India Third Largest User of Twitter!

Recent study from Rian.ru. has shown that India is the third largest user of Twitter covering almost 5.6 percent of the total user share worldwide.

U.S stood first in terms of twitter usage with 24.5 percent of total user share worldwide followed by Japan with almost 7 percent share.

Here’s the list of Top 8 Nations in terms of twitter usage:-

1. U.S. (24.5 per)
2. Japan (6.9 per)
3. India (5.6 per)
4.  U.K (5.1 per)
5. Spain (4.2 per)
6. Mexico (4.0 per)
7. Brazil (4.0 per)
8. Russia (3.4 per)

Other interesting facts about Twitter:-

• There are 580 Million registered users on twitter
• 140 Million Active users
• Average 340 Million tweets per day

Have Variation in Anchor Text after Penguin Update

It is  said that “Penguin update majorly hit those websites that had more than 60 percent of same anchor text links“. Such Websites lost their keyword rankings as well as traffic in Google.

Contrary, websites that had variations in the anchor text were largely unaffected from penguin update.

I cannot say that this finding are 100 percent right but atleast from ma personal experience and from my peers, i would say that yes to some extend your website may get affected if you have links with same anchor text.

After sequential updates from Google in last week it has become quite important for SEO specialist to strictly follow Google’s guidelines.

It is recommended from now to have variation in anchor text links to avoid any future penalty from Google.

New update from Matt cutt about future change in Google’s algorithm

Since last week i have been reading numerous articles about the new change google is about to bring in its algorithm

Whats the new change?

Google will now penalized the overly optimized website. Matt cutt of Google said in an interview that we want to “level the playing field”.

We have seen since the beginning that orignial producers of the content do not rank well in searches but websites who re-articulated the same content ranks well. And we gonna work on that. The new algorithm will penalized such websites.

We may expect this change hitting the websites in next one or two months.

Pinterest: New Social Networking Site In The Making

Have you heard of Pinterest?

Probably not, right!
I know that you are not tech junkie like me and hence you won’t spent your time on almost anything that is new.

I knew that and hence this post is for you, to inform you that “Pinterest is the new social networking site in the making.”
Its like we are evolving and are adding more and more social networking sites on web:-

From Orkut->Facebook->Twitter and Now-> Pinterest.
(and offcourse myspace, friendster etc which i have not included.)

What is Pinterest?
“Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and share their favorite recipes.”

Here’s a quick sneak peak on how it will look like when you will be using it

My Pinterest Profile Page

Some quick Facts about Pinterest:

70 % of the users are women
97 % fans on facebook are women
15.8 minutes is the time spent on Pinterest compared to 12.1 minutes on Facebook
Pinterest hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history.

Pinterest is currently on invite basis. It does not allow instant registration. So if you sign up for the invite on their homepage it will take a day or two to send you the invite to register.

If you do not want to wait, leave your mail-id in the comment section and i will shoot you instant invites.

You can follow my pin at http://pinterest.com/bsatani

Cheers!
Bye

Why Google Plus ?

Google plus

If you are an internet addict then you might have seen how powerfully Google is promoting G+, right?

Even wondered why?
To beat Facebook—>No

The correct Answer is make to its Search Engine more better, Yep that’s the hidden truth!!! o.O

Why?

Now internet has become a social hub. Everybody is liking and sharing and recommending something on internet. Study shows that users tend to buy more of those products which are recommended by their friends…then advt.

Now guess, where all this things are happening –> on Facebook and Twitter.
Google wants this share of information to be visible on its search engine so that its users can also be benefited, but unfortunately both Facebook and Twitter aren’t looking forward to it.
Hence, Lary Page asked himself a question? So if someone wont give me i wont let that “priceless” piece of information go away.
Yeah (Lary might have thought), if i can’t get it and then lets create it!

Yup, and hence Google Plus was born.!!!!
With sole purpose of getting the social sharing information to be shown on search engine, Google launched G+.
With the integration of G+, Google will be powerful like anything!
Its example is its recent new feature of “Search, Plus Your World”.

This post might be a blow to those who thinks Google is wasting time on promoting G+, but you now why, right?

What is possible now with Google Plus?

If you are searching for Digital Camera on Google to buy- you may see your friends shared status of Google plus about the Digital camere he bought?

Obviously seeing that you would be approaching him and asking him the same. This way you search will become more real and meaningful. In all it will help you in buying best for you.

This is one of the experience Google wants to instill in search.

Exciting isn’t it?