There is only one law to the branding and brand identity campaigns – charm all ! And the best brand identity campaigns in the world are simple, but leaves a huge impact on us. Here are some amazing branding examples for countries that I couldn’t resist sharing with you. 1. Egypt – Where it all begins The mission was to evolve Egypt’s perception from the land of pyramids to a… Continue reading

You would’ve seen those cool “flash boxes” on certain sites that slides away featured articles and images with custom text on it right ? I think they are pretty good to show off your content to the five second visitor who may not otherwise notice it. It’s in fact a good way to increase page views all the while giving your blog that cool modern look. If you’re wondering… Continue reading

Please keep the number of 404 errors and broken links on your site to the minimum, or none if possible, says Google. The basic idea is to help the robots index content more efficiently from websites and help index relevant information. Both you and me would have number of 404 errors on your blogs and websites, now in order to align yourself more towards the league of good guys who… Continue reading

And it’s a guarantee. You have three months time (assumption), implement these and get ready to shed those green points. (Caution: This is for the adventurous at heart, and the steps suggested are “implement-able” at your own risk.) Copy paste content from other blogs and websites. Edit words like is, was and the, with suitable replacements and re publish the “refurbished” contents. Buy links from text link brokers. Not… Continue reading

Search Engine Land reports Google testing image banner ads on Google Image search. Aaron Wall has a confession to make and a question for you  – Is buying links stupid ? If you’ve been thinking if Google ever forgives a penalized site, you better read this. Bill Slawski has a list of suggestions for blogging beginners – good read !# Stephan Spencer spoke at the Startonomics on SEO, and he… Continue reading

Back to basics now. Article submission might be one of those oldest methods webmasters still rely on for link building methods – unfortunately. But are they really working? Do they give you backlinks, and if at all they do, how much of that time and energy you spent actually get converted to “authority”? That would raise more questions than answers.Well, just to make sure all of us on the same… Continue reading

There’s something with themes with large headers that others don’t have. Well, large headers have the added advantage of making an impression on the visitors, despite your well written content. They make an impression with the bright images and also provides more real estate for SEO. More than anything else, you have an extra option of adding more copy there on the very top. Good – Is it not?… Continue reading

This is for all the AdSense lovers out there, who have their blogging network thriving on AdSense.There are situations when your much earned traffic does not really pay off on AdSense right? Like for instance, imagine you had 10,000 page views on a day and another day you have 5,000 page views.1,000 clicks were made on each day, but you made more revenue on the second day compared to the… Continue reading

On wordpress, threaded comments have not been a big issue so far, but with code tweaks and DB updates required, most of the plugins that “promised” a threaded reply comments were not popular if not with some hardcore Wordpress coders and the like.Well, to end this situation, we have a brand new wordpress plugin that let’s you reply to comments on non-threaded comment templates by adding a simple “@” sign… Continue reading

What is a ‘Nofollow’ link attribute? Is it the same as ‘Nofollow’ meta tag?Many of us often get confused with this question. Most of whom I ask this question to believe that there is only one Nofollow tag. One that’s got to do with the links. I’m inclined to believe that there are two usages of the nofollow tag.One – The Meta Nofollow “tag” and..Two – The Nofollow link attribute..Technically… Continue reading

When there are more new websites sprouting up everyday, at one point or other (soon after the launch frenzy mostly), this question is asked.You launch the best products, the best website with the most modern technology and th best content etc, and one fine day you find that there’s this old website, which has been ranking for your targeted keyword for years together on Google. They don’t have a web2.0… Continue reading

If you are on Stumbleupon, there’s no chance that you missed Babychen Mathew a.k.a Dancewithshadows. He is the only Indian to reach the top stumblers list yet. He’s from Delhi, and lives a life completely online. Dancewithshadows.com is his website.I managed to catch up with him on chat to interview finding out his experience with stumbleupon, tips and tricks he’d like to share with us and help in ensuring a… Continue reading

So, now the Twitter hype is almost over…what are the SEO benefits of Twitter you discovered, if at all any?One, two months earlier almost everyone including the probloggers and the pro-SEOs flocked to Twitter and almost trashed it with tweets. And just like you, I was one too. Didn’t someone tell you that getting more followers on twitter was so cool? Yeah, I heard the same thing too. We added… Continue reading

Looking for a reason to join another social network? Here’s Plurk for you. Plurk is a “Twitter on steroids” kinda tool, which will do a twitter graphically linked with other tweets. Pretty much appealing I’d say.

Interesting thing about Plurk is the “Karma points”. You get karma points for each activity like adding friends and posting a tweet..well a “Plurk”.
You can see the plurks in a timeline..your friends… Continue reading

I always thought that making the most of friends is the last word in getting popular on SU, back when I started using it. Over the time, there were even more myths like this one that I found were time wasters, and needed immediate attention. Infact, many of the things that I thought were “normal” was actually harming me in making the best of SU.

Let me share a… Continue reading