Wordtracker for Australia !?

Is there an option to access keywords related to Australia. Or at least other than US and UK countries?
Is there any reason they only providing keywords for US and UK. The reason is simple, they don't have data.

Can you guess how Wordtracker works?

I guess it has tie-up with site tracking software companies like statcounter, addfreestats etc etc..

They will either buy data from them or give share in their revenue to those web stats software companies.

And the use some formulas wisely.

Anyway it may useful for US and UK, but remains useless for other countries.

Creative Clans Slide Show parameters

Hi Friends

I found Creative Clans Slide Show is useful flash application. In fact it is free. But many people confuse how to use it. Mainly Transition parameters.

Hence it is hard to find out the transition effects list in their website directly using Google, Here i am giving the list. I hope it will helps you.

Creative Clans Slide Show Transition effects List

none
fadeout
fadein
upout
upin
downout
downin
leftout
leftin
rightout
rightin
leftupout
leftupin
rightupout
rightupin
rightdownout
rightdownin
leftdownout
leftdownin
shrinkleftup
growleftup
shrinkleftdown
growleftdown
shrinkrightup
growrightup
shrinkrightdown
growrightdown
shrinkcenter
growcenter

Defining path for Joomla
Just use the path like "images/stories/" in the text box. Do not use full path or absolute path.

For more documentation please visit http://www.creativeclans.nl/2009/01/creative-clans-slide-show-v12-user-guide/

New Defnitions for your Child

A for Apple
B for Boll
C for Cat
.
.
.

But when you start typing alphabets in Google, Google shows search query suggestions. So what Google gives is interesting. As per Google the following sites are most popular.

A for Amazon
B for Best Buy
C for craigslist
D for dictionary
E for ebay
F for facebook
G for Gmail
H for hotmail
I for IMDB
J for jet blue
K for kohls
L for lowes
M for mapquest (not MSN?)
N for netflix
O for old navy
P for pandora
Q for quotes
R for realtor.com
S for southwest airlines
T for target
U for usps
V for verizon wireless
W for walmart
X for xm radio
Y for youtube
Z for zillow

Chennai SEO Companies

Here I would like to list some of the SEO companies in Chennai. I am giving the SEO company address with phone numbers, website and my comments. All these companies are actually originated in Chennai. Please contact me if you wanted your company get listed here. This is voluntary not commercial, so please feel free to write me to ravi.mareedu@gmail.com. The SEO firms listed here are not based on ranking. Its just random list. Most of the sites missing SEO clients portfolio. The fact is, when you show achieved results for your client's, you can easily win an SEO client.


Scorpio Technologies - http://www.scorpiotechnologies.com


Such a nice design with good web design portfolio list. It has SEO client testimonials but missing SEO client list with rankings.

Address
Scorpio Technologies
B Block, 4th Floor, Lakshmi Towers,
93 Arcot Road, Kodambakkam, Chennai - 24
Phone: 044 42046949, TeleFax: 2375 0865
Sales Enquiry: +91- 93819 27540, + 91 - 97104 45243
Sales / Technical Support: +91 - 97104 45245
Email: samant@scorpiotechnologies.com, scortec@vsnl.com for link exchange : links@scorpiotechnologies.com



ProdigyApex Technologies - http://www.seoindia.mobi

They have office in US too. It has good portfolio with its SEO clients list. Good track record. Great effects in showing the client portfolio. I really liked it.

Address

Sunny - CTO,
Prodigy Apex Technologies
AP 226/9, 2nd Floor- First Block, 8th Street - off 18th Main Road,
AnnaNagar West, Chennai - 600 101
Tel: 044-4553-6793
Email: info@prodigyapex.com


Carvez Web Solutions  - http://www.carvez.org

Nice and simple design with tiled background. Hard to notice the menu from home page. Missing SEO clients portfolio.

Address
Carvez Web Solutions
No76, 1st floor,
Ellaiamman Koil Street, (Sastri Nagar 8th Cross Street Junction)
Vannanthurai, Adyar,
Chennai - 600020
Email : info@carvez.org
Phone : 044 45511436


Web Mindtree - http://www.webmindtree.com

Such a clean site and great presentation on homepage itself. Has good design portfolio. Missing SEO portfolio.

Address
WebMindtree Solutions
#29/16, 2nd Street
Shakthi Nagar, Kodambakkam,
Chennai - 24, India.
Mail :
info@webmindtree.com
sales@webmindtree.com
Mobile : +91 - 9043532262


Visuals India - http://www.visualsindia.com

Outsourcing web design company. Had design clients portfolio, missing seo clients portfolio.

Address
148/6 Nattu Muthu Naicken Street,
Chennai, Tamilnadu
India - 600018
Tel: 044 42113369
Mob: +91-9444689248
Email: info@visualsindia.com
seo@visualsindia.com


Advent Designs - http://www.adventdesigns.in

Cool site. Had portfolio for webdesign, 2d objects, 3d objects, Animation and Logo design. But... still missing SEO portfolio and testimonials.

 Address
ADVENT DESIGNS PRIVATE LIMITED
19,kairali,
Nageshwara Road,
(Opp. to. Child Trust Hospital)
Nungambakkam
Chennai - 600 034.
Ph: + 91 - 44 - 2826 2999


PKWebbs - http://www.pkwebbs.com

Design inconsistency across browsers. Need to improve design. .

Address
PKWebbS
No.13 | Vallakottai Murugan Street |
Off Medavakkam Main Road |
Near Bus Terminus | Keelkattalai |
Chennai 600117.
Phone : +91 99625 60450.


Concern Infotech - http://www.concerninfotech.com

This company seems to be in business from long time. A standard one. They had many clients but not segregated which were come into SEO. and missing SEO portfolio and prices.

Address
Chennai Office:
Concern Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
1/6,Flowers Road, 4th Lane, 2nd floor,
Purasawalkam,
Chennai - 600 084.
Phone : 044-2640 0136

That's it for now. Will come back with more useful stuff..

Blog traffic reputation management

If you want to keep you blog traffic up, and if you don't want to lose any traffic for your keywords..
Only one solution is..
Keep posting.. Don't stop blogging.
Specially for Google Blogger.

I stopped blogging for last one week..
And decreased the frequency of blogging.. So my traffic dropped enormously.
See the graph below

Option to Resubmit Robots.txt

Today I added a site into Google webmaster tools and verified.
Unfortunately the robots.txt file was wrong.
And now I wanted to  resubmit it.
There is no option to resubmit the robots.txt file on the Google webmaster tools.
I tried deleting the site and adding it again.. but it is considering the old robots.txt file.
It would be good idea to add a new feature on the Google webmaster tools to resubmit the robots.txt file.

SEO Consultant Chennai

Looking for SEO consultant in Chennai? Need a consultant to optimize your website? I can help you out. Call me: 09176315310. I can help you out for any kind of website with in Chennai(Tamil Nadu). Even if you need small suggestions in SEO, I can provide you for free of cost. I can provide free SEO consultation for non-profit websites. People who needs SEO troubleshooting also can consult me. I have 7 years of experience in Online marketing and Search Engine Optimization.

If you need consultation out of Chennai also please give me a call, so that I can let you know my convenient time.

My service areas includes below

• SEO Consulting
• SEO troubleshooting
• Online Marketing Consultation (PPC consulting)
  
• Speed Optimization (How to minimize your website loading time)
  
• Flash website SEO
• AJAX website optimization
• Joomla/ CMS sites SEO
• E-Commerce websites SEO
• News portals Optimization
• SEO for Chennai Local sites 
  
• Canonicalization
• Mod Rewrite / URL optimization
• Competitor Analysis
• Site indexing problems
• Site structure
• HTML coding standards for SEO
  

Basically I am from Hyderabad, I cam to Chennai an year back, I don't know Tamil. So, the preferred communication language would be English.

So, don't worry if you are not getting good rankings or if you don't know how to start and where to start to optimize or even if you totally lost your site from Google listing. I can help you out.

Consulting Timings: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Monday to Friday), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Saturday and Sunday)

You can also email me: ravi.mareedu@gmail.com(gmail chat ID).

SEO corporate training in Chennai

If you need Corporate training for SEO in Chennai, Please contact me - 09176315310(Chennai Number) / ravi.mareedu@gmail.com. I will share my knowledge, experiences and techniques. I strongly believe that there are no secrets for SEO, I am open to share every SEO technique I know and use. I can not provide my SEO resume right here. Please send me an email to ravi.mareedu@gmail.com if you wanted to look at my SEO resume. Currently I am working in Chennai as SEO expert, i've been in this field from last seven years.

About SEO corporate training session (Chennai)

The SEO training session needs three to four hours. You can have a tea break in the middle. At the end or in the middle, I am glad to answer all your questions.

Let me breakup the SEO corporate training topics

• Types of Online marketing
  
• Introduction about SEO, SEM amd SMO
• How to win an SEO client
• Do's and Don'ts SEO promises
• SEO Process
• Building SEO strategic plan
  
• Competitor analysis
• Keyword extraction
• SEO Tools
• Link Building, Link bait and techniques
  
• White Hat SEO, Techniques & Practices
• Black Hat SEO, Techniques & Practices
• SEO Things to consider while programming / website design / website building
• Site Structure
  
• Flash websites optimization
• News sites Optimization
• SEO for corporate sites
• AJAX sites optimization
• CMS Sites Optimization
• Joomla Optimization (If you need)
  
• SEO for E-Commerce sites
• URL Optimization
  
• SEO Troubleshooting
• Search Engines and its challenges
• Speed Optimization
• Canonicalization
• Q & A

It would be good if you can provide a computer with internet connection and a projector for the SEO training session. Preferred training days: Saturday and Sunday.

There is another reason for that I wanted to choose to give SEO corporate training, it is http://Donate-Books.org. I am promoting this site for needy Indian students. I would like to take the word into the public.

I would like to take the basic training classes for colleges and universities in Chennai too, for nominal charges. Please contact me if some one needs SEO, online marketing training for colleges and universities in Chennai.

For Corporate SEO Training in Bangalore(Bengaluru), Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune also please contact me at

Email: ravi.mareedu@gmail.com
Phone: 09176315310 (Chennai Number)

Donate from Chennai to Kurnool Flood Victims

If you want to donate to Kurnool food affected people from Chennai, here is the way. Chennai Social Service(CSS) is gathering donations like clothes, bedding blankets, utensils, mugs, buckets, food packets, dry foods like biscuits and milk, medicines. They arranged a truck from Chennai to Kurnool which will starts on Saturday(10th October 2009) and reach Kurnool. Please come forward to support the flood victims. Please donate food or cloths or money or household things. It is the biggest disaster in Andhra Pradesh state history. Kurnool people lost everything, their homes, family members and more.

 

You may donate the following things to Kurnool flood victims.

1.Clothes
2 Bedding, blankets, bed spreads
3 Utensils
4 mugs, buckets
5 Food packets
6 dry food like biscuits/ milk tins/ horlicks tins
7 medicines like first aid
8 Madhu is buying some utensils for the affected families interested people contact Tiru


Contact people at Chennai Social Service are Venkat 9841550476; Satish @ 9840661732 and Tiru @ 9894062532

We need your help to support the needy people in Kurnool.


If you need any further information please email me at ravi.mareedu@gmail.com


Lets show Humanity..

Difference between search engine optimiser and website optimiser

There is a lot of difference between search engine optimiser and website optimiser. Search Engine Optimiser deal with optimising the website only for search engines. But website optimiser optimise the website for search engines, speed and for users. Website Optimisers should take care about many other things that can not be handled by search engine optimisers.


The job duties of Search Engine Optimiser may include

• Optimising title tags
• Optimising meta tags
• Optimising image alt tags
• Optimising HTML code
• Writing meta redirects
• Optimising URLs
• Writing .htaccess rules
• Keyword recommendations
• Competitor analysis
• Content writing
• Link building
  

The job duties of Website Optimiser may include
  
All the job duties of SEO as well as the following things

• Optimising the website for users
  
• Optimising the website for Speed
• Analyzing the bounce rates and suggesting to the client
  
• Usability suggestions
• Rich User Interface recommendations
• Most of the website optimisers can be able to go into the code and edit without the developer help
 

These days I am afraid of  introduce myself as SEO in LinkedIn. I am getting many rejections when i request to join some one's professional network. The reason, may be they are thinking that SEO's are spammers. But It is not always true. An SEO is not just limited to Title, meta tags and link building. An SEO is more than that. Search Engine Optimiser or Website Optimiser is the key to a website success. Please do not consider SEO as spammer, SEO/website optimiser is a Professional, they deserve that work. Some of the SEO's/website optimisers are better programmers than professional programmers.

Sometimes professional programmers are becoming as Search Engine Optimiser/web optimiser, they like to deal with entire business instead of just program. Website Optimisation is an art to promote any business online, its not just link building and optimising title and meta tags.

I am proud to say that I am an SEO. Some other qualities i had in me: a PHP programmer, JavaScript programmer, Jquery programmer, Joomla expert, OS Commerce expert, CSS expert...

But I love SEO Job.

Bug in Webmaster tools - Change in Address

There is a bug in "Change of Address" in Google webmaster tools. I guess this is the worst part of Google webmaster tools I ever seen in my experience. I redirected old site to new site using Google webmaster tools in "Change in Address". See the image below, a screen shot of change of address I did in Google webmaster tools.

And all the old pages were redirected to the new pages in the new site using 301 redirect. But Google is not good enough to handle the request. It is showing my new pages under old domain name. But Google search engine is messed up between those two sites, Old and new.

The old site: http://www.allfaithsfunerals.com.au/
The new site: http://www.selwynallenfunerals.com.au/

Google is showing the pages under new site as they belongs to old site.

For example, the page related to "planning-a-funeral"
New site: http://www.selwynallenfunerals.com.au/writing-a-eulogy
old site: http://www.allfaithsfunerals.com.au/eulogy.php

But Google showing a new link http://www.allfaithsfunerals.com.au/writing-a-eulogy, which is ever existing. So, I don't have any other chice, i redirected my non existing pages also to new pages.

Hope Google needs to improve its "Change of Address" in Webmaster tools.  Another strange thing is the Google showing each page twice on its SERP's for "site:selwynallenfunerals.com.au" (Selwyn allen funerals http://www.selwynallenfunerals.com.au). I discussed it in my last post (Repeating Google Search Results - Google Bug).

Repeating Google Search Results - Google Bug

Why Google repeating same search results twice? It is strange. Of course it is going under duplicate content. But why showing same page with same title, description twice? I ever seen like this.

I redirected the old site to new site using Google webmaster tools, where old site has entirely different set of URL's from new one. The content also rewritten.

noindex for part of content in a webpage

This is experiment on how class="robots-nocontent" works. All my previous three experiments class="robots-noindex", rel="noindex", <noindex> failed in making a part of the content non indexable by search engines. Lets try this finally.

<div class="robots-nocontent">As yahoo told at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/slurp-14.html, this part of content in this div shouldn't indexed by yahoo search engine. But not sure about Google. Google may not support this "robots-nocontent" class. Because it is quite opposite to Google SEO philosophy, "do no do anything specially for search engines" </div>

Let's see what happens.

class="robots-noindex"

This is another experiment on how robots treat the following class="robots-noindex".

<div class="robots-noindex"> Robots must exclude this content in their search index</div>

Lets try  to get a paragraph indexed by Google bot only

<div class="robots-noindex googlebot-index"> All robots must exclude this content in their search index except Googlebot</div>

<div class="robots-noindex slurp-index"> All robots must exclude this content in their search index except Yahoo bot</div>

rel="noindex"

This is the experiment for rel="noindex". Let's test how the rel="noindex" works for search engines.

<div rel="noindex">Melbourne Web Developers live in Melbourne </div>

<div rel="noindex" name="robots">Melbourne SEO's live in Google.com.au</div>

We are done. Lets see the results.

<noindex>

Here i am experimenting on nocache and noindex tags within the paragraph.

The aim of this experiment is to test search engines for noindex and nofollow if they were used in the middle of the content.

The following text is for testing.

<p content="noindex"> All melbourne seo's belongs to Australia </p>

<p name="robots" content="noindex">All Australian designers are not belongs to Melbourne</p>

<noindex>All Melbourne web designers live in Australia</noindex>


<strong>do not use strong tag but use bold tag. This will not treated as bold by search engines. Search in Google cached content of this page</strong>

<b>Do use b tag instead of strong tag. It is good for seo</b>

Please leave your comments if you like these kinds of experiments.

Yahoo ignoring noindex

Sorry for hitting on this topic again. I got another proof on this. This blog is not allowed to index yahoo bot slurp. But it is indexed. http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=web-search-techniques.blogspot.com&icp=1&w=web+search+techniques+blogspot+.com+websearchtechniques+blogspot+.com+web-search-techniques+blogspot+.com&u=web-search-techniques.blogspot.com%2F&d=H2OCOt29Td01&_intl=us&type=page

Change of Address - Google webmaster tools

I have my two sites verified in Google Webmaster Tools. Today i tried to apply for change of address. From and old site to newly designed site. The change of Address.

Google saying that i need to verify the site i wanted to redirect from which is already verified by Google Webmaster Tools.

We couldn't verify oldsite.com.au. To submit a change of address, oldsite.com.au must be verified using the same method as www.oldsite.com.au. Add oldsite.com.au to your account and verify ownership, then try again.

Here we need to understand one thing. www.sitename.com.au and sitename.com.au were treated differently by Google. So we need to verify both of them

I did it. Then Google accepted my change of address (redirection request) from old site to new site.

How is DMOZ Data Used? - Dmoz Badge

With respect to the blogpost of How is DMOZ Data Used?
http://blog.dmoz.org/2009/09/03/how-is-dmoz-data-used/

They said that the Dmoz data should be used with its badge only. But there are many number of websites not following this rule, not even aware of it. But they are just getting the data from Dmoz and using it.

For example few sites listed below.

http://directory.domaintools.com
http://www.maxpsyche.com
http://localprime.com/index.php
http://www.thecreativeinvestor.com/phpod.php?/
http://www.cu-village.com/cgi-bin/apexec.pl?etype=odp&template=georgia.html&passurl=/Recreation

I found many.

Try the following url to get list of dmoz data dumpers.

http://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=navclient-ff#q=%22Australian+fishing+tour+booking+agency+featuring+package+and+guide+information%22+%22Perth+based+charters+offering,+deep+sea,+reef+and+game+fishing,+rottnest+echo+tours,+island+and+river+cruises%22&hl=en&filter=0&fp=aeeb86f279fed0f5


But the warning for those people by the Dmoz is not strong enough.

They stated

Sites that do not display the badge are in violation of the license agreement. Site owners may be contacted by DMOZ and asked to make the appropriate updates in order to comply.

How to ask a question to Matt Cutts?

Hi Friends

Do you want to ask a question to Matt Cutts?

Don't have a way to ask?

Many people ask questions through his blog comments. But he may hardly read them. Then what is the way to ask questions to Matt? I too tired to searching a way to ask my seo questions. But finally i found a good way to ask him question.

You can ask  matt a question at Google moderator appspot:http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=c9&t=2f

But be careful. Do not ask all the heck like how to optimize my title tag, how to optimize my meta description tags, my meta keywords tags, he may not respond. Not only MattCutts you can ask questions to any Google engineer, a world leader and y ou can Suggest an Android application.

So.. start firing....