Google’s Webmaster Central team has posted a video Matt Cutts that answers the question: “Will Google consider Yahoo! Directory and BOTW as source of paid links? If no, why is this different from another site that sell links.
this is a very important answer for all of us. Look at it!
What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.
* 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
* 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
* 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
* 100 million – New email users since the year before.
* 81% – The percentage of emails that were spam.
* 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
* 24% – Increase in spam since last year.
* 200 billion – The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).
Websites
* 234 million – The number of websites as of December 2009.
* 47 million – Added websites in 2009. (more…)
You’ve just redesigned some pages of your web site. The pages have high search engine rankings that you don’t want to lose. How can you safely redirect web site traffic from your old pages to the new pages without losing your rankings? You can do this by using a ” 301 redirect “
What is 301 redirect?
301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web
site. The code “301″ is interpreted as “moved permanently”. After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is
noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new location or file name. You implement the 301 redirect by creating a .htaccess file.
What is a .htaccess file?
When a visitor/spider requests a web page, your web server checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains specific instructions for certain requests, including security, redirection issues and how to handle certain errors.
How to implement the 301 Redirect
1. To create a .htaccess file, open notepad, name and save the file as .htaccess (there is no extension).
2. If you already have a .htaccess file on your server, download it to your desktop for editing.
3. Place this code in your .htaccess file:
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm
4. If the .htaccess file already has lines of code in it, skip a line, then add the above code.
5. Save the .htaccess file
6. Upload this file to the root folder of your server. (more…)
This post is follow up to the post which Neil Patel recently posted on Tech Crunch.
In Neil Patel’s post, he talked how we can deepen relationship with our users. So I thought it would be great to show how transparency can affect building relationship with your users.
Ask yourself: How many blogs do you read on daily basis and do you know owner/ authors of those blogs? Many of you will be knowing complete history about blog’s author/owner, right?
Now ask yourself again: How many blogs you read and you don’t know anything about their owner/author? Very few, aren’t they?
So why is this? Why people only love to read blogs about those who they know about?
Humans have tendency of allotting value to each and every entity. The more the value they allot, more they want to know about them. Likewise same thing is applicable for websites and blogs. If you are a leader in some niche and dominate the marketplace users will love to read, buy, and share your stuff. And if you are not a leader but just an average guy, transparency factors can affect you the most, as no one knows about you why would they care reading, buying and sharing your stuff? The more you be transparent with your users, more they like you. It triggers the trust of being complete genuine person in the users mind.
Before you be transparent, you need to set your goals and targets in your mind. Once you do that you can act accordingly. Even tough being transparent is good thing, it also can hurt/damage you. So be careful on what you share and how you share. Try to be yourself and genuine. So here are the ways:
Sharing knowledge is not only going to win users heart but it can convince potential buyer to convert into real buyer for being a genuine and knowledgeable person.
The World Wide Web is continuously expanding day-by-day. The total number of sites over internet has reached 235 Million as on May 2009( as per Netcraft Survey)
This count was 231 Million in the earlier month survey.
But this count is not completely accurate, as it takes into account the responses from the users using Netcraft toolbar.
So its just like Alexa traffic rankings.