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 13, 2009 Posted by searchef

How To List Better in Local Searches

If you are looking to have better results in local searches, you better include your business category, city and state details in the title tag. Title order example: Business Category : Your Website Name, City  – State instead of Website Name As seen, I added SEO as the business category, website name, and a location information. Emphasis here; This title tag option goes to the ones who give... read more

Nov 13, 2009 Posted by searchef

Gizmo5 welcomed by Google

It is now official that Google acquired Gizmo5, a service which provides internet based calling software for computers and mobile phones. The official announcement can be reached here. Google have already services like Google Talk which uses VOIP technology to link phone numbers and Google Voice as an online communication service; and acquisition of Gizmo5 will definately add a lot value in the... read more