Money Making Stories

Posted on | December 16, 2011 | No Comments

Ahhh… after a long time, anyways hope you are doing well. Since few days I am getting a question again and again about the money making truth on internet. In few questions I also heard about making money using google. Lets discuss on this money making story.

Yes, people can make money on internet by doing many things; but before joining anything you should have all the things clear with you that will you be really paid by doing work or it’s a scam. See, working as freelancer is a different thing but making money by doing clicks on any website, filling form, sending mails is another thing.

There are many websites on the internet that give this money making tricks. You can spend your free time by doing some work on internet and earn money. But the questions here are, which website is fraud or genuine? Is there really something on the net by doing that I can earn money? How do I get the payment? How much amount of money I will be getting by giving small time a day? And so on…

Off-course, there are many websites by joining the same you can earn money by doing work in your free time. All kind of work is available on the internet like form filling, clicking, sending mails, data extraction etc. but detecting these sites can be especially tricky; because they also claim to help you avoid scams. To get the genuine one you can contact the persons who have worked with such websites. Yes, only reference is here, you can trust on. Here I would also suggest you to keep away from programs that use name of some reputed ad publishers like google. Google has its own publisher network and you need to contact google directly.

If you have blogs or websites, you can also join reputed advertising programs like adsense, yahoo publisher network, affiliate networks etc. These are the reputed companies and very far from scams.

This was about the money making stories. If you were cheated by any company or website in US, you can register a complaint against these website/company at IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) or by alerting Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/ftc/contact.shtm

If the complaint is against the company which is outside the United States, you can register your complaint at www.econsumer.gov

Any question? Ask below

Seo Elements in Periodic Table

Posted on | June 7, 2011 | No Comments

According to many, seo is considered as a Dark Art, performed in secrets by magicians who live in caves and can do anything in search engines. But this is not true at all. There is no magician, no secrets attached with it and in fact anybody can perform a good SEO if he use his creative mind.

Seo relies on many fundamental factors by which a page is indexed by search engines and placed in the ranking accordingly in SERPs. These factors altogether play an important role in identifying the page’s ranking. As stated earlier, key factors of SEO are divided into two major factors. These are on page and off page.

Have a look on the image which illustrates the key factors according to priority in both on page and off page. Check out this seo periodic table and make your seo campaign more effective.

Why hire seo firm instead of in-house team

Posted on | May 17, 2011 | No Comments

Now it is proved that Search Engine Optimization is really important for an online business to increase internet sales. Some hire a seo firm or agency and some hire in-house professionals. Hiring professional in-house is better only when you know what seo is all about and how to proceed. But for those who aren’t familiar with seo, they should go for the SEO firm. Given below I have compiled some reasons why hiring an seo agency is better than hiring a team of professionals:

• Educated, Experienced and Requirement Fulfillment: with the hired seo agency you get answers of your questions with consulting like what you should do or not with additional activities you should do on the web. A reputable seo agency also keeps track of various case studies and problem occurred (if any) during execution of past SEO Strategies which helps in executing seo plan on new projects in more efficient way.
• Start when you want: if you are hiring an agency then you can start it immediately, means no more wait. This wait can be seen easily while hiring seo professional in-house. Apart from this, if you don’t have knowledge about SEO then how can you select and measure the best seo professional for the job? On the other hand, seo firm has dozens of seo experts to aid in setting strategies for your business or any kind of issue. The best part is; they keep their knowledge up-to-date.
• Circle, Connections and Collaboration: that’s right, along with experience and expertise that a seo firm has, your project is analyzed by different professionals with different experience so that you get best from it. Putting all your eggs in one basket and trusting a single individual to market your products online is risky.
• Handling and Management:  SEO agency will always be available for you whenever you want. You just need to pick up the phone and call them up during business hours. Apart from this you will get a detailed report to track performance with “DOs and Don’ts“. The fact is; leaving your website in trusted hands of proven professionals is much easier to manage and you get all the value without giving as much time out of your day.
• Performance Oriented: Quite simple; a reputable seo firm does whatever it takes to keep you on as a client and to reach a satisfaction level. This thinking encourages the productivity, performance and quality as well. Hiring a seo team in-house can also achieve good results but selection of right candidates is mandatory for this operation.

Before hiring any seo firm I suggest you must go through the article “Choosing Good SEO Agency”

Something about URL Shortners

Posted on | April 22, 2011 | 2 Comments

Many folks are novice with the term url shortners. Well “it is a technique or service which is used to make your lengthy urls shorten”. When you browse or call the short url it takes you to the actual url of your website. This technique is basically used when you want to share a link with your friend on facebook, twitter or any other website which does not accept long url. You just paste your lengthy url in the url shortner website, get a new small url and share it with friends or anyone.

Suppose you have a url like: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1geizpdfK3UJ:www.giteshchawla.com/+www.giteshchawla.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in&source=www.google.co.in This is very tuff to remember and even write. To browse this url you can also use:

http://goo.gl/UmXf4 which is very short as compare to the above one and main point here to note is both are going to same page.

Now the point of concern is; how seo friendly this newly generated url is? To check this we have to analyze the service provider or website which provides this url shortening service. The main thing we have to check here is the redirection type; whether it is 301 or 302.

Google has officially come out and confirmed that “link value” through URL shorteners is preserved as Google treats them similar to the actual link if url shortner service provides a short url with 301 permanent redirect. You may also read Url Redirection in deep from the same blog.

In the attached photograph you will find the url shortners with the redirection type they are using.

Google Search Tips for Better Results

Posted on | February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment

Today google.com is the commonly used search engine to search and get relevant information on desired topics. But many of us don’t know about the command which we can use to search more relevant and useful information to save our time. Given below are some tips which we can use to search queries in google.
Some basic facts

• Every word matters. Generally, all the words you put in the query will be used.
• Search is always case insensitive. A search for [ new york times ] is the same as a search for [ New York Times ].
• Generally, punctuation is ignored, including @#$%^&*()=+[]\ and other special characters.

Tips for better searches

• Keep it simple. If you’re looking for a particular company, just enter its name, or as much of its name as you can recall. If you’re looking for a particular concept, place, or product, start with its name. If you’re looking for a pizza restaurant, just enter pizza and the name of your town or your zip code. Most queries do not require advanced operators or unusual syntax. Simple is good.

• Think how the page you are looking for will be written. A search engine is not a human, it is a program that matches the words you give to pages on the web. Use the words that are most likely to appear on the page. For example, instead of saying [ my head hurts ], say[ headache ], because that’s the term a medical page will use. The query[ in what country are bats considered an omen of good luck? ] is very clear to a person, but the document that gives the answer may not have those words. Instead, use the query [ bats are considered good luck in ] or even just [ bats good luck ], because that is probably what the right page will say.

• Describe what you need with as few terms as possible. The goal of each word in a query is to focus it further. Since all words are used, each additional word limits the results. If you limit too much, you will miss a lot of useful information. The main advantage to starting with fewer keywords is that, if you don’t get what you need, the results will likely give you a good indication of what additional words are needed to refine your results on the next search. For example, [ weather cancun ] is a simple way to find the weather and it is likely to give better results than the longer [ weather report for cancun mexico ].

• Choose descriptive words. The more unique the word is the more likely you are to get relevant results. Words that are not very descriptive, like ‘document,’ ‘website,’ ‘company,’ or ‘info,’ are usually not needed. Keep in mind, however, that even if the word has the correct meaning but it is not the one most people use, it may not match the pages you need. For example, [ celebrity ringtones ] is more descriptive and specific than [ celebrity sounds ].

Some advanced search includes:

• Phrase search (“”)
  By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for[ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.

• Search within a specific website (site:)
  Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ]will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.

• Terms you want to exclude (-)
  Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example, in the query[ anti-virus software ], the minus sign is used as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an exclusion symbol; whereas the query[ anti-virus -software ] will search for the words ‘anti-virus’ but exclude references to software. You can exclude as many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example [ jaguar -cars -football -os ]. The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words. For example, place a hyphen before the ‘site:’ operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.

• Fill in the blanks (*)
  The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include * within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches. For example, the search [ Google * ] will give you results about many of Google’s products (go to next page and next page — we have many products). The query [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about different votes on different bills. Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.

• Search exactly as is (+)
  Google employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for example, childcare for the query [ child care ] (with a space), or California history for the query [ ca history ]. But sometimes Google helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don’t really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don’t add a space after the +), you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around a single word will do the same thing.

• The OR operator
  Google’s default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type ‘OR’ in ALL CAPS). For example, [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ] will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants 2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page. The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)

YouTube SEO is also Important

Posted on | February 1, 2011 | No Comments

YouTube is the biggest video search engine in the United States and becoming popular in other countries also, with over 24 hours of video uploaded every minute and more than 2 billion video views a day. Today, there are lots of users who prefer YouTube to search their problem where they can watch video on how to solve the problem. A lot of companies think they are ahead of the mark when it comes to social media and video simply because they are uploading videos to YouTube to educate or guide people. But without proper SEO of video title, description, and keywords (along with profile information), your videos may fail to garnish large amounts of view and traffic on it.

Today we will discuss how to promote your video on YouTube and attract people on the same. Given below are some points we should implement for YouTube video promotion:

Exciting Titles: All titles must not only include what the video is about but also who created it and try to cover all the video related words. For example, in a promotional video about an event sponsored by a company, a proper title might be, “[COMPANY] [EVENT NAME] [TOPIC DISCUSSED] | Learn About [EVENT NAME] [TOPIC DISCUSSED] [YEAR] From [PERSON IN VIDEO]”. You can use either “|” or “-” as it breaks up the content.

Amusing Description: The description character limit on YouTube is 1000 characters, which is a lot considering the space. To give you an estimate on what 1000 characters looks, like the end of this sentence is 1187 characters from the top, counting the spaces. Most character limit fields count the spaces.

SEO professionals recommend listing a link or your website URL in the very beginning of a YouTube description so it won’t get cut off. This would definitely get more clicks than if the URL was placed at the end, and the viewer had to click ‘more’ in order to view the entire description. An easy way to put the URL at the beginning without seeming spammy is to follow the below examples:

• Brought to you by http://www.giteshchawla.com
• To learn more, visit http://www.giteshchawla.com
• Get more information at http://www.giteshchawla.com

These are the good way to represent your link.

Proficient Profile: Attractiveness of profile and completeness in information are the best way to get notices in users as well as search engines eye. Attractiveness means use of images, selecting themes etc where completeness means providing all the asked information in details which includes: Name, Website, Headline, About me, Occupation, Interests and all other information. A sample profile is given below:

Mistakes that make you feel Dump

Posted on | January 21, 2011 | No Comments

Yes, It doesn’t matter who your company is, what you do, how tech savvy you are (or aren’t), or how much business you do offline – if you’re not paying attention to some basic and common search engine optimization efforts and doing everything in your power to increase your Web presence, you’re making yourself look a fool and it effects on your reputation.

Let’s discuss some common SEO mistakes (which are normally done by developers and website owner) that make you look dumb simply by committing them. Let’s FIX IT.

Marrying Awful URLs: It is always better to have seo friendly urls instead of awful urls. We should always create seo friendly and speaking urls so that search engines and users don’t face difficulty in reading urls of the website. Long URLs act as a deterrent to clicking, drawing attention away from a listing and passing the attention off to the one below it (i.e a competitor).

Refusal to woo your Title Tag: Remember that your Title tag is what a user will see when they stumble across your content in the search results and title tag is the content which compel users to click on your website is searching in any search engines or coming to your website through PPC. Do not afraid to create a unique Title tag for posts and articles you write. It’s a good way to tackle both the user and the search engines’ needs.

Navigation like blocked road: Unless you have a really, really good reason for doing so, please stay away from Flash navigations (or, God forbid, putting the whole site in Flash) especially when you are using image in it. If you do so, user can browse it easily but search engines cannot read it. All your pages should easy to navigate and according to content relevance. I have seen many websites where there no link to go back or on home page. This confuses the user and becomes reason for increase in exit level.

Chumming with wrong keywords: it doesn’t matter how big or small is your website but selection of keywords can make your website a big or small. You should be using a toolbox of solutions to help you target the right keywords for your business. You can use tools like wordtracker, wordstream and seo book, and of course, your own analytics will give you insight into what terms are actually converting for you. Assume yourself a customer and give it a thought before finalizing.

No use of Web Analytics: Performing search engine optimization without the insight of analytics is like navigating an unfamiliar environment in the dark. So you should have some web analytics tools installed on you website and analysis of user behaviour is what you are actually looking for. The more information you know about your site and user behavior, the better you can optimize it for searchers.

Not benefiting from link development: This is the thing which, if implemented in right manner not only internally but from third party websites or blogspot also, will keep users on the site to browse and shop. Otherwise, your will lose your user and credibility. Whenever you’re linking to a page on your own site, whether it’s from a blog post, your home page, a service page, whatever, make sure you’re using optimized anchor text. With all the effort we put into link development and trying to lovingly manipulate people into not only linking to us, but linking to us with preferred anchor text, it makes no sense that we wouldn’t take advantage of the links that are within our control.

Not only these points, there are many things which make you feel dump. Feel free to discuss it here if you are not sure about your website seo friendliness.

Choosing Good SEO Services or Agency

Posted on | November 30, 2010 | No Comments

SEO is known as a process used to improve ranking of website in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) for a set of relevant keywords by making changes on the website and placement of links on others websites. Today it is necessary for the businesses who are concerned about online sales through website. Earlier it was easy to create a portal and generate lead on it but now the things are becoming competitive. Hence the businesses need Good SEO Service.

Now the Question arises: How to choose good SEO Services?

That’s right. Nobody knows how to choose best seo services because there are lots of agencies in the market who provide SEO Services. Not only this, there are many freelancers also who provide the same. So should i go with big agency, small agency or freelancers?

Here are some points which make you clear about good seo services:

• If the agency comment a short period of time (like one month or less) it means they will use some kind of unethical techniques and this can harm your website. Because in SEO, results don’t come overnight. You have to wait for 2-3 months at least.
• Before starting ask for the strategies the agency will follow to promote your website and understand the same.
• Ask for some case study whether you are going to work with agency or freelancer and spend some time on these projects. If the projects are not live at that time then shift to another. In SEO, experience of at least 4-5 yrs is must to promote website in ethical manners.
• Talk to 2 or 3 agency and ask for latest techniques which they are following to promote websites. This will help you to identify knowledge of SEO Agencies.
• A good seo agency always keep you suggesting the new things related to website and send proper report of the activities and plan for next week/15 days and will follow that.
• Before signing up ask for the forums/blogs/social website where they post their knowledge to determine their experience.
• Initially, start with a small portion like for 20 keywords or 30 and measure the results then proceed with the big contract. Once you start seeing results then move forward for more keywords.
• Before starting, ask for the changes required for SEO. Understand these changes and get it implemented separately and then move for optimization. Not before that. Because fight between SEO team and Development team normally becomes a reason of delay in results.
• Normally what the website owners do is, they search for the cheap seo agency and if they don’t find any one they try to pull agency down on money which i believe is not good. Big brands don’t work on small amount and if they do then don’t give results. Here i would suggest if you have small budget then go with freelancers.

Some Updates from Google

Posted on | October 9, 2010 | No Comments

Google keeps doing new things on daily basis and these new things can be anything. It can be email related, search related or any product related. In past few days google has done various new things, some of them are:

There are lots of new things which are under implementation or implemented by google like priority inbox, google health, new website for google earth and so on. If we want to make your seo campaign more effective (specially when you are targeting google) you have to keep checking all the latest update and have to make changes on the website accordingly. How to get benefit from these updates is another thing.

Web Analytics Tools

Posted on | September 9, 2010 | No Comments

If you are in online business and want to track visitor’s trend, not only yours but rivals too then you have to use some Analytics Tools to analyze the same. There are lots of tools available online to do such kind of activities. Some the popular tools are:

Google Analytics: This is one of the most popular tools available for analyzing the website traffic. It’s quite easy to use and provides great flexibly. It provides details about search traffic, referral traffic, upcoming trends and many more such facilities like subscribing reports on daily, weekly or monthly basis. Interesting thing is you need not to create gmail id. You can use any email id to use it.

Yahoo! Web Analysis: This analysis tool provided by Yahoo is actually in collaboration with IndexTools. It helps you to map how a visitor reaches your site and how he explores your website. It also provides tips with respect to page content, keywords and ads which will help in bringing more traffic to your site.

SEMRush: This site helps you in your keyword research. It lists down Google keywords and Adword keywords for any website. It helps to determine the best keywords for your website as well as finds your online competitors.

Website Grader: Website grader is a very good online tool available for free. With this you can be sure of an in-depth analysis of how well your website is faring in terms of SEO, traffic and popularity. It also suggests some ‘things to do’ to improve your performance.

Compete: Compete is used to gather information about different websites regarding their ranking, historical data, promotional codes etc. It also helps in determining the most popular keywords which are driving traffic across various sites. It will help you access your position among your competitors.

SEO Browser: With its simple to use browser this tool lets you know how a search engine views your website. There are 2 modes which you can use for your analysis: simple and advanced. While the simple mode displays just the text with no graphics; advanced mode provides a complete analysis of your website page construction.

Piwik: Built with PHP and MySQL, you need to install this in your server to use it. Once done it will generate a JavaScript tag which you can copy-paste in any of the websites you wish to track.

Xinu: This tool helps to keep track of your competition. It generates a report which tells how well they are doing across various search engines, social bookmarking, back links etc.

QuarkBase: This site also offers some great details about your website as well as your competitors. You can get an analysis on the kind of traffic coming to a website, popularity etc from this tool.

This is not the end; there are various other tools available in market like omniture, webtrekk, stat counter, web stat and many more. You can use any tool according to your requirement. Some of them are free and some are paid. In india, mainly one tool is famous which is Google Analytics after that omniture comes.

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