Web Elements

This tool will allow your users to add dynamic content to their websites with the ease of cut and paste. Webmasters can provide maps, YouTube videos, comments, calendars, slideshow presentations, spreadsheets, news and more. Using Google web elements, webmasters can freshen up a site frequently or communicate with visitors which is helpful to drive more site traffic.

Page Speed

It’s a Firefox Add-on integrated with Firebug which will point out all your mistakes in website and help you fix them, so as to optimize your site performance while reducing resources and code redundancies.

Tips for web hosters

It offers a set of tips including the use of Google analytics tools, Google translate, to web hosts for creating a richer website hosting platform. These tips will help hosts use those tools conveniently while saving platform costs and earning referral fees.

Apture:

Apture will allow you to integrate third party content like text, images, videos, music, maps and references from more than 50 sources such as YouTube, Flickr, Google etc and keep your visitors on your blog, instead of sending them away. It is free and easy to install on your blog.

With Apture, you can embed high resolution videos from YouTube or upload your own content like Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF or Word documents, or Excel Spreadsheets to your blog.

Zemanta:

Zemanta is a semantic web company that’s used by bloggers to add related links to their posts all over the web. Recently it has announced the launch of their “Balloons” service which will allow any blogger or online publisher to integrate multimedia content into their pages. It looks like an Apture word press plug-in but it is open source, semantically smart and standards-based.

With Zemanta Balloons, bloggers and publishers can access database and content from trusted sources such as YouTube, Google and MusicBrainz to allow your readers to access information without having to sign -in to the external sites.

1.       Selective RSS overlay to match site activity with keywords.

2.       To export data, it can generate URI and REST urls and can embed it in excel spreadsheets and applications.

3.       The entire analytics report will automatically turn into story view for use in emails, reports and presentations.

The reason behind webtrends being in the first place and a good competitor of Google and Yahoo is, Google and Yahoo works  for website owners and consumer web analytics with JavaScript, flash and colorful interfaces.

Webtrends 9 does not use flash, it uses only HTML, CSS and Javascript. Moreover once the user system has turned off JavaScript  it will downgrade without losing any functionality. ‘Webtrends’  is mainly focusing on the enterprise market and gives different metrics and greater security to fulfill entrepreneurs’ needs and is less graphically inclined.

Natural links can be achieved by placing your site link on other sites. When any webmaster finds your content valuable and thinks it will be helpful for their visitors, they will place your links on their WebPages without your permission. This is one of the ways to get natural links for your site.

Content that is informational and interesting will entice your site visitors to link to your site.  If you are able to do quality research and write unique content, then this is the right time to enhance your site with quality content. It will help you get a bunch of natural links to your site for improving your page ranks.

Search engine loves a site filled with natural and steady links. Getting natural links is not a one-time process; it is an on-going process which explains why you are not able to get links in single day. What you need to do is to actively participate in forum discussions, post blog comments, bookmark favorite sites related to your niche etc, which makes people trust you more and enthuses them to link to your site. For instance, you can join a specific network of popular social networking sites and help your network members by providing the right solutions to solve their problems. It will create a great impression about you and tempt your network members to link to your webpage.

Also, you can place site links in your profile page of popular social networking sites like Facebook, Stumbleupon, Twitter, 9Rules, etc to drive traffic to your site. If your site visitors find informative content on your site, there are more chances to place your site links on their webpages.

Keep in mind that Google will distinguish natural links from unnatural links and give high page ranks to a site filled with natural links.  So get natural links in a proper manner and maximize your page ranks.

Owning a site has become a fashion among net savvy. You can also start one such site and show that you are also growing with the technology. Starting a site is not a tedious process, just register a domain name of your interest and host it. You can make use of free hosts available in the market, but customization features available in the free host will be limited. You can also go for priced hosts which start from just $ 2. It all depends on your requirement.

After hosting your site, fill it with informative content and drive more traffic to your site by offering valuable information and following proper SEO techniques. Start earning money from your site by placing text links, Google Ads, affiliates etc. Also you can earn through Banner Ads.

“Make money from banner ads” this may sound silly for you. You may think that since most people won’t bother about banner ads, then how do you make money from it? Just walk through this article and you will wonder at the profits you might you have lost so far without implementing this simple technique.

Over the past few years, it is found that a lot of money is being made on the internet. One of the main sources of revenue on the internet is advertising. Where, ‘Banner Ad’ is the popular forms of internet advertising. Still suspicious of banner ads? Then I can give you a live example. Let us take Google.

All the services offered by Google are free, but still it earns more. It is made possible only through internet advertisements. They earned popularity through their free services, and made money out of the popularity using advertisements.

Just imagine how much money you can make from banner advertisements. First find out your target audience and then target advertisers. If your site deals with education, then learners, lectures and course seekers are your target audience. The target advertisers are those people who offer products related to education like learning management systems, education CDs, Digital libraries etc.

Start advertizing your site by placing an attractive ad with a statement like “Place your ad here” on your site. You need not approach them in person; just post a message about your willingness to place banner ads on your site, in discussion forums with buying and selling options like digitalpoint forums, sitepoint forums etc.

When advertisers approach you for placing their ads, they will be keen in knowing about your site traffic and the demographic information. The site demographic information can be gathered using Google analytics. Advertisers will use this information to find out whether they can reach people in an intended area.

Ad rates mainly depend on your site traffic. Generally ad agencies seek sites at least 6 months old and receive 500,000 or more impressions per month. The other factors that influence ad rates are banner size, competitors’ rates and site statistics.

Cost per thousand impressions (CPM), Click through Rate (CTR), Cost per Impression (CPI), Cost per Action (CPA) and Cost per Click (CPC) are the pricing models for banner ads.

Promote your site effectively without spending much, and make money at home with ease.

Edicy.com

The application offers you a simple toolbar for text, videos and images, and a lower dashboard for changing page design frequently. With Edicy, you can improve the usability of your new site by inserting tables and Google-powered maps. There are tons of pretty designs to pick from for making pleasant web pages. Also the drag and drop image feature enables you create a photo gallery to share them with others. I feel that EdicY will apt for people who want to get a site for their small business or local community organization quickly and easily.

Zimplit.com

Zimplit is an open source web creation tool that I have reviewed recently. It allows you to create customizable, easily editable web pages within a few minutes. There is a simple 12-button toolbar to redo/undo, modify text settings, add or change links, insert images etc to enhance your site. Zimplit is just for normal people (Non technical users) not for programmers.

Wix.com

Wix offers you a powerful platform to make stunning flash websites. You can create flash Myspace layouts, upload pictures from Flicker, Videos from YouTube etc. Also the effects, behaviors, animations, and other options offer complete control. To be honest, Wix will help you create a flash based website within a matter of minutes.

Amplifeeder.com

Amplifeeder is a distributed social activity aggregator which helps you define your activities in a platform. You can pull all your activities like photo upload, bookmark, blog post and update on twitter into one place. Using Amplifeeder, the data you put here is all portable, backup-able and restorable.

So you have four great resources for website creation. You can create a professional website even without any technical knowledge and let it live on the internet in a matter of seconds.

They appeared for the first time in July 2005 on Google. Sitelinks are the collection of useful internal pages links displayed under home page URL descriptions of Google search engine result page (SERP) results, which link to main pages of your website. They exist only on Google and nobody knows really how Google choose them.

Google wants to improve their system to keep their users or better,to keep their users, or better, to catch more. This evolution is relatively current. Their goals are to help you in your research and to be more efficient and fast. You don’t need to visit the entire site to find what you are looking for.

How does Google seem to choose sitelinks? We suppose that some criteria are taken into consideration like age of the website, site ranks for the keyword or quality of incoming links. For instance, a national administration’s site always has sitelinks because its site answers all these conditions.

You must be sure to find sitelinks when Google is almost certain that the site matches the request. However administration doesn’t have money and commercial interests as companies could have.

But you can’t add sitelinks manually. The observation of the system seems to show that sitelinks’ presence depends on users’ behavior. So, a strong traffic is necessary. You can’t control them but you can influence their presence. Create strategic links which catch attention and in particular clicks!

Sitelinks still stay mysterious but are always useful!

Search engine considers ‘Backlinks’ as one of the important factors for determining the website’s search engine rankings. The number of backlinks indicates the popularity or importance of the site. Backlinks are generally incoming links to a website or web page; you can get it through article submission, forum participation, directory submission and comment posting in blogs. Search engines give higher ranking to a site when it finds the site link on someone else’s site or elsewhere.

Quality backlinks will help you to get long-lasting high search engine rankings. Quality back links can be achieved on your site through one-way links and natural links. A one-way link is a link to your site placed in another site without that site requiring your website to link back to it. You can get one-way link to your site by posting a legitimate, insightful comment for any blog discussion related to your site or submitting your site or article to the top Social Bookmarking sites and article directories.

Your site can acquire natural links only when the site link is placed by other web owners on their page without your request. This link can be achieved only when you offer valuable and informative content. Natural links are the best backlinks to have.

If you find any difficulties in achieving quality backlinks, you can approach a well-experienced link building company to have the work done.

Get a answer from Matt cutts for the following question.

1 Whitehat Linkbait
2 What if a search for my business triggers “Did you mean?”
3 Why do big brands rank so well?
4 Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?
5 How NOT To Hide Text

How can I make sure that Google reaches and Indexes pages that are on a lower(deeper) level of a website? check this Mattcutt video and learn.