Archive for January 13th, 2012
Facts About Adding Pages To Passport
Friday, January 13th, 2012Since traveling to another country comes with some restrictions that do not usually apply in your home country, you will experience the need to have a valid passage document. This document, otherwise referred to as a passport, will act as a permit to any place you want to visit. Therefore, you may consider adding pages to your online passport if your pages have reduced because you regularly use them when traveling.
Process
Adding another leaf to this document has some steps that an individual has to follow. An individual should have an original and valid passport. The visa has to be certified by the embassy of the country you are going to. For the document to be legitimate, it has to be functional and the visa provider or company must be certified.
Documents
The next step is that you should fill in a certain form known as form DS-4085. It is the application for additional visa pages. This document should be filled in using the required legal conditions. One of the legal requirements is that the details must be completely true. After completing the form within the provided time limit, it is now ready to be sent to relevant authorities.
Additional Documentation
The legal requirements state that while forwarding the application form, one has to include other documents. Among the necessities is that the form must be accompanied by your current passport. However, the passport ought to be in use up to a period of not less than nine months.
Renewal Fee
A renewal fee will also be required at the time you will be sending your application form which should accompany the form. The exact amount needed will however depend on the method used to add these pages to our traveling document. Furthermore, note that this fee will go to the relevant embassy in renewing your passport.
Additional Options
Adding pages to this document consists of two different methods. First, the applicant can use online service providers. Secondly, you can use a traditional or mail method. These methods are not the same while applying for the document. The mail or traditional method normally takes long and it is very expensive. There is also the option to get a pass port card.
Review Process
In case you have opted for the online application, you will have to fill out a form referred to as “intent to travel” letter. This will be completed online by following the conditions highlighted in that particular site. After doing this, you will attach other relevant documents to it and then send it to the relevant authorities who will review your application process.
Are You Building Links The Right Way?
Friday, January 13th, 2012Marketing guru’s refer to the easy process of linking your site with other relevant sites. This process is easier than you might think In this article we will be discussing about a few link building tips that can give great long results.
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Influence of Mobile Sites on Google Smartphone Search Ranking
Friday, January 13th, 2012With the publication of my six trends in mobile search optimization for 2012 at Search Engine Land yesterday, many people were interested in our findings that having a mobile site seems to be correlated with top three ranking in smartphone results. This comes from a Resolution Media whitepaper we’ll be releasing in the upcoming months that dissects the smartphone search results for 11 popular sample queries from different industries and with different intents and breaks them down by the following factors:
The purpose here is to do some basic reverse engineering of the smartphone search results to try to get a better sense of what ranking factors are driving placement in the top three listings of Google smartphone search.
As with any Google reverse engineering exercise, you’re chasing a moving target, so these results could become outdated with any significant algorithm change. Also, Google search results vary by query, so larger, more diverse sample sets could yield slightly different results. That said, the exercise is meant to present a more objective picture of Google mobile search results in order to reduce guesswork for businesses looking to improve their standing in mobile search results.
Of course, as a white hat SEO I believe the only way to build long-term rankings in Google is to follow their webmaster guidelines and compete fairly with your fellow webmasters. My hope is that Google will create such detailed guidelines for mobile, smartphone and tablet users, as indexing, ranking and user experience can differ for these users from the standard desktop Google user experience, and the Google advice on how to approach it has been inconsistent at best. However, in the short term this study should give webmasters a better sense of what they need to focus on in order to do well in Google smartphone search.
Subscribe to this blog or follow it on Facebook or Google+ to get updates on when the complete whitepaper is available. For now, here is the section on mobile sites and their impact on Google smartphone search:
With Google releasing their Go Mo tool recently for mobile web site creation, many webmasters have wondered if having a mobile web site would help them appear in search results for mobile searchers. Since Google has long told webmasters to think of the user first, providing mobile content to a mobile user would theoretically be thinking of the user first. Google also has a blended ranking algorithm to present mobile content to mobile users, but it doesn’t seem to be very powerful in US smartphone search, as only one of the sites listed was a mobile site.
Update: since this study was done in December 2010 and May 2011, Google has launched an update to smartphone search that uses the destination URL in search results for websites that redirect smartphone users to mobile content, so the results would likely be very different today—resembling more closely the percentage of sites that redirect to mobile content.
Being a mobile site isn’t the only way to cater to mobile users, however, and mobile formatting or mobile redirects could indicate to the engines that a mobile site exists, should a user want to access it, which could be enough to bump the site up slightly in the rankings. However, the great majority of the sites in the sample neither redirects to mobile content nor reformat it for mobile users.
Oddly, the great majority of the sites in the sample do offer mobile content: either mobile sites or desktop content reformatted for mobile users. This might indicate that having a mobile site is a ranking factor for smartphone search.
However, when we looked at whether these mobile sites were actually indexed by Google, it appears most of them aren’t actually indexed, and even fewer of the sites that Google knows about are labeled as mobile-friendly with a green phone in feature phone search results.
Clearly being a mobile site is not necessary for smartphone ranking, as most of the results presented are desktop results. Furthermore, having a mobile friendly icon in Google feature phone results is not a strong indicator of ranking in smartphone search results. However, given that most of the sites returned do have mobile versions of the sites, having mobile content could somehow produce a lift in smartphone search results.
For businesses looking to define their mobile strategy and wondering whether building and optimizing a mobile site could help them become more competitive in smartphone search results, it’s clear that the great majority of the sites in our study do offer mobile content. In our view, the percentage is likely to grow, as providing a mobile user experience is in line with Google’s user-first philosophy. As with the early Web, businesses and webmasters who think of the user experience and design content that will delight rather than frustrate mobile users are likely to be the long term winners in the rankings when it comes to Google mobile search.
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