YouTube has changed their design to follow a much more modern look. Instead of showcasing the most popular and trending videos on the website, YouTube has now positioned a “Subscription Feed” smack-dab in the middle of the page. You must be logged in to see this properly. This “Subscription Feed”, now features the latest video content and updates from your subscribers. In an effort to provide a better, more relevant user experience for viewers, YouTube is behaving more like a social-networking site than ever before. As your viewers watch, rate and comment on your latest video, exposure for your content will spread to the followers and subscribers of each of your viewers through YouTube’s feed, creating a smaller yet more relevant viral effect.



YouTube Channel Page

The new channel layout may look different, but it still behaves relatively the same. However, as YouTube moves in the direction of becoming more “channel-centric,” it is imperative that you activate, update and optimize your new channel as quickly as possible for the best results. YouTube is already making more of an effort to feature channels on search results pages for related keywords. Focus on using your main keyword phrase properly in your channel, and you can get found even quicker!



YouTube Analytics

The best change in YouTube’s most recent overhaul has been their introduction of YouTube Analytics. It was previously known as YouTube Insight, this extremely detailed and informative feature allows you to learn more about your audience, your videos and your activity on YouTube. Each statistic shows your audience visibility. With proper deduction skills, you can effectively identify problems with your videos and make the necessary changes to improve your results.

+1 is a simple idea. Let’s use Tom for example When Tom logs in to his Google Account and sees one of your pages in the organic search results on Google, he can click on +1 button and recommend your page globally. The next time Tom’s friend Liza is logged in and searching on Google and your page appears, she might see a personalized notification letting her know that Tom has clicked the +1 button. So Tom’s +1 click helps Liza decide that your site is worth checking out. As a result, +1 button could increase both the quality and quantity of traffic to the sites people care about.


We the Websys Team are excited and confident about using +1 button to make search more personal and relevant. We hope you’re excited too to use the feature! If you have queries related to the +1 button and how it affects search on Google.com, you can check the Google Webmaster Central Help Center.

When Facebook got started with photo uploads they had less features. The main objective they focused was to make sure that the photos are easily shared along with a hassle free upload. But now, Facebook implemented three big improvements to photos. Firstly it has a high resolution image now which would help you to store bigger images than before. Secondly, a better viewer for browsing photos, which makes it simpler and faster to navigate photos. Last but not least, a simple uploader with easier tagging. Apart from this, viewing a photo has become much easier. When you click any photo then that particular photo opens in a light box along with the comments below with the previous and next button to move to and fro of that particular album photos. After finishing viewing when you close the light box it returns back to the same place from where you have started viewing the photo. So the navigation of photo viewing has become much easier than before.

Now, you can experience the best photo sharing on web through Facebook. At the same time, you can browse more photos much faster than before without loosing your place on Facebook. If you would like to know more about using the Photo Viewer then do visit the Help Center.

It is that time of the year again , when the whole world gets into festive mood. Out comes the candles , the Christmas trees, wine and decorations. Being a web development and SEO company in India, we don’t have as long a holiday as many of you probably do at this time of the year, but even for us the work gets little slow, as many of the customers take the time off. We wish all of you a very Merry X-mas . May your days / weekend be joyous with your family and /or dearest ones.

And I believe none of this is wrong. If you can make money online by using your skills , nothing wrong with it . But while you are at it , please remember to include 5 essential items in your business website.

1. A direct contact or Enquiry form : Many people can get an amazing website designed by a professional web development company , but often mistake by having no proper Contact page. A contact page should not only have your Email address and Phone number if possible , but also a Enquiry form which allows your visitors to send their comments , which will again be connected to your email address.
2. A portfolio section : A prominently marked Portfolio section, which openly showcases your products or services. If you are a product manufacturer , this area should be a gallery of your products. If you are in the service Business , see if you can icon-ize your offerings and list their benefits and your USP. If you are just a Blog writer, link to your best content or testimonials from your clients.
3. Traffic Tracking Code – Yes , I can see many of you raising your eyebrows, wondering how can I expect all website owners who are not tech savvy , to understand tracking codes and installation of such. If you can not do it yourself , just hire someone for 5 USD / Rs.200 but don’t go on without doing so . Traffic tracking code is available for free from service providers like Google Analytics , Statcounter.com etc, which helps you find out where are your website visitors coming from , how many in a day , week or month etc , which pages they are visiting and which page is getting no visitors at all and much more interesting facts about your website.
4. Profile Section / About : A business can be a 1 man company / service provider or a 1000 person entity. But all websites should try to show forth what their profile is. If the business is only of one person, or a family run business, you can highlight your qualifications and past experience. And if the website is of a large enterprise, it should mention about their work force, the top management and work policy and hr policy etc. Whoever your buyers might be , they are always interested to know and learn about whom they are buying from.
5. Sitemap – It does not matter if your website is a 5 page brochure or a 200 page ecommerce catalogue or a 50,000 post filled message board. In order to be accessible to all your visitors , display openly a well formed and regularly updated website Sitemap . In order to submit this to search engines like Google , Yahoo or Bing, you might want to create an XML sitemap . But at the very least , surely try to keep a HTML only sitemap . So that people who does not want to scroll through every page on your website , can go to the sitemap and click on the page he/she feels interest in.

There are many more equally important or lesser important items probably , but next time you think of creating or updating your business website , have a look at this ckeck-list and see if you have all of these items in your website. And do let me know if you would have added anything or replaced anything in this list .

The change stems from a government financial overhaul that has put the future of PayPal in India in jeopardy since earlier this year. PayPal also regrets for the inconvenience and wrote “We sincerely apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused from this change and we are working hard to restore the electronic withdrawal service,” Seow wrote “In the meantime, we are bringing this matter to your attention so that you can plan your future withdrawal activities accordingly.”

Well I have been using PayPal for years now and my personal view is that we are going to be in deep soup on this decision of PayPal. Especially people who thrive by earning money online or run a online business or shopping cart will not get their money as fast as they used to withdraw earlier through electronic withdrawals. I think this is going to be a big problem for online businesses. It would be deemed to be a great favor if PayPal think-tanks can spare a second thought on this issue.

To request for a cheque withdrawal below mentioned are the steps that needs to be followed:

Step 1: Log into your PayPal account, click on ‘Withdraw’.

Step 2: Click on the ‘Request a cheque from PayPal’ link. Normally it takes 4 to 6 working days to process the cheque (excluding delivery).

Step 3: Enter the withdrawal amount and select your mailing address, then click ‘Continue’.

Please note that a monthly withdrawal limit of $2,500 USD applies.
Step 4: Click ‘Submit’ to confirm your request.

Like any web design project , we request various kinds of information from the client – such as their preference of color scheme, whether they have any Logo , who are their competitors and whether they also have existing websites , what are the pages and subject matter they want to have on their own website and many more. The first thing our client suggested that they being a Travel Agency offering exotic holiday tours , assistance for travelers in plane ticketing and travel packages , would like to have a very colorful and new style of look and feel. As we had also designed their logo , getting the color scheme for the website was the easy part. But to create a new type layout , we had to go through 2-3 revisions before the client finally approved . And not just approved, this time they were extremely happy – much to our satisfaction.

Completing the design was only part of the job , as the site was not just a static html website , but to be integrated in our custom developed CMS and and homepage flash banner which they could change from time to time.

Aakash Ganga Holidays is now launched and already serving clients locally and globally . We are also happy to have them as our clients for web design company India.

View website : Aakashganga Holidays

Introduction to the project:

The project was for Arjunka International. The company is reputed as a best quality packaging raw material supplier of Kolkata located in Weston Street. We were requested to do entire web development for them.

Challenges in the project:

Arjunka International is in the business of finest packaging raw materials for the last seven years, yet, they lacked an online presence. It is thus comprehensible that they were losing business online. We started from the scratch, the project required designing, programming and SEO strategically planned and executed. The level of competition for Arjunka International was unknown.  There was no local listing for the site. Further, for a proper optimization of the website through the right keywords, analysis of reader friendliness and robot attractiveness were required too. To put it together, the site needed an expert touch.

The unique plan of action that we undertook:

Every site that comes to us is worked on with unique strategies and plan of actions. However, the plans are foolproof ones and are applied with clear understanding and high level of confidence and expertise.

• Our expert SEO analysts analyzed and finalized the keywords that were to be worked on. For this we had to have sessions with the owner of Arjunka International and discussed on the web promotional strategies of the competitive sites and ascertained the keywords.
• Not only keywords but the website as a whole was to be checked for current state of the site, amount of probable traffic and popularity of the site etc. through the application of various SEO tools.
• Planned manual submission of the site in hundreds of directories, forums and social media was needed for generation of back links and promoting the site. A selection of relevant directories was done for this.

Implementation

Once we were ready with the primary steps of our plan of action and strategies we seek client’s permission. Once it is done, we started off by making on page optimization, attached relevant content, meta attributes and keywords.

We further worked on image optimization, Meta tags and Meta descriptions, creation of relevant titles and generating sitemaps and doing local listings.

Submission to directories in a planned way was done, along with, proper utilization of the various other promotional tools for link building purpose.

The result:

All our hard work have shown good results with Arjunka International. With all the keywords it ranked in the first page of the Google search engine and acquired good positions in other search engines. Here’s a comprehensive list of the achievement of Arjunka International:

• packaging raw materials company Kolkata – Google India – 1 and 2
• packaging raw materials company – Google India – 1
• packaging raw materials company Google India – 1 and 2
• packaging raw materials – Google India – 10
• raw materials for packaging – Google India – 2
• packaging raw materials – Google dot com – 2
• packaging raw material – Google dot com – 3
• raw materials for packaging – Google dot com – 2
• packaging raw materials company – Google dot com – 1 and 2

We promise to deliver you the best web development services. If you are looking for hiring a SEO company, do email us at sales@websys.co.in

The Company – Wall Beauty Decorum / Burhani Decorators is a well known retail outlet for gorgeous Indian and imported wallpapers. Located in Rippon Street, Kolkata.

The Challenge – On the onset of the seo project, we noticed that the site had very little text based content. Much of their website was formed with images of their products, and graphical design.
Apart from this, the site also had lots of errors and incompatible HTML. And, lastly, the site did not have a Google Local listing either. Simply put, no work had been done ever on the site for making it visible on Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing/MSN.

Plan of Action- For all local seo clients, we start with a pre analysis , where we learn from the client – details of their company, their products and offerings, services if any and their competitors. In the Pre-Analysis, we showed the site’s current state, the current traffic ( if available through Google Analytics) , link popularity , how many pages of the site are currently indexed etc. We also had a Keyword session after viewing the competitive websites , with the client to confirm on what keywords we can work on, what he wants etc. Here , we also decided that the site needed to be submitted to various trade directories .

Implementation and Work flow -

• Once we were ready and had the client’s permission, we started by taking a backup of all the existing pages, and started making changes for OnPage optimisation.
• This involves working on image optimization, alt tags, page titles, meta descriptions and generating sitemaps
• We followed it up with generating proper website content which matched the meta tags and initiated a process of getting links for the same
• A round of manual directory submission and local listings helped us also gain relevance

Results -

It is our pleasure to say that our client http://www.wallbeauty.net currently ranks at

1. wallpaper retailers kolkata – #1
2. wall sceneries dealer kolkata#2
3. imported wallpaper dealers #1
4. decorative wall paper dealers #6

All on Google and Bing.