I know you will read this letter sometime as you always look for fresh content. So I think, it’s the best time and place to let you know that I’m crazy about you.

I think, you already heard my name! Anyway, let me introduce myself again just for your easy reference. My name is rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com and I provide complete internet marketing solutions to my clients. I know, you are well aware of many websites who provide same/similar kind of services and will not be impressed just with this.

Do you know when I first saw you I really lost my control panel. I stopped communicating with other search engines and my eyes were fixed on you. I was caught in the Web of your beauty. I never had a bit of drink or byte of my cookies from the time you last crawled me. My updated XML sitemap is ready only for you. My host space is filled only with your favorite content and I avoided all those things that you have difficulties to keep in your index.

I know some old websites are still in your mind! Do you have any bitter experience on trusting something new? Google, please give me a single chance and I promise I will not disappoint you.

I have tried to make that letter as lengthy as possible – because you think content as your king. Please don’t put my love in your sandbox. Do give me permanent position in your web index. Don’t be shy to show my love on top of SERP if someone makes a search with the keywords relevant to me.

Yours spider-friendly,
rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com

P.S: I know you hate duplicate content and put those in trash. Still beware if someone represents a duplicate copy of this letter.

After clicking on the “change” link, Google informs that this is an advanced feature and that it will only work for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google Reader, Google Voice, App Engine and Google Code. When multiple sign-in is enabled, a drop-down is displayed next to your email address at the top of the page, so you can quickly switch to a new account.

“If you use multiple sign-in, the first account you sign in to will be your default account. If you visit other Google products that don’t support multiple accounts after you’ve signed in, you will automatically sign in to your default account for that product. If you sign out of any Google product while signed in to any account, you will be signed out of all your Google Accounts at once.” (Google help center)

When you enable this feature, the most significant change is that you’ll see a new drop-down next to your email address in Gmail and other supported Google products. Click on the drop-down and you can sign in to a new Google Account without signing out from the previous account.

Another change is that Google’s URLs include a different number for each account: http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/, http://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/, etc.

Google’s help center explains that Google’s services didn’t allow you to sign it to multiple accounts at the same time using the same browser because Google uses sign-in cookies that only let you sign in with one account at a time. Obviously, you can use multiple browsers, Chrome’s incognito mode, IE8′s “new session” feature, multiple profiles, but the new Google feature makes things easier. Now you can read your messages from two or more Gmail accounts by opening Gmail in multiple tabs.

There are some known issues related to multiple sign-in: this feature is not available on mobile devices, Google Calendar’s gadget doesn’t work properly in Gmail, you can no longer use offline Gmail and offline Google Calendar and the “note in Reader” bookmarklet only works for the default account.

Thanks Rakesh

Search Engine Optimization is a complex process where SEO companies needs to undertake different types of research like keyword research, SEO analysis, competitor analysis and many other things. The primary objective of an SEO Optimization Company is to attract or bring a huge volume of traffic to the website and for achieving that goal the Search Engine Optimization Companies optimize the website in a manner in which the website succeeds in achieving higher ranking in the search engine result pages (SERP). A website will be visited by a wide range of visitors only if it ranks inside the first few pages of the SERP.

SEO consists of two categories, on-site optimization and off-site optimization. In case of On Page Optimization, the Organic SEO Company perform several restructuring works on the website itself. They add Meta tags like Meta Title, description and keywords in the pages of the website. The Meta tags added by the SEO Optimizer in the website are considered to be one of the most important part of Google Optimization . Based on these Meta tags, google bots measures the importance and relevancy of a website and the websites get higher or lower ranking in Google. On page optimization is not an easy task to perform and only the only the experienced and knowledgeable SEO Experts can perform them. The Off Page Optimization also plays a very important role and acts as one of the most important ranking factors for a website. Link building is the most important work as far as Off Page Optimization is concerned. In the process of link building the website needs to be linked with hundreds of other high ranked websites and article directories. Both of these optimization processes are extremely important however the majority of SEO work consists of Off page optimization

The problem is that to find out the Best SEO Company is very difficult and time-consuming task. Hiring any ordinary SEO Company will not be a prudent decision because these Seo Companies do not have the requisite knowledge and skill to optimize the website. Prior to hiring any SEO company for SEO work the site owners must gather adequate information about the Search Engine Optimization Company they are going to hire. The information’s that they need to gather are firstly how much time the Search Engine Optimisation Company is going to take in optimizing the website and what process they would follow for optimizing the website. Complete optimization of a website takes a lot of time (around 4 to 5 months); and if any Search Engine Optimization Company claims to do that within few weeks, then try not to opt for such a company. Surely these Search Engine Optimizations Companies are trying to cheat people because SEO is a task that cannot be performed overnight.

Here is a short list of some suggestions to consider if your website has been given a Google Penalty:

• Google Webmaster Tools: If you don’t have Google webmaster tools installed on your website yet even without the penalty this should be the very first step you take. Google webmaster tools allows you to see what types of links are pointing directly to your site. This will be a very good and important starting point for your investigation. Once Google webmaster tools is installed take a step back and go through all your links. Make sure none are point from any spammy or irrelevant websites. If you have found any that might not be right for your website you will have to contact blog and website owners to remove the links. By installing Google webmaster tools on your site you also show the search engines that you have nothing to hide and you welcome them to look at your efforts.

• New Website Changes: If you have made any website changes over the last six to twelve months go through all those changes. Identify any new content that might have a bit too many keywords listed in it or if you have updated any links to any of your pages make sure you did not add to many links or links pointing to sites that Google does not like. Per Google guidelines a web page should not exceed fifty links. You don’t want to make too many changes backwards just yet. Make some and then wait and give it some time to see if that was the issue. Once you have a penalty it could take some time along with trial and error until you find the problem.

• Google Analytics: Check your Google analytics (or your web stats program) to see when the problem first started occurring. You will quickly be able to see where the dip in traffic occurred and allow you to associate with what possible marketing efforts where conducted at that time for the problem to occur.

In conclusion stay calm and use your analytical hat to be sure you have covered all of the bases. Also, be sure to spend time learning (before there is an issue) search engine optimization best practices and Google’s webmaster guidelines as well.

Here’s a list of 11 tools that can help you track your competitors movements on the Web and give you actionable information that you can use. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a savvy site owner.  We’ll start off gentle.

Google Alerts

Google Alerts are great little inventions because they allow you track virtually anything and have it delivered either to your email or RSS. What kinds of stuff should you be tracking? The name of our competitor’s company, their employee names, their CEO, product names, locations, mentions of new features, etc. What kinds of media are you looking for? Their blogs, social profiles, photos, videos, Flickr accounts, Facebook pages, etc. Why? The more you know, the better off you are to make smart decisions.

Twitter

Follow your competitors on Twitter. Follow their employees. Follow the people that engage most often with your competitors. Follow the people your competitors are following. Use Private Twitter Lists to do it all discretely. Private Lists are a goldmine for stalking. I mean, researching.

Twitter Search

Create RSS feeds or Save Twitter Searches to track important keywords, competitors’ Twitter user names, and product names (yours and theirs).  You can also use the Advanced Geo search to key in a certain radius from your competitor’s storefront.

Bit.ly

If you’re using Twitter, you’re probably already familiar with bit.ly. It’s one of the many URL shortening services out there. What’s different about bit.ly is that it gives you really great link stat information. It will tell you how many people clicked on your link, how many times it was retweeted, how many people clicked on the retweeted link, what times of day people retweeted it, who was doing the actual retweeting, etc. It’s a really great way to find and identify your network online so you can leverage them in the future.

Yahoo Site Explorer

Knowing that links are an essential part of getting your site to rank, Yahoo Site Explorer can show you WHO is linking to your competitors, as well as who’s linking to you. Where are competitors getting their links from? How can you get links from similar sources? What holes do they have in their link profile that you can capitalize on? This tool will tell you.

SEO for Firefox

This is great FF plugin offered by SEOBook’s Aaron Wall that gives site owners a robust look at whatever site they’re looking at. It tells you a site’s PageRank, age, number of links at a certain domain/page, how its done in social media, how many people are subscribed to its blog, if it’s listed in DMOZ or the Yahoo Directory, etc. Because it offers such great information about links, many people like to use it evaluate competitor’s content pieces.

Quarkbase

Once you put your URL in it will tell you the most recent and the most popular pages from a certain site that have been submitted. You can see where they’ve been submitted, how many votes they received, how many subscribers they have, etc. You can also search by “submitted on” or “submitted by” to see where your competitors are having their content submitted and who’s doing the submitting.

SocialMention

This is a pretty neat tool. Enter in a search term (competitor’s name, product name, keyword, etc) and SocialMention will track down what people are saying about that term across different blogs and social outlets. It will even attempt to track sentiment analysis to tell you if the mentions are positive, negative or neutral (this can get a bit wonky). It will tell you how many times a keyword was talked about, the time frame, and let you subscribe to an RSS feed for that term or export the information as a CSV. It’s one of my personal favorite tools to play with.

Compete

Compete will give you a complete profile of any site on the Web. You give them the domain and give you an approximation of their unique visitors and the keywords that are bringing people to their site. You can also compare several different sites up against each other. There’s a paid option which will give you even more analytical type information, as well.

copernic.com

Copernic offers a great tracker tool that will look for new content on your competitors’ Web pages and then email you a highlighted version so you know what they changed. If they put up a page about a new product they’ll soon be carrying, you’ll know. If they start altering text to rank for different keywords, you’ll know. If they update their employee page to create new positions, you’ll know. It’s a $49.95 investment but, I think it’s worth it.

Domaintools.com

DomainTools will collect a bunch of information about a Web site and report back. You can find out if your competitors are listed in the Yahoo directory, get registration details, what other sites are on the same IP (may be sites that company also owns), etc. You can also set up Registration Alerts to inform you each time your competitor creates a new domain name or a Mark Alert to tell you if they’ve used a particular keyword.

There you have it. A list of some of my favorite spy tools. You still trust me, right?

Trading Assistants act as brokers, selling merchandise for others and keeping a percentage of the profits. The profit potential can be great, especially when selling high-value items.

Though there are millions of registered users on eBay, many people still don’t know how to sell goods themselves. A Trading Assistant fills a need in the marketplace, allowing you to make a profit while helping others unload their stuff. Almost everyone has a box of items in their garage or closet that they would like to sell.

Getting Started

You will need to decide what types of products you are willing to sell and may want to set a minimum value on merchandise you accept. It can be difficult to make a profit on $5 items so many assistants require the products have a minimum estimated sales value of $10 or $20.

Most assistants set their fees between 20%-40% of the ending auction price. You may also want to charge a per-item listing fee of $1-$5, and possibly deduct this from the commission if the auction ends successfully.

As a Trading Assistant, you will list the item for sale, handle all buyer questions, collect payment and shipping fees from the buyer and ship the item. You may also need to do some research on your customers items to determine their value. Search the closed listings to find out what similar items have sold for and list your auctions accordingly.

You should create a simple contract that your customers sign to indicate that they agree to your services and fees. You can check out the competition in your area to determine what services other Assistants are offering and how they are structuring their fees. Check eBay s directory by zip code at http://www.ebay.com/

You will also need to decide how to obtain the items from your seller. You could offer a pickup service, visit customers homes and complete a contract there. Or you can offer a drop-off service, where customers bring their items to you. Many assistants operate from their garage so buyers don t have to enter their homes.

Promote Your Business on Ebay

Ebay offers a directory of Trading Assistants that consumers can use to locate services in their geographic area. To get listed in the official Trading Assistant program, eBay requires that you have a feedback rating of at least 50, have sold at least one item in the past 30 days, and maintain satisfaction rating of 97% or higher.

A listing in the official directory is free and you can also download best practices information and other tools from eBay at
http://www.ebay.com/

Other Ways to Promote Your Business

Here are some ideas for getting the word out about your service:

• Create a simple brochure and ask nearby businesses to display them for you.
• Leave brochures or fliers on doorsteps in your neighborhood.
• Place classified ads in the local newspapers.
• Place free classified ads on www.craigslist.org.
• Contact small business owners and offer your services to them. They may want to unload their overstock and your service could provide the perfect solution.
• Post fliers and brochures at colleges, retirement centers, and community centers.
• Ask your kid s school to mention your service in the newsletter.
• Visit garage sales and flea markets and offer your services to sellers.

Launch Your Business

Make sure you follow the rules of running a home-based business and check with your county offices to apply for a business license and resale permit. Though online sales are not heavily governed, someday they will be and it is better to comply with business laws.

Also make sure to set expectations with your customers. Since many aren t familiar with how eBay works, explain the process and set realistic expectations for the final values of sales. Some may expect their items to be worth far more than they can get on eBay, and you don t want to disappoint or worse, upset a client by selling an item for less than expected.

If you don t yet have any experience on eBay yourself, it s easy to get started. Begin with some spring cleaning and list some merchandise from your home. Make sure you have a good understanding of how eBay works before you represent your services to others.

A Trading Assistant business is a great opportunity for anyone interested in a relatively easy homebusiness. Once you launch your business, repeat customers and word of mouth should help your business grow. Your only regret could be that you didn’t start sooner.

]]> http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/become-an-ebay-trader/feed/ 0 20.308622 85.821121 20.308622 85.821121 Pintu http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/linkbaiting-for-fun-profit/ http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/linkbaiting-for-fun-profit/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:02:08 +0000 Rakeshpradhan http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/?p=164 ]]> Linkbaiting is one of the most universally effective tactics for promoting a site, both for search engine rankings and short-term traffic boosts. There’s no special list of guidelines that sets linkbaiting apart from normal content building or promotion except the knowledge that you’re creating something that’s specifically designed to appeal to link-savvy bloggers and web content creators.

Understanding what content, features, and subjects are “in” with the technorati (the web-literate individuals, not the blog aggregation site) is a subjective, but important piece of the linkbait creation puzzle. Right now, for example, one could search through del.icio.us/popular and digg.com to find examples of sites and pages that are getting lots of press. Blogs like Lifehacker, Threadwatch, Gizmodo, and others can also serve as inspiration when you’re searching for the latest crazes. My current experience shows that there are two big fields getting attention – web 2.0 applications (which include mashups, community-based sites, tags, feeds, content aggregation, map interfaces, etc.) and trend-announcing posts (or articles) that present new data or talk about how existing trends are affecting industries. Both of these get hundreds of links from bloggers who can’t seem to resist pointing to something their cohorts will later reference them for.

A lot of folks have also pointed out that SEOmoz’s very own Search Engine Ranking Factors served as very tasty linkbait recently, garnering a few thousand links in less than 3 weeks. Other examples of this same type of linkbaiting exist across the web, ineveryindustry. If you can gather up a group of well known and well-respected industry professionals to write a best practices guide or offer their opinions on factors/trends/issues affecting the industry, you’ve got a golden opportunity for on-topic links.

The second step in creating linkbait is the initial promotion. With SEOmoz, it was easy to write about the ranking factors article in the SEOmoz blog and watch the links fly in. With lesser trafficked sites, it can be valuable to actually email some bigger bloggers or writers in the field and ask them if they’d offer constructive criticism. Don’t ask for a link – bloggers hate that (even I hate it). Ask for their advice, tell them you respect their opinion and like their blog (if you don’t, find someone whose opinions you do respect) and are hoping their feedback can help you improve. 99.99% of the time, if you implement some small changes they ask for and email them back saying you’ve made them, they’ll write about it in public.

Once a great site, great application or trendy post is written about somewhere, it gets picked up and dragged across the web. Social tagging and popularity ranking sites (like the aforementioned Digg & del.icio.us) help to give the document massive visibility to hundreds of sheep-like content creators, who’ll happily link to you (without any input). Linkbait is a beautiful thing and to those who become experts in applying it to industry niches where natural links are hard to come by (think e-commerce or pharma), a great reward awaits.

]]> http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/linkbaiting-for-fun-profit/feed/ 0 Pintu http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/google-bing-perform-well-in-latest-comscore-report/ http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/google-bing-perform-well-in-latest-comscore-report/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:19:18 +0000 Rakeshpradhan http://rakeshpradhanblog.wordpress.com/?p=161 ]]> The latest comScore report concerning the search market has arrived, and although it may not cause too many jaws to drop, there are some interesting tidbits contained within.  It seems that Google hit its stride again in October, and Bing continued to make some impressive gains.

Google experienced a couple months’ worth of shakiness earlier this year, failing to win any share between May and June, and then actually losing a little heading into July and August.  But between September and October, Google moved its needle from 64.9 percent to 65.4 percent, which is fairly impressive.

In fact, according to comScore, the search giant managed a 17.4 percent year-over-year increase.

Bing, for its part, did even better, pulling off a 30.8 percent gain in the same time span.  And in terms of just the last little bit, Bing bumped its share from 9.4 percent to 9.9 percent between September and October.  Not bad at all.

It’s Yahoo fans who have cause to be disappointed.  Yahoo’s share of the search market has sunk 0.7 percent on a year-over-year basis, and comScore determined that it dropped from 18.8 percent in September to 18.0 percent in October.

Source:-webpronews

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