Google+ Hangouts On Air: broadcast your conversation to the world

[Cross posted from the Google Official Blog]



Last year we introduced Hangouts On Air to a limited number of broadcasters, enabling them to go live with friends and fans, for all the world to see. Since then, this small community has grown the feature in lots of creative ways. And they’ve made one thing crystal clear: when groups of passionate individuals can broadcast live, together, the results are truly remarkable:

Today we're excited to launch Hangouts On Air to Google+ users worldwide. So if you have something to say—as an aspiring artist, a global celebrity, or a concerned citizen—you can now go live in front of a global audience. With just a few clicks, you’ll be able to:\

• Broadcast publicly. By checking "Enable Hangouts On Air," you can broadcast your live hangout—from the Google+ stream, your YouTube channel or your website—to the entire world.


• See how many viewers you’ve got. During your broadcast, you can look inside the hangout to see how many people are watching live.


• Record and re-share. Once you're off the air, we’ll upload a public recording to your YouTube channel, and to your original Google+ post. This way it's easy to share and discuss your broadcast after it's over.

Of course, launching millions of live stations takes some doing, so we're rolling out Hangouts On Air gradually, over the next few weeks. In the meantime you can save the date for an upcoming hangout...

- CBS This Morning: May 8th at 4:20am PT / 7:20am ET	- Cadbury UK: May 11th at 1:30pm PT / 4:30pm ET
- Conan O’Brien: May 8th at 7:30pm PT / 10:30pm ET	- The Nerdist: May 11th at 3:00pm PT / 6:00pm ET
- CNBC: May 10th at 1:15pm PT / 4:15pm ET	- Jamie Oliver on Food Revolution Day: May 19th at 5:00pm PT / 8:00pm ET
- Global Poverty Project: May 10th at 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET	- A special series from The New York Times’ Opinion department

… sign in to Google+ to see what’s live right now, or find inspiration in the many broadcasts that have already aired.

A news van for everyone. KOMU-TV anchor +Sarah Hill invited locals to share live coverage of the recent protests in Montreal; Fox 11 LA anchor +Maria Quiban invites viewers to join her on Good Day LA.	Town halls with today’s leaders. President +Barack Obama, Governor +Mitt Romney, UN Secretary-General +Ban Ki-moon, and many others have connected with citizens via hangout.
Live concerts from your living room. Musical artists like +Suite 709 and +Daria Musk perform live for those inside the hangout, and for everyone else tuning in.	Classes anyone can attend. Chef +Larry Fournillier, Professor +Noah Diffenbaugh, and +FAWN share their cooking, climate change and fashion expertise, respectively, via hangout.
Roundtables about any topic. Photographer +Trey Ratcliff, soccer football enthusiast +Sabotage Times and celebrity trend spotter +Young Hollywood talk about the issues they find interesting.	Face-to-face meetups with all of your favorites. +David Beckham, the +Miami Hurricanes, +Tyra Banks, the +Indianapolis Colts and +Geek & Sundry have all enjoyed meet-and-greets with their fans.

We can’t wait to see what you’ll share with the world.



Posted by Chee Chew, Engineering Director

Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps in India

Today we’re announcing the availability of Google Apps Vault (Vault) for Google Apps for Business customers in India. Vault is an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution for managing information critical to your business and preserving important data. It can reduce the costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance actions.



Businesses of all sizes need to be prepared for the unexpected. In today’s environment, using Vault to manage, archive and preserve your data can help protect your business. Litigation costs can really take a toll on a business when minor lawsuits can run up to many thousands of dollars, and larger lawsuits can cost even more. Significant litigation costs come from having to search and find relevant data, which is also known as electronic discovery (eDiscovery).



E-discovery can be part of virtually any litigation and requires you to search, find and preserve your electronic information such as email. Vault helps protect your business with easy-to-use search so you can quickly find and preserve data to respond to unexpected customer claims, lawsuits or investigations. With an instant-on functionality and availability of your data a few clicks away, Vault provides access to all of your Gmail and on-the-record chats and can provide significant savings to your business over the traditional costs of litigation and eDiscovery.








Additionally, Vault gives Google Apps customers the extended management and information governance capabilities to proactively archive, retain and preserve Gmail and on-the-record chats. With the ability to search and manage data based on terms, dates, senders, recipients and labels, Vault helps you find the information you need, when you need it. Vault gives management, IT, legal and compliance users a systemized, repeatable and defensible platform that will reduce the costs and risks of doing business. With just a few clicks, the business can access a service designed for security and providing auditable access to critical information.



Vault was built, by a global engineering effort that includes India, on the same modern, 100% web-based architecture as Google Apps. Unlike traditional solutions, it does not require a complex and costly IT environment, and can be deployed in a matter of minutes. Vault brings the security, ease-of-use and reliability of Google Apps to information governance. It can help meet the sophisticated requirements of large organizations and makes these advanced capabilities available to business of all sizes.



Google Apps Vault can be added to your Google Apps account for an additional $5 per user per month starting today, so contact our sales team or a Google Apps reseller if you are interested in signing up for Google Apps and Vault.



We hope that Vault, together with Google Apps, will make a difference to your business and provide the right solution to reducing risk and cost so you can focus on growing your business.




Posted by Jack Halprin, Head of eDiscovery, Google

Advanced WordPress SEO Secrets Part 1

Wordpress by default lacks in both on page and off page search engine optimization, Therefore we here at incomefigure have decided to write a series of articles on advanced wordpress SEO, so you can improve your website's SEO. There are lots of advanced wordpress SEO secrets which are not known to newbie bloggers, which can tweaked to get better search engine results. Before reading this article we would also suggest you to add the Wordpress plugins mentioned in our Post "6 Wordpress Plugins To Improve Your Blogs' Traffic" for best results.

Advanced Wordpress SEO Secrets

1. Use decent permalinks.

Never pressure over what kind, it’s really a issue of individual personal preference, provided that they are not still the  ?page_id=191 kind, it does not seem to issue too much. If they still are, you can use this tool to handle a switchover much more quickly than in the last.

We use the  2012/06/05/postname structure and it performs just excellent, you can create them look more attractive if you want to.

Important Note: Adjusting wordpress permanent links should be one of the first things you should do, if you want to imrpove your Wordpress SEO. 

2. Turn Trackbacks on.

Trackbacks are greatly underused on most WP set ups we see, and when they are used they are  mostly not enhanced.

3. Sidebar -use it.

Blogroll – in contrast to well-known viewpoint (seo mythlore) blogroll backlinks (inbound or outbound) will not “hurt you” but you do need to manage their juice submission by ahead considering,  as in where you weblink and why, but this is a topic all on it’s own we’ll get returning to it in one of the long run content.

4. All-in-One-SEO pack

We recommend two all in one seo pack to you to use. HeadSpace and Seo sniper BUT The Platinum SEO Plugin basically picks up where All-in-One leaves off.

But do ensure:

Title is rewriting is on  %post_title% | %blog_title%

Categories and Archives Noindex /Follow (Tags optional, ours are Noindexed)

5. Dofollow Case by Case

Excellent tool, which allows us granular management over each and every weblink on the website that we can get to the URL of. Generally they are all on (followed) unless we choose to no follow them for any purpose. You just add /dontfollow.

6. Redirection – just ensure it’s on and working.

7. XML Sitemaps - not much to do here, activate it on, build the map, ignore.

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Got your windows 8 ? We know its better than windows 7. Here are some wallpapers to add some extra attractiveness to your desktop.

How to Create Google Plus Pages

Now like facebook Google plus has also launched pages for you. You can make a fan web page on Google+ for individuals who really like you. People can not only add your Page to their Groups but also can suggest and begin clinging out with you.

Following are the steps on how to make Google plus pages:

1. First go to Google plus Create Page.

2. There will be a menu on the left to choose your category. Choose the one which suits you best.

3. Fill in the required info and click on Create.

4. Now the next page will help you customize your page. Add a tagline and a profile photo and hit continue.

5. Now you can tell your circles about this page if you want. Click on "Finish" Button.

6. After establishing up the Fan Web page don't ignore to add an introduction under the About tab to let individuals know what's this site is about.

7. Go to the Hometab of your web page (also known as Stream), basically click Get Started link under the left-hand selection, get you web page ID under Tell The World Section. Or Simply, look at the address bar of your web browser and get the ID from there.

India Site Clinic: Get your Site checked today

Namaste Webmasters!



In January, Matt Cutts from the Webspam team visited India and in a Hangout on Google+ addressed many of your doubts and questions. As a follow up, the Search quality team at Google India is very excited to conduct a clinic for your website, right here on the Google India blog.



What does this mean? 

Our team will analyze the websites submitted to the clinic. We will offer constructive advice on improvements that can lead to better visibility for your website in Google's organic search results.



So how do I submit my entry?

To register your site for our site clinic, fill in the information requested on the form here.



(Do note that by submitting your site you agree to the use of your website as an example in our future blog posts under the Site Clinic banner.) We also have a few important guidelines that you need to follow:



1) To participate, your site must be registered on Google Webmaster Tools. This is to ensure that the submitter is the owner of the site and we have the owner's permission to use the site for our clinic. If you don't have a Webmaster tools account yet, it's pretty simple to obtain. You can get one here.



2) Your website should meet our quality guidelines. This is because we will be using the same guidelines as criteria to select the websites for our analysis. You can review our Webmaster guidelines for any clarification. 




The Site Clinic goes live today and submissions will be accepted till the 14th of May 2012. 



Please Note: We will be taking in a limited set of sites for complete analysis. Among these, a few representative ones could be chosen as examples to address broad themes and share best practices in our follow-up blog posts.




Posted by Google Search Quality Team

Make Money Online From Skype

I am sure most of you have either used Skype, or observed about it. It is the most well-known online VoIP (Voice over Online Protocol) assistance. Level my terms. Not ‘one of the most popular’, but ‘The most well-known VoIP service’, with over 300 thousand clients globally and keeping track of. Did you know you could generate income through Skype?



Skype allows you discuss to your family, not only through conversation discuss, but also movie discuss. Skype to Skype calling are totally no cost. And you can also set up a business contact to involve more of your household into a contact.

Features aside, have you ever considered whether you can do something effective with your Skype? Maybe generate some cash through it? Yep, you observed me (it’s a determine of conversation okay? J). With Skype, you can generate actual cash via two primary methods; via Skype Online System, and through Skype Excellent.

You can take aspect in the Skype Online System by signing-up for Skype. To take aspect in the offer, you will need to have a weblog or a website. Which is how affiliate internet online promotion performs. Generally, they provides you with a value which you need to put on your website. This will act as your affiliate weblink.

Whenever someone signs-up for compensated Skype solutions through you, like SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Voice-mail etc, you will get paid transaction of 25% on every purchase (according to the Skype blog). Skype also provides a $15 reward commission transaction on the Skype Wi-Fi cellphone program. So what are you patiently waiting for? Get began now!

Earn through Skype Prime!

It basically gives you the opportunity to start your own assistance where you can cost individuals all over the community for your abilities. You can either begin an online category coaching elements Mathematics, British Speaking abilities, or help others in elements like preparing, etc. In brief, it allows compensated Skype to Skype Calls. Anyone can be a aspect of your contact by shelling out for it. You would be known as the ‘provider’ in that situation. You can also be a aspect of other providers’ calling and pay for them. For using Skype Excellent, you need to have PayPal accessibility available in your nation.

How does it work?

For becoming a member of a provider’s contact, one needs to have sufficient Skype credit score at side. Calls can be began totally no cost. The company then has the choice of starting a transaction ask for. The relax of the contact will then be compensated. The company has the choice of either asking for per instant, or asking for per contact. Skype credit score will be subtracted from the caller’s consideration. The company does not get that Skype credit score relocated to his consideration. Instead, the income goes to his PayPal consideration.

About payments

There’s one factor you should know though. You only get to keep 70% of all your income on Skype Top quality. The staying 30% goes to Skype. And you can NOT use Skype Excellent if you never have a PayPal consideration

But on the pros, once you get to know your clients, you can set up your own recommended transaction techniques, such as cable exchange, financial institution first deposit etc. That way, you never need to ave a PayPal consideration, and you get to keep 100% of your income for yourself.

Getting started

First of all, you need to obtain the newest edition of Skype. Once again, you need to set up a PayPal before you can use Skype Excellent. Next, go to Skype Excellent help web page, and select between becoming a call or company at the bottom-right. Now, all you need to do is adhere to the easy actions and you are excellent to go!

I have seen many individuals using their abilities to eke out a existing from Skype. If somebody can, so can you! Go and get began now!