Search engines like Google and Yahoo are valuable resources to get some heavy traffic to you site or blog. With more traffic your site will become popular and linked faster than ever before. But, does Google/Yahoo know about your site?

Well, by default they do not know about any website. You need to do some hard-work and let Search engines know about your site. For this you need to submit your website or blog to Yahoo and Google. After you submit your website, Search engine crawlers will check your site content and index accordingly.

This is very important step for any newbie webmaster or blogger. Here is the procedure to submit your website/blog to Google: (more…)

Yahoo and Wordpress? Well, Yahoo has launched a Wordpress plugin for bloggers to show relevant YAHOO! content in blog posts. Relevant keywords will be highlighted and box will pop up on mouse-over resulting into advertisement link to any of the Yahoo Service or content. This wordpress plugin finds Flickr photos, ticker symbols, products, yahoo maps etc in blog posts.

What is the logic? As blogger you do not get anything, it is not paid advertisement program. Yahoo wants its services advertised for FREE !!! Yahoo is also offering Free T-shirt for bloggers who (more…)

Are you an active member of Yahoo Groups, Google Groups etc? Does it take lot of time and effort in staying updated on all the groups? If yes and yes, then possible alternative is ‘Grouply’. It lets you manage your Yahoo and Google groups at one place together. With Grouply, you can keep up with your existing online groups in less time.

You receive a Grouply Smart Digest email each day that summarizes what’s going on across all your groups, highlighting what’s interesting to you and hiding what’s not. You can view a single cross-group event calendar, see what’s interesting to fellow group members, and quickly search or browse across all your existing groups from one place. (more…)

Finally Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista is out. It is a preview version that is specially designed for Windows Vista operating system. Since it is a pre-beta version, some features may be missing as Yahoo is working overtime to get this baby ready.

New Stuff? Since it is for Vista, the interface is all glassy and jazzed up. It allows you to ‘drag & drop’ favorite contacts into the Windows Sidebar gadget. Here are some key features:

• Number of skins to play around with.
• Send & share files as large as 2 GB. (more…)
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Adobe and Yahoo has launched another option for bloggers and content creators to earn money from PDF content. In case your blog/site provide users content in the form of downloadable PDF documents then ‘Ads for Adobe PDF’ is good option worth trying.

By Using this service you can show Yahoo contentxual ads in your PDF documents. Whole process is easy, you do not need to have any direct relationship with advertisers, as Yahoo will manage the same.

Procedure: You need to upload the PDF document to register it for showing ads. Document is analysed and relevant ads related to content are matche. You can also block competitor ads, just like in Google Adsense. Here is how ads look in a PDF document. (more…)

Flicr is of the popular image hosting and sharing online community. So many people are hooked to this service browsing, commenting and of course uploading their images.

Uploading images can some time be real pain. Following are few tools that will make image uploading to your Flickr account more easy and friendly.

1. UploadrXL - It is a program to upload one or more images to Flickr and add them immediately to your Sets of Groups. (more…)