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
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 has always been associated with link exchanges, link request emails, link buying etc. Not any more. They’re all old-school stuff people try and waste their time on. Now since the social media revolution, there’s a whole new array of sites available that allows SEOs and webmasters to get some link juice from them for free. Now, these features will be taken for a ride, if given out freely… Continue reading
There are some great articles around that I found interesting… Sramana writes about the death of Indian outsourcing, which I think is a very honest article on the “outsourcing bubble”..The interesting fact is that though there are disagreements on some ideas, overall it’s a very transparent and “in your face” kind of ideas. Very true and honest.
Here are top rank blogs 5 reasons why corporate blogs fail, a good… Continue reading
Just got a nudge from the Proto.in guys that their brand new event for the season is happening this July 18-19 at Delhi. If you don’t know what Proto.in is, you must’ve been living in a cave !
The Venue for the upcoming edition of Proto.in is finalized in the halls of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, for the dates of 18th and 19th (Friday, Saturday).
This time… Continue reading
Whenever someone’s copied your content, out of ten people who have talked to me on this, nine panic !
After all, someone’s copied your content and is not a good thing. Plagiarism and scraping have been there on the web since blogging, but largely popular these days. Earlier, only high traffic, money making blogs were scraped but these days even smaller unpopular blogs are copied.
The Wikipedia says-
Web Scraping (sometimes called… 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
Keyword density is the measurement in percentage, the number of times a keyword or phrase appears compared to the total number of words in a page.
That’s the wikipedia’s definition of keyword density. The total number of times a particular keyword repeats in the whole copy.
Let’s pick an example.
SEO India is a keyword that many people think is getting lot of traffic on the search engines… Continue reading
More and more websites and blogs are getting the google sitelinks these days. I’ve noticed some of the popular ones being awarded the sitelinks, which were not having them earlier. I’m guessing this could be as a result of a recent tweak in the google algorithm.
My guess is that the sitelinks are appearing only for direct searches for the sitename or brand. Like “Dailyseoblog” or “labnol” or “andy… Continue reading
How important do you think are the page titles on your blog ?
There is a new school of thought in SEO who thinks that they are not important as they were once. And there are people who are not keen on placing their prodcut name or sitename on the title.
I beg to differ. I insist that the sitename/product name/service has to be present on the page… Continue reading
As you might already know, titles and title tags are often seen carrying more weight than any other on site optimization factors be it on blogs or static webpages. And I bet, that it’s the one thing all of us tweak mostly to try and reposition yourself on the SERPs.
Well, the liking to the title tag may be due to various reasons.
It is one of the… Continue reading
This is an interesting case study for everyone.I hope my readers from outside India give me their sincere opinion on this and not dodge the question. Here goes.
Recently, at a conference I remember the CEO of a popular Indian SEO company proclaim that their company ranks high on Google for the term “SEO India”. And this should show others how good they are and what great deal of business they do.
Honestly… Continue reading
Have you ever had the chance of having a traditional Indian meal ? For the Indian readers, this question is irrelevant but for the rest of the world, this article might be interesting and mouth watering at the same time.
The (grand) Indian meal is pretty popular, particularly the south Indian one. Once, a foreign friend of mine who had the chance to have one jokingly said, that the thali itself reminded him of the… Continue reading
Gokul Rajaram, was the Product Manager at Google handling a number of it’s advertising products. At this role, Mr. Rajaram’s duties included defining new features and enhancements to Google’s advertising programs and working with engineering on implementation. So, many of the features you see on the Google AdSense is the result of this man’s brainwork.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Rajaram was a Technical Lead at Juno Online, an… Continue reading
PicSquare, which provides “photo based gifts” services in India, has come up with a new feature for their users. A photo blog, where users can upload and store pictures like albums or blogs – a photo blog as they would call it. Manish says – To continue our effort to provide best value in online photography to Indian users we are launching a new feature at Picsquare (http://mysite.picsquare.com). The new… Continue reading