Afzal K.

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Google just got ZAGAT Rated! - Zagat Acquired by Google

Afzal K. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2011, 12:08 pm
Marissa Mayer, VP, Local, Maps & Location Services at Google announced that they had acquired Zagat today! "So, today, I'm thrilled that Google has acquired Zagat. Moving forward, Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering—delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, rati...
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Google Celebrating Jorge Luis Borges 112th Birthday - Google Logo

Afzal K. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2011, 5:55 pm
Google Celebrating 112th Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges as on 24th August, 2011 as Google Doodle Logo at their home page. Jorge Luis Borges was born in an educated middle-class family in August 1899. Borges's 1929 book Cuaderno San Martín includes the poem "Isidoro Acevedo," commemorating his grandf...
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Google Sitelinks Update - New Google Interface for WebSite Sitelinks at Google

Afzal K. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2011, 10:52 am
It's morning and I guess not many of power Google user's has noticed that Google rolled out a new Sitelink features which I just now observed. Also I am not sure does it being rolled out to all Google data-center's or as always Google trying out at few and later make it universal. To confirm this ne...
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Introducing Google Voice Search for your Mobile & Desktop PC

Afzal K. posted an article on - Jun 22, 2011, 11:04 am
Introducing Voice Search Now on your Computer & Mobile On 14th June 2011, Google announced at their Inside Google Search Event that they would start to roll out Voice Search on Google.com during the coming days, which they had rolled out recently and is available for all US user's to experi...
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Happy Mother's Day Google Doodle Logo 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - May 8, 2011, 4:30 am
Google Celebrating Mother's Day today (08th May, 2011). Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year. The modern Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March, April, or May as a day to honor mothers and motherhood. TopRankS...
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iPad 2 Arrives in India, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore & Eight Other Countries on 29th April, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Apr 27, 2011, 10:26 am
In a latest Press Release Apple announced that their much awaited 2nd Generation Apple iPad aka "iPad2" will be available to Asian Countries including India, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore & Eight Other Countries by 29th April, 2011. Apple iPad 2 As we earlier blogged about first generation Appl...
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Charlie Chaplin 122nd Birthday Google Logo Video Doodle

Afzal K. posted an article on - Apr 15, 2011, 5:07 am
Google Celebrating 122nd birthday of Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977). He was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. Charlie Chaplin Google Video DoodleHe became one of the most famous film sta...
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New Twitter Design is Up Live: Twitter Homepage Makeover

Afzal K. posted an article on - Apr 14, 2011, 8:16 pm
With all such speculations and rumors of Twitter designing their home-page along with many other major changes. Twitter New Homepage Design is Live now which I guess has been rolled out a hour ago today. Here is Twitter New Design PreviewTwitter's New HomePage DesignAt first look it looks nice to me...
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Google Logo on Yuri Gagarin a Russian Astronaut

Afzal K. posted an article on - Apr 11, 2011, 4:39 pm
Google Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin a Russian Astronaut - Google Doodle Logo on 14th March, 2011 Yuri Gagarin Google Logo: 50th Anniversary Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin: 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968, was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer s...
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Most Important Off Page SEO Techniques

Afzal K. posted an article on - Apr 8, 2011, 7:25 am
Image Source: Techchunks.comThe success of the website depends upon if it could be ranked top. For this the Search Engine Optimization is available which uses the various strategies to rank the website at the top. In the work of SEO the off page SEO techniques holds an important place. The main role...
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Yahoo's AlltheWeb.com is Shutting Down on April 4, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Mar 31, 2011, 4:43 pm
End of AlltheWeb.com Era - Another Search Engine going to be DEAD soon! When AlltheWeb started in 1999, Fast Search and Transfer aimed to provide their database to other search engines, copying the successful case of Inktomi. Indeed, in January 2000, Lycos used their results in the Lycos PRO...
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Robert Bunsen's 200th Birthday Google Doodle Logo

Afzal K. posted an article on - Mar 30, 2011, 3:33 pm
Google Celebrating 200th Birthday of Robert Bunsen a German Chemist - Google Doodle Logo on 31st March, 2011 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811 – 16 August 1899)[1] was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and with Gustav Kirchhoff discovered caesium (...
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Magician Harry Houdini 137th Birthday Google Doodle Logo

Afzal K. posted an article on - Mar 24, 2011, 4:11 am
Google Celebrating 137th Birthday of Magician Harry Houdini - Google Doodle Logo on 24th March, 2011 Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational esc...
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Google Alam Ara Doodle Logo on 14th March, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Mar 14, 2011, 12:47 pm
Google celebrating 80th anniversary of Alam Ara: First Indian Hindi Movie with Sound as Google Doodle Logo on 14th March, 2011 Alam Ara {Hindi: आलमआरा} {Urdu: عالم آراء} (The Light of the World; 1931), directed by Ardeshir Irani, was the first Indian sound film. Irani recog...
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Google ICC Cricket World Cup Logo 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 18, 2011, 5:54 pm
Google ICC Cricket World Cup Logo 2011 - Google Cricket World Cup Doodle Logo On 17th February 2011, whole world witnessed the GRAND Opening Ceremony of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 at Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh. On 19th February, 2011 today India will be playing against Bangladesh, the f...
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Happy Valentine's Day : Google Valentine Doodle Logo on 14th Feb, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 14, 2011, 1:02 am
Continuing tradition of displaying special Google Doodle Logo's at their search home page, today Google is celebrating Saint Valentine's (14th February, 2011) Day aka Happy Valentine's Day! Wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day!!! Check out Google Valentine's Logo below and share your Love. ...
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Thomas Alva Edisons Google Doodle Logo on 11th Feb, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 11, 2011, 3:57 am
Thomas Alva Edison's Birthday Interactive Google Doodle Logo on 11th Feb, 2011 Thomas Alva Edison's Google Doodle Logo Today is 164th Birthday of Thomas Edison's American Inventor, Google celebrates his contributions in the form of Google Doodle converted in the form of logo at their Search Hom...
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Jules Verne Interactive Google Doodle Logo on 08th Feb, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 7, 2011, 2:17 pm
Jules Verne Interactive Google Doodle Logo on 08th Feb, 2011 Jules Verne Interactive Google Doodle LogoGoogle is celebrating Jules Verne Birthday today and displaying very creative and interactive Google Doodle Jules Verne Logo at their search home page. Jules Gabriel Verne - From Wikipedia, the fr...
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Apple iPad is now officially available in India

Afzal K. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2011, 10:54 am
Good news to all iPad lover's in INDIA, Apple today has finally announced they started selling "iPad" to indian market.  Apple will make the iPad available through its Apple Retail Store's in India, with 3G services from BSNL. On Thursday BSNL has announced attractive data plans for Apple 3G ...
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StumbleUpon Down - Busy Fixing Errors over Site 25th Jan, 2011

Afzal K. posted an article on - Jan 25, 2011, 9:33 am
StumbleUpon is Down - StumbleUpon Busy Fixing Errors, site status as on 25th Jan, 2011 One of my all-time favorite StumbleUpon - a discovery engine that finds the best of the sites across web, for browsing various blogs, website, image, videos etc, seems to be experiencing downtime today morni...
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Google Holidays Logo 2010 - Displaying St. Basil's Cathedral to Indian Dance Styles Logo

Afzal K. posted an article on - Dec 23, 2010, 9:39 am
Google Holidays Logo for 2010 Christmas Holidays - This time Google is more creative with it's Doodle. Google home page is displaying multiple culture logos from St. Basil's Cathedral to Indian Dance Styles Logo all in one simultaneously. Google Holiday's Doodle Logo includes 17 cross cultural image...
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New Google TV features, Just in time for the Holidays

Afzal K. posted an article on - Dec 22, 2010, 2:27 pm
Just now received this Newsletter from Google TV Team, announcing New Google TV features added in time for the Holidays!!! I decided to post this & share with TopRankSEO Blog reader's about latest update from Google TV. Enjoy and share your views in comment box below. ...
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SEO is Not Always Serious Stuff

Afzal K. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2010, 11:17 am
The Changed Algorithm More uses of the Nofollow TagSocialitis The Date The SEO Birthday Card Santa’s Christmas Letter to SEOs An SEOs Honeymoon Suite SEO's Shopping SEO's Wedding Online Loss Therapy SEO Agreement - Horror If you liked this blog article please Subscribe to TopRankSE...
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Google Offers free Wi-Fi for the holidays even at 30,000 feet above the Ground!

Afzal K. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2010, 10:24 am
Happy Holidays from Google Chrome! Google Chrome Team has a special gift to offer you all this year during Holidays! If you will be traveling during holidays and want to stay online, reachable all the time during your flight even at height of 30,000 feet, here's Google Special Offer for all th...
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Linkedin India Wishes Happy Diwali & a Prosperous New Year

Afzal K. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2010, 11:10 am
In honor of Diwali and advance New Year Wishes, LinkedIn has changed their usual home page into a greeting page viewable to Indian user's only. On new Linkedin Main page they display's the picture of their employees with a message "Happy Diwali and a prosperous new year!" Linkedin Diwali Greetings H...
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Google X-Rays Logo Celebrates 115th Anniversary of the Discovery of X-rays

Afzal K. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2010, 12:33 pm
Google X-Rays Logo Celebrates 115th Anniversary of the Discovery of X-rays on 08th November, 2010. Google show's the X-rays logo at their SERP's. X-ray - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:- X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the ...
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Google New Highlight Feature: Shows Organic SERP Results look disctinctive with Colored Blue Shaded Box

Afzal K. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2010, 1:05 pm
Google New Highlight Feature: Shows Organic SERP Results look disctinctive with Colored Blue Shaded Box & Website Thumbshot Preview I was excited and thrilled to be first to blog about Google's new highlight and website thumbnail preview feature at Search Engine Result Page's. I shared this w...
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Propeller.com Acquired By AOL NEWS

Afzal K. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2010, 5:05 am
Social news site Propeller is now fully owned and acquired by AOL News. Earlier it was operated by Netscape Communications and AOL Inc. The concept of Propeller first started on Netscape.com.  The propeller idea was led by Jason Calacanis.  Jason Calacanis hired several top users from Digg,...
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The Flintstones as Google Logo, Google Celebrates Flintstones 50th Anniversary

Afzal K. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2010, 3:41 pm
Google Celebrates 50th Anniversary of "The Flintstones" -  Flintstones Doodle Google Logo as on 30th September, 2010 (09/30/2010) The Flintsontes - Google Doodle Logo The Flintstones - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran f...
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Google Reveals Google Bot Picture - Google Search Engine Crawler ,Spider Image Pic

Afzal K. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2010, 10:40 am
I hope you all must have remember on March 05, 2008 Google present's the image of their GoogleBot First Date with the Google Bot Here's how "GoogleBot" aka "Google Crawler" aka "Google Spider" picture looks like Google shared with the Online World!   Name/User-Agent: Googlebot GoogleBot Introduct...
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Google Celebrates 12th Birthday With New Doodle - Google's 12th Birthday Logo

Afzal K. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2010, 4:38 pm
Google Celebrates it's 12th Birthday With it's New Doodle aka Google's 12th Birthday Logo as on 27th September, 2010 (09/27/2010) Many Many Best Wishes "Happy Birthday" to search engine giant GOOGLE on it's 12th successive year - We all should thank Google for making our online life simpler, o...
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Dear Mr. Amar Sontakke - So Called SEO Professional from Pune, India

Afzal K. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2010, 9:26 pm
UPDATE: "I got in touch with Mr Sujay Pawar at Facebook who is Head Business at the organisation where Amar Sontakke works, I had informed Sujay about this plagiarism issue where he has promised me to look into this matter personally and make sure to let Amar realize how serious plagiarism issue is....
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Wondering about http://abuseiam.prom.corp.google.com/

Afzal K. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2010, 4:06 pm
UPDATE  09/09/2010 -  Google has a separate "AbuseIAm" team responsible for identifying & removing abusive content on Google properties. I use to cross check my blog traffic regularly and often visit those website links which shows at my analytics account to keep track of conversation's why ...
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Bruce Clay SEO Training Seminar Pic's at Gurgaon, India

Afzal K. posted an article on - Aug 9, 2010, 4:13 pm
Bruce Clay Advanced SEO Training, SEO Toolset Training Seminar Picture's Bruce Clay, global Internet Marketing Guru was on his first visit to India on August 3rd to 5th, 2010 to conduct an exclusive 3 day SEO Training programme at The Palms Town & Country Club in Gurgaon. I was fortunate to ha...
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Google TV: Google TV Announced at I/O Conference

Afzal K. posted an article on - May 21, 2010, 1:37 am
Earlier few months ago we heard that Google is busy working on a TV platform powered by Android known as Google TV. After so many spectaculations and putting full stop on all rumours today Google's Salahuddin Choudhary (Google TV Product Manager) announced the official launch of Google TV at I/O con...
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Google Brand Promotion - New SERP Feature to heavily promote Brands

Afzal K. posted an article on - Apr 30, 2010, 3:55 pm
Google Brand Promotion - Google has introduced a new feature merged with Organic SERP results. The new feature I called as "Google Brand Promotion" which show's additional link's and says "BRANDS for .....based on user searched query". The new feature rolled out Today, which I noticed early morning....
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Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Starter Guide & SEO Report Card

Afzal K. posted an article on - Mar 16, 2010, 11:28 am
What you need to know about Search Engine Optimization or well known as SEO. Google has offered with their Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide! and a Google SEO Report Card which is a well structured SEO Guide to help people interested in SEO or looking for information from a trust worthy sourc...
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Twitter as an SEO Research Tool - SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday Video

Afzal K. posted an article on - Mar 5, 2010, 10:53 am
SEOMoz Whiteboard Friday Video - "Twitter as an SEO Research Tool" is now available at TopRankSEO Blog Featured Video section. Check em Twitter as an SEO Research Tool video, where Rand has mentioned a couple of tools for using Twitter as s tool to pick keywords and it's trends to implement it...
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5 Things You're Not Doing (But Should Be) - SEOMoz Whiteboard Friday Video

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 26, 2010, 11:20 am
SEOMoz Whiteboard Friday Video - "5 Things You're Not Doing (But Should Be)" is now available at TopRankSEO Blog Featured Video section. Hope you'll enjoy :-)
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Google Buzz in News - Lawsuit Complaint Filed Over Google Buzz

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 18, 2010, 10:20 am
Buzz on Google Buzz - Since after launch Google Buzz is in news daily, to add into latest action a complaint has been filed in San Jose federal court on Wednesday on behalf of Eva Hibnick, a Florida woman, by law firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. William Audet of Audet & Partners LLP in Sa...
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Google Analytics Intelligence & Custom Analytics Alerts

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 17, 2010, 2:11 pm
Google Analytics Feature: Analytics Intelligence & Custom Alerts for Analytics As we all are aware of Google Analytics which helps us to make a quick, smarter decisions with our site stat's. Google has added one new feature "Intelligence Reports & Custom Alerts" within analytics to explore mo...
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Google Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Logo

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 15, 2010, 1:30 pm
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Google Logo Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Site: http://www.vancouver2010.com/  Your Official source of Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games tickets, merchandise, live results, medals, schedule, athlete bios, teams, tickets, news and photos for the Vancouver 2010 Winter...
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Introducing Google Buzz - Be Social Google Way

Afzal K. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2010, 3:51 pm
Finally we got into much awaited Google Buzz, I feel it's the Google way of engaging their user's with emerging social networking or Web2.0/3.0 channels. While at the initial go Google Buzz looks like a combination of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Slideshare, Yahoo Buzz, Digg, Docstoc to name a few and...
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What? Are you an SEO Expert

Afzal K. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2010, 12:22 pm
So What you know about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - Here's the SEOMoz Quiz Test Results which I went through today 0n 21st January, 2010 at 20:30 hours. Well the story behind undergoing SEOmoz test is, I was feeling bored while working, eventually I thought to check Google rankings for my site...
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