That’s an often repeated question, is it not ? Soon after the Google Page Rank updates, probably this is what most bloggers talk about. Why did my Google Page Rank drop? Well, the seo’s have their own algorithm to explain, but for the rest of us, there are the usual answers, which is far from satisfactory –Link value drain, Bad neighborhood and all that. But here is a better explanation… Continue reading

  From the buzz around, we can sense that Wordpress 2.7 is going to be one of the best upgrades ever. Bigger with all new interface and packed with all new features. Many bloggers are even holding back the current upgrade waiting for the 2.7 upgrade. That means, this is going to be very interesting. Let’s see what the wordpress community has to offer in Wordpress 2.7 What’s new in… Continue reading

Dinu, a fellow blogger from Cochin is pretty impressed with Amy Mahon’s  wordpress theme over here, and was wondering what’s that funky text doing at the post titles ? Watch closely and you’ll find that the post titles are replaced with cool text effects rather than the plain text. Right click on the title and you’ll find that it’s an image instead of text. Well, this can be accomplished by… Continue reading

Sitewide links, Deep links, Sponsored links, Carefully crafted anchor texts, Blogroll link lists – Well, they are not probably worth tying together, but I’m beginning to think that they have some similarity of sorts and are more junk than anything else these days, that Google might be discounting them no matter how valuable they might seem. And I have the reasons. With the September Page Rank toolbar stats update, we’ve… Continue reading

But, honestly, it’s fair to have one(or a few). Because there are lot of changes happening, and algorithm updates that it’s not possible for everyone to stay updated and tuned on SEO. Many of us bloggers have certain SEO misconceptions just because we haven’t updated ourselves, aligning to Google.

Here are some SEO misconceptions that I found common with more than one person while engaging in conversations with… Continue reading

Hotlinking is the process by which a website uses an image from another website, thereby using his bandwidth. Some see it as theft while some think it is a free world so it’s okay.Sometimes we all bloggers do it and it’s not good in the sense that it’s as same as theft. Stealing others bandwidth is a crime. Though often, bloggers credit the original source, many people do miss it… Continue reading

There are of course a bunch of basic SEO elements that you should check your site for occasionally like the W3C validation, redirect errors, sitemap generation errors etc. These crop up unknowingly and are identified only when a problem occurs. Example – If you are using the All in One SEO plugin, in the settings there is an option to specify the xml file template. Now, if you had uploaded… Continue reading

Been speaking to a young blogger who asked me, “Isn’t all blogspot blogs owned by Google, so why don’t they promote it up the SERPs?”We’ll I’d be running out of job in that case, and I’m glad it’s not. But the answer is that Google wants an accurately indexed data that’s completely based on relevancy. It does want to show up the most relevant site/sites based on a keyword, be… 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

Undisputed-ly, one wasteful exercise many web entrepreneurs/bloggers do while earning money online is to buy heaps of domian names in the hope of either developing content on them or selling them. Some also do site flipping by buying and selling turn-key domains. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to see success with all of them always. Many are wrong decisions and remain so, dormant and wasteful.
But here are some tips… Continue reading

Appealing and impressive – That was my first thoughts on trying this guy out.

Psst..(Social Median, was opened to public today)
Socialmedian is a social news network that focuses more on
personalized news and information. And I think they’ve very much used the “personalization” thing to delightful levels. (Details on how Social Median works)

I’m doubtful if I’ve experienced a good social media networking like this… Continue reading

Blogging is an addiction it makes you start things in a jiffy…sometime ending nowhere..sometime taking you places. Though many believe that content is still the king (been there for quite some time), there are some things that decide your blogs “image” even without the content hmm well…with less content.Many young bloggers while starting their blogs make this mistake of not placing the basics right. I’m very keen on this point… Continue reading

No PR, No Alexa, No Technorati…Check out the best good looking and charming bloggers today on the blogosphere.

Who is the most good looking blogger? ( surveys)
Photo credits – Thomas Hawk,Randy Stewart,Technotheory,Tamar,Unique blog designs,Hafiz Dhanani… Continue reading

Link building is the “thing” I like most in all of the strategies in SEO/SMM. Whatever you call it, the name of the game is to get popular and get people “to vote” for you through links. And hey, link building is not about link exchange requests and automated spam. That’s so old school. Here are 16 ultimate “new age” link building strategies discussed by the experts in the game… 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