Emotional Google India Reunion Advertisement Video Goes Viral

An emotional Advertisement video for Google India tells the story of two friends separated by the partitioning of Pakistan and India who are reunited by a few Google searches. It’s really awesome. 

Google Webmaster Tools Search Query Reporting Bug Will Normal Soon

John mueller confirmed that they are aware about this and expecting report to return to normal in the coming days” as Google’s Webmaster Tools search query reports has bug now. 

The Google Webmaster tool stopped showing data on September 23rd. This came shortly after Google stopped passing virtually 100% of referrer data to webmasters. Google implied the bug was unrelated and promised to fix it soon.

I currently am able to see data from September 25th and going back, so this is a two day improvement from when the bug was first reported.

Finally Google Keyword Tool is no longer available, replaced with Keyword Planner.

Google says that with Keyword Planner, we've combined the functionality of Keyword Tool and Traffic Estimator to make it easier to plan search campaigns. That's why Keyword Tool is no longer available.

https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool - No longer available

Reference: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3141229

Yatra.com’s offline site impacts Rs. 20 – 30 crore in sales

Salman Khan’s stake company Yatra.com has forgotten to renew the domain registration. The domain name had been registered on August 9, 2000, and expired on August 9, 2013. Now it’s still showing offline for most of the ISP’s, Yatra.com official Facebook page claims that now they are back on reliance network and working on for other ISPs, according to travel industry expert Yatra.com shutdown could have cost to the company between  Rs. 20 – 30 crore in sales. It’s total failure of technical team who ignored the email alert for same.  
 

Initially I couldn’t believe it that Yatra.com has forgotten to renew the domain. It seemed that someone is behind the whole story that to create a nuisance to get free publicity as breaking news in Industry. Even now everyone is talking about same Including on social media sites also. Now it’s breaking news for industry. It was a good strategy to be in News but Now (12-Aug-2013, 11:30 PM, IST) Yatra.com is still offline. It’s total failure of technical team.

It was really unexpected as Yatra.com is a big Travel brand in India.

Google Confirms Panda Update 26 Is Rolling Out

Today most of us have noticed that the Google Panda update was rolling out. seoroundtable.com and http://searchengineland.com  has also confirmed that “Yes” it’s rolling out and probably done. Wherever most of them and I personally feel that it’s likely a positive recovery of not sure at all still confirmed officially by Google.