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Another free service from Google to advertise your business by getting it to be listed in local business directory and mapped on Google Map.

How to do this?

Go to www.google.com/local/add to add your business information such as business address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, operating hours, email address, description and website.

Fill in the required information and verify it by asking Google to contact you on your telephone number or send sms to your mobile phone.

After that, verify by key in the pin on the next page.

At first, I have no idea how the Alexa page rank works. After reading the article, now I have a rough idea of how it works.

20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

In this article, I’ll examine the importance of the Alexa Rank as it relates to site monetization while briefly discussing some of the weaknesses involved in using Alexa ranking as a reliable traffic measure for any website.

Lastly, I’ve also included an extensive list of twenty methods and strategies you can use to increase your Alexa Rank dramatically in the short and long run.

Further reading at here

Bounce rate is the term describing how many percentages of initial users view the web page and jump into other web site. This is used by Google Analytics to measure effectiveness of the web page.

High bounce rate means that visitors just come to visit without viewing other page on the website.

Low bounce rate means that visitors may find your web page attractive and continue clicking other links from your web page.

Bounce Rate = Total Number of Visits Viewing One Page ÷ Total Number of Visits

It is very simple, you just need to scroll down to the bottom right corner and enter your web into the widget.

Or if you prefer to visit that web directly. You can get the script for yourself too.

Click Here

Google Insights display the list of top searches by countries, time of search, categories etc.

To me, the most interesting search is the top 10 rising search of the week or month. This will show the hot stories on the internet for the past one week or month. If you are into blogging about attracting more traffic to your blog or web, this resource will definitely help in writing most searchable stories on the internet.

One example of the top 10 rising searches for Malaysia for the past week are