tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66229472387634607152012-01-16T13:39:58.020+05:30Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Online Presence Administration and other ways you can stay competitive in the brave new world.manishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18331909691305681255noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622947238763460715.post-10145409149758861612011-12-07T22:42:00.001+05:302011-12-07T22:42:24.792+05:30

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau quote

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An open letter to the Indian Government on Internet censorship ow.ly/7QxRH

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Some pursue happiness - others create it.

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How To Boot And Install Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive - for those of us who use tablets & netbooks http://ow.ly/7CQuI

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I recently lost my domian name and had to purchase another one for my blog with a .net, so I know how it feels. To make it worse, the present owner of the domain is a spammer who's put all sorts of spam on his blog. So even if the domain expires in the new future it will be pretty useless. I am going to have to live with the new domain. Anyway, please visit my blog. I speak about social media,

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Happy 11/11/11 11:11:11!

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A free service which lets you check your website's rank across Google, Yahoo, Bing, AllTheWeb, AOL and AltaVista. a fast and easy to use free service. Very useful way to check your Search Engine ranking. You can use multiple keywords and keyphrases.in reference to: http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ (view on Google Sidewiki)

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I returned to Orkut using the Google Chrome browser - the latest version of it. But there are several basic features of Orkut which do not work on Chrome. Just posting a reply to a wall post. Just basic stuff. But frustrating.Chrome is a fast sleek browser and I'm starting to like it better than Firefox (which I think is over-rated) but sometimes it just makes me wonder - both Chrome and Orkut

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just linked all my social networks using ping.fm - love this service...

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I love the ease of use. It's so easy to blog. Just send an email and Tumblr creates a blog post for you. Or just click on a bookmarklet and Tumblr creates a blog post. Moreover you can share your updates on Twitter and Facebook. Amazing platform.in reference to: Tumblr (view on Google Sidewiki)

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I used to maintain several blogs on Blogger, and some of which I didn't update in quite a while. Today I was using SM2 from techrigy.com - which is a social media monitoring tool. They offer a free membership option and I was giving it a test ride. To test it out - just for fun I typed in my name as a search and to my surprise I saw several posts which were attributed to me - which I did not

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I recently discovered a free SMS site which lets you send SMSs to any number in India : Way2SMS.comThe portal lets you send 140 characters per and adds a "Sent via WAY2SMS.COM" to the end of the message. The service is quite fast and most messages are delivered in a matter of seconds.The portal has an address book where you can add your contacts. Whenever you add a contact, a SMS is sent to the

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I recently installed the AdBlock Plus plugin for Firefox and I love it. It is very effective and has blocked out all the annoying ads that are forced upon me. Don't you hate it when you have to wait for ads to load before you can use a webpage. The ads usually take the most time to load.When you first install the AdBlock Plus plugin, it gives you a choice of "AdBlock" subscriptions you want to

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Do you want a search engine that searches only your competitors websites. you can use it to search for what they are doing or saying.Go to http://www.google.com/cse and sign in using a Google account. Make a list of sites that you want to search. If your competitors are Microsoft, Intel and Nokia, just take:microsoft.comintel.comnokia.comYou can add as many domains or URLs as you want. Just add

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For those of you looking for the latest Go Daddy discount code - here it is Save 20% on oders more than $60 - just use the code gdr0416ak when you check out. This offer ends on Saturday, April 25th 2009

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Do you have a website running on Drupal or Wordpress? Have you ever thought about switching over? Have you ever wondered why there are three major CMS options and a loyal following to each? There are lots of reasons to choose Joomla over Wordpress or Drupal, here are just 5. (I have to leave something to write about in the future!)It should be noted that I believe Wordpress is better suited for

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Skydrive from Microsoft Live offers 5GB of online storage space, where you can store your files. You can store your pictures, documents, music and videos and have these available on any computer connected to the Internet. You need to sign up for a free Microsoft passport account - this can be your Hotmail account or a Live account.The service is fast and secure and 5GB is quite enough. However

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One of my computers was recently hit by several viruses. I did not install an antivirus program thinking that a good firewall (I use Zone alarm) and common sense would keep me free of viruses. But no, my computer got infected and badly. It crashed. I had to format it. I put in XP Black - which is a pirated version of XP preloaded with most of the programs you'd need. But lets talk about XP Black

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Blip.fm allows you to live out your dreams of being a DJ. You can search for music by artist or song name. You can preview songs and you can "blip" songs. Blip.fm is very similar to twitter - expect that with Blip.fm you can attach songs to your blips or tweets. You can also link your blip.fm account with your twitter account and share songs with your Twitter audience.If you are not interested in

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You can download the free version of Web CEO from http://www.webceo.com/It has some nice utilities which let you check your keywords, your page optimization, your site's rank in search engines and several other nifty features. It is fairly easy to use and quite effective. I used Web CEO to optimize a Joomla CMS site and it worked like a charm - I managed to get the site on the front page of

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Download.com has a new webware section which showcases webapplications. There are several categories of web-applications, including image editors, business tools, utilities, anti virus scanners and more. If you are looking for an online application, you should definately check out this section.

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I came across this cool new web application or webapp as these are called. It lets you send free SMS - so if you are paying for text messages - you can save some money using this tool:http://sms.dynadel.com/It currently supports only a few cellphone operators in US, Canada, UK and a few other countries.

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I just tried out Skype's unlimited calling plan. They are offering a free trial for a month. It's absolutely perfect if you are calling US or Canada. The sound quality is very clear and sounds just like you are on a real phone.You can buy Skype phones from their website, but if you are in India you can buy Skype phones on Ebay India. They come for around Rs 800 and you can just plug then into

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I found a cool collection of Calvin & Hobbes comic strips at:http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/index.htmlIt's a ten year collection and it's also got a downloadable archive - all of 10 years of Calvin and Hobbes. And it's all absolutely free. Have fun.

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If you are a customer based in India and you want to order photo prints for your digital photographs - there is a great new site - http://www.zoomin.comThe prices are very reasonable. You can pay through credit card, internet banking or cheque/dd. The prices start at Rs 4 per photo, which is very reasonable. You can chose whether you want a glossy print or a matte print. You can also choose

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I signed up for my first Google Adwords account today. I created a couple of ads for my web hosting / web development company. Something I could not help but notice about the adwords application - it does not tell me how much my ads are going to cost me. It just lets me know what amount I am willing to pay for each click.Let's see how the experiment works...

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I just discovered that you can call US toll free numbers through Skype - for free. You don't need to have Skype credit. Just download Skype - you do need a microphone - it's great if you have a headset - even better of you have a cordless headset - and you can go ahead and make calls to toll free numbers in the US for free. I called up my hosting company - sorted out some technical issues I was

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I have been a customer of Paypal for quite some time - but till recently I did not know that they had a toll free number. They do. It is 1-888-221-1161Why doesn't Paypal advertise their toll free number - is it because they want to scare away customers who want to call up customer service.I called the number and I got a IVR. It's a voice activated menu which seemed overly complicated to navigate.

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Google Chrome is Google's version of a web browser. I downloaded and installed it on my computer with a lot of expectations, and yes it works pretty well. What I don't like about i is that it doesn't work with the administrator console of Joomla. Overall it is a good replacement for Internet Explorer. But it is no Firefox killer yet.The bookmarks feature will take little time getting used to. It

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Docmetrics is a new PDF tracking tool by Vitrium Inc. It lets you track metrics on PDF documents. It lets you track how many people have opened your document, how many have taken printouts, and even how much time they spent on each page. You can get detailed reports on all of these. It also lets you embed forms on your documents and lets you convert your PDF documents into lead generation media.

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Print, TV and radio - extinct. The internet is here.Every medium of communication that you know - be it TV, or radio or print, the newspapers you get every morning, the news that you watch on TV, the music that you listen to while you are driving to work - all these mediums are extinct. They haven't died out yet, they still play a pivotal role in your life - but 5 years from now they will be long

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After all that you have done to get your site up in the search engine ranks, you probably do not want spammers to bleed away your rankings. One way to do that is to add the nofollow attribute on any link which the user can sreate on your site.So the link which was:Googlewould become:GoogleWhat this does is it instructs some search engines that the hyperlink should not influence the link's target

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We all love the PDF format. Works for us. Do you know what happens once a PDF is downloaded? I don't. My main site has about 25000 documents - out of which 80% are PDFs. But once they are downloaded off my site I don't know how they perform. There's a new service in town, Docmetrics - which lets you tracks opens, reads, prints etc.. it also lets you tracks metrics for people to whom the PDF is

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The company that I work for recently signed up for Vision Critical. I didn't really think that I'd learn much from it. But was I in for a surprise...Vision Critical is a total survey application. I've tried out a few survey platforms - Lime Survey is the best of the lot if you are looking for an open source cheap (free) solution. But Vision Critical stand out way above the rest. After a decade of

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I discovered Wordpress today. For those of you who do not know what that is - it is a blog web application - something like blogger - just many times more flexible. If you have a webserver with a few MBs free you could download it from the Wordpress site for free and install it on your site. The site I created is blog.eworldhost.comm a site where I intend to talk about Web Hosting, Web

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I came across a very neat site - http://portableapps.com/ - it has several applications that you can download. Now what's really cool about these apps is that you do not have to install them. You can just put them on a pen drive and carry them anywhere. And the best part is that they are open source applications - so they are FREE.It has office suites, email clients, browsers, music and video

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I recently signed up with Host Gator for a reseller account. I had some initial starting hiccups - mainly due to my ignorance how hosting works but I finally figured it out.What me to host with Host Gator was that they offer cPanel. I think cPanel is the best hosting control panel in the market today. The problem is - it is quite expensive and it has a recurring license fee - so not many hosting

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All of us are familiar with search engines. We use it nearly every day that we use the Internet. You probably found this site through a search engine. But have you ever wondered how a search engine finds your site?A Search Engine typically performs 3 tasks:Finding and storing sitesAnalysing the content of the pages Processing search queriesFinding and storing sitesThe search engine finds your

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In the organization I work for we have been using WebTrends to track our website traffic. We have about 70,000 visitors every month (according to WebTrends). The problem is that we are using WebTrends to analyse the server logs and interpret them to give us our traffic data. This is a very unreliable way of doing things.The best way of using any analytics tool is to use javascript tags embedded

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At times you might need to backup your site. There is several utilities out there which allow you to do so. One such utility is HTTrack. It is an easy to use open source site backup / offline browser utility. It's free. You can download it from http://www.httrack.comYou can download the content of entire websites to your local directory for offline browsing. It can update earlier backups/mirrors

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The single most common question executives ask about their web sites is “Why?” “Why” don’t more shoppers complete purchase transactions? “Why” don’t more customers use our less expensive online help? “Why” don’t readers click more deeply into our web site? The question is perfectly natural, especially given the supposed “infinite measurability” of the Internet and the widespread use of key

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What is a Content Management System (CMS) ?A Content Management System as the name suggests is a software system to manage the content of a website or a collection of sites. It is a collection of tools that allows the creation, modification, organisation and removal of information from a web site. Usually CMS to requires no knowledge of HTML in order to create web pages. It allows non technical

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I've not yet converted to the new Office 2007 XML formats. We are still using Office 2003 at work and I've Office XP at home. These work perfectly fine for me. But at times I get documents which are in this new format, like docx and pptx. There's a compatibility tool from Microsoft which lets you open and edit documents in these new formats. You can get this free tool at:http://www.microsoft.com/

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Somebody just told me that having a blog is like owning a cow - you have to milk it every day.He was right. Having a blog is a responsibility. You need to keep it up to date.

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An easy way to find who's linking to you. Just search for: link:www.yoursitename.comfor example if you site name is http://www.besthomefurniture.com/ - you would search for link:www.besthomefurniture.comThese are called backlinks. the more of these backlinks you have the higher Google ranks you. How does it work? Suppose a site homedepot.com has a link to your site besthomefurniture.com, while

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What does the Internet mean for marketing? That's a big question. Marketing has been around for a along long time, and in today's world is is one of the most important driving factor in the success of a company, if not the most important factor. Marketing was doing quite fine before the Internet came around. It was driving consumer demand, shaping companies, building corporate empires and then

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A few questions that were asked of me in an interview for a webmaster for a multinational company! Most of these are SEO questions - I'm not sure why they asked me these, but my guess is that they didn't know any better.What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?Domain name or URL, anchor text of backlinks/inbound links, title tags, keyword density/

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Simple and informal writing are preferredCredibility is an important issue on the webOutbound links can increase credibilityUsers want to get their information quicklyText should be scanableText should be conciseUsers like summaries and the inverted pyramid styleHypertext is well-likedGraphics and text should complement one another

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People are used to reading on paper – it is difficult to read on a computer screenUse well-documented tricks:subheads bulleted lists highlighted keywords short paragraphs the inverted pyramid – summary at the beginning a simple writing style, and de-fluffed language devoid of marketeseWrite numbers as numerals – use commas.

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Features need to be show to users – screens get busierMenus get larger – harder to find thingsFeatures must be explained – help documents becomes largerMore features = more likely users will do the wrong thingMore features = more complexity = more time to process.

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Users have a shallow engagement level with websites – it’s so easy to get to other sites.Prefer to skim the contents of each site.The average time a user spends on HPSweb is 9:30 mins.

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Introductory text on web pages is usually too long, so users skip it.Short intros can increase usability by explaining the remaining content's purpose.Intro text should focus on: What (What will users find on this page — i.e., what's its function?) Why (Why should they care — i.e., what's in it for them?)

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Generally users often read in a F-shaped pattern.Users won't read your text thoroughly.First 2 paragraphs must state the most important information.Start subheads, paragraphs, and bullet points with information-carrying words.

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KISS – Keep it short and simple.Cut down on introductory text – focus on actionable content.Usability studies shows that users don’t read – they scan.First 2 paragraphs must state the most important information.

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The main factors which decide how your site ranks on search engines are:1. Back links – the number of sites that link to our site. These are sites that link to your site. Some search engines also take into consideration the relevancy of the site which is linking back to your site. Links within a subdomain or on the same IP address often do not count.One way you can increase backlinks is by

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The first step of optimizing your site is to decide on a list of keywords that you want to associate your site with. These are the keywords that you would want a user to search for to get to your site. The simplest way to do this is to first list out your product and services. If your company is in a niche business where the number of competitors is relevantly less – this is a simple exercise.

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Search engines employ intelligent program robots called crawlers or spider, which visit thousands of websites every hour and index the pages according to the content. These indexes are huge databases containing references and links to the actual websites. When a user makes a search, the search engine looks through this database and displays the results.Every search engines uses it’s own

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SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the science of optimizing your website’s content so that it gets a good ranking on search engines. A good ranking on search engines decides how high up your website appears when a search engine user makes a search for your company, products or services.Ideally you would want to get your company listed on the first or second page of the search results. Being

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