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When the real estate comes home to Obares.

2006-02-25T12:09:00.000-08:00

Recently I discovered this site going over through my regular search. At first this comes out as normal real estate site about a regular real estate company. But not quite regular and normal after all. I was on hunt for a apartment in NJ area as I had got my college admissions there and need it to as cheap as it could get.

So I got down to researching on this site. Obares.com real estate gives you the best way to sell your home or buy your dream home. They give you some of the best resources today, including tools and tips that will guide you through the entire process of purchasing your new home right up to the day you move. Not only will you have all the resources at your fingertips to purchase a new home but you will also have everything you need to sell your home.

They have got categories statewise directory of all the realty and mind you, its the most ordered directory I have ever seen.

This is what their site has to tell about them:

We at Obares.com will be here for every homeowner that is looking to sell and every person seeking out there dream home. We will provide you will everything you need from a real estate agent, to finding a home, to financing your loan. The best part is it is FREE.

Should check out the site right away, if you are looking for your dream home.

India moved to Number 4 in total internet users

2006-02-22T08:04:00.000-08:00

WOW!

India with all its top IT brains are now aiming for the next benchmark, top country with highest no. of Internet Users. Good going, but my immediate worry when looking at the awesome achievement is the percentage of penetration in the population. It is limited to only meagre 4.5%. This low penetration reflects the vast amount of untapped potential India has in the field. But things might not be too bad as the major players have now concentrated on market penetration and would be on top of there agenda for coming few years.I predict those absolute "number of users" figures for both india and china to explode over the next 10 years. They might very well be no. 2 and no. 1 respectively in the years to come, insofar as the number of heads are concerned. Of course, in terms of ecommerce transactions, the US will remain the no. 1 for the foreseeable future. But the difference even for this will keep getting smaller and smaller.

Top 20 Countries with Highest number of Internet Users.

#	Country or Region	Internet Users, Latest Data	Population ( 2006 Est. )	Internet Penetration
1	United States	203,824,428	299,093,237	68.1 %
2	China	111,000,000	1,306,724,067	8.5 %
3	Japan	86,300,000	128,389,000	67.2 %
4	India	50,600,000	1,112,225,812	4.5 %
5	Germany	48,722,055	82,515,988	59.0 %
6	United Kingdom	37,800,000	60,139,274	62.9 %
7	Korea (South)	33,900,000	50,633,265	67.0 %
8	Italy	28,870,000	59,115,261	48.8 %
9	France	26,214,174	61,004,840	43.0 %
10	Brazil	25,900,000	184,284,898	14.1 %
11	Russia	23,700,000	143,682,757	16.5 %
12	Canada	21,900,000	32,251,238	67.9 %
13	Indonesia	18,000,000	221,900,701	8.1 %
14	Spain	17,142,198	44,351,186	38.7 %
15	Mexico	16,995,400	105,149,952	16.2 %
16	Australia	14,189,544	20,750,052	68.4 %
17	Taiwan	13,800,000	22,896,488	60.3 %
18	Netherlands	10,806,328	16,386,216	65.9 %
19	Poland	10,600,000	38,115,814	27.8 %
20	Turkey	10,220,000	74,709,412	13.7 %

For more info visit : http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

20gb webspace/1 terabyte bandwidth for 10$/year offer by Dreamhost

2006-02-20T14:33:00.000-08:00

Wow. I would not have believed it until I personally signed up for an account with dreamhost. The host has been in good standing for quite a while and has be in service for more than 10+ years. Even more so, it accepts Paypal Payments too. So when it started to give out such an offer, I was surprised of their overselling but gradually and eventually I ended trying them out.

So how was it, Excellent. In my opinion, it is the best thing you can get from any host. No downtime, consistent, reliable and fast servers, lightening fast support and whole bunch loads of features. What can you want more if you are a webmaster.

To get 10$/year you got to use a promo code of there using a special link. It is there 10 anniversary link that they plan to give out to the their customers to extend their job for 10 years in web hosting industry.

So here is the low down.

Follow this link: http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?plan10

Select the domain you want to register for Free or point your domain name to dreamhost.

Select Username / web id

Now, comes the main part: When you see the billing part, it would contain promo code part , here put in 777 in promo code.

Update and you will see the billing of 9.25$ only. Proceed with signup and you will have your 20gb/1tb web hosting space with free domain for just less then 10$/year!!!!

Do comment on when you sign up for the dreamhost. And I am sure you would sign up!

Regards,

Web Artist.

Google Pagerank Update has finally Begun!! - Update in progress...

2006-02-19T06:20:00.000-08:00

Hello,

Finally the google pagerank updates are here. Pr update has just begun on the data centers 216.239.53.104 and 216.239.53.99 Seemingly theres also a pr roll_back on the other dcs...

I am seeing varied results across all the datacenters but 216.239.53.104 and 216.239.53.99 are clearly showing some changes in PR. Luckily this Pr update may bring in some good news for all webmasters as I am seeing some good results on my sites. Few of them climbing to PR5 from PR0. Sure is good for me at the moment.

Do keep checking you site's PR as the results will start to show up in couple of days. Also the google toolbar is also not showing any changes at the moment. Its understood that this is due to new changes in datacenters the big daddy is planning and thus a delay in PR update and consequential update in Toolbar PR update.

For checking your PR I would suggest this pr checking sites. Almost shows good and accurate results.

http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker
http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank-dc.html
http://www.mcdar.net/Q-Check/datatool.asp
http://www.seotime.com/tools/pagerank/
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/

For more such updates do log on to www.realwebtalk.com

Regards,

Web Artist.

Google Search Results Update - Is this the start of PR update?

2006-02-05T12:01:00.000-08:00

I am seeing an update in search results in Big Daddy. I was previously seeing only 1-5 listing of my 2 directories and just recently i got to see 130+ listing on Indexrated.com Directory and same for Sc2.info directory. What more, all the pages are cached and are showing high of SERPs. Even the pages which were hit by Jagger are back in listing. Although, i dont think its a roll back, but google maybe well on its way to PR update.

The search results are well showing up on few datacenters only, but i bet they will propogate in couple of days if not weeks.

I think we should be expecting a pr update in coming week, maybe in couple of days, lots of shifting is going on in the Big Daddy's datacenter. I just cant wait for the updates, as i have put all my efforts of making my site top of the SERPs and all those SEO optimisations of this blog and my site. So if you have not check up your listing recently, now is good time to check it out. Lot of people are also noticing strange google pageranks on various sites. It maybe be that the guys at the Google Datacenter are playing with the algorithm but im sure all this are enough clues that google PR update is just round the corner. So sit tight and may your site be on top!

I will be updating this post as the pr update begin.

Internet Marketing aka SEO experts - A New Profession!

2006-02-03T12:29:00.000-08:00

Everyone wants a successful web site, one that pops up on Google. To get there you need an Internet Marketing Pro, or a SEO.

If few years back someone would say i am a SEO graduate and want some work, you would have just get rid of him but nowadays there is a growing trend of SEO graduates being recognised accepted by the industry. What has caused this steer and what is the reason behind this, lets have a look at it.

First of all, who are SEO graduates?

Thats the main question, any new businessman who does not have an in depth knowledge of E-commerce would ask. Well SEO graduates can be anyone from Internet designers, marketers, advertising departments to all of them rolled into one. So from this it can be seen that it is not so tough to become an SEO expert. Well as far as my experience goes, it does take some time to learn the methods and tricks to top the Search Engines but its way easier then any other job on earth. All though you may require lot of time and tries but its what makes this profession interesting, its vulnerability. Since everything depends on the algorithms of search engines, you can never be assured that you will get the results you expect. Being said that, this is all about trial and error method. Some may speculate this, but in my opinion, its the truth.

Secondly, Why is SEO and SEO expert required for my business?

Well, this is a most important thing you should consider before starting any of the businesses. SEO works your site to the top of search engines. This will bring you immense amount of traffic to your site which may be providing 'x' products and services, as in any business, its all about your visibility, the more your are on top in search rankings , more your are visible and hence successful in business.

Internet marketers who are SEO experts can earn unlimited amounts of money quickly and easily since they can not only come up with a business idea, but they can execute each step along the way. This makes them the most important part of any organisations success provided that organisation is e-commerce related which most of the organisations nowadays are.It is not easy to hire one of these web guru's, their time is usually booked up months ahead of time. They usually charge huge amounts of money for their skill, and rightly so. After all, what is a top spot on Yahoo worth anyway?

At last, all things being said and done, i would add that it is a relatively new concept where a specialist - the SEO - forces a web page to the top of search results. The typical SEO will take hours to find the right keywords, carefully placing them into web copy for maximum search results.

Internet marketing professional Zane Durant said, "I have to work on some of our clients web sites every day to keep up with their competition. To be on top today your SEO must tweak things constantly, updating keywords, adding pages, news, etc. If you do that, you can guarantee a top position on search engines."

I completely agree to his point, as its new and unique concept, its demand in new generation would be more. It is good to see that finally the internet marketing era has came to this age.
More and more seminars and conferences are being held worldwide regarding this new field of expertisation. Even the colleges has recognised this new trend and have slowly but steadily accepting this new field of expertise. With lot of sites coming up day by day and competition and market share becoming more and more important, this Internet Marketing experts , with all their expertise and time, with affirmation of top results, stand by you to make your business success.

Where all it takes to be on top is Internet Marketing Expert.

Any discussion or doubts related to this topic can be discussed in SEO Tutorials Section

Author is owner of www.realwebtalk.com - A Webmaster Discussion Community and works as part time SEO. His succesfull ventures include Indexrated Directory & Sc2 Links Directory. Check out more stuff related to SEO and other things on Realwebtalk.com.

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7 ways to get super adsense income - Tried and Tested

2006-01-29T05:17:00.000-08:00

7 WAYS TO GET SUPER ADSENSE INCOME - A TRIED AND TESTED WAY!

Hello,

Let me before starting this topic tell you that I am not in the top adsense earners or the so called 'premium publishers', but i do have a decent income from google adsense program. Its very simple to earn good money from this program. Your 15 year old kids are earning 2000$ monthly from it, so why cant you.

Its a myth that to you got to know all the technical stuff and should be a programming guru to earn off that much from google adsense. Its totally unrealistic, but all the premium publisher or atleast most of them are general site owners with basic or amatuer knowledge to technology. This is the real thing.

So you must be wondering what seperates them from us, why do earn so huge amount of money while we just sit wondering what should be done to get to that point.

From my point of view, i would suggest the following golden 7 steps to ensure such fat income :

1. To start off, Google Adsense business should be treated as importantly as other businesses. Its totally unethical to call it as residual income. If you consider it as residual then you should not expect big cheques from it.

2. Secondly, track you improvements, changes in ad positioning, whats working and whats not. From today, track all the changes you do and their impacts, its the basic common mistake that we make, not tracking the changes we make. This helps in analysing few things which works for us and which do not. Repeat the things next time you go about making a new site and stay away from the things which didnt work this time. It helps in avoiding mistakes we make again and again.

3. The main thing this premium publisher do, is take up some broad niche and then divide them into sub niches, each having its individual sites. For eg, Sports, Cricket, Indian Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, Fan sites. They use specific automated site building tools to make up their instant niche sites. This automated tools are their main secret weapons of mass earnings.

4. Once you have exhausted making the 'n' no. of niche sites from the same niche, provide backlinks, links from each niche site to other one, and from each page to related page in other sites.

5. Now, designing your site requires one main point to be covered, make it very easy to browse as well as simple on the looks. Remember your main aim is to have click through on adsense rather then distracting your viewer to other things. Here the mantra is to 'Tell' not 'Sell' like any e-commerce site which will have emphasis on its product and will guide the viewer to their products. So make an informative site with enough content which will have adsense related matter.

6. Now comes the main part, the exposure of your sites, its easy and should be a gradual but steady process, make links from other related to yours, provide interlinking to your various related sites, make sitemap of each site and submit it to google, submit your sites to various directories like Indexrated & Sc2 Link Directory. This should provide you steady and good traffic. In 2-4 months, you would be having enough traffic to have good amount of click-throughs.

7. After doing the tough part, you got to have patience on your part. Nobody and i mean nobody can earn 100$ on 1 day itself, wait for few months and you would be on your way to premium publisher. If you still want to earn more, repeat this steps with different niche and double your earnings.

This way, has been tried and tested by my friend and i have posted this article after interviewing him. His earnings averaged 10k $/month in past 6 months.Now that must be good enough for you, probably :)

If you have any doubts or want to discuss on this topic, kindly visit http://www.realwebtalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3099

Google backlinks just updated

2005-12-19T15:17:00.000-08:00

Google just updated there backlinks data. I noticed after someone told that there was backlink update going on. I just checked with my webtools and i showed an increase in backlinks on my few sites which i track daily.

You can check your backlinks update with Link Popularity Tool

The update of the backlinks i came to know was of my forums about webmaster discussion and tutorials : www.realwebtalk.com

I just noticed an increase in backlinks of this new forum but about 10+ backlinks. However the update is still in process and its still not clear as of how much time will it take to show over all the datacenters. But its confirmed according to my observations the google is having its Backlinks Update!

Stay tuned to more info. Ill be back with more such updates and coverage on the same!

Signing Off,

Admans.

eBay stops illegal sale of Excel flaw

2005-12-12T01:40:00.000-08:00

Online auction house, eBay, has pulled an auction in which the highest bidder would have won information on how to exploit an alleged flaw in Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet application.

The flaw could allow a malicious programmer to remotely take control of a Windows based PC if the owner of the program opens a specific spreadsheet.

"The listing was immediately reviewed and pulled from the site for violating our policy against promoting illegal activity--hacking," Catherine England, spokeswoman for the online auctioneer said in an e-mail to SecurityFocus, a source of security information on the Internet.

"In general, research can be sold as a product. However, if the research were to violate the law or intellectual property rights then it would not be allowed."

The company removed the listing after being alerted to it by Microsoft.

The listing stated:

“Up for sale is one (1) brand new vulnerability in the Microsoft Excel application. The vulnerability was discovered on December 6th 2005, all the details were submitted to Microsoft, and the reply was received indicating that they may start working on it. It can be assumed that no patch addressing this vulnerability will be available within the next few months. So, since I was unable to find any use for this by-product of Microsoft developers, it is now available for you at the low starting price of $0.01 (a fair value estimation for any Microsoft product).”

The listing went on to say:

“The winning bidder must provide an e-mail address that accepts .xls attachments. Two xls files will be mailed to this e-mail address: one file is the original Microsoft Excel document, the other one is a copy of the same document modified to demonstrate the vulnerability. The demonstration merely triggers the exception causing Excel to crash. It does not do anything malicious. A detailed de ion of the vulnerability will be provided in the message body. At that time you can claim youself to be THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD possessing the knowledge about the vulnerability. Wow! Imagine that! (Well, not counting Microsoft, but I really doubt that they’ll share it with anyone.) It is up to you what to do with it, but you may not use it for malicious purposes”

Review of Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire

2005-11-21T10:14:00.001-08:00

Well Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire was special movie for me...for it was released on my birthday....dat 18th November..in India release date was 18th for the folks thinking which of the 3 dates it was...well i had pre booked my ticket to this dark sequel from the JKR renowed and famous book series and was preety much excited about it.

To add touch to it, i had booked the tickets for IMAX dome. So watching the movie in IMAX format was a totally different experience as to seeing it on a normal theatre screen. Anyways, enough of the boring talks about me and lets get down to reviewing this sequel, for i liked it and would like to share it with you.

It is Harry Potter's fourth year at Hogwarts, and the big event of the semester is the perilous and prestigious TriWizard Tournament. Harry is too young to enter, but somehow his name is selected by the magical Goblet which puts forward the contestants, an act that forces him to partake.

His nomination causes consternation among his fellow pupils (in particular best bud Ron), but the reckless new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Alastor "MadEye" Moody (Brendan Gleeson) offers sound advice for the competition.

Meanwhile Harry is plagued by suspiciously realistic nightmares about evil dark lord Voldemort, and finds himself engaging in his first teenage crush.

As Alfonso Cuaron proved with the last Harry Potter film, the series benefits greatly from a director willing to infuse a little grit and personally into an adaptation. The first two movies, directed by Chris Columbus, were superficially competent, but undeniably flat in tone and lacking in wonder.

Now we have the fourth film, directed for the first time by a Brit (Mike Newell, helmer of Donnie Brasco; Four Weddings and Funeral and Pushing Tin) who thankfully leans closer to Cuaron's sensibility than Columbus'.

He may not quite possess the perceptive grasp of pubescent interaction that Cuaron lent Prisonor of Azkaban, but Newell does an excellent job of building an ominous tone around Hogwarts; shoots the action scenes with flair and creativity and unleashes the scarier scenes with an admirable lack of restraint.

These and other elements help make Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the most enjoyable of the series so far, although it's becoming a bit of a cliché to say that with each new instalment. Pity the director who drops the ball.

But this latest film is the most fun, not just because of the attributes listed above; or the inevitable (albeit slow) maturing of its young characters, but also because it features some supremely cool set-pieces and standard-setting special effects.

For a fantasy series, the special effects in the Harry Potter have always felt lacking, but the dragon on display during the Triwizard Tournament is one of the best ever committed to screen. And the underwater component featuring some nasty mer-creatures is deliciously unsettling.

The young leads have very much settled into the skin of their characters, but this doesn't prevent the occasional false note, particularly as this film begins to delve into awkward teenage issues which required perhaps a lighter directing touch. John Hughes, Mike Newell ain't.

It's weird watching all the returning supporting cast members succumb to the physical throws of puberty, and Ron's scoundrel older twin brothers get far too much face time this time. Their schtick ain't getting any funnier.

Brendan Gleeson makes for a lively MadEye Moody, but the best new addition to the cast is definitely Ralph Fiennes, who masterfully embodies Voldemort for the climax. Underneath a skilled (apparently CGI-enhanced) make-up job, he is impressively scary in both speech and action, a feat all the more admirable considering the hyperbolistic build up the character has had over the series.

It's not hard to see why the film garnered an M rating, but that said, any younger Potter fans should be fine if they have a sturdy hand to grasp during the darker bits.

With more to offer non-readers of the series than ever before, and the world of the books becoming all the more richer for the fans, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire gets the job done well.

Recommended.

Google lets Web sites sign up advertisers directly

2005-11-19T00:54:00.000-08:00

SAN FRANCISCO – Advertisers wishing to place ads on Google-supported Web sites can sign up directly on those sites, the Web search leader said Friday, in a move analysts said addresses concerns about its growing advertising clout.

The company said the new feature, known as Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, will help Web site publishers connect with a wider range of small advertisers when using Google's behind- the-scenes ad management system.

Previously, advertisers seeking to market on Web sites using Google's syndicated AdSense advertising system had to enroll through Google's AdWords program and list sites where they wished their ads to be featured.

The instant sign-up feature ties site owners and advertisers by giving Web publishers more direct control over how advertisers select ads on particular sites. In turn, site owners and Google each receive a cut of resulting ad sales.

Gary Stein, an analyst with Jupiter Research in San Francisco, said Google has faced mounting competition as it seeks to attract and keep thousands of publishers in its AdSense advertising syndication program.

"It is a message to publishers that you can still own and manage your own advertising relationships," Stein said. "They don't have to all be mediated by Google."

Rivals Yahoo Inc., Kanoodle and others appeal to Google's Web site publishers by questioning how much control they want to cede to Google to manage the publishers ties to its own advertisers. Web site publishers often use a variety of different ad networks on different portions of their sites and decide which one to use based on customer returns, Stein said.

AdSense, which allows Web site publishers to run keyword text or image ads through a system managed by Google, has become a phenomenally popular way for sites to generate revenue from each ad clicked on by site visitors.

Google receives 99 percent of its revenue from advertising sales. A little less than half of the Mountain View, California-based company's revenue comes from Google-run advertising on other companies' Web sites.

The new feature is designed to allow Web sites to sign up smaller advertisers while leaving the headaches of managing the production and billing process to Google's automated software.

But how Google manages its ad system remains something of a mystery to its customers, Stein said.

While Yahoo and Kanoodle have sought to make their ad systems more transparent to publishers, Google keeps key details of how its system runs secret from customers and asks them to trust that it markets ads in an even-handed fashion.

Advertisers wishing to advertise directly on a Web sites using the syndicated Google advertising program can click on an "Advertise on This Site" link that takes them to a Google page where they can create an AdWords ad for the specific Web site.

Ads created through Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up will compete in the same auction as all other Google ads. The new feature is an extension of Google's site-targeted advertising, which was launched earlier this year.

More information on the onsite advertising program will be available at www.google.com/services/oasu/.

Google shares, which topped $400 for the first time on Thursday, dipped $3.24, or 0.8 percent to close at $400.21 in Friday trading on Nasdaq.

Taken from : http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20051118-1343-media-google-advertising.html

An SEO Glossary - Common SEO Terms Defined

2005-11-17T22:18:00.000-08:00

by Glenn Murray

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has become an essential weapon in the arsenal of every online business. Unfortunately, for most business owners and marketing managers (and even many webmasters), it's also somewhat of an enigma. This is partly due to the fact that it's such a new and rapidly changing field, and partly due to the fact that SEO practitioners tend to speak in a language all of their own which, without translation, is virtually impenetrable to the layperson. This glossary seeks to remedy that situation, explaining specialist SEO terms in plain English...

AdWords

See Adwords.

algorithm

A complex mathematical formula used by search engines to assess the relevance and importance of websites and rank them accordingly in their search results. These algorithms are kept tightly under wraps as they are the key to the objectivity of search engines (i.e. the algorithm ensures relevant results, and relevant results bring more users, which in turn brings more advertising revenue).

article PR

The submitting of free reprint articles to many article submission sites and article distribution lists in order to increase your website's search engine ranking and Google PageRank. (In this sense, the "PR" stands for PageRank.) Like traditional public relations, article PR also conveys a sense of authority because your articles are widely published. And because you're proving your expertise and freely dispensing knowledge, your readers will trust you and will be more likely to remain loyal to you. (In this sense, the "PR" stands for Public Relations.)

article submission sites

Websites which act as repositories of free reprint articles. They are sites where authors can submit their articles free of charge, and where webmasters can find articles to use on their websites free of charge. Article submission sites generate revenue by selling advertising space on their websites. See also article PR.

backlink

A text link to your website from another website.

copy

The words used on your website.

copywriter

A professional writer who specializes in the writing of advertising copy (compelling, engaging words promoting a particular product or service).

crawl

Google finds pages on the World Wide Web and records their details in its index by sending out 'spiders' or 'robots'. These spiders make their way from page to page and site to site by following text links. To a spider, a text link is like a door.

domain name

The virtual address of your website (normally in the form www.yourbusinessname.com). This is what people will type when they want to visit your site. It is also what you will use as the address in any text links back to your site.

ezine

An electronic magazine. Most publishers of ezines are desperate for content and gladly publish well written, helpful articles and give you full credit as author, including a link to your website.

Flash

A technology used to create animated web pages (and page elements).

free reprint article

An article written by you and made freely available to other webmasters to publish on their websites.

Google

The search engine with the greatest coverage of the World Wide Web, and which is responsible for most search engine-referred traffic. Of approximately 11.5 billion pages on the World Wide Web, it is estimated that Google has indexed around 8.8 billion. This is one reason why it takes so long to increase your ranking!

Google AdWords

See Adwords.

Google PageRank

How Google scores a website's importance. It gives all sites a mark out of 10. By downloading the Google Toolbar, you can view the PR of any site you visit.

Google Toolbar

A free tool you can download. It becomes part of your browser toolbar. It's most useful features are it's PageRank display (which allows you to view the PR of any site you visit) and it's AutoFill function (when you're filling out an online form, you can click AutoFill, and it enters all the standard information automatically, including Name, Address, Zip code/Postcode, Phone Number, Email Address, Business Name, Credit Card Number (password protected), etc.) Once you've downloaded and installed the toolbar, you may need to set up how you'd like it to look and work by clicking Options (setup is very easy). NOTE: Google does record some information (mostly regarding sites visited).

HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the coding language used to create much of the information on the World Wide Web. Web browsers read the HTML code and display the page that code describes.

Internet

An interconnected network of computers around the world.

JavaScript

A programming language used to create dynamic website pages (e.g. interactivity).

keyword

A word which your customers search for and which you use frequently on your site in order to be relevant to those searches. This use known as targeting a keyword. Most websites actually target 'keyword phrases' because single keywords are too generic and it is very difficult to rank highly for them.

keyword density

A measure of the frequency of your keyword in relation to the total wordcount of the page. So if your page has 200 words, and your keyword phrase appears 10 times, its density is 5%.

keyword phrase

A phrase which your customers search for and which you use frequently on your site in order to be relevant to those searches.

link

A word or image on a web page which the reader can click to visit another page. There are normally visual cues to indicate to the reader that the word or image is a link.

link path

Using text links to connect a series of page (i.e. page 1 connects to page 2, page 2 connects to page 3, page 3 connects to page 4, and so on). Search engine 'spiders' and 'robots' use text links to jump from page to page as they gather information about it, so it's a good idea to allow them traverse your entire site via text links.

link partner

A webmaster who is willing to put a link to your website on their website. Quite often link partners engage in reciprocal linking.

link popularity

The number of links to your website. Link popularity is the single most important factor in a high search engine ranking. Webmasters use a number of methods to increase their site's link popularity including article PR, link exchange (link partners / reciprocal linking), link buying, and link directories.

link text

The part of a text link that is visible to the reader. When generating links to your own site, they are most effective (in terms of ranking) if they include your keyword.

meta tag

A short note within the header of the HTML of your web page which describes some aspect of that page. These meta tags are read by the search engines and used to help assess the relevance of a site to a particular search.

natural search results

The 'real' search results. The results that most users are looking for and which take up most of the window. For most searches, the search engine displays a long list of links to sites with content which is related to the word you searched for. These results are ranked according to how relevant and important they are.

PageRank

See Google PageRank.

rank

Your position in the search results that display when someone searches for a particular word at a search engine.

reciprocal link

A mutual agreement between two webmasters to exchange links (i.e. they both add a link to the other's website on their own website). Most search engines (certainly Google) are sophisticated enough to detect reciprocal linking and they don't view it very favorably because it is clearly a manufactured method of generating links. Websites with reciprocal links risk being penalized.

robots.txt file

A file which is used to inform the search engine spider which pages on a site should not be indexed. This file sits in your site's root directory on the web server. (Alternatively, you can do a similar thing by placing tags in the header section of your HTML for search engine robots/spiders to read.

Sandbox

Many SEO experts believe that Google 'sandboxes' new websites. Whenever it detects a new website, it withholds its rightful ranking for a period while it determines whether your site is a genuine, credible, long term site. It does this to discourage the creation of SPAM websites (sites which serve no useful purpose other than to boost the ranking of some other site). Likewise, if Google detects a sudden increase (i.e. many hundreds or thousands) in the number of links back to your site, it may sandbox them for a period (or in fact penalize you by lowering your ranking or blacklisting your site altogether).

SEO

Search Engine Optimization. The art of making your website relevant and important so that it ranks high in the search results for a particular word.

SEO copywriter

A 'copywriter' who is not only proficient at web copy, but also experienced in writing copy which is optimized for search engines (and will therefore help you achieve a better search engine ranking for your website).

search engine

A search engine is an online tool which allows you to search for websites which contain a particular word or phrase. The most well known search engines are Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

site map

A single page which contains a list of text links to every page in the site (and every page contains a text link back to the site map). Think of your site map as being at the center of a spider-web.

SPAM

Generally refers to unwanted and unrequested email sent en-masse to private email addresses. Also used to refer to websites which appear high in search results without having any useful content. The creators of these sites set them up simply to cash in on their high ranking by selling advertising space, links to other sites, or by linking to other sites of their own and thereby increasing the ranking of those sites. The search engines are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and already have very efficient ways to detect SPAM websites and penalize them.

spider

Google finds pages on the World Wide Web and records their details in its index by sending out 'spiders' or 'robots'. These spiders make their way from page to page and site to site by following text links.

Sponsored Links

Paid advertising which displays next to the natural search results. Customers can click on the ad to visit the advertiser's website. This is how the search engines make their money. Advertisers set their ads up to display whenever someone searches for a word which is related to their product or service. These ads look similar to the natural search results, but are normally labeled "Sponsored Links", and normally take up a smaller portion of the window. These ads work on a Pay-Per-Click (PPC) basis (i.e. the advertiser only pays when someone clicks on their ad).

submit

You can submit your domain name to the search engines so that their 'spiders' or 'robots' will crawl your site. You can also submit articles to 'article submission sites' in order to have them published on the Internet.

text link

A word on a web page which the reader can click to visit another page. Text links are normally blue and underlined. Text links are what 'spiders' or 'robots' use to jump from page to page and website to website.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a particular page published on the Internet. Normally in the form http://www.yourbusinessname.com/AWebPage.htm.

web copywriter

A 'copywriter' who understands the unique requirements of writing for an online medium.

webmaster

A person responsible for the management of a particular website.

wordcount

The number of words on a particular web page.

World Wide Web (WWW)

The vast array of documents published on the Internet. It is estimated that the World Wide Web now consists of approximately 11.5 billion pages.

Taken from : http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=75341

Make Your Blog Visible To Search Engines: Title Length

2005-11-17T05:51:00.000-08:00

So continuing right along with this blog optimization thread, I was looking over my SEO blog and my Fun/Jokes blog and I found myself wondering if title length is important to SEO? In my particular case, is it important to Google? I did some research and checked out a few forums. The most relevant thread I found agrees that all titles should be around 10-12 words, include keywords, and make sense.

I know that many of you have a different way of writing titles on your blogs. Please share your techniques with us.

Make Your Blog Visible To Search Engines: Content

2005-11-17T05:42:00.000-08:00

To all my other readers, even though these posts are directed towards Blog Seo , I highly recommend reading them because they contain some awesome Seo tips that regular website owners could use to boost their rankings. Let's dive right into this...

Everywhere you go, people say that content is king. They are right. Not only search engines love fresh content filled with nice keywords, but readers will appreciate your site and return to it more frequently if you feed 'em some cool and interesting facts. There are a few ways to utilize your content and create static html pages especially for those search engine robots. Here's how:

Write about yourself

Everyone enjoys reading the about page. If I'm reading a blog, I would love to know who's behind it. The About page puts you a bit closer to your readers. I don't have one, but it's coming soon...Keep coming back and one day you just might find it :)

Write about your industry

If you are blogging about a specific topic, write a separate page that introduces the industry you are blogging about. Search engines can use that page for rankings and your readers will use it for information. It works both ways.

Define unknown terms

You must keep in mind that when you write about a specific topic, not only experts will be checking out your sites. You should expect a few newbies as well. For them, create a glossary of terms you might be referring to as you blog. This can serve as a keyword factory for search engines and be of some use to those novices that wanna learn.

These are only a few things you should think about when trying to make your blog as user-friendly and robot-friendly as possible. Whatever you do, don't limit yourself to these three points. Write about what you think is cool and what others might find useful and let me know how it turns out. Share your blogs in my comments bellow so we can all enjoy 'em.

Make Your Blog Visible To Search Engines: Keywords

2005-11-17T05:32:00.000-08:00

I will be focusing on a few SEO tips designed especially for bloggers. Today, I would like to talk about using keywords in blogs. Many bloggers that are reading this site are often confused as to how optimize their page for search engines, especially if they are blogging about many things at once. Also this being my first post do bear with me if you find some mistakes. We will start with simple tips and then go onto to smart and innovative solutions towards achieving our main goal. Read on and leave comments...

For bloggers that tend to blog about everything, I have some bad news. It is almost impossible to optimize your blog for a specific keyword. Your best bet is to stick to a topic and optimize for it. So how do you succeed as a blogger?

The first tip is pick a niche that has very few competitors. The smaller is your competition, the more likely you are to succeed. You can estimate the size of your competition by using Overture's Keyword Selector Tool.Anyway, using this tool you can predict how many search queues were conducted for a keyword and how many results were spat back. The ideal situation is many queues and few results.

Now that you've picked a keyword, it is very easy to optimize for it. Just include it in your links, headers, and articles.

To drive a very specific traffic, you can localize your keywords. For example, you are blogging about digital cameras in Honolulu, your keyword could be "digital cameras Honolulu". Don't be too specific with your keywords though. You have to find that golden mean.

To summarize, be specific about your blogging. Try not to cover 100 topics at once. Chose keywords that return few results but are very popular. Optimize for these keywords using tips on this blog.

Enjoy and happy optimization.You must be thinking why am i doing this, well i love experimenting new stuff and especially me being in this field i love optimising things. Discussing things over here is simply an act of exchanging knowledge with the persons of my interests and knowledge. If you like my views please leave your feedback or questions.

Thanx for reading.