Joomla Training Chennai

Joomla training and Consulting - Chennai


Hi friends

I am expert on Joomla too. Both versions 1.0.X and 1.5.X. I built many modules on Joomla and used Joomla for building many websites in my career.
As currently I am living in Chennai, I would like to help the developers who are new to Joomla. I can help you building sites and optimizing Joomla sites, building modules and components.

I can help you in building sites on Joomla, but please don't ask me build sites. As I am busy with my tight scedule, I can only help you in guiding. But, I will charge minimum consulting fee.

Please remember, my consulting services were limited to Chennai and that too for weekends.

I can help you out in time estimation of Joomla project, task break down and Joomla project architecture.

If you are a beginner and you would like to learn Joomla, you should be familiar with PHP and MVC structure programming.

Here my intension is not to earn money, but to get introduced with developers/programmers and to exchange Ideas.

Please note, I do not have any institute to teach Joomla and this is not commercial. I am an Joomla professional and individual consultant. I can come down to your place in Chennai if required, and i can help you out in your project.

Please contact me on ravi.mareedu@gmail.com or phone me on - 09176315310.

Consulting timings (Chennai Only):

Weekdays - 5PM to 9PM
Weekends - 10 AM to 5 PM

Bhavana Marriage Bureau - Hyderabad - Worst Services

Here I would like to write the review on Bhavana Marriage Bureau services.I am not sure how they were serving others but we paid Rs.3000/- for searching groom for a Bride, We didn't get even a single call or match from their end.

When we ask for refund, they said neither they are going pay us our money back nor search for matches and they are telling that they will cancel our membership without refunding our money.

We paid Manju Marriage bureau as well, But their services were far good. I don't want to compare their services with Bhavana Marriage Bureau. Manju Marriage bureau is completely dedicated for serving their clients. I am quite impressed with Manju Marriage Bureau services.

But please do not choose Bhavana Marriage Bureau if you want to search for alliance for bride or bridegroom.

Here I came out with my bad experience with Bhavana Marriage Bureau matrimony services. I would be very much happy even few people get awareness about their services by reading this blog.

Please be careful in choosing marriage bureaus in Hyderabad, specially for Telugu people. Do not get cheated only be seeing a website or office.

I would like to give some suggestions to choose a good marriage bureau

1.  Ask them for guaranteed service
2. Ask for their past clients contact numbers and inquire through phone. Choose their clients randomly. 
3. Read reviews online about their services
4. Take receipt for your money payment so that you can sue them if they fails in providing proper service

Please write here your reviews also as comments if some one had good or bad experiences with Bhavana Marriage Bureau. So that the public will aware of their services.

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....

Yahoo ignoring NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW

I already made a post about it(http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/07/yahoo-and-bing-ignoring-noindex-and.html). Yahoo and Bing Ignoring NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW in the meta tags

I got the proof here

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fweb-search-techniques.blogspot.com%2F&bwm=p&bwms=p&fr=sfp&fr2=seo-rd-se

http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/08/piggyback-seo.html this page has been in yahoo search engine index which has

<META NAME="slurp" REL="noindex,nofollow"> 

tags in its HTML


So. it would be good to password protect if you have any confidential data to protect it from yahoo search bot.

But BING seems to be started respecting NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW.

Google behaving strangely

Today I found an interesting thing which i couldn't be able to analyze the reason.

Search for 'diffrent css for safari' on Google you can find this blog on the first SERP of Google.

The surprising thing is i ever before used the word "diffrent" through out my blog. Why it is showing this blog?

When i site search for the keyword of "diffrent" i am not able to find even a single word through out this blog(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22diffrent%22+site%3Aweb-search-techniques.blogspot.com&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)

 It is quite surprising and interesting.

SEO Buzz words

I would like to list some SEO buzzwords here. The order is random.

Keyword Density
Keyword Proximity
Keyword Prominance
Keyword Stemming
Keyword Stuffing
Linkbait
SMO
Doorway pages
Cloaking
Blak hat seo
White hat seo
Gray hat seo
Hallway page
Google Caffeine
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)
Google bombing
SERP's
Link Juice
Canonicalization
Google dance
Google cache dance
Video Optimization
News Optimization
Image optimization
URL optimization
Piggyback SEO
Twitter SEO
Link Spam
PageRank
Bing SEO


Please remind me if i forget some of them

Lime Exchange Test Result

OMG...

I failed the SEO test..

Anyway.. it is a good lesson for me. Now i had lot of courage to not face these kind of stupid tests in future.

I can challenge.. even matt could not get more than 50%  in this kind of test.

:D

SEO Interview Question 40 - Search command

Another funny and interesting quesion

if you enter 'Help site:www.expertrating.com' in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com
c. it will find only page titles about help within www.expertrating.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.expertrating.com

SEO Interview Question 39

Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?

a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version

b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not effect the way Google views the pages. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/ and http://www.expertrating.com and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm

c. Syndicating your content could be lead to Google viewing the material  as duplicate

d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google


He/She is not able to present the "b" properly..

G.T.H.

SEO Interview Question 38

Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'relevancy' perspective?

a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image alt tags on the home page matching the search term

SEO Interview Question 37

Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?

a. Windows live
b. Yahoo directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ

SEO Interview Question 36

What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?

a. There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries

b. Search engines often pass on long tail searches to lesser known and new websites

c. Search engines do not pass on long tail search traffic to websites that rank high or shorter keyword searches

d. There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords

SEO Interview Question 35 - Robots.txt

What will the following robots.txt file do?

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*?
User-agent:Scooter
Disallow:

a. It will allow google to crawl any the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page

b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot to accessing any page

c. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page

d. none of the above


Finally i found another straightforward question. Happy..

SEO Interview Question 34 - Google PageRank

Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?

a. The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of the web site
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site


Look at the "d" option. I love the way the confusing, and it is not the place to confuse the test writers. They will get irritated like me..

BTW.. I would like suggest you the information about PageRank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

SEO Interview Question 33 - Natural Links

Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?



Pretty straightforward question.

SEO Interview Question 32

Which black hat technique is characterized by a method to deceive search engine, by detecting search engine bot and "feeding" it with different HTML code than the HTML actually served to users?

a. Coating

b. Foisting

c. Slighting

d. Cloaking


Here the intention is.. Wasting the candidate time by asking question with sense less long way. Be careful with these kind of screwing tests..

SEO Interview Question 31

Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of top 50 most searched keywords?

a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. AOL
d. Lycos


Again ... confusing..

Top 50 most searched keywords every day? or top 50 most searched keywords every year?

Lycos use to give it for every week. But now a days it not seems to be giving the list.
Check: http://50.lycos.com it is redirecting to lycos.com

This test f**ked my brain

SEO Interview Question 30

What is the most likely time period requres for getting a Google page rank?

a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 1 month
d. More than three months


Answer: If i start my website just a day before google is going to update its pagerank database then the answer is 1 Day. I will get pagerank 0 in one day.


Foolish question.

The better way to ask the question is..

How frequently Google updates PR?

Answer: 3 months approximately

SEO Interview Question 29

What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?

a. It helps retrieve web pages from the world wide web

b. it helps gather information from other search engines

c. it helps sort the documents that google has retrived

d. it helps generate meaningful results based upon the user's search terms


They can ask this question more fairly


like..

What a search engine crawler  or bot do?

or

What is indexing?

what do you say?

SEO Interview Question 28

What of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct

a. Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engines looks at the keyword

b. Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines

c. Search engine robots follow the the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same page

d. It is not a good idea to have the same anchor text for all inbound links as it could look automated to search engines.


Time eating question.. right.. Its unfortunate. Poor English too. But the last point - d catches my eye. D is not true. Many think it is true. It would be good to not get the gray hat seo techniques into the seo test by Lime exchange people. Because they are arguable and eats time..

SEO Interview Question 27

Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?

a. increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors


We all know the answer is b. But the the lime exchange people might have written it in understandable way. We know answers to may questions, but it takes great deal of time to understand in the given limited time to finish the test. I reported it to them :D

SEO Interview Question 26

Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?

a. Number of websites that link to it
b. The number of the pages of the website indexed by Google
c. The number of pages in website
d. The quality of websites that link to it

SEO Interview Question 25

Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages?

a. Clustering
b. Normalzing
c. Sifting
d. Combing

SEO Interview Question 24

What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?

a. Trafficjacking
b. Visitorjacking
c. Viewjacking
d. Pagejacking

SEO Interview Question 23

Search engines do not index some common words (such as "or", "and", "when", and "in") within the webpage. What are these common words called?

a. Barrier words
b. Non-indexable words
c. Slow words
d. Stop words

SEO Interview Question 22 - Lime Exchange

State whether the following statement true or false. A Sitemap can contain a list of URL's or a list of Sitemaps

a. True

b. False



I think it is true. But i am not sure. Please correct me.

SEO Interview Question 21 - Lime Exchange

What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query of the word 'actor' will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or act?

a. Spreading

b. Dilating

c. RSD(real time synonym detection)

d. Stemming

e. Branching

This question took bit more time to understand.
Does any one had idea? Please post your answers below in comments

SEO Interview Question 19 - A Hallway Page is used to?

A hallway page is used to?

a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway page
b. Organize the doorway pages
c. Help people navigatge to different doorway pages
d. enable search engine bots to index the doorway pages


Source: Lime Exchange

The reason we like Google

Why do we love Google? They care each and every point very particular.

Today i am submitting my site to the Yahoo and Google webmaster tools. I was given meta verification tags by them. See the difference. Google given with xhtml standards, in the other hand Yahoo seems to be not caring any xhtml standards.

What should we call it?

And Yahoo asking 24 hours to validate the site. It is not able to validate the site immediately after inserting meta tags or uploading authentication html file.

Difference between doorway pages and cloaking

May people confuses. The confusion comes from misunderstanding or not understanding at all.

Cloaking is completely related to IP address.
Doorway pages is related to redirection using meta or .htaccess or javascript

Cloaking

Cloaking is to serve the different content to different users. Cloaking has its uses.
Cloaking is basically not a black hat technique.Using cloaking in a different way.. will comes under black hat techique.

So.. lets see about cloaking usage.

If you have a news website which serves news internationally. You would like to serve different news to different countries at the same time on your home page. This means.. you are serving different content to different users. It is not Black hat technique.

Then why Cloaking called as black hat technique?

If you serving content to search engines specially. that will comes under black hat cloaking. When you show different content to your users and to the search engines.. then that will comes under black hat cloaking. You have to treat search engines as your normal visitors. Do not treat them different than your visitors.

You can serve different content to the browser than that of search engines depending on the type of request(User-agent HTTP or others) your server gets.

Doorway pages

Doorway pages are something different than cloaking.

Using JavaScript


Search engines ignores javascript. If some one takes advantage of it .. and redirects the visitor referred by search engines to a different page.

Another kind of building a doorway page is..

Using meta redirect tag.

Lets see the syntax of meta redirect tag

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="60; URL=http://www.redirectsite.com/">

I am not sure whether Google or any other search engine considers the time with in meta redirect tag.
What if some one keep the time of 6000 seconds = 100 minutes which is greater than one and half hours.

This means.. the visitor almost finishes reading content on that page and closes the page before the browser redirects to the destination page. But the search engines considers the redirected page content in the search results.


So.. be smart.

Topics I would like to write

Hi Friends

In my future posts I would like to write about

1. Image optimization
   
   
2. Mobile optimization
   
   
3. Difference between doorway pages and cloaking
   
   
4. Is it enough to optimize few pages in a site to get top positions?
   
   
5. The role of Meta Keywords in SEO
   
   
6. UI Engineering

These day's i am busy with client websites. So i am not able to post articles daily.

I'll get back ASAP i got free time.

Have a good time...

Funny thing about yoursite.com

Its so fun..

Most of us use "yoursite.com" for example. We use it for demonstrating to the reader.

Do you know what is the pagerank of "yoursite.com"?

It is 7.

Some facts about "yoursite.com"

The number of back links to "yoursite.com" - 937 (Google shows, may be yahoo site explorer shows more) - http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=link%3Ayoursite.com&meta=&fp=b3f4fa2221e1a36c.

Web pages that contain the term "yoursite.com" - 527,000 (may be 527,001 with this blog page:P - just joking ) - http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=%22yoursite.com%22&meta=&fp=8106abe2ff391d9

Do you know the size of the website of "yoursite.com" - 31 pages (http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=site%3Ayoursite.com&meta=&fp=8106abe2ff391d9)

A website having 31 web pages having PR 7 .. I ever seen this kind of situation.

Does Google has solution for it?

Hey Matt.. Can you answer this?

He is too busy to care about tons of things..

Well ... Matt is also not an exception. He also used "yoursite.com" 10 times in his blog (http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=%22yoursite.com%22+site%3Amattcutts.com&meta=&fp=b3f4fa2221e1a36c)

So his share is - (7/527,000)X100 % = 0.0018975%

Understanding Sneaky Redirects

What are the good redirects and bad redirects(sneaky redirects)?

The redirect of a web page made using Javascript is a sneaky redirect.

Why?


Because search engines ignores javascript. So they don't know even there is a redirect exists.

Which redirecting techniques are good?

Using meta redirect 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com">

For more info: http://webdesign.about.com/od/metataglibraries/a/aa080300a.htm

Using .htaccess (mod rewrite)

Or use 301(permanent) redirect using .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

For more info on .htaccess 301 redirect: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

Best way to present the content in flash to search engines

Well.. there are three ways

Good way, bad way, another one.. not good and not bad.


Lets discuss about the bad way first

Cloaking

Yes. It is the bad way. Showing different to search engines and site visitors. Obviously Google hates it.

It is not good practice to show the flash content to the site visitor and text content in that flash to the search engines. There is a smart way to do this. But don't go for Cloaking or doorway page techniques. It comes under SEO black-hat technique.


Hiding text behind flash

This is not good and not bad. Not an SEO Blak-hat technique. But there is a rule. You must show the content same format which is exists in the flash movie but not any other text.
It is not a black-hat technique because you are not showing the different content or URL to the search engines and site visitors.

Well.. there is a better technique below..

using <noscript> tags


Interesting !!!

Call the flash movie using javascript and write your flash content  html version in <noscript> tags. Obviously search engines ignores javascript and get the content which is in between <noscript> tags.

So.. It is supportable by Google itself. See: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355

They mentioned

Provide the textual contents of JavaScript in a noscript tag.

 Finally i would like to repeat it. Sorry for repeating

Ensure the text you are showing in <noscript> tags is the same content and format in the flash move

Google started Canonicalization for its blogspot

While I am observing the meta tags today I found canonical tag in my blog.

<link href='http://current-blog-page-url.blogspot.com/'

rel='canonical'/>
  

But I feel it is quite wrong way they used.

Canonicalization is the solution for the duplicate content. But they added canonical tag for each and every page of my blog with the corresponding page link in HREF.

Read my post about Canonicalization : Understanding Canonicalization

In the case of Google blogspot the canonical tags should be appear for the label pages(eg: http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/search/label/Canonicalization). Because that is only the part in my blog content duplication happens.

What do you say?

Bing and Yahoo Search engines following and indexing nofollow/noindex ?

Yes. I already made a post regarding this.

http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/07/yahoo-and-bing-ignoring-noindex-and.html


Well unfortunately the meta tags in the http://www.melbmartialarts.com.au/ were changed. So we don't have any proof.

Here I am going to give you the proof.

I created robots meta tags of this blog as following

<meta name='slurp' rel='noindex,nofollow'/>

<meta name='msnbot' rel='noindex,nofollow'/>

Lets see what is going to happne in yahoo and bing search engines

I am going to give you the experiment result in my next posts.

1329 Dofollow Directories Listings

Do follow Directories List

I found it is useful so.. want to let you know.

http://seopune.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/dofollow-web-directory-list/

Google Cache Dance

Google Cache Dance?


Strange? Yes to me too.

Today i am observing my blog cached state.

It showed me the cache of 31st August 2009... then i refresh.. it showed 4th September cache.. then again i refreshed.. 31st cache then 4th.. Its so pathetic..





I think it is because of update at its data centers. 

Any other ideas?

What is "search / organic" in Google Analytics?

What is "search / organic" source of traffic ?

Today, while i am analyzing the Google Analytics statistics i found this "search/organic" under "source/medium".

Does any one has any Idea what it is?

Some people saying it is from search.com. But not strong proof. It is discussed on google forums too.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=14186dd6a3ccd951&hl=en

But the answer didn't satisfied me.

Any on has better ideas?

What is Keyword Stemming?

Stemming Keyword

What is it?

It is a way of using keyword in different ways with prefix, suffix and using plurals. It is a practice in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

Any Example?

Yes, why not.

Lest start with keyword of "keyword stemming".

We can stem the keyword stemming in the following ways.

• keyword stemming
• key word stemming
• keywords stemming
• stemming keyword
• stemming keywords
• stemming key words
• stemming key word

All the above key words were stemmed.

Why is it so important ?

In optimizing a page it is a good practice of stemming of keywords. While you are writing the content take care all your stemmed keywords were used in a proper manner and spread throughout the content. Content quality is also important factor in SEO success not only keyword stemming.

Keyword stemming is very much important in Bing Search Engine Optimization.
For more information read: http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/08/bing-seo-technique-bing-bug.html

Don't try to fool the Google using Stemming technique. Google is intelligent enough to recognize the different between "stem cell", "rose stem", "plant stem" and "keyword stem".

Happy SEO stemming... :)

Melbourne SEO Companies

Hi Friends

Today I started a new blog about Melbourne SEO Companies.

Its about listing all SEO companies in Melbourne and discussing on them about prices, their seo clients and contact address and SEO packages.

Please view it and let me know your comments

Demonoid downtime - 01/September/2009

Is it downtime for Demonoid?

I think this is downtime for Demonoid site.

I got white screen. There is no announcement of downtime!!!

I last accessed this site on Friday.

We all hope it will come back soon..

BTW if any one needs Demonoid membership invitation code.. I have it.

I will give you the demonoid invitation code to you. But i need small favor from you.

I need link to my site http://donate-books.org from your site or blog. Or at least help me in spreading the word. It is not a condition. It is a request

Those who needs Demonoid invitation code leave a comment here.

When ever Demonoid comes out from its downtime.. I can generate one for you and send you. But I may help few people, not all.

Don't forget to leave your email here in comments fro Demonoid inviation Code.

Different stylesheets for different Safari browser versions

Safari Compatible issues between its versions

Today I found there are some style issues between safari 3.x and safari 4.x.

In General we use the following way to use different style sheets for different IE versions

<!--[if IE]>

<link href="http://www.norinajane.com.au/templates/norinajane/media/style/iestyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 7]>

<link href="http://www.norinajane.com.au/templates/norinajane/media/style/ie7style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<![endif]-->

But It is not possible to differentiate versions of Safari browser like this for defining different CSS for different safari versions.

I worked on Quirks Javascript today and made some changes which is easy to use for dummies also.

Include the following JavaScript in your html document
======================================================================
<script type="text/javascript">

<!--
var BrowserDetect = {
    init: function () {
        this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser";
        this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent)
            || this.searchVersion(navigator.appVersion)
            || "an unknown version";
        this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
    },
    searchString: function (data) {
        for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++)    {
            var dataString = data[i].string;
            var dataProp = data[i].prop;
            this.versionSearchString = data[i].versionSearch || data[i].identity;
            if (dataString) {
                if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1)
                    return data[i].identity;
            }
            else if (dataProp)
                return data[i].identity;
        }
    },
    searchVersion: function (dataString) {
        var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString);
        if (index == -1) return;
        return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index+this.versionSearchString.length+1));
    },
    dataBrowser: [
       
        {
            string: navigator.vendor,
            subString: "Apple",
            identity: "Safari",
            versionSearch: "Version"
        },
        {
            string: navigator.userAgent,
            subString: "Firefox",
            identity: "Firefox",
            versionSearch: "Version"
        },
        {
            string: navigator.userAgent,
            subString: "MSIE",
            identity: "Explorer",
            versionSearch: "MSIE"
        }
       
    ],
    dataOS : [
        {
            string: navigator.platform,
            subString: "Win",
            identity: "Windows"
        },
        {
            string: navigator.platform,
            subString: "Mac",
            identity: "Mac"
        },
        {
               string: navigator.userAgent,
               subString: "iPhone",
               identity: "iPhone/iPod"
        },
        {
            string: navigator.platform,
            subString: "Linux",
            identity: "Linux"
        }
    ]

};
BrowserDetect.init();

// -->
</script>
======================================================================
And then the following script
======================================================================

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Safari")
{


    if (BrowserDetect.version >= 4 )
    {document.write('<link href="safaristyle4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />');}
    else
    {document.write('<link href="safaristyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />')}


}


//////////////////////////// If you want to use for IE too


if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Explorer")
{


    if (BrowserDetect.version == 6 )
    {document.write('<link href="IE6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />');}
    else if (BrowserDetect.version == 7 )
    {document.write('<link href="IE7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />')}
    else if (BrowserDetect.version == 8 )
    {document.write('<link href="IE8.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />')}
   
}

//////////////////////////// If you want to use for safari


if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Firefox")
{


    document.write('<link href="safari.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />')
   
}


// -->
</script>

 ======================================================================

Hope it is useful ...


Let me know if you have any questions regarding this

BING SEO Technique - Bing Bug

Important Bing SEO technique

I would like to address one SEO technique for Bing.

I found it is very interesting and foolishness of Bing Search Technique.

Roll up your sleeves. Start re-optimizing for Bing if it is so important for you.

Suppose if you want to optimize a page for "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" you will not found for "Bing ignores NOINDEX".

Do you need a proof?

You can find http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/ on Google for both "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" and "Bing ignores NOINDEX" key phrases.

But on BING you can find this blog only for "Bing Ignoring NOINDEX" key phrase but not for "Bing ignores NOINDEX".

So.. BING is just in learning stage. SEO's can treat this as Bing Bug (not Bug Bing).

So(SEO) be careful while you are optimizing your site for Bing too. Keep in mind all the possible combination of keywords.

I will all SEO's.. Happy Bing Optimisation..

WebPosition not updated with Bing

I am using Webposition 4 for monitoring our client's websites search engine rankings. We bought this software almost a six months back.

When ever i start the Webposition software everyday morning, it is receiving updates from its official update center.

I guess one day i will receive the Bing engine with their daily updates, everyday i am looking for Bing in the search engines list. But it is too late.

Screen shot of Webposition with no "Bing"

Today I went to Webpostion official site for finding whether there is any patch available, but no luck.

They may say that MSN and Bing search results were same. But there must be name exist with "Bing" in their search engines list in WebPostion Reporter.

Waiting for your comments..

Melbourne SEO Companies

Today I've compared the first page natural search results websites for the query of "SEO Melbourne".

See the table below.

Company	PR	Back Links	Domain Age (approx)	Alexa Rank	Home Page Title
Steward Media	4	4,957	7 years	420,141	SEO - SEO Melbourne |  Internet Video Marketing |  Online Marketing Melbourne |  SEO Video | Video Email |  Video Streaming |  Stew Art Media  | Jim Stewart
PROW Internet Marketing	4	10,027	3 Years	132,065	SEO | Search Engine  Optimisation |  SEO Expert | SEO Company
Kanga Internet	5	38,796	2 Years	74,527	Professional SEO &  Search Engine Marketing
SEO Studio	5	2,381	2 Years	267,987	SEO | SEO Melbourne |  Search Engine Optimisation  consultant |  SEO company Melbourne |  web copywriting |  web marketing |  online marketing |  website promotion  expert Victoria
Rank First	3	2,803	1 year	1,111,709	SEO, Search Engine  Optimisation,  Search Engine  Optimization Melbourne
SEO Works	3	9,564	3 Years	173,075	SEO Melbourne |  Search Engine Optimisation  Melbourne | SEO Works
SEO Australia	3	234	2.5 Years	1,350,700	SEO Australia |  SEO Melbourne -  Natural SEO Services Company
Salsa Internet	5	30,715	4.5 Years	218,478	For SEO Melbourne or  Search Engine Optimisation?  Ph - 1300 727 952
SEO Deals	3	1,715	1 Year	1,024,213	Seo Company Melbourne,  Seo, Search Engine  Optimisation,  Seo Expert - Seo Deals

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There are many companies offering seo services in Melbourne. But I picked up these companies from Google organic results.

Anyway i need to compare them with respect to the price also.

I'll be back with more points..