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Google Account Logout Malware warning

2011-11-20T11:38:00.002+02:00

I think there is something wrong with my anti virus or my computer. From last few days I am getting malware warnings every time I try to logout from my Google account be it gmail, google analytics, gplus or any other Google service I am using.

Is there anyone else out there who face the similar issues with Google account log out URL.

You can also take a look at the screenshot below.

Video promotion Tips - youtube video marketing

2011-10-09T03:45:00.003+02:00

Almost every business have their video channel at youtube nowadays and I am sure your business also got one. However few questions to ask here are:

Are you generating referral traffic, sales from youtube videos?
Are people watching the videos?
Is there increase in video views, likes or comments?
How many times video is embedded by others?
Is there increase in channel view, subscribers?

If you are unsure about answers of the above questions, then you must read the next post that I'll make most probably in next few days. That post will cover all the aspects of video marketing and how it can help a business grow.

Do visit the blog for video marketing tips.

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Video is the new king in SEO

2011-09-04T11:33:00.002+03:00

Content has always been an important thing in SEO. Content is said to be king from a long time. But one thing I've observed in recent past that Video is slowly and slowly replacing content as the king. Now content that has images and videos embedded in the the pages is getting more value than only simple content no matter it is quality content, longer and free from any grammar or spelling mistakes. Of course I need not to mention that content is plagiarism passed. In some cases a video page with well written titles etc is enough to get the pages ranked higher. Also video pages gets ranked quickly as compared to other pages. Create a youtube channel and you can get thousand of referral hits to your site from youtube.

But there are some tips and tricks that can help in getting more benefits from video marketing as compared to your competitors. I'll post a article on tips and tricks of youtube or video marketing later. In case you have any query, comment or feedback feel free to share it.

Google Sitelinks Dilemma – Unexpected Alien Link in Google Site links

2011-08-28T22:11:00.003+03:00

I am getting strange and alien link being displayed as sitelinks in Google search results. In these cases mostly webmaster would suggest that in http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifthe Google webmaster central submit a remove from site links request and link will be removed from site links for at least 45 days before it may appear again at sole discretion of Google.

However my problem is even bigger than this and here is the full story. I recently searched my love quotes blog URL i.e. luvquotes.blogspot.com so as to see if any site-links are being displayed by Google.
Like any other I was happy to see Google displaying the links when I search for the blog URL however I was shocked to see UTL of another Blog which is not owned by me.

Please check the attached screen shot and share any thoughts you have on this.

Duplicate Content Checker Tools - Free Online Plagiarism Checker

2011-07-28T20:11:00.004+03:00

In the past couple of algorithm updates Google and other search engines are giving more and more emphasize on the quality of web-page content. If you’d heard about recent panda update, then content quality was one of the main focus areas of the update. Lower value content sites, content farms, sites with duplicate content has been axed by Google and on the other hand sites with good user values content were the one who got the benefit of being in the top 10 Google rankings.

One main thing here for any webmaster becomes to check quality of the content and also make sure that the content you are going to publish on your website or anywhere else online must not be duplicate i.e. published anywhere else already. Now how can one make sure the content is not published on in other word how to find Plagiarism in the content? One way is to search few lines of the content randomly by using exact search tool (searching the content using “”).

However searching manually is only feasible for checking plagiarism for one or two pieces of content. It becomes time consuming and may not be effective sometimes if not used properly. The best and the proven way to check duplicate content is to use online plagiarism checker. Many online plagiarism Checker tools are available for free. Below is the list of plagiarism checking tools that you can use for better content publishing:

http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/ - Copy the content or upload the word document to check the copied content immediately
http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/ - You can even create alerts here
http://plagiarisma.net/ - One with multiple options checks via URL, upload doc or copy content directly.

I hope you liked this post and the tools, please feel free to share this.

Search engine optimization tips for beginners

2011-07-05T09:35:00.001+03:00

Getting a website in top is a thing that every webmaster would love to achieve. Achieving top rankings for your favorable keywords is not a very difficult task but its hard to decide from where to start with and it may land you it totally different part of the globe if you doesn’t follow the webmaster guidelines set by major search engines for webmasters and search engines optimization experts or companies. In this article I am posting few search engine optimization tips for beginners but these tips are equally beneficial for any SEO professional.

1. Don’t purchase new domains: If you are trying to get your website ranked in engines and so far you don’t have any substantial success, then don’t try to go and try your luck in new domain. Reason here is that search engine give value to the age of the domain and hence it’s recommended to try figuring out things that may be hurting your website’s reputation over search engines. However there may be circumstances when you may need to start new domain under such situation using permanent redirect to your new domain is recommended to minimize the loss of traffic from search engines.

2. Do extensive keyword research: Spend good amount of time in keyword research and go in as much detail as you can while researching keywords. Don’t select keywords that can bring traffic but brainstorm keywords that can bring you sales. Over years of experience in search engine marketing I have seen that lots of keywords bring you traffic but there are couple of keywords that can bring business, revenue for you. Thus analyze your website traffic to shortlist the keywords that bring you business. Ranking at the top of search engines for these keywords make the actual difference.

3. Use different title and meta tags: Each page of your website needs to have unique title and meta description tags. Your title tag should contain important keywords included in the content of your web pages. One more important point to be taken care is that it’s the title tag of a webpage that will prompt any visitors to click your website at search engine result pages.

4. Don’t over optimize: Never optimize your website rather optimize for your targeted audience. This is one of the common instructions by all major search engines for webmasters.

5. Write Search engine friendly code: Make you website code search engine friendly by preventing excessive use of images, flash, java script menus or links. Use alt and title attributes and images and links. Validate your website HTML, XML and CSS.

6. Use webmaster tools: Evaluate your SEO campaign by using tools like google analytics, webmaster central, yahoo site explorer etc. These tools are very much helpful for webmasters in their SEO campaigns.

7. Get quality links: All of us know off-page optimization is very crucial part of any SEO campaign however only quality links count and contribute to your website’s PR and search engine rankings. Any off-page activity, be it link building, social media marketing, directory submission etc. take care of quality always.

Linked In Marketing Tips & Promotion services

2011-06-02T10:10:00.000+03:00

In one of the older post we discussed about How to promote your business and website using LinkedIn. In the post I will share some Linkedin marketing tips to help in online promotion and brand building. Linkedin is no doubt the most popular and faster growing network of professionals; you can currently find a huge percent of business professionals at Linkedin. The best part is that these users are all the countries in the world and not just one or few geographic locations. The basic step of linkedin marketing begins with creating a profile, community and adding contacts. After that you need to establish your business as a brand and more importantly get some leads. Below are some tips on Linkedin Marketing:

Get recommendation – Ask them people in you contacts to recommend you. Getting the write message is important part of the recommendations, so take care of it.
Export your connection – Linkedin provides a functionality to export your contacts to your address book, use this more often say after every 3 or 6 months. Make it a habit; this will be helpful when you are sending some promotional email or seasonal greetings with some business information.
Use answers and questions – Use this feature creatively and you can establish yourself as a king in your niche.
Connect with as much people you can to increase your reach. Add new contact on weekly basis.
Update daily – Make sure to login and update profile like adding message, integrate with other social networks like twitter, facebook, buzz etc.
Participate in groups – This is the great way to get business. Target the groups related to your business, services or products.
Get specialist services: In case you are busy with business meeting etc hiring the services of a professional linkedin marketing professional is advised. In fact its better you get some SMO services. Most SMO optimization packages include Linkedin promotion as well.

Informenter - A Must have adon for SEO professionals

2011-02-10T20:07:00.003+02:00

Though I don't prefer using many tools and I seldom use any tools or adons (I am a 100% believer in mannual SEO work). However informenter is an adon I'd strongly recommend to every SEO professional. As a SEO you may need to sign up at verious sites be is an Article directory, blog, PR or forum site. After registeration you may require submit various forms say for example article or directory submission.

Making these process fully automatic will cause quality issues like changing or anchors, using different combinations of fields etc. All such things can be done by using of semi automatic tool called informenter. Informenter comes as an adon for firefox and is minimises the typing work upto 90%. you will definitely love this adon. Go explore it more to know more features.

SEO tip of the day for Adsense publishers

2011-01-28T09:28:00.002+02:00

Many adsense publishers make a mistake of posting copied artciles at their website and blogs. Some may also go to the extent of using software to automatically post copied content. Doing this you will not get the CTR value as good as compared to CTR of ads with unique content. Also you must know that copied contnet even don't help in organic SEO rankings as well. Thus is will be wastateg of you time and efforts.

Can social bookmarking and SEO complement each other?

2011-01-16T21:18:00.001+02:00

Search engine optimisation (SEO) campaigns and social bookmarking may not initially seem like strategies which can work together, but one expert suggests that combining the two can hold a range of benefits.

Writing a guest post for Search Engine Land, BlueGlass's Jordan Kasteler comments that "combining real-time social sharing with search engine optimisation tactics can give websites the indexing or popularity boost that it needs".

SEO strategies, he notes, should be kept simple. He recommends sticking to best practice guidelines for writing, as well as using locally-relevant keywords to boost search engine rankings.

Highlighting that organic rankings will last longer than popular stories on Digg, he suggests that by creating content that ticks both boxes, businesses can enjoy the best of both worlds.

And succeeding to get content on social networking platforms could also help to boost the site's exposure, thereby potentially increasing future rankings.

Meanwhile, quality content is an essential building block of successful SEO, according to a recent Search Engine Watch post from KoMarketing Associates's Derek Edmond.

Source: DirectNews

Easy SEO Job Interview - Crack SEO interview

2011-01-08T07:39:00.005+02:00

Carreer counsellors say the bring you relevant experience to guarantee your success in a job interview. In case you don't have any job experience then you must have a Masters degree for grabbing the job.

But how to gurrantee success in a job interview in case you don't have any experience and a masters degree. here is the answer:

Jokes apart here are some other option also fro cracking any SEO job interview:

Read the SEO interview questions.
Learn Search Engine Optimisation step by step
Get yourself familar with top SEO tools used by the experts.
Learn SEO tips for the beginners, these are sufficient for a fresher level SEO interview.
Follow Matt Cutts and be a active memmber of some SEO forum.
You can also subscribe to some SEO newsletters or google alerts.

Strange Online Google Adsense Ads - 2

2010-11-08T13:53:00.004+02:00

This is the second part of stragen ads, you can read part one at my post Strange Online Google Adsense Ads - 1 . Below is the screen shot image of the new strage add.

Here in this ad title is "SEO, Internet Marketing Course" and descrption says "Live Project + IGNOU certification Limited time offer for Rs 8000".
Whats strange here is that IGNOU is the largest distance learning university in India and as far as I know IGNOU doesn't offer any kind of SEO certification. The person running this IGNOU SEO course seem to be a scam.

I'd like to advise all the SEO expert to check with IGNOU website http://www.ignou.ac.in/ or your nearest IGNOU study center once.

Strange Online Google Adsense Ads - 1

2010-11-02T06:54:00.003+02:00

Many a time you may have come across some strange google adsense ads. I've observed many such ads in the past so just to share such ads with you I am starting this Strange Google Adsense ads series. In future this series may extent to strange online ads.

Please check the screen shot below, here an adsense ad with title Test1 and follwing description contains test2, test 3. The url displayed is test.com. This ad appeared at the blog http://articlesnewspaper.blogspot.com/

Duplicate Content Penalty & Recovering from the penalization

2010-10-28T19:03:00.002+02:00

All you you must have heard of this duplicate content penality before also. In every FAQ on SEO, Forum on SEO, Internet Marketing Forums, article and newsletter there is a regular repition of this topic. Just today as I came back from my SEO Marketing company, I logged in to my gmail account and I once again found an interesting email, here a webmaster is talking about how his site was penalized by google due to duplicate content. He accidentaly use some non search engine friendly wordpress template that caused more than 100 copies of index page of his site.

You can read more about this on the forum discussion goin at Web Pro World.

How Google Instant effects your online marketing campaigns

2010-10-20T21:21:00.002+02:00

When google instant hit the google search results, it was the hot topics many people were happy and many disappointed with google instant. I remember one of my ex manager tweeted "Google instant user in me Likes it, SEO in me little worried".

Perhaps that was the response of most SEO experts in the world. I was just reading a nice article on the same topic and would like to share the article with you.

Impact of 'Google Instant' on Your Online Marketing Campaigns
On the 8th of September 2010, Google launched its Instant Search interface, which shows results as you type, in real time. Searchers, particularly from the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) industry, have reacted sharply to the new interface. Many users find the new interface distracting, even annoying.
Google Instant is being sold as a faster and better User InterfaceMatt Cutts from Google says that the change is more about rolling out a new User Interface (UI) rather than an algorithmic change. Matt attempted to allay the fears of the SEM industry by suggesting "SEO is not dead" but may change due to instant search query feedback to users, which in turn, may change their search behaviour. He believes that the searchers will diversify their queries within the scope of the original intent.
The effect of predicted query suggestions on user behaviorWhile Google claims that the Search Ranking Algorithm remains unchanged, the new feature will surely change search behaviour of users due to instant feedback mechanism. A lot of users are likely to select the predictive results, which fulfil their original intent, and stop typing further. Some users may get distracted from their original intent as 'irrelevant but interesting' results may lead to unintended searches. For example a user may digress into "home improvement loans" after typing "home improvement" instead of following his original intent of searching for "home improvement ideas."

Read full story at http://www.redalkemi.com/articles/impact-of-google-instant.php

SEO and Astronomer

2010-10-07T19:54:00.002+02:00

Do you know what is the similarity between SEO experts and astronomers?

An astronomer lands in any area of this earth and claims he landed on moon similarly a SEO expert get ranked for any domain name and claim to achieve top ranking in GYB for any keywords which virtually they can't guarantee.

Matt Cutts on SEO Certification

2010-09-14T08:03:00.002+02:00

Nice video by Matt Cutts, he talks about SEO certification and reason why its not possible to recommend a SEO certification that is purely ethical. At the end of video he also gives some tips on choosing a SEO company.

Yahoo promoting Internet Explorer

2010-08-30T20:17:00.004+03:00

You must have heard of recent news that Bing is providing search results for Yahoo. Many users reported observing same results in Yahoo & Bing. Now given the association of Yahoo & Microsoft I think Microsoft will get benefit to its other products and services. E.g. Microsoft browser Internet Explorer which is till now leading the browsers world but is facing a very tough competition from Mozilla Firefox backed by competitor google.

Check the imge belo and you will understant what I mean, yahoo is promoting IE in its sponsored results when no relevants ads are found.

Google bends to German privacy concerns

2010-08-19T22:13:00.000+03:00

BERLIN – Google Inc. said Thursday it would double the amount of time Germans have to opt out of having their homes shown in its "Street View" feature, which has sparked a fierce public debate over privacy concerns.

Germans will now have eight weeks, instead of four, to request images of their homes be deleted, Philipp Schindler, Google's vice president for Northern and Central Europe said in a statement.

Google last week announced its plan to introduce "Street View" for the 20 biggest German later this year, raising concerns in this privacy-conscious country.

"We were aware of the fact that 'Street View' could lead to discussions in Germany," Schindler said.

He stressed that Google has committed itself to an extensive series of measures to protect people's privacy, "far beyond those in other countries."

At authorities' insistence, the company created an online tool Germans can use to request pictures of their homes be removed before the service's launch — something Google hasn't done anywhere else. "Street View" is currently available in 23 countries.

Many officials and politicians pressured the company to extend the deadline for people to opt out.

Germany's justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger welcomed the move, saying in a statement that "it is good that Google has doubled the time for objections to restore lost trust."

The online tool launched Monday and will now be available throughout October 15. Google Germany spokeswoman Lena Wagner said the extension will not delay the launch of "Street View", tentatively planned for November.

Wagner declined to say how many people had already asked to have their house removed from the database. Germany's consumer protection ministry expects tens of thousands to request that images of their homes be deleted.

The Mountain View, California, company also addressed another demand of German data protection officials by saying that data would be handled securely and deleted as soon as legally possible. Google also conceded to allowing officials to carry out inspections to ensure appropriate handling of the data.

"Street View" has also tangled with authorities in other European countries, including Austria and Spain, over privacy concerns.

The U.S. Internet giant lost the trust of many when it had to acknowledge this spring that technology used by its "Street View" cars had also vacuumed up fragments of people's online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years.

Google is facing legal inquiries in Spain and South Korea on suspicion the search company illegally gathering personal data while photographing city streets.

How Google searches - Article on Yahoo

2010-07-07T22:54:00.003+03:00

How Google searches - Article on Yahoo - Sound quiet amazinf well just found a nice article on Yahoo.com. The article cover the story right from the beginning of the searhc engines. A time where only Meta Tags were suffiecient to get websites ranked well in search engines. To the more recent updates on search algorithms by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Read the full article at http://in.news.yahoo.com/250/20100706/1627/tbs-how-google-searches.html

Google Mayday update - Matt Cutts on Mayday PR update

2010-07-03T21:31:00.002+03:00

Watch the video below for Matt Cutts interview on Mayday google PR update by WebProNews.

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Google local search results

2010-06-26T23:12:00.003+03:00

Google now shows local search results when search history is enabled, even if you didn't type the city name in the search query. Check the screen shot below.

Spell Check and SEO - Interesting article

2010-06-14T13:55:00.003+03:00

Found a very interesting article on SEO basic techniques titled Back to SEO Basics - Part 1, Spell Check and Content Analysis, article mainly focuses on why one should perform spelling check and how spelling mistakes can be avoided or tracked easily and effectively. In the last paragraph author Sana Smith says:

"More than 85% people click on "did you mean" link and will get redirected to the exact word search query. So from remaining 15% how much visitors will you get, will that be a quality visitor, and is this worth the effort? You can decide easily."

I'd like to add one thing more here, nowadays google has become even more smart, you will get spelling suggestions the moment you type some wrong spelling in the google search box, thus suggesting correct spellings before you hit the search button. Thus spelling check become lot more crucial. Check the screen shot below if you haven't seen google search spelling suggest till now.

Directory Submission - Free or Reciprocal link - What to choose

2010-06-07T15:29:00.004+03:00

Directory submission is one of the oldest way of getting one way links for any website and in case you get listed in Dmoz thats the greatest thing. In this post I am not going to discuss about "How to get listed in Dmoz", I will post post about it later.

This post is about a funny this I noticed while directory submission. Normally what would you choose while directory submission free, paid or reciporocal. Majority of the time option is free links. Now to see the funny thing check the screen shots below. Free links are free and reciprocal directory links are paid. I think is a mistake hile configuring directories by Robingupta.com group of directories.

Top SEO tools - Must have webmaster SEO tools

2010-04-30T22:48:00.003+03:00

These are the tools that will not just help a webmaster in carrying out a SEO campaign successfully but also make you undestadn some uncovered aspects of SEO like what rol does a header part play in the optimization, page speed, page download time optimization and lot more.

In this post I will only mention the tools name, to know more either search online for the tool or send me any particular query you have regradin a tool.

DigitalPoint Tools
GSiteCrawler
Hubspot Grader
Majestic SEO
Open Site Explorer
PostRank
SearchMetrics
SEOBook Tools
SEOChat Tools
SEOEng
SEOmoz Tools
Compete Search Analytics
Google Insights
KeyCompete
Keyword Discovery
MSN AdCenter
SEMRush
Spyfu
Wordtracker
WordZe

ANALYTICS:
ClickTale
CoreMetrics
CrazyEgg
Enquisite
Google Analytics
Hubspot
Omniture
WebTrends
Yahoo! Index Tools

SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLs:

BuzzLogic
BuzzStream
Hubspot
KnowEm
Nielsen
PostRank
Radian6
Scoutlabs
Search.twitter.com
SearchMonitor

Download videos - Convert Videos form any URL

2010-04-20T07:16:00.003+03:00

I forget to mention in my previous post - Document Conversion without installing any software that the website Zamzar also allows the feature to convert/download videos from any URL. Check http://www.zamzar.com/url/ , here all you need to do is provide the video URL say youtube.com URL of a song you want to download, select the video type, provide email ID you want to reecieve the download link and click on convert.

You will recieve the video download link in less than a 30 seconds. Go and try it out. I am planning to try the features in free registered account also.

Document Conversion without installing any software

2010-04-19T08:39:00.002+03:00

Many a times we are unable to open a file becuase we dont have the reader for that kind of file on your system. Say for example PDF files, docx, vsd,xml and many more extesnions require particualr software ot be installed. And in case we dont have the software either we try to purchase that software of install a document converte software to conver files from one format to another.
Now all this can be done even without installing a software, I found a very good website that allows free of cost document conversions without any limitations on number of conversions. Please visit http://www.zamzar.com/ and you can convert files from one format ot another easily and quickly. I am happy with the unregistered use of the website but I think registerting for a free acount will have more advantages if you requyire to convert documents more frequently.

Few websites that you may try for document conversion:

http://www.zamzar.com/ - convert muyltiple file formats
http://www.freepdfconvert.com/ - Allows pdf ot word, excel etc type of conversions. this one is best and I am using this website form last three years. (Avoid purchasing any paid pdf converter software like Hellopdf, pdf-file, 123pdf, 123fileconvertor, Docsmartz, Investintech, quickpdf, pdfkit etc - there is no fum purchasing these software when you can get all free)
http://www.download.com/ - In case you dont have internet connection or have limited access to internet then you can search for free document converter utilities, Flashpaper is one such free utility from adobe that allows you to convert word to PDF free of costs.

In case you are not sure of whic software to download don'r go by the reviews ver download portals more than 90% og the positive reviews are posted by the software companies. Contact me through comments at this blog and I will send you the review for the software or the software that best suits your requirements.

SEO Tools - Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker

2010-04-02T09:36:00.002+03:00

301 or permanent redirect is what always recommended when you want to move a pag or domain to give all the value of the current backlink, rankings etc to the new page or domain. Here I am found a tool that allows you to check if the redirect is search engine friendly for implemented properly.

http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php - Checks if page has any redirect and the redirect is implemented properly.

Few other helpful URLs to implement 301 redirect:

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
http://www.somacon.com/p145.php
http://roshanbh.com.np/2007/12/301-redirect-in-php-and-htaccess.html
http://www.weborum.com/301-redirect.php

Alexa rank of Alexa.com

2010-03-23T12:22:00.004+02:00

I've made various pots on Alexa rank, out of curiosity I checked alexa rank for www.alexa.com and I found Alexa doesn't rank itself. Only 250+ reviews for alexa.com are available (I will also post one for alexa later sometime.

Not ranking own site is pretty strange I thought alexa would be ranked somewhere around top 100 sites. You can see various other site like Google, SEOmoz, compete do rank themelves also.

Not sure whats the reason alexa not showing alexa rank for own site, it would be interesting to see the stats if possible.

Related posts:
Alexa Rank Simplified
Ways to Improve Alexa Rankings & Traffic
Alexa ranking myth simplified

Duplicate content Penalty Doest Exist

2010-03-11T11:32:00.002+02:00

As posted in my previous blog post IPL Cricket & SEO, one of the website from the search results has gone now. This means duplicate content penality does exist. IPL Twenty Twenty season 3 will start tomorrow and surely like previous 2 season this one will also be a successful sports event. Like last year I am sure most of the Bollywood producers other than low budgets movie producers will surely not like to relase any Hindi Movies till next one and half month.

I also have eye on how search einge will be behaving specially when youtube will broadcast live video of IPL matches.

Anuja Lath one again In Media highlights

2010-03-06T21:30:00.003+02:00

Few months back I posted about Anuja Lath of Red Alkemi won the women enterprenuer of the year award and now this time she is covered on the fron page of India Today Magazines Womens Special "Simply Punjabi". Redalkemi is one of the most reputed SEO company in the region.

IPL Cricket and SEO

2010-02-28T21:23:00.005+02:00

IPL 2010 is beginning on March 12 and being a cricket player in the college time I've a great interest in cricket. IPL twenty twenty is about to begin and I have been a supporter of the Mumbai Indians team from the start of the tournament. Unfortunately the team was unable to do well in both the previous seasons.

Now comming to the reason why I am making this post at SEO blog is that, I just searched for Mumbai Indians to check latest updated from the team I support. Niow when i search "Mumbai Indian" in google. top two site in the results both are having same content in fact one website is photocopy of the other.

My question here is if google doesn't support duplicate content why both the site are enjoying the top rankings. One of them should be banned.

FYI URLS are:

http://75.126.186.214/Index.aspx
http://www.themumbaiindians.com/

Now this is a query you all SEO experts needs to check and answer. :)

Please do post your comments.

Google analytics System Upgrade

2010-02-25T13:21:00.002+02:00

Just check at google analytics blog that google analytics is going for a major sytem in comming two weeks. Posted on Feb 24th tha blogs says "Within the next two weeks, Google Analytics will be performing a system upgrade. This upgrade is to further increase the scalability and reliability of Google Analytics to meet the demand of an increasing number of enterprises using Google Analytics. Rest assured your website traffic data will be unaffected and there will be no interruption to data collection or processing. All reports will be available and accessible to users. "
Read full post at http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/02/upcoming-system-upgrade-for-greater.html

Dmoz contacr form not working

2010-02-22T19:18:00.004+02:00

Soetimes it happens that you wait or plan for a thing very long and when it comes to implementation you get a error that is not in your control. same happened with me I was planning to submit one of my blog to Dmoz, first of all it tooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooooong for me to get time for submission. Once submission was done I was sure to get the blog included given the previous success rate I have with Dmoz. I was just goinf to enquire about my submisison and to my surprise the contact form for the editor of that category wasn't working. I waited for full day for it to work but it wasn't working till now. The editos of the category is SEOmike and I will try to contact him later aftewr a day or two, hopefully the form wud be working that time.

Google Buzz a failure

2010-02-20T20:04:00.002+02:00

Google Buzz racing against time to fix biggest privacy breach in its history. Google had introduced Buzz, which is similar to social networking sites like Facebook, to its email service Gmail, but in doing so it automatically made public its users' most frequently talked-to contacts.
The tool is now facing an avalanche of complains, as it has given an easy access to user information.

Read more

New look for Alexa site info

2010-02-04T19:40:00.002+02:00

Alexa updated its new look for site info or alexa rank info which is displayed whenever we check alexa rank for a website. From all the alexa info layout changes this one is one I liked the most. In this view particularly the search analytics tab is very good one. If you want to check the update visit this link

100 posts at SEOv

2010-01-28T22:27:00.004+02:00

Hi All,

This is the 100th post at SEOv Blog. It started with a curiosity to learn SEO and make notes on SEO and then become a hobby. I started liking blogging so much that created around one dozen of blogs (check my blogger profile) that I update frequent despite my busy job schedule and SEO and content manager. Here I am posting few posts that got hue response in tha past:

Most commonly asked SEO interview questions
Yahoo! Pipes
carrer in search engine optimisation
seo tutorials
Learn SEO with SEOelite
SEO Webmaster Guidelines

Google co-founders to sell $5.5B combined in stock

2010-01-23T20:55:00.000+02:00

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are relinquishing some of their control over the Internet search leader with the sale of 10 million shares worth $5.5 billion at current prices.
Under a plan disclosed Friday, the longtime business partners will each sell 5 million Google shares during a five-year period that will commence with the first trade.
The sales will occur periodically to lessen the chances of hurting Google's stock price.
Page and Brin, both 36, will remain Google's most influential shareholders, although they will be losing some of their clout.
The two iconoclasts own a special class of Google stock that gives them combined voting power of about 59 percent -- enough to override the wishes of all other shareholders if they wanted. The duo secured this veto power to ensure Google remained true to their values, which are summed up in the company motto, "Don't Be Evil."
After the sales, the founders' holdings will be whittled to a combined 47.7 million shares with 48 percent voting power.
Falling below the 50 percent threshold might not matter because they run Google as a ruling triumvirate with the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, whose shares hold 10 percent voting power.
Although the trio acknowledge occasional disagreements, they insist they always work things out amicably. What's more, Schmidt, Page and Brin have agreed to remain at Google at least through 2024.
Executives and founders of companies commonly enter into predetermined stock trading plans to raise cash and diversify their investments.
Page and Brin each currently have about $16 billion of their fortunes tied up in Google stock. By their own choice, their annual salary at Google is just $1.
"They are both as committed as ever to Google and are integrally involved in our day-to-day management and product strategy," Google spokeswoman Jane Penner said. "The majority of their net worth remains with Google."
This marks the second time Page and Brin have sold big chunks of stock since Google went public in August 2004.
Three months after the company's initial public offering, Page and Brin filed an 18-month plan that divested 7.2 million shares apiece.
Back then, Google shares were trading around $169.40. The stock is worth three times as much now, closing at $550.01 Friday after falling $32.97, or 5.7 percent.

Twitter unavailable today - II

2010-01-20T18:03:00.001+02:00

That was a small downtime at twitter, site started working normally within few minutes. However they need to upgradw server of keep maintainenace work regular.

Twitter unavaialbe today

2010-01-20T14:40:00.003+02:00

Popular social networking site Twitter is unavaialable right now. The message appearing below:
Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
You may check the screen shot image also.

SEO in 2010

2010-01-20T12:02:00.004+02:00

Hi All,
I am just wondering where SEO industry will be say couple of years down the line. With search engines getting clever day by, algorithms of search engine getting more complex. I am sure in this year article and blog publishing ill get some negative edge from google and publishing articles and blogs will not remain a successful search engine marketing stratgey more. It will work but to take the competitive edge you will need to work smarter with all the SEO practices you know. If you have any thing particular about search engine behaviour then do let me know we can have discussion on that.

Either post a comment at tis blog or send me message at Twitter.
Other important URLs:
Mybloglog Community
Free Directory
Ezine Articles
Zimbio Community
Stumbleupon profile

Google sitelinks Dilemma

2010-01-17T12:13:00.003+02:00

Google Sitelinks are links to internal pages of a website that google may show along with web snippet in search results. However I am curious to know if anyone has faced this situation or not. Google webmster central is showing sitelinks in the login dashboard of a site, however when I search for the site name no sitelinks are displayed.

Just confused over this for a long time. !!

Google Webmaster Central Updates

2009-11-12T14:52:00.003+02:00

As discussed earlier in my previous posts the google webmaster central tool is the most useful tool for webmaster. It is the tool that provides the all type of information within one login. Recently google added more features to the webmaster central keywords and its posted in official google webmaster central blog as Post Halloween treat for webmasters.

Keywords interface now lists keywords list which is updated daily providing details of how often a keyword is found and also displays URLs that contain that specific keyword. List of URL will be displayed when you click on that keyword. Apart from this the keyword significance column also compares the keyword frequensy with the most popular keyword for your website.

To know more login in to your google webmaster central account.

Search engine optimization tips for beginners

2009-10-06T20:42:00.001+02:00

Getting a website in top is a thing that every webmaster would love to achieve. Achieving top rankings for your favorable keywords is not a very difficult task but its hard to decide from where to start with and it may land you it totally different part of the globe if you doesn’t follow the webmaster guidelines set by major search engines for webmasters and search engines optimization experts or companies. In this article I am posting few search engine optimization tips for beginners but these tips are equally beneficial for any SEO professional.

1. Don’t purchase new domains: If you are trying to get your website ranked in engines and so far you don’t have any substantial success, then don’t try to go and try your luck in new domain. Reason here is that search engine give value to the age of the domain and hence it’s recommended to try figuring out things that may be hurting your website’s reputation over search engines. However there may be circumstances when you may need to start new domain under such situation using permanent redirect to your new domain is recommended to minimize the loss of traffic from search engines.

2. Do extensive keyword research: Spend good amount of time in keyword research and go in as much detail as you can while researching keywords. Don’t select keywords that can bring traffic but brainstorm keywords that can bring you sales. Over years of experience in search engine marketing I have seen that lots of keywords bring you traffic but there are couple of keywords that can bring business, revenue for you. Thus analyze your website traffic to shortlist the keywords that bring you business. Ranking at the top of search engines for these keywords make the actual difference.

3. Use different title and meta tags: Each page of your website needs to have unique title and meta description tags. Your title tag should contain important keywords included in the content of your web pages. One more important point to be taken care is that it’s the title tag of a webpage that will prompt any visitors to click your website at search engine result pages.

4. Don’t over optimize: Never optimize your website rather optimize for your targeted audience. This is one of the common instructions by all major search engines for webmasters.

5. Write Search engine friendly code: Make you website code search engine friendly by preventing excessive use of images, flash, java script menus or links. Use alt and title attributes and images and links. Validate your website HTML, XML and CSS.

6. Use webmaster tools: Evaluate your SEO campaign by using tools like google analytics, webmaster central, yahoo site explorer etc. These tools are very much helpful for webmasters in their SEO campaigns.

7. Get quality links: All of us know off-page optimization is very crucial part of any SEO campaign however only quality links count and contribute to your website’s PR and search engine rankings. Any off-page activity, be it link building, social media marketing, directory submission etc. take care of quality always.

Article Source: The SEO Marketing

Yahoo goes - Y!ou - More Personalized yahoo

2009-10-05T14:09:00.002+02:00

The new mission statement of the company - Yahoo! Puts Its Focus on "Y!ou" speaks of the focus on people. So will there be any new features added in yahoo for the above mentioned mission statement. Yes it means:

- You can add your access your favorite content through the Yahoo! frontpage on any screen from a single Web location.

- Yahoo! Mail now offers simpler photo sharing, editing and easy access to helpful and productive apps.

- Yahoo! Search has been updated today to make Web search results more relevant and meaningful.

- High-quality video calling has been added to Yahoo! Messenger for instant connections with friends and family.

- You can also continue your internet experience on your mobile phone browser through Yahoo!'s new mobile homepage. And if you are the experimental kinds try out the Yahoo! for mobile, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Fantasy Football, Yahoo! Messenger and Flickr.

The brand campaign was launched in United States on September 28 and starts in India and United Kingdom on October 5 and will extend into 2010. It will reach major and emerging markets worldwide, including Brazil, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, and Taiwan.

Read full story at: Yahoo News

Alexa Rank Simplified

2009-09-21T13:02:00.003+03:00

Adding one more post about Alexa rankings. I was just reading FAQs at alexa website. And I recommend all of you to go through Alexa FAQs to know what alexa rank is along with ways to improve alexa rankings. Few things I want summarize:

1) Alexa rank is not just based on Traffic of alexa toolbar users: Yes that's true previously I thought Alexa rank is just based on traffic from the millions of user that have Alexa toolbar installed at their PCs. However its mentioned that alexa uses data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources ( Now I wonder whats these diverse traffic sources are?).

2) Alexa rank is based on the 3 months aggregate traffic and is combined measure of page views and users ( Alexa toolbar and other diverse traffic sources).

3) Alexa rank for mirror site is counter together.

4) Definition and explanation of terms like Data Normalization, Movers & Shakers, Page Views, Alexa reach etc.

Also have a look and SEO rank details of The SEO Marketing
For more info on alexa ranking check: http://seov.blogspot.com/search/label/alexa

SEO Anlaysis reports for clients

2009-09-18T16:43:00.004+03:00

SEO analysis reports can be send to a client during different phases of a project. A SEO analysis report can be send at following durations:

1. SEO analysis report with your SEO proposal for a client
2. Pre SEO report when a project starts
3. SEO progress reports
3. Post SEO report on completion of project

All these report have benefits of there own and must be prepared with great care. Take the case of SEO report that can be send with the SEO proposal. Herein you can mention the points, changes that will help the client site. In this report you can also ask cleint about website SEO history like SEO strategy followed and things that worked for search engine optimization of the website along with things that didn't worked. Mentioning the top competitors in this report can also be beneficial as client can be satisfied about you being aware of his potential market, competitors etc.

Pre SEO reports normally should be short and simple. In pre SEO you can mention about current website status and changes that you will implement to fix any shortcomings etc.

SEO progress reports can contain traffic report, ranking reports etc.

Post SEO reports need to be detailed report containing each and every SEO success achieved. You can compare Pre SEO and POST SEO traffic, PR, rankings, alexa ranking etc.

That was about SEO reports, will publish about paid results and youtube video promotion future posts.

Selection of keywords

2009-09-16T20:23:00.004+03:00

Keywords play an important role in the seo marketing campaign of a website be it organic search engine optimization or pay per click campaign. Until and unless you are using the right keywords you are wasting your efforts in organic SEO and both efforts and money in PPC campaigns. So keywords research or selection of keywords is very much important task of any search engine marketing campaign. Its not the search count of the keywords that will help you compile the list of keywords however there are certain more things that need to be taken care for shortlisting keywords i.e. keyword popularity, keyword ROI factor, keyword proximity etc. Also you should keep on changing your website keywords according your business requirements.

Once initial keyword research is done try to add other keywords around those keywords like synonyms, long trail keywords, singular or plural combination etc. Targets these keywords carefully in your page meta and title tags and in your ad copies. With the progress of your camapign you would be able to further shortlist converting keywords by analyzing your web stats.

STPI awards - Woman Entrepreneur of the Year

2009-09-13T21:10:00.002+03:00

Ms Anuja Lath Co founder and COO of Red Alkemi ( Previously known as Pugmarks, SEORank) was awared best Woman Entrepreneur of the Year for the year 2008-2009. I have been associated with redalkemi around 5 years back when I started my career as Link building executive over there.

Good Site for Submission

2009-09-11T10:56:00.002+03:00

I am posting here few good sites to submit your websites. These websites grade your websites based on some formula and also shows your sites ranking on other popular sites like alexa, compete, quintcast etc. So adding link here is worth enough as you will get free back link from quality websites.

Here comes the list:
Cubestat
StatBrain
Alexa
Suwonk
Siteadvisor
Xomreviews
Websiteoutlook
About Us
Zimbio
Shout your site
Domain Crawler

SEO Basics Search Engine Optimization Made Easy

2009-09-06T11:33:00.000+03:00

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the art and science of publishing and marketing information that ranks well for valuable keywords in search engines like Google, Yahoo! Search, and Microsoft Live Search. If you run into any new jargon while reading this Knol consider looking up their definitions using the Search Engine Marketing Glossary.

Search engines only show 10 results on the first page, and most searchers tend to click on the top few results. If you rank at the top business is good, but if you are on the second or third page you might only get 1% of the search traffic that the top ranked site gets.

The 2 most powerful aspects of search engine marketing are

users type what they want to find into search boxes, making search engines the most precisely targeted marketing medium in the history of the world
once you gain traction in the search results the incremental costs of gaining additional exposure are negligible when compared with the potential rewards, allowing individuals and small businesses to compete with (and perhaps eventually become) large corporations

While many people consider SEO to be complicated, I believe that SEO is nothing but an extension of traditional marketing. Search engine optimization consists of 9 main steps

market research
keyword research
on page optimization
site structure
link building
brand building
viral marketing
adjusting
staying up to date

Read full knol at Google Knol

BUSY SEO EXPERT

2009-08-12T22:31:00.002+03:00

August has been a busy month so far and I am not sure I will be getting any time later this month for making any posts on any of my blogs. Anyhow I am planning the projects in such a way that I can get few hours free this weekend for posts at if not at all my blogs.

Thanks.

Blogging and Social Media - Nice Cartoons

2009-07-23T11:27:00.005+03:00

Hi,

Just visited website http://blaugh.com, and I found it a ncie website full with lots of funny cartoons mainly related to SEO, social media, blogs etc. Posting few of them which I liked, you may check more at the website.

Reason for traffic drops

2009-07-03T22:20:00.003+03:00

Google official blog made an interesting post on the possible reasons fro drop in the traffic of a website. There were some interesting things mentioned which most search engine marketing experts may think be the cause for traffic dip.

First issue discussed is duplicate content, the post says unless the duplicate content is being used to manipulate search engine rankings its not be flagged as violation of google terms and webmaster guidelines. Using affiliate links be the reason for traffic drop was also completely denied.

However interesting post was made regarding the site publishing malicious software code, code injection and reported attack website message. If your website contain such malicious code then be prepared for a sudden and huge dip in your website traffic. But no need to worry you may grt rid of such situation easily by following instructions at google webmaster central

Ways to Improve Alexa Rankings & Traffic

2009-06-06T16:15:00.002+03:00

Adding one more post to the Alexa series, here I am posting tips to improve alexa rank and alexa traffic for a website. As explained earlier Alexa ranking is based on number of times a website is browsed by people having alexa toolbar installed at there computers. Here are few tips that can prove to be helpful in increasing your alexa rankings:

1. Install alexa toolbar at your office and hoe computers.
2. Add your website as default home page.
3. Add alexa rank widget to your website or blog. It helps for visits where alexa toolbar in not installed.
4. Ask friends, relatives etc to rate/review your site at Alexa.
5. Write content with main topics related to Search engine marketing or online marketing, webamsters tips etc. People in this field normally has Alexa toolbar installed and thus this will help get little benefit in alexa ranks.
6. Promote your website the more it will get browsed better alexa ranking will it achieve. Try to improve traffic from search engines and referral websites.

Let me know if you know some more techniques to improve alexa rankings.

Alexa ranking myth simplified

2009-06-03T21:53:00.003+03:00

My previous posts were related to Alexa but not really were about what alexa ranking is all about. In the earlier post SEOv Blog @ Alexa I mentioned about my SEOv blogs ranking at Alexa and in the post Alexa widget not supportedI simply put the screen shot of Alexa graph. Here in this post i will share what alexa ranking is all about and how can webmasters improve there sites alexa rankings.

Alexa.com is a website from Amazon.com that collect information about the websites and rank them according to the traffic of the websites. The major point here is that traffic is determined of the people who have installed alexa toolbar only so the ranking is only of the internet users who have installed Alexa toolbar in their web browser. However Alexa still remains one of the greatest parameter for the authority of any website, better the alexa ranking better is the site. Many organization still has Alexa rank as qualifying parameter for placing ads, buying links and or hiring the services you offer.

That was all about the importance on alexa rankings will post on how to improve alexa rankings later.

Alexa widget not supported

2009-05-24T00:39:00.003+03:00

Perhaps there is some error in the Alexa script or Blogger is not supporting it. Anywys you may have a look at screen shot of alexa trends for my blog.

SEOv Blog @ Alexa

2009-05-22T23:21:00.003+03:00

I was just checkign backlinks of this blog http://seov.blogspot.com and I found that a page from Alexa.com is shown in the backlinks. Now this made me really happy as i never bothered to check my blog Alexa rank as I think its very difficult to get a blog in fact free blog ranked in Alexa.

Exact alexa link appearing in backlinks. I am also planning to check the Alexa trends for my other blogs and of course please check the Alexa widget for live alexa trends of SEOV blog.

Image Search - Dilemma of optimizing images

2009-05-22T22:43:00.002+03:00

Lots of SEO companies include image promotion in there SEO proposals and services list, but it seems that not each company actually cares about image search and also clients hardly ask or check if there site appears for any image search result pages. I strongly believe that you can get a good bunch of traffic from image search results. Reasons are lot and only one thing to support is that it won't harm you unless you want to protect your images and that an be easily done through robots file exclusion.

As I was thinking about image promotion I just searched in google images about google (See results). To my surprise there was no Google.com in the results. In fact you would be more surprised to know that google didn't appeared in first 10 pages for its own search on its own search engine.

Same was the case when search term Yahoo and MSN was used over google image search.

TO go further in this research I now tried to Yahoo image search. Yahoo also disappointed as same results n google, yahoo or MSN site was found in the image results for their own search terms.

Then I thought to skip search on MSN but a short coffee break gave me the energy to check msn image search also and finish this post at SEOV blog. Results were MSN were also the same. Luckily I get google images as referral. It don't show the keywords but I am happy my blogs and sites are appearing somewhere in image search results.

How to become a great SEO professional

2009-04-29T22:28:00.002+03:00

SEO industry is not whats it was a couple of years back, with time SPAM has increased, freelancers and some SEO companies who put quality on a side for making tons of money from the clients. So its hard to make a reputation in the market as a real search engine optimization expert be it as an individual or a company. Below are fe points that can help you to become a great SEO professional:

1. Make out clear and goal oriented SEO strategy
2. Argue on facts and never mislead your cleints
3. Share your SEO experience with others in the industry
4. Do your homework and find out your areas on weakness
5. Try to learn from your SEO failures
6. Allocation should be done according to resources available
7. Be sxpert in keyword research
8. Learn the art of sustaiing the rankings
9. Value goals equally as of searhc engine rankings.

Top wordpress plugins to improve SEO

2009-03-22T13:01:00.003+02:00

Wordpress no doubt is one of the best blogging tool and is used widely by search engine optimisation professioals in there SEO marketing campaigns. Wordpress is used as free blogging tool to get backlinks but users also SEO professional install worpress at their own domains for improving saturation and for better indexing. Listed below are top wordpress plugins that can be used by SEO experts:

All in One SEO Pack - One of the most popular plugins ever for WordPress, this plugin does a bit of everything for you from helping choose the best post title and keywords, to helping you avoid duplicate content and more.

Automatic SEO Links - Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase for automatic linking, both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be “nofollow” or not, and more. One of the best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you don’t have to worry about spamming your post with numerous links to the same thing.

Google XML Sitemaps - An essential tool in any blogger’s armory of SEO tools. While the name only mentions “GoogleGoogle reviews,” this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.

HeadSpace2 - This plugin allows you to install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

Meta Robots WordPress plugin - An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on your blog. You can use it to make your front page links into “nofollows,” prevent indexing of search pages, disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other features.

Nofollow Case by Case - This plugin allows you to strip the “nofollow” command from your comments, and then you can apply it to only the comments you don’t wish to support.

Platinum SEO Plugin - The Platinum SEO Plugin offers you such features as automatic 301 redirects for permalink changes, auto-generation of META tags, post slug optimization, help in avoiding duplicate content and a host of other features.

Redirection - For any number of reasons you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blog to another, but then you risk losing that page’s status in search results. Redirection helps you with your 301 redirects, captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, sets up an RSS feed for errors and more.

Redirection - For any number of reasons you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blog to another, but then you risk losing that page’s status in search results. Redirection helps you with your 301 redirects, captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, sets up an RSS feed for errors and more.

SEO Blogroll - Do you worry that the people you link to in your blogroll are feeding off of your PageRank? With SEO Blogroll you can make separate sections for various groupings of links, with an unlimited number in each, and all of them will receive the “nofollow” attribute.

SEO for Paged Comments - With the introduction of paged comments in WordPress 2.7, there was a potential problem with search engines thinking you had duplicate content as the post would appear on each page. This plugin aims to take care of this issue for you until the folks at WordPress change things up.

SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings - Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree. In other words, h2 becomes h3, h3 becomes h4 and so on.

SEO Friendly Images - Images can be a great source of traffic as people search for images of various subjects, and this plugin helps you with making sure that you have “alt” and “title” tags on all of your images so that the search engines can properly index them.

SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin - If you must have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason, SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the others.

SEO Post Link - The post slug is the blog title you see in a browser’s URL bar, and if it’s too long, search engines won’t take a liking to it. SEO Post Link comes with an already populated list of words to cut from a title when it turns into a URL to make your post addresses that much friendlier. You can set it so that it’s limited to a certain number of characters, cut short words, cut unnecessary words and more.

SEO Smart Links - Interlinking your blog can be the key to getting more people to read more of your posts, but it is time consuming and tedious to do it by hand. SEO Smart Links does this for you automatically when you tell it what words to link to what URLs, and it also allows you to set “nofollow” and “open in window” comands for the links.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget - Love ‘em or hate ‘em, a lot of people use tag clouds on their blogs. Since their inception they have been fairly unreadable by search engines, but with this plugin they will be converted to an SEO-friendly HTML markup that can be indexed.

SEO Title Tag - Your tags are an important part of your site for making sure that search engines know where to place your posts, and SEO Title Tag focuses exclusively on this. Unlike some other plugins, and WordPress itself, this extension will allow you to add tags to your pages, your main page and even any URL anywhere on your site.

Simple Tags - An extremely popular plugin that focuses on helping you choose the best tags for your posts by offering suggestions, auto-completion of tags as you type, an AJAX admin interface, mass tag editing and a whole lot more.

Sitemap Generator - This is a more customizable sitemap generator than most with options to support multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, choices on what to display, options to show number of comments and more.

TGFI.net SEO Wordpress Plugin - This particular plugin will do most of the usual SEO work of optimizing titles and keywords, but it adds a unique twist as it is mainly directed at people who use WordPress as a CMS.

TOP 10 tools for SEO success

2009-03-17T20:16:00.002+02:00

In today's post I will tell you 10 must have tools for every search engine optimisation professional and of course these tools are very much crucial for SEO success of any website.

Google Analytics
Google Webmaster Tools
SEOmoz's Page Strength Tool
Sitening.com's SEO Analyzer
Mike's Marketing Tools
Summit Media's Spider Simulator
SelfSEO Page Speed Checker
Dead Links Checker
WEBCEO
Feedburner

Google Adsense Introducing interest based advertising

2009-03-15T06:47:00.003+02:00

Google adsense will soon be publishing adsense ads based on users interest i.e. it will track users internet browsing interests based on a cookie that will be installed on users browser whenever it visits/clicks some adsense ads. As a result of this google has asked all of its adsense pubishers to reflect the same in privacy policy at publishers websites.

For more info visit:

Interest-based advertising
Google Advertising Cookie and Privacy Policies
Google Adsense blog

Thanks for visiting and have a nice day ahead .

SEO in 2009

2009-01-26T09:53:00.002+02:00

Predicted how SEO is goin to be in 2009.

Google more matured and more recent PR and algorithm updates from google. Don't be surprised if you see monthly updates by google.

Little or no penalization: Pagerank penalties, link penalties etc are more hyped in the industry as i have hardly seen websites being penalized by search engines.

More emphasize on personalized search

More investment in SEO both organic and inorganic

Ranking is not dead but SEO will be more focused on conversion rather than mere rankings.

More SPAM as where there money online there's SPAM

Social media becoming more popular

Social networking sites face data cost crisis

2008-12-29T20:26:00.000+02:00

A large number of social networking companies face crisis as digital advertising is on a downswing, revealed a research from consultants Deloitte.

The researchers said that the websites, which had survived the downward trend, might be forced to supplement their revenue with pay-subscriptions, selling members' data or extra financing.

The eMarketer revealed that the predictions came as growth forecasts for digital advertising had halved from 17.2pc to 7.2pc for next year.

According to the Deloitte research, with the revenue declining, the cost of storing electronic data has soared to more than 100m dollars per year for larger sites, as users increasingly want to upload photos and videos, which consume memory.

"The book value of some social networks may be written down and some companies may fail altogether if funding dries up," the Telegraph quoted Paul Lee, Deloitte director of research for technology and telecommunications, as saying.

He added: "Average revenue per user for some of the largest new media sites is measured in just pennies per month, not pounds. This compares with a typical average revenue per user of tens of dollars for a cable subscriber, a regular newspaper reader or a movie fan."

Estimates have revealed that there are more than 1,000 social networking sites on the internet.

Among these are almost 100 big players, which are host to 22pc of UK internet users, and the most popular ones, including MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, are likely to be more resilient in the face of the advertising slowdown.

However, many of the most popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, do not yet generate large profits.

"Neither (Facebook or Twitter) has yet demonstrated that it can make money on a scale that matches its number of users. Twitter has yet to sketch out plans to monetise its blogging site. Revenue has always been an issue for Facebook," said Madan Sheina, an analyst at Ovum.

While Facebook was valued at 15bn dollars, Microsoft at the same time took a 240m dollars minority stake in October last year.

"With the economy spiralling into a downturn that figure might seem to be exaggerated right now," said Sheina.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has claimed that for the next two years, they are focussing on growth instead of making money.

However, many signs indicate that the company is feeling the strain of the downturn, as it recently cancelled a plan to allow its employees to sell off shares early owing to the current economic recession. (ANI)

Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20081229/854/ttc-social-networking-sites-face-data-co.html

Happy Diwali from google

2008-10-28T19:29:00.001+02:00

Happy Diwali from Google - Oct - 2008

Google wars about harmful websites in SERPS

2008-10-05T09:59:00.003+02:00

You might have seen Google showing warning message in the Google results about websites that may be harmful to browse. I also got similar message while searching for SEO Chandigarh. Warning message appeared before website named www.cogniter.com. Below is the screen shot image:

Though its good to show the warning message about potential harmful websites I wonder why Google didn't stop showing the website in the results if that website may be harmful to the visitors. rival search engine yahoo also display similar warning message for potential harmful website mainly download portals. You can visit Yahoo search scan to know more.

labels in google search

2008-09-14T20:31:00.001+03:00

labels in google search

SEO questions next part

2008-09-07T18:55:00.003+03:00

With the previous post Answers to top SEO questions - Part 6. Most of the FAQs on SEO have been answered. Now in the next post I will post answer to the questions relatd to Search engine optimisation questions related to analysis.

In the meanwhile I wud suggest you to try new browser launched by Google i.e. google chrome.

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 6

2008-09-07T18:35:00.002+03:00

Next question in the series to be answered:

21. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
22. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for back links?
23. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
24. What things wouldn’t you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
25. What’s the difference between Page Rank and Tool Bar Page Rank?
26. Why might you want to use no-follow on an internal link?

Answers

21: SEO (search engine optimisation) is totally concerned with the process of getting websites in organic search engine results. SEM is search engine marketing and involves paying search engines for placement in sponsored results this process is more commonly known as PPC or PAY PER CLICK.

22. Approach site from same niche for link exchange, approach competitors backlinks. Try to get link from other means like blogs, comments, forums, article, bookmarks etc.

23. Social media is most important for success of any online campaign. If used properly social media can bring tons of targeted traffic to your website and its also very much helpful in word to mouth and viral marketing.

24. First thing is not to overdo anything. Excess of anything is SPAM. Take care while linking, not to use improper redirects, hidden texts, network sites etc

25. Tool bar PR may be different from actual google page rank.

26. Nofollow can be used in many cases lets say for login or logout links, if you have placed a link for webstats provider website, or for liks that display your websites validation for feeds, HTML etc.

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 5

2008-07-12T10:30:00.002+03:00

The next batch of SEO questions is as below:

21. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
22. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for back links?
23. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
24. What things wouldn’t you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
25. What’s the difference between Page Rank and Tool Bar Page Rank?
26. Why might you want to use no-follow on an internal link?

Answers are as below:

Answer 21: SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION AND SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING ;) the difference is SEO is the process you use in getting your pages to place well on search results. SEM involves complete online marketing purchasing advertising space on search result pages. Sponsored listings are SEM. Both are related though!

Answer 22: High quality, higly relevant, no bad networks or bad neighborhoods, link growth at rapid pace so that is may seems natural, no buying of links.

Answer 23: Social media apart from providing quality links and targeted traffic can most importantly help in VIRAL and WORD TO MOUTH marketign of your websites. Hence a strong marketing tool that can't be ignored.

Answer 24: I am strictly against anything that can be considered as SPAM be it a link campaign, use of CSS, hidden text or links, creating of doorway pages, META tags spamming or any similar act.

Answer 25: Tool bar page rank may be different from actual page rank of a page. the term is arrived from the SEO belief that google is constantly updating tool bar and one update is going somewhere at a data center of Google.

Answer 26: Nofollow can be used for internal links that you don't need to be indexed or followed for example: Link to shopping cart, login pages etc..

In the mean time I would also like to ask Google chat users to check lively with new features for chat with chat rooms. Visit Google homes blog

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 4

2008-07-07T20:10:00.002+03:00

Here comes the part four of search engine optimisation questions and answers to them.

16. Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important “on page” elements
17. Review the code of past clients/company websites where SEO was performed.
18. What do you think about link buying?
19. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
20. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?

Answer 16: content>title>alt>title attribute>keywords in anchor

Answer 17: ;)

Answer 18: I am not in favor of link buying except few exceptions

Answer 19: LSI indexing ries to overcome the limitations of "literal" search term matching . For example, if someone is searching for "hiking in Norhter Nevada" a literal search would only match the words used without taking into account words such as "hike", "hiked". LSI can give more relevant results because it does take word usage and context into account determining what a page is "about" rather than a strict reliance on literal wording.

Answer 20: regards to search results, it is a method that search engines such as google use to determine relevance of a page based on phrases actually used in a document. For example, if you have a page instructing people on wildlife photography, the search engine would reasonably expect to see terms and phrases such as "selecting a camera", "approaching wildlife", and "low light photo conditions". Related phrases will add to the relevance of a page where unrelated phrases will reduce the relevance of a page. This is one technique that Google is using to weed out "spam" sites.

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 3

2008-07-02T21:19:00.003+03:00

Here come the part three of the series Answer to top SEO questions. SO questions to be answered in this post are :

11. Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?
12. Have you ever had something you’ve written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?
13. Explain to me what META tags matter in today’s world.
14. Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
15. If the company whose site you’ve been working for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?

Answer 11: No, not yet. but I have got few bookmarks at Digg that good as high as 50 Diggs.

Answer 12: Metas are important not only in SEO rankings but also they play major part in conversion once you achieve rankings.

Answer 13: Conversation with website owner to know his SEO goals
Keyword research
Web site analysis for search engine friendliness, structural change needed etc..
Recommendation according to analysis
Keywords research
on-page optimisation
search engine submission
off-page optimisation
use of search engine tools for webmasters
traffice analysis
further SEO planning

Answer 14: Content --> title --> Atl and title atribute --> keywords in anchor

Answer 15: 301 redirect

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 2

2008-06-28T15:54:00.005+03:00

Welcome to part second of the Top SEO questions series. SO the batch of next five question of the series are :

6. What do you think of using XML site maps?
7. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?
8. What SEO tools do you regularly use?
9. Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?
10. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?

You can check the list of full questions at Top SEO questions : most commonly asked search engine optimisation questions. Also the answer to previous questions is posted over here. Now beow are the answers to current five questions:

Answer 6: XML sitemaps are additional too to check how search engines crawl your website submitting XML sitemap to google webmaster central can really help you with indexing are optimizing the webpages efficiently.

Answer 7: Its on the boom today and very much imp for seo marketing.

Answer 8: You may answer tools you use like keyword research tools like Wordtracker, and other tools like ranking check, grammar checker, copied content checker like WebCEO, copyscape, backlinkswatch and many more.... You may check TOP SEO TOOLS

Answer 9: Meta tags can be used to exclude individual pages from search engines whereas ROBOTS.txt can be used to exclude a particular directory of your webpage or whole site from search engines.

Answer 10: Unique content and quality links. I'd prefer to say that if : CONTENT IS THE KING THEN LINKS ARE THE QUEEN.

Answers to top SEO questions - Part 1

2008-06-26T20:37:00.003+03:00

Well weeks have become months for me. Most of my friends think SEOv is on exile but its not true real fact is that after now I am living with my parents and its hardly left me with any time to post at any of my blogs not even on weekends. Previously when I used to live alone the time I spend at my room was utilized online either in discussion forums or by posting at my blogs. Blogging was the passion that time, its not likely that I am get done with blogging its a matter of few regular post and blogging will be at its peak again.

Now I am posting first part of the Answers to top search engine optimisation questions: Well I am taking the first five posted at Top SEO questions : most commonly asked search engine optimisation questions

1. Give me a description of your general SEO experience.
2. Can you write HTML code by hand?
3. Could you briefly explain the Page Rank algorithm?
4. How you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?
5. What do you think of Page Rank?

Answer 1 : Its a very simple and tricky question to get an overview of you approach towards Search engine optimisation. Here you can answer briefly with your achievements, SEO implementation referring to few good sites you have worked upon and that are currently ranking well and of course have good PR.

Answer 2: Of course YES, you need to be good in HTML.Here no body will ask you the tag syntax but to make sure that you can work in HTML through an HTML editor like Dreamweaver.

Answer 3: Well ou can search for an exact definition over inter or visit Google Page rank. for me its a Google methods of evaluating the worth of an page and calculated on the basis of number of quality inbound links pointing to a website or web page.

Answer 4: Well I am not a good developer I can just only develop programs for Fibonacci series, calculate leaps year etc not some software tools. But good answer for this question would be mention if you or your team developed any tool like ranking check, PR check etc alternatively you can also mention few good tool that you may have used.

Answer 5: PR its very important for website owners mostly SEO clients but as a SEO expert I just consider PR as a measure of number of inbound links a site have.

Good bye for now check the Answers to top SEO questions - Part 2 later !!!

SEOv is back again @ Search engine optimisation experts blog

2008-05-17T11:23:00.002+03:00

Posting at my SEO blog after a long time. Its been more the a month I am making a post and don't know from where to continue posting again. Have been busy last month with job hunt, shifting to new location, joining new job etc and also it took bit long as i expected to get new internet connection. I had to post here earlier as I got a call from one of my friend who asked me to post the answers to the SEO questions I posted earlier. Here is the link to that post : Most frequently asked SEO questions.

Answering all the question in one post will not be feasible but I will try to make sure to answers all the questions in next few weeks.

Frequent updates by Google

2008-03-03T18:41:00.000+02:00

Search engines are making it more complex day by day. I am sure its gonaa be a tough year for search engine optimisation professionals. At the start of 2008 it was google PR update then within few weeks it was microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo whic was declined by Yahoo after a lot of discussions and rumors is SEO world. And yesterday I observed another update by google. I hope it wasn't the regular PR update and as just something going on at google data centers near me.

Poster by: Webmaster - search engine optimisation expert

SEO at its best : Search engine optimisation industry at is peak

2008-02-01T18:44:00.000+02:00

Hi all,

Its SEO SEO SEO every where. Lot is being talked about search engine optimisation nowadays. Each and every person in online business who is either selling services, products, online marketing agency or anyone looking for online existence needs search engine optimisation company services from SEO experts to make his/her website a success. existence of SEO industry may be few years old but search engine optimisation has lots of scope industry have grown at a very fast rate in recent years. Also according to market and business research experts search engine optimisation industry would expect a growth of 200% this year. I myself have seen SEO industry growin at a rapid pace.

When I started my career in SEO 4 years later there were to or three SEO companies in Chandigarh a major IT hub in north India and wtthin 4 years there are around 80+ companies and each week I got to know couple of new software/IT/web development companies looking to hire SEO professionals to start SEO in there company also.

SEO is at boom and I expect industry to grow more and more.

I also suggest people to pursue career in search engine optimisation, its very interesting job profile and really very very good carrer growth potential.

Google Algoritms updates in 2008 : Video on Google updates

2008-01-12T09:37:00.000+02:00

Watch the video posted by WebProNews on Google algorithms changes in 2008. Video also mentioend about Google's view on authority links and Web 3.0.

View full video at http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/01/07/google-changes-algorithm?click=1

Carrer in Search Engine Marketing : rewarding career

2008-01-11T14:05:00.000+02:00

SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization) conducted yet another surveys regarding career in search engine marketing. According to the surveys conducted among in house Search Engine Marketin professional of SEMPO a career in search marketing can be very rewarding.

The results reflected the newness of the industry, but also showed that search is maturing. About 64 percent of respondents have five years of SEM experience or less. Very few entry-level SEMs reported salaries over $100,000; just 8.0 percent of those with 0-3 years experience. Compare this to the number of similar respondents making less than $50,000: 48.8 percent. The remaining 43.2 percent fell in the middle, making between $50,000 and $100,000 a year.

The size of salaries roughly corresponded to the size of the company, with larger companies paying more. "That indicates that it's a good career path. There are options out there, it just takes a little more experience to get them," he said.

More experienced SEMs, those with 5 to 7 years of experience, tended to make significantly more than their inexperienced counterparts. Just 17.4 percent of respondents in this group reported making less than $50,000. The majority (56.4 percent) make more than $80,000 a year, including 4.4 percent that reported earning more than $200,000 in salary and 30.3 percent making between $100,000 and $200,000.

The difference in experience levels is being reflected in the number of senior level titles. There are still relatively few VP-level search marketers, less than 4 percent of respondents. Another 10 percent hold a director title, and 9 percent have a senior management role. More than 36 percent of respondents in this group reported salaries between $80,000 and $100,000.

Twenty-six percent of respondents hold the title of manager, though nearly half do not directly manage people. Compensation for this group clustered around the $60,000 to $90,000 range.

SEO video tutorial - top 20 SEO downloads

2008-01-02T22:03:00.000+02:00

watch the SEO video tutorial for top 20 SEO tools and downloads

2007 Year that watch SEO grow

2007-12-29T15:11:00.001+02:00

Year 2007 was a great year for SEO. We saw lots of updates in the world of SEO. Search engine optimisation industry grew by 200% and same is expected for year 2008. Main highlights from the world of SO and search engines in 2007 are listed below:

Year of personalized and universal search: It was a mix of both personalized and universal search. with search engine releasing beta versions of localized search fro there users.

Search engine updates on quality search results: Search engine were more focussed to improve quality of search results and lessening the amount of spam website appearing in SERPs. Yahoo launched its ad ranking system in February as part of its Panama project. Soon after, Google updated its 18-month-old ad quality scoring algorithm. Microsoft followed in April, adding a quality score element to ad center.

Year of Social Media Marketing: Rise of lots of social media websites and social media marketing was on full swing throughout the year. Social network saw the rise of various social networks like :

FaceBook
Twitter
Flickr
Youtube
Digg
Netscape
Mahalo
Wikipedia
Search wikia

More tools from search engines for webmasters

SEO industry grew up

Article source: WDC Blog

I am a seach engine optimisation expert, search engine optimisor

2007-12-27T14:09:00.000+02:00

How do you explain your job to others. Like someone you meet on holiday trip, or some old school or college friend or during induction schedule of new employee of your office.

Like I am working as SEO Head in SEO Company India, or say you are working as SEO in web design company. How do you market yourself? What do you say? All I want to ask here is how do you explain SEO to the layman?

SEO is itself a broad category to explain, but I begin with what a website is, and then turn to search through different search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, then SEO. there may be different options and ways of doing this, but I know SEO introductory chat and a real SEO is totally poles apart thing.

Search Engine Strategies Chicago : News and updates dail coverage

2007-12-12T09:37:00.000+02:00

Lots of discussion, news, post are being written at Search Engine Strategies Chicago. There were a total of 144 different Search Engine Optimisation Experts who participated in one of the 69 panels, sessions, workshops or keynotes at the event. Plus, a surprising number of the more than 3,000
attendees were also reporting or blogging from the show.

You can check links below for more news and coverage from search engine strategies:

Day 1 Coverage
Day 2 Coverage

Also you can read more at Search Engine strategies Chicago Blog

Also posting some images from the event:

Search Engine OPtimisation : Achieving top rankings using link building

2007-12-07T08:15:00.000+02:00

All of you must have hear a popular quote in SEO : "If content is tha KING then links are QUEEN". Also each one knows links ate the key for achieving top rankings. Only on page SEO will not take you in top 10 ranks in search engine alone. Yes its possible to achieve top ranks through on[page SEO itself for less competitive keywords but you need to get quality links with proper anchor text.

This post is fully devoted to art of link building and how proper link building for your website can help you in getting top rankings. Link building is required to get incoming link to a website so as to increase its link popularity over various search engines and ranking also. Link building is also necessary for a good Page Rank (PR) of a website.

From search engines point of view following things matter most regarding a link:

- Number of Links

- Quality/Origin of Links

- Relevance of Links

- Anchor Text Within Links

- Links Must Present Value to Users

SO juss getting link from anywhere will not help your website with rankings you will need to work over quality link building techniques.

Have nice time...

Search Engine optimisation expert

Search Engine Optimisation mistaeks to avoid

2007-11-29T15:25:00.000+02:00

Hi ever you thought about small search engine optimisation mistakes that you never cared about. Maye be these mistakes are keeping you below the ranks in search engines. Found a nice article about common search engine optimisation mistakes that can be avoided. Article focuses on common mistakes like:

Using wrong keywords
Keyword stacking
Using hidden text
Using Frameset
Using free hosting
Using tiny text

This may seems that all SEO experts are aware of these factors still sometimes we ignore and make these mistakes. SO take care of all these factors an be ahead of your competitors.

You can read complete articel @ WDC Blog

Making SEO friendly website

2007-11-27T09:42:00.000+02:00

A quality design is the base of search engine optimization and it plays a vital role in SEO work for any site. So when it comes to doing business online, it’s all about the traffic (no. of users who visit your website).It will always be the lifeblood of any business venture working online, as there is no use of website when there’s no one there to see its pages. It doesn’t matter how successful your products be but if no one would be able to know about them or avail of your services then what’s a purpose of having such invisible dull presence. That’s why the strategies of traffic generation start at the very moment you are materializing the idea for the website itself.

So if you’re starting a company these days or want to expand your social atmosphere, I’m sure you’ve also thought about the composition of your website and having the SEO friendly standard. The best websites clearly and pleasantly convey your/your company’s message. This is true especially for web based startups as your website is your public face, your storefront and probably one of the most frequent contacts with customers.

It really doesn’t matter whether your website is of personal nature with few pages or an e-commerce website, having a well-designed site is very important. A good web design is not just about getting your website live and running. It’s about designing every aspect and structure of your website from the general look, accessibility and search engines stand point. May be you can’t believe but website design is something which really matters to your visitors. It gonna make all the difference in whether they leave your site or bookmark it.

Moreover a well-formed HTML website keeps the search engine spiders happy. According to the figures major search engines leads somewhat 76 % of the website visitors to a site, which means if these search engines cannot found your site, there will be a huge loss financially. That’s the reason many businesses pay thousands of dollars to SEO companies to be one of the highest ranked sites in search results. Therefore, it’s necessary to find out whether your website is search engine-friendly. The search engine spiders repay you by indexing your website, which will eventually lead your visitors to its goal, a conversion or a sale. A complete web design jumpstart your business right away.

Basically in a well furnished site important content is at the top of the page, where people can see the material without scrolling. Visitors should be able to get a clear picture of your site’s purpose. See as in newspapers headlines and biggest stories are put “above the fold” – meaning the top half of the page that you would see before opening the paper , same principle applies to web design.

All text links and graphic elements such as buttons and tabs should be easy to read and use .You doesn’t want your visitors leaving because they were not able to figure out how to get your Flash menu to work. A better presentation never switches from one style to another too often, as it may causes confusion to the visitors.

To build an effective web site, ensure that the information on your website is quick and easy to find .You always have to keep one thing in mind that many consumers still use dial up internet speed, and if a web site is not quick to load, then it is highly likely that the average consumer will not have the patience to view the content of your site.

A great designed site should have a fresh standard look that will suit the type of work/business it is intended for, but it shouldn’t detract from your ability to communicate effectively to your friend/customer.

Overall always keep the user in mind when designing every aspect of your startup’s web site. Everything you do should be designed with the user’s experience in mind. Internet in present time is a fast paced place with tons of new startups, and if you want your site to be relevant then you must have to act in the right direction. Getting a positive attention of visitors with a well designed and usable web site is the first step toward success.

The Author is the owner of a Web Design Company, and providing Web Site Design and Development Solutions to clients across USA and UK for affordable and sensible prices.

YOu can read more web design and SEO articles by author at WDC blog

Top keywords: SEOv Blog : some analytic reports

2007-11-06T09:41:00.000+02:00

Hello was just checking my google analytics for my SEOv blog. Thought to share some stats with you all. As I already stated in my SEO quotes

Stats are like BIKNIS they reveal a lot but hide the actual thing ;) .

Thus you need to be a real analytic expert to make most of your web stats a,d traffice reports.

Top 10 trafice resources:
1. webproworld.com / referral
2. google / organic
3. (direct) / (none)
4. digg.com / referral
5. blogger.com / referral
6. favoritepage.net / referral
7. top25web.com / referral
8. answers.yahoo.com / (not set)
9. answers.yahoo.com / referral
10. bloglines.com / referral

And top 10 keywords:

1. search engin optimisation
2. info: search engine optimization blogspot
3. add link seo company
4. average salary for search engine optimisation (seo) skills in india
5. google searcñ
6. how effective is it to get pdfs indexed in search engines
7. http://seov.blogspot.com
8. pay to get ranked
9. search engine for quotes
10. search engine optimisation links to documents

Technorati blog confirutaiong :Activate the claim using Post Claim

2007-11-06T09:17:00.000+02:00

Ever tried to post your blog at technorati. It can be done in 4 simple steps:

1 Enter blog url: At the bottom of technorati these a link claim your blog, mention your blog url in the post there.

2 Choose claim method: Two methods are available
(a) Activate the claim using Post Claim : Activate the claim using Post Claim
Posting Instructions

1. In another web browser window, log into your Blog Platform account
2. Create a new post in your blogging software
3. Select the "edit HTML" button to switch to HTML mode, if applicable
4. Copy the code below, then paste it into the body of your new post with any title
Technorati Profile
5. Publish the post on your blog
6. Check to make sure your new post is live, then you're ready to proceed.

(b) Configure your publishing tool :

3 Activate the claim : Chosse your blog type from the list here http://technorati.com/developers/ping/ and then follow the instructions: #

og in to your WordPress weblog.
#

Select "Options" from the top menu.
WordPress options menu
#

Select "Writing" from the sub-menu.
WordPress writing option
#

The last option on the page is "Update Services." Add Technorati's ping server as a new line within the Update Services text box.
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

If Ping-o-Matic (http://rpc.pingomatic.com/) appears in the text box you are configured to ping Technorati as well as many other ping locations via a relay service. We recommend pinging Technorati directly with every new post and update.

4 Customize blog info : Add blogs description. tags etc.... YOu may add it to favorites and more...

Why I am posting this hahaha coz today em also customizing my blog info at technorati:

Technorati Profile

Search Engine Optimisation guidelines for SEO experts

2007-10-31T05:54:00.000+02:00

Its always recomended for webmasters to follow search engine guidelines and recomendations regarding submission of websites, optimization of website and content i.e SEO guidelines by search engines. Also you must be aware of what search engiens consider as SPAM.

In this post I am publishing link to anti-spam and SEO guideline by search engines including Google.

Google Guidelines for webmasters
SEO guidelines by Google
Yahoo terms of service
Yahoo anti spam guidelines
Spam definition YAHOO
Yahoo content recomendations
Webmaster guidelines MSN
Guidelines by ASK.com
ASK terms of use and anti spam guidelines
Altavista terms of use

Top SEO tools

2007-10-23T11:23:00.000+02:00

PAGE ANALYSIS:

SEOmoz Page Strength Tool - A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.

Sitening’s SEO Analyzer - See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.

Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker - Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.

GoogleRankings.com - Check the use of keywords and phrases on your site.

Popuri - See several items such as PageRank and inbound links all at once.

Keyword Density Analysis - See how frequently you are using certain words and phrases.

Meta Tag Analyzer - How are search engine spiders seeing your meta tags?

Code to Text Ratio - Check for code bloat.

Strongest Subpages Tool - Finds the 30 strongest subpages on your domain.

Similar Page Checker - Avoid duplicate content.

SEO Analysis Tool - Measures the ranking potential of a page.

WebSitePulse - A few different tools to test your sites performance.

Website Grader - Get a score for your site and even compare it to competitors if you want.

Watchfire WebXACT - Test for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.

STATS:

Google Analytics - The leading free stats program.

AWStats

StatCounter

AddFreeStats

OneStat

Smart Tracking

Alexa - See where your site ranks.

BLOG STATS:

FeedBurner - Stats on your feed and your subscribers.

pMetrics - from Performancing.

pMetrics Plugin- Extending pMetrics.

IceRocket - Free stats program for blogs.

Technorati - See who’s linking to you.

STATS PLUS:

Crazy Egg - Provides visual data about your visitors.

Mint - An extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program.

WEBMASTER TOOLS:

Google Webmaster Tools - Lots of information that shows you how Google sees your site.

Web CEO - A collection of a number of useful tools. Free and paid editions.

CHECK AND TRACK SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS:

Sitening’s SERP Tracker - Test your page’s optimization.

Search Engine Rankings Checker - From Mike’s Marketing Tools.

Google Banned Checker - Has the largest search engine in the world banned your website? Find out here.

Number of Pages Indexed - How many pages do you have indexed by search engines?

Website SEO Checkup - Make sure you’re ready to get high search engine rankings.

GeoTargeting Detection Tool from SEOmoz - Determine how well your site is targeted to country specific search engines.

GOOGLE PAGERANK:

PageRank Prediction - You need a minimum of 100 backlinks.

Smart PageRank - Check your PR.

REPUTATION AND BUZZ MONITORING:

Google Alerts - Have preset alerts sent to you by email.

co.mments - Monitor comments on blogs.

Conversation Tracker from BlogPulse

Trend Search from BlogPulse

Keotag - See if blogs are using your company name in the tags of their blog posts.

BoardTracker - Watch for mentions of your company in forums.

LINKS:

Dead Links tool from W3C - Find broken links.

Link Popularity Checker - From Mike’s Marketing Tools.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth - Find broken links.

Backlinks and Anchor Text - See who’s linking to you and what anchor text they are using.

Reciprocal Links Checker - Do you have agreements with others for reciprocal links? Check them here.

SPIDER SIMULATOR:

Summit Media’s Spider Simulator

Spider View

Webconfs.com Spider Simulator

CSS ANALYSIS TOOLS:

Clean CSS - Formatting and Optimizing

CSS Tidy - Optimizer and parser.

CSS Redunancy Checker - Redundancy is easy to do with CSS. Fix it with this.

CSS Analyzer - A validator plus.

VALIDATORS:

HTML - Validator from W3C.

CSS - Validator from W3C.

RSS - Validator from W3C.

WEBSITE PERFORMANCE:

AlertSite Website Performance Monitor

KeyNote

WebWatch Bot

IPCheckPoint

GOOGLE ADSENSE:

Free Charts and Graphs

AdSense Notifier - Shows your AdSense stats in the status bar.

BROWSER COMPATIBILITY:

BrowserShots - See screenshots of your page in a number of different browsers.

Ready.mobi - Test your site for use with mobile browsers.

OTHER:

Geotargeting - find the location of your host’s servers

Find Your Site’s IP Address

SEO quote of the day

2007-10-19T12:41:00.000+02:00

Be perfect and a link is what you get

Previous SEO quotes:
1. Domains are like wine : Older the domain, better are the SERPs - SEO quote by SEOv

2. Rankings are like virginity one Fuck and all gone - SEOv original quote

3. "Web Stats are like biknis they reveal a lot but hide the actual thing." - Remixed from Sidhuism I'd suggest visit ICCCricket blog for more on Sidhuism

4. If Content is King, then Links are Queen - Search Engine Optimisation Quote

5. “Its better to have linked and lost then to never have linked at all” - Link exchange quote by SEOv

SEO salary survey by SEMPO.org

2007-10-05T10:39:00.000+02:00

SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional) is alunchin first ever salary survey of search engine marketin professionals. The survey is open to all in-house Search Engine Marketin professionals whether they are currently SEMPO members on nor. Survey includes all SEO professionals whor are into organic or ingoragnic SEO.

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Also a nice article if you are looking for a career in search engine optimisation

Search Engine optimisation of PDF files

2007-09-27T17:45:00.000+02:00

Ever thought of optimizing PDF files prepsent in your website. Lots of business have PDF files like sell sheets, brochures, white papers, technical briefs, etc.
below are fw tips to optimize your PDF files

1. Make sure your PDFs are text based. Okay, this first one is pretty obvious. However, we still find companies whose materials were designed in an image-based program. When the PDF is made using these programs, the PDF is an image; there is no text for the search engines to read.

2. Complete the document properties. It seems like the vast majority of PDFs are without specified document properties, the most important of which is the Title. The Title property, if present, almost invariably represents the words that will be displayed as the heading of the search result. It’s the equivalent of the html title tag. If you don’t complete the Title property, the search engine is going to generate a title from the PDF’s content, and it may not be what you would choose. We’ve all seen some pretty goofy looking titles to search results associated with PDFs. Not only do they look ridiculous, but they probably won’t get clicked. In the full version of Acrobat, go to File>Document Properties to specify the Title.

There are other document properties (meta data) you can supply, including Author, Subject, and Keywords, but presently these appear to have little search-related affect. It would be nice if Subject acted as the meta description to be displayed under the heading of the search result, but I haven’t seen this to be true. For now, however, I’d complete the Subject property as if it were a meta description. Perhaps in the future search engines will treat it as such.

3. Optimize the copy. Copy in text-based PDFs is no different than web-page copy. Optimize it.

4. Build links into PDFs. Make sure you include links in your PDFs, and pay attention to the anchor text used. Search engines do recognize these links. Not very often, but sometimes you’ll find backlinks in PDFs. Their limited occurrence, however, is likely related to the fact that most people don’t put links into PDFs; most people treat PDFs as static print documents. In addition to including links in PDFs for search-related purposes, there’s also a good business reason. Often, PDFs are passed along to others via email. Accordingly, a reader may be viewing the PDF in isolation (i.e., not associated with your website.) By placing links into PDFs, you give these readers an easy way to click back into your site, where you can further influence them.

5. Pay attention to the version. While search engines do “read” and index PDFs, search engines’ capabilities tend to lag new versions of Acrobat. Although Acrobat 8 is out, for now you should save your PDFs as version 1.6 (Acrobat 7) or lower to ensure search engines can index the content.

Not only is saving PDFs at a lower version good for the search engines, it’s also good for users. Not everyone has the latest versions of Acrobat Reader. Accordingly, I’d recommend saving PDFs as version 1.5 or lower. This way it will be good for search engines and most readers.

6. Optimize the file size for search. Don’t post a huge PDF for download. Not only is this annoying and unnecessary for site visitors, it’s also burdensome for the search engines. If it’s too big, the search engines may abandon the PDF before even getting access to its content. Using the full version of Acrobat, select Advanced>PDF Optimizer to “right-size” the document.

You may also want to enable the "Optimize for Fast Web View" option in the Preferences>General Settings panel. This allows the PDF to be “loaded” a page at a time, rather than waiting for the whole PDF to download.

7. Pay attention to placement. If you bury links to PDFs deep within your site’s file structure, they’re less likely to get indexed. If you want to use PDFs for high-ranking search results, links to those PDFs should be on web pages closer to the root level of the site’s file structure.

8. Influence meta descriptions for PDFs. For web pages, the meta description is what is displayed under the title in a search result. With PDFs, the search engines search the copy of the PDF and select something to display. While with PDFs you have less control of what is displayed as the description to the search result, you can still influence this. The best way to do this is to make sure that you have a good, optimized sentence or two near the start of your PDF. If these sentences correspond to the search term used, it’s likely that these sentences are the ones that will be displayed as the description under the search result’s heading.

9. Specify the reading order. As noted above, search engines search the copy of the PDF and select something to display as a description under the search result’s heading. Depending on how the reading order of your PDF is specified, this may lead the search engine to select some pretty strange stuff to display.

In a previous column, Organic Landing Page: A Case Study, I noted a search result for “transit seating.” That search result is noted below:

Admittedly, this is not a very enticing description, and it’s not likely to get clicked even if it ranks highly in the search results. Why did Google select this text to display? Because it’s the first thing Google read in the PDF.

Every PDF has a reading order. Similar to properly optimized web pages, you want to make sure that valuable content is read first. How do you know the reading order? With the PDF open and while using the full version of Acrobat, select Advanced>Accessibility>Add Tags to Document. Then select Advanced>Accessibility>Touch Up Reading Order. Then the reading order of the PDF will be displayed.

You can see in the image above that the reading order of the transit seating PDF does not start with valuable content. Rather, many extraneous items are “read” before the valuable content. That’s why Google displayed what it did in the search result. If you want PDFs to be optimized for search, make sure you understand the reading order of the PDF and use the Touch Up Reading Order tool to manage what the search engine will read first.

10. Tag your PDFs You can also add tags to your PDFs, similar to html tags. Again, with the PDF open and while using the full version of Acrobat, select Advanced>Accessibility>Add Tags to Document. Acrobat will give you a document report and recommend things you may want to consider changing. You’ll have the ability to tag headings, alternate text for images, etc.

11. Pay attention. Every time you open a PDF, make even a small change, and save it once again, major unseen things may change. The reading order may change automatically. You may inadvertently save it as a higher version. It may get saved using the default size setting instead of a properly optimized size. If you’re going to further optimize existing PDFs, may sure you check all of these things before posting a new version of the PDF.

Galen De Young is Managing Director of Francis SEO, a firm specializing in B2B search engine optimization, and Francis Marketing, one of the leading marketing consulting firms specializing in repositioning B2B companies and their brands. You can reach Galen at gdeyoung@francis-seo.com. The Strictly Business column appears Wednesdays at Search Engine Land.

Looking for carrer in Search Engine Opimisation (SEO)

2007-09-13T18:10:00.000+03:00

Hi all !!!
Arey you looking for a carrer in SEO industry there a news for you. Search engine optimisation professionals pay attention: According to Ineed.com the number of SEO and PPC related jobs advertised has increased by 200 percent since January 2007.The massive increase in SEO and PPC jobs since January tells the whole story. Demand for search engine optimisation professionals is on rise.

Also I'd like you all to read this artcle:

11 Reasons Why You Should Consider a Job in Search Engine Marketing

Article features 11 reason why you can choose a carrer in SEO/SEM industry.

Reson mentioned are :
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Entry level SEO/SEM position = $30-45K
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Search Engine Optimisation quote of the day

2007-09-05T12:23:00.000+03:00

SEO quote by SEOv:

Domains are like wine : Older the domain, better are the SERPs.

SEO Tool : Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator

2007-09-04T17:47:00.000+03:00

Found a new search engine optimisation tool that calculates supplemental ratio for any website. Supplemental Index Ratio tells webmasters that what percentage of pages indexed from there website are in googles supplemental results index. The lower your Supplemental Index Ratio is, the better.

Here are some tips to keep your supplemental index ration lower :
* Avoid duplicate content
* Write long posts
* Avoid linking at bad neighborhood
* Avoid excessive reciprocal links

More information on : Supplemental index ration calculator

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2007-09-04T17:07:00.000+03:00

Search Engine optimisation quote of the day:

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