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.

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.

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.

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