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

For all of you attending the camp tomorrow, make sure you grab me while you’re on the boat. I have a session scheduled in the morning I guess, so we’ll have lot of time later to catch up..

Are you guys going to bring your fishing rods by the way? The organizers have not let any word told about beer..can you believe? Kerala – Houseboat – Backwaters – and… Continue reading

Okay, this goes out to all those who want to get some quick increase in their subscriptions. No, we are not talking about the recent feedburner hack, but a genuine one that’s likely to work.Now, this “trick” (if you can call it one) will not give you subscribers out of nowhere. That is, if you have a blog, that’s got pathetic traffic, then this is not for you. This will… Continue reading

But that’s the end of it. The basis UI is the same and the user experience average.Delicious has a new UI and revamped look. Check it out.Yes, there are some more features that they claim to have, which will help your bookmarks to organize better and align in groups. The hottest and the most popular tags are also seen on the homepage now, (wasn’t it there earlier too?).I think that’s… Continue reading

The Wayback machine, we all know can be used for checking the age of a domain. Is it not?And we use it before buying websites, or just checking the authority etc. But what can be done beyond that?Gabriel Goldenberg has found that the wayback machine can be used for three more uses other than the age thing.1 – For Checking Change of Ownership2 – For checking the old URL and3… Continue reading

It’s quite possible that some of your pages may not appear on SERPs at all while others do. The reason is simply because out of all the pages on your site, Google considers some to be important and some of them not. So if they are not appearing on Google SERPs that means that you’ve to do something about these pages that they appear on the SERPs. But how to?Why… Continue reading

If you thought that Google found your website around the dates that you launched it, there is a good chance that you wrong. Google finds a page/website through links, and that’s when they’ll set your “birth date” as. So if you were checking your competitors domain name age, ouch…time to recheck!How to find out your birthdate on Google?Try this search (with your domain of course) and find out when Google… Continue reading

There is no doubt that one of the differences in a power user on any social media (Digg, SU or delicious) and a normal wannabe user is his access to exclusive tools. Now, tools are available for everyone but not all uses all of them, or we are selectively comfortable with a few that we ignore the rest.
Experts say that they use the power tools wisely, beyond… Continue reading

Was going through some forums and found that there are quite some annoying number of questions being asked about “nofollow” tags and their inclusion to blogs. One dude was asking if there’s anything wrong in nofollowing every link from his blog and another guy was asking if he should nofollow only the wikipedia links.
Here’s my opinions on the use of nofollow tags and how to romance them. … Continue reading

Sounds weird.. does it not?

Well, it’s almost true now. The Bloggercamp scheduled this Aug 16 is truly exciting in all ways.

The whole camp, presentations, chit chat and all that is going to be on this huge boat! Whooa! Now, that’s refreshing to hear! No more crampy halls, no chairs, no sign boards..

This baby floats around in the backwaters of Alleppey, which is known as… 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

Link building is the trump card in SEO. As I have stated on many occasions, a wise and clever link building strategy can take care of a stupid on site optimized site. So even if everything on your site went wrong. Having a carefully planned link building strategy will rescue you and push you up the SERPs more than a good on site optimization strategy.

The only problem is… Continue reading

It is old school SEO, which says a 6% keyword density has to be maintained in a well written SE optimized copy to make sure that the search engines pick up the keyword from the rest of the text. There has been no or very less changes to the keyword density algorithm that webmasters still follow the 6% keyword density rule. Here are some free seo tools that will help… 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