It seems like Google would release a new product each day in the near future. Google Suggest, the latest in the offering would help you with real time suggestions. Something similar to “Did you mean?” by Google, can offer you an alternative spelling for your query in real time.

Google Toolbar users would feel this is nothing different from what Google has already added to its toolbar. However, this would not need a separate toolbar and would be available when you open up the Google Suggest page.

Google Suggest uses JavaScript and cookies on your browser. Browsers that are compatible are Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, Netscape or Safari. Currently, this feature would be available in English alone.

Some of the benefits by using Google Suggest would be:

1. Help reduce typos as you can choose from its suggestions
2. Find out better search queries to ease your search
3. Use these results for a market research or online marketing

This feature would be an added advantage to Search Engine Experts as they would now get a larger view of what people are actually searching for.

With another sort after product under its tag, Google not just is increasing in reach but also in revenue streams. The advertiser-friendly Google Insights helps provide better insight into broad search patterns.

The tool helps web experts, advertisers and publishers understand the search patterns through time in various locations. These geographic search patterns help understand and strategize web marketing.

The Insights tool also displays some very useful information like the rising search keywords, top news related to the keyword and search terms related to SEO.

This is a welcome tool especially for search engine experts and online marketers.

You just finished designing your great blog. Well, you also have sufficient content on it. Now how do you bring in visitors? How do you increase search engine visibility? How do you stop all those spam mails and comments reaching your blog? Sounds like you might have to rethink on why you created a blog?

That’s not the case. With installation of few good plugins, you can have your blog all set for visitors, search engines and spammers. Here is the top five essential plugins that can make your blog all happening. Popular plugins change with time and Wordpress updates. Find out the perfect plugin suitable for your Wordpress version through its ratings, reviews and comments.

1. Related Post- A good related post plugin to show a list of related articles related to the article the vistor is currently reading. This can increase the time the user stays on the website thereby increasing page views and decreasing bounce rates.
2. Google Sitemap Generator- How will Google ever know that you have added an article? Google sitemap generator plugin for Wordpress would take care of all the pain involved in manually adding a URL in your xml file immediately when you add content.
3. Spam Fighter – Your blog definitely needs an automated program which recognizes spammers and stops their comments or emails. WP-Spamfree is one of the top sort-after plugins currently. I feel its powerful too. Well, I am not promoting this plugin. I have been using this and I find it very efficient. It has stopped nearly 99% of the spam I used to get. I wonder how this works so perfectly.
4. Social Bookmarking Plugin – Your blog has to be certainly bookmarked in social Networking websites. Add a cool Social Bookmarking Plugin to get your posts submitted to Social Networking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Technorati etc.
5. Contact Form with Spam Protector – You would obviously need a contact us form in a page you created on Wordpress. It is easy to create a page. However, it’s not easy to create a contact us form for non-techy blog owners.Well, you get cool plugins to add a contact us form. Just place a one-liner on your page and the contact us form gets added up. Not just a Contact Us form, they also offer a spam protection to stop all spam bots from capturing your email address or automatically submitting onto them.

That wraps up the basic plugins you need for an efficient Wordpress blog. Do let me know if you feel something is missing! Happy blogging!

Yahoo Overture Keyword Selector tool shows the statistical data upto Jan 2007. Yahoo is planning on a move from its old search marketing product the Overture to the new one. “Panama”. As a result Yahoo Overture data have been stopped from being analysed.

Overture was initially developed to assist Overture advertising partners find the list of competitive and sort after keywords to bid aution on the PPC. However, its popularity increased exceedingly and became one of the most popular keyword selection tool. This was further taken by 3rd party tools to reterive search volumes.