If you are a blogger and always wanted to know whats happening in your niche and want to blog about it at the earliest, then the Big daddy of the internet, Google can help you! Google has an awesome service called Google Alerts that lets you receive alerts on a real time basis to know the latest news in your niche.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Enter the topic you wish to monitor, then click preview to see the type of results you’ll receive. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include:

Tynt Review: Link building through copied content

If you are worried about content theft from your blog when your hard work is copied by another website, here is some good news to you. Today we would discuss a method that will automatically add a link back to your website when content is copied from your website onto another website. Before we start, you could refer to our older article on how to prevent content theft.

I recently discovered an amazing service called Tynt.com which automatically embeds a link back to your website when your content is copied on to another website with the help of a smart Javascript. The best part is that this is a free service offered by Tynt. According to Tynt, here is how it works on your website to help the stuff work:

Chitika Review 2011

If you are a webmaster publishing ads on your Blog and you make money online Blogging you might be already using contextual advertising services like Google Adsense. Basically, these are text based advertisements that serve based on an intelligent algorithm to show ads with respect to the content on the webpage.  Chitika is one of them major alternative to Google Adsense and other contextual ad networks. If you are interested, you could read about the best Google Adsense alternatives of 2011.

If you have the question, what is Chitika and how is it different from Google Adsense  - it differs in their basic style of serving advertisements. Google Adsense simply serves advertisements based on the content on the webpage while chitika serves advertisements based on the search queries. Chitika has a unique algorithm to identify what a user searches and accordingly change the ads served even though the content and ads might not be related to one another.

 Chitika AdUnits and its features: Chitika ads are quite appealing in terms of looks and functionality. The eMiniMall ad units launched by Chitika is hugely popular for the visual appeal and customizability features. These show related advertisements along with image previews to improve the click rates of these ads.

Real Time Website Analytics By Google!

The latest development in the Google Analytics dashboard is the new feature that they have included lately that helps you track the traffic on your website on a real time basis. The feature addition is a HUGE boost to the traffic analytics market that might be soon dominated by Google single handedly!

This is certainly a big reason to start considering Google Analytics as the single tracking system for webmasters to analyze and track the website traffic and demographics. Google Analytics already was one of the big players in this league and with this feature addition, it leaves no reason for a webmaster to consider other options like Sitemeter, GetClicky, Woopra etc.

The best part about Google Analytics is that the awesome service provided by Google has always been a free service. Google announced this feature addition officially on their blog and if you would like to start using this awesome feature on your Analytics dashboard – use this form to request access added on your account for free.

How to Optimize YouTube videos for Search

YouTube holds the major share of videos viewed on the Internet today and if you were to upload a video to your YouTube channel, it’s important that you optimize your video and parameters to make sure its discovered by potential viewers searching for similar content.

Capture and upload High Quality Videos to YouTube:

To start off, it’s critical that you capture high quality video and prepare it for upload to YouTube. Be it a desktop based video tutorial or an outdoor video that you are capturing, it’s important that the video quality and size should be appropriate according to today’s video standards.

Celebrities get Verified Profiles on Google+

Google Plus, The latest sensation added to the Social networking Giants has now started verifying celebrity profiles to put an end to Identity Theft activities by scammers creating fake profiles of famous people.

Several celebrities around the world have got their Google Plus accounts verified and the list includes people like Paris Hilton, Ashton Kutcher, and Britney Spears etc. Google India has announced that Shahrukh Khan is the first Indian celebrity to have a Verified Google Plus account.

Google + seems to have identified that the Success Mantra is in attracting the visitors to the portal through their personal Idols. Verified accounts had a huge impact contributing to the success of Twitter as the Tweeps could connect to their real super stars with a simple click. Google is trying its luck with a clean and fast code, a Facebook – Twitter bridged application methodology.