10 levels of intimacy in today's life

Its true.. I liked it

Google policy about paid listings in Yahoo Directory

Every on know that Google treating paid links seriously. Buying links is a way to interpret Google organic search results. So.. Google punishing websites which participates in link buying and selling..

What about Yahoo Directory?

Yahoo Directory charges money and places your link into its directory. Is buying links from Y Directory is is punishable? if yes.. thousands of sites has to suffer from Google rankings.

No. It is not punishable get listed in yahoo directory. The reason told by Matt is..

"All Yahoo directory listings were reviewed under specific editorial guidelines. Google respects directories which have certain good editorial guidelines. Yahoo directory is not just taking money and placing your link.. they reviews your website, its quality and your business. If your website reach their guidelines.. then only your website is going to be approve."

So... It is not punishable to buying links from certain web directories which has good editorial guidelines.

So be wise in buying listings (links).

Is Bing Serch Bot Bingbot?

We all know that MSN search launched a new search engine called BING

What about the Bing Bot?

the name of the MSN search bot  is msnbot. What bout Bing search bot?

Is there a special search bot for bing?

NO. There is no special bot or different bot name for bing search engine. Bing uses the MSN search bot.

But they (Microsoft) are announcing that the bot version changed. It is helpful to see and recognize in your logs.

The Old MSN user agent

msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)


The new Bing User agent:

msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm).


But there is no change in bot(msnbot) name.

I hope the information is straightforward and useful.

Source: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/07/17/new-bot-work-continues-at-bing.aspx

Restricting Search Engine Robots

Restricting Search Engine Robots 

From indexing your website.


This can be done through robots.txt file. Remember you have to upload the robots.txt file only to the root directory only. The code should looks like below

User-agent: *
Disallow: /


To disallow only Google bot


User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /


To disallow only Yahoo bot

User-agent: slurp
Disallow: /


User-agent for MSN is "msnbot". I am not sure weather there is a seperate bot for Bing or not. If some one know it please update me in the comments.

If your site is not indexing in any or all of the search engines.. you have to first look into your robots.txt file

From indexing a directory

User-agent: *
Disallow: /directory-name/


Let all search engines index all of your site with out any restrictions using the following robots.txt syntax



User-agent: *
Disallow:


The list of user agents for major search engines

Google - Googlebot
AltaVista - AVSearch
Yahoo - Slurp
MSN - msnbot


Restrict search engines from following all the links on a web page

 Write the following code in that page meta tags

< meta content="nofollow" name="robots" />

Restrict search engines from indexing a web page

< meta content="noindex" name="robots" />


Restrict search engines from both indexing a page and following links on that page


< meta content="noindex, nofollow" name="robots" />

Note: NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW was no more respected by Bing search engine (MSNbot) and Yahoo search engine (Slurp) - for more information see my post http://web-search-techniques.blogspot.com/2009/07/yahoo-and-bing-ignoring-noindex-and.html

Restrict search engines from using Dmoz listing title


< meta content="NOODP" name="robots" />


Restrict search engines from using Yahoo listing title 

< meta content="NOYDIR" name="robots" />


Restrict search engines from using both Dmoz listing title and Yahoo listing title

  < meta content="NOYDIR, NOODP" name="robots" />


I used the above image only for catching eye.. Don't try to break your head trying to find the relation between this content and that image.. :P

Melbourne web designers list

When I Google out for Melbourne web designers.. I didn't find any specific list. All I am finding is individual companies. So I feel it is a good idea to make list of web designers in Melbourne.

I am making the top 30 list. Its not alphabetical.. I found them all on Google.com.au. I am listing them in the same order Australian Google search engine given to me.

Evolution 7 - www.evolution7.com.au

Dream Consultancy -  www.dreamconsultancy.com.au

Design Junction - www.designjunction.com.au

Web Genius - www.webgenius.com.au

Smashing Time - www.smashingtime.com.au

Bliss Media - www.blissmedia.com.au

Gets Started - www.getstarted.com.au

Interact Online - www.interactonline.com.au

Carter Creative - www.cartercreative.com.au

Design Sense - www.websitedesignersmelbourne.com.au

The Web Designer - www.thewebdesigner.com.au

Skill Media - www.skillsmedia.com.au

Create It - www.createit.com.au

Reactive - www.reactive.com

Lemonade - www.lemonade.com.au

Gee Multimedia - www.geemultimedia.com.au

Low Cost Web Design - www.lowcostwebdesign.com.au

Melbourne Online - www.melbourneonline.com.au

Salsa Internet - www.salsainternet.com.au

Earthlink Design - www.earthlinkdesign.com.au

Web Place - www.webplace.com.au

Web Data Design - www.webdatadesign.com.au

Xceed - www.xceed.com.au

The LAD - www.thelad.com.au

ROI - www.roi.com.au

Infusion Design - www.infusiondesign.com.au

Devolution - www.devolution.com.au

Sites N Stores - www.sitesnstores.com.au

IWS design - www.iwsdesign.net

Design a Website - www.designawebsite.com.au

Design Junction - http://www.designjunction.com.au/ (My favorite website)

I am going to add more to this list.. It is jut beginning..

I would like to write more about the following things in my further blogs

• Web design Melbourne lemonade
• Web design Melbourne netable
• Prodigy web design Melbourne
• Melbourne graphic designers
• Web developers Melbourne
• Search engine optimisation Melbourne
• Graphic design jobs Melbourne
• Web design Melbourne nemesis

See the wonder what is going to happen for Melbourne :)

Blog spamming using Mail2Blogger & Gmail Alerts

These days I am experimenting on blog spamming and its impact on search engines.

I am doing it in the following way

1. Create blog with any name you like. Use keywords in the blog address
   
   
2. Enable the "Mail2Blogger" (under posting options) under "Email & Mobile" . And check the radio button " Publish emails immediately". Remember the email you created there. Suppose it is samemail@blogger.com
   
   
3. Now go to your Gmail account and create an alert (google.com/alert) with the keyword what ever you like
   
   
4. Now go to your Gmail settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > click on "create a filter"
   
   
5. There you can create a filter in a way the newly google alert reached into your inbox will forwards to samemail@blogger.com. So the newly reached one will be automatically sent your spam blogger email address then.. there it will be published immediately.
   
   
6. Now observe the rankings and the indexing frequency by Google
   

The indexing frequency for the spam blogs is not fast. I think those spam blogs will be treated as low priority.

You can use the same trick for Wordpress blogs too.

As an SEO and online marketer this is very useful for me to Link Exchanging.

Good trick right!!! Why late then... start building your tool for link exchange ... :)

My Blog Rankings on Google

I didn't observed it till now.. My blog getting top positions for many keywords on Google main search (not blog search)

The reason is obvious.. Unique and fresh content.. Who don't love it? Google is not an exception.

The keywords I am winning ...

Understanding Canonicalization - 1st page

SEO Interview Questions and Answers - 2nd page

Bing Beta - 2nd page (1st page on .co.in and .com.au)

Microsoft BING Beta (2nd page)

Informed State Space Search - 2nd page

yahoo ignore noindex - 1st page

bing ignore noindex - 1st page (in fact fist position)

bulk unfollow twitter - 2nd page

unfollow twitter users - 1st page

bulk unfollow twitter users - 1st page

Capitalization Rules - 5th page

ten capitalization rules - 1st page

Ezine capitalization rules - 1st page (this is coming prior than ezine, I am sorry to ezine. I will write an article about ti)

Case Sensitive Google search - 2nd page

Google url search command - 1st page ( Misspelled the Search in my title tag of the blog posting .. still it is in top 10)

seomoz tool - 1st page (2nd position after seo moz official website. Sorry to SEO Moz team.. I written something negatively about that tool. But i mean it :P )


"Indexing flash text in Google", "Video Statistics" looks like a tough competitive key phrases, so.. my blog didn't get any considerable position..

My blog posts indexing by Google very faster

It is quite surprising.. Google improved its blog indexing capacity dramatically..

I am going to test the indexing time for this blogs..

I will count it in minutes and i am going to post the time in the comments section..

But Google is not indexing all my blogs in this same way. I am spamming them for testing purpose..

I will discuss them in my further posts..

Lets start counting the minutes... The current time in my PC is 2:45

SEO Interview Questions and Answers

From past two weeks I was busy in Interviewing SEO Candidates.. many of them failed to answer to many common questions.. like keyword proximity, prominence, LSI, indexing flash content etc..

Here i am posting the SEO interview questions that might help you for facing your interviewer.. Please remember.. only theoretical knowledge is no enough to get success in interview..

SEO Interview Questions

1. Specify on-page elements in descending priority.
   
   
2. What is Keyword proximity?
   
   
3. What is keyword prominence?
   
   
4. What is Link Bait?
   
   
5. What is the Google’s new technology name in search industry, which it is going to launch shortly?
   
   
6. Can Google be able to read and index the text inside swf file? flv file?
   
   
7. What is real time search? Which is the best site for real time search?
   
   
   
8. A.< style =" ”display:none;”">will this text be indexed by Google?< / div >
   
   
   
   
   B.< style=" ”class_hide”">will this text with the below style in css.. be indexed by Google?< / div >
   . class_hide{display:none}
   
   
9. Do you support buying links? If you not supports buying links how do you support buying link (listing) from Yahoo directory?
   
   
10. If a website ownership changes, will it affects the rankings in Google?
    
    
11. How to restrict search engines from indexing or searching a site?
    
    

12. How to exclude a specific web page from search (how to restrict search engines from searching particular page)?
    
    

13. How to exclude search engines to not follow all the links in a web page?
    
    
14. What is yahoo search bot name? How to exclude only yahoo search engine from indexing a web site? Please write syntax.
    
    
15. Rate yourself on the scale of 0 to 10 for the followings
    
    A) HTML B)JavaScript C)CSS D)PHP
    
    

16. Please list the black-hat techniques you are aware of.
    
    

17. What is cloaking technique?
    
    
18. What is LSI?
    
    

19. What is the Microsoft’s new search engine called?
    
    

20. What is meant by Bounce Rate? How it will be calculated?
    
    

21. What is goal tracking?
    
    

22. What is funnel tracking?
    
    
23. Did you done any PPC campaigns?
    
    
24. Do you have knowledge about affiliate marketing? Did you ever done it?
    
    

25. How do you optimize Dynamic URL’s? Using which technique?
    
    

26. Did you Optimized CMS sites? If yes Please list them and state your role.
    
    

27. Did you Optimized E-Commerce sites? If yes Please list them and state your role.
    
    

28. Did you ever use mod rewrite? Can you write conditions and expressions using .htaccess?
    
    

29. Are you good at link building?
    
    

30. Do you prefer underscore or hyphen as separator in URLs? Why?
    
    

If you don't know answers to any of them... post comment here with your email address... I will get back to you.

Sometimes Bing Beta and Yahoo are Better

Well.. today morning I tried to find a butcher(http://butcherboy.com.au) in Australia.

On Google.com.au I found many websites relevant to Butchers.

But.. found few of them were not at all useful to me.

butcherbrownarchitects.com.au is the one i found prior to many useful results. This company business not deals about butcher or any meat related things. The Butcher boy (http://butcherboy.com.au) is showing at the 13th position which is most relevant than butcherbrownarchitects for the "Butcher" keyword. The only reason is... PageRank.
Another irrelevant result is http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/poetics/, it is happening in Google search results for the sake of its PR. I agree that the persons also should appear in the SERP's but only after relevant results.

If some one searching for a butcher ... what will be the most common query? Obviously "Butcher"
If some one searching for the architect butcher.. what might be the query? "butcher the architect" or "architect butcher" or some other queries which includes architect.

The Bing is showing this(architect) result as the first one in its first page, rest of them were all useful...

Yahoo search results are most relevant...

I have to re think to choose my default search engine for my FireFox browser..

Informed State Space Search

I found something interesting to discuss with you ...



See this video from NPTEL. This is fro IIT khargpur, India. They provide series of great video lectures. I regularly follow them what ever i feel interesting.

Avoiding the (6) Common Grammatical Errors That Make Authors Look Du...Unprofessional

in these days of txting, iming and all low caps, its easy to take shortcuts to writing

However, even though we now use our keyboards as we once did our phones, what most people do not understand is how unprofessional the improper use of the English can make an article, and its author, look. Read the sentence above again. Does it look professionally written to you?

Now, I'm not saying you need to go back to 9th grade English class and try and figure out where your participles are dangling, but making sure you have a command of the basics is essential.

Here are (6) common errors that are guaranteed to make you look unprofessional:

1. Lose and Loose
- These are not the same word! "You can lose your car keys if you put them in your very loose pants." They are not interchangable!

2. Affect and Effect
- If something affects you, it has an effect on you. For example: I am affected by the wind. The effect is that my hair gets messy.

3. Semi-colons
- Semi-colons are not commas. They're also not colons. A semi-colon is used between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction.

Which means something like this:
"I went to see a movie; I was told it was sold out."

Or between items in a series or a list that has its own punctuation:
"I have three friends: Maddie, who is my aunt's daughter; Jane, who is my sister's teammate; and Nancy, who is my father's sister.

4. It's for Its - and vice versa
- "It's" is short for "it is." "Its" is the possessive form of "It."

So...you have then:
Yes: "It's a good day for going to the beach."
No: "Its a good day for going to the beach."

And: Yes: "This is a really cool gadget. Just look at all of its features."
No: "This is a really cool gadget. Just look at all of it's features."

A good way to remember is to say to yourself while typing, am I trying to say "It is" or not?

5. Their, There and They're
- They're over there, in their yard. OK.

Simply put:
They're means "they are." If "they are" doing something, then this is the proper one to use.
If something belongs to them (as a collective group) then you use "their."
If you're (not "your") going somewhere - you are going "there!"


6. Then and Than
- Then is what happens next. Than compares items to each other.

"It is sunnier today than it was yesterday"
"This box is heavier than the last one."
"If you are still having trouble after reading the directions, then you had better call John."
"I'm going to the store next and then I'm going to the bank."

If you are having trouble with these types of errors, practice getting them right by consciously using them (correctly of course) in your next articles! What other grammatical errors do you think are made too often? Let us know what they are - and the solution by leaving a blog comment:
http://blog.EzineArticles.com/2009/08/grammar-tips-for-the-article-marketer.html

Source: Ezine Articles

Understanding Canonicalization

What is it about?

It is about how to tell search engines about duplicate content with in your site, where you can not eliminate that duplication of content.

Content Duplication with in my site? How?

Yes. Check your site in the following ways

www.yoursite.com
www.yoursite.com/
yoursite.com
yoursite.com/
yoursite.com/index.html
www.yoursite.com/index.html
yoursite.com/index.htm
.
.
.

Search engines (specially Google) will treats each URL as different and treats that content is duplicated.

Where is the content that i can not eliminate duplication?

In shopping cart websites..

cases you can not eliminate duplicate content

• Sort by price
• Sort by color
• Sort by size
  .
  .
  etc...

every time you sorts which will leads you to a new URL but some content.

What should i Do now?

Very simple ...

add the following tag to the duplicated content pages.

< link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yoursite.com.com/actual_content_page" >


It should be somewhere between < head > < /head > tags.

Indexing flash text in Google

Interesting..

These days Google started indexing the content with in the flash files too.

But it is very poor in getting the actual format of the content.

Try this command in Google: site:http://www.melbmartialarts.com.au inurl:".swf" melbourne martial arts

or click on http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.melbmartialarts.com.au+inurl%3A%22.swf%22+melbourne+martial+arts&meta=&fp=2ab4e526282b1a8f

you can see the indexed flash content.

I am pretty sure it indexed all the content including first word to last word in all paragraphs.

But Google need to improve far more on representing actual format. In fact the Adobe also need to come ahead with a protocol for all search engines to index the flash content and its format as it is.

Video Statistics

It may sounds quite normal or quite interesting.

But till now.. video statistics is all about how many views a video got and from which geographic location.

But it is far behind the web statistics.

I am pretty sure the future video statistics is going to be...

• At what instant(time) of time the viewer exists
  
  
• Did visitor liked it?: this means when visitor plays with the video more than its actual time span( forward and backward).
  
  
• The most re-winded or viewed time spans(so that the celebrities and directors can think of their work)

I think the Adobe/Google is already on its way to make the video playable using GET variables.
It looks like (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDP53BDydmA&NR=1&StartTime=50&StopTime=90. So that the video starts at 50 seconds time and stops playing at 90 seconds.

So that you can make(or forward to your friend) a video playable between a particular time spans.

The coming year is going to be get extremely lot more video users to sum of all past year users.

How to go to Hell?

Interesting...

I tried it in search engines..

The funniest answers...

Google's(Caffeine too) first result asks "Do You Really Want To Go To Hell?"

See the screen shot below




Yahoo is suggesting us to try going to hell and coming back also.. wow.. that's amazing..



Bing's answers are not much interesting..

So Funny :)

Who says what about "Caffeine"

• 
  
• Google Unveils "Caffeine" Search Upgrade - http://industry.bnet.com/media/10003707/3707/
• Google has lifted the lid on its updated search engine, which developers have nicknamed "Caffeine". -http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8195739.stm
• Google reveals ‘caffeine’, a faster search engine - http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\16\story_16-8-2009_pg9_6
  

Yahoo and Bing Ignoring NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW in Meta tags

I did not expected it.
It is the basic principles of Search Engines to ignore a page which has < name="robots" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Quite surprisingly Yahoo and Bing were not stick to the basic principles on the other hand Google strictly adhering to the basic principles.
Observe the site cache of http://www.melbmartialarts.com.au on both Yahoo and BING.

Yahoo Cached page source code (Observe NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW).

See the first site (www.melbmartialarts.com.au which contains NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW) included in yahoo search results.

BING page source code (Observe NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW).See the first site (www.melbmartialarts.com.au which contains NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW) included in BING search results too.

I feel Yahoo and BING needs to adhere to the Basic Search Engine ethics.

Bulk Unfollow twitter users who not following you

Hi

Do you use twitter?

Do you want to un-follow twitter users who are not following you?

There is cool tool i found today.

It is here http://huitter.com/mutuality/

Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/Search_Engineer

Ten Capitalization Rules - Ezine Articles

1. Capitalize the first word of every sentence.

2. “I” is always capitalized, along with all its contractions.
Example: I can do it.
Example: I’ll do it tomorrow.
Example: I’m going to do it now.

3. Capitalize the first word of a quoted sentence.
Example: She said, “I can do this.”

4. Capitalize a proper noun.
Example: Eiffel Tower
Example: Christopher Knight
Example: Federal Bureau of Investigation

5. Capitalize a person’s title when it precedes the name.
Example: Doctor Smith
Exception: Mr. Smith, the doctor at the hospital,
came to check up on me.

6. Capitalize any title when used as a direct address.
Example: “Will you please answer the question, Senator?”

7. Do not capitalize names of seasons.

8. Capitalize points of the compass only when they refer to specific regions.
Example: I have relatives visiting from the South.
Example: I drove south to the end of the block.


9. After a sentence ending with a colon, do not capitalize the first word if it begins a list.
Example: These are my favorite foods: chicken,
potatoes and bread.

10. Capitalize the first word and all the words in titles of books, articles, works of art, etc. excluding short prepositions and conjunctions.
Example: “EzineArticles Writing and Marketing”