Archive for November, 2007
Is your business dependent on Google? Have you ever thought what will be the condition of your business if your site is banned by Google? If your business is fully dependent on Google ranking then it’s not good for the health of your business.
Yes, it’s true that Google is internet’s most renounced Search Engine and it has good interface of judging quality websites but still what will you do if Google banned your well ruled and perfectly legitimate website? Nothing you can do except sending e-mail to them. You can’t call or sue them. They are not even responsible to answer your e-mail.
So, it’s better to think about that possibility and to take necessary steps through which you don’t have to depend on Google.
What are the steps you can take to be independent in the internet?
- Social Media
- Forums
- Links
- Advertisement
2) Social Media: Try to involve your site in Social Media. There are many social networking sites and social bookmarking sites available in the internet. So aim at that huge section of visitors.
3) Community: Community is very important to make your site popular as well as independent. If you can run successful forums in your website then you are definitely not dependent on Google. You have your own identity in the internet.
4) Links: Links are another way of getting good number of visitors. It may not be in huge numbers, but if you have huge links then you can expect good no. of visitors.
5) Advertisement: You can give advertisement in popular websites. It is a good way of getting visitors without depending on Google.
Wish Happy Thanksgiving Day to all!
To know more about thanksgiving day and its history you can visit this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
With the recent bang about paid link business; general web directories have lost the glory they used to possess. Search Engine optimizers have become more skeptical about getting their websites listed in directories. Though directories are good to get one-way links, but a directory site with bad repute in the eyes of Google may do no good. However, some GOOD directories are still there and W3Guru India is thriving to find out more good directories in the coming days.
Articles are good to get links from relevant content page. However, it is still debatable if links from an article that is published 100 times at 100 different places can do any good! Rather an article published in a niche site looks more profitable.
Hence, the key word of today’s internet marketing is NICHE. A link from a related website or, niche directory is much more valuable. Hence, within next few years, we are going to get more niche-specific directories which will help refine our search and make the Internet more clustered rather than scattered.
Another element of Internet is expected to get huge popularity; guess what? BLOG. Search engines prefer Blogs because of the fresh content. Links from Blogrolls, reviews from professional bloggers can work magically in search engine ranking. The importance of Blogs became prominent when Google started Blog Search. Links from Blogs are crawled and cached very fast. Hence it is clear that Blog is another influencing element of today’s SEM.
That said, W3Guru India has come up with an exclusive plan. It will provide webmasters and internet marketers with a blog platform to publish their work. Once your article/review/link is published in W3Guru India, you will get a ONE-WAY LINK from a RELEVANT section of a BLOG – just a punch of all good things! Let’s name it “W3Guru India Plan”! Hey I am still innovative!
W3Guru India also plans to distribute your Press Releases and NEWS items through its index page. Moreover, a new ‘Links of the Week’ section, a consolidated post that contains only good resources for the readers, is ready to come up.
For now, start sending your feedbacks and suggestions. We will officially announce the inauguration of W3Guru India Plan here. So subscribe to W3Guru India Blog Feed and stay tuned!
Las Vegas will be eyeing WebMasterWorld PubCon Conference Vegas 2007 from December 4 - 7 this year. PubCon is the round table attended by search engine marketers, search engine optimizers, marketing executives, webmasters, affiliate managers, program and channel managers and all related professionals from all over the world.PubCon Vegas is going to concentrate on the topics like Search, Web 2.0, Net Marketing, SEO/SEM, Affiliates, Domainers, Video, Multimedia: aka:Webmastery. PubCon has been formatted and organized in such a way that people with different knowledge level can benefit from it.
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigs List, Richard Rosenblatt, CEO and co-founder of Demand Media, Inc and Matt Cutts, Software Engineer at Google Inc. will be presenting keynotes. The special evening session will feature icons of Search Engine standard like Tim Mayer, Rahul Lahiri, Dan Boberg, Matt Cutts, and Eytan Seidman.
W3Guru India wishes all the best to all PubCon attendees, sponsors, supporters and organizers; it is expected that some new standards of success will come out from PubCon Vegas 2007.
Recently we have found, lots of sites lost their Page Rank in the current page rank update by Google. Experts say, sites which have lost their PR, maximum of them sell links.
But now the question arises how Google determines which sites sell links?
We can remember the article “Why should I report paid links to Google?” And in that article one link named “Report paid links” was live. People were asked by Google to report sites which sell or buy links. Thousands of sites had been reported by people. After having the list of sites reported by people Google probably asked some of his employees to check manually whether these sites involved in link selling or buying.
Here is a screen shot of the form of reporting paid links:
The popular Social Bookmarking Website BlueDot.us has is now known as Faves.com. Blue Dot or Faves has informed all the members through email. The reason that has been cited behind this change is: members prefer .com domain over .us hence Faves.com is here.
With the new domain name, Faves.com is going to offer some new features as well. Topic subscriptions and Personalized Home Page are such two marks Faves.com members will enjoy from now on.
However, this change does not need any modifications on members’ part. Members can use this Bookmarking site as they had been using it so far. The toolbar offered by this Social Bookmarking Website does not require any modifications as mentioned in the newsletter.
The penetration of Internet in India being high, the biggies have started recognizing Indian festivals. It’s obviously a part of business networking and relationship building. The post “Orkut wishes Happy Diwali to all its members” has illustrated how Orkut, one of the popular social networking websites in India, has wished Indians on Diwali.
Now, Yahoo! is not lagging behind. Yahoo! India interface is showing dazzling candle images and animated fireworks. Yahoo! has wished Happy Diwali in the perfect Yahoo! way – the Yahoo! logo at the top-left corner has been modified for Diwali; as it is usually done during any special events and festivals.
AOL is also up to celebrate Diwali. They have added a nice candle icon beside their logo on AOL India home page.
Hence, it is clear that Internet Marketers has understood how prospective Indian market is. All the major search engines are supposed to give each other a tight fight here in India and it seems they all are ready for the battle.
Happy Diwali once again!
Orkut members are likely to be welcomed with a “Happy Diwali” message along with a small Icon of Candle on their Orkut Home Page.
Click over the Candle Icon and theme of the page would change. A colorful and bright profile is waiting for all Orkut members!
A second click on the Candle Icon takes members back to the traditional view. Definitely a nice way to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Light. Though originated in India, Diwali is now an international festival and is observed in all over the world. W3Guru India wishes Happy Diwali to all its readers and supporters.
The ranking of the page is influenced by the frequency of the page and its content change. The algorithm of Google tries to differentiate between the superfluous and literal content change. If the change of your web page is small, it won’t effect too much on search ranking. But if you change content for new search terms or re-design your web page then SEs might re-calculate your ranking.
For changed web pages google has a filter, which it applies temporarily to your web sites. Google’s algorithm possible takes in consideration the following changes of web page changes:
1) Frequency of your web page changes,
2) Quantity of the change,
3) Change in the keyword density
If your web page is already in high search ranking then you must take lot of care while changing it.
PayPal now allows funds to be deposited directly to Indian Bank Accounts. Amounts higher than 7,000 INR won’t cost anything; however, PayPal would deduct 50 INR for lower amounts. There can be extra fees charged by the bank for electronic fund transfer.
Earlier, Indian PayPal users had to request for a check to get their funds transferred in INR from any other currencies and PayPal used to cut $5 per check. Now, the whole process has become faster and safer. Indian PayPal users must be happy now.
Just few days back PayPal announced that Indian users can transfer balance to their Visa Credit Card or Visa Debit Card directly. Now by allowing balance transfer to Indian Bank Accounts, PayPal puts another step forward to help Indian users.
With more and more people getting engaged in outsourcing and freelancing in India, this move of PayPal would be beneficial for many. W3Guru India congratulates PayPal for this nice move!
Read more at: New Withdrawals Features Available with PayPal
