According to The Nielsen Company (Consumer Market Researcher) recent statistical updates reads a huge jump in the usage of social networking and blogging sites.

The full PDF press release is here to download from Nielsen-online.com

As per the total minutes spent on social networking media sites the year-over-year percentage is estimated to have 83% increase. As expected, Facebook is on the top of the list with almost 700 year-over-year percent increase from April 2008 up to April 2009 which an increase of 1.7 Million to 13.8 Billion minutes in one year, although Twitter should be on the top of the list for having a year-over-year percentage of 3712 but the data arranged according to minutes spent. That’s impressive.

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Tags to Technorati: facebook, nielsen, online time, traffic, twitter

This has been regularly asked question in forums and discussions and I’m blogging about this since web services for locals would be interested to get free and easy traffic to their sites.

In the big picture Google always push high quality pages in their SERPs in response to the key of delivering quality pages to users, and as always none is certainly sure how Google algorithm work to achieve this, but when it comes to local related searches like for instance this one (hotels in Paris) the old theory says that a site will more likely show in SERPs if the query talks about a location AND the site has the same Country Code Top Level Domain (CCTLD for short).

Next, a video about the Server IP-location effect

Tags to Technorati: IP location, local websites, page rank, ranking, SEO, SERP, Server

Walking an extra mile in design accessibility might cost some time, but with little easy tweaks you could improve site visitor experience and accessibility with a customized 404 error page.

Obviously, a 404 page shown when a visitor reached a url that can’t be found on the server, whatever the reason is your 404 page should deliver a clear message to the visitor and avoid any confusions, and as per Google webmaster central using a soft 404 page is not recommended for SEO reasons as quoted from google webmaster central

Yes, get to the article page..

Tags to Technorati: 404 page, accessibility, coding, design, duplicative, SEO, Server, URLs, wordpress

Hey there, its Ali

Good day and thanks for passing by and reading here, I wish you enjoy.

Topics I’ll be talking about here focus on internet business, web development and new stuff around. Of course, new buzz words will have some room here

I’m going to hit publish now as I have work to do and I’ll get back to post something useful soon.

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