Google Real Time Search Results
As we all know Google is mixing Real Time Search Results into Search Engine Results. As a part of SEO community we have to take this as an advantage and leverage traffic. Real time Search Results effectively pushed down other websites listing lower down in Search Results. So as Online Marketers we need to take this an an opportunity and get more traffic for our websites through these Real Time Search Results.
How to get traffic using Real Time Search Results:
Google has announced that it pulls results from Social Media websites, Micro Blogging Sites, News & Blogs. But if you watch closely in the Search Results, it’s often twitter results are displayed. So to start with focus on updating Twitter and try to get ranked in Search Engines.
Obviously the next move from Google would be filtering the Twitter Results from Spammers. So try to get more quality followers and also try to get a unique fan base in twitter, so that Google might not treat you as Spammer.
Also make sure your tweets and the people you follow are closely aligned to specific niche. So when some breaking news happens in the particular niche, Google will start using your tweets as legitimate.
Google’s latest results are constantly moving, so ensure you make lot of tweets. This will ensure your tweets stay in top. Also ensure not to spam your followers with tweets, try to maintain a balance so that you don’t end up as spammer but still you create lot of opportunities for listing in Search Engines with your tweets.
Recently most of us would have seen Breadcrumbs appearing in Google Search Results. Last month Google announced that it’s going to roll out Breadcrumbs in Search Results globally.
I got lot of queries referring what it exactly mean for Web Masters, so thought of explaining in my blog:
If you get Breadcrumbs on Search Results it means that we can get more links on the results page. You can get separate link for each page in the breadcrumb trail. This actually means Google says “Provide Context” – Google’s this move clearly shows that its moving towards “Semantic” where each link will be valued based on the relationship with context to content provided by other links. Google’s this move is generally well appreciated among the Web Master community.
Breadcrumbs in Search Results :
Google Breadcrumbs
Things to Note:
There are three types of breadcrumbs: Path Breadcrumb, Location Breadcrumb & Attribute Breadcrumb.
- Path breadcrumbs show the path that the user has taken to arrive at a page
- Location breadcrumbs show where the page is located in the Site Architecture.
- Attribute breadcrumbs give the Category information of the current page.
It Obvious that Google uses Location Breadcrumbs as it gives more of the Personalization in Search Listings.
Google just posted an “exclusive quiz” for all the webmasters to take over here >> Google Webmaster Quiz
- This quiz based on site issues we see in webmaster help forum
- Quiz Contains 40 questions with multiple choice answers
- Quiz must be taken by Wednesday, January 27th before 5 PM PST
After Jan 27th Google is planning to post answers with the name of the top scorer in Google Webmasters Central Blog
Take this quiz and see how good your knowledge is.
It’s a CSS technique that can make your website load faster. Instead of having a n number of images that are included on every page of the site. Example such logo, menu bar, social media icon etc., you combine them all into one big image, then use Cascading Style Sheets to display those image by using position attribute. The major problem in the loading of a web page today isn’t download speeds so much as concurrent download. A web browser will only download two files at once from a web server. After the HTML is downloaded, the browser has to grab Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript’s, and images from your server. You might have a lot of those secondary files, and only two will be loaded at once. If you combine your template’s images into one big file, they all get downloaded at once, instead of two at a time. Also, you may shave off a few kilobytes of file size in some cases, but that’s not as important.
New in Visual Studio 2010 Rosario
- Aims to become a tool for everyone involved in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) – from architects to developers, from project managers to testers. Not just for developers.
- Unified Development and Database product editions.
- Architecture Explorer – to discover and identify existing code assets and architecture in number of ways including graphs, stacked diagrams and dependency matrices.
Design & Architecture
- Ability to create and share various types of diagrams like use case, activity and sequence diagrams.
- Modeling tools that are tightly integrated with code and thus helps in keeping model and code in sync.
- Architectural Validations – Ways to put constraints on code using models and doing validations at the time of check-ins and builds.
- Architecture Layer Diagram – One of the most useful and simple tool getting introduced. It allows representing your application architecture in form of layers and showing dependencies between them. It also allows to map physical components like classes, namespaces etc. to map to these layers. After all mappings you can validate whether the code meets the expected mappings and constraints.
- Microsoft joins OMG and UML gets introduced in Visual Studio 2010.
- Support for UML 2.1.1 – 5 out of 13 diagrams – use case, component, activity, class and sequence diagrams.
- Ability to keep all the UML diagrams in sync so that a change in one automatically reflects on others.
- UML design tool is developed using DSL toolkit.
- Will be interoperable with Visio 1.1 templates.
- Supports Top to bottom design approach.
- Supports Bottom to top design approach – reverse engineer. Filter based on namespaces, number of level deep.
- Model Explorer – Similar to Solution Explorer, this allows you to explore all the models you have created which includes objects created as part of various UML diagrams – logical view.
- Ability to create a Sequence Diagram from existing source, simply by right clicking in the VS code editor and selecting “Generate Sequence Diagram…”
- Parallel Programming: To better utilize power of multi-processor and multi-core machines, .NET 4.0 will add support for parallel programming using PLINQ, Task Parallel Library and Coordination Data Structures. The debugger has been enhanced to identify concurrency issues. Two new features added are MultiStack and a Task List views. Introduction of concurrency analysis report for performance analysis of applications.
- Test Impact View – Identify and run only the tests impacted by a code.
Quality/ Testing
- Eliminating ‘no-repro’ bug i.e. bugs that can’t be reproduced by providing tools for better collection of test data.
- The Microsoft Test Runner Tool – a standalone tool that a tester uses to guide them through a series of steps to complete a test case. During the test run, this tool can take snapshot of test environment, application screenshots and even capture full video for assisting in reproducing bugs.
- Enhanced version control capabilities including gated check-in, branch visualization and build workflow.
Source Code Management
- Ability to perform constraints check on code during check-in based on Architecture Layer Diagram.
- Integration with Project Server for enterprise wide project management and new features for Agile project scheduling with Excel.
Project Management
- Integration with Project Server for enterprise wide project management and new features for Agile project scheduling with Excel.
