Google no longer suggests Yahoo directory submission

"I wouldn't necessarily assume that we're devaluing Yahoo's links, I just think it's not one of the things we really need to recommend. If people think that a directory is going to bring them lots of visitors (I had a visitor from the DMOZ once), then it's obviously fine to get listed there. It's not something that people have to do though."

Happy Tenth Anniversary - Google

Google is 10 years old.

Google launches Chrome

Google has announced that it will release an open-source browser known as Chrome.

Features will included "isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes.

Having a number of tabs open in a single browser eats up memory. If a browser is running slow, a user's natural inclination is to close a few tabs. With Chrome, there will be a different tab for each process. This speeds up overall performance and saves the entire browser from crashing when one tab causes problems.

What is Incognito mode in Chrome


Don’t want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode. Browsing in incognito mode keeps Google Chrome from storing information about the websites you've visited.

To turn on the incognito mode, follow these steps:

Click the Page menu.

Select New incognito window.

A new window now opens with the incognito icon in the top left corner. You can continue browsing as normal in the other window.

Google Testing Two Videos On One Web Search Result

Ever since the launch of Google Universal Search Google has been showing videos in the web search results. But sometimes, there are more than one video shown in the web search results and, in many cases, those multiple videos will take up the space of 2 or more of the ten results shown.

Google is now testing showing a second video result, on the same search result as the first video result.

Google Suggest Launched

Google has launched Google Suggest , a search feature that provides real time suggestions during searches.

Google's Jennifer Liu wrote that Google Suggest is getting rolled out this week.

Below are some great ways Google Suggest can help simplify your searching.

Help formulate queries: Instead of just typing hotels in washington or hotels in washington state? Let Google help you search.

Reduce spelling errors Instead of wasting your time with a misspelled query like new yrok times, search the first time with the correctly-spelled query.
















Saves keystrokes Who wants to spend their time typing san francisco chronicle when you can just type in "san f..." and choose the suggestion right away?

Google might be using different data centers

One forum member at WebmasterWorld thinks that Google might be using different data centers for query refinements. The reason he suspects this is because he's performing the same search but finding different results.

It's possible that if Google is realizing that users are not happy with those search results (since they searched again) and are offering a different set of results.

Google launches new feature in SERP

New boxes will be displayed in the top right section of the results page (SERPs) sharing the reasoning behind the placement of listings for their search.

The Official Google Blog says -

You'll see these new messages whenever your search results have been customized based on one or more of the following types of information

Location By default, we identify your approximate city location based on your computer's IP address and use it to customize your search results.

Recent searches We take into account whether a particular query followed on the heels of another query. Because recent search activity provides such valuable context for understanding the meaning behind your searches, we use it to customize your results whenever possible, regardless of whether you're signed in or signed out.

Web History If you're signed in and have Web History enabled, we customize your search results based on what you've searched for in the past on Google, and what web sites you've visited. One important note about Web History: it belongs to you and you have complete control over it. You can remove specific items or pause the service at any time.

Google's John Mueller: very long URLs can hurt rankings.

In a Google Groups discussion, Google's John Mueller mentioned on a specific URL as being a bit too long for comfort.

The URL in question is :

http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/small-kitchen-appliances-toaster-kettle-coffee-machine-blender-juicer-channel7-sunrise-australia-42.html

John said "Now I'm all for having descriptive URLs, but .... this seems to be taking it a bit too far and I have a bit of trouble identifying anything that matches in the content of your page"

It seems he is pointing out the URL as being something that may raise a red flag in Google.

Google's Tip For keyphrases

Keyphrases are the heart and soul of seo. If your web copy is not targetting desired keyphrases,the search engine's will have a hard time in finding your site.


This is what Matt Cutts - head of Google's webspam team has to say

Spotlight your search term on the page.

"Think about what people are going to type in to try and find you," Cutts says. He tells of meeting a chiropractor (a person whose job is to treat diseases by adjusting a person's joints, especially those in the back) from San Diego who complained that his site couldn't be found easily using Google search. The words "San Diego chiropractor" were listed nowhere on his site.

"You have to make sure the keywords are on the page," Cutts says.

When Google says something, it's time to listen.........and act.

Google Says No To Guaranteed Rankings

This is what Google has to say -

"No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google. Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google."

At Ultraseo - we don't guarantee No.# 1 rankings. What we do guarantee is -

Optimization of your site without breaking search engine guidelines. Guarantee is only possible if you control the search engine's, so that you can tweak them when it suits you.

If any seo company offer gurantee rankings in Google, it may be for non-competitive keywords. If no one searches for those keywords, even top rank in Google is not going to help.

The only way to get high search engine rankings and staying there is good web page content any playing by the rules.

Google Adds "Skip intro" to Search results

Google now offers a link in the search results to skip intro on flash intro pages. If you search for "yuasa france", the top result – yuasa.fr – is listed as normal. But to the right side of the title, there’s a link reading “Skip Intro”, which will take you straight to yuasa.fr/index.htm.