Nepal and blog action day 08 poverty

Yes. October 15, is the day for "Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty"

• 45 per cent of the population live below the poverty line. Nepal has the lowest life expectancy and highest illiteracy rates – especially for women.
• A Maoist insurgency, general political instability and a reduction in tourism caused a negative growth rate.
• Political Unrest and violence, lack of economic growth,illiteracy all have contributed in some way to Poverty.
• Mid Western and Far Western regions in Nepal have the highest concentration of poor people.
• 88 Ways to DO Something About Poverty Right Now http://site.blogactionday.org/poverty/fight-poverty

crawl errors sources by GWT

Just that google talked about Good times with inbound links, the google webmaster tool now shows sources for the crawl errors.

The web crawl errors detailing "Errors for url in sitemaps" and "Not Found" have a new column, "Linked From" added by GWT. This "Linked From" provides linked pages/sources for the URL.

Here's an example from http://www.imavista.com ( Image Editing and Photo Retouching)

The figure shows 4 pages in the Linked From Column for Not Found URL. (click on image to see large view)

Now, after I clicked on 4 pages under "linked from", the above sources are shown. And the mentioned sources have broken links and so is under the Not Found Stat. Very much helpful information provided by "GWT /Linked From".

google.com.np error filed

earlier post about the small little square box while browsing http://www.google.com.np in Google Chrome. www.google.com.np is google for Nepal.
Finally I am happy to see that the error has been filed for the further development. Please view at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2540

Hope to see results soon.

twitter interface redesigned

The very popular social micro blogging, twitter has redesigned its interface. http://twitter.com/abeen is my tweet and when I logged in this morning, I happened to realize the change in the design. And then quickly looked at the official blog of twitter to see the updates and yes, they have provided the update in their blog.

Here's how my twitter look like,

Get more from the twitter blog.

sitelinks

I know I have already once talked about sitelinks, and today I would again like to post some lines about the sitelinks.
So what are sitelinks? Google sitelinks are little set of links or snippets of links seen in SERPs just below the website URL.These list of links ranges from 2 to maximum number of 8 links.

Here's a screen shot of the popular photo collection website from Netherlands.



The links highlighted are called Sitelinks and they are the sitelinks for the www.photoos.net. Search with "photoos" in www.google.nl, you can see the above result.Here are few points I would like to mention for the sitelinks as I have experienced:-

1. Site should rank first for the keyword used as query to search.
2. Searching for short, high traffic keyword/s usually brand/domain names.
3. Not for every keywords or keyphrase sitelinks appear.
4. Fairly high natural search traffic.
5. High click through rates from the search results page.
6. Sitelinks are usually generated from top level links. Internal links from homepage.
7. Easily crawled, structured navigation. Easy to crawl and relevant page links in HTML, Useful links.
8. Pure HTML links, no java script or flash.
9. Image with proper alt text.
10. 2 to 8 numbers of sitelinks are displayed.
11. Site age is several years or older.
12. High probablity that the information on a web page will be accessed by a user.
13. High probablity that the information will be useful to a user submitting a search query.

Google says, "Sitelinks are calculated algorithmically and completely automated".
You might also want to visit:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Tools/browse_thread/thread/63b915eed3386a60
and
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

twitter

"Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?" from http://twitter.com

Twitter is a micro blogging service, allows you to update your messages, read others messages. Users can receive update through twitter.com, or SMS or RSS or other supporting applications, and can be found in http://twitter.com/downloads

Now you know what twitter is, Start micro blogging now, follow me, know about my updates at http://twitter.com/abeen

shortcut keys chrome

I have listed some shortcut keys for using google chrome,

1. Alt + Home loads home page
2. Control + Shift + N opens an ‘incognito’ window
3. Control + T opens a new tab. The new tab can be dragged to make a new window.
4. Control + Shift + T opens your most recently closed tab. Pressing the Control + Shift + T again opens the previously closed tab.
5. Control + Tab lets you cycle your open tabs from first opened tab.
6. Control + Shift + Tab lets you cycle your tabs begining from the last opened tab.
7. Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc for different first, second, third respective tabs.
8. Hide and Unhide bookmarks with Control +B.
9. Control + H is for History.
10. Control + J shows Download page.
11. Control + E or Control + K to search from the address bar. The '?' appears in the address bar, ready for search query.
12. Shift + Escape is for Task manager.