My Experiment with google image search-I: Result-I

I am doing some research on google image search to learn image search optimization. As part of the experiment, I had uploaded 2 images yesterday in a post with text string xyzabcabpq, 1 image named xyzabcabpq and another image with the alt text xyzabcabpq. The initial result is in.

Text gets indexed faster than image

A search for xyzabcabpq in the web search returns the binaryday page. However image search does not return any result yet. Surprisingly even blog search does not return any result. Waiting to see who wins the competition between blog search and image search. Keep checking the SEO Experiment category till then.

Topics: SEO, SEO Experiment

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My Experiment with google image search-I

I have just recently realized the importance of google image search. I have been trying to find more on google image search engine optimization. Surprisingly very less literature is present on the topic.

Hence I am starting my own experiments on image search engine optimization. I have uploaded 2 images of apple air. I will be targetting the term xyzabcabpq. That is because there is no other search result for that term.

One image has a file name same as the search term. The other file has alt text as that. let us see which one wins.

Topics: SEO, SEO Experiment

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Yahoo using google adsense

I just found an advertisement by yahoo mail on binaryday. Found it really interesting that yahoo is using google for advertising its product. Speaks volume about the state of yahoo.

Topics: Uncategorized

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Show your pagerank on your page

Pagerank of a blog or site is an important input for text advertisers and people interested in exchanging link with you. You can attract potential advertisers by displaying your pagerank on your webpage. You can see a demo just below the feedburner box on the sidebar of this page.

I have written a small tool to do so for any webpage. You can show a similar image by adding a single line to your blog. Add the following within php to display your pagerank

include “http://www.binaryday.com/pagerank.php?url=[your site url]”

Topics: Blogs, Resources, SEO, Tools

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wordpress 2.5 released

After almost 6 months of work by the entire wordpress community and some delayed release deadlines, wordpress 2.5 got released. you can download it here

Some important features of wordpress 2.5 are

Table layout has not been changed in this release, so many plugins are expected to work fine with 2.5.

Few-click plugin upgrades — if the plugins you use are part of the plugin directory then wordpress automatically downloads and installs the upgrade for you.

Friendlier visual post editor — The editor doesn’t mess with your code anymore. version 3.0 of TinyMCE is used, which means better compatibility with Safari, and we’ve paid particular attention this release to its integration and interaction with complex HTML.

Concurrent editing protection if you use a multi-author blogs, you might have been frustrated if you ever tried to edit a post while someone was already editing it, and your auto-saves kept overwriting each other. Now if you open a post that someone else is editing, WordPress magically locks it and prevents you from saving until the other person is done.

Read more about the features here

Topics: News, Tips and Tricks, Wordpress

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How to increase your feedburner subsciber numbers?

Feedburner subscriber base is the most assured way to increase number of repeat users. feedburner stat also acts as a good proxy for knowing how many readers find the blog really cool. That is the reason I keep checking my feedburner stat and keep thinking about ways to increase that number.

Below are 2 methods that I find are the most useful to increase the feedburner subscriber number.

Ask them to subscribe You will be surprised how effective is that “if you liked this post, please consider subscribing to my feed” link. If you think about it, the reader is most likely to subscribe to your feed after going through a really good article.

Convert the Unverified Subscribers This is one data that really surprised me. If you have a feed subscription service for quite sometime, you will be really surprised by how many people who subscribed to your feed never confirmed the subscription. It is normally as high as 40% of your total active subscriber base. These are people who liked your blog (why else they will subscribe at the first place?).

So go ahead and remind them to just verify the subscription. In my experience the best way is to subscribe their email ids once more. They will get a confirmation mail. At least in my case 80% of the people confirm the subscription.

If you found this post useful, you know what to do.

Topics: Resources, SEO, Tips and Tricks

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