Pratik Dholakiya's Blog | SEO

There are lots of posts circulating about predictions for social media, Internet marketing, blogging, and more for 2011.  So, without further ado, let’s look at some predictions specifically for link building. 1. Less use of keyword-based anchor text, more use of brand names. With the recent penalization of sites possibly due to over-optimized anchor text, [...]

While initial versions of Hotpot were released in mid-November, Google’s heir to Places is only now starting to see a ramp up in popularity. It’s unsurprising, since we have reached both the phase where users have experienced and explored the Hotpot features, and where Google has launched additional marketing campaigns. But how, exactly, is Hotpot [...]

The three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) joined forces in February 2009 and introduced the canonical tag. That was supposed to be a revolutionary way to resolve the duplicate content issues that so many SEOs and web designers were so much worried about. It was the time that the myth about duplicate content [...]

Starting yesterday, Google has begun rolling out its newest feature in Gmail – Priority Inbox. With this handy new tool, users now get a little help when it comes to sorting their inboxes. Using algorithms and additional information that it will learn from your mailbox habits, it will help sort your emails for you into [...]

We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a [...]