Jan 8, 2010 Posted by searchef

Google has launched “Near Me Now” Mobile Search Tool

Google finally announced new mobile search tool “Near Me Now”. This tool lets users to check what’s going on around the location they are in and providing information about particular places such as restaurants, art events etc. In order “Near Me Now” to provide you accurate information you will need to let your mobile phone (Android, iPhone) send geographic information. For... read more

Dec 7, 2009 Posted by searchef

Google Webmaster Tools Update: Site Performance Tool

Google Webmaster Tools now have a new tool under the Lab menu; Site Performance Tool. This tool will let you to check details on your website loading speed. It has a section named Performance Overview where the tool shows a chart showing your pages load speeds per day and month plus a statistical information regarding your websites average speed rate among all the websites that Google logs. There is also a... read more

Nov 25, 2009 Posted by searchef

Google Announced New Ad Formats

Google announced here that there will be some new ways to provide richer types of advertisement formats in the search results. This new format supports media attachments to the search results. For example, if you are searching a specific product or an event, the search results that fit your criteria will have an additional field of the product or the event with an image/video of the search term located... read more

Nov 16, 2009 Posted by searchef

SEO Plugins for Wordpress

Wordpress is a powerful content management system and it brings many advantages for search engine optimization. You can power up your SEO with fine-tuning your default options and also with the help of some useful SEO plugins. I will try to list some of the useful plugins for you to check and use the ones meet your needs. Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress This useful plugin generates a sitemap... read more

Nov 15, 2009 Posted by searchef

Using Your URL in Comments and Forums

Having your URL written in relevant websites/blogs comment sections or in forums as user signatures can be an effective way to drive some traffic into your website. That is actually true and I suggest you to do it where possible. What I want to write about in this post is a thin line and if you are not interested in ethics in SEO, you won’t be enjoying to read this post. You ‘ve been... read more