So you know that footer text is a good real estate option in SEO. And you’ve been placing your sitemeter button and credit texts there. Some of you are clever I know, you have that “natural” looking two lines to text there with links to totally un related websites! Guess what, I have some better alternatives for ya.Place the “unreached” yet important categories at the footerAll your categories are likely… Continue reading

Was talking to a webmaster friend yesterday and he asked me if the All in One SEO plugin is really doing any good. The reason was that he’ve been using the All in One plugin and could not really find out any significant results with it. I asked him what he did with him, to which he replied that he had installed it and is waiting for the results. Ahha…I… Continue reading

Buddypress is the single window custom CMS solution for wordpress lovers. It’s like the extended, super flexible, omni potential CMS on the wordpress platform. It had albums, extended profiles, groups, personal blogs for each member, status updates, private messaging and all of that. Seamless integration with wordpress is the best thing about buddypress.Features on BuddypressPersonal blogsFriendsPrivate MessagingPicture albumsFriendsGroupsExtended profilesBuddypress is essentially a complete seamless integration of many plugins on a… 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

How to get on top of Digg? How to get popular on Digg? How to get a front page Digg?
These are questions being thrown upon day in and out at the forums, at the coffee club and everywhere bloggers get together. Everyone wants to know how to get to the top quickly with the minimum effort. It would be nice if someone found out a hack that helps anyone… Continue reading

This is a great advancement on the Google custom search product. Now, Google allows you to customize your custom search by –

- Letting you chose the sites from the which the results are to be displayed.
now, you can type in the URLs from which you want the results to be displayed. Already Google lets the user decide whether he wants to search in the particular site or… Continue reading

This is no exaggeration. A true story I’d like to share with you, probably you’ll have something to take back home.

I had launched a new website this April 12, related to the IPL chennai super kings. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a cricket team in the Indian Premier League and I support them. I had started this website just because I had to… Continue reading

Social Media is the buzz. And it’s the carrot to many. A power user is a member with influential powers and has the potential of making any given article popular on the social medias.

Becoming a power user on all the social medias is sure big deal, despite everyone using the social media only a few make it to the top or grabs the powers of a power… Continue reading

So it all happened like this.

Heard someone is making lot of money blogging. Impressed.

So, checked out a few blogs. John Chow, Amit Agarwal, Shoemoney….all of them. (Ahha, these dudes are writing basically s***t. I could write better than them.)

However, can’t ignore the fact that they are making money. Shoemoney can’t be lying to the whole world with that cheque image!

Checks out… 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

Wordpress SEO Ultimate Tips

This has come out to be an one-stop SEO guide for all you wordpress users out there. I’m not sure if I’ve covered all the topics but I’m sure that these are(in fact all) the basic, essential steps all you wordpress users out there should follow in order to make sure that you have your wordpress blog on steroids. I’ve kept in mind… Continue reading

Hey easy.. take down that frown on your face. This article is nothing about any black hat SEO techniques. Well, it has got shades of grey, but it is fair  and it is completely legitimate.

Hmm, let’s put it this way. It’s about manipulating the SERPs to your advantage using the SERPS itself.

Example: You have a keyword that you want yourself to rank high on. Unfortunately, there… Continue reading

What is that one thing that keeps buzzing in your mind when you write an article?
I want to impress my reader.
Well, I could be wrong, as there might be other things that matters to you but I don’t think anyone can neglect this factor.
We all want to impress our readers, and mind you you would want to do it the very first time, in the least… Continue reading

One way links, the reward you get for great content and creativity at the blogosphere. You’ll do anything for it isn’t it? (The title was only an eye-catcher, so relax..) Well, an idea just popped into me, while I was reading Michael Martine’s blog. Michael has a list of testimonials written on one of his sidepanels, and it has links to people who wrote it. It is on the homepage… Continue reading

Scrapers/ Sploggers and copy cats are the names you’d never want to hear these days. Simply because every blog has a splogger who’s scraping your content from the RSS feeds everyday.There are lot of tools available to fight scrapers, and here’s a brand new plugin for Wordpress that’ll help you to fight scrapers.
It’s the categories Autolink plugin – which will help you to link automatically to your category whenever there’s… Continue reading