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		<title>Targeting Mobile Users in Google Adwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it seen constant increase in mobile traffic from years, it’s becomes increasingly important to make sure that your business marketing campaign is targeting mobile users very effectively. From past few years, the Google team has started implementing lots of &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/google/targeting-mobile-users-in-google-adwords/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">As it seen constant increase in mobile traffic from years, it’s becomes increasingly important to make sure that your business marketing campaign is targeting mobile users very effectively. From past few years, the Google team has started implementing lots of features to the Adwords platform in order to create mobile targeting campaigns easy as much as possible.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Here some tips and tricks that help you to understand how effectively target mobile users using AdWords:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>Generate mobile particular campaigns: </strong>Within the same campaign, Google AdWords has targeted mobile traffic with your search traffic by evasion<strong>. </strong>By viewing this, there are lots of people who will have one campaign to capture traffic from various networks. You can also make some separate campaigns for mobile traffic in order to ensure that you are creating mobile-targeted adverts and keywords. It also enables you to send users to a mobile-friendly landing page if you have one.</li>
<li><strong>Mobile-friendly landing Pages</strong>: It is extremely important for you to got landing page or website which is quite easy to use if you are damn serious about getting the most out of your mobile traffic. Mainly, it comprises removing flash items, making sure navigation menus that are larger to click without any zooming by which users do not have to give their huge time on trying to navigating with their website through their phone.</li>
<li><strong>Make Sure to Click to call function</strong>: Within AdWords, the ‘Click to Call’ is a feature which enables an advertiser to make adverts that when clicked. Directs users straight to a phone call between themselves and the advertiser.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Through this given information, you can get complete idea and it helps you to get succeed in your mobile marketing efforts.</p>
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		<title>Gain Web Visibility in Natural Way Through Digital Platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the latest Google algorithm change, many webmasters and SEO gurus are worrying about their online business. In latest search engine algorithm, Google has described about SPAM techniques, which are most of webmasters using for optimizing their website. The update &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/social-media/gain-web-visibility-in-natural-way-through-digital-platform/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">With the latest Google algorithm change, many webmasters and SEO gurus are worrying about their online business. In latest search engine algorithm, Google has described about SPAM techniques, which are most of webmasters using for optimizing their website. The update of Google Search Engine Web Spam is well-known as Penguin Update. It is observed that due to latest update 3% of websites on the internet are affected whereas with the latest penguin update, around 13% of websites suffer a lot.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is advisable to webmasters and SEO gurus that make use of White Hat Techniques &amp; Follow Google Guidelines, if you want to get website visibility. After adopting such technique, your website doesn’t get affected by any kind of update, which is made by Google. On other side, if you are using Black Hat Techniques, then your website surely face trouble in ranking and SERP’s. As all know that while one door of hope is closed, another one opens automatically. Like that, there are many other services available that are helpful for optimizing site in better way. Some of them are:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Video submission</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nowadays, webmasters and online marketers are giving more importance to video marketing as it is helpful for brining traffic to your website. More traffic is helpful for increasing the sales of their products or services as a result profit increases. If you are noticing changes after submitting videos to free video sharing sites in positive way, then you will incline to create video more productive and submit it into more sharing sites.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Although, we have an idea that submitting videos in video sharing website is time-consuming task, on other side, it gives best result in the form of “number of views”. Video marketing is also used by network marketers and internet marketers for attracting traffic to their websites. With the help of Video submission tools, user can also able to upload a video by the software and add tags, titles and a description. Some of the video sharing sites are:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>http://www.myspace.com/video</li>
<li>http://vimeo.com/</li>
<li>http://www.youtube.com/</li>
<li>http://www.smugmug.com/</li>
<li>http://www.dailymotion.com/in</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Photo sharing </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Photo sharing is one of the best ways to get connected with someone through internet. Photo sharing can be done through many ways through social networking sites, email, personal web pages and many other modes. Some of the best features such as thumbnails, slide-shows or adding special effects are also added in this sharing service. As we all have an idea that Branding is must for business in order to create online presence of the business. This can be done through photo sharing. Photo sharing services are divided into two groups, i.e. free and chargeable. Photo sharing is one type of standard part of communication that is to be adopted by many webmasters. Some of the well-popular photo sharing sites are:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>http://gallery.menalto.com/</li>
<li>http://www.flickr.com/</li>
<li>http://facebook.com/</li>
<li>http://picasa.google.com/</li>
<li>http://www.panoramio.com/</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Local listing</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another way to increase success ration in internet marketing is through local listing. Local listing is one of the best services, which is useful for local businesses as well as international businesses. With this service, special region is targeted by opposing whole internet population. According to some research, local visitors go for local listing on a search engine. Giving advertising through online business directory is cost effective. Many devices such as laptops, mobile phones or other internet-enabled devices are used for finding business service in local area. So, it is better to take help of free local business listings. Some of the best local business listing sites are :</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>http://listings.local.yahoo.com/</li>
<li>http://www.bing.com/local/</li>
<li>http://local.botw.org/</li>
<li>https://biz.yelp.com/</li>
<li>http://www.hotfrog.com/</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Document Submission</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Nowadays, Document Submission plays an important role for sharing informative knowledge in better way. Webmasters and SEO gurus are taking help of this service in order to promote their product or service through document. Documents are considered as trusted information that is helpful in creating Referral Traffic for your website. Step-by-step guidelines are also given in documents that provide appropriate idea to the reader. It is in the written form, so it can be stored for proof also.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are number of people, who are reading and discussing business presentations, poetry, magazines and the latest best-sellers through digital publishing platform. If you are thinking to create personal branding through digital publishing platform, then here you will find sites:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>http://www.issuu.com/</li>
<li>http://www.scribd.com/</li>
<li>http://www.slideshare.net/</li>
<li>http://www.yudu.com/</li>
<li>http://www.docstoc.com/</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, get ready to implement above various techniques for optimizing your website and enhance ranking in search engines.</p>
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		<title>Increase your Income from existing customers through Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to keep existing customers happy by using social media? Are you wanted to know how to increase income from existing customers through the social channel? Through below given post, you can know 5 different tips to gain &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/social-media/increase-your-income-from-existing-customers-through-social-media/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it possible to keep existing customers happy by using social media?</p>
<p>Are you wanted to know how to increase income from existing customers through the social channel?</p>
<p>Through below given post, you can know 5 different tips to gain more <strong>revenue from your existing customers</strong> by using social media?</p>
<p><strong>Why to give focus on existing customers?</strong></p>
<p>There are various companies for which connecting with their existing customers are completely natural fit for social media. All these are looking conversation regarding their competitors, brands and their industry which offer them with an opportunity to connect others in dialogue.</p>
<p>On the social media channel, there are mainly two types of strategies which revolve around existing customers. First is that to provide customer service help through social channel and we have already seen some excellent examples of this Comcast and Boingo that have successfully addressed customers concerns with social media.</p>
<p>When it comes to talk about second strategy, it is to attempt to boost value to the customer experience with social channel. You can also see best examples of this Radian6 and InfusionSoft. For companies, the value of the customer base is considerable. As we all know that to get new customer it costs more than to keep your existing ones. So, there are lots of companies which are developing different strategies to connect with their existing customers with social channel.</p>
<p>For various companies, social media represents a cheap way to connect customers in two different ways dialogue as well as develop deeper relationships. Relationships are advantages which is extremely difficult to get with other marketing channels.</p>
<p>The below given 5 tips offer a framework for how you can adjust your strategies to make sure that they <strong>benefit from most often unnoticed opportunity for increased revenue</strong><strong>:<strong> customers</strong>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. </strong><strong>For making more frequent purchases, give customers incentives</strong></p>
<p>You have ability to boost income by motivating customers to make purchases more often no matter whether you are in a service or product based industry. It means endorsing add-on services, upgrades or premium offerings for service industries. It comprises motivating customers to come back more often for product industries. You know, how can you do this with social media?</p>
<p>You are also able to offer deals and specials which are exclusive to your social media followers based on the level of customers or the frequency of purchase.</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong><strong>Make sure to give reason to customers to spend more at single purchase</strong></p>
<p>When it comes to two second way by which you can boost revenue from existing customers is to get them to spend more at each purchase. If your average transaction is $35 then you have to keep goal of $50 as it can also be proficient by exclusive deals for social media fans and followers. Many times, you may have seen coupon campaigns which are specially designed to get this.</p>
<p>Coupons like $25 off and $100 purchase are intended rising the amount spent at each purchase. There are service industries which are looking to promote package deals for their services which bundle offerings together. In order to drive awareness of the offerings with a clear call action, the social channel is used.</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong><strong>Join offers of Email Marketing</strong></p>
<p>You make sure that it is much essential to maintain a balance of content also on your social channels.</p>
<p>Keep in mind it’s important to <strong>maintain a balance of content on your social channels</strong>. The general rule is less than 20% of your content should be about your company. Therefore, a mix of your own content with information from relevant third parties is important.</p>
<p>The last thing you want is to have a social channel that is flooded with deals and promotions with very little customer engagement.</p>
<p>It will be important to think through why a customer would be interested in buying what you are offering and what the process is for them to actually make a purchase so that you can optimize the path to conversion<strong> </strong><strong>from the social channel to the sales funnel</strong><strong>.</strong>﻿</p>
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		<title>Guide of Search Retargeting for Search Marketers</title>
		<link>http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/google/guide-of-search-retargeting-for-search-marketers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who are search marketers have heard about search retargeting and most likely amiably let your counterparts on the display teams take charge. In this action, search marketers are right ever since when advertisers are managing campaigns for unique show &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/google/guide-of-search-retargeting-for-search-marketers/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Those who are search marketers have heard about search retargeting and most likely amiably let your counterparts on the display teams take charge. In this action, search marketers are right ever since when advertisers are managing campaigns for unique show ads and obviously search retargeting falls into the display camp. For search marketers, it can lead to missed huge opportunities to expand search campaigns. Search who are capped out on search and cannot afford certain keywords, search retargeting is one of the best tools. It is important to proper expectations and understanding must be in place to make search retargeting campaign winning in the eyes of a search marketer.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Below given information is helpful for you:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. </strong><strong>Search retargeting will not perform and search engine marketing</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we all know that search is one of the major performing forms of online advertising and it is important for search marketers to understand that search retargeting also uses search data and it will not perform and SEM.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>For this, you can find two essential reasons:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>On the search results page, search ads appear in above the fold position. Click through rates (CTRs) will usually higher than search retargeted display media since the ad is show after the search.</li>
<li>Consumers are ten to visit search engines before they are converting means conversion rates will be increased than in display!</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As an influencer think for search retargeting for what consumers type in the search engine and important factor in your search conversion</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The search data is extrapolated and used to power display advertising throughout the consideration phase. Ultimately, the consumers can also make his/her way back on search engine.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. </strong><strong>Get Information on how to measure search retargeting campaigns &amp; give your feedback to partner</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For search campaign<strong>, </strong>acknowledgment is extremely easy and if click leads to a conversion that click receives credit. Therefore, running display campaign means dealing with various touch points and paths to conversion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here, it is much difficult to tackle so you ensure to consider the following given points:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Make sure to give some credit to view through conversions</li>
<li>It is important to use a smart acknowledgment company such as Adometry</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With Google when you are running a pay-per-click campaign, you are able to make adjustments and affect performance on the fly from a self-service interface.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you are working with a complete service search retargeting partner then optimization is a joint effort between the search retargeting experts and the search marketer. Now, it becomes much important to communicate real-time campaign performance so adjustments can be made as wanted.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>3. </strong><strong>Influence your Assets and Experience but remain open to new ideas</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For a while, if you are running a search marketing campaigns then might be you have been rotating of high performance text ads. To search retargeting, the existing text ads are easily transferable. There are some retargeting partners that have a system of placing text ads within display boxes so you are able to use the existing text ads from given campaigns.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Therefore, you make sure that these ads are viewable because there are some search retargeting companies which are purchasing exchange media. As we all are considering the difference between keyword lists for search and keyword lists for display. There are lots of shades to keywords based display media and it is important to be their needs clear to SEM to make the leap to display.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>4. </strong> <strong>In order to monitor impressions, use ad verification software</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There is an uncertainty about running exchange media since there are many search marketers who do not run display media on a constant basis. You can also use an ad verification company such as Double Verify and AdSafe in order to stop such uncertainties. By this way, you are able to keep your campaigns safeguarded from the “wild wild west” of exchange based display inventory.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As per the comScore, the consumer search activity is still on the rise. If the search grows then prices will increase and the Googles, Yahoo’s and Bings of the world will have superior control over pricing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">For those who are using search marketing, search retargeting is completely affordable extension. Nobody knows performance-driven media is quite pretty as compare to search marketers. Search marketers have to understand the advantages rather than passing an opportunity as it is connected with display.</p>
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		<title>New Bulk Listing Management Tool launched by Google Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know that millions of people are using Google every day in order to search places in the real world. With this, people are able to manage their presence on Google. Through Google places, you can make more &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/google/new-bulk-listing-management-tool-launched-by-google-places/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we all know that millions of people are using Google every day in order to search places in the real world. With this, people are able to manage their presence on Google. Through Google places, you can make more informed decisions like where to go from restaurants and hotels to dry cleaners and bike shops and non-business places. Google place pages connect people to information from completely best sources around the world.</p>
<p>Recently, Google Places has declared some changes and new features in its bulk listing management tool which makes simpler for business owners with numerous locations. The changes which are made by Google affect both upload processes as well as management processes.</p>
<p><strong>The below given points are given from Google’s blog post:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Make sure to edit one or more of your listing data at once</li>
<li>Through your listings, search and filter by specific information or for listings with errors.</li>
<li>By using a data file or by adding them individually, upload new listings within the interface</li>
<li>You can also tell us that how we can enhance this new interface by clicking the “Give Feedback” link.</li>
</ul>
<p>Google has also put together two short videos showing the new features: first video is for new users which are not<strong> </strong>confirmed to do bulk uploads yet, and the second is for already-verified users.</p>
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		<title>Latest Google 50+ Updates for April 2012 Announced By Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all are waiting for the first Friday of the month as Google is sharing latest search quality updates with its users. Like previously, Google doesn’t disappointment its users this as it posted information related latest 53 changes that are &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/google/latest-google-50-updates-for-april-2012-announced-by-google/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">We all are waiting for the first Friday of the month as Google is sharing latest search quality updates with its users. Like previously, Google doesn’t disappointment its users this as it posted information related latest 53 changes that are related to search results. So, find out some of the interesting April’s Google Updates below:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">First of all, let’s start discuss about Penguin. Some of the updates are given below, which is specifically related to Penguin, Panda or others. They are:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Improvements to how search terms are scored in ranking</li>
<li>More authoritative results</li>
<li>Anchors bug fix</li>
<li>Improvement in a freshness signal</li>
<li>No freshness boost for low-quality content</li>
<li>Keyword stuffing classifier improvement</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Changes in Ranking: </strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>An improvement is made in freshness signal as a result minor change is occurred for improving identifies fresh documents.</li>
<li>For inferior content, no freshness can be boosted. A classifier have been modified by them in order to promote fresh content for excluding fresh content recognized as mainly low-quality.</li>
<li>For fresh results, smoother ranking changes that are helpful for searches to search out new web content like breaking news topics. They are trying to search out fresh content. This type of changes in ranking applied to more granular classifier that leads to more nuanced changes, which is based on freshness ranking.</li>
<li>Improvements are also done on how search terms are scored in ranking. The most basic signals, which are used in search, is whether and how your search terms appear on the pages you&#8217;re searching. The changes are based on the way the terms are scored.</li>
<li>Another one is backend improvements in serving that makes less computationally costly and extremely shortening code.</li>
<li>Google also set up keyword stuffing classifier improvement that helpful for detecting while website is keyword stuffing.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Changes related to Link Analysis:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Anchors bug fix:</span> This type of changes is occurred while fixing a bug, which is related to handling of anchors.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Index Updates:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Increase base index size by 15%:</span> For serving search results, the main index is the base search index and it is must for every query to match against this index. The number of documents is increased by the change, which is served by that index by 15%.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">New index tier: T</span>hey are keeping their index in &#8220;tiers&#8221;, where various documents are indexed at various rates that depend on how relevant they are likely to be to users. From April 2012, they introduced an extra indexing tier for supporting continued breadth in search results.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Changes related Images &amp; Videos:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Improvements done for SafeSearch for videos and images as while searching anytime important things, adult cont Improved SafeSearch models ent will display.</li>
<li>SafeSearch models are also improved for sorting out pages for SafeSearch in different 40+ languages.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Local Changes:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Get result from more local sites from organizations. It will helpful for finding an organization website from your country.</li>
<li>Improvements are made to local navigational searches. Searches that include location terms are likely to be ranked the local navigational homepages in first position although navigational page does not state the location.</li>
<li>Changes are to be done with comprehensive predictions for local queries. The comprehensiveness of auto complete predictions are enhanced through the improved changes with the expansion of coverage for long-tail U.S. local search queries like addresses or small businesses.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Changes related Search Listings:</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">More domain diversity:</span> Many a time, too many results are displayed in search returns for same domains so, with more domain diversity, one can easily get surface content from a more varied set of domains.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Label paginated documents:</span> Documents can dominate search results from a paginated series. In such case, surface more diverse results are helped by this change.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Country identification for WebPages:</span> Location is one of the essential signals, which is used for surfacing content more relevant to a specified country. They have designed systems that detect a website, sub domain, or directory is relevant to set of countries. The granularity of those systems is extended by this changes to the page level for sites that multitude user generated content.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Immobilize salience in snippets:</span> with the help of this system, one can easily update their system in order to create snippets to keep it reliable together with other infrastructure improvements. Consistency in the snippet generation process is also simplified and increased by it.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Enhanced query interpretation:</span> with this change, one can easily interpret the likely intention of your search query in better way, which is suggested by your last few searches</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">More characters/number of text from the beginning of the page in snippets</span>:  with this change, one can easily view text from the beginning of a page in snippets, when your text is relevant.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Improvements related to News universal results serving</span>: By shifting to extra unified system architecture, this change streamlines the serving of news results on Google.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Expanded site links with less snippet duplication:</span> Latest technology have been adopted by then in order to minimize duplication in the snippets of expanded sitelinks.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sub-sitelinks&#8221; in expanded sitelinks</span>: with this type of improvement, one can easily get deeper into megasitelinks by viewing sub-sitelinks in place of the normal snippet.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sitelinks data refresh:</span> An offline process generates Sitelinks that is analyzes site structure and other data to conclude the most relevant links to demonstrate users. Recently, they are updating data through our offline process. This type of update can be occurred regularly.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tweak to activate behavior for Instant Previews:</span> The trigger area for Instant Previews is narrowed by this type of change so user can’t able to view this type of changes in anticipation of you hover and pause over the icon to the right of each search result.   If you moused into a larger button area, this type of feature would trigger.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Enhanced ranking of expanded sitelinks: </span>The ranking of megasitelinks are improved by this kind of changes. It gives you minimum score for the sitelink, which is based on a score for the same URL that is used in general ranking.</li>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">More efficient generation of substitute titles: </span>A variety of signals are used by then in order to generate titles in search results. With the help of this change, one can easily makes the process more efficient and also save marvelous CPU resources without degrading quality.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">More concise and/or instructive titles: </span>While searching anything, we have to look number of factor that shows for the title of a search result. With this change, more informative titles and/or more concise titles can be found with same and appropriate information.</p>
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		<title>Upgrades List with Social Media Reports, Added by Google Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the month of March in Google Analytics, Google has publicized the release of new social reports. The new social reports include a Social Sources report, Overview Report, a Conversion Report and a Social Plusgins Report.  Now, the company again &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/social-media/upgrades-list-with-social-media-reports-added-by-google-analytics/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">In the month of March in Google Analytics, Google has publicized the release of new social reports. The new social reports include a Social Sources report, Overview Report, a Conversion Report and a Social Plusgins Report.  Now, the company again has announced some additional expansion of social reports.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google’s showing backlink URLs and post titles within the social reports. More than 100000 websites are using this as Google Analytics continues to grow in importance for web publishers. To its Google Analytics, after completing an important upgrade the search engine giant is adding to the product with the opening of social media reports. One of the most popular website tracking tools has rolled out a series of upgrades which provide valuable website-tracking tools for web professionals.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Ilya Grigorik says with Google’s Analytics team “The concept of trackbacks, a protocol by which different sites could notify each other of referencing links, first emerged back in 2002”. “Since then, the blogosphere has grown in leaps and bounds, but the requirement for each site to explicitly implement this protocol has always stood in the way of adoption. If only you could crawl the web and build an accurate link graphs. The good news is we already do that at Google, and are now providing this insight to Google Analytics users.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Grigori says ““These reports provide another layer of social insight showing which of your content attracts links, and enables you to keep track of conversations across other sites that link to your content”. “Most website and blog owners had no easy mechanism to do this in the past, but we see it as another important feature for holistic social media reports. When you know what your most linked content is, it is then also much easier to replicate the success and ensure that you are building relationships with those users who actively link to you the most.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Definitely, the social reports are welcome to Google Analytics users and any data Google can add to the mix is a good thing. From Poynter, there was actually an interesting report this week the impact of the “not provided” data on news sites. Recently, Poynter has also revealed that 29% of its own searches in April were not provided.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a result of Google’s encrypted-by-default search experience for signed in users, the not provided data comes. The new data that Google is offering may help you to ease the pain.</p>
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		<title>Boost Your Search Ad Campaign by Implementing 5 Effective Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 03:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blurbpoint Admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the powerful ways to reach local consumers is through Search advertising. With Search advertising means, one can gather information related products and services that are offered. According to some research, web masters improve their result by doing some &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/ppc/boost-your-search-ad-campaign-by-implementing-5-effective-ways/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the powerful ways to reach local consumers is through Search advertising. With Search advertising means, one can gather information related products and services that are offered. According to some research, web masters improve their result by doing some kind of search in order to promote their business online. It is studied by Google that the combination of search advertising and SEO can result into an incremental lift in search ad clicks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With this, we can identify that the key to flourishing search advertising campaign is frequently outside of the campaign itself. Your search performance of campaign can be considerably contributed by the other areas of your online presence and it is also considered as essential part of receiving more leads.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Landing Page Optimization: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Webmaster must have to make an effective landing page for your search advertising campaign, if he wants to drive more conversions. Consumer should instantly see your primary conversion path, i.e. phone number, while they are visits your landing page. With the help of primary conversion path, one can easily know what to do in order to contact you. For Example: “Call Now for a Free Quote.” In short, landing page should be direct your visitor clearly and also helpful for communicating the advantage of your business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Make Web Presence through Mobile </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is reported by Nielsen that half of U.S. mobile phone users have Smartphone and more people like to buy it. With this, we can suppose that number of people is finding local business through a mobile device and if you are not making web presence through mobile then you may lost many potential customers. Both things include a mobile component in user’s search advertising campaign and also develop a mobile-ready website, which is necessary for driving mobile searchers to your business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is also better for you to claim your local business on Google Places and also other local listing sites such as Yelp, which are also mobile counterparts that helps to boost your mobile presence. It is researched that 30% of all searches will be local by 2015 so it is time for you to think regarding creating entire Web presence. One can have to keep in mind while enhancing your Web presence and also make sure that you can make out more from your advertising campaign.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Track, Manage, and Analyze “Quality Score”</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A quality score is one type of search engine’s formulaic way through which we can easily decide where, when, and for what cost your search ads run. One of the necessary things for maintaining a high quality score is to know constancy between text ads and landing page as they are helpful in improving placement on the search engine results page and also poorer the bid prices for top-performing keywords.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Supervise Your Online Reputation</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Make your website’s position on first page, so that user can easily find your website as a result business will increase. Some of the basic factors such as consumer visits you site, clicks on your ad, or buys from you, etc. can decide your website’s online reputation. In search results, one can also find various Blog posts, reviews, and comments about your business; this will give you an idea about your business presence. Aside to that, positive web presence is also created.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Convert New Leads with Remarketing</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is great to receive traffic to your website with search advertising. On other side, if we are not able to convert it properly then remarketing is one of the successful methods for re-engaging them, while they are leaving your site. Users, who leave your landing page, can able to view ads as the surf the Internet with the help of remarketing technology with targeted display ads. Your search advertising campaign can be extended by recapturing these lost prospects and also helpful for boosting more number of conversions. ﻿</p>
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		<title>Penguins &amp; Pandas &#8211; Big Panic for Webmasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24th April 2012, with the release of the “Penguin” update, the war of Google on lovable critters raised. Some protest is caused by every major algorithm update that crosses all the record levels. But, this “Penguin” update is considered &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/seo/penguins-pandas-big-panic-for-webmasters/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">On 24<sup>th</sup> April 2012, with the release of the “Penguin” update, the war of Google on lovable critters raised. Some protest is caused by every major algorithm update that crosses all the record levels. But, this “Penguin” update is considered as worsen than an “over-optimization” penalty. Most of Webmasters and SEOs are worrying as this updates, minimize traffic and revenue as well. Here, one can find latest algorithm update that is helpful for maintain your websites at good level.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>(1) What we have Idea About</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Generally, low-quality link profiles have been suggested by many people, but after Google’s recent attack on link networks complicated analysis of Panda, which like to be manual and has possibly been going on for many weeks. Still, lot of speculation is there such as Aggressive exact-match anchor text, Overuse of exact-match domains, Low-quality article marketing &amp; blog spam, and Keyword stuffing in internal/outbound links, but likely culprits.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>About the Timeline</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">April 24<sup>th</sup> was the official roll-out date for Penguin and in single day, it seems to have rolled out while on April 19<sup>th</sup>, Panda 3.5 rolled out. Many sites are tagged as parked domains mistakenly are caused by a data glitch on 16<sup>th</sup> April. In the month of April, a large number of unnatural link notices are to be sent by Google through Google Webmaster Tools. For many webmasters, the month of April was the cruelest month.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>Is It Going Away?</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Webmasters must be thinking about Penguin.  Penguin wasn’t accidental as Google is serious to fight for spam tactics, which are lasting for long time. Google doesn’t make any kind of adjustments, but it is likely continue to tweak Penguin.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>(2) What to Do</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The advice of overlapping timelines is applied to any Google update, not for Penguin. As we all know that algorithm is changing continually and here, you will find some tools that are helpful for surviving not only Penguin, but also Zebra, Skunk, Orca, and any other black-and-white animals.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>DO Take a Deep Breath</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It doesn’t matter how hard Penguin effect to your website, you just have to take a breath and assess the damage. It is advisable for you to excavate into your analytics and search out reason of sustained losses. Through channel, engine, keyword, and page, you can also segment your data as much you can. It is advisable to gather information related traffic that your website has lost.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>DO Check the Timeline</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Even if, the core Penguin factors are very difficult to analyze with the overlapping timelines, the actual timeline is identified at the time of Penguin rolled out is clear. It is be considered by evaluating major traffic losses between Thursday, 24<sup>th</sup> April and Friday, 25<sup>th</sup> April.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>DO Quickly Audit Your SEO</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is advisable to ensure what SEO efforts are underway for your team as well as any 3rd-party contractors.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>(3) What Not to Do</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we all know that Panic leads to harsh action. If any overreacting change taken place to an algorithm, it destroys business. Here, you will find some points that will give you an idea about what not to do with your site:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>DON’T Take a Hatchet to Your Links</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is not clear that how Penguin is penalized links. One of the worst things webmasters are doing is to start simply Hatchet at back-links. If you are cutting such link, it causes some problems as a result rankings drop. It is very difficult to tackle with the problem, but some of the worst culprits are</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1.       Links in networks Google has recently delisted</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2.       Other site-wide links with exact-match anchors</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3.       Known, obvious paid links</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4.       Footer links with exact-match anchor text</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>DON’T “De-optimize” Without a Plan</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Most of people have “wrong” page ranking complaints. In order to de-optimizing the page, one can have to get the “right” page to rank well. To make right page rank well, one can have to add a decent TITLE tag and also deduct keywords to leave behind Swiss-cheese copy.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>DON’T Submit a Reconsideration Request</strong></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Penguin is an algorithmic changes that reconsideration inappropriate avenue. One cannot it as a manual penalty. The recent crackdown on link networks impacted your site and if you remove such link or engaged in other suspicious link-building then you have to consider requesting reconsideration. A form for sites is created by Google, which is unfairly hit by Penguin. But, it is quite difficult to suppose that it will result into manual action.</p>
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		<title>Google Penguin Update: Important things that you should Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 03:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Google has updated its ranking algorithm and they are also giving their attention on penalizing websites which use “over-optimization” and devious web spam strategy to generate links. The Penguin Update is the official name and when it comes &#8230; <a href="http://www.blurbpoint.com/blog/google/google-penguin-update-important-things-that-you-should-know/"><span class="meta-nav"></span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Once again, Google has updated its ranking algorithm and they are also giving their attention on penalizing websites which use “over-optimization” and devious web spam strategy to generate links. The Penguin Update is the official name and when it comes to talk about penguin then it is a fine-tuned version which is targeting those which are violating Google’s quality guidelines.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The people who don’t rely on outdated, spammy technologies don’t have to worry about. Mainly, these updates are affecting websites which have very little to no quality content and also those website that are neglecting inbound link’s strategies to game the system and get undeserved traffic. From past few weeks, Glenn Gabe at G-squared Interactive has been researching on those websites which have been hardest hit. If you are applying any of these SEO strategies to your website then you might want to address.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Well-matched Domains</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this involves those companies which wanted to rank high for an accurate set of keywords and also purchasing domain names with these words in the title. When it comes to showing up high in the search engines, having a keyword rich URL is completely good method. If it is making any sense to doing so then it might fine for you and you will not face any kind of penalties. There are some companies that are abusing by buying up various URLs to dominate a given market. But still, it is unclear if Google Penguin update is actually going after this but experts believe that even if they are not targeting well-matched domain abuse.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Paid text links with accurate anchor text</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, Google makes it very clear that they don’t overlook for links. When any website has various numbers of unnatural inbound links with anchor text then it is perfect as it increases a red flag. When any website gets a natural link to it, the anchor text is varied as there are different people who are adding the links. Such types of links are paid in various cases and Google is well aware.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Comment Spam:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Recently, I visit through blog on my websites and the numbers of comment spam I get is insane. Generally, it is auto-generated and filled with lots of keywords. For Google, it is extremely easy to this and punishes websites which are using such technologies to generate backlinks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Visitor’s Posts on Questionable sites: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As we all know that visitor’s posts are always been great way to build quality backlinks. There are some cases in which visitor’s authors are causal to the online community. And it is accurately what that Google wants to see. You also understand that not all the blogs are created equally and guest authors should have to focus on writing for quality websites.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Marketing of Article</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Very often, article marketing involves webmasters writing very under-developed article that is not focusing heavily on keywords and anchor text links within the article. Generally, they are not necessarily written to be read by humans as much as by the search engines. Well, article marketing has very long link-building mainstay and its day are figured.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Concluding Thoughts:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the most important things to remember is that Google is getting smarter and smarter every single day. There are lots of SEO methods that worked in the past and still those methods are working but as we move forward they are going to be repeatedly phased out. It goes without saying that Google needs good quality content to be pushed to the top of the pile and if you want to do good for long time in search engine rankings then to create good content which people want to link to.</p>
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