Undoubtedly, Google chrome is the best web browser among all available browsers in the web. You can know this after a few minutes as you begin using it. It has to its credit a number of SEO extensions.

Besides this, it looks chic and beautiful as the design of the chrome and combination of colors is awesome. Within a very short time, this browser has captured a major part of the market.

Among its several extensions, the best eight that can give a blogger a great helping hand are shared below. Those are the ones, which can be enormously helpful, while you search for the right kind of image, video, industry-related or local information - and, oh even keep track of your productivity.

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It's been a year since Google introduced the rel=author markup, but only few bloggers and web authors are using it.

In this post, I will tackle on five reasons why using rel=author will benefit your blog and how it will make your blog posts more search-engine friendly.

Case in point: You are a writer who has published too many posts on the web with different links you cannot seem to track and manage.

The search engines don’t have a way to connect the articles from various places that you wrote for as well.

How would you be credited as author of all these posts? This is where the rel=author markup enters the picture.

The rel=author tag provides a centralized place that directs you as the author of all these articles.

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For many bloggers, SEO is a dirty word. Or a slightly smudged acronym at least. “I just want to blog and I'm good at it too,” comes the cry; which is all well and good - but you want people to actually read your meticulously crafted, absorbingly informative and oh-so-witty posts.

Cultivating networks and the online equivalent of word-of-mouth can count for a lot. If you’re really good, they’ll help you build a dedicated following.

But unless you go viral or that cult following becomes a fully-fledged religion, you'll want to benefit from the extra traffic that search engines can throw your way. This is where SEO comes in.

“So what is this SEO stuff anyway?” you cry once more.

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With the world going more and more global, over the last two years we have also witnessed web searches getting more and more local. And its not an exaggeration to say that Google Places has dramatically changed the way that local businesses deal with search engine marketing. Local SEO has become the latest 'hot niche' for location based businesses.

According to Google’s statistics, 20% of all searches contain local terms and keywords with 97% of consumers searching for local products and services online. And that figure is continuously growing, especially with the increasing number of smartphone owners.

Despite being a free service and being around since 2010, many businesses either find Google Places too complicated and do not quite get it, therefore do not really use it; which is a shame, as these companies could be missing out on 20% of their potential customers, according to … [Read more...]