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Search by Voice Available Now in Google Maps 4.1 for WinMo and Symbian

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Google just announced that its cool search by voice feature in Google Maps 4.1 is now available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones. This is the same voice activated search feature that BlackBerry and Android phone users have been enjoying for quite some time now. So, if you have any Symbian S60 or Windows Mobile phone, you can now search for anything by simply speaking your search terms instead of typing them. To use this feature, you simply need to open Google Maps on your phone, press the “call” button and speak your search term clearly.  This feature works with all kinds of search on Google Maps for mobile such as places, specific businesses, types of businesses and addresses. In addition, this feature also lets you choose your preferred language including accents. To enjoy this feature on your Windows Mobile or Symbian s60 phones, you must download and install the latest Google Maps for mobile 4.1 for Windows Mobile  and Symbian S60 phones. You can grab the app from m.google.com/maps using your phone’s browser. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Search by Voice Available Now in Google Maps 4.1 for WinMo and

Google Outs Nested Labels, Email Preview in Gmail Labs

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Here’s something worth checking out on Gmail Labs - nested labels and email sneak preview .  The nested labels feature allow you to organize your labels hierarchically. While the email sneak preview feature lets you sneak into the contents of email items in your inbox. What’s good about nested lables is that you can add as many layers as you want on a particular lable. And since they are labels, the color coding schemes apply to the hierarchical structure that you are going to make, no matter how complex they are. The “Message Sneak Peek” feature lets you see the content of an inbox item without opening it. So, can skip emails that are not that important and just read them later on at your own casual time. The message preview is display everytime you right click on an item in your Gmail Inbox. In addition, to make email preview faster, you can assign a keyboard shortcut that would enable this feature. You need to set this on your Gmail settings first to use this feature. Overall these two new features may seem simple and yet they add up to making Gmail a very useful webmail account than it is right now. To use these features, go to the “Labs” tab of your Gmail account and simply enable them. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Outs Nested Labels, Email Preview in Gmail

Google Adds the iPad as a Mobile Device Option in Adwords

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Google has just announced that the iPad is now part of the mobile device options in AdWords.  This means that AdWords advertiser can easily extend the reach of their current ad campaigns to the iPad . If you want your ad campaigns to appear on the iPad and other tablets as well, you simply have to select “all mobile devices” in your campaign settings. This can be found under the “Networks and devices” section.  Alternatively, you can also use the “All available devices” default setting. Actually this feature is not specific to the iPad.  Google has been running AdWords specific to mobile devices such as the iPhone and Android devices. And since the iPad could be categorized with those mobile devices,  AdWords can very well run on the iPad as well. But this feature is only in preparation for the soon to be released option that will let you target ad campaign specifically for iPad users.  You’d know that it is already enable once it becomes one of the option under the “target only selected mobile devices.” Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Adds the iPad as a Mobile Device Option in

3 SEO-Friendly WP Plugins to Display Featured Posts

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Giving your selected content more exposure via featuring it is a good idea because this way: (1) You attract more attention to your best articles (or those that you need more attention for); (2) You allow your best and most important posts to be easier accessed by search engine bots. The three WordPress plugins compared in this post have two things in common: They all allow to select which posts to feature manually (there are other types of plugins that automatically generate the list by the number of comments, amount f traffic, visitors’ preferences, etc; this post doesn’t mention those at all); They are all SEO-friendly (the links to the posts are in HTML and easily accessed by spiders). How the list is created The placement Additional settings YAFPP You pick any posts Insert anywhere in the template Can display excerpt; you can set permissions to edit the list WordPress Featured Post List2 WITH IMAGE You pick any posts Insert anywhere in the template Can display image Hundred Feature Post List First selected then random (configurable) Sidebar (via widget) CSS class on the feature container and / or widget Now, a few details on the installation process: Yet Another Featured Posts