I just read about the Google DoubleClick’s – Ad Planner while i was in my Google Webmaster Tools account, thought i should it share since it seems very interesting and more useful.

My final thoughts about the Google Ad Planner is that it’s a very nice and useful marketing tool provided to us – it looks to me like a new and improved version of Alexa, at-least a little..?

Watch the below video by Google to see an overview of Ad Planner.

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DoubleClick Ad Planner is a free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is likely to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions.

Refine your online advertising with DoubleClick Ad Planner, a free media planning tool that can help you:

Identify websites your target customers are likely to visit

• Define audiences by demographics and interests.
• Search for websites relevant to your target audience.
• Access unique users, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.

Easily build media plans for yourself or your clients

• Create lists of websites where you’d like to advertise.
• Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.

It provides marketers with a demographics breakdown for selected web sites that includes valuable information, such as gender, age, education, income and language. Ad Planner helps marketers identify web sites their audience views, and buy advertisements on those websites.

Webmasters can claim their websites and edit information related to their websites on the Ad Planner, you can also put your Ad Placement so that potential advertisers can see and reach you.

There are different ways to claim your website, if you’re already using Google Webmaster Tools, then most of your information will be available to the Ad Planner once you join, it will prompt you to collect information about your websites from you Webmaster Tools account.

Note:-

If you’re a Google AdSense publisher, your ad placements will automatically appear in DoubleClick Ad Planner.
For instructions on claiming site ownership with Google Webmaster Tools, visit the Google Webmaster Tools Help Center.

With DoubleClick Ad Planner, you can:

• Define audiences by demographics and interests.
• Search for websites relevant to your audience.
• Access aggregated statistics on the number of unique visitors, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
• Create lists of websites where you’d like to advertise and store them in a media plan.
• Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.

http://www.google.com/adplanner/

Please feel free to share your thoughts and opinions.

Here is a new blog game that we all can play. It is called BackLink To Me. This is a new and fun blog game that we all can play, which will help us increase our back-links.

Backlinks, as we all know, is the foundation to a successful or increased Google PageRank. If you want to increase your Google PageRank, you have to increase the number of backlinks to your site and almost as importantly, your secondary or (deep link) pages. Backlinks are a collection of other pages on the Net that link back to your site or page within your site. Playing the new blog game, BackLink To Me will help you increase the number of sites that link to your site.

Hello! My Name Is Zubair. My website is at www.eBloggy.net. I have a BackLink to Garry. Here is how the game works:

1. Create a new post and title it, ‘New Blog Game – BackLink To Me‘.
2. Copy this entire post and paste it into your new post.
3. Change my name to your name.
4. Change my website address to your website address
5. Change the name of the person I have a backlink to my name!
6. Link my name back to the URL of this post!
7. (optional) On your next comment on a friends blog, invite then to play and link to the post you created!

By participating in this blog game your site and one deep link page within your site will be a link in a huge chain of blogs that are all connected together. Google bots visit our sites daily (not sure if you knew that). By keeping our chain of links all together in a continuously growing circuit, we gain and increase a united linking strength. I want those Google Bots to visit all of our pages so that we all can have an improved Google PageRank.

If you decide to play the new blog game, please remember to link directly to this post, not my home page. I already have a link to that here on this post.

Please write a quick comment here on this post to let me know you are playing! That way I can keep track.

Have Fun!

GetClicky Web Analytics makes web analytic easy, fun, powerful, and drop dead gorgeous.

I have been using GetClicky for over a week now and i have to say it is pretty amazing. The statistics that are available to you are pretty simple to understand not to mention highly detailed. GetClicky is giving every single detail of your visitors – GetClicky also has dozens of cool features including Google Map integrated into the tracking system.

Webmasters can easily see their visitors on the map on a single destination. The above picture shows your Dashboard – All users get a dashboard upon registration from which they can track their site statistics.

GetClicky Web Analytics can let you see details about your visitors very easily, The user-interface that it provides is pure Awesome! I have used Google’s Analytics. I was also a big-fan of it, until i came across GetClicky.

GetClicky can tell you every thing you want to know about your visitors, where they came from, where they went, what they did and what they were searching for.

One of GetClicky’s greatest feature is the Spying feature; You can easily see who is on your website Live! It even shows what they came looking for (if via a Search Engine).

GetClicky is very user-friendly, i have seen many new webmaster get confused with Google Analytics very easily. But GetClicky is truly amazing. It gives you every ounce of detail you can imagine, while on the other hand it keeps it so simple that even newbies don’t have trouble understanding.

If you want you can also allow your site visitors to see your traffic statistics or you can hide them as well, The choice is yours!

I have used both GetClicky Web Analytics & Google Analytics and i really think that GetClicky Web Analytics is the way to go i really recommend everyone to try out this new service.

If you decide to use Clicky Web Analytics you are given a piece of JavaScript code, just like you do with Google Analytic. Just put that up on your site and GetClicky will start tracking your traffic instantly, unlike Google Analytic where you have a wait about a whole day before they even start to track!

GetClicky Web Analytics is really good and trust me i’m not saying it because they are paying me or something, GetClicky is a free service but additionally it does have extra features which comes at a cost.

If you want to compare GetClicky against other competitions including Google Analytics – Click Here

Submit Helper is a very handy tool for people who wants to submit their websites to directories with ease, it makes the process less time consuming and simple.

This is a very nifty and handy SEO Software, those who get tired of submitting their websites to numerous directories because they have to keep copy/pasting their website information for each site manually. Submit Helper will automatically insert your site details as soon as the page loads. Saving you bunch of time and effort

It also has a good amount of web directories in its engine which are search engine friendly, the best part about this software is that its completely free to use

Submit Helper Features

• Built-in database of free, non-reciprocal directory list.
• Manage your site information and suggest new directory
• Automatically fill in submission form
• Free & Green Software, No installation needed!

Click here to download the software! (Requires Registration)

Let me know if you need any installation help or something

Here are a list of Free SEO (search engine optimized) Link Directories that i have compiled, feel free to use them

Why would you need them? the main and most important reason would be to build backlinks for your blog or website, which would in-turn increase its Pagerank.

Newest Addition:

http://www.charolabap.com/

http://www.bunrui.info/

http://www.webdirectory.cc/submit.php

FREE SEO Link Directories List

Free SEO Link Directory
BizDirects : Free Internet Directory
http://www.directory.hivsupport.co.uk
Fresh Link Media Web Directory
Internet Favorite Site Directory
Index Mall Directory
Internet Listings Directory
IT Directory
JDK Directory
Join Directory
Leader Directory
Link Blow Directory
Link Cage Directory
Link Craze Directory
Link Fire Directory
Link Force Directory
Link Pimp Directory
Link Plus Directory
Link Stock Directory
Link Stuff Directory
Link Website Directory
Login Directory
Long Directory
Lot Directory
Lotus Directory
Maple Index Directory
Mark Directory
Mega Index Directory
Million Directory
Mosaic Directory
MSN Directory
My First Directory
My Page Directory
My Site Directory
Nation Directory
Neo Directory
New Age Index Directory
Nice Directory
Page Directory
Pear Submit Directory
Right Directory
Rose Directory
Spot Directory
Submit Add Directory
Submit Bulk Directory
Submit Castle Directory
Submit Fast Directory
Submit Fire Directory
Submit Force Directory
Submit Heaven Directory
Submit Index Directory
Submit Map Directory
Submit More Directory
Submit One Directory
Submit Over Directory
Submit Point Directory
Submit Pop Directory
Submit Port Directory
Submit Power Directory
Submit SEO Directory
Submit Space Directory
Submit Spot Directory
Submit Style Directory
Submit Sure Directory
Submit Top Directory
Submit Web Directory
Sure Submit Directory
Top Web Directory
Total Directory
Tour Directory
United Directory
Webbers Directory
Web Ranks Directory
Wise Directory
General Web Directory
Koopy Link Directory
King of URL Directory
URL Shack Web Directory
Domaining.in Free Directory
URL Dumps
BigDirectory.org

I will update and add more link directories as soon as i come across more of them

Feel free to submit to my own Free SEO Link directory at:
Free SEO Link Directory

If you own a web directory, please  do comment and let me know if you want to list it in the above list Sorry but only free directories would be listed above. This is free exposure for your directory (not to mention a free backlink) so don’t miss it!

Finally! I have officially registered an account at Google Analytics – I had a very old invite in my inbox which i was saving to register later on, but time flied so fast that i forgot about it. The invite was pretty useless now since everyone can register an account now.

I submitted my websites to Google Analytic, but it seemed that the reports doesn’t start coming in as soon as you insert the code onto your site, it took about 12-16 hrs for me.

But still after waiting quite some hours it still doesn’t show any sort of statistics on it; But my website URLs are valid stating that i have perfectly added the code to the right place. Can’t figure out whats wrong here, i guess i have to play the waiting game now.

I thought it would quite a stress to put the Google Analytic Code to eBloggy wordpress blog but it actually was a breeze; all i had to do was get into the admin panel > Presentation > and edit the footer.php file and add the Google Analytic code some where above the </body> tag.

I found a  WordPress Plugin that would have done this for me very easily, but for some reason i thought it would be better if i just do it manually, because i don’t really like to fill my admin panel with unnecessary plugins – after all it was so easy! I don’t remember the name of the plugin. But if some one wants it you can just let me know and i am sure i’ll be able to find it for you

Submitting your website or blog to the top search engines is one of the most crucial steps website owners have to do. it’s a must for every website; although sometimes you might not need to do it like for instance if you already have a decent number of link backs from other website or blogs – which are already indexed by Google or any other search engine.

I’m writing some links to free search engines along with a ADD URL link so that you can add your websites or blogs to the most famous and popular search engines online and for free!

As an added bonus i also be posting some links to Free Web Directories for you to get some back-links for your websites or blogs.

Keep these in mind before submitting your website(s):

1). Your website should be fully index-able.
2). Before you think of submitting your site to the link-directories make sure your sites are ready and none of your page show “Under-Construction”.

OK, well that was all of the top search engines I’m aware of they’re in no particular order.
Now i will post those link directories where you can submit your links for free

• Dmoz.com
• Gimpsy
• New Web Directory
• WebmasterLead – (Requires Reciprocal)
• Bhanvad
• HaaBaa
• World Site Index
• AbiLogic
• Jayde
• WoW Directory
• GetWebList
• Search Sight
• Directory-Free (Requires Reciprocal)
• Dir4x (Requires Reciprocal)
• URLdumps
• URLShack
• BigDirectory (Requires Reciprocal)
• PostDotCom (Requires Reciprocal)

Well – That’s all for the link directories, let me know if you need more as i have bunch but my hand started hurting after typing all these.

Submission Tips:

1). Read all the guide-lines and rules of the search engines / directories before submitting.
2). Check your website links from time to time to make sure they’re valid and working.
3). Use unique META Tags in all your pages.

Let me know if you need more free search engines list or web directories list.

Cheers

Today while i was again on the search for something good, I came up-to a blog CleverHack whose author is Joy Larkin.

About the author:
A self described geek in her early 30′s, been online for well over a decade, presently works in BtoB Web marketing (Web Design, SEO, SEM, Information Architecture, Usability, Online Advertising, Email Deliver-ability). In previous lives, worked in IT support, taught computer classes for adults, made some money as a consultant to individuals and small businesses and in her last position, managed retail level E-Commerce.

You can find more about the author on her blog.

Well, now let me start a little, i was reading the post about her Yahoo Mobile Crawler issue, I’ve also seen the same happen to my friend a few days ago, actually it was quite similar…

The blog post states that the Yahoo! Mobile Crawler is not doing an accurate job crawling Mobile pages WML (Wireless Markup Language); People are becoming serious about their mobile websites and how they’re being crawled and presented more then ever especially since the launch of the official mobile domains (yourname.mobi).

Joy shows exactly whats wrong with the Yahoo! Mobile Crawler. I asked my friend to send a support email to Yahoo! Developers, but unfortunately there’s no reply from them as of yet, but it appears that my friend nor Joy is the only victim of this issue.

Check-out Joys Blog for more in-depth details about whats happening; others who are having similar problems please do post so that we can spread it out so that everyone gets aware of it, Especially Yahoo!