For example, if I want to author mark this blog content to my Google Profile, I need to add the following link somewhere in the source of this webpage;
<a
href=" https://plus.google.com/ my google profile id /
?rel=author">Aravind+</a>
and I need to update this blog link in my Google Profile page.
Google search will display something like the below screenshot, when ?rel=author parameter is added to a page that is being searched.
Google recommends to add the Google Profile link in the following places depending on the type of the content and the number of authors.
So what are the implications of this new Authorship markup? This feature is
pretty new and it is too early to assess the exact implications with respect
to SEO and page ranking. Analysts are skeptical whether this will have the long
lasting impacts of the Panda update, where Google punished mercilessly; those
who went back on quality. In the words of Othar Hansson, Google wants to
collect information about the credibility of authors from all kinds of sources
and will eventually use it in ranking. So as of now, what you can expect is a
thumbnail of your photo alongside the search results, linking back to your Google
Profile or author page.
But considering Google’s emphasis on extremely high quality content; which we saw during the recent Panda update, it is more than obvious that authorship markup will eventually become an essential tool for search engine ranking. Linking author profiles will also discourage content farms and limit their showing up in search results. Another interesting part is Google’s insistence on a Google Profile to effectively use authorship markup. This will definitely increase the popularity of not only Google Profiles, but also Google +, where Profile is the bread and butter.
During the initial roll out, Google said it is ‘experimenting with this data to help people find content from great authors in search results’. How and when this will actually affect search rankings, is something we have to wait and watch for.
Once in a while we keep an eye on the blogosphere to understand how website monitoring services are being used by customers. While doing this, we do stumble upon certain blogs which educate their readers about website monitoring services. Here are a couple of such posts which we came across recently.
The first one was in affiliateranger.com site about the free website monitoring services available today. The article mentions Site24x7 as well as some other monitoring services. Here is what the blogger had to say about Site24x7:
Site24×7 is designed to maintain an optimal website user experience by monitoring the performance and availability of Web servers and applications from an end-user perspective. Site24×7 gives you the ability to monitor your visitors or customers-facing web properties on a global basis. Site24×7 will monitor any website from 15 locations; tracking the end-user experience from six sites in the US, three sites in Europe, and four in Asia, Australia and Africa. Site24×7 ensures the hardware and software supporting such critical functions as online purchases, site logins, web form submissions and more, are performing up to service level agreements (SLAs). Site24×7 includes an Operations Dashboard, through which all performance parameters are easily understood and any problems are automatically flagged for resolution.Read full article here.
Apesar de nunca ter testado, o Site24×7 inspira-me alguma confiança, não só devido a fazer a verificação em multiplas localizações, mas também por permitir a gestão de SLA (service-level agreements). Para além disso, tem ainda a favor o facto de ter uma API disponível e alertas via RSS, SMS e Mail.Read full article here.
Do you manage a personal or business website? Do you know if your website is up and running when you’re not online and monitoring yourself the site? Today, we’ll review an important and useful service that will allow you to monitor your website, services and servers around the globe and be notified the uptime and performance of your websites. Let’s review: Site24×7.You can read the full article here. The second article is in the Techmixer website. This one is actually a compilation of some of the free website monitoring services available today and the list includes Site24x7 among other services. Here are a few excerpts:
Subscribe monitoring website uptime is essential services for every webmaster. With the website uptime monitoring services, you can earlier aware the downtime of your website and take necessary step to overcome the downtime problem.
Most of us nowadays own a blog and when it comes to high traffic load, we cannot actually say when will the website/blog server goes down. Without a proper web monitoring service, it would be difficult to check the uptime of the server and which in turn would end up losing visitors and monetization revenue for the blog.
Site 24 X 7 offer free two website monitoring for their free account every 60 minutes or above. The URL address uptime and performance will be monitor from multiple geographical locations. Plus you will get email/SMS alerts and reports. Beside that, Site 24 X 7 also monitor DNS servers & email server round-trip timeYou can read the full article here. Have you come across any blog post or article about Site24x7? If so, please feel free to share with us.
The book deals with learning all the basic functions of Microsoft Office Live and building websites with office Live. Site24x7 has been featured in the 'Maintaining your Website' section of the book. The author recommends Site24x7 as the best automated service for monitoring web site downtime. He mentions about our free account which can monitor 2 websites for free, and also about the paid versions for more savvy users.
You can read a preview of this book from Google books and also order it from Amazon Thanks for recommending Site24x7, Rahul!If you experience frequent server problems, or if you manage a business-critical website, you might need tools to monitor the current status of your server and/or your website, giving you handy features such as automated email or SMS alerts whenever the website is down. Other tools can also give daily and weekly statistics on downtime.
site24×7 is a service provided by zoho. There is a free basic service, limited to 2 websites. However, it has more features than Montastic or mon.itor.us; with daily and weekly statistics and graphsRead more Site24x7 was also recently featured in Techdealdigger website, a site covering the hottest tech deals available on the internet. Site24x7 has been listed under Small business category and has been tagged with website monitoring, uptime and web uptime tags.
Thank you for writing about us, iWeb & techdealdigger!
If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are: - The site is down - A page is missing - Javascript isn't working I'll talk about how I manage these over 3 articles. My site used to go down a lot. Initially that was because I kept playing around with mod_rewrite and other Apache modules without quite understanding them. I'd make a change and upload it without testing. (I'm like that.) And then I'd go to sleep. Next morning, the site's down, and has been down all night.Anand says his website initially had a lot of downtime, but he was not aware of it as he was not monitoring his site at that time. Then he started using using Site24x7 to monitor his website, and he was being alerted every time was there was a problem.
So I started using Site24x7 to track if my website was down. It's a convenient (and free) service. It pings my site every hour. If it's down, I get an SMS. If it's back up, I get an SMS. It also keeps a history of how often the site is down.Over a period of time, the downtime came down and he also changed his hosting provider to get better service.
So I switched to HostGator a few months ago. Nowadays, the site is down a lot less. (In times of trouble, it becomes sluggish, but doesn't actually go down.)Anand also says Site24x7's alerts are really useful.
But what really made Site24x7 useful to me is that it would alert me when there was a big problem.
Site24x7 sends me an SMS when my site is down. Fits the bill perfectly.You can read the entire article here. Thanks for writing about us, Anand! I also want to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year 2008 and also to remind you about our ongoing special discount offer.
