Here are the Quick links of all the new bloggers who have linked to Daily Dose with the anchor text - Mani SEO Services india, the last week.

• Beta Blogger for Dummies
• Culture Shiok - Singapore OFW

You may link to daily dose with the anchor text - “SEO Services India” or “Mani - SEO Services India” from your blog, make sure that the link is not a javascript enabled pulldown menu but a simple HTML ahref link.The link will be reciprocated the very next week.

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Many a times, SEO’s spent most of their time optimising sites for Google and MSN and Yahoo are ignored.This is a truth and the reasons are obvious - Popularity, Traffic, Authority, Tools etc. Recently i came across this question on a forum - Does MSN require any different strategy other than Google to rank the sites high on it?
Well, the answer is NO. MSN is different in many ways unlike Google - they way it ranks sites, the parameters it takes into account when indexing a new page etc - but the SEO strategies that you can implement on a site is fairly much the same.Here are listed a fgew differences and clarifications on MSN and its search indexing model.

• MSN does not have an affinity to old sites like Google.
• MSN does not have affinity to bigger sites with many pages/subdirectories.
• MSN can rank a fairly new site high on search listings if it manages to get some few inbound links - pretty quick! (In a week or so.)
• MSN gives more importance to onpage optimisation, and for this reason a site with good, relevant titles and meta tags can rank higher than an authoritative old site with lesser on page optimisation.

However, the MSN algorithm is considered flaw in certain areas like filtering spam from authoritative sites and indexing quality sites. Moral of the story is that - No separate SEO strategy is required for MSN, do it for Google and the others will follow.

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Google system - reports that they’ve noticed a significant change in the Google homepage - that is the Other Tools are rolled up as a navigation bar to the top of the page.(See screenshot)

The authenticity of this report is doubtful, they say that it’s seen on IE6 browser only.The screenshot seems genuine, but it could also be a hoax.

If at all this is genuine, Google may be testing a new design to it’s classic hompage - expect some negative user experience!

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Speed Links for the weekend

• 16 interesting, less known facts about Google
  
• History of Search Engine Optimization
• Google CAPTCHA code malfunction - Comedy
• How to write great ad-copies on Adwords
  

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Seeing is believing - right?

Here are some basic, easy to digest video tutorials by Brendon Sinclair of Tailored Consulting

Who explains in layman’s language the “basics of SEO. He explains about about Linking,Keywords,Competition analysis etc. And yes with some intentional comedy - pretty impressive!

Part 1 - On keyword relevance , Part 2 - Assessing competition ,Part 3 - Onpage optimization, Part 4 - Importance of linking

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If you are serious about SEO, your life should be all about “Keywords”. Because they form the muscles of your site, they are like protein to your body. And if you wanna have a well built body with well formed muscles, you got to supplement it with the right “proteins”.Simple as that!

So think of Google as a sexy lass - and your site a hunk.Well assume that you are not a hunk right now and is a lanky guy,weak.And you got to woo her.So what would you do?Dress up in those fancy apparels, and flash off to her?Well, she may give a glance - but not for long - once she knows that you are not what you really looks like - she’ll move on to the next guy around.

This is exactly what happens when the google bot visits your site. You have dressed up in all those fancy clothes with no real strong body and no muscles to flash, and you fail to impress her. She really likes strong men.

So start eating your proteins today.Keywords that is.

Select a good “keyword” for your site from a niche using any of the following tools.
Overture Suggestion, Good Keywords
Overture is a free tool and even good keywords - but they don’t show the google statistics but yahoo. So you can assume that for a particular keyword, the traffic on yahoo multiplied by 4 will give you the google traffic.

Example - Keyword - “SEO India” on yahoo stands at “100″ searches, it is probably 400 on google.

After you’ve selected your keyword, there are a few points that you should remember when writing articles.

- Keyword density in body text

Keyword density can be explained as the number of times the particular keyowrd appears compared to the total number of words used in the article.
Example - Hello, My name is Mani and i’m a freelance SEO from India, I do SEO consultation to internet startups and websites.

In the above article, the keyword density is 2/17, i.e the keyword “SEO” is repeated two times in every 17 words.

Now the point is that - google bot weighs your article based on the frequency of keywords and the keyword density.So you may think - “Alright! the more the keyowrds the better the chances of getting ranked for that keyword” - Wrong!

Google’s algorithm expects and allows only certain level of keyword density, beyond which your article is easily taken as spam!

- Now how much density?

I’ve researched arond the blogsphere and the discussion forums and found that a 5 - 20% of keyword density is acceptable to Google beyond which is spam. So make sure that when you write an article, the density is well within the 20% limit.That is a healthy practice and will give you enough supplements to build your “muscles”

- Keywords in URL’s

It is a very healthy practice to use the targeted keywords in urls - but what is the optimum level of doing it.
I bet you might have seen urls like - www.freelance-seo-from-india-cheap-outsourced-services.com!
Well, that’s clearly a spam! Google only accepts maximum 2-3 hyphens in a url,beyond which, even though it may not be spam, clearly looks like one. So make sure that the url’s are not too lengthy. If your keywords are lengthy, you need not incorporate all of those into the url, cut off the unnecessary and keep the stuff.
Example - freelance-seo.com is preferred to freelance-seo-cheap-service-india.com

- Keywords in metatags

Metatags are given less importance these days, yet many play it safe and use the still, if google ignores them, there are other search engines too, they may require it?
The point here too is the same - don’t incorporate all the keywords and it’s synonyms into the description/keywords meta.Add only that is relevant, and cut off all the meaningless ones.Remember lengthy is spam!

Personally, i study that in Meta description tag - a healthy choice would be to add around 150-200 characters.
And in Meta keywords tag - a healthy choice is to keep it less than 10 keywords.

- Highlighting keywords inside the body

This is really important as it can go haywire if you don’t take it seriously.Always, DONOT use BOLD html tags to highlight keywords, instead use STRONG tags.Bots ignore BOLD tag as it is only a visibility factor while STRONG is both visibility and accessibility factor.(It can also be read by screen readers)

Always use H1, H2 and H3 tags for titles. H1 - tags should contain the most important keyword, H2 tags the lesser important ones and H3 tags the lowest important one.A good combination of all the three(also H4,H5 etc) will ensure that all your relevant keywords are read and absorbed by the bots and they know what your site is all about.One point to remember here however is that, NEVER repeat a keywords inside the same header tag or different header tags.

Example
H1 - Freelance SEO India
H2 - Freelance SEO India Cheap Services
H3 - SEO Services in India

The above is unacceptable as is forces the bot to take duplication.
Even better would be -
H1 - Freelance SEO
H2 - Cheap Service - How are we better priced?
H3 - Indian company- benefits

The common idea in all of the above methods is that, keep it short,to-the-point, and simple. Don’t make them elaborative and lengthy - that is spam!

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Hereafter, I’ll be adding a regular weekly update on who is linking to Daily dose.
I’ll be linking back to all those who have linked to Daily dose - that week.

That’s something good, isn’t it? I use to try very hard for incoming links when i started blogging but couldn’t find a blogger(with higher PR of course) with an inclination to reciprocal linking.

Here, I’m offering you back links from a PR4 blog(Daily dose that is) for free, and for lifetime. Pretty cool huh?

Here are the links for this week - Let me know if i missed your blog and i’ll link back to it.

• Simple Info - Ajith
• Sreedhar
• Inside Orkut - Darnell Clayton
• Digital Inspiration - Amit Agarwal
• Gen X - Dude Hyderabadi
• Avinash Sonee
• Techno Spot - Ashish Mohta

UPDATE - When linking to dailydose, ensure that you use the anchor text - “Mani - SEO Services India”.

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I first spotted John Chow when i saw the “I love Darren Rowse” ad campaingn on problogger.
This advertising strategy caught my attention and i took an inspiration from him - I advertised Daily Dose on Labnol with my site specifc ads and managed to do an Indian version of John.

John coined the strategy as “IM Ads” and i appreciate his thinking out of the box.
The next time i noted John was when i found him on almost all blog rolls for no reason.Is it the cars or the dishes that attacts people?
Found out later that it’s his “evilness” and “smartness” in earning money on the net that attracts people.
The two strategies that i like John did was the “IMs Ads” and the “Make money online” campaign he did recently.

And, yes just like Mubin Ahmed thinks the evil guy has a huge head.

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Technorati is undisputedly one of the preferred stops on the internet, when you are looking for content and news. (others being Digg,Reddit etc)

Getting a top rank on technorati is definitely something to cheer about, cos they always throw you with that “not among the top 50,000″ graph to you when you visit it. Mark Robinson - does a little trick to get him top rank to technorati, and in almost no time.

He says that going on a commenting spree on a top A-list blog like(John Chow) can get you rank high on technorati. This is because of a glitch in technorati’s algorithm where each post (you comment on) is treated as a separate linking page(He explains it here).

So if you want to get into the top ranks of technorati - Select a A-List blogger and go on a commenting spree until you are satisfied > Ping technorati and wait for a few hours! Presto.

Well, i would like to disagree with Mark that technorati rankings are totally rubbish. Technorati ranks cannot be compared to a Google PR, but it gives you weightage over other bloggers in the same niche - Doesn’t it?

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