How To Ensure Optimal Crawling Of Your Website?

It is one thing to create a website and put up some content, but quite another to get it noticed by Google. Often, the more content you have, the higher your number of crawled and indexed pages in search engines. But that is not always the case. If the crawling process is not optimal, search engines might miss out on some of your content. Today, we have some guidelines for you from Google, explaining which fields in sitemaps are important, when to use XML Sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds, and how to optimize then for Google.

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5 Great iPad Apps For Blogging In 2014

Blogging is fun. But you know what's more fun? Blogging on the go! Ever since Apple first launched the iPad, people have been increasingly drawn towards mobile solutions to their daily-life routines. And being the geekier of the lot, Bloggers too have found gadgets that help them be more productive. Apple announced the launch of a new iPads yesterday, and we figured people would be flocking towards these Apple devices right now. If you are an iPad or iPhone user, or are planning to buy one, here are some apps that are going to help you blog!

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Is HTTPS Ranking Boost Really Worth The Effort?

Google announced back in August that sites secured with HTTPS will get a boost in search rankings - a secured site would gain a small benefit as opposed to a similar site without HTTPS security. We took a look at how exactly did this new ranking factor work, but like any other Google search ranking factor, it isn't very transparent. Instead, we came across some potential problems during implementation. So we ask again: is implementing HTTPS really a good idea, and is the ranking boost really worth the time and effort?

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Which Is Better, Google Now, Apple Siri or Microsoft Cortana?

Personal smartphone assistants might not yet be able to do your chores for you, but they sure have changed the way people search. The three tech giants have locked horns in a fierce battle to develop the best personal assistant, but which among them is winning? Google's search app Google Now is already able to make hotel reservations, and currently seems to have emerged out of the backseat. So let's take a look at what Google has to offer, and which of these assistants is worth your time.

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Users In France Can Now Transfer Money With Tweets!

If you had social networks like Twitter pegged as mere amusements, then you couldn't be more wrong. Social media finds its uses in many daily-life situations, the most recent one being wire transfer. If you live in France and want to send money over to someone, you can do it as simply as making a tweet. Your 140 characters might be worth real money soon. Perhaps the New Social Order is upon us!

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How To Get $100 Bing Ads Credit For Free?

Are you a webmaster? Bing Webmaster Tools can help your website grow! Now only do you get an essential set of tools to master Bing search, you can now also get free Bing Ads credit! The winter holiday season is coming up, so now would be a great chance to accelerate your website's opportunity to get ahead as people prepare for the holiday shopping. Bing is giving you an opportunity to advertise your products by giving you free $100 Bing Ads credit!

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5 Useful Pinterest SEO Tips For Marketers

Pinterest is so much more about sharing images. When you come to think of it, people on Pinterest are more interested in what they want (probably in the future), as opposed to what they're doing (as on Facebook, Twitter etc.). And with Pinterest Guided Search, users can look through billions of pins to find things they've probably never seen before! So in a sense, Pinterest is the perfect network for marketing.

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Google PageRank Might Officially Be Dead

Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that rates websites on a logarithmic scale of 0-10, with 10 being the best. While Google has had a tradition of updating it regularly in the past, it might now be time for us to move on as according to Google's John Mueller, the December 2013 update might have been its last one. PR was technically last updated in October 2013, and the December update was unplanned, accidental.

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Bing Now Showing Song Lyrics In Search Results

While Google improves its usability by incorporating structured data into search result pages, Bing takes a bigger, and somewhat similar approach. Bing, it seems, has finally started to catch up, and is now providing features Google captivated its users with for so long - probably even taking them a step further. For its latest feature, Bing will now show full song lyrics on its search results page in much the same way as Google shows information on its Knowledge Graph!

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Eid-ul-Adha 2014 Mubarak To Everyone!

Let us take the pleasure of wishing all the beloved and loyal readers of MBT and followers of all blogs under the STC Network, a very joyous and Happy Eid-ul-Adha 2014 Mubarak! Wishing you a peaceful Eid on behalf of the entire STC Network team! May this joyous and Holy occasion of Eid-ul-Adha bring peace and joy to you, your family, and your friends, and may shower on you the best of Allah's blessings.

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How To +1 A Google Plus Post As A Business Page?

There are few social networks that let you manage business pages along with your personal profiles. Fewer still do a good job at it. Facebook is one such example where you can switch between your profile and pages at the click of a button, and make stories easily on behalf of your pages. Google Plus, however, is another story, and switching between your personal account and your business page is not as easy and transparent as you might like.

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How Google Is Hurting The Internet In The EU?

Besides Search, Google has a lot going for it, and its other online services make up a large chunk of its business model. From facilitating users to outright promoting their own services, Google has time and again done it at the expense of its competitors. But that might be about to change, as a collection of competitors including Yelp, TripAdvisor etc. launched a new effort this week to convince European antitrust officials to force Google to stop promoting its own services, and give competing services a fair chance.

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