then move towards competitive keywords,

Hope the above tips are useful for your search engine optimization keyword research process,

Some tools for effective keyword research,

https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
https://www.wordtracker.com/

SEO Blog Team,

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Yahoo's Toolbar features - Yahoo firefox toolbar and internet explorer toolbar

yahoo recently launched their toolbar for firefox browser, Firefox is an increasingly popular browser next to internet explorer of microsoft, you can down load firefox toolbar here,



toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox

Also their internet explorer toolbar version has various features some of them are,

  • Easy access to Yahoo! Search
  • Bookmarks and custom buttons that follow you anywhere
  • Search This Site to find results just for the current web site
  • Search History to remember your previous searches
  • Translate This Page based on the popular Babelfish tools
  • Mail notification when new Yahoo! Mail arrives
  • One click access to Yahoo! Games, Finance, News, Sports and any web site you choose
    New Feature: One click "Add to My Yahoo" on sites that provide RSS/Atom feeds





Google offers Google hosting for wikemedia / wikepedia network of sites,

Google Inc the ultimate search engine company has offered to host wikepedia one of the largest human edited encyclopedia on the internet, It seems the board of directors of wikemedia are discussing this offer,



wikemedia says,

Google Inc. have made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.
The terms of the offer are currently being discussed by the board. The developer committee have been informed of some of the details via email. A private IRC meeting with Google is planned for March, 2005.


An interesting replies well to this offer from google in slashdot.org,

"I fear that authors/editors would withdraw from Wikipedia if it were
under the arm (or in the iron-fist) of a for-profit company. If these people
felt like Google was profiting on the backs of their freely-contributed content,
these content creators would leave and the Wiki would whither for lack of
fresh/updated content. Donating time so that other may profit does not seem
likely.
What is interesting is that Amazon makes this work. The company is
clearly a for-profit entity. Yet its crown jewels are the volunteer-created book
reviews. I'm not sure what makes this work. It might be that friends-of-authors
are motivated to post glowing reviews, it might be that people who disliked the
book are motivated to post scathing reviews, it might be that some reviewers
simply like to publish, or all of the above. Perhaps Wiki/Google-pedia could
borrow this model to mix free-labor with for-profit.
Looking further into
the future on an alternate path, I wonder if Googlepedia could become a fully
for-profit (or at least self-sufficient) professionally run and staffed
encyclopedia. With micro-royalties to authors/editors (and moderation-based
revocation of payments for "bad" content), the organization would attract
content creators on a for-pay basis. This aligns the motivational underpinnings
of the organization with those of the content creators. The current Wikipedia is
for-free people creating for-free content. A future Googlepedia could by for-pay
people creating for-pay content.
One overriding lesson from Wikipedia (and
Slashdot for that matter) is the ultimate necessity of sources of hard currency
for online sites. As long as something is small (and below a certain scale of
popularity) it can survive on donated hardware, bandwidth, or the benevolence of
a monied patron (someone who pays the hosting bills out-of-pocket). But once it
reaches a certain scale, the cost of serious server power, bandwidth, and
professional administrators pushes the budget far beyond the hobby scale.
Although pleas for donations can help, I suspect large-scale sites must,
ultimately, turn to ads, tie-in product sales, and subscriptions.
What is
fascinating, in a long-term trend sense, is that the cost of scale are steadily
declining. Cheaper hardware, declining bandwidth costs, and improvements in
systems management tools mean that sites can reach ever-larger scales before
generating prohibitive burn rates on costs. The number of visitors that a
hobbyist/free-site can support continues to rise. Perhaps Wike need only wait
for the singularity point when the cost to reach (and serve packets to) the
entire world is within the reach of a home-grown, volunteer-run
organization."





Meta Description tags - Meta keywords tag Do they help in search engine rankings Search engine optimization tip Monday 14th february 2005

Meta description and meta keywords tags are used in olden days when the search engines didnt have crawler capabilites and cannot crawl a whole site, They used to read only those tags and evaluvate a sites ranking based on that, Later search engine spammers got aware of this tactic and started abusing these tags a lot, they just stuffed keywords in these tags,



Then crawler based search engines came into existance and they started seeing much more on a site than just just meta tags, they say onpage factors including alt tags, visible text on the page etc, Slowly the use of meta tags by search engines have become lesser,

But not all top search engines completely dropped using these days, Various top search engines use various meta tags for different reasons,

Yahoo uses meta description tag as part of their ranking algorithm, they see the keywords in that and use it with all the other factors of a site, similiarly MSN uses meta description tag in their ranking algorithm, We have proved the above in our tests across these search engines, Also we have proved yahoo and MSN doesnt use the meta keywords tag,

When it comes to google, NO they dont use meta description tags,



How we tested for google??

We made up some bizarre phrases and added them to the meta description tag, only our site has those phrases, so when we search for those phrases in search engines we dont see the result coming up so mostly google dont use the meta description tags in their algorithm, But google uses snippets of meta description, google indexes the tag and during query time if the relevant words are present in the meta tags they just fetch it and display it, So it never hurts to add the relavant phrases to the page in the description tag, Keywords tag is completely ignored so we can just forget it,

SEO Blog Team,

Monday, February 14, 2005

Froogle an important shoppnig search engine - Search engine optimization tip Sunday 13th february 2005

Some tips on froogle can be found on our froogle section of the site,

https://www.searchenginegenie.com/froogle-feeds.htm

What google says about froogle:-)

Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle applies the power of Google's search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase.



To use Froogle, look for the Froogle Product Search box on the advanced search page or go directly to the Froogle home page. Type in the name of the item you want to find and click on "Froogle Search." Almost instantly, you'll see photos of relevant products and links to the stores that sell them. Or you may choose to browse through the merchandise categories listed on Froogle's home page until you find exactly the item you want to buy.



As with all other Google search results, Froogle ranks store sites based only on their relevance to the search terms you've entered. Google does not accept payment for placement within our actual search results, and advertising that appears to the right of Froogle search results is always clearly identified with the label "Sponsored Links."

new pagerank 10 site found in google SERPs

As regular visitors to this blog has noticed we have a comprehensive list of pagerank 10 sites, these page rank 10 sites / pages were found digging down deep into search engine results using lots of pagerank software including seochat's pagerank search tool,






Do search engines penalize link exchanges? - Search engine optimization tip saturday 12th february 2005

Search engines dont penalize a site based on link exchanges alone, link exchange itself is nothing wrong, reciprocal linking has been around long before the origin of pagerank a google's technology based on links, and it often makes sense organically,



links are the building block of the web,

though search engines dont penalize sites which exchanges links with legitimate sites they are known to frown upon sites using link exchange softwares, link exchange softwares highly disturbing to website owners and webmasters,



Also if we link to bad neighbourhoods too much there might be some sort of hidden filter that will play on the site and possible penalize them, So it is save to say link exchanges are not bad but doing them in too much aggressive way does cause some problems,

SEO Blog team,

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Pfizer and Microsoft Sue Viagra Spammers

spammers are getting their share, Microsoft and pfizer are after some companies who spam selling bogus and fake drugs, news here,



According to some industry estimates, one out of every four pieces of
e-mail spam are advertisements for fake Viagra or similar drugs.
The lawsuits
specifically target what Microsoft and Pfizer characterize as "international
spam rings," run by the companies or individuals behind the Web sites
cndpharmacy.com and myepharmacydirect.com, Ezydrugstore.com and
others.
Additionally, Viagra maker Pfizer took legal action alleging
trademark violations against companies or individuals operating 10 Web sites
with names such as www.viagrastories.com, www.cheapviagrastore.com and
www.viagra.com.ua.
A reporter's e-mails seeking comment sent to some of the
companies involved in the suits went unanswered yesterday. One of them,
cndpharmacy.com of Canada, apparently shut down within hours of the announcement
of the lawsuits.
technewsworld.com/story/news/40524.html




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