Who is searching What? latest social media buzz online

When it comes to social media, its a serious analytics business for search marketers to know, understand and optimize the sites/campaigns they are working on.

Social Media Marketing (SMM) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) caters the online visibility of the buzz on top keywords online.



The top 20 searches on Google hot trends (USA) Apr 27, 2010

1.     shania twain songs
2.     ricky williams
3.     bobby brown died
4.     fred hoiberg
5.     how many miles is 5k
6.     google me
7.     brooke phillips
8.     justin bieber kissing a boy
9.     is lost new tonight
10.     bleach 268 english sub
11.     hyponatremia
12.     lost april 27
13.     run ricky run
14.     bryce tarter
15.     how many people have my name
16.     wes moore
17.     bango dunk
18.     noah s ark found
19.     m.i.a. born free video
20.     lloyd blankfein

Delicious.com has a cloud of most popular search terms: (sorted by size)
These are everyone's tags, visible for all.

 design blog video software tools music programming webdesign reference tutorial art web howto javascript free linux web2.0 development google inspiration photography news food flash css blogs education business technology travel shopping books mac tips politics science opensource games culture research java windows security internet movies online search humor funny social community fun mobile recipes cool marketing health php tutorials cooking resources history portfolio audio download graphics media library toread python photo article ruby ajax learning film maps photoshop youtube architecture rails computer wordpress freeware plugin home hardware firefox apple mp3 illustration photos email twitter socialnetworking api ubuntu language database fashion osx tv blogging network html book typography interesting work money finance japan advertising productivity list recipe magazine environment webdev writing jobs 3d 2008 code guide icons imported images game networking diy cms videos lists wiki seo green gallery usability jquery microsoft tool collaboration .net privacy visualization entertainment psychology tech movie statistics iphone articles management phone desktop podcast math shop economics Design geek radio ebooks drupal comics people rubyonrails forum flex reviews information animation government browser data wikipedia hosting vim religion school wishlist realestate todo house literature rss fic converter streaming downloads electronics teaching interactive kids documentation car flickr and artist

How to chat in Hindi using Gtalk and gmail?

Ever wondered how people have Hindi language status or do other than English conversations ?

Local language support such as Hindi is a cool thing to talk with friends and everyone will ask you - hey how to do that? how to type in hindi using Gtalk / Gmail ?

The simple answer is :
Gtalk / Gmail has a unique application/ way in which you can type in Hindi with your friends.

All you have to do is -

1. add en2hi@bot.talk.google.com
2. The bot will also add you in reply
3. Talk to the bot ( your new friend) and the text you can paste it elsewhere.

Example of the chat is -


Google Translation Bot information:

December 2007, Google has released the translation bots which are not getting popularity among the local language converstions. These bots are getting intelligent per day in terms of accuracy.

The new bots speak Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), Hindi (hi), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Swedish (sv) and Traditional Chinese (zh-hant).

Happy chatting :)

Web 2.0 Indian Social Media Networking Updates

Top Social Networking sites with Indian presence:
1. MySpace (US)
2. Orkut ( Mostly in India and Brazil)
3. Facebook (US)
4. Linkedin (Professional Networking)
5. Friendster (US)
6. BigADDA (India)
7. Rediff Connexions
The growing Web2.0 boom and the social media enthusiasts have a lot to tell.Here is a news from Businessweek, which shows why India is at the top of social media marketing and where is the web going next....

For the past year, global networking sites have been growing in popularity among young Indians. According to JuxtConsult, a New Delhi-based online research and advisory company, 44% of Indian online traffic uses the Internet just for social networking. Google's (GOOG) Orkut is the most popular social networking site in India, with a 64% market share. Facebook is also winning many Indian fans, especially students.
India is as hooked on social networking as any other country. Part of the reason is easier broadband connectivity. A 2007 report by the software industry association group Nasscom estimates broadband subscribers—currently 1 million—will hit 20 million in three years. By 2010, the total number of Internet users in India will grow to 100 million, from 40 million now. This will surely enhance virtual hangout plays like the social networking sites.

Read the full story here at Businessweek.

2008 : Top Online Security Concerns

The 2008 Olympics is likely to spur a flurry of hacker activity, says Websense Inc, which specializes in web filtering and security software, releasing the top ten computer security threats for 2008.

The top 10 security threats are:

1. Olympics: New cyber attacks, phishing and fraud
2. Malicious spam invades blogs, search engines, forums and Web sites
3. Attackers use Web's 'weakest links' to launch attacks
4. Number of compromised Web sites will surpass number of created malicious sites
5. Cross-platform Web attacks: Mac, iPhone popularity spurs increase
6. Rise in targeted Web 2.0 special interest attacks: Hackers targeting specific groups of people based on interests and profile
7. Morphing JavaScript to evade anti-virus scanners
8. Data concealment methods increase in sophistication
9. Global law enforcement will crack down on key hacker groups and individuals
10. Vishing and voice spam will combine and increase

Source: Rediff News


The second point shows there is a lot to be done for the search engine companies like yahoo, google, msn etc.
Webmasters have to check the site too often for malicious attempts and hacking threats.

Mobile Ads in India Growing Exponentially.

The new funda of advertising, Mobile Ads is now a reality.
Yes, starting from special offers, discounts to job offers and quiz participations; all come under direct or indirect advertising of a brand/company or a product/service.

Checkout this news from Business Today,

It may be irritating for many consumers, but even as many of us frown when we receive SMS ads on our phones, advertisers say there is great potential in this new medium. Mobile advertising or Mads is the new buzzword in the Indian marketing sphere.

Key advantages

* Advertisers can design ads for specific target groups
* Visibility and cost effective rates for advertisers
* Additional revenue stream for operators
* Unmatched level of intimacy with customers in comparison to other mediums

With the handheld device becoming an indispensable companion of millions of Indians, market players are designing campaigns aimed at specific sets of users. The M-ad segment includes campaigns like banners and contextual advertising on mobile internet or WAP, using video games to advertise a product, polling, contests, etc.

The market is already worth around Rs 50 crore and has the potential to grow at 200 per cent a year. The global M-advert industry is expected to reach $11 billion (Rs 44,000 crore) by 2009, and India is likely to account for 1 per cent of this. Of course, the availability of high-end handsets supporting GPRS will help mobile advertising to grow faster.

Currently, there are an estimated 15 million GPRS-enabled handsets in India. Even if it grows at 25 per cent every year, WAP advertising will see a spurt. In view of this, players like the US-based mobile advertising network AdMob are tying up with Indian firms to draw advertisers onto WAP-based sites.

SEO solution to Flash websites

sIFR lets you use your favorite font on your websites by cleverly working with Flash, JavaScript and CSS.

What is sIFR ?
sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a technology that allows you to replace text elements on screen with Flash equivalents. sIFR is the result of many hundreds of hours of designing, scripting, testing, and debugging by Mike Davidson and Mark Wubben. Mike, Mark and an invaluable stable of beta testers, supporters, and educators like Stephanie Sullivan and Danilo Celic of Community MX completely rebuilt a DOM replacement method originally conceived by Shaun Inman into a high quality cross-browser, cross-platform typography solution for the masses.
The current sIFR release is version 2.0.2. sIFR is released to the world as open source, under the GNU Lesser General Public License (see human-readable summary at Creative Commons), so anyone can use it free of charge.
Put simply, sIFR allows website headings, pull-quotes and other elements to be styled in whatever font the designer chooses - be that Foundry Monoline, Gill Sans, Impact, Frutiger or any other font - without the user having it installed on their machine.

More info at wiki.novemberborn.net

Search Engine in China facing Problems

Problems for Search Engines in China?

According to the news from Pandia
Several sites report today that Chinese ISPs are redirecting searches made on Google Blogsearch and other search engines to the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Some point to the fact that Baidu has a partnership with ISPs China Netcom and China Telecom to redirect all invalid (or blocked) traffic to Baidu.

(Others argue that the redirects are limited to forbidden terms.)

It seems that someone in the Chinese policy apparatus has decided that Google Blogsearch is too dangerous to be left to the masses. That makes sense, actually, as the blog search engine gives access to fresh news and less prominent sites that have not been marked and banned by Chinese censors.

Yahoo's news search tool unveiled!

Did you see what is new with Yahoo ?
Checkout the little drop down arrow below the search box.

A new addition showing the suggested additional keywords ( popular words or keyphrases) in the lines of an online suggestion tool.


Great thing to implement, good work.
There are some effects to that
1. Now organic listings go further down.
If you consider the dropped being for the keyword "seo india" atleast 3 results are being sacrificed in organic ranking.
2. More competition for the paid listing as its showing less number of ads @ the top.
3. If you can manage #1 ranking organically, you can enjoy multiplied visitors as compared to the past and the second one might go in the next fold of the page, which rarely is visited by 60% visitors (approx calc.)

New questions coming up for SEO's worldwide !!

ICICI bank in Ecommerce World

India's largest private lender ICICI Bank on Wednesday said it has collaborated with vPost - an e-commerce site in South East Asia run by Singapore Post, for an exclusive online shopping service for the bank's customers.

"The collaboration with vPost will allow ICICI Bank's customers to shop at US websites for a variety of products and enjoy the convenience of having the products delivered to their doorstep," ICICI Head (Cards Group) Sachin Khandelwal said in a release.

ICICI Bank customers can save as much as 15 per cent on VPost shopping charges and shop in a safe online environment as it is one of the online merchants which has been awarded with TrustSg seal by the National Trust Council in Singapore, the release said.

"The growing e-commerce market in India has induced a lot of customers to shop online. The association with vPost will increase the boundaries of online shopping and avail the special privileges," Khandelwal said.

Source : Economic Times News

Google : Translate : Voice local Search : Experiment Search

New releases from Google:

Google Transliterate
http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/All you have to do is type a word and hit enter or space bar.
+ Many indian languages supported
+ content can be copy-pasted in Gtalk, e-mail, word processors and other applications also
- Unable to type words like my name " Pravin " in Marathi

Google Voice Local Search
Google Voice Local Search (US Only Search) for local businesses using your voice, from any phone, for free.Dial 1-800-GOOG-411.

Experimental Search (US Only)
Check out Google's latest ideas

New Domain Name Extensions Coming by 2008

How many domain extensions do you know about ?
Most Popular are the Top level domains or TLDs . They are .com /.net/org etc. In all there are more than 200 TLDs,including the two letter extensions like .in used for country specific websites . Here .in stands for India.

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. These include domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .UK), as well as the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols. Computers use these identifiers to reach each other over the Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability.

According to the latest News from Reuters.com,

"
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the Internet's domain-name address system, said on Friday it was on track to allow an expanded number of domain names next year.

ICANN officials, wrapping up a week-long meeting in Puerto Rico, said their goal was to have in place by next year a permanent process to allow for new, generic top-level domain names, as well as to begin "internationalizing" domain names.

"With the progress we've made is San Juan, we're on track for the new applications and approvals policy to be ready for the start of 2008 and the introduction of new TLDs by mid-year," said Dr. Paul Twomey, president and chief executive of ICANN.

The California-based non-profit organization oversaw two previous extensions of Internet space: the addition of seven TLDS, including .info and .name in 2000, and the addition of another six starting in 2004.

It recently denied a petition to include .xxx as a TLD to be used for pornographic Web sites.

The group is also working to expand the number of characters that can be used to create Internet addresses, currently limited to the 26 Roman characters, 10 numerals and the hyphen. This would allow the use of Arabic, Chinese and a multitude of other characters to be used in domain names. "

Read the full Story at Reuters

STOP Words to Avoid : SEO technique

What are STOP words?
Those set of characters which are very very common on the web and are generally ignored by search engines during search.

Its recommended to avoid such stop words in meta tags : Title , Description and keywords on SEO organic technique of on-page optimization.

List of stop words:

about
after
all
also
am
an
and
another
any
are
as
at
be
because
been
before
being
between
both
but
by
came
can
come
could
did
do
does
each
else
for
from
get
got
has
had
he
have
her
here
him
himself
his
how
if
in
into
is
it
its
just
like
make
many
me
might
more
most
much
must
my
never
now
of
on
only
or
other
our
out
over
re
said
same
see
should
since
so
some
still
such
take
than
that
the
their
them
then
there
these
they
this
those
through
to
too
under
up
use
very
want
was
way
we
well
were
what
when
where
which
while
who
will
with
would
you
your
near
not
nearby
weight
quot
nbsp
gt
lt
com
amp
var
raquo
middot
ndash

Website for Fashion in Braille Tag

First came Text Only Websites.
Then followed by Text + Images Websites.
After that we saw Text + Images + Animation Websites.
After that we saw Text + Images + Animation + Sound Websites.
Then came Text + Images + Animation + Videos Embeded Websites.

Now the latest one is for those who cant see directly but can feel....
Yes Website for Fashion in Braille Tag.

According to Yahoo News,
Two American students are launching a new talking Web site that helps blind people pick and buy trendy clothing that is fitted with braille tags and then sent to their doorstep.
The sound-activated www.whitecanelabel.com Web site, due to go online in the fall, will ask users what their fashion likes and dislikes are and recommend clothes ranging from casual to evening wear based on those preferences.
A braille tag that includes the designer's name, type of clothing such as a "blouse" or a "t-shirt", size, colour and symbols to help in piecing together certain look like "business casual" is attached to the clothes ordered and then mailed out.

Tell me what you think is next to come?

Keyword Research Tools for SEO and SEM

Keyword Research is a vital part in Organic as well as Paid Search Optimization.
Basically you capitalize on those keywords which are searched on a large volume and still have lower CPC (Cost per Click). Skill is finding relevant keywords for your/ client's site with less competition with least CPC for getting maximum ROI (Return on Investment).
Webmasters are now seriously concerned about these keywords for Adwords and Adsense too.

Searching for Top keywords for volume and popularity?
There are many tools available:
1) Google Adwords Keyword Tool with Traffic Estimator (for Google only)
2) KeywordDiscovery Online Tool
3) WordTracker Interface.
4) Overture Inventory Tool
5) Google Zeitgeist Monthly searched keywords

Each of those use a different formula ( most of them gather from top search engines)

You can get a clear view from Google Zeitgeist about the last month's most popular keywords searched. Here is a snap shot for India Specific searches :

Yahoo! CEO Steps down

Yahoo!, the No. 2 search firm that has struggled in its battle with Google, said Monday that Terry Semel was out as chief executive officer, to be succeeded by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Susan Decker, who heads a relatively new group that deals with the company's advertisers and publishers, and until recently was also chief financial officer, was promoted to president.
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Terry Semel is no longer the CEO of Yahoo!
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Co-founder Jerry Yang is replacing Semel.
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Sue Decker, who had been in charge of a new group overseeing advertisers, was promoted to president.
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Yahoo's stock has been flat while Google's shares have risen more than sixfold since Google's IPO in August 2004.

Wall Street cheered the moves, but some online advertising industry experts said Yahoo's new management team still faces tough challenges.

Semel, who joined Yahoo chairman and CEO in May 2001, will stay on as non-executive chairman. But Semel has come under pressure from investors in the past year as the company has fallen further behind top rival Google in the online advertising market.

Shares of Yahoo surged 3 percent in heavy trading on Nasdaq Monday as speculation mounted that Semel might step down - and the stock rallied another 4 percent in after-hours trading.

Wall Street seemed to welcome the promotion of Yang since he is viewed as being far more tech-savvy than Semel, who had a background in traditional media before joining Yahoo.

Full News Here

Yahoo Language Search

Yahoo takes on Google in Local language adoption for search.


Yes !! now yahoo search can be made in many Indian languages such as Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi etc. Yahoo Search toolbar shows its a newly added entity to overall search..

Whats the new competition all about? Language is the next funda for search reach .. check out yourself !!

Optimizing for Languages for SEO

How to Type in Hindi ( India's National Language with Majority of Speakers)

bharat can be written as भारत

other matching options are

1. भारत

2. भरत

3. भारथ

4. भरथ

You can also add a word to the directory.
What is it used for?
- Optimizing sites
- Language sites
- Adwords with local language ads

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