Shocking!! Google Adwords Goof up

Jude Festus    Uncategorized    

Today when i was doing some Googling i found this particular ad. Clicking this ad shattered my years of trust which i had on Google. Watch this video and take a pinch of shock with you.

How an ad with so many redirects which is landing on an error page and
which again take us to a irrelevant content got approved?

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Couldn’t believe how this ad got approved?

Google vs Baidu Vs Bing Logo on Father’s day

Jude Festus    coffeetalks    

Google vs Baidu Vs Bing Logo on Father’s day

It’s very surprising how Google missed the doodle this year!!!!!

Baidu’s Father’s day logo.

Bing’s Father’s day Image

I like Baidu’s Logo.. Which one you like?

Joomla Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::onDisplay() in joomla/html/editor.php on line 268

Jude Festus    Joomla    

Today i encountered an issue in my Joomla based website when i tried to edit one of the module data. Below is the error message i received:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::onDisplay() in joomla/html/editor.php on line 268″

After searching in Google for a while i found the answer in a forum, this is what i did to resolve the issue in my joomla based website.

Edit the file “editor.php” in the folder libraries/joomla/html

Replaced the line $resultTest = $plugin->onDisplay($editor);
(which is in line 261 after the line
“// Try to authenticate — only add to array if authentication is successful”)

to

if (method_exists($plugin, ‘onDisplay’)) {
$result[] = $plugin->onDisplay($editor);
}

It worked for me. Hope it will work for you too..

Google Caffeine Update: How effective it’s going to be?

Jude Festus    Google    

Finally the much awaited Google Caffeine is live.

As per Google the new Caffeine update will provide 50 percent fresher results for web searches.

Which means Google has to craw and index the web pages very frequently than the previous algorithms. So the frequency of updates and the volume of the data will be more, which throws some very interesting stats:

• Every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel -if this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second
• Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day
• You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles

This new update also throws some interesting questions:

• Will Content spammers exploit this opportunity?
• Will Google pay more attention to the “new” result than the “relevant” result in future?

Time will answer these questions. Let’s wait and watch..

SEO Keywords Selection: How to select the best keywords for your SEO campaigns

Jude Festus    SEO    

Keyword selection is the most important step in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy. Smart selection of keywords is the first step towards the success of your SEO campaigns. In this article I have presented the ways I use to select the keywords for my SEO campaign. For this discussion let me use the keyword “CRM”.

Google Keyword Suggestion Tool

You’re targeting Google and definitely this is the first place you should go to select your keywords. Enter the keyword “CRM” and get the keyword suggestions by Google. Make sure you have selected your country of target in the field just above the search box. I usually keep the match type as “Exact” as this will give me more clarity on the keywords which I have to choose. After zeroing in the keyword which you’re planning to use, click on the “Google insights” button to view the search trend in Google over a period.

Export the selected keywords which you’re planning to target and keep this in one sheet and in the other sheet note the trends/position of all the available keywords. This will help you to prioritize your keywords based on the trend and the search volume.

Once you’re done with your keyword selection then next step is to verify your selection. There may also be some related keywords which you might have missed in your first step. So let’s make sure we haven’t missed any related keywords. Below are the few ways to verify your selection and ensure the quality of your selection.

1. Google Search Suggestion

Go to Google.com and type in your keyword CRM and Google will present you some related keywords as you typein. Note down all the keywords listed and click search with your search term “CRM” once again Google will present you with some related search suggestions. Take a note of this and compare all the keywords which you have selected during this process with your original list. If you found any new keyword using this method, go to Step one and check the search volume and trend of that keyword. Based on the search volume you can decide whether to add this to the original list.

Try different iteration with different related search terms and build your list.

2. Search in Wikipedia

This step will help a lot for the search engine service agencies who work on their client’s campaigns optimizing some difficult business terms or products.

Search in Wikipedia and read the relevant CRM article. This will help you to understand more about CRM and the related keywords. When you read the article note down the keywords (business terms, sub sections, images… etc) within in the article and check the global volume for those keywords as mentioned in the step 1.

3. Keyword Spy

Goto Keyword Spy and check the “Keywords” radio button and enter your keyword. In the results page the overview tab will give you some related CRM keywords and the “organic competitors” tab will show the top 20 competitors for that particular keyword. If you’re using a free version of the tool then you will get only limited results (upto 20).

This step will help you to compare and verify the keywords which you have chosen in using the Google keyword suggestion tool and analysis the competition for that particular keyword.

When you follow the above mentioned list you’ll get a very quality selection of keywords for your SEO campaign. These are the step I follow in my SEO campaigns for keyword selection. If you have a different view on these steps or if you follow a different strategy for your keyword selection please let me know and will be glad to add those to this list.

Twitter: Find and follow people of similar interests

Jude Festus    Google, Twitter    

Google recently launched a new experimental service in Google Labs
called Google Follow Finder. This will help you to expand your
Twitter network by suggesting profiles with similar interest.
This came as a boon to me as i was quite frustrated with Twitter's
search features. Finding profiles of your interest in Twitter is
pretty simple with with Google Follow Finder, simply enter your
Twitter account name and you’ll see a list of people you might be
interested in following. You can also get interesting suggestions
by entering other Twitter user names. Here’s what it looks like:

 



If you see someone you want to follow, just click “Follow on

Twitter,” log in, and they’ll be added to your following list in
Twitter. This integration is based on Twitter’s new @anywhere
frameworks, which make it easy for any site to add Twitter
functionality. We’re using the frameworks to provide dynamic
information about Twitter accounts and one-click following.
The lists in Google Follow Finder are generated using public
following and follower lists on Twitter. For example, if you
follow Mattcutt and Google Blof on Twitter, and most people who
follow Mattcutt and Google Blog also tend to follow other important
SEO folks in the industry. So in this case Google follow finder may
suggest other SEO folks as a “Tweep you might like.” The list of
“Tweeps with similar followers” is simply a list of accounts with
similar follower lists to yours.


Happy Tweeting Guys!