Google Webmaster Tools is something that nearly every webmaster and blogger has been using for years. You're not a webmaster unless you know your way around Google Webmaster Tools, because it offers so many features, and shows so much data which I simply cannot imagine not having. One very important feature is the backlink profile for your website, with which you can find and repair your broken links for better user experience and SEO. Talking of which, Google has just improved this feature, which now provides enhanced backlink data - better than it did before.

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The reason why we delayed this post was that we were actually experimenting on what actually caused a Global drop in traffic and why isn't Google responding on this biggest traffic Tsunami ever. I remember that from July 17th to August 17th MattCutts was on a 30 days self-Challenge of not reading news or using social media. I guess that challenge has already ended but is MattCutts even aware of the recent Google Outage that took place on August 16th, when he was on this "No Social Media, No News" challenge? :> We were not able to find a single piece of information on what exactly happened on August 16th and therefore were forced to do our own experimentation which at least improved our traffic by 10% and we are further waiting for more productive results. The tips below are optimization techniques for both Blogger and Wordpress Platforms. Applying them is indeed the easiest and quickest job.

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Sharing the content you create online on your blog with your friends, family and followers is a great way to get the word going. And since word-of-mouth marketing is often considered to be the best marketing tactic, your content gets a lot more out-reach when your followers in-turn share your content on social media. It's crucial for growing your blog's audience and engagement. But often times, one does not have the time to manually open social media pages, and share a post. Keeping this in view, Google has added a new feature to blogger, which allows bloggers to automatically share their blog posts on Google Plus.

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Responsive Web Design (RWD) has now become one of the the most important web design techniques nowadays, and it provide the cornerstone for modern mobile web development. Implementing a few RWD techniques to your blog can give it the edge it needed, nay deserved, to entice its mobile users to visit more often. So while we're on the subject of implementing RWD techniques, let's talk a bit about serving truly responsive images, because there are a couple issues every webmaster faces when dealing with images, responsively speaking.

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As a blogger or content creator, or even a SEO, you always run the risk of getting your online content ripped off and copied. It's a risk because even though search engines might be getting smarter at detecting the original source of some duplicate content, it isn't always easy. And there's no guarantee that the original source will be determined every time, and the duplicated content penalized. Not only do you end up competing against your 'own content' so to speak, search engines also try to eliminate duplicate copies of some content, which could result in your content's elimination altogether. Here are a few ways you can check for multiple copies of your content elsewhere on the internet.

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Looks like Google is acting Cowboy again! Forums are getting crowded daily with questions related to a massive Organic Search traffic drop on sites world wide. Almost all sites are effected be it entertainment based, IT orientated, ecommerce or blogs ran on Wordpress and Blogger. All www domains have been seriously effected by Google with a 50%-90% Cruel Traffic penalty without any prior notice or announcement. Matt Cutts blog and his twitter profile are both deserted and there appears to be no updates on what exactly is happening. Webmasters around the world have been terribly hit by this biggest algorithmic change far bigger than Panda or Penguin. The interesting part to note is, Google blogs, forums and the company employees wont utter a word on what just happened on August 16 and August 21?  

Around half of our clients complained recently about a major drop in their traffic. Since we offer SEO consultancy, its our job to keep these sites well optimized. I was shocked with the figures I received from their Analytics reports. Far bigger surprise was when we noticed all blogs of STC Network being terribly effected with a tremendous loss in traffic for the past few weeks starting from August 16th. Based on the free available tools we have online, following are some reports presented as a brief Case Study that would prove that a major algorithmic change has surely occurred on Google's side which the company is neglecting to answer so far.

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Aah, the classic "Hello World" phrase that has been the birth the of many a programs, and indeed, programmers. To learn a new language, and to start programming in that language, you first have to create the most basic program, that is, the "Hello World" program. So continuing our Android App Development series, we figured it would be a good idea to do a small tutorial on how to create your first "Hello World" Android app. We all use, and love certain Android apps. But wouldn't it be cooler to make your own Android apps? It is, afterall, a great way to earn money!

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