Google Conference GDayX Event 2013 in Chennai, India

Google Conference GDayX Event 2013 in Chennai, India

Google Conference – GDayX Chennai, India

Digital Marketing and SEO Event in Chennai, India

Google announced the conference/event – GDayX held at Chennai, India. It organized by Google Business Group (GBG) – Chennai

Google GDayX brings together and connect with some of the best speakers and entrepreneurs in the India country to share their knowledge with you all.

Listen and learn from the people who walk the talk!

All this knowledge comes to you free of cost. Of course, it includes swags and food as well.

GDayx Event Schedule

#	Marketer’s lounge	Entrepreneur’s lounge
9:00am – 9:30am	Registrations Open
9:30am – 10:30am	Keynote: Emerging Trends in Digital Marketing & Technology Sunil Rao – Country Head – Outreach Programs, Google
10:30am – 10:50am	Tea Break
10:50am-11:40am	Understanding Google Search and SEO Syed Malik Mairaj – Sr. Strategist, Search Quality – Google	Unconference: In search of the next big disruption Dorai Thodla, Founder, Imorph Inc
11:40am-12:30pm	Bang for your buck: Organic vs Paid traffic Suganthi Sugumaran, SEO/SocialMedia Consultant, DigitalSpread Communications
12:30am-1:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm-2:20pm	Monitization: Enhanced Profits and Business with Google Madhumathi GK, Co-Founder, Madras Studios	5 steps to better user engagement Siddarth Govindaraj, Founder, Silver Stripe Software
2:20pm-3:10pm	Understanding AdWords Mrinalini Chakrabarty, Joshua Singh, Google	Confessions of a Hustler: Outreach hacks Ashwin Ramasamy, Founder, ContractIQ
3:10pm-3:30pm	Tea Break
3:30pm-4:20pm	SEO unplugged: Fireside chat with SEO and AdWords experts Syed Malik, Suganthi Sugumaran, Mrinalini Chakrabarty, Joshua Singh
4:20pm-5:10pm	Panel discussion: Entrepreneurship Sunil Rao – Country Head – Outreach Programs, Google
5:10pm-5:30pm	T-shirts & swags

 GDayX Event Location and Timing Details :

About this event Saturday, November 9, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (IST) Hindustan University Old Mahabalipuram Road Padur 603103 Chennai, India You can find the full GDayX Chennai event details here: http://gbgchennai.github.io/gdayx/

Google SEO Ranking Factors InfoGraphic

Google SEO Ranking Factors (Infographic) from SEJ :

I came across one info-graphic from Search engine journal blog which is describe in very detailed for Google Ranking factors. They are listed 200 ranking factors which is help for SEO improvement on site. Every website should follow these factors and get ranked well as per Google terms. I hope this Google 200 ranking factors are very helpful for digital marketing and SEO professionals.

Here some SEO Ranking factors are listed below from that info-graphic,

1. Domain Factors

2. Page Level Factors

3. Site Level Factors

4. Back-link Factors

5. User Interactions

6. Special Algorithm Rules

7.Social Signals

8. Brand Signals

9. Onsite Webspam Factors

10. Off-page Webspam factors

Google Penguin 2.0 Update rolled out on 22nd May 2013 - Matt Cutts Statement

Google Penguin 2.0 Update rolled out on 22nd May 2013:

As per Matt Cutts statemented, in this Google Penguin 2.0 updates refreshed with Google algorithm and this scope of Penguin impact to languages with more webspam.


If you would like to report spam sites – Tell to Google Report Here – http://bit.ly/penguinspamreport

Google Business Groups (GBGs) in India for Business Professionals

Google is announced Google Business Groups (GBGs) in India. GBGs are a networking community of business professionals to sharing knowledge about Google web technologies / products / apps for business success. In this GBGs are run by business professionals, passionate about the online business benefits to their local business people, on a volunteer, unpaid basis. It helps to collaborate, learn and achieve for their business.

Google Business Group(GBG) community led by local business professionals groups which organize workshops, networking, meet ups, social gatherings, online hangouts, events and other social connecting activities to meet and connect like-minded professionals.

GBGs already held at many cities in India – Hyderabad, Cochin, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mysore, Hubli and Dharwad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Madhurai, Coimbatore, Agra, Mangalore, Patna, Kochi, Ludhiana, Surat, Bhopal, Kanpur, Nagpur, Pune, Jaipur, Indore, Nashik, Vadodara, Bhubhaneshwar, Vishakapatnam.

You can find more information about Google Business Groups India in GBG Website by Google.

Cross Posted from AbdulMalick.com

Google Maps Contest – Mapathon 2013 in India

Mapathon 2013 Contest from Google Map Maker:

The Google Map contest – Mapathon 2013 is designed by Google map maker to encourage users to map their neighborhoods and places within India.

• The Google Mapathon 2013 contest is open to just about anybody who lives in India
• Contest Dates: Feb 12th ‑ March 25th
• Only edits made in India count
• The top 1000 contestants by number of published edits will receive cool prizes

Google Maps – Mapathon 2013 Prizes : 

Following prizes will be awarded to the winners:

1. Top 10 winners will each win Samsung Galaxy Note 800 or a tablet approximately worth INR 36000 /-
2. Next 40 winners will each win Samsung Smart Phone I-9100 Galaxy S2 or an Android phone approximately worth INR 24000 /-
3. Next 50 winners will each win FlipKart Gift Coupons worth INR 5000 /-
4. All above 100 winners will also be entitled to a T-shirt and Certificate of Participation from Google.
5. There will also be another 900 T-shirts and Certificate of Participation to be won from Google for the subsequent maximum number of approved edits/ data submitted
6. 300 special Contest Promotion T-shirts (50 T-shirts to be won every week by Raffle’s winners during the Contest period).

Key Dates for this Google Mapathon contest 2013, 

• Registration opens: 5th February 2013
• Contest starts: 12th Febrauary 2013
• Contest ends: 25th March 2013
• Announcement of Winners: 23rd July 2013

For More information about this contest - https://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapathon/india2013/

Cross posted from Abdulmalick.com

Google Places - How to Connect The Business With Local Customers

Why every business needs to target local customers, 

1. 97% of consumers search online for local businesses.

2. 20% of business searches on Google are related to location.

So It is important that every business has its own website and online presence.

Google Places : Connecting with Local Customers 

Google places or Google Maps is a important platform that your business is easily discover and appear in online search.

In Google Places, there is 2 method for listing our business,

1. Create free listing your business

2. Verify the business listing or verify the existing listing already available in Google Places.

It’s the best way that consumers searched on Google, Google Maps, Mobile with keywords related your business. You can learn and understand the Google Places from below video,

Source : www.abdulmalick.com

32 Google Search Quality Updates and Highlights on May 2012

Google Search Quality Highlights and Updates on May 2012

Google search quality updates on may month that may including the Knowledge Graph, better search for users in mainland China, and an updated Search App for iPhone.

32 search quality highlights and updates in Google on May 2012,

1. Deeper detection of hacked pages.
2. Autocomplete predictions used as refinements.
3. More predictions for Japanese users.
4. Improvements to autocomplete on Mobile.
5. Fewer arbitrary predictions.
6. Improved IME in auto-complete.
7. New segmenters for Asian languages.
8. Scoring and infrastructure improvements for Google Books pages in Universal Search.
9. Unified Soccer feature.
10. Improvements to NBA search feature.
11. New Golf search feature.
12. Improvements to ranking for news results.
13. Better application of inorganic backlinks signals.
14. Improvements to Penguin.
15. Trigger alt title when HTML title is truncated.
16. Efficiency improvements in alternative title generation.
17. Better demotion of boilerplate anchors in alternate title generation.
18. Internationalizing music rich snippets.
19. Music rich snippets on mobile.
20. Improvement to SafeSearch goes international.
21. Simplification of term-scoring algorithms.
22. Fading results to white for Google Instant.
23. Better detection of major new events.
24. Smoother ranking functions for freshness.
25. Better detection of searches looking for fresh content.
26. Freshness algorithm simplifications.
27. Updates to +Pages in right-hand panel.
28. Performance optimizations in our ranking algorithm.
29. Simpler logic for serving results from diverse domains.
30. Precise location option on tablet.
31. Improvements to local search on tablet.
32. Internationalization of “recent” search feature on mobile.

Source : abdulmalick.com

HTML and CSS Style Guide by Google

Google introduced to this new style guide. This code makes more effective, efficient, maintainable and elegant. When we working on HTML/CSS code with several developers and many teams or any companies, this code helps to be consistent and easy to understand.

HTML / CSS Style Contents :

General Style Rules	Protocol
General Formatting Rules	Indentation Capitalization Trailing whitespace
General Meta Rules	Encoding Comments Action items
HTML Style Rules	Document type HTML validity Semantics Multimedia fallback Separation of concerns Entity references Optional tags type attributes
HTML Formatting Rules	General formatting
CSS Style Rules	CSS validity ID and class naming ID and class name style Type selectorsShorthand properties 0 and units Leading 0s Quotation marks in URI values Hexadecimal notation Prefixes ID and class name delimiters Hacks
CSS Formatting Rules	Declaration order Block content indentation Declaration stops Property name stops Selector and declaration separation Rule separation
CSS Meta Rules	Section comments

Source : http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml

Google Search Quality Highlights – 52 Updates on April 2012

1. Categorize paginated documents.
2. More language-relevant navigational results.
3. Country identification for webpages.
4. Anchors bug fix.
5. More domain diversity.
6. More local sites from organizations.
7. Improvements to local navigational searches.
8. Improvements to how search terms are scored in ranking.
9. Disable salience in snippets.
10. More text from the beginning of the page in snippets.
11. Smoother ranking changes for fresh results.
12. Improvement in a freshness signal.
13. No freshness boost for low-quality content.
14. Tweak to trigger behavior for Instant Previews.
15. Sunrise and sunset search feature internationalization.
16. Improvements to currency conversion search feature in Turkish.
17. Improvements to news clustering for Serbian.
18. Better query interpretation.
19. News universal results serving improvements.
20. UI improvements for breaking news topics.
21. More comprehensive predictions for local queries.
22. Improvements to triggering of public data search feature.
23. Adding Japanese and Korean to error page classifier.
24. More efficient generation of alternative titles.
25. More concise and/or informative titles.
26. Fewer bad spell corrections internationally.
27. More spelling corrections globally and in more languages.
28. More spell corrections for long queries.
29. More comprehensive triggering of “showing results for” goes international.
30. “Did you mean” suppression goes international.
31. Spelling model refresh and quality improvements.
32. Fewer auto-complete predictions leading to low-quality results.
33. Improvements to SafeSearch for videos and images.
34. Improved SafeSearch models.
35. Improvements to SafeSearch signals in Russian.
36. Increase base index size by 15%.
37. New index tier.
38. Backend improvements in serving.
39. “Sub-sitelinks” in expanded sitelinks.
40. Better ranking of expanded sitelinks.
41. Sitelinks data refresh.
42. Less snippet duplication in expanded sitelinks.
43. Movie showtimes search feature for mobile in China, Korea and Japan.
44. MLB search feature.
45. Spanish football (La Liga) search feature.
46. Formula 1 racing search feature.
47. Tweaks to NHL search feature.
48. Keyword stuffing classifier improvement.
49. More authoritative results.
50. Better HTML5 resource caching for mobile.
51. Updates to rich snippets
52. Another step to reward high-quality sites

Source : Google Insight Search Blog

Thanks to Google on my Birthday Wish..