Yahoo says its new. “Okay…so that means better search results and better algorithm ?” “Well.. not really. We’ve just added a few frills here and there, polished it a bit..and voila ! The all new yahoo search for ya !” That’s an imaginary conversation but quite likely true. The search results haven’t improved any bit ! They still suck. Intelligent Sorry to say that Yahoo, but couldn’t find any improvement… Continue reading

Yahoo has launched a whole new set of features to its search engine. Starting from “Search by source”, “Search Pad”, “Related Concepts”…and a lot of other features, Yahoo is now all set to combat BIng and Google. The most noticeable features are the 1) “Search by Source” feature, where you can get narrowed results from popular sites like Wikipedia and other related sites to your search term. 2) “Related concepts”… Continue reading

Yahoo’s architect Vik Singh has been selected as one among the top 35 Young Innovators by MIT, for his contributions made to Yahoo BOSS. Congrats Vik !

If you didn’t know, Vik is the brain behind the BOSS Mashup Framework and TweetNews. Here’s an interestng interview with Vik.

You can congratulate Vik at his personal blog here or at his Linked In profile here… Continue reading

Okay, this is exciting news. The better guys teamed up, Bing and Yahoo, so we are looking at narrowing down on the competition, hopefully a bigger and better No.2 player to Google.

Bing, with its recent launch and buzz sure is turning heads and this time was successful enough in convincing Yahoo that they should work together.

Carol Bartz CEO Yahoo and Steve Balmer CEO Bing signs… Continue reading

On May 27th 2009, Yahoo Image Search had introduced “Copyrights search” on images. But unfortunately, Yahoo had only access to the copyrights information of images hosted on flickr, their own company. But when Google does it, they do it in style ! Google went a step ahead and now lets you search images that are available for free across the web. This is the official news piece. Today, we’re launching… Continue reading

Google have been suggesting time and again that providing a sitemap with the proper information is probably the best method to ensure that all the pages in your site are indexed on Google. There are many ways to create a sitemap too. Here is a collection of al the sitemap generators we could find on the internet. Gsite Crawler Gsite Crawler Features Capture URLs for your site using a normal… Continue reading

Gone are the days when SEO Tools was al about page rank checks and keword density checks. Today we have seo tools to analyze backlinks, wikipedia links, digg submissions, delicious bookmarks, neighborhood ip checks and all that external seo metrics.
Here’s a list of twelve such free tools that you can use to analyze the stats of your site.

SEO Digger [ Keyword Research, Rank Checker ] -… Continue reading

Been speaking to a young blogger who asked me, “Isn’t all blogspot blogs owned by Google, so why don’t they promote it up the SERPs?”We’ll I’d be running out of job in that case, and I’m glad it’s not. But the answer is that Google wants an accurately indexed data that’s completely based on relevancy. It does want to show up the most relevant site/sites based on a keyword, be… Continue reading

What is a ‘Nofollow’ link attribute? Is it the same as ‘Nofollow’ meta tag?Many of us often get confused with this question. Most of whom I ask this question to believe that there is only one Nofollow tag. One that’s got to do with the links. I’m inclined to believe that there are two usages of the nofollow tag.One – The Meta Nofollow “tag” and..Two – The Nofollow link attribute..Technically… Continue reading

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

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

Somebody had to do it and Rajesh from Tech Bliss Online is the man to do it. Even though All in One SEO was the most downloaded plugin, I wasn’t quite impressed by it’s functions. Sure it took care of the basic functions, but it wasn’t versatile. There were so many other functions and features a real SEO plugin had to take care of, AllinOne SEO ignored many of them… 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

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

That’s good news isn’t it? So what does it mean? What does it give to you and your blog?

Well, basically it just means that when you comment on any articles on this blog, the link that you provide is actually getting indexed by Google and some juice is passed over to your blog.

Normally when you comment on any blog, the link is “nofollowed” which means that… Continue reading