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Matt Cutts explaining about directory quality 2007-10-07 03:35:35 Few days back I went through DP forums and found Matt explaining about the quality of directories. The basis of judging the quality of a directory seems quite logistical to me. But I wondered how google is achieving it. I agree that Matt and his bots are smart and intelligent enough. But I also believe everything can’t be automated.
Do they use a manual editor to scan all the directories to check the following criterias?
“Does the directory reject urls? If every url passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.”
“If there is a fee, what’s the purpose of the fee? For a high-quality directory, the fee is primarily for the time/effort for someone to do a genuine evaluation of a url or site.”
I know you are feeling worried and even I’m too. :-S
Regarding this comment,
What is the quality of urls in the directory? Suppose a site rejects 25% of submissions, but the urls that are accepted/listed are s Read more:Cutts
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Purpose or need of URL redirection 2007-09-23 05:18:04 Today one of my friend knocked me and informed that he is very happy to get one referral link to his new website but when he types the url of page (from where he got the link) and presses return/enter key, he finds that the page url changes from http://www.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/root/home/. He was shocked to notice the unexpected change in the url. My friends, this is simply an url redirection. He raise the question
why webmasters uses URL redirection
Possible reasons
Human Error: A trend is observed that people tend to forget big domain names and often end up in typing the wrong one. They also make typing mistake. So taking into consideration the human forgetfulness and error, often webmasters use short/simpler form of urls for redirection to the original url of the website, thus keeping the website traffic.
Moving a site to a new domain: If a webmaster wants to change his domain name say for specific business reason, he can use url redirection to keep his visitors in Read more:Purpose
Social Media - a brief idea 2007-09-16 03:40:55 Social Medias in the internet have become a good way of marketing your product and services and you can target huge traffic received by some of those kinds of social websites. It is a big innovation in the world of web technology that helps people to share content, knowledge, opinions, thoughts and experiences, medias (images, audio, video) among themselves. Now if I ask you to define “Social Media”, it will be a tougher job for you to define it in a comprehensive way. Here the question comes
“What is social media?”
Let me give you the working definition. Social Media can be best understood as a group of new kind of online media which share all or most of the following characteristics:
Community Participation - People from different castes and religions with a common objective and interest form community and participate in various related discussion.
Open platform - Anyone can access content and use it without any barrier.
Conversational - People have conversat Read more:Social
, Social Media
Little bit about Mod_Rewrite 2007-09-02 02:37:23 Mod_Rewrite
is a rewrite engine or web server software of Apache HTTP server and is used for rewriting web page url at the server level giving the final output to the user. This rewrite engine is mainly used for making the web page url more user and search engine friendly.
If you provide users with meaningful urls that really describes the content of that page, then it will be easier for them to keep in mind. Moreover search engines also find it easy to index pages whose urls have been rewritten using mod-rewrite.
To run the mod-rewrite, you should have the mod_rewrite module installed on your Apache server. To check whether you have mod_rewrite installed, you need to create a file named phpinfo.php, write and save it on your server. Then search for “mod_rewrite” and you will find it in the “Apache loaded section”. If you miss that, you can ask for it to your hosting company.
The Mod_rewrite rule is written in .htaccess file. The .htaccess (hypertext access) fi
How to fix MX record for Google apps? 2007-08-17 13:52:23 Yesterday morning while checking my website mails, I didn’t found any new mails. Later I discovered mails have stop coming to our mail server. I checked thoroughly by sending mails from office mail account and found no new mails. Then I found out that the MX record of our domain has changed.
What is MX record?
It is the ‘mail exchange’ record abbreviated as ‘MX record’. It is basically an entry in the DNS (domain name system) record which is responsible for handling emails for a domain name. It specifies how mails should be routed with their priority. For details, you can go through this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record .
How I checked the MX record?
I went to http://www.dnsstuff.com/ and checked the DNS record for our website and found the wrong one. We have set up google apps account for our website. Google
has the documentation for changing the MX record here https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomainname/SetupMXInstructions
(you need to be
publish your videos in popular video sharing websites 2007-08-17 13:32:38 Videos are great resource for marketing your products online. Upload your video
s to the below listed video sharing websites and promote your products and services.
Advantage
Get lots of free traffics from these high traffic websites.
Get few backlinks to your websites from the member pages which will diversify your incoming links.
Get comments or feedbacks from viewers which will help you to assess viewer experiences and behaviour.
Here is the ready resource for starting your online promotional campaign:
(1) archive.org
(2) atomfilms.com
(3) blip.tv
(4) bolt.com
(5) clipshack.com
(6) dailymotion.com
(7) eyespot.com
(8) flukiest.com
(9) godtube.com
(10) grouper.com
(11) guba.com
(12) ifilm.com
(13) jumpcut.com
(14) kewego.com
(15) livevideo.com
(16) metacafe.com
(17) oneworld.net
(18) photobucket.com
(19) putfile.com
(20) revver.com
(21) sharkle.com
(22) twango.com
(23) veoh.com
(24) video.aol.com
(25) video.google.com
(26) video.search.yahoo.com
(27) videojug.com
(28) vidilife.com
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Let’s celebrate 2007-08-14 12:43:32 Let’s celebrate our 60th year of independence.
Also check how India celebrated her first independence day in the year 1947. Crowds along the Red Fort where Nehru addressed independent India for the first time and hoisted the national flag
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Test your SEO knowledge 2007-08-06 00:12:18 SEO is a vast concept. It includes everything directly or indirectly to promote your site. I used to read when I get free time. Everyday I feel that I’m getting something new to know and learn. I used to test myself with the following online tools:
http://www.webconfs.com/seo-quiz.php
http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/seo-quiz/seo-quiz.asp
http://www.traffic-test-tube.com/search-engine-quiz.shtml
http://websearch.about.com/library/quizzes/seo_quiz/blseoquiz.htm
You can try these out and test your seo knowledge. Some of them include real life cases where you need to provide the best possible solution of the problem. Solve and make fun.
Technorati Tags: Search engine optimization quiz, SEO test, SEO Quiz, arindam Read more:SEO
Gmail is more handy than others 2007-08-02 22:51:23 Hi friends, today morning was a busy time for me and I had to rush out for an urgent work to the city but before that I needed to check all my mail accounts. I was in a hurry and when I sat in front of my computer to check emails, I found it very difficult to manage so many mail accounts. That time I reminded the advice given by one of my seniors in the office. I followed it and found it very handy for me and I’ve fallen in love of Gmail
.
You guys can also try it out. Here are the steps involved:
Suppose yourname@gmail.com is the main account that you used to check everyday.
Now open your gmail account. Go to settings -> Accounts.
Create accounts with the your other mail ids.
Suppose you have added yourname2@gmail.com, it will send a verification code to yourname2@gmail.com asking you to allow its access from your primary account i.e. yourname@gmail.com. Put the verification code here
Now open yourname2@gmail.com account. Got to settings -> Filters. Create a filter wit
Supplementary result - google concept 2007-08-02 07:49:53 Recently the most hot topic of discussion in SEO world is the introduction of Google’s supplementary index. Google created this index beside its main index in order to refine its search results for better visitor satisfaction as Matt Cutts, the renowned Google engineer uttered.
For understanding the concept, one should ask the following questions:
What are supplementary results?
What are omitted results?
Supplemental results are those pages that google finds inferior to more relevant pages of your website under Google index. Google used to maintain a secondary index to show those pages in search results in return to most blurred search queries. The main intention behind the concept is to get rid of unimportant pages from appearing in search result for popular search queries, thus refining the quality of the search.
Omitted results are those pages which are even less relevant than the supplemental results. These pages are generally hidden in the SERP.
How should you find your su
Are blogroll links in blogs crawlable by Search Engines? 2007-10-15 02:31:17 If I ask you
Do search engines crawl blogroll links
?
What will be your answer? Probably
yes
As blogs are becoming more popular, many sites are providing utility features like the one I’ve found. Blogrolling.com gives widget to automate the linking process through javascript. The concept is when you create your profile and links there, they will provide you with a small javascript code. If you add that code in multiple blogs, all your blogs will be updated at a time with those links. It’s that simple to manage your blogrolls.
But my friends, Be Aware!
those links are not crawlable by the search engines if you are pretty conscious about SE rankings and getting link juice out of those links. For example, visit http://wealth-and-money.blogspot.com/” and look for “More To Explore!” links at the bottom of left sidebar. Also check the code for this javascript.
Technorati Tags: blogroll links, search engine crawlable links, javascript links, arindam Read more:Search
My birthday 2007-11-01 23:39:24 Hey! yesterday was my birthday. The whole Grmtech family was celebrating my birthday, wishing me with lovely words. It was so touchy and went straight to my heart. Grmtech is a happy family.
See for Photos
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8 elements of a good blog theme or template 2007-11-10 16:52:11 In the web, there are lots of websites that provide free themes/template
s for blogs. When you browse them, you may be confused while choosing one for your blog. There are some which attract your eyes with great color combination. Some may be designed as per the technical requirement. Some are full of colorful images. The requirement changes with the objective/purpose/subject area of blog. But there are some common elements
of a perfect theme or template.
From human perspective:
1. As many of you know that visitors don’t read contents of a page. They simply scan it at a first glance. So you need to represent your content in such a way that user can find easily what they are looking for. For that, your theme/template should have:
Good visible navigation.
Systematic ordering of information in a logical way.
Use of different font style and font faces.
Use of proper colors and style to differentiate between two objects.
Use of brightness/darkness of objects and background.
Good neat
A quick glance at the website ranking checklist in 15′ 2008-02-29 12:19:58 I’ve compiled a 15 minutes checklist which will help you in setting your goal for higher website
rankings in all the search engines. It includes both the positive and negative factors. I’ve sorted out the factors in descending order of importance.
Website Ranking Checklist
Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Keyword presence in page title tag
<Keywords>
Keyword stuffing in pages
Keyword presence in [...] Read more:glance
Basics of link building - transforming into a book 2008-02-24 14:40:31 I hope most of you know about link building and its importance in the world of internet marketing. There are plenty of resources available on the web which teaches about link building. From my work experience, I’m trying to document the basics of link building and transform it into an e-book form. I’m making it [...] Read more:Basics
I’m back in blogging…. 2008-02-12 10:19:08 I’m back in blogging after couple of months with daily busy schedule. After finishing my work now I manage to make time for blogging. There were so many considerable changes happened in my niche fields. Now I have to go back foot and recollect everything. What about all my blogger friends? I feel [...]
Releasing ‘Green Delight’ wordpress theme soon! 2008-03-19 04:06:10 I’m going to release one 2-column widget-ready wordpress theme soon. I’m happy that I’ve started executing my learnings at last. I’m planning to make a wordpress theme section in my blog where I’ll be putting all my works. The theme name is ‘Green
Delight’. All the necessary works are done [...]
Review of RAA a recruitment advertising company 2008-03-31 08:13:30 Today I got an opportunity to review one of the leading Recruitment Advertising company
in UK. Yeah, RAA Sprague Gibbons , established in 1994 is a company in North View, Bristol, popularly known for its services through effective employer branding, intelligent advertising and best use of the internet.
They also have the specialization in designing, building [...]
Have you made a blog theme? What’s the ROI? 2008-04-05 02:51:33 I found making wordpress theme as a free one way link building idea in many online marketing blog. But before that think of What’s the ROI of making a blog theme?
I was wondering why people make wordpress themes and are running for it crazily. The logic may be simple. The popularity of making website gradually [...]
Need for ergonomic furniture & equipments 2008-04-08 09:27:39 Do you know that I used to look for furniture and equipments whenever I go to any office. Now a days every office provides ergonomic computer equipments. These equipments are built in scientific ways to maximize the efficiency and quality of work. Modern office furniture includes chairs, desks, adjustable keyboard drawers, adjustable keyboard tray, Mobile [...]
More free wordpress themes on Delight family 2008-04-27 05:40:57 ‘Blue Delight’
‘Pink Delight’
Features
3 columns
Widget Ready
XHTML 1.0 validated
CSS level 2.1 validated
Technorati Tags: bluedelight, pinkdelight, free wordpress theme, bluedelight wordpress theme, pinkdelight wordpress theme Read more:themes
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