When you enter into Google search and move into personalised home page, some themes from Google are pretty good and intresting nowadays. When you add a tab and name it as SEO, the top sites related to SEO are automatically loaded in the tab.

RankQuest SEO Gadget is an online SEO Resource where SEO made easy. It provides you a smart online SEO experience with quick access to SEO Tools,SEO Tips and SEO DIFF for a specified URL. The SEO based search engine SEOlens is another added advantage.

With Google personalised home page, it’s possible to add extra content to your home page. Adding Search Engine Optimization resource to your home page will simplify your SEO activities.

• In “SEO Tips” tab, tip of the day with search engine optimization articles related to the tip is shown.

• In the “SEO Tools” tab, you get quick access to Server Header Checker, Text Ratio, Web speed report and Broken links. To get access to more tools click on “more>” link.

• In the “History” tab, user can access RankQuest SEODIFF which is a free URL tracking service. The difference of the website content compared with the day before is shown in the gadget itself.

• SEOLens is the dedicated search engine made exclusive for the SEM community. The SEOLens helps users in cutting down their time spent on generic results. The results are from guaranteed source, which is manually reviewed by the RankQuest Team.

Add the gadget to your homepage, just enter the URL to be tracked. Experience the smartness of RankQuest SEO Gadget.

Mark

SEO Tags : RankQuest SEO Gadget, SEO, Google Personalised Home Page

With all those features of toolbar, Alexa Rank has also been added to the RankQuest SEO Toolbar. Watch the traffic by just loading your site on the browser.

When your site loads, the Alexa Rank for your site is shown. On mouse over the exact rank is shown in numbers.

Mark

SEO Tags : SEO Toolbar, Alexa Rank, RankQuest, RankQuest SEO Toolbar,

SEO Home has reported that MSN UK autofills the searchbox with the term today with ” Euro 2008 results” and yesterday with “The Apprentice BBC” and making relevant ads as you search the term.

The search takes you to buy Euro 2000 tickets. These seem to be a type of advertisement.

Mark

SEO Tags : MSN, MSN UK, Autofill search term

Neil Patel from Pronetadvertising has created a fun game and to know more about search engines. Neil Patel says,

Search Engine Smackdown is a fun game where you can be the Google founders (Larry & Sergey), Yahoo founders (Jerry & David), or Microsoft founders (Bill & Paul) and duke it out with each other in a wrestling ring with Danny Sullivan

So there will be a question about search engines and answering it will make you win and a wrong answer will make you smack down. Three continuous correct answers will make a specail move for you. Search Engine Smackdown requires version 8 of the Flash player or higher to run.

Represent yourself with your well wishing company and smack down the one you don’t like.

Mark

SEO Tags : Pronetadvertising, Search Engine Smackdown, Search Engine Game

link: command operator is currently offline for the past two days in Live.com. The link: command operator returns a blank page for the past two days (for eg: link:http://www.rankquest.com returns an empty page). All other commands like site: and other commands work as usual.

The discussion from seroundtable, Digital Point and Webmaster forums also states the same.

Mark

SEO Tags : MSN, Live.com, link: command

Google bought Jotspot a wiki company on last October. JotSpot is used to create and share documents, spreadsheets, calendars, photos, videos and more. Google has many services but they were not integrated, So Google has made use of JotSpot for GDrive.

Google Systems has announced yesterday in a blog, Is JotSpot google’s Glue? . Jotspot is a tool which can integrate all the communication services created by Google into a single interface.

ScottJhonson says :

“At Google we will continue to realize our vision of collaborative applications built on an integrated development platform.”

Get a clear idea about GDrive from the gallery from JotSpot which shows applications for their free-form wiki model.

Mark

SEO Tags : GDrive, Google Systems, JotSpot

SearchEngineWatch has published an interesting case study about a site that has remapped all dynamic URLs to static URLs. For example “category.aspx?Cat=991″ was changed to something like “Cat/Bathroom-Faucets/991“. All the dynamic URLs where 301 redirected to the new static URLs.

According to the case study, there was a considerable increase in the number of pages indexed by the search engines after remapping the dynamic URLs to static URLs. This clearly shows that the use of static URLs greatly increases the search engine visibility of a site.

Aravindhan

SEO Tags : SEO, Dynamic URLs, Static URLs

Google has been testing their home pages, to have the classic page very effective and userfriendly. Various test based on this are conducted. Google Systems already made a post about it few months back.

Now Google is testing the classic page design to change the navigation links in the pages. The links to Google’s services were detached from the search box and were moved in the top left corner.

The portion marked in red is moved to the top left.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Home Page, Google, Classic Home, Google Systems

LAtimes reports News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube and two media giants have announced to release a online video site with TV shows and movies, clips uploaded and shared with their friends. This video site, the competitor of YouTube is expected to be launched this summer.

The press release from Business wire has showed that NBC and News Corp. has announced a deal with Internet Leaders AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! to Create a Premium Online Video Site with Unprecedented Reach.

This site will also include popular shows of NBC & News Corp. such as Heroes, 24, House, My Name Is Earl, Saturday Night Live, Friday Night Lights, The Riches, 30 Rock, The Simpsons, The Tonight Show, Prison Break, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader and Top Chef.

Mark

SEO Tags : YouTube, NBC Universal, News Corporation, online videos

Google had announced the launch of Pay-Per-Action ads. Google has made a new pricing model for the actions performed after landing on a page. This can be possible in Google content networks.

Pay-per-action advertising is a new pricing model that allows you to pay only for completed actions that you define, such as a lead, a sale, or a pageview, after a user has clicked on your ad on a publisher’s site.

A beta test page is launched : Pay-Per-Action Beta. You can create text ads, image ads and new text link ads. Vedio ads is not enabled yet. The ad should be paid only if the action is completed and not for clicks or impressions. The conversion tracking from Google gives you the information whether the action defined is completed or not. The Beta test is enabled only for U.S. users.

Hope this system from Google can save our money upto some extent.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Adwords, Pay-Per-Action ads, Pay-Per-Click, Adsense