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Google’s SEO starter guide

Aman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:38:47 +0000

While reading about Content Analysis on google’s webmasters tools, I found that Google has recently released it SEO stater guide on 13 November 2008.

The pdf can be downloaded from here.

prevent openDNS from routing Google searches

Aman — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:48:59 +0000

I recently tried pinging www.google.com while using openDNS and came to know that openDNS redirects all the google searches through it’s servers that is google.navigation.opendns.com. That is, if you do any search from your Mozilla or IE toolbar while using openDNS it will be redirected through openDNS. I don’t know the reasons behind it and have no valid reasons except for the privacy for accusing it!

Anyways, for those who want to prevent the redirection:
For Firefox:
A: Type about:config in the address bar and press enter.
B: If you are on Firefox 3, click “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.
C:

Now type keyword.url in the Filter field and set the value as:
http://www.google.com/search?q=

If you want Firefox to do a “I am Feeling Lucky” style Google search, use this value for keyword.URL:
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=

D: Also make sure that the value of keyword.enabled is set to TRUE. That’s it – now any query you type in the Firefox Address bar will go to Google, not OpenDNS guide.

For Internet Explorer :
A: Open the registry editor (Start -> Run -> regedit) and navigate to the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes
B:
If Windows Live Search is your default search engine in Internet Explorer 7,
open {0633EE93-D776-472f-A0FF-E1416B8B2E3A} and set the value of URL as:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q={searchTerms}

In case of Google, open the corresponding key and set the value of URL as :
http://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}

Google SearchWiki

Aman — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:17:02 +0000

Google SearchWiki — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary) there is already developing. So below, some clarification on how it works, opportunities search marketers should consider, some privacy issues and ideas for improving it.

What is SearchWiki?

Go read our Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page post! In short, it allows you to move a listing higher in the search results, or move a listing lower in the results or delete a listing altogether. You can also comment about search results you see, and others can view your comments. Also see Google’s help page about SearchWiki.

How do I get it? I don’t see any of these buttons!

You have to be logged in to Google. If you have a Gmail account, Google Web History account, any service that was enabled after you gave an email address to Google, that created a Google Account for you. From the Google home page or any search results page, click the “Sign in” link at the top right of the page. Now when you search, the buttons and options will appear.

I still don’t see the buttons!

OK, give it a few more days. The feature is still being rolled out. But everyone who has a Google Account will eventually see them.

How do I move something up?

Click on the little “up arrow” to the right of a search…… Follow the orignal post here

GeoEye-1 Satellite Pic (Is that Your House?)

Aman — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:35:31 +0000

GeoEye-1 satellite sensor was successfully launched on Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 11:50:57 Hrs (PDT) aboard the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle, procured from Boeing Launch Services, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

With the GeoEye-1 successful launch, GeoEye was ready to start full commercial operations for GeoEye-1 imaging products a few months after launch. Immediately after launch there was a 45- to 60-day engineering and calibration period.

The 4,300-pound satellite collected the first image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole in a 423-mile-high orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, or 4.5 miles per second. The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm — close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye’s vice president of communications and marketing.

A second satellite, GeoEye-2, slated to launch in 2011 or 2012, will have a resolution of 25cm, company representatives promised.

Untill then to have a look on the featured images send by it visit http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/Default.aspx