A very recent survey on blogs shows some interesting stats that would encourage blog writers. It is nothing but more than 75 percent of business establishments which include small scale business and large scale business have taken that good step into the blogging world. Not only for the sake of promotion of their business, but these entrepreneurs strongly believe that blogs are the best social media of recent times.

Apart from the very strong reason that makes all businessmen write blogs, there is another good reason to continue them blogging. The fundamental reason is blogging is the best way to interact directly with the customers as it is the easiest and best accessible mode of communication for both the readers and the writers. The best news from the business world is that business bloggers have started learning the tips and tricks behind producing quality blogs. This is in the sense that they have understood the importance of producing search engine optimized blogs. As a matter of fact, optimization techniques have largely been injected into business blogs, and profit is the only thing that will follow. These techniques have helped them greatly to get good page ranks among search engines and hence, their business has started defining new dimensions.

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For a short while yesterday, every page displayed by Google reported messages and warnings about harms affecting your computer. This was in a way that every URL you find in search results have the text displayed as the site might harm the computer.

The Google pages displayed in search results when clicked will display advisory warnings similar to the malware infested websites. The suggestions to the users were given as returning to the previous page for picking results or trying another search for finding out what the users were looking for.

Google has reported that this bug lasted only for around for 40 minutes and this was resolved within a time frame of 55 minutes. This was only a human error which helped when Google tries to flag the sites which are known for installing malwares.

The errors for the pages were noticed at around 6.27 AM and 6.40 AM. This began disappearing at around 7.10 AM and 7.25 AM. The duration of this problem for any user was only for 40 minutes.

Some blogs started reporting this news as a means by which the service was denied to the Google users. Some sites considered it a menace when users try to find out more information from their sites. They hence started showing expectations saying Google will take steps to prevent such things in the future.

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It is true that one hosts a website in order to profit from it in whatever capacity. As such, it comes a shocking blow to know that as of 2008, officials in Thailand have blocked viewership to over 2300 websites to locals.  The major reason cited for such mass blockage is security and defamation of the government.

This becomes important keeping in mind that the political scenario in Thailand is not too stable and anything that’s cited against the king isn’t taken too well. Sites banned also include pornographic sites. The strange part of this analysis is the 90% of these sites are hosted overseas which means that international website owners stand to suffer. What may be viewed as acceptable and informational content elsewhere in the word is a taboo in Thailand?

Banned sites include those containing cartoons, articles, blogs and even YouTube videos. Thailand isn’t the first country to be practicing such large scale banning and this is popularly carried out in China too. In fact China tops the list in terms of stringency but news of banned sites elsewhere will influence website owners to review their content so as to not face the ire of threatened governments across the globe.

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Google certainly is trying to get a stronghold in the internet market. Apart from wooing regular English speaking surfers, it’s decided to introduce the perfect Chinese treat; we now have the Google China Blog Search. What seemed a potential announced is reality in less than no time. Their attempt for new clustered results which was only just the action plan posted on the Google blog search has now seen the light of day. If you go to their clustered home page, here’s what you’ll see, the Google China Blog Search.

So, you may ask what is so phenomenal about this new development. First thing first, it is first launch of the non English blogsearch interface that’s been launched. As the name suggests, it caters to only Chinese language blogs. Of course, this is just the start and soon you can expect more launches in this arena. It’s all new and very exciting. This takes us to another realm of reality. How wide is the internet spectrum and how far will things go? This certainly calls for celebration because now Chinese blogs will get a much needed platform and the world gets to hear what the once staunch communists have to say. One thing though: will the Chinese government scan everything before actual uploading like in the recent past.

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Google has recently made a declaration that, they will be anonymizing the IPs of the sever search logs, after a period of nine months, instead of the 18 months. Google considers that they are the first search engine to come up with a retention period of around 18 months. Now, they have again proven that, they work for the customers by bringing down the value to around 9 months. As per this, we can consider that Google has great commitment to their users and so they are trying to protect the data and privacy of their users.

When they have concentrated on reducing the retention period, Google has also tried their level best to limit the time of loss of data quality in their logs. This data is used for providing better search results to the customers. Data can better be given based on location and language preferences.

Google has given maximum importance to privacy, even when employing these methods. When innovation, security and privacy cannot be taken along together, Google has already proved that, they will be ensuring all the three to their customers.

The engineers working with Google is working hard to make this dream come true for helping their users and making them happy.

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Search Engine Optimization, simply put, is about hitting the bull’s eye, which means to be the top ranker in the list generated by search engine results and achieve top precedence on the recognition lists among the web visitors. SEO or search engine optimization is the utilization of specific keywords configured on the site in a way that they will be very easily found, read as well as indexed by search engines in a manner that they will impel traffic to your website. The keywords used in your META tag ought to be used properly in the text on the website. Individual web pages should target keywords and phrases so as to be indexed and ranked appropriately.

SEM, or search engine marketing, comprises researching, submitting and marketing the website to attain highest exposure and traffic. It usually includes banner ads, affiliate – programs, link building campaigns and article marketing. Well-planned and well-placed banner ads will facilitate draw attention to the intended site. Affiliate programs can be very advantageous for all the parties involved. Link building is the act of placing links to the site in tactical places on blogs, forums as well as other related websites.

Search engine submission, directory submission, article writing, link building, Keyword selection, press release, Title and Meta Tags are key search engine optimization techniques to be a top ranker in search engines as well as to create more traffic. All the major SEO companies all over the world are applying these strategies to improve websites ranking and bring more traffic.

SEO techniques play a fundamental role in the success of a web site. Latest SEO is a combination of SEO techniques and SMO techniques. SMO or Social Media Optimization is a set of techniques used for creating traffic during social and community websites. Utilizing social networking sites such as YouTube, MySpace and others could give the frame you require. SMO is potentially the simplest type of marketing, since all that is needed of you, is to join a great network of friends’ list and post comments on their blogs now and then. The more active you are in the social networks; there will be more links to your site. The more links you create, the better the potential for visitors to view the website and take benefit of your client’s products and services.

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