Navneet Kaushal is the founder and CEO of PageTraffic, one of the oldest SEO Company with offices in Chicago, New Delhi and London. A leading search strategist, Navneet helps clients maintain an edge in search engines and the online media. Navneet's expertise has established PageTraffic as one of the most awarded and successful search marketing agencies.
Google+ page owners have been requesting long for a feature that will enable them to link their Google+ page identity to YouTube channel. Their wait will be over soon as YouTube will soon be introducing a new linking feature.
Linking a Google+ page with YouTube channel has several benefits:
It will enable page owners to add multiple managers to their channel
What will happen to your Gmail account after your death? Do you want to share your Picasa photos, Google Drive documents, and other data stored with Google with everyone even after you die?
If you haven't given these questions a thought yet, the time has come. Google has recently introduced Inactive Account Manager, a feature that will let you plan your digital afterlife. The feature will enable users to opt to delete the data upon their death. It will also let users share their Google date or send it to designated third-parties.
Google Webmaster Help has uploaded an interesting video, targeting on the use of spammy domains.
Matt Cutts is giving a video answer to the question "Can I buy a domain that used to have spam on it and still rank? How can I reset the SEO of that domain?"
Many multinational and multilingual websites are configured to point the visitors to localized pages, on the homepage. This is done via redirects or changing the content that reflects the user's language. The recent Google Webmaster Central Blog introduces the new rel-alternate-hreflang annotation that can be used to specify such homepages. The annotation is supported by Google and Yandex.
Google Webmaster Help has released another video in which Matt Cutts gets down in the weeds of SEO, which is a spam site.
Matt Cutts clarified that even if your web host has a lot of spammy clients, it will not influence the ranking of your website. But, there are some "corner cases" where it gets a little more complicated.
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to mention and hyperlink people as well as companies in their status updates & conversations.
The Facebook-style tool will allow you to mention and hyperlink the contacts present in your network. The feature will suggest you a name from a drop-down menu, the moment you begin to type it.
The trend of communication via mobile devices is increasing, as more and more people now prefer to shop, stay entertained, and connected through their cellphones and tablets. The information such as their location, device, and time of the day is becoming an important signal for advertisers.
Constantly checking the rankings of your newly created website page is a non-income generating activity because a lot of interesting things happen with your content every day.
Initially, you will see the content ranking well or getting a position in the search engine results, but it might drop after a few weeks. Many SEOs have been looking for an answer to this content ranking puzzle for a long time. Matt Cutts has finally released a video to help you understand what may be happening to the content.
Google recommends the use of a link with the attribute rel=canonical to indicate your preferred URL. It gives a strong hint to several search engines including Google, Bing, and Yahoo! about your preferred version to index among duplicate pages on the web.