Twitter Widgets

Twitter is the new Buzz for Tech Savvy personel involved in Web2.0 and Blogging. A Twitter widget with latest updates is a integrated part of Blogs these days. Most of the Twitter widgets on Blog are either Flash based or Javascript based. There are many other tools that can be used in creating a Twitter Widget. You can even use Google Spreadsheets for the purpose of creating Twitter Widgets. The most exciting and interesting thing is that twitter updates can be shown on blogs and images. And these images can be used anywhere be it forums, blogs, websites, or any other Social Media Profile.

1. Tweetsnap (Tweetsnap.com): - When you open up tweetsnap, you will see a simple page with a field to enter your twitter username. After you enter your name and hit the Find button, you'll see your most recent tweet on a nice bluish Twitter widget that is in image format (png). Below it, you'll find snippets of code to copy and paste on your site. Just copy what's desirable for you and use it on your blog, forum etc.
2. Retweet Button : - Move over Digg, there's a new article badge in town. Retweet buttons are becoming increasingly popular for blogs and news articles, and they are relatively simple to install. You can put these buttons on your website, blog, embed them in email or even put them in your RSS feed.
3. Twoxit Widget : - This simple Twitter widget from Widgetbox is easily customizable, so you can match the background to your blog. You can also easily transport the widget to Facebook, MySpace  or any number of social networking profiles or blogging networks like WordPress or Blogger.
4. SayTweet (Saytweet.com): - It first asks you to upload one of your images. You can also add a group photo of you and your friends. This amazing tool lets you add your Twitter update on this image in speech bubbles. The unique feature of this is that you can add multiple Twitter usernames and show tweets from everyone. I think it's the coolest way to display tweets.

You Have A Brand New Site What To Do Now For Its Optimization

There are many people who make or are planning to make a great sites or blogs etc with very good information in it. But many of us don't know how to get the site indexed in Google, Yahoo, Bing Etc. This blog is intended for those people and many of us to help them with their sites. This will teach you how to popularize your site from very beginning starting from getting a domain to using SEO Tecniques(Basic). These are the steps you can care about for your site:-
1. The first thing is that look for a good URL name for your site so that it contains one of your many keywords about your site's content. And choose that name also for your Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Gmail or any other account. Because we want our site to get indexed as soon as possible on the web. And if possible we can make create these accounts even before the launch of our site/blog. 
2. Select a Good Domain provider like Godaddy. they are very genuine domain providers with a more than million customers. They have a lots of tools built into their service and the best thing is is that they have good customer support. 
3. Avoid using dashes, commas or hyphens etc in your URL name. You think of a good name for your website try getting that nam,e registered as soon as possible. As good names do not wait for you for long, someone else will take that name and you will loose a good domain name which could have boosted your business or product. Good things never wait longer you have to grasp them ASAP if available. 
4. Create good content for your website. Organise your website. Use good HTML codes to make your website. Avoid duplicate contents in your content. Use appropriate tags where ever necessary. Make your webpages light in weight so that it loads up ASAP when the visitor lands on your page else the visitor will skip to some other link for meet their need. Will you like this to happen, I think no body will like this. 
5. Get a Twitter account in the name of your registered domain. Set a link of your website in the Twitter account. Start Twittering. This will help you make ground for you to populate your links. This will help you in getting a place in the organic search result for your website. 
6. Get a Facebook account for your site. Start talking about your site, products and services with your friends. This will make your product public much before you will launch the site. 
7. A Gmail account is most important aswell. A gmail account will help you in doing your sites SEO if you are doing it yourself. As Gmail has great SEO Tools Like Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools and it gives you access to many other accounts like You Tube. Also setup a LinkedIn account and put your site's link there. The aim is to set as many links as you can pointing towards your website and remember these links are quality links. 
8. You can opt for a blog of your site on your website domain itself. Keep updating that blog on a regular basis. This will drive huge traffic to your website. If this is not possible then you can also opt for the services of Blogger for your blog. Make the blog URL on Blogger with the same URL that you are owning for your site. This will eventually bring traffic to your primary website. But Dont forget to talk about your product and services and other essential things related to your business in your blog on a regular basis. Search Engines like Fresh content and quality content about or on any subject. Search Engine will give prefrence to that. 
9. Make as many quality link for your site as you can. I will suggest One Way Link building for this through directory submission. Submit your site to as many online directories to your relevant category. Never spam your link, otherwise Google will penalize you for this. 
10. Write a few good article about your site, services and products and submit them to article directories. Submit them to directories with good PR. 
These are the basic things that all of us can do with a little bit Googling and asking from friends and collegues who have some knowledge on this. Follow these steps and your site will certainly get good visibility and quality audience. 
CHEERSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Web Video Optimization Techniques

Optimizing web videos has become very important as the use and size of videos has increased on the Web. Here are some practices used prominently by many people.

While streaming-media files make up only a small portion of the total web objects on the average web page. YouTube is responsible for about 10% of all traffic on the Internet (Nowak 2007) and is growing at over 162% a year (see Table 1). Consequently the optimization of streaming media, movies in particular, is important to minimize load times, reduce bandwidth bills, and maximize web page speed.

Site	Unique Visitors (1000s) (Jan 2010)	Year-over-year growth
1. YouTube	66,378	162%
2. Google Video	23,759	137%
3. AOL Video	18,687	114%
4. Yahoo! Video	17,473	405%
5. vids.myspace.com	14,281	69%
6. MSN Video	19,967	8%

Video Production Tips

To create highly optimizable videos you've got to have high quality originals videos. Video creation is like a war for your promotion of product. Use a high quality digital video camera to make your video, as there will be less noise in your video content. Minimize pans, zooms, and subject motion and make sure your subject is well oriented and visible and loud for the audiences to catch their attention. Use a simple background and a solid tripod for the camera. Avoid hand-held shots, but if a tripod is not an option use a gyroscopic stabilizer or an image stabilized lens. The lower the noise, movement, and fine detail in the background the smaller the video. Smaller the video the less space it will need on the web server and the faster it will be available to the user.

• Minimize camera motion with a tripod
• Minimize subject motion
• Use a lot of light
• Use a simple background
• Avoid camera pans and zooms
• Use professional equipment
• Use a digital format

Video Optimization for the Web

Movies optimized for the web should be short in duration, small in dimension, and optimized with the appropriate codec. I have seen movies that are 12 to 20 minutes long auto-loaded on home pages some 90-150MB in file size! People are more accepting of temporal compression (over time) than spatial compression (frame per frame). You can cut the frame rate from 15fps to 10fps or even 8fps, each frame will have 50 percent more data per frame for the same file size, which will increase the quality of the picture. The minimum dimensions should be 320x240 pixels, anything much smaller has less impact and is hard to view. For users with a high speed connection you can offer a 400x300 pixel video. To maintain quality, up the data rate in proportion to the image size. Remember that doubling image size (320x240 to 640x480) requires a 4X (not 2X) increase in data rate.
Use this data rate formula to help target your movie for the right delivery medium (especially with H.264).
Data Rate = (frames per second) X (movie width) X (movie height) divided by 29000
This translates to DR = FPS * W * H / 29000.
For example: A 320x240 movies with 15 frames per second needs to be compressed to about 39.7K of data per second.
After you've captured your video while minimizing noise edit any unnecessary frames and add titles and effects. The key to optimizing movies on the web is to break them up into smaller segments that are a few minutes long at most. Edit out the parts of the movie that aren't essential to your message, crop fuzzy edges, and reduce the dimensions to keep them to a reasonable file size. Use the minimum frame rate that gives an acceptable playback. Finally after editing out nonessential content, reducing dimensions and frame rate, optimize your videos with different codecs to see which creates the smallest acceptable file.

• Crop the fuzzy edges
• Reduce video noise (with filters)
• Adjust contrast
• Adjust gamma level (for cross-platform viewing)
• Restore black and white
• Deinterlace

Compressing Videos for the Web

Now that you've got your video prepared and adjusted it's time to compress it. This is called "encoding" in the jargon of the industry. You must compress the size of your video so it can be successfully streamed (or downloaded) to your target audience. Encoding is the process where this compression happens, and it is full of hard interdependent decisions:

• Streaming Media Format - QuickTime versus RealMedia versus Windows Media
• Supported playback platforms - Microsoft Windows versus Macintosh, or both
• Delivery method - True real-time streaming versus HTTP streaming
• Overall data rate - Compression versus quality versus bandwidth required
• Audio quality - Mono versus stereo.
• Codec - H.264, Sorenson and WMV are the current champs.
• You'll need to make some decisions here to give the best compromise between quality and size. QuickTime Pro is a fast and convenient way to create optimized videos. For more control you can use Cleaner, a product made by Discreet (http://www.discreet.com). Sorenson Video Pro can sometimes make smaller videos than H.264 at similar quality. Finally Episode Pro offers maximum control over video compression with the ability to compress to H.264, Flash, ipod, and other formats. 

There are many terms which are quite technical here. Need some more Googling on those terms for you to undersatand them clearly as all these things are related to Video Making and many of us are not aware with all these terms. Need not to worry even I understood these things by extensive search on related sited. I have tried to give resources for those things. Hope you will find them usefull as well.
CHEERS!!! ENJOY VIDEO OPTIMIZING

Social Media Optimization

Social Media Optimization




Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a term coined by Rohit BHargava an Indian man. He has related this concept with SEO concepts. He said SMO can bring lots of traffic to your site through new channel or routes as it is not only through Google and Yahho or other search engines that drive traffic to your site. 


SMO is - The online tool and platform that people use to share opinions, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis etc. Example are Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, My Space, etc to count a few.


Social Media Optimization allows to let you populate your links on the web. These links are spread into all your friends and community connections. When sending your links to persons with like interest can give great exposure to your links with your message.   


Rules For SMO Are :- 


1. Increase Your Linkability
2. Make Tagging and Bookmarking easy
3. Reward Inbound Links 
4. Help Your Content Travel
5. Encourage the Mashup
6. Be a User Resource, Even if it Doesn't Help You 
7. Reward Helpful and Valuable Users
8. In way it sounds a whole lot like Marketing 2.0. It is pretty much includes all the new marketing techniques that are becoming popular rolled into one,     techniques such as; Linkbaiting, Usability Design, Buzz Marketing, Community Building, and anything that can be considered "pull marketing".
9. Participate - Join the conversation. Social Media is a two way street, lets not forget that. By conversing with the community you are creating awareness and prolonging your buzz. You are keeping it going and this often results in a snowball effect. Participating helps your message spread further and faster. 
10. Know how to target your audience - If you don't even know your target audience you are in trouble. There is always going to be a certain audience you can appeal to and others that you can't. So know your appeal and who it is appealing to. 
11. Create content - There are certain kinds of content that just naturally spread socially. It does not matter what industry you are in and what boring products you sell, there is always some kind of content that can be created that will be useful for someone. Whether it is creating widgets, making people laugh, or writing a anything, it can be done. Know what type of content can work for you and create it.
12. Be real.


While social media optimization is becoming very important we should not forget about old SEO either. Google and Yahoo still drive mass amounts of traffic and you can not ignore them. It is all about exploring new mediums and riding these waves. But Still these new mediums are a strong way to do good for your site to do better ranking and business in terms of driving traffic to the site. 

Tag Clouds

Tag Clouds




Since last few days I was thinking to write something on Tag Clouds. Done many reading and probings. finally I came up with this piece of information to put it on my blog.


A Tag Cloud is a to show content tags used in a website. The tags that are frequently used are shown in some larger font, or they are put in bold characters. These tags are arranged generally in alphabetical order. When you put mouse curser on a particular tag the no of contents or pages available related to that tag is displayed there. There are various sizes for different tags so as to provide relative importance of the tags depending on the links attached with the tag.

There Are Three Types Of Tag-Clouds:

These three types of clouds are classified according to their meaning and not according to their appearance. In the first type, there is a tag cloud for each separate kind of content/item. In the second type there are global tag clouds where the occurrence among all  content/item and users. 
In the first type of Tag Cloud, size of cloud represents the total number of times the particular tag has been applied to a single ITEM. This is useful in displaying Meta Data of an ITEM that has been voted. Like some music track which displays the genre with which an artist or track has been tagged.  
In the Secong Tag Cloud Type - more commonly used type tags are included. It is based on size, represented by the number of items where the tag has been applied as a identity for the content. Like we have tagged some Website designing company with the tag - Website / Web Design. The more no of sites are tagged with this word the more will be the popularity of this tag. We can see this in Bookmarking Sites.

In the Third type of Tag Clouds - tags are used for categorizing for CONTENT / ITEMS. The tags are represented in a Tag Cloud in which large tags represents the quantity of content items in that category of tag. 


Tag Cloud Generators:
We have a lots of options to generate tag clouds. These tag cloud generating tools analyze the keywords, or the most frequent words being used in the texts or in the content of the website.  Static Website needs different kind of tools for this whereas the Dynamic sites need some special plug-ins to display and generate the Tag Clouds. 


1. Google Tag Cloud Maker
2. TagCrowd
3. TagmyCloud
4. Tag Cloud
5. Text Tagcloud
6. Tag Cloud Generator
7. MakeCloud
8. ZoomClouds
You can Google these terms and use any of the available services for generating tag clouds for your website. 

This Is The Tag Cloud For My Blog:

   Natural Optimization

   Google

   Optimisation

   Mini Sites

   Directory Submission

   Articles

   Title

   Online Business

   Traffic

   Website

   Wordpress

   seo

   Page Rank

   Search Engine

   Backlinks

   Blog

   Ranking

   Bing

   Yahoo

   Bookmarking

   Web 2.0

   SEO Result

   Domain

   Web Marketing

   Link Exchange

   SEM

   Web

   Analytics

   Adsense

   RSS

Few Quick SEO Tips For Yahoo, Bing & Google Search Engines

Be The Leader - Yahoo, Bing & Google Search Engines


To get well ranked on a search engine is really a dream for all Search Engines Professionals. We all follow the normal techniques for our sites to do well. We all put in that a lot of efforts. If we can organize ourself and follow some simple steps you will get a good response for sure. 
I am writing here some short tips in a organized way - that we all know:


1. Optimize, Organize and Update your website content(do keep in mind to write content only on your website theme, products and services) on a regular basis. Keep in mind your theme and you will have a good content written at the end when you will finish up writing. This content will be loved by the targeted audiences as well as by the search engines too.


2. Track the Meta Title and Meta Description Tags along with other Meta Tags. These tags are very important for your sites to get searched and indexed.  


3. Be sure to add your main keywords(Search Phrases) in the Title and Description Meta Tags. Keep the title and description length as per the specifications.


4. Link Exchange only with quality sites that matches your sites theme and business products. High quality links will attract and persuade your visitors. Visitors will get sticked to your site.


5. Avoid pushing yourself to "Link Farming"!!!. Create quality inbound links through Social Bookmarking, Article Submission, Social Media Platforms like - Facebook, Twitter etc. and Press Releases.


6. Improve your site download times. Sites having slow download times will makes your visitors to bounce to some another site for their need.   


-->What Is Link Farming?


It is a process of exchanging links with websites in order to make good search engine optimization result. The idea is to increase the number of sites that link to your site, because Search Engines loves this. But When you will make this practice into pushing your links Google will penalize you for this and will consider this as SPAM. 


Stick @@@@ quality links only!!!

Links And Resources

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Blog Directory


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Search Engine Optimization and SEO Tools

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The Idea Behind SEO Trends & Tricks

Hello Guys.

Great appreciation to you all on landing this page and having given your valuable time to look into this blog. I got an idea to share with my friends and team-mates the knowledge I have. Many a times we are all known with many things but usually it is not possible for all of us to grasp and keep in mind all the things taht we know. I started this blog as a initiative to make together major SEO Trends & Tricks followed in the real time and having success.

SEO Trends & Tricks- Will bring many new and emerging trends that is widely followed by some very well know SEO's round the globe. I am very sure you will follow my blog and provide me with your ideas and thoughts to make this blog really useful.This blog will help you in optimizing your Web Sites and Web Contents. I Will add many things that are useful. I will try to make sure that I only provide you facts and trends that are successful and that I personally trust upon.

Need For SEO Trends & Tricks:

Being a SEO myself I felt the need to start such a thing that will help me as well as a lot of SEO's around.

Whats More That You Will See Here In Future?

You Will Some very good article on Technogy mainly on computers. As I am also a computer Technology article writer. I Started this as I have a Bacheolor Of Technology degree in Information Technology. So I have a understanding in computer related things and trends.

And you will continue reading latest trends being followed in SEO.

  






                                                                                        

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   Title   Online Business   Traffic   Website   Wordpress   seo   Page Rank   Search Engine   Backlinks   Blog   Ranking   Bing   Yahoo   Bookmarking   Web 2.0   SEO Result   Domain   Web Marketing   Link Exchange   SEM   Web   Analytics   Adsense   RSS

What is Google Knol & How To Use Google Knol Effectively?

What is Google Knol & How To Use Google Knol Effectively?

The main idea behind Google Knol is to put you in control of sharing your expertise and knowledge with the world. According to Google, a knol is

a single unit of knowledge, and the Google Knol is a platform for sharing that knowledge.

Google Knol is actually more like Squidoo and Hubpages that allow you to write and publish a web page on any subject. For example, you can

open up your Google Knol with a team of people or even open it up to the public. This means you don't have to be the author ow writer of your

Knol by yourself. You can be part of a team even you can yourself own the knol.

How To Create a Google Knol?

To start writing on Google Knol is a simple process. The only thing you need is a Google Account. Once you sign into your account, you can start

writing your Knol by clicking on the big "Write a Knol" button in the upper right corner of the home page. To make it easy, this button exists on

most pages in Google Knol, so you can start writing your own Knol from almost anywhere.

The process of writing a Knol is very simple. You are provided with a WYSIWYG editor, and except for a few things like a title and a summary, you

do most of your work writing your Knol just as you might write something in Microsoft Word.

For those who know HTML, its easier to see and edit the code directly. You can even create your own styles of your Knol. This makes Google

Knol different from wikis or other web hubs.

Why To Use Google Knol?

There are many different reasons to being using Google Knol. If you like sharing what you know, Google Knol is an excellent choice along with

wikis and other web hubs. Google Knol is also great for those wanting to create a web hub with a small team of people but don't want to open it

up to the entire world.

Here are a few ideas for using Google Knol:

>>Writing about something you are an expert on
>>Sharing your love and knowledge of a hobby
>>Creating your own personal web page all about you
>>Promoting a product or an event
>>Answering a frequently asked question or dispelling an urban myth
>>Making a little extra money by putting advertisements on your Google Knol

So what are you waiting for? Start Knolling by writing something you are well known with. Share your knowledge with the world. You can also create a knol page for the content or website you want the world to know. Make your content original and genuine. I am sure your Knol will appear in the search result.

Cheers!!! Start knolling........

Content Strategy

Content Strategy is an vast emerging field of practice within the discipline of User Experience Design (UXD). It also describes in a professional context the roles, work products, knowledge, methodology, and perspectives of content strategists.
Content is a substance. No matter the publication , platform, or format, content refers to everything that conveys meaning. Content includes the text, graphics, video, and audio that make up an interactive experience. Technically, Web content can be anything that
appears on a website, including words, pictures, video, sounds, downloadable files (PDF), buttons, icons, and logos. Everything is content.

Prominent Content Strategists
1. e bay
2. Facebook
3. Verizon
4. General Mills etc.....
Content Strategy Work Products
The work products typical of content strategy are diverse:
* Content inventory
* Copy deck
* Content assessment
* Editorial strategy
* Content audit
* Content gap analysis
* Comparative content analysis
* Content and messaging strategy
* Content conversion/migration strategy
* Content flow schematic
* Content approval workflow
* Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy
* Metadata strategy
* Editorial calendar
* Brand strategy
* Style guide

Articles Exchange

Articles exchange is a new and powerful way to achieve mutual website promotion and to improve your website Google PageRank.

As you know, major search engines are trying to diminish the value of traditional text link exchange. They created and successfully implemented different algorithms to find out if links, which are pointing to your website, belong to link exchange companies and are not natural links that webmasters place as a result of your websites' recognition and appreciation.

In order to make your website popular and successful, you must find a way to have your website mentioned or linked on relevant websites and you must make sure links do not belong to any link exchange farms.