Rubik Cube for Branding
Well whats special on my blog for now? Right, Rubix Cube for Branding!
Seriously, its brand building efforts through Rubik's Cube, apart from SEO, Pay-Per-Click campaigns, and Google base (in my next post). However, this post is dedicated to Rubik Cube, which can be used on further brand promotion efforts.
Rubix Cube of 2x2
Yes, you are right, the Rubik's Cube could be the best sought after promotional product for brand building efforts and it offers new challenges to your customers, whilst appearing easier than the 3x3 Cube.
History of Rubix Cube: As per wikipedia post, Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toys in 1980 and won the "German Game of the Year" special award for Best Puzzle that year.
As of January 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy. In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by 9 stickers, among six solid colors.
A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colors. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid color. Similar puzzles have now been produced with various numbers of stickers, not all of them by Rubik.
The most interesting thing is that The original 3×3 cube celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2005. Click and read for more posts on brand building.
Happy Twisting!
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Get Perfection With Domain Change
Change as per your requirement :)
But tell Google about your domain changeNormally, when website owners change their domain names as per their company's ongoing requirements, most of the webmasters and website owners face a headache to get along with the new domain name and its age in terms of Google Page Rank. Now it is a good news for everyone who are interested in changing their domain name.
Google has announced a new feature in Google Webmaster Tools named change of address. This feature allows webmasters to notify Google when they move domain names.
Further more, Google also states that one should make sure that their original site is not a subdomain (for example, http://newsite.example.com).
Finally, Google posted a help document on moving your domain to aid webmasters with this process.
Labels: domain change, google, Google Announcement, new domain names, webmaster update
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Enhanced Search Query Performance reports
Inside AdWords: Enhanced Search Query Performance reports: "more granular insight into the queries that trigger advertisers ads." What does that mean?
The search query report will no longer show unknown keywords or additional queries lumped into one report that aren’t available. But, the advertisers can still use the highest volume queries, but even these additional smaller queries can give ideas for new keywords.
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Google with New Skin - Better Search Experience
Better Google Search Experience:
Google Search Options, Rich Snippets and Google Squared
Google Searchology event 2009 highlights a break through in an other new algorithmic update video by Google. and brought in new features that really explore search from a broad and entirely new perspective.
Google's earlier Searchology event was two years ago with a launch of Universal Search, a feature that blended results of different types (web pages, images, videos, books, etc.) on the SERPs. Since then Universal Search has grown quite a bit, adding new types of results, expanding to new countries, and triggering on ten times as many queries as it did when we launched it.
Google Search Options:
Google has now announced in its official blog that it has come up with a new feature having wide range of information on the web and quickly connect people to just the precious data as found on the Internet, they need at that moment. This helps users find more useful information, and do more useful things with it.
Google seeks web publishers help with microformats or RDFa standards to mark the HTML and bring this structured data to the surface. This will help people better understand the information you have on your page so they can spend more time there and less on Google.
Rich Snippets:
Google will be rolling this feature out gradually to ensure that the quality of Google's search results stays high. Webmaster who are further interested in participating, can visit the rich snippets help page to learn more. Also, Google's official blog states that "The Search Options panel also gives the ability to view results in new ways. One view gives more information about each result, including images as well as text, while others let you explore and iterate search in different ways."
Google Squared:
Finally, during the event, Google showed a preview of a new tool that we're calling Google Squared. Unlike a normal search engine, Google Squared doesn't find webpages about the topic — instead, it automatically fetches and organizes facts from across the Internet. This will beup to users later this month on Google Labs.
Here is the Video:Stay tuned!
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SEO for Firefox Extention
How does SEO for Firefox Extention work?
Learn how to use the SEO for Firefox extension an awesome tool and perform competitive research.
Download the SEO for Firefox Extension and use the data to compile from lists for all websites that are currently ranking higher than your website and enhance your websites accordingly.Here is the video if you need more info on how to do it.
Cheers!
Labels: Firefox extentions, SEO news, tool, videos
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Wikimedia 2009 Application for Sponsorship
Wikimedia's International Conference
Wikimedia Foundation, the official organizer of Wikimania 2009 Buenos Aires, is offering a limited number of scholarships to help attendees defray the cost of attending Wikimania 2009.
Wikimedia 2009 Sponsorship Application
Here is the application for sponsorship for attendees of Wikimania 2009, Wikimedia's international conference. This is not a scholarship for university study.
Attendees can click on the link and apply for sponsorship and avail a chance to attend the conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina This is for a limited number of scholarships to help attendees defray the cost of attending Wikimania 2009.Who is eligible?
- Any active contributor to a Wikimedia project or any active volunteer is eligible.
What expenses are covered
Expenses to attend Wikimania 2009 Buenos Aires that are eligible for the scholarship award:
- Travel costs to and from Buenos Aires.
- Registration fee for Wikimania 2009 (includes access to all sessions, lunch on meeting days and access to the party)
What expenses are not covered
Expenses to attend Wikimania 2009 Buenos Aires that NOT eligible for the scholarship award:
- Accommodations (hotel)
- Daily allowance for meals or incidental expenses
- Local transportation
Timeline
- April 8, 2009: Scholarship applications made available.
- April 30, 2009: Deadline for submission of applications (at 23:59:59 UTC).
- May 15, 2009: Notification of scholarship awards.
- May 22, 2009: Deadline to accept award.
- May 30, 2009: Notification to those on waiting list of scholarship awards.
Disbursement of Scholarships
Transportation costs will be paid for directly by the Wikimedia Foundation through a travel agent. After awards are given, coordination will be handled by a member of the Scholarship Review Committee.
Wikimedia Help
The Scholarship Committee may be reached by leaving comments on the talk page of this page, or by emailing wikimania-scholarships@wikimedia.org.
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Two new improvements to Google Organic SERPs
Google rolled out two new improvements to Google SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages) with tweaks on its unbeatable Algorithms for a better search experience for its users with Related terms and Longer snippets.
The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More and better search refinements is the ability to better understand associations and concepts called as "semantics" a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).
Longer snippets while users type longer queries on the search box will fetch you the results starting with a dark blue title and is followed by a few lines of text is called as a "snippet", which together gives an idea of what each page is about. This gives more clarity on the context, this snippet shows how the words of a query appear on the page by highlighting them in bold.
When user enters a longer query, with more than three words, regular-length snippets may not give them enough information and context. In these situations, Google increases the number of lines in the snippet to provide more information and show more of the words users type in the context of the page. Exciting! Huh!
What else does a user need other than these. Do post your feedback on my blog.
Happy Searching!
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I am an In-house Search Marketer handling Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMM) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) activities for an MNC in Chennai. I write this SEO blog posting on emarketing Trends and review SEO Tools with rave insights and topics at SEOChat, Highrankings.com, Mediapost, SEMPO among others to that could be helpful for the users who are inclined towards Internet Marketing.
