http://www.cueblocks.com/blog Official weblog of CueBlocks about web, search technology, innovations, thought leadership and more. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:14:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Monotony of daily work, mundane professional and organizational lifestyle and clockwork routine does take a toll on the passions, enthusiasm and creativity of employees working in any company. This exhaustion is to such an extent that weekends seem to be like a farfetched oasis that can only be reached after ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2008/cueblocks-monday-movie-marvel/ Amit Singhal recently shared (or did he?) on Google's Official Blog how Google's ranking system works. New information in the article: 1. The 3 philosophies behind Google ranking: 1) Best locally relevant results served globally. (according to Amit, it's their "no query left behind" principle) 2) Keep it simple. 3) No manual intervention. 2. ... Reminder in ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2008/google-discusses-ranking-system/ We are expanding our team and are looking for really talented people to join us. The current openings are for the following positions: Lead web designer (1) Web designer (1) PHP programmer (2) HR manager/Assistant manager (1) Copywriter (1) Accountant (1) Interested people can send their CVs to careers@cueblocks.com. All openings are for our office in Chandigarh, ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2008/cueblocks-hiring-join-cueblocks/ This is an excellent 1 minute video by Kevin Kelly. The video talks about "THE business challenge for 2008!". A must watch! [youtube sBWvv-G9ScE] Described as the "Coach behind Ireland's Celtic Tiger" - Kevin Kelly is one of Europe's and Asia’s leading authorities on motivation, entrepreneurship, leadership, communication, and personal excellence. Kevin ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2008/constructive-paranoia-kevin-kelly-video/ Finally we have a feature which was much awaited by the Indian businesses and freelancers - especially from the IT community. A few days back, Ebay owned 'Paypal' announced that Indian paypal account holders can now withdraw their funds from their paypal accounts, directly to their India banks. Earlier the ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/paypal-withdraw-funds-indian-bank-account/ A Content Management System (CMS) has traditionally been regarded as bad when it comes to Search Engines. In many cases, its still true. Content Management systems were not designed for Search Engines. The objective was to allows the site owner to edit his website easily (usually just the content and images). ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/search-engine-friendly-content-management-system/ India was destined to be the 3rd largest mobile market by 2007, according to AdMob Metrics, we are ranked second, right after US. With the world catching up, is your website mobile friendly? Its time to make your moves fast! http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/mobile-stats-website/ It's fast, easy and hip - its Google. Google, who gave "search" a new synonym, launched Google 411, a free directory enquiry service today. All you need to do is, dial 1-800-GOOG-411, speak out the location and the name of the business and Google gives you a list of businesses ready to ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/google-411-directory/ Top Reasons why a business should have a corporate blog: The blogosphere has been growing at a very fast pace over the past couple of years. As of September 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 106 million blogs. There are a several important reasons why you should consider having ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/corporate-blogging-benefits/ Jennifer's posts on "paid links and ads" are very interesting. Part 1 talks about "nofollow" tag and its origin while the Part 2 talks about Google's new policies of using it. In my post earlier about Google banning paid links in July, I'd shared similar thoughts on paid links. I agree that humans ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/nofollow-paid-links-google/ How user-friendly is your website? An article on Smashing Magazine, lists the 10 usability mistakes that you should avoid. Its an excellent article with examples of some of the popular websites that make these mistakes. Here's the summary of the usability mistakes listed in the SmashingMagazine article: Hidden login link - Many websites ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/usability-mistakes/ From MobileMarketingNews: Google just announced that they have acquired a Finnish company named Jaiku, whose mobile phone software allows users to post and read short messages (something similar to what Dodgeball did). (read full story) Mobile blogging is really just blogging using a mobile device. If you can send an email ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/moblogging-google-jaiku/ Google is banning paid links (source: Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land). In my post earlier titled "Will Google ban paid links", I had similar questions that are now being discussed at WebmasterWorld - take a look! http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/ban-on-paid-links/ Search Engine Rankings or Website Traffic? Remember those days when you found companies giving "SEO Guarantees"? Top 5 rankings across top 10 keywords for $$$... you may just find a few now as well. If you have ever come across a guarantee that promised xxx figure for search engine traffic ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/measure-sem-success/ With the recent news about Target Corp getting sued over web accessibility, webmasters are relooking at their websites and taking web accessibility standards a little more seriously. Long long time ago (Year 2005 is a long time ago when counting web years), we wrote an article on Web Accessibility and Why ... http://www.cueblocks.com/blog/2007/web-accessibility-matters/