In the Webmasters Video channel, Matt Cutts recently discussed about the factors that might influence search results for videos on Google. Here is the original question – What factors influence a video universal result in Google ? Matt answers the question suggesting that it could be – - Links from reputed sites – Higher Page Ranks – And pretty much all the factors that goes into deciding a normal web… 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

  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

The Google webmasters folks have put up a good video giving us information on the right way to get a brand new site indexed on Google. According to Google, here are the steps you have to go through to ensure a brand new site is getting indexed on Google. Submit to Google at www.google.com/addurl.html Acquire relevant links from other sites that are already established Submit an XML sitemap Use… 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

Cheers to all those wonderful black, blue, grey and everything in between hats out there. Here are the best posts this week from the best SEO blogs on the internet.Aaron just found that Google is actually recommending people to download a torrent of his SEO Book. Now, how cool is that? I know how you feel, Aaron.If you are a blogging consultant, or simply runs a blog yourself (which I… Continue reading

How to use AllinOne SEO plugin to fullest potential from ManiKarthik on Vimeo… Continue reading

Just got hired by Webbizideas.com, and I’ll be contributing more articles over there on Search Engine Optimization. More of “how to” articles and tutorials which DSB readers would enjoy reading. Feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed here.

Webbizideas is based out of Minneapolis, and has a wide range of professional services to deliver ranging from web design to internet marketing including SEO.

Web biz ideas have a video channel on… Continue reading

Were they always meant to annoy you? Sometime the yellow error sign, or sometimes the page not found black and white message..so boring, if only you could do something about it.I found this cool wordpress plugin last day, it actually does a lot more than replacing your 404 error page with a custom fancy message. In fact, you won’t even know that you’re on a 404 page.This is what you… Continue reading

Here are some pictures and videos from the Kerala Blogcamp, if you missed it. Check out the food and the caricatures by Sajjiv.

Thanks to Keralafarmer, Financial Chronicle and Sarath D R… 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

So, now the Twitter hype is almost over…what are the SEO benefits of Twitter you discovered, if at all any?One, two months earlier almost everyone including the probloggers and the pro-SEOs flocked to Twitter and almost trashed it with tweets. And just like you, I was one too. Didn’t someone tell you that getting more followers on twitter was so cool? Yeah, I heard the same thing too. We added… Continue reading

Today, we have with us an interesting personality – Neil Patel, co-founder of ACS.
Neil is a respected authority in the social media arena. He’s a man the industry looks upto for his experience with the social media and seo, which explains why he’s a much sought after Marketing Consultant today.

Thanks Neil for this interview, next time we’ll have an audio one, people always love to listen… Continue reading

Sometimes it’s difficult to find things on Google. Like for instance if you want to search for all the items and the websites related to “your keyword” today or yesterday on a time bound scale, things are going to be difficult.

There is a nice tool which let’s you do it. It works just like a Google search but, you have the option of opting for data to be shows that’s… 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