Now if you are a blogger or a website owner then you need to follow some steps to make Google find your Website. For this Google provides Various tools to make our websites SEO Friendly.

Here I am going to share some of my learning which might help you understand some basic concept as How Google can find your website easily? How Google Crawls your site? How to create a SEO Friendly Sitemap? What are Meta Tags and how it plays vital role in SEO? What are Tags? and many more questions.

I would request you all to post your comments or queries if any.

Traffic – building tips, straight from Google

How to Make youur site Accessible

How Google “discovers” your site

How Google “ranks” your site

Google’s advice on why and how to create good meta tags

How google works

How Google rates from sites like Twitter and Facebook

In Today’s world when ever you have any question or any query, the first thing which comes to your Mind is Google Search.
Imagine if you did not had this option then where would you have gone to look for the answer to your queries. Google is like a God which have all the answer to your queries. And the best part here is it show the results for what you are looking in seconds. Did you ever had a thought as how google acts when you click on search button. For this you can refer to one of the Expert comments from Google.

Now if you are a blogger or a website owner then you need to follow some steps to make Google find your Website. For this Google provides Various tools to make our websites SEO Friendly.

Here I am going to share some of my learning which might help you understand some basic concept as How Google can find your website easily? How Google Crawls your site? How to create a SEO Friendly Sitemap? What are Meta Tags and how it plays vital role in SEO? What are Tags? and many more questions.

I would request you all to post your comments or queries if any.

Traffic – building tips, straight from Google

How to Make youur site Accessible

How Google “discovers” your site

How Google “ranks” your site

Google’s advice on why and how to create good meta tags

How google works

How Google rates from sites like Twitter and Facebook

For the math-phobic out there, don’t let the word scare you. An “algorithm” is nothing more than a set of instructions, just like a recipe or how-to book.And the Internet relies on many, many algorithms in order to function properly.

When you type search terms into Google, it follows a very complex algorithm to determine which results to show you. When you buy something on Amazon with a credit card, it uses an algorithm to safely transmit your credit information. And just the simple act of navigating the Internet and loading a webpage requires the use of an algorithm.

From basic and essential to complex and useful, here are 11 of the many algorithms that make the Internet work.

Google search

Image: Google

This is a huge one. You probably use it several times a day without realizing the complexity behind it. It’s an algorithm that’s constantly changing in order to bring you the best search results possible.And it’s VERY protected. It’s the Internet’s equivalent to the recipe for Coca-Cola.

Routing algorithms

Image: Cisco Routing

Routing is the process of finding a path in a network to send traffic. A number of routing algorithms are out there with names like fuzzy routing, heuristic routing, and adaptive routing, but each one helps make network communication possible.Routing is one of of the core technologies at the heart of the Internet — no routing, no Internet.

Encryption

Encryption is the process of turning information into unreadable nonsense characters. It’s what makes Internet credit card transactions possible and it’s at the heart of Internet security.128-bit and 256-bit encryption algorithms are two of the most popular today. Prior to 1996, both were recognized as munitions by the US government — they were literally illegal.

Facebook news feed

Image: Facebook

If you’re the type with several hundred Facebook friends, your news feed would absolutely explode with numerous trivial updates from people throughout the day. Luckily Facebook has put some algorithms into effect that attempt to identify the most important updates and only show you those.

Sendmail

Image: Flickr Zervas

Sendmail is an email routing tool — it’s makes sure that your email gets where you want it to. It supports the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which is used by almost every webmail service.It actually depends on several algorithms to handle tasks like queue management and delivery processing.

Netflix Recommendations

Image: Flickr/Hacking Netflix

Netflix already had a pretty good recommendation algorithm, but they wanted to make it even better. In 2009 they announced the Netflix Prize, a competition to see who could design a more successful algorithm that yielded higher customer ratings on recommended movies.The team that won was able to improve ratings by 10% and they walked away with $1,000,000.

Hashing algorithms

Hashes are essential to ensure that transmitted messages haven’t been tampered with. The sender creates a “hash” of a message and sends that along with the message itself. The person on the other end decrypts the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes.If they’re the same, then it’s almost certain that the message hasn’t been altered by a third party.

Advertising algorithms

Intelligent advertisers will implement an algorithm to determine which ads are displayed on a page in order to make sure that they prove relevant and drive revenue.Take Google’s Adwords, for example — its algorithm relies upon your search terms in order to show you ads related to your search.

Google News

Google’s news algorithm looks at the volume of material that appears on a given topic and considers the number of other pages linking to it in order to determine if it should be displayed.There are likely many more factors involved, but like Google’s search algorithm, those are kept under wraps.

Amazon Recommendations

Going off of its nearly endless list of items customers have purchased together, Amazon can implement an algorithm to show you related products you might be interested in buying.(It’s so useful that I sometimes use it as a way to find new authors or bands.)

Pandora playlists

Pandora follows an algorithm to determine which songs to play for you after you tell it what you like. It pulls its data from the Music Genome Project, an effort to “map” songs based on identifiable elements and group them with similar songs.It worked so well that Pandora went public with a $3.2 billion market cap.

Essential Algorithms That Make The Internet Work

For the math-phobic out there, don’t let the word scare you. An “algorithm” is nothing more than a set of instructions, just like a recipe or how-to book.And the Internet relies on many, many algorithms in order to function properly.

When you type search terms into Google, it follows a very complex algorithm to determine which results to show you. When you buy something on Amazon with a credit card, it uses an algorithm to safely transmit your credit information. And just the simple act of navigating the Internet and loading a webpage requires the use of an algorithm.

From basic and essential to complex and useful, here are 11 of the many algorithms that make the Internet work.

Google search

Image: Google

This is a huge one. You probably use it several times a day without realizing the complexity behind it. It’s an algorithm that’s constantly changing in order to bring you the best search results possible.And it’s VERY protected. It’s the Internet’s equivalent to the recipe for Coca-Cola.

Routing algorithms

Image: Cisco Routing

Routing is the process of finding a path in a network to send traffic. A number of routing algorithms are out there with names like fuzzy routing, heuristic routing, and adaptive routing, but each one helps make network communication possible.Routing is one of of the core technologies at the heart of the Internet — no routing, no Internet.

Encryption

Encryption is the process of turning information into unreadable nonsense characters. It’s what makes Internet credit card transactions possible and it’s at the heart of Internet security.128-bit and 256-bit encryption algorithms are two of the most popular today. Prior to 1996, both were recognized as munitions by the US government — they were literally illegal.

Facebook news feed

Image: Facebook

If you’re the type with several hundred Facebook friends, your news feed would absolutely explode with numerous trivial updates from people throughout the day. Luckily Facebook has put some algorithms into effect that attempt to identify the most important updates and only show you those.

Sendmail

Image: Flickr Zervas

Sendmail is an email routing tool — it’s makes sure that your email gets where you want it to. It supports the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which is used by almost every webmail service.It actually depends on several algorithms to handle tasks like queue management and delivery processing.

Netflix Recommendations

Image: Flickr/Hacking Netflix

Netflix already had a pretty good recommendation algorithm, but they wanted to make it even better. In 2009 they announced the Netflix Prize, a competition to see who could design a more successful algorithm that yielded higher customer ratings on recommended movies.The team that won was able to improve ratings by 10% and they walked away with $1,000,000.

Hashing algorithms

Hashes are essential to ensure that transmitted messages haven’t been tampered with. The sender creates a “hash” of a message and sends that along with the message itself. The person on the other end decrypts the message and the hash, produces another hash from the received message, and compares the two hashes.If they’re the same, then it’s almost certain that the message hasn’t been altered by a third party.

Advertising algorithms

Intelligent advertisers will implement an algorithm to determine which ads are displayed on a page in order to make sure that they prove relevant and drive revenue.Take Google’s Adwords, for example — its algorithm relies upon your search terms in order to show you ads related to your search.

Google News

Google’s news algorithm looks at the volume of material that appears on a given topic and considers the number of other pages linking to it in order to determine if it should be displayed.There are likely many more factors involved, but like Google’s search algorithm, those are kept under wraps.

Amazon Recommendations

Going off of its nearly endless list of items customers have purchased together, Amazon can implement an algorithm to show you related products you might be interested in buying.(It’s so useful that I sometimes use it as a way to find new authors or bands.)

Pandora playlists

Pandora follows an algorithm to determine which songs to play for you after you tell it what you like. It pulls its data from the Music Genome Project, an effort to “map” songs based on identifiable elements and group them with similar songs.It worked so well that Pandora went public with a $3.2 billion market cap.

The difference is, this one’s got a real shot. Instead of throwing open its doors with a big splash, as it did with the hopelessly confusing Wave and the privacy-challenged Buzz, Google is letting Google+ seep into the world virally. You can’t yet just go sign up; you have to be invited by someone who’s already a member. Even so, Google+ already has millions of members. That’s not quite 750 million (Facebook’s current tally), but watch out for the network effect.

At first, Google+ looks like a shameless Facebook duplicate. There’s a place for you to make Posts (your thoughts and news, like Facebook’s Wall); there’s a Stream (an endless scrolling page of your friends’ posts, like Facebook’s News Feed); and even a little +1 button (a clone of Facebook’s Like button), which may be where Google+ gets its peculiar name. But there’s one towering, brilliant difference:

Circles. On Google+, you put the people of your life’s different social circles into – well, into Circles. That is, groups. Categories. Google starts you off with empty circles called Friends, Acquaintances, Family and Following (people you don’t know, but want to follow, as you would on Twitter). It’s a piece of cake to add new ones. They can be tiny circles (“Granny and Gramps”) or big ones (“Family Tree “), organisation-based (“Fantasy League Buddies”) or arbitrary (“Annoying People”).

Creating them is a blast: an array of tiles represents your online acquaintances, which it assembles from Gmail and other accounts. You drag each into an on-screen circle, where they tumble into place. You can drag a person into more than one circle. The lucky encircled friend will know that you’ve added him or her to a circle, but not which one, thank heaven. From now on, every time you share something – a news item, a thought, a photo, a chat invitation -you can specify exactly which Circles receive it.

In one fell swoop, Google has solved the layers-of-privacy problem that has dogged Facebook for years. Senators embarrassed by their children’s drunken party photos. Potential employers reading about your crazy nightlife. Girlfriends learning accidentally about their beaus’ proposal plans. All of it goes away with Circles.

You share each item with only the people who deserve to know. And simultaneously, you spare the masses from seeing news of no interest to them; why should the whole world be in on your discussion of this Friday’s bowling outing? You’re spared, too. You can click a Circle’s name to filter the scrolling blurbs. You can view only the work-related posts or only your college buddies’ posts with one click apiece.

Facebook has something similar, called Lists. But compared with Circles, it’s buried and a lot more effort to use. In Google+, you have to specify who gets each post or each photo (although it remembers your last selections). That’s actually a little annoying – you can’t just type an update and hit Enter – but over all, the benefits outweigh the hassle. Google+ has a few more attractions, though, besides this clever privacy control feature. There’s Sparks, which is like a personal press-clipping service (and akin to Google Alerts). You browse for, or type in, a topic you’re interested in, like “Electric Cars,” or “Bundt Cakes.”

Google+ fills the screen with matching articles, news and videos from all over the Web. It may be the easiest, least threatening news reader in history. The most mind-blowing “Facebook can’t do this” feature, though, is Hangouts. Technically, it’s videoconferencing. It lets up to 10 people join a chat simultaneously, using their Web cams or laptop cameras.

Google, the most popular Web site on earth, is worried about the secondmost popular site. That, of course, would be Facebook. Why else would Google keep trying, over and over again, to create a social network of the same type? Orkut, Jaiku, Wave, Buzz – Google has lobbed forth one fizzled flop after another. And now there’s Google+. It’s the latest Google “we wanna be Facebook” project.

The difference is, this one’s got a real shot. Instead of throwing open its doors with a big splash, as it did with the hopelessly confusing Wave and the privacy-challenged Buzz, Google is letting Google+ seep into the world virally. You can’t yet just go sign up; you have to be invited by someone who’s already a member. Even so, Google+ already has millions of members. That’s not quite 750 million (Facebook’s current tally), but watch out for the network effect.

At first, Google+ looks like a shameless Facebook duplicate. There’s a place for you to make Posts (your thoughts and news, like Facebook’s Wall); there’s a Stream (an endless scrolling page of your friends’ posts, like Facebook’s News Feed); and even a little +1 button (a clone of Facebook’s Like button), which may be where Google+ gets its peculiar name. But there’s one towering, brilliant difference:

Circles. On Google+, you put the people of your life’s different social circles into – well, into Circles. That is, groups. Categories. Google starts you off with empty circles called Friends, Acquaintances, Family and Following (people you don’t know, but want to follow, as you would on Twitter). It’s a piece of cake to add new ones. They can be tiny circles (“Granny and Gramps”) or big ones (“Family Tree “), organisation-based (“Fantasy League Buddies”) or arbitrary (“Annoying People”).

Creating them is a blast: an array of tiles represents your online acquaintances, which it assembles from Gmail and other accounts. You drag each into an on-screen circle, where they tumble into place. You can drag a person into more than one circle. The lucky encircled friend will know that you’ve added him or her to a circle, but not which one, thank heaven. From now on, every time you share something – a news item, a thought, a photo, a chat invitation -you can specify exactly which Circles receive it.

In one fell swoop, Google has solved the layers-of-privacy problem that has dogged Facebook for years. Senators embarrassed by their children’s drunken party photos. Potential employers reading about your crazy nightlife. Girlfriends learning accidentally about their beaus’ proposal plans. All of it goes away with Circles.

You share each item with only the people who deserve to know. And simultaneously, you spare the masses from seeing news of no interest to them; why should the whole world be in on your discussion of this Friday’s bowling outing? You’re spared, too. You can click a Circle’s name to filter the scrolling blurbs. You can view only the work-related posts or only your college buddies’ posts with one click apiece.

Facebook has something similar, called Lists. But compared with Circles, it’s buried and a lot more effort to use. In Google+, you have to specify who gets each post or each photo (although it remembers your last selections). That’s actually a little annoying – you can’t just type an update and hit Enter – but over all, the benefits outweigh the hassle. Google+ has a few more attractions, though, besides this clever privacy control feature. There’s Sparks, which is like a personal press-clipping service (and akin to Google Alerts). You browse for, or type in, a topic you’re interested in, like “Electric Cars,” or “Bundt Cakes.”

Google+ fills the screen with matching articles, news and videos from all over the Web. It may be the easiest, least threatening news reader in history. The most mind-blowing “Facebook can’t do this” feature, though, is Hangouts. Technically, it’s videoconferencing. It lets up to 10 people join a chat simultaneously, using their Web cams or laptop cameras.

Previous week I promised to continue writing post on evolution of Technology and started writing assuming the first technology would be FIRE.

Here is a picture depiction which says how Social Networking sites started its evolution.

Before Y2K year 2000 we had mostly only live journal.
Then came up Friendster a social networking website founded by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin in 2002 in Morgan Hill, California. Followed by MySpace in 2006.
Orkut owned and operated by Google Inc launched in 2008
Then came Facebook launched in 2004 by # Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) who claims the real inventor, privately operated until 2009. After the facebook was launched, other social networking sites declined steadily in spite of several drastic design changes and other improvements
Twitter by Twitter Inc which offers a social networking and microblogging services. Though launched in March 2006 but it gained popularity only after 2009. It is sometimes described as the “SMS of the Internet. It has the highest number of users all around the world.

Now we have G + (Google +) by Google Inc which has launched with a promise to be the top social networking site. Lets wait and watch the future of Google +….

Previous week I promised to continue writing post on evolution of Technology and started writing assuming the first technology would be FIRE.

Here is a picture depiction which says how Social Networking sites started its evolution.

Before Y2K year 2000 we had mostly only live journal.
Then came up Friendster a social networking website founded by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin in 2002 in Morgan Hill, California. Followed by MySpace in 2006.
Orkut owned and operated by Google Inc launched in 2008
Then came Facebook launched in 2004 by # Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) who claims the real inventor, privately operated until 2009. After the facebook was launched, other social networking sites declined steadily in spite of several drastic design changes and other improvements
Twitter by Twitter Inc which offers a social networking and microblogging services. Though launched in March 2006 but it gained popularity only after 2009. It is sometimes described as the “SMS of the Internet. It has the highest number of users all around the world.

Now we have G + (Google +) by Google Inc which has launched with a promise to be the top social networking site. Lets wait and watch the future of Google +….

Google Plus is a Plus, no doubt

Google+ A real Plus

Google has arrived with a splash on the scene — which is what Google Plus or Google+ is.  After the failed attempts with Google Buzz and Google Wave, I believe that Google+ is the real deal.  Having launched +1, an equivalent to the Facebook LIKE button, it is clear that Google has now dropped the gloves with Facebook. And, after a mere 48 hours of existence, I am going to say that Google+ is the real McCoy.  Google will have to work through the kinks, but, bottom line, the functionality looks and feels better than on Facebook in many instances.  With the “invitation only” approach, Google is helping to create a little of its own buzz.  People (like myself) have been chomping at the bit to give it a try.  It’s called Shortage Marketing.

Google Plus has a whole number of spaces to play with including Circles, Huddles, Hangouts, Sparks and Instant Uploads. I won’t cover each of them here, but if you want to know more about a key component, Google Circles, I recommend checking out their video below or you can view a broader presentation on this little Google demo.

What makes this Google Plus initiative a real plus?

1. You start by defining your circles of friends: not all friends are equal and, compared to Facebook, which has made a real mess of sorting friends, Google Circles is a fabulous way to get started.  The truth about social networking is that is not just about who you know, but why and how well you know them.  Your network is a part of your e-reputation and, just as we all know we can’t have more than a handful of profound friends, we also need to communicate with our friends, family and acquaintances differently.  Being able to categorize “friends” is a KEY to making the social media network more effective. I am not sure this functionality is, as yet, enough to run circles around Facebook, but I like this part best.
2. Ipso facto, Google Plus will be a wake-up call for Facebook.  That’s healthy competition.  Since there are only a few players (Microsoft, Apple & Google) able to take on Facebook frontally, I hope this one sticks.  I love the fact that within nano seconds, someone came up with a mirror functionality of Circles for Facebook.  If you are not on Google+ yet, but are on Facebook, I highly recommend trying it out: Circle Hack
3. Search Plus.  There is a recommendation engine to facilitate sharing of relevant content.  The feature is called SPARKS.
4. Video is central.  A cornerstone element of Google+ is around the video.  There are some neat functionalities to make video chatting in group or one-on-one easy.  The uploading of photos and videos seems to be easier than on Facebook.  One feature I like: you can upload a still within a video too.  Between Google Huddles and Hangouts, you know that the terminology is 100% American (the former, huddles, refers to the pre-action pause in American Football).  Watch out for these words to be banned on French Television soon?
5. Blogs got an automatic +1 on Google Page Rank: which is sort of incidental to the Google Plus project, but I thought it deserved a mention:  Social Search just took another step forward.Google+ Bells & Whistles: Circles, Huddles, Hangouts & MoreGoogle Plus is still rolling out its invitations.  The early adopters are running all the tests Google needs to find out how well it works for real.  There are certainly some wrinkles that need to be ironed out, specifically, as far as I am concerned, with Circles (to be able to view all the circles at once, sorting of friends via a more robust search mechanism…).  I also have been a little lost without a wall.  But I am sure those are just teething pains.  On the mobile front, Google Plus is up on Android, but is not available on the iPhone yet (funny that).

   The online battle is definitely heating up

   The confrontation between the online giants looks to have gone to a whole other level.  Microsoft and Apple have been hitting the clouds.  Facebook and Google are going at in social.  Facebook is aligned with Microsoft, which bought Skype, which is going to be embedded into Facebook very soon to allow for in-the-flow video chat.

   All said, Google+ seems to be the real deal. We welcome your suggestions & thoughts… Source

Google+ is the latest social networking site from Google is making news. The beta version is launched and the worlds eye on it. Believed to be a competitor for facebook. The history would say it all how better from facebook.

Google Plus is a Plus, no doubt

Google+ A real Plus

Google has arrived with a splash on the scene — which is what Google Plus or Google+ is.  After the failed attempts with Google Buzz and Google Wave, I believe that Google+ is the real deal.  Having launched +1, an equivalent to the Facebook LIKE button, it is clear that Google has now dropped the gloves with Facebook. And, after a mere 48 hours of existence, I am going to say that Google+ is the real McCoy.  Google will have to work through the kinks, but, bottom line, the functionality looks and feels better than on Facebook in many instances.  With the “invitation only” approach, Google is helping to create a little of its own buzz.  People (like myself) have been chomping at the bit to give it a try.  It’s called Shortage Marketing.

Google Plus has a whole number of spaces to play with including Circles, Huddles, Hangouts, Sparks and Instant Uploads. I won’t cover each of them here, but if you want to know more about a key component, Google Circles, I recommend checking out their video below or you can view a broader presentation on this little Google demo.

What makes this Google Plus initiative a real plus?

1. You start by defining your circles of friends: not all friends are equal and, compared to Facebook, which has made a real mess of sorting friends, Google Circles is a fabulous way to get started.  The truth about social networking is that is not just about who you know, but why and how well you know them.  Your network is a part of your e-reputation and, just as we all know we can’t have more than a handful of profound friends, we also need to communicate with our friends, family and acquaintances differently.  Being able to categorize “friends” is a KEY to making the social media network more effective. I am not sure this functionality is, as yet, enough to run circles around Facebook, but I like this part best.
2. Ipso facto, Google Plus will be a wake-up call for Facebook.  That’s healthy competition.  Since there are only a few players (Microsoft, Apple & Google) able to take on Facebook frontally, I hope this one sticks.  I love the fact that within nano seconds, someone came up with a mirror functionality of Circles for Facebook.  If you are not on Google+ yet, but are on Facebook, I highly recommend trying it out: Circle Hack
3. Search Plus.  There is a recommendation engine to facilitate sharing of relevant content.  The feature is called SPARKS.
4. Video is central.  A cornerstone element of Google+ is around the video.  There are some neat functionalities to make video chatting in group or one-on-one easy.  The uploading of photos and videos seems to be easier than on Facebook.  One feature I like: you can upload a still within a video too.  Between Google Huddles and Hangouts, you know that the terminology is 100% American (the former, huddles, refers to the pre-action pause in American Football).  Watch out for these words to be banned on French Television soon?
5. Blogs got an automatic +1 on Google Page Rank: which is sort of incidental to the Google Plus project, but I thought it deserved a mention:  Social Search just took another step forward.Google+ Bells & Whistles: Circles, Huddles, Hangouts & MoreGoogle Plus is still rolling out its invitations.  The early adopters are running all the tests Google needs to find out how well it works for real.  There are certainly some wrinkles that need to be ironed out, specifically, as far as I am concerned, with Circles (to be able to view all the circles at once, sorting of friends via a more robust search mechanism…).  I also have been a little lost without a wall.  But I am sure those are just teething pains.  On the mobile front, Google Plus is up on Android, but is not available on the iPhone yet (funny that).

   The online battle is definitely heating up

   The confrontation between the online giants looks to have gone to a whole other level.  Microsoft and Apple have been hitting the clouds.  Facebook and Google are going at in social.  Facebook is aligned with Microsoft, which bought Skype, which is going to be embedded into Facebook very soon to allow for in-the-flow video chat.

   All said, Google+ seems to be the real deal. We welcome your suggestions & thoughts… Source