The SEO effects of Google+ shutting down in April 2019

So it is confirmed now that Google+ is shutting down in April 2019. Google already announced about this big change in December 2018. The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ will take a few months. Some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.

Following are some of the changes users may experience with Google+ shutdown:

1. Communities outside your domain without at least one G Suite owner will be deleted. Also, your users will no longer be able to create public communities outside your domain.
   
2. Google+ pages, events, and the Google+ profile field for “tagline” will be deleted for both G Suite and consumer users.
3. Previously, upon G Suite customer cancellation, certain customers (e.g., edu customers) could continue to use Google+. Going forward, upon cancellation of G Suite, all G Suite customers’ content will be flagged for deletion.
4. Content from consumer Google+ accounts will be deleted. Consumer users will also be removed from your circles and communities.
5. For additional changes to Google+ features such as collections, circles, search, vanity URLs, and commenting in Blogger and other sites.

So What you can as SEO?

• A new version of the Google+ Android app will be released on February 22, 2019. Update the Google+ Android app before March 7, 2019 to continue using Google+ on their mobile devices. Old versions of the app will no longer be supported.
  
• If your users own or moderate a community outside your domain and there are consumer contributions that they would like to keep, they should download and save them before April 2019. If they download the data now, they will get links to community posts. Starting early March 2019, they will also be able to download the author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community.
• Google+ pages and events will be deleted for both paid and free users if there is content your users would like to keep, they should download and save it before April 2019. If they would like to keep their Google+ tagline, please have them download and save their Profile data.
• Google+ gadgets in classic Google Sites will no longer work starting March 7, 2019, so you and your users may want to remove them. Google+ embeds in the new Google Sites will continue to work.
• If your users opted in to the Google Play Services Public Beta Program, they may experience issues using Google apps like Gmail and Hangouts as shutting down beings for consumers. To avoid any interruption in service, leave the Beta Program.

Few major effects on Blogger.com

Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019.

1. Google+ widgets: Support for the '+1 Button', 'Google+ Followers' and 'Google+ Badge' widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
   
2. +1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
3. Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template.
4. Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog. '

History of web 3.0 - The Sementic Web

recent google search update

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Google Googling 2009

It seems Google is googling again. It came into my notice first time on 5th of Feb when I seen many of the keywords dropped in ranking and a huge decline in Google traffic. I was shocked, just thinking what to do and how to recover the ranking of the keywords. For my surprise after 24 hrs of painless headache and sleepless night, I seen a big change. I got the keywords ranking back in the same position or in better position, I scolded myself for wasting time and getting stress unnecessarily.

By the time I was happy about recovering keywords ranking and organizing the process, I got the same reflections in my website on 8th of Feb. But this time it was more shocking the former one. I thought it might have been some update from Google which is over now. I was a bit relax that time, but it was not so. It happened again. I was just looking the answer to why its happening. I start thinking that may be it's Google update that occur every year in the starting month, and happening again in 2009. This change put me in doubt and I started thinking about datacenter update of 2009. I had been thinking about this but again for my surprise about keywords ranking in Google. I found all the keywords ranking again and traffic increased to the same level as were before. I was happy again and relaxed. I notice that it recovered in the interval of 27 hrs.

But it seems Google is still not tired and in the mood to dance more. There's another change notice on 10 of Feb. The starting time of the reflection was same as of the 5th of Feb. Sudden drop in keyword ranking, loss in the traffic.....organic searches lost. And the worst one.

May be some .. Google Algorithm Update 2009 .. is going on from Google or any regional "Datacenter Update" is happening. Only the final outcome of this change may can solve the mystery. There is keyword ranking loss for many keywords and no impacts on many others. Is it a sign of .. -950 Penalty .. of Google or .. -30 Penalty .. is about to cursed. It's ok if its -950 Penalty because as usual it will not effect at all or to a minor extent by the end of the result. But it'going to be very stressful if its a -30 Penalty because this reflect that google has lost its trust on the domain and penalized it manually to appear below in SERPs.

All in all, it's quite visible as per Google tendency so far that nothing such is done so it put any -30 penalty. It's not appearing too a Google algorithm update, and also not seems like datacenter update. May be it could be -950 Penalty, but it's not sure what it is at all.

Well let's see what it is at all and how the impact could be of this. But everybody pls post your comments on the same because this is going to have major impacts in the history of Google search history.

Free Website Traffic Analyzer

Website traffic is very important to review the performance of a website. It is important to understand the traffic and do planning accordingly. There is too much that you can derive based on the current traffic of a website. Website traffic will help you to understand the behavior study for your visitors, how long they engage with the website, there interest in the website and products, where they are coming from, where are they quitting. What they like and dislike in the site. Website traffic study is of immense help for the strategy makers, managers, team leaders, planners and other senior members.

Now the question is which website traffic analyzer is to rely on. There are already so many tool popular online. Statcounter, Awstat and Google Analytics are very popular among online traffic analyzer. But I prefer Google Analytics over all of them and other. First reason of this is the free version of google analytics is sufficient enough do all important study related to website traffic. It is simple, sober and the best. It is very user friendly. it does not show recent traffic like in statcounter. Even Awstat has its own data representation structure but I like Google Analytics most.

It has everything important and may be new update will happen soon. I knew Google is very smart. Google Analytics is very important for them and for its users. Well let me show you special features of Google Analytics…

Google Analytics Dashbord

Visitors Tracking in Google Analytics

Traffic Sources Tracking

Content Analysis in Google Analytics

Even you can set goals for any specific study

why black hat seo

It was just by chance I met a SEO guy today, he do optimization on freelance basis. He was so confident about the technique he use to optimize a website. He told me about the website and the company he works for. I was so please to know his technique initially. But by the time I knew more about it, it was shocking. Almost talking for 1/2 an hour around I got to know that he had been using black hat seo to optimize a website.

"Black Hat search engine optimization is usually defined as techniques that are used to get higher search rankings in an unethical manner. It Involves unethical, questionable and sometimes illegal search engine techniques used to improve site rankings and visibility. Simply it is irrelevant and forced optimization."

Well what comes in Black Hat SEO:
keyword stuffing, link spamming, 302 redirection, css based spamming, doorway pages, link bait & dumping, google bowling, unnecessary promotion in groups, misuse of forums, irrelevant backlinks creation, irrelevant content, pushing social networking site for traffic, misguiding visitors and the list goes long.

If you ever see the search engines history, they have banned the site using black hat seo activities. Search engines are very smart at present. They keep updating ranking and publish guidelines for on timely basis so that user can follow them. It is all to avoid black hat seo and synchronize the information available over internet.

There is already too much information available and it is becoming challenging for search engines to provide better result for the user. Internet users all over the world faces problems to find relevant information. Thanks to the Google team, about the idea they came up and working hard to synchronize available content. But as usually happens people keep cracking ranking algorithm and start fooling the search engines. weired ;)

There is too much to talk about black hat and white hat seo, but because I am already very late to meet my friend, i'll stop talking more. May be black hat seo's wouldn't like this post or hopefully this post will help people. Please post your comments for anything you would like to know. I always prefer white hat seo technique and expect everybody to follow it. Internet is for everyone and search engines are here to help in finding the correct information. So help everyone and help yourself.