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How to find local Search Engines in France, UK, Armenia…

ramenos — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:33:19 +0000

Phil Bradley has created an index of local search engines, sort by country. That’s interesting to see that UK has a lot of Search Engines but… Some of them are dead ! Anyway, this site is a good local search engines index : Good job Phil Bradley !

- Local Search Engines in France

- Local Search Engines in UK (look, many are dead)

- Local Search Engines in Armenia (even if my country is small, I’m r

Someone has stolen my headphone in my own company

ramenos — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:00:24 +0000

I really hate thiefs, especially if they work at the same company of mine. Unlucky, someone has stolen my headphones just 2 days after Christmas. Maybe he didn’t receive any gift, maybe food was not good but I cannot bear that !

I cannot understand people who do that. Now I cannot forget anything to my desk. I am already busy with my work and now, I have to be busy with my own stuffs. It’s difficult to come near my desk if we don’t work at my company because everyone knows everyone and we work in an openspace.

Humpf, I really hope that someone will catch him one day…

A summery of Google Success and Failure in 2007

ramenos — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:47:10 +0000

TechCrunch.com has published an interesting graph from concerning the Google product’s traffic growth between 2006 and 2007.

As you can see, the domination of Google is still here. Even if Google Product Search and Google Scholar decreased their traffic, Global Web Search has increased 20% and Images Search 35% (even if I don’t know any interesting features in Images Research).

However, as you can see, Google has really increased traffic with iGoogle (268%) and Google Book Search (55%). iGoogle has really improved its features in iGoogle (Gadget Maker, Themes, Youtube incorporation…) and I can see around me more and more people who use iGoogle and stop using Netvibes. Practically all of them say me the same thing : “My Firefox crashes everytime with Netvibes. I have no problem with iGoogle”. I agree with the fact that Netvibes is slow. What about iGoogle ? What is your opinion ?

Wikispace – Create easily a Wiki in a few minutes

ramenos — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:13:52 +0000

Wikispace is one of the most easiest wiki I have seen. You can create pages that your family or your fiends will edit, even if they are a little noob with web interfaces. Just sign up in 1 minutes and let’s start ! Nothing to install, start to create it in a few seconds !

Wikispace is a free wiki but a pricing page is available if you need advance features. However, in my opinion, the basic version is enough to create and interesting wiki. Besides, you can try for free the Plus or the Super version for 30 days (good idea to have a point of view about possibilities of the tool).

The first thing I really like with Wikispace is its help. If you are a noob with internet community tools, you will be reassured : after registration, just view each steps in a few minutes and you’ll be ready to create and edit pages as you want. After that, home page of your wiki proposes immediatly to personnalize your design easily (choose an other them, upload a logo, change colors) in a few seconds. Don’t hesitate to manage your space, permissions and subscription options too.

If you want invite people to join your wiki, just send a mail thanks the dedicated interface. Enter email addresses and text and that’s all ! This is not beautiful but if you need to create easily and quickly a Wiki, I advise to use Wikispace and if you can, the “Plus version” to have more flexibility (only $5/month). Did you test it ? What is your opinion ?

Wedding Ideas influenced by Nintendo NES

ramenos — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:00:18 +0000

Who remembers the Nintendo NES, a fabulous console launched in 1983, when I was born… Some people played with it and today, Nintendo NES is still in adult’s heart…

NES box and controllers, Super Mario Bros, Zelda and Tetris have influenced some Weddings around the World. What a fun idea ! Or maybe crazy… I hope for men that their wife agrees with this concept of “Nintendo Nostalgia”.

However, I cannot see Donkey Kong and Paper Boy influences. What happened ?

CMS Made Simple updated !

ramenos — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:02:06 +0000

Thanks Emmanuel Pays, I have discovered 2 years ago a simple and great CMS named CMS Made Simple. A few days ago, I have noticed that the main website has been totaly redesigned : final result seems fresh and nice !

In addition, there are now some new features for this CMS which enable to be very modulate, such as blog, pictures album, forms or glossary implementation…

Even if number of plugins and community are not so big as Wordpress, I advise you to test this CMS, which provides a fast and easy way to create a website and manage its contents.

Website Grader : an other free Search Engine Optimization Tool

ramenos — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:34:20 +0000

Website Grader is a Seo Web Tool which analyzes your website according many criterias, to obtain further information about your Search Engine Optimization :

Google Page Rank : nowadays, this criteria is not so pertinent than 1 or 2 years ago unless sponsored links…
Webpage structure : Meta data analyzind and analytics tool detection.
Domain name : some news about your domain name.
Heading summary : Website Grader analyzes your header and detect h1, h2, h3 attributes…
Pictures information : the tool detect pictures of your home and see if alt attribute is fill.
Number of indexed pages with Google : humpf…this is just result of the following command : “site:website_name”.
Google Crawl date : this tool tells you when Google crawled your website last time. You have this information with Google Webmaster tools too.
RSS : rss detection and information about Bloglines subscribers.
Inbound links : how many sites link your website ?
Technorati ranking : just a number : the Technorati Rank.
Del.icio.us bookmarks : how many people have bookmarked your website ?
Readability level : this analyze mesures (I don’t know how) the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content.
Digg.com submission summary : check if you or someone has submitted articles of your website to Digg.

New features for Google Analytics

ramenos — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:52:39 +0000

The Google Analytics Team announced some features for next version of the tool :

Tracking of site search : “find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead”.
Event Tracking capability : “these new reports are designed to help you understand how people use and interact with Ajax, Flash and multimedia on your site without artificially increasing your pageview metrics.”
Outbound Link Tracking : report on links visitors clicked on your site that direct them to another site.

The first one will be available to everyone and the two others will be limited beta tests.

In addition, Urchin Software is announced too : “Urchin is a software product that you run on your own servers. Its reporting interface is similar to the previous Google Analytics interface.”

Top 5 SEO blogs I couldn’t live without…

ramenos — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:38:04 +0000

You know I really like the World of Search Engine Optimization. It is my main job and I am enjoy to do technological intelligence about SEO. Here are five seo blogs I appreciate to read every day :

Pandia Search Engine : a good blog with a lot of interesting news in SEO and Search Engines.

SEO by the SEA : blog of Bill Slawski, director of Search Marketing at KeyRelevance.

SEOmoz : a good website about SEO. Behind the blog there is a team and they propose often some web tools in SEO. Unfortunately, some of them are not free…

Bruceclay : a very good blog written by an Internet Business Consultant : Bruce Clay.

ComScore : it is not exactly a blog but a press center. It’s not the fifth blog I like the most. However, ComeScore represents a very useful source for Search Mesuring Information.

Writing a good Seo Meta Description, according to Google

ramenos — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:12:40 +0000

The Google Webmaster Central Blog has published a news concerning Meta Description, a important element of snippet. Thus, this news explains why it is pertinent to write a good Meta Description on each page of your Website. Here is index of this Google news :

Why does Google care about meta descriptions ?
What are some good meta description strategies?
Differentiate the descriptions for different pages.
Include clearly tagged facts in the description.
Programmatically generate descriptions.
Use quality descriptions.

I have noticed a good example in this article :

Not as desirable:

: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7): Books: J. K. Rowling,Mary GrandPré by J. K. Rowling,Mary GrandPré”>

There are a number of reasons this meta description wouldn’t work well as a snippet on our search results page:

The title of the book is complete duplication of information already in the page title.
Information within the description itself is duplicated (J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré are each listed twice).
None of the information in the description is clearly identified; who is Mary GrandPré?
The missing spacing and overuse of colons makes the description hard to read.

All of this means that the average person viewing a Google results page — who might spend under a second scanning any given snippet — is likely to skip this result. As an alternative, consider the meta description below.

Much nicer:

What’s changed? No duplication, more information, and everything is clearly tagged and separated. No real additional work is required to generate something of this quality: the price and length are the only new data, and they are already displayed on the site.