Google Docs Added Folder Sharing Feature

Google added couple of new features to its Google Docs, namely folder sharing and multiple file uploads.

Now you can share your files means spreadsheets, presentations and document files with other people also you can now share folders in Google Docs means that the service is more useful for groups who can now work on all the documents in a folder together.

And the addition of multiple file uploads means that you can upload more files at once,which previously allowed one. This feature saving both time and effort and making life so much easier.

Google is Finally Removed PageRank

Google has dropped PageRank data from its webmaster tools due to statistical imbalance.

Google uses PageRank algorithm to calculate a web page’s rank in a numerical score based on the importance it gets. Its rank is loosely dependent on the inbound links to a page apart from the relevance and credibility of these links.

Until now, PageRank has been one of the many variables included in Google's Webmaster Tools, but according to Google analyst Susan Moskwa:
"We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much... We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it."

Now a days Google is only updating the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year.

It certainly wont stop certain webmasters using the tool to obtain high quality links to enhance their sites ranking. Hopefully this may reduce the amount of people trying to manipulate the search results by selling links on high PR pages. This move by Google is a statement to Webmasters that PR is not as important as everyone thinks, lets hope it changes some peoples minds.

Major Search Engines Follows NoFollow links

Every search engines interpret NoFollow in their own way. Here's list of the major search engines and their actions with NoFollow link.

• Google follows NoFollow links but simply does not pass any credit to outbound link that is tagged with the attribute(rel='nofollow').



• Yahoo follows NoFollow links and excludes the link from all ranking calculations.



• Bing may or may not follow a NoFollow link, but excludes the link from ranking calculations.



• Ask does not adhere to NoFollow.

What problem with Duplicate Content ?

Duplicate content – This is very effective to loose Search Engine Rankings:
Using duplicate content is very harmful for search engine ranking. Most webmasters are using duplicate content today. Some of them thinking duplicating the content is time save, but the fact is that duplicate content can loss search engine rankings of your web page. The big problem for duplicating content is that, your web page won’t be indexed by the search engines no matter what SEO strategy you are doing for your page.

Google’s point of view about Duplicate content :
About Google point of view, duplicate content can be two types:
1. Duplicate content within your website – When same content appears in more than one page of your own website.
2. Duplicate content in others website – When one content of your site which appears in other external sites.
In case of first category (Duplicate content within your website) it’s totally on your hands to remove duplicate content to get crawled by Google. One of the best way provided by Google to avoid the first problem is use of the sitemap file. You should include the preferred version of the URL in the sitemap so that Google can index the particular page of your preference.

In case of second category (Duplicate content in others website), i.e. If any one steals your content and publish it in his website, you will have to monetize it. So that, when Google comes across such content across different web pages, the Google crawler will search for various thing and effectively identify the actual original webpage. According to Google don’t worry about your content duplicated by others because Google crawler can effectively identify them and avoid those pages from indexing.

As said in official Google Webmaster blog, “in the majority of cases, having duplicate content does not have negative effects on your site's presence in the Google index. It simply gets filtered out.”

Some link building mistakes harmful for PageRank

Link popularity is the most valuable factor that every search engines consider when deciding your website Page Rank, Maximum people has taken to posting their back links all over the internet. However, gaining link popularity that increases your page rank is really not as easy as it sounds and most people who has no idea about how Pagerank works. Creating links that are either useless, or even harmful for their webpage. If you are making link popularity avoid some common link building mistakes.

1. Getting link from non-relevant Pages: Search will consider whether your link is relevant to the visitors of your webpage that they are placed on or not. So if you are creating the links of your webpages which are related to web design on websites that deal with high end electronic goods, wrestling or cooking, you can be sure that the links will be trashed by the search engine, harmful for your website Page Rank. So create links on that sites that have your website related.

2.Creating Text Links “Click Here”: Search engine spiders use the text on your hyperlink to know about your website and this will plays an vital role in determining your website Page Rank as well as your SERP. By creating hyperlinks that only “click here for more information” or “know more here”, means you are telling the search engines that your website is about clicking and knowing more and that is where you will be ranked high instead of getting high search engine rankings for your own domain. So use relevant keywords in your text links.

3.Creating Links On High Pagerank Pages That Already Have Hundreds Of Links: It is right that the high PR of a page linking to your page, the higher value assigned to the link by the SEs and the higher will be your page Rank. So the value what you get from a page that links back to your webpage is determined by the formula, Page Rank of linking page / number of links on that linking page. But it is equally important to pay attention to the denominator of the formula, since a highly ranked page with lots of back links may finally giving your page lower value than a page with lower rank but lesser links.

4.Creating Links On Dynamic Pages: Which web pages are created dynamically these take ages to get indexed, and in all probability, so creating link on such a page will never help in improve your page rank. Identify dynamic pages by URLs with special symbols in them (&,? etcetera) and don’t waste your time by not creating any links to your site on such pages.

5.Creating Links On Pages That SE Spiders Cannot Crawl On: The whole point of building link popularity for increasing page rank is to make your site accessible to search engine spiders. However, search engine bots have not become smart enough to read pages generated by Flash or JavaScript. They are also unable to read text links placed within frames, so it is a complete waste of time creating back links on sites that are either Flash generated or framed, since these links would be totally ignored by search engine spiders.

6. Creating links on No-follow pages: Creating link on no-follow page will never help for increasing Page Rank because your link not getting the Page Rank value from this site. So, don’t waste your time to creating backlink on such pages like maximum blog commenting link is no-follow link. Identify the no-follow link by viewing page source where is use rel="nofollow".

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How Google's latest algorithm changes affect your website ?

Google improves ranking algorithm on an ongoing basis. During the previous weeks, Google changed three things on the result pages that are visible to all Google users.

The changes are an easier for searchers but they might be bad for your site.

1. Google has increased the snippet length. Less visitors for you ?

Google now shows an extended snippet for queries that consist of three or more keywords. The idea behind this change is that these multi-word queries are very targeted and complex. The usual short snippet might not contain enough information.

What does this change mean for your website ?

The longer snippet contains much more information. As Google tries to provide the user with the most relevant information in the snippet, the snippet might already contain the answer to the user's query. The longer snippets might result in the following:
• Fewer users might click through to your website because they get the answer to their question in the search results.
• Users might begin to use more multiple-word queries to get more detailed search result snippets.
• As the longer snippets need more space, the longer snippets move another result page below the fold and web surfers will see fewer results at first glance. That increases the importance of very high rankings.
It seems that Google ignores the meta description tag for the snippets. That means that you must include a call to action in your web page titles.

2. Google now shows more related searches at the bottom of the results

When you search for a keyword, Google will display related searches at the bottom and sometimes at the top of the search results.
For example, if you search for the keyword " sports cars", Google will suggest " bmw," " ferrari," " classic cars " and " sports cars 2007" as related terms that could help you find what you need.

What does this change mean for your website ?

It's important that you optimize the different pages of your website for different keywords. Do not concentrate on a single keyword but cover a wide range of keywords so that Google will classify your website as relevant to the complete topic.
The more related keywords and pages can be found on your website, the better.

3. Google now shows local results based on IP addresses

Search Google for the keyword " web design kolkata" and you'll see local results in the middle of the search results. These local results are delivered based on the IP address of the searcher. That means that you will get different results than people in another city.

What does this change mean for your website ?

It's now easier to rank for competitive keywords for some local searches. While it's very difficult to get a high ranking for a very competitive keyword such as "lawyer" in the regular results, it's much easier to be listed for that keyword in the local results if you're living in a small town.
You should submit your website to Google Maps so that web surfers can find you in these local searches. You can submit your website to Google Maps with IBP's semi-automatic directory submitter.
If you run a local business, you should include your business name, your category and the name of your city in the title tag of your homepage.
If you want to get on top of Google's search results then your website must have optimized content and good inbound links. If you give Google what it wants then your website will get the best possible rankings.