One more reason to prove why Search Engine Optimization, is a much studied discipline(thanks to bloggers) in India, and why there are many SEO educated webmasters - I find anyone who is approaching me for links, well informed about the need for back links, PR, Google SERPs etc. This is really fantastic! Well, 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.

• Rahul Prabhakar - when the muse strikes
• SEO Kolkata blog
• Technorati Fav Exchange links - Light within, Technix

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.

Setting up a wordpress blog from your old blogger account is easy. But in order to get you good traffic and search engine results, it’s essential to do some SEO on it by tweaking it a bit. Once the SEO tweaking is done, wordpress is an excellent tool that will help you to the top on the SERP’s.All you have to worry about is writing good content and striking a good keyword density on the articles. Here’s a video tutorial by Garry Egan on some basic SEO tweaking on your wordpress blog.

Here’s a cool video tutorial by Gareth Davies on Title Tags usage.
Related posts - Keyword usage,Video tutorials by Brendon Sinclair

Rapidshare is undoubtedly one of the most used file storage sites and one of the most annoying. Many a times, when there is a very big file like a movie, separated into 3-4 parts on rapidshare, it’s a mess handlinkg the various links.

Now here is a new service that will help you convert the rapishare text links(that you might have collected) in to actual links. Honestly, i think this is not a great tool at all, but may come in handy for some who don’t want to copy opaste 21 urls into the browser at the same time and wait for the download.

It could helop you only when you have many number of urls for the same file/movie.

Try it here

If you are an amateur singer or a bathroom singer, here is a chance for you to show your talent to the world. If you have a microphone and speaker, just go to this site(http://www.karaokeplay.com) and select from their vast collection of karaoke songs, your favourite number and sing along, record the song and post it on the site with your photo, so that others can rate it.

The songs are categorised in various Genres and it’s most likely that you’ll find you favourite number. So gear up, practice a few times and show the world your talent!!

Speed Links for the weekend

• Most under utilized feature of Firefox
  
• Download free e-books on your cell phone
  
• Create a Video wallpaper on Windows
• Yahoo! Widgets for your desktop
• Pictures of Yahoo bangalore Office
  

Just out of sheer curiosity - just have a look at the top searched queries on Google India, this March. This is according to Google Zeitgeist.

Most of the terms are related to the entertainment industry. Pretty Interesting.

These days i get a lot of link exchange requests. Especially for the “SEO India” link exchange offer that’s running. I haven’t declined any link requests for the SEO India offer but if i hadn’t been running this, there are certain things that I’d have looked into and decline some link exchange requests as well.

When some one is linking to you, you need to ensure that the site you are linked by meets Google’s standards.
Well, Google doesn’t give any importance to the volume of links that’s coming in because, it’s something that you can’t control. If you’ve good content, people automatically link to you and there’s nothing you can do to review them.

But at least when you are aware who’s linking to you ( when someone’s ) you can select from the options you have.So what is it that you should look for?

- What is the age of the domain/blog that you are being linked to?

The age of a domain is important, the more the age the better reputation(PR) you get. Google thinks that when a very old website(with good content of course) links to you, it means you’ve been recommended by an authority. So make sure that you get maximum links from older domains rather than blogs and sites that just sprouted up in the last rain.

Here’s how you can determine the age of a website -

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.website.com

Use this URL replaced with the site going to link to you and you will get the age of the site.

- How many sites link to the site that’s linking to you?

As you know, Google believes in votes and recommendations - and the community concept. Therefore, if a website(Site A) which is already recommended by 100 people , recommends to you Site B, then Site B will carry all the good will of Site A. So it’s always good to check how many incoming links the site that’s going to link to you has got already.

Here’s how you check it on Google - link:http://www.website.com (Didn’t you know this before?)

- How many .edu and .gov links backlinks has the site got?

As you know, edu and gov links are considered reliable by Google. Therefore when Site A links to Site B, and if Site A has 100 edu backlinks - all that is carried forward to Site B’s reputation. So count on fingers how many edu backlins the site has got or run this operator query on Yahoo!

For determining edu backlinks - linkdomain:www.website.com +site:.edu -site:.com -site:www.website.com
For determining gov backlinks - linkdomain:www.website.com +site:.gov -site:.com -site:www.website.com

There are other factors too that will help you determine if you should accept a link exchange/buy a link. Which i will cover in the next part of this topic..let me know your thoughts.

Alexa and it’s rankings have been much debated by SEO’s - some say it’s important, some think otherwise. Here’s a snap shot and my thoughts on the topic.

For —-
Some SEO’s think that Alexa is important because

• Google PR and Alexa traffic is something that you can boast about when selling your site to someone.
• Google has collaborative associations with Amazon ans Alexa - so there’s some sort of authority attached with the term - “Alexa Traffic”
• As Tinu put’s it - “It is the closest thing to a universal, impartial 3rd party measure of traffic we have.”

Against ———
Now for the reasons why it’s not considered important.

• The traffic data suggested by Alexa is partial - it’s only a measure of how many Alexa toolbar users visited your site.
• The term “Alexa Traffic” is wrong - it should be “Alexa Toolbar users”
• It ignores the number of other non-Alexa toolbar users that visited your site.

I think it’s a very silly thing to be debated about - when it’s clear that Alexa traffic is nothing but a fancy term. It’s got nothing to do with SEO, or traffic. Definitely not something that can be counted as Web 2.0

Google has a new option for webmasters - that enables us to remove a particular information on a website from it’s search results. Vanessa Fox today released the Webpage removal tool that will enable users to delete off indexed pages from your site on Google’s index and also information/pages on other sites.

The latter part is interesting - removing information on other sites. At first look it may sound to you that anyone who wishes to remove any information from another site can use this tool. But a closer look at the tool will reveal that the information that you wish to remove from other site should be related/affecting to you. Also, the type of information that you wish to delete should be related to your personal information like -

• Your social security or government ID number
• Your bank account or credit card number
• An image of your signature
• Explicit content which violates Google’s guidelines and contains your personal information.

So anyone who does not like your site/blog cannot just go ahead and request your site to be deleted. Ha, that’s a catch there!

But it’s to wait and watch if anyone manages to get that done(deleting someone elses pages) fooling google. Doesn’t look possible but hey - it would be interesting to read.