Analyze the performance, strength and weaknesses of your website

1. Quantcast (http://www.quantcast.com/) - Quantcast provides publishers, marketers and agencies unmatched capabilities to measure, organize, discover and transact based on directly-measured traffic and inferred audience data

2. Compete’s(http://www.compete.com/) ranking is based on the stats of +2.000.000 US citizens – this means that Compete is not so accurate outside of US

3. Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/) is one of the first ranking websites with advanced data regarding target population, country rank and others. The problem with these statistics is that they are provided based on Alexa Toolbar. Again, this fact makes Alexa’s data inaccurate.

4. Builtwith (http://builtwith.com) This tools is quite complex – it shows you various information about your site or any particular site (technologies used, seo) and it helps you optimize your site. Very useful when you don’t know much about SEO.

5. TrackingGuru (http://www.trackingguru.com/) From my point, this is one of the most useful analysis site. TrackingGuru is a package of prominent tools to assist you to analyze the performance, strength and weaknesses of your website in order to achieve optimum business return. Tool is in Beta version and its free to use.

6. Dataopedia(http://dataopedia.com/) is a web service that provides comprehensive information (50 different sources) about websites available on the Internet.

7. BizShark(http://www.bizshark.com/) is a direct competitor to Dataopedia. Both sites share the same concept and have similar information. You will have to decide which one suits you.

8. Quarkbase(http://www.quarkbase.com/) is another site that gathers its info from multiple sources, but here is their definition: Quarkbase is the best way to find website information contributed by website owner, lover and the Internet Community.

9. Website Grader (http://www.websitegrader.com/) It has a great composition of information: social, seo, general info. It even gives you hints and a grade – to compare and further optimize your site.

10. Popuri (http://www.popuri.us/) This tools is a lightweight tool that gives you the most common ranks available on the web: Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Technorati Rank etc.

11. FeedCompare(http://www.feedcompare.com/) This website is useful when you want to compare your number of feed subscribers with the number of subscribers. For this you must have a FeedBurner account.

12. XinuReturns(http://xinureturns.com/) is a tool that shows you pretty much everything – Google Page Rank, Yahoo Links, FeedBurner subscribers,Technorati, DMOZ etc. It is perfect for a fast small popularity analysis.

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Nitin Chauhan | nitin@maximumhit.com | www.maximumhit.com

Caffeine Boost Google Search Engine

Google has unveiled a new version of its search engine which it says will be faster and more accurate than ever before.

The upgrade, which insiders have dubbed "caffeine", was announced on Monday after the company opened up access to web developers. It is intended to replace the technology giant's main search engine after tests have been completed. "For the past several months a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search," said the company in a statement on one of its blogs.

"It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions."

The company claims that significant changes to the way the system works will improve the experience for users ­ although it will also send shockwaves through the community of marketers who try and optimise their results to appear higher up in Google's index.

The moves comes despite Google's extensive lead in the search engine market ­ a domination which has provided it with billions in profits.

Caffeine allows Google to index the web at a higher pace -- gathering more information and doing it faster -- but the company's search quality specialist, Matt Cutts, rejected claims that it was developed in response to the actions of rivals.

"I love competition in search and want lots of it, but this change has been in the works for months," he wrote on his blog. I think the best way for Google to do well in search is to continue what we've done for the last decade or so: focus relentlessly on pushing our search quality forward."

Whether the upgrade will have a significant impact on Google's business has yet to emerge.

"Google's Caffeine is undoubtedly faster, almost twice as fast at times. It's like a Google Gti," he said. "The launch of Bing has been a good thing, although unfortunately more for Google than Bing if the level of innovation continues at this frantic pace. Google is still very much in the driving seat and is still setting the pace."

Source:- www.hindustantimes.com

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Nitin Chauhan | nitin@maximumhit.com | www.maximumhit.com

"I" and "WE" all need presence

Yes, Today every business need online presence. If you find your business limits its online presence to Search Engine Optimization, Banner Advertising ,Pay Per Click, Link Building and so on than your missing out with one of the fastest growing and powerful networking opportunities that allow users to effectively target their audience by logging on to social sites like LinkedIn,XING,Digg,You Tube and more.

whatever you dominant thoughts, dreams, goals, including your business goals, you are able to connect with others using the powerful tools of social media. Most of the social media sites are free to use. However, your most precious commodity is your time. Start or continue your adventure in social media with a clear definition of what you want to accomplish.

Share your favorite sites on the Web with potential clients and business partners by commenting on, uploading and ranking different newsworthy articles. You can also create a member profile that directs traffic back to your company's Web site.

If social media advertising is new phrase to you, then it can be described as new online exposure channel to websites and businesses for brand awareness, loyalty building exercise and most importantly additional quality traffic. It not only helps you to reach targeted audience but also interact with them by providing them a platform to discuss your services or product. Blogs, Forums, Social networking websites, Social bookmarking websites, Content sharing are major channels that online social media includes.

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Nitin Chauhan | nitin@maximumhit.com | www.maximumhit.com