Right at the start of the New Year 2012, Search Giant Google has introduced another fresh algorithm named “Page Layout Algorithm” a.k.a “Above The Fold Algorithm” developed by the Head of Google’s Webspam team – Matt Cutts, as per the user’s request. Before launching a new algorithm, Google Engineers always work hard on various angles so as to deliver the search results to the users in a friendly manner. On this basis, this algorithm purely works on the principle of the amount of advertisements present in the website.

Image Courtesy: Search Engine Land

These days, making some revenue through internet has been a hobby between bloggers and webmasters. They create a blog and put some advertisements in their web pages so as to make money out of it. As People have been playing with advertisements just for the sake of money, those kind of website seems to carry more number of ads than the information in it. To stop these kinds of sites, this algorithm has been launched so as to keep an eye on these kinds of websites and penalize it.

As known by most, content is prominent in a website and every webmaster should make sure that the website which has been designed by their team is user-friendly rather than being seo-friendly. They must also give high priority to user’s view compared to the SE view. An informative portal would only get complete if it contains relevant text information and visual information such as pictures, videos, etc.

 Reason behind generating this type of algorithm:

As the Search Giant Google got various complaints from users regarding the bunch of advertisements present in the websites, they decided to take the initiative and block such websites from the search results and to provide relevant stuffs as well.

Google stated in a statement that,

We’ve heard complaints from users that if they click on a result and it’s difficult to find the actual content, they aren’t happy with the experience. Rather than scrolling down the page past a slew of ads, users want to see content right away. So sites that don’t have much content “above-the-fold” can be affected by this change. If you click on a website and the part of the website you see first either doesn’t have a lot of visible content above-the-fold or dedicates a large fraction of the site’s initial screen real estate to ads, that’s not a very good user experience. Such sites may not rank as highly going forward.

 How does this Page Layout Algorithm affects the website?

Let’s see how this new algorithm affects the websites which contains enormous amount of ads.

1. Gets the website penalized by Google
2. Web crawling is stopped for the websites containing more ad panels
3. Websites getting away from the search results much quicker compared to nominal websites ranking higher in the search results

So, all the website designers will need to keep a note about this new algorithm so that the site developed by them does rank high in search engines as they have sticked to the rules updated by Google.

Web development company

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Blackberry Gmail Service Ban

The search giant Google announced that they have discountinued their Gmail service on Android based Blackberry smartphones from November 22, 2011 onwards. For the past few years, they focused on bringing Gmail service on smart mobile phones. In this regards, they clearly stated that the Gmail service is blocked for the blackberry smartphones and this service is available for the blackberry smartphone users who have downloaded the Gmail browser already.

This is the beauty behind a software like connect.me. The relevance and demand for a social vouching concept like connect.me prompted the Cogzidel team to come up with an equally great, if not better version of this product, which can be used with existing social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

Through simple social verification system, you can share your own or your company’s reputation and connect with other reputable entities across the social web. But the software is more that just a tool to vouch for your co-workers, business associates and friends. It’s also an online springboard to be recognized for your passions and skills, and prove your trustworthiness – making it easier to interact and transact online.

While most people have resigned to the idea that nothing can possibly facilitate trust online and make the social web safer, a software like this presents an effective tool to control and monitor the sharing of day on popular networking sites under one powerful platform.

Check our blog regularly for the announcement for the product’s release in the coming months. Also, you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get constant update. Be among the first to test it and enjoy exclusive deals!

Yep, Google has recently announced that they are going to close their applications Google Knol, Friendconnect and Wave in the near future. They reveal this news in its blog today where Google wave will be closed by April 2012 and the remaining other products will be shutting down in the next couple of days.

Google products shut down

This news could have been a shocking one among the webmasters and other search users. I have given below the mail which I received today about the Google Wave closure for your reference:

Dear Wavers,

More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.

If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.

For more details, please see our help center.

Google Chromebook

After getting a lot of request from the users across the globe, the search giant Google introduced Chromebook in the technology market today. Now the users can shop chromebook at three major shopping websites Amazon.com, Best Buy and TigerDirect.com. Another fruitful news is that the Chromebook price is slashed to make its customers happy.

Yahoo Site Explorer:

Yahoo! Site Explorer shut down

Yahoo! Site Explorer is a great tool for the webmasters where it helps to promote their websites, to track the backlinks, to know the number of pages indexed, etc. Mostly, it is used to analyse the backlinks of a website easily than to find in Google, as Google don’t show the entire backlinks due to privacy issues. It’s a great disappointment for all webmasters when the closure of Yahoo! Site Explorer was announced.

Let’s see below what did Yahoo! described about this closure notification in its blog:

With the completion of algorithmic transition to Bing, Yahoo! Search has merged Site Explorer into Bing Webmaster Tools. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic from Bing and Yahoo!. Site Explorer services will not be available from November 21, 2011. Bing Webmaster Tools has much of this information, with the big exception of competitive linkage data, which is a huge exception.

Version 1.0.4

We are happy to share the cool news on version update of Vouch, a yipit clone with our users. With the large amount of positive responses in hand to our new product, our team has updated the Vouch, with more amazing features. The current version of Vouch version 1.0.4 is meant to get the users excited due to array of fruitful features filled within in it.

This is a summary of the new features included and other major changes in this release:

1. General changes

• Auto loaded all language, helpers, libraries and model in autoload.php (./application/config/autoload.php) and removed where statically loaded the libraries, helpers and model.
• Added language files “translate_lang.php” and “notification_lang.php” under .for language translate. Folder Location: ./application/language/english/admin/ and ./application/language/french/admin/
• Modified index() in ./application/controllers/home.php for homepage slider and added the following images right_arraow.png, left_arrow.png and left_arrow_inact.png under ./css/images/
• Modified “skin.css” and “jquery.jcarousel.min.js” for homepage slider. Location: ./css/skin.css and .js/jquery.jcarousel.min.js
• Modified “splash.php” for home page slider under .application/views/splash/splash.php
• Added library file tweet.php for Twitter authentication. ./application/libraries/tweet.php
• Modified add_website() and edit_websit() in ./application/controllers/siteadmin/home.php for adding the currency
• Modified the updateSiteSettings() function in ./application/models/settings_model.php for adding default category
• Modified index() function for selecting the default subcategory of deals if a user does not select any category

2. Helpers

• Modified xml_reader_helper.php in ./application\helpers/xml_reader_helper.php for selecting the default category when the deals are viewed by categories

3. Model

• Added count_result() for counting the fetched results for the table in ./application/model/common_model.php
• Modified updateSiteSettings() function for selecting the deal’s default subcategory (../models/settings_model.php)

4. View

• Modified ./application/views/admin/add_web_sites.php for default currency add
• Modified all view files. For language translator, all the labels and message were changed like the following <?php echo $this->lang->line(‘label or message name’);?> label names declared in the language files
• Modified header.php in the following locations for language translator. ./application/views/splash /header/php

5. Controller

• Added new controller t_connect.php in ./ application/controllers./t_connect/php for twitter login
• Modified all the controller’s construct functions for loading the language. For example, if your controller name is Admin, there is a function named Admin, which is same as your controller name. An example given below for reference:

class Admin extends CI_Controller

{

function Admin()

{

}

}

Folder Location: ./application/controllers/siteadmin/

6. Database

Execute the following query in settings table for default deals language selection:

INSERT INTO `settings` (`code`, `name`, `setting_type`, `value_type`, `int_value`, `string_value`, `text_value`, `created`) VALUES (‘DEFAULT_LANGUAGE’, ‘Language Code’, ‘S’, ‘S’, NULL, ‘english’, NULL, 0)

• Added new field “currency” with varchar(5)
• Added new record in settings table. Insert the following query

INSERT INTO `settings` (`code`, `name`, `setting_type`, `value_type`, `int_value`, `string_value`, `text_value`, `created`) VALUES (‘DEAL_DEFAULT_CATECORY’, ‘deal_default_category’, ‘S’, ‘T’, 0, NULL, ‘Others’, 0);

Bug fixes for 1.0.3

• Have fixed the bug of getting blank space in home page when there is no site logo
• Fixed the bug of getting error when the deals cannot be imported from the given RSS feed
• Alert message will be given if any deal is selected to delete. You can get this page by clicking the link “Deal” under the Manage Deal option in admin mode
• Fixed the bug of displaying delete dropdown and submit button even when there is no deals in the list. In view_deals page. http://www.yoursite.com/dealimporter/view_deals
• Pagination has been created in Admin Dashboard home page

Features for the current version of Vouch (Version 1.0.4)

• Added new feature (Multi languages) for switching the site to different languages
• Added new feature (Twitter) for user login
• Calculated the no.of active deals and archive deals in Admin dashboard homepage

79.99 USD now

Who wouldn’t want a site which is similar to “Google Offers“. As we were approached by many users with the following query – Have you got anything similar to “Google Offers“? Our technical team worked on it and has come up with the one similar to it named “SEPT Offers - Groupon clone theme“.

Glimpse of the SEPT Offers:

If you are looking to run your own site similar to “Google Offers“, you can go ahead with a combination of SEPT- Groupon Clone and this theme which would add great asset to it as it will give a fresh professional look to your site. Kindly note that this theme would be filled with more significant updates in the days to come.

SEPT Offers theme

SEPT offers and discount deals:

SEPT Offers filled with significant features, vibrant color and much more is bound to facelift your site. This “Groupon Clone theme” is currently worth 200 USD. As winter is approaching, we have decided to warm our customers with a distinct offer in the midst of other offers provided by different companies this season. You can now avail this cool groupon clone theme for only 79.99 USD

SEPT Offers theme design

You can play around the Groupon clone theme and also the existing customers can download our premium groupon clone from our customer area. Similarly, you can order our groupon clone and its theme from here itself. This theme is compatible with both FREE and PAID SEPT script. For further enquiries about this groupon clone theme, please feel free to contact bala.k@cogzidel.com

Get a feel of this amazing groupon clone theme now!!!

The internet search giant greeted the childrens with a colorful Google Doodle today. A Google doodle competition was held in India on account of this occasion among various childrens across the country. At the end of the competition, Varsha Gupta from Noida was announced as the winner of this competition.

Children’s Day 2011 Google Doodle:

Children's day 2011 Google doodle

Let’s see what does her doodle explaining:

Varsha writes, “India is a land filled with different cultures. In India, music plays a very important role. India has offered many musical instruments to the world. Goddess Saraswati plays Veena, God Shiv plays Damaru. According to our mythological stories, musical instruments are played on all the occasions. Even during war, musical instruments were played. Lord Krishna’s flute is well renowned around the whole world for its magical music. In modern days, Mr. Zakir Hussain is popularly known as Tabla Mastro and Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is known as a great Santoor player all around the world”.

Varsha Gupta – Children’s Day 2011 Google Doodle Winner:

Children day google doodle winner

Google India has presented Varsha with the winning certificate along with a technology starter package including a laptop, a year’s Internet connection and Rs 2,00,000 technology grant for her school.

We are very proud of such talented childrens in India.

Congratz Varsha Gupta