Nofollow links: Google Changes Rule

February 4th, 2010

Google changes the way it treats nofollow links.

Very well explained in Webmasterworld by Robert Charlton.

Prior to rel=”nofollow”, if you had say 10 outbound links from a page, each of those links transmitted 10% of your outgoing PageRank.

Now, if you nofollowed half of those 10 links, eg, the remaining 5 would now each transmit 20% of the PR credit available from the page… and you’d be giving extra credit to those pages that weren’t nofollowed.

The announced change now means that the pages that aren’t nofollowed will no longer get the extra linking credit. That credit will now be divided evenly among all links, but nofollowed links will still be blocked from crawling.

Cost of Cosmetic Surgery

February 4th, 2010

Cost of Cosmetic Surgery

Recently one of my friend’s friend underwent cosmetic surgery. When I was told of the cost of cosmetic surgery, I was zapped. Shocked beyond words. It was a mind blowing USD 9000/- . Phew!!!! And that too it was an Indian doctor.

I knew cosmetic surgery was expensive, but what I didnt know is that it would SOOOO Expensive.

The choice for cosmetic surgery should not be determined purely on price. It is immensely important to check the authenticity of the cosmetic surgeon, company reputation, track record, after care and other factors.

The easiest way to find out about cosmetic surgery costs is to contact your local cosmetic surgery center for a complimentary consultation. Remember to ask for the break up of the total procedural cost.

This is important, as often they will only tell you the surgeon’s fee, which makes up only 60% of the total cost, and not disclose the hidden costs. This will be disclosed to you only after surgery which might land you in a state of shock.

Buy Links or Sell Links??

February 4th, 2010

I am sure MOST of us do know that Google does not encourage buying links or selling links. Why ? pretty simple. Google created the PR value rightfully thinking that a link to your site is an editorial vote for its quality. A paid link is not editorial. Google has gone forward asking webmasters to report paid links.

Matt Cutts has even said that Google is good at spotting them. And Web sites that sell links will lose their trust and their rankings in the search engines.

You say, if I buy link, how will Google ever come to know that ? , Good question. Simple Answer.

It might very well be that Google is rather late in catching you, but aah!!! you forgot your competitors, wouldnt they looove to report you. You fall, they rise automatically. Simple eh!!.

If your competitors report your paid links, Google will penalize your website .

So Moral of Story. Dont Buy and Dont Sell links.

Bulk Email Software

February 4th, 2010

Advantages of Bulk Email Software

Using the bulk email software you can forward or send personalized mails to the desired mail lists in large quantities. The software enables the usage of plaint text, HTML, multipart i.e. plain text and HTML messages that further allows the user to send mails to about 100 concurrent threads. Numerous handy uses of software are:

Bulk mail sender- email newsletters, email announcements and targeted email promotions
• Emails message customization
• Email note templates in built database for managing lists
• Effortless HTML message writing and editing
• Supports embedded flash and images

Kashmir : Paradise on Earth : A Travellers Guide

February 4th, 2010

Kashmir : My experiences

Way back in 2004, Me and my entire family had been to Kashmir. It was the month of September. Our trip was 18 days looooooong but when we came back 18 days felt like 18 hours.

Kashmir is Awesome. There is only one word to describe Kashmir, HEAVEN.

Our trip started from Jammu, a drive to Srinagar early morning. A travel tip to all tourist visiting Kashmir. If you plan to go to Srinagar from Jammu, ensure your hotel is near to the Taxi stand / Bus stand, Get up very early at 4am and hunt for Taxis, You will get taxis to Srinagar at throw-away prices.

Since ALL taxis belong to Sringar, they all go there Empty, so you can get a very good bargain. We got a very good bargain ourselves. We got up at 3.30am and looked for one and we had 8 Taxis at our HOTEL fighting among each other. Wow!!!!! What a sight!!!!!. We felt like KINGS.

Also, if you are a family, ensure that the Driver doesnt let anybody else share your taxi on the way.

From Jammu to Sringar, it was like going from an extremely hot and itchy weather to a very cold soothing weather. Jammu was very dissapointing. Very very HOT weather.

More on Kashmir later.

Pls share your own experiences on Kashmir.

SEO Tools : SEO Software : Are they worth it ?

February 4th, 2010

Are you one of those who always want some FREE tools or software program to help you with your SEO analysis. There is no denying that everyone tends to love cool tools.

Well, A few of them are really good and also come in very handy. Some SEO tools are excellent and we too use them.

But SEO software tools are meant for a specific purpose. They work on preset formulas.

Use SEO tools but dont rely on them completely for your SEO findings. Tools are great, but no tool in this world can match the way a human brain works. So let loose your thoughts and use tools to assit it.

Thats the best way to create a brilliant and profitable high traffic and high conversion strategy.

Build your SEO skills first and then use SEO tools to help propogate your ideas. SEO tools help you in achieving your goals, but your SEO skills set those goals.

My suggestion : Only Human mind can understand Human mind better. And since your target reader is a Human. He will relate much better to a page optimized by a Human than a tool. No tool has that capacity to match a Human mind. When optimizing websites, use your SEO skills and not SEO Tools.

SEO Content Writing can be fun ; literally

February 4th, 2010

How many times had it happened with you that you saw a video, heard a audio, read a webpage that made you laugh and you wanted to share with your friends. The use of humor at times is very powerful.

It appeals best to your users. It makes people feel good on your web page, just ensure its done very tastefully. Good humor will influence emotion and “great humor” can funnel
good amount of traffic into your site just by word of mouth.

Next time, you write content on your web pages, do consider using humor subtly. Ofcourse there may be sites where it might be hard to use humor for eg: a divorce lawyer, or a personal injury attorney website, but to think of it, with a little creativity, it can surely be made more interesting.

Improve Link Popularity Services

February 4th, 2010

Link popularity refers to the total number of websites or hyperlinks pointing to a page on the Web. People tend to link to good sites, not bad ones. A popular Web site has large number of popular links where as unclear Web pages have very few. Link popularity is an important factor that determines the rank of a page. It is an exclusive tool to measure the quantity and quality of sites that links to a website.

Link popularity is great example of the move by search engines towards the determination of quality content. Theoretically, sites with good contents will attract many links, and content-poor sites will have difficulty attracting any links. It is a basic assumption that not all inbound links are equal. An inbound link from a major directory carries more weightage than an inbound link from an obscure personal home page.

The connectivity of pages, the number of distinct domains and the quality ranking of a particular site is calculated for the site and also for individual pages. Many search engines, use link popularity to measure where their Web site within their indexes is.

Improve Google PR Value : LINK POPULARITY

February 4th, 2010

LINK POPULARITY

It is practically impossible to achieve high rankings for non-competitive terms without a great deal of Link Popularity. While popular terms rank well even without link popularity. Increasing the Link Popularity of your web site can dramatically improve your search engine rankings. This prevents your site to be dropped from their databases. Most major search engines have decided rewards for sites which have high Link Popularity. Some of the search engines like Google entirely rely on link promotion and link quality. Link popularity is the single most technique to attract visitors to your website. Well placed quality links are an excellent source of consistent and targeted traffic. Link popularity can even generate additional search engine traffic to your website due to recent developments in the field of internet. In fact if you have a commercial website, then incoming visitors may recognize your site in a better light, since they have found it via a backlink on another web site.

Many people mistakenly interchange the term ‘Link Popularity’ with ‘PageRank’ It is important to note the difference between the two. PageRank is actually a detachment of link popularity. It focuses strictly on the quantity and popularity of links, while Link Popularity adds a “quality factor” into the equation.

Whether Link popularity actually boosts a site’s ranking is always debatable. It generally depends on the site and the keywords that are placed in the anchor text. You should look for sites that are related to your site in some way, and see if they might be interested in promoting your site to the users. Link request sent automatically is considered nuisance by most webmasters. A personal email or a phone call is always welcome to begin the dialogue with potential link partner.

However, it is firmly believed that any kind of site in any type of business can use Link popularity method to promote their products and services.

Direct Email Marketing : Benefits

February 4th, 2010

Benefits of direct email marketing
Direct email marketing can bring several benefits to the sellers such as-

? It is convenient, easy and confidential way to interact with the buyers

? For sellers, it is perfect way to build customer relationship

? Direct email marketing helps in one to one communication, interaction, measurability and access to global markets.

? Direct email marketing is a low cost method to reach to potential customers and it saves the salary given to sales men to make home visits of customers for business promotion. Email marketing is less expensive than marketing through newsletter or direct mail.

? By opting to direct email marketing, one can send thousands of promotional emails simultaneously. The mailing list enables businesses or individuals to do maximum brand promotion in minimum time.

? Direct email marketing allows the businesses to track the online audience who are showing interest in their email marketing efforts by making frequent visits to company’s website and responding to the promotional emails. One can make use of web bugs, autoresponders, bounce messages, read receipts, unsubscribe requests and click throughs for direct email marketing. Track ability feature of direct email marketing enables the businesses to associate sales with marketing, to measure negative responses, positive responses and open rates.

? Direct email marketing is considered as the second most popular, efficient and effective marketing tactics after search marketing.

? One can track the ROI i.e. return on investment by direct email marketing.

? Delivering time of emails is comparatively shorter than the mailed advertisements that can take more than one day to deliver.

? In direct email marketing, advertiser can push the email to the customers which can not be done in website based brand promotion.

? Internet is a frequently used service and so the promotional emails are also checked regularly by the targeted customers.

? Direct email marketing is green that means paper free.