Calendar Results Get incorporated into Gmail Search Field as Trial

Calendar Results Get incorporated into Gmail Search Field as Trial

3/04/2013 11:58:00 am


The giant in the field of search engines is ready to go ahead with their new idea once again to revolutionize the way we lead our lives. Do you forget doing your homework on time or rather forget important dates? Then Google is the right place for you.

To get an optimized result about your own calendar, you just need to log into your Gmail account and save your ‘to do’ list in the calendar. After that, if you give a search on search tab, saying “what is on my calendar today”, you will get all the things you need to do on that day.   Or suppose you have a meeting with someone called ‘Tracy’ but don’t know the exact time, you can search ‘when am I meeting Tracy’ on the search bar and the search engine will be at your service with all the details you had saved in your calendar.

The multinational giant corporation Google has claimed that a user can get the results he or she specifically needs, irrespective of where and what the answers may be. In a different way, this can be seen as a victory of Google over other search engines.

So let us have a quick look at steps to use this new provision:
  •      Log in to gmail.com with your username and password.
  •      Save your ‘to-do’ list in your calendar on Gmail.
  •          To check your calendar, keep logged in or log in later.
  •          Search “what is on my calendar today” on Google search bar.
  •     You will get exactly the same things that are stored in your calendar for the day.

Every user who has a Gmail account can use this new facility which is currently under trial. The immense potential of the Calendar Results on Google are yet to be realized and there is definitely a long way to go. This new idea will open some other new dimensions.

The same technology can be modified and implemented in the following ways:
  •          It can be used to access personal Doc files from Google drive directly through the search bar.
  •     Can be used to check hotel, restaurant and even flight reservations in a quicker manner.
  •     Events and purchases can be bookmarked more efficiently and data retrieval will become faster.

With this new technology around the corner, all the tech-freaks will certainly hope that it goes a long way.

Top 25 Business Apps for the Smartphone Users

Top 25 Business Apps for the Smartphone Users

1/01/2013 07:49:00 pm



With the ever-changing technology, a smart phone has become a must-have accessory for many. But if you are not one of them, then you might be missing out on ways to perk up your business or even accelerate your business process. With the advent of smart phones the spotlight has shifted from internet to the mobile world. This has necessitated the popularity of mobile apps. Most of these mobile apps are business apps which facilitate the marketers to increase their reach and presence online and it also makes easy for one to stay connected with their customers even on the go. Hence ,to make the smart phones extra ”smart”, one can accrue one’s phone with some useful business apps and turn their smart phones into an all- purpose business-travel companions.

There are plethoras of new business apps being launched every-day, but it’s not very simple to decipher between the good and the bad ones. Whatever your requirements are, if you find the right apps, you will be benefited in your day to day activities as well as in business by saving money and time. The numerous business apps can be categorized based on their usage.

Expense tracking apps: With the help of these apps one can keep track of one’s expenses and finances even while traveling.
  • Expenditure: It is a fast and useful app with intuitive interface that tracks both income and expense
  • Expensify: It allows tracking your expenses, snapping photos of receipts and creating an expense report on the mobile.
  • Moneywise: This app utilizes Google’s Android4X Design standards with spme powerful functionality.
  • Leaf.Me: It enables to collect payments, deliver interactive receipts  and seek feedback from your customers

Travel Apps:
  • Tripit Travel Organizer: It can create and share itineraries and sync travel plans with colleagues and clients.
  • Uber: One can call cabs from one’s phone with hassle-free payment.
  • FlightAware: It provides real time flight declaration, maps and gate changes.

Productivity Apps:

  • Dropbox: It gives fast and easy access to share and store all documents, photos, videos etc in the cloud.
  • SplashId: It stores and saves all your passwords and parts of sensitive datas.
  • Docusign: It helps to sign, send and save documents on any device.
  • EverNote: It syncs with other devices and can save notes, receipts and other snippets online for quick search. It can record a voice note or audio-clip and thus be Eco-friendly.
  • Instapaper: It saves web pages for later analysis.
  • Teamviewer: It gives total access to your PC.
  • Any.do: It reminds one of important meetings and datas.
  • LogMeIn: It controls your office PC by letting you log in from anywhere in the world.

Mapping or GPS Apps
  • MapQuest: It gives voice guided turn- by- turn directions, automatic re-routing, local business search and live traffic updates.
  • Google Maps: It helps to reach places with maps, GPS and directions.
  • Hopstop: It evaluates various ways to reach a destination via public transportation.

Communication Apps: 
  • Prezi: Its a communication tool that helps to systematize, present and share your ideas
  • Yammer: It is Twitter within a company with Facebook –like features.
  • Skype: It is the best tool to chat with your mates.
  • Go SMS Pro: It is a fully customizable messaging app some unique features.

Social Networking Apps:
  • LinkedIn: It connects you with all your professional contacts.
  • Facebook: It is the best app to keep in touch with your friends.
  • Yelp: It helps to find information about local businesses no matter which city you’re in.
  • With the help of these business apps one can indisputably delve in getting new apps for their smart phones which can make anyone’s life much trouble-free.

Google Maps back on iPhone

Advanced Google Maps back on iPhone with a Roar

12/24/2012 07:09:00 pm



With the announcement of new iPhone 5 in September 2012 ,Apple also released its latest mobile operating system iOS 6 with more advanced features like advanced Siri ,new 3D Google maps and more .But after its flawed maps, complaints of inaccuracies in directions and controversies about Apple’s software led App  le CEO Tim Cook apologized for the Apple Maps fiasco. Consequently, after 3 months a new native Google Maps apps for iOS devices was released on December 13, 2012.Moreover, the timing was apt as it came as a Christmas gift for many who have become quite goaded with the built –in iOS 6 Maps that Apple offers.

This new app is available in almost 40 countries and in 29 languages. It is masterfully designed for iOS and its efficient interface will make navigation much easier for the iPhone users. Many people are now busy upgrading to iOS 6 or an iPhone 5.

Google Map app establishes functions which were earlier restricted to Android users. It has enabled one to have higher quality map experiences with many advanced features than before which includes:


  • Extensive ,easy to use and accurate maps with built –in Google local search
  • Smartly inserted menus
  • Voice guided, turn by turn driving directions
  • Public transit directions
  • Live access to traffic information in cities across the world
  • View 360 degree panoramas of places with Street view
  • Maps drawn in vector graphics for faster loading
  • View high resolution satellite imagery of locations around the world


Hence, the new released Google Maps is enhanced than the old Google Maps on the iPhone. But all its credit goes to Apple to re-launch this new impressive app .With this, Google also included a brand new SDK for Developers and a simple URL scheme so that they can employ Google’s maps and data on the iPhone instead of Google Maps when building their apps. It is built on Open GSL like a game which makes it exceedingly striking and interesting. The new Google Maps app is available free for iPhone and iPod touch (4th gen) iOS 5.1 and higher. However, it doesn’t encompass iPad yet but surely it will work on iPad in the near future.

Finally the efforts put for the last seven years paid off well with this new advanced app. The vast detail in which information is exhibited with the new swipe gestures is really remarkable. However, there are lots of debates going on among the consumers concerning which is superior- the Apple Maps or the Google Maps. There are few who still prefer Apple Maps as they find it more polished and advanced. But surely Apple will soon work on its own product to make it better .Whatever the case is, both Google and Apple has benefited with this new development.

Hijacking Google Search Results with Duplicate Content

A TRUTH REVEALED - Hijacking Google Search Results with Duplicate Content

12/17/2012 11:45:00 am


It’s distressing news to find out what’s going on with search results .Dan Petrovich, a SEO has elucidated in details about his hijacking few pages in Google in his recent article. He also illustrated his copied version over the original version of the page. The outcome has puzzled Google with the result that a specific page can appear in place of another. The first thing he did to prove this is to copy the source code and the entire page including everything and put it across a fresh URL on his site .Then he  linked to the page and gave it a +1.And it worked!

In similar ways, Dan also experimented with few more domains but the results varied from one another. With his findings, hopefully very soon Google will figure out about hijacking issues with duplicate content.

Hijacking and spamming are not very new theories in terms of Google Search results. There are many high volume keywords when typed for Google search resulted in some absolutely irrelevant information which are no way related to the specified keyword. This is not limited to only keywords but for many blogs which have been ragged from beginning to end. The saddest part is that such copied blogs are even ranked much above than the original.

It is important to note that one can lose lot of traffic due to duplicate content on most of the sites. Duplicate content is one of the most promising problems which can affect a website’s success with Google. Hence Duplicate content is a big no-no as it dilutes branding and negatively affects ranking .Many times Duplicate content can arise due to technical issues. One of the issues for inadvertent duplicate problem could arise due to many similar but slightly different categories of products or due to bad or mis -configured content management system (CMS).At times duplicate content can also come up if a particular website is categorized under target market rather than by product type and the products are found in each categories with different URLs.

There are many ways to filter out the search results and check duplicate content. This includes:
  • The most prevalent and simplest way is to copy a small piece of the content from various pages of the website, and then adds quotation marks and do a Google search.
  • The second way to check duplicate content is to visit   Google Webmaster Tools account. One can find “HTML Improvements ”under “optimization” .If one selects “Duplicate Title tags” one may immediately find out some duplicate content existing in one’s website which for sure one  has no clue before.
  • Yahoo also offers a similar service for Webmaster’s that can enable one with more results on duplicate content.

Google Analytics In-Page Analytics

THE INNOVATIVE FEATURES OF LINK ATTRIBUTION REPORTING NOW IN GOOGLE ANALYTICS IN-PAGE ANALYTICS

12/12/2012 11:02:00 am


Google Analytics is a measurement tool of one’s business .It is the best and effortless tool to measure and comprehend engagement on one’s site. In-Page Analytics reports give a visual estimation of how users interact with your WebPages. Based on the links users click on the homepage of their site, one can navigate In-Page Analytics the way they navigate their site. When one clicks on any link of the homepage and when the new page is loaded, the matching data are shown for that page. The reports provide support for page level information, advanced segments and data comparisons. These reports can furnish useful information to web designers and UX Professionals. 

These reports are beneficial in analyzing in various ways including:
  • Are the users seeing the relevant content?
  • Are the users able to locate what they are looking for on the page?
  •  What links users are clicking?

In-Page Analytics can perform excellent with modern browsers such as Microsoft Explorer 9 or later or current versions of Chrome or Firefox. But the most limiting factor of In-Page Analytics is to find out which link the user actually clicked .So, if a page has two or more than two links to the same destination page, the same statistics for both the links are shown. The second disadvantage is that one has to enter the URL for the page for the report to open and not by the actual link of the page. Before the Enhanced link attribution In-Page Analytics was restricted in showing information only on links and not on other basics such as buttons or menus.

 Very recently Google Analytics team announced a significant innovation to their In-Page Analytics report-enhanced link attribution. Enhanced link attribution offers more-detailed reports .But this added reports come at some additional cost of the speed in   creating the report .One needs to tag the pages of the website to apply enhanced link function .For this one have to use the asynchronous version of the Analytics tracking code. The next step after you update your tracking code is to enable enhanced link attribution in your property settings carefully .

This feature of enhanced link attribution will make possible for one to

  • See separate information for multiple links on a page that all have the same destination.
  • See when one page element has multiple destinations.
  • Track buttons, menus and actions driven by JavaScript.

7 Ways To Optimize Adsense CTR

7 TOP WAYS TO OPTIMIZE ADSENSE CTR

12/12/2012 10:55:00 am


With online marketing growing vastly, every company or blogger is in the competition of earning more money. Hence online advertising has increased manifold times in last couple of years .For most  of the bloggers ,a high CTR –Click Through Rate facilitates them to earn more money from ad programs like Google AdSense.

In simple terms CTR stands for the ratio of no. of clicks on ads divided by the no. of page views of your blog or site.A good CTR contributes to your keyword’s quality score increasing your costs and ad positions. By following these 7 simple rules one can optimize the number of clicks of the ads or the CTR of the blog:

1. Significance of colour of your blog

A Google AdSense unit is comprised of five parts including border, title, background, text and the URL. It is best to use the default Google blue colour for the title of your blog as people using internet are accustomed with this color. Though one can experiment with a different colour scheme which suits your audience.

2. Content should be rich with keywords

To increase your AdSense revenue, it is vital to build the content of the website rich, distinctive and flowing on varied topics. Based on the theme of the pages Google will target relevant ads for your website. If your content does not have relevant keywords, you may not generate suitable ads which will provide you with low CTR.

3. Ad positions

It is imperative to use AdSense on the right position. The suitable placement of AdSense will let the users see it clearly and click more. Generally, the best position for ads is the centre-right in the user’s line of vision. Many bloggers are unable to earn more due to the wrong spot of their ads.

4. Borders to be withdrawn

Ads with borders can easily be distinguished leading the visitor not to click it. Borders will make them appear as obvious ads and can lead to less CTR. So it is advisable to match the colour of the border with the background colour of the blog.

5. Design of the blog

Keep innovating with the design and appearance of the blog. It will enable the viewers to stick to the blog for longer. They should look like the content and blend with the web page.

6. Appearance of ads

Advertisements should be put in such a way that it should be in tune with the content of the blog. Now-a-days viewers are weary of banners, pop ups, contests, giveaways etc. It is important for the blogger to make it distraction less.

7. Match the text of ads with content

One simple thing to augment clicks is to match the font and the font size of the ad text with your content. It should be such so as to unify with the content of your blog.

Latest News on Twitter

HOW TO DISCOVER NEW TAB FEATURES AND TWITTER’S NEW HEADER

11/01/2012 09:11:00 am



Good news for every twitter lovers.  During the recent years it has been examined that there are large competitions among the hottest and mostly used social networks. So every day you can see many new features which pop up on every popular network like Google+, face book or twitter. It is true fact that twitter has improved and has provided its users many new features which are amazingly designed to attract and keep its users busy.

Twitter is the biggest winner as it has provided the new header image options for each and every individual to increase  and improve his business accounts and as well as it has also bought a dynamic and great changes in the new discover tab.

If any user wants to give a great and awesome profile on twitter, then twitter helps its user to add new header images through which he can create the shades and highlights of Google+ and face book timeline. In other words, it is amazing and great new addition in twitter by which the user can be seen online through his brand’s name and if he has not created and improved any header image then he should do it.

If a user wants to create a social networking or attracts different users and wants to increase his brand then he has to create an amazing and fantastic unique presentation online and he has to maintain in a very fantastic manner. 

Most of the people have already insert new header image in their twitter accounts so that they can create and build fantastic funny designs to make their profiles hot and spicy. The user can easily and simply designs his new page through mobile app or he can take help from twitter website.  It is very easy to insert new image with help of twitter website. The user has to click on the design’s page and move the cursor to the mentioned key where he can customize his page on his own.  He will be able to find a new key navigation named “change the header”. With the help of this key the user can easily change and upload new image and create an amazing and spicy profile. The user should keep in mind that the image he is uploading on his profile should not greater than 4 to 5 megabytes. Although twitter has not mentioned or restricted any sizes but it is seen that image with smaller width looks sweet and beautiful. So to make the profile beautiful one should use the image less than 640 pixels.
It has been published in an official blog before that twitter has also declared that if a user visit the discover tab while using twitter.com then there he can find many repeated sources of tweets which opens and are being visualized automatically in which the user can view different stories and amazing pictures related to it.

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