This one is from experience. Sometimes, when I come across that blog I never saw, I tend to dig up it’s metrics. You know when you are on a successful blog right? Within just a few seconds of your visit, you can identify if this is an MFA, a passion blog or a high value traffic one. And believe me digging into the metrics can really help and appearances can… Continue reading

Vineesha Malkani, through a post today at the official Adsense blog announced that some publishers have the privilege of enjoying AdSense and their Analytics accounts integrated, from today on. Now, that means more in depth reports and page by page analysis of your AdSense reports. For instance, what pages gave you more clicks on the square ad ? And what pages did well for the rectangle ad etc? I haven’t… Continue reading

Why you ask ? Well….as a thanks may be. I know trackbacks does the same job but we need something more flexible and “configurable” I thought. This is a wordpress plugin that lists down all the blogs that are linking to the current posts in a neat list below the post. It basically uses the Google backlinks feature on Blog Search. I like this plugin for the following features. It… Continue reading

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

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

Alright, this is for all those who are complaining of low traffic and bleak revenues from their websites and will do anything to get the top three ranks for their keywords. Read on… Well, somehow most of us have the “notion” that SEO is all about getting top ranks for the first three/five keywords for their websites. And we all know about – a) Keyword Research Tools b) Keyword Analysis… 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

One way to increase the page views and user participation on your wordpress blog is to introduce a discussion board. Of course, you should have a good reader base for the discussion board to function well. And there are theories that a discussion board will take the limelight from the blog and that it could harm your reader base. I think it might be a good idea to add a… 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

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

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

Some of you have been asking me if I use any “secret SEO tools” to gain that edge over others. Good question, but there aren’t any that are “secretive”. For those of you reading this blog for some time now, knows that I make it a point to reveal as much as possible, and keep no “secrets” to myself. On a different note, tools and wizards only help you… Continue reading

While selecting a domain name, what is your preference ? Would you go for a perfect keyword match or a brand name that has a better recall value? Before jumping into a conclusion, let’s see what are the options we have. Of course, there is no thumb rule that says one is better than the other but, there might be a few factors that you want to evaluate before deciding… Continue reading