Which is better ? With the social media getting popular and search engines scoring values to social media links and traffic, it’s become increasingly relevant these days. There are websites being built purely to cash in on social media traffic. They dish out “resource lists” and stories tailored precisely for the social media crowd. And the traffic growth on Alexa are really impressive for these sites. And comparing this with… Continue reading

Yahoo Answers is an interesting place to get quality traffic from. Have you been using the service yet? Well, it’s a nice service they’re running out there and is the only service (apart from flickr) that I regularly use from Yahoo. On Yahoo Answers, people ask all sorts of crazy questions. Yep, really crazy ones. I’ve seen some one ask – “Where are my car keys?” But that’s an interesting observation… Continue reading

Last day, at a seminar,  I was about to give a presentation on SEO, and to break the ice, I asked a question – “Which is the one website that you can’t afford to visit a day.” As obvious, I was expecting someone to answer – Google. But he came up with an answer that stunned me. I’ll never ask that question again. :D

What happens when you overdo things? You… Continue reading

It’s easy to scrap your friends in Hindi. With the Indic  Transliteration technology combined with Google suggest, it’s even more easy now.
Go to the Indic transliteration technology page here and type in your hindi words in english.
Hit space and the word shows up in hindi.
If you want to get more suggestions on the word, then double click on the hindi transliterated word and a drop down list… Continue reading

Picking a wordpress theme can be tricky especially when you have with one million options to chose from and another million of websites offering the same theme in different shades. I thought I should have a list of them for reference so that I don’t have to go around trying to find the best one whenever a client needs one. Here are the best of the best free wordpress themes… Continue reading

The robots.txt file is used to control the crawlers activity on a website/blog. It will help you to keep some directories away from crawling while allowing some. For example if yu have two folders 1.Articles and 2.Javascripts – and if you wish to exclude Javascripts from crawling by robots, then you can command it on the robots.txt file.
A few basics about what the robots.txt file is –
- It… Continue reading