We knew something was going to happen ! It’s been a while until something changed at Google Reader. And now it’ sports a new look, better functions and works better ! New Features include - Collapsible navigation menus - Friends with face - Feed bundles and more. Check out the official blog for more info.

Looks like the GMail team is giving us surprises one after another. First it was the Video chat feature, and now it’s a brand new Desktop application for GMail. According to the official blog, On the Google Desktop gadgets team, we’ve seen countless requests for a Gmail gadget over the years. That gadget is finally here, so if you’ve got Google Desktop for Windows, give it a try. You’ll see that it covers the basics such as reading, searching, and sending messages. You can star messages, use the same Continue Reading…

This is second post in the Link Building Strategies series. What do you think about Interviews? They always pass some value to you right ? Interviews are no big deal on the internet. If you have a brand to show off or have done something remarkably different, then you are a candidate for interview. The interesting thing is “what is considered remarkable on the internet ? ”. I can give you some examples. - You started a blog just 2 months back and got incredibly popular on Digg with a few stories Continue Reading…

November saw a flurry of activity on DailySEOblog. The stats (Awstats) show that November gave the best ever traffic on DSB. I think I must attribute it to the New theme release and the AJAXed comments feature. There have been a triple fold rise in the number of comments and new users showing up on comments. I know for a fact that there are many passive readers out there on RSS readers who are fans of DSB. When I go to blogcamps, there are more “strangers” who come up to me to show their love and affection. I’m Continue Reading…

If you know the SEO basics, it’s pretty easy going from there. For an SEO basic review that is. To help you analyze your webpages, Google webmasters recommend the Lynx browser, which is a text based browser that “almost” shows you the website how the search engines would see. As a matter of fact, not Chrome or Firefox will show you the “basic ripped off version” of a website. They plug in all the fancy stuff including Javascript, Ajax and all that to give you a better browsing experience. While Google and the other search engine bots, rips Continue Reading…

Some SEO Experts likes it all automated, and some folks prefer the manual way. You know, the routine SEO can be quite a drag sometimes. Reports, Page rank checks for each page, Backlink checks, Onsite checks and all that stuff ! Some folks like me prefer it the hybrid way. Little bit of automation and little bit of manual checks makes it all fool proof. And it’s a truth that many of the tools we use are pretty much available for everyone. Here are some SEO soft wares that you might find interesting if you want Continue Reading…

Looks like there is a critical update to Wordpress available right now ! According to the official blog - The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package. 2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third Continue Reading…

Professional looking, XHTML valid Wordpress themes are really hard to find, is it not ? From the numerous free Wordress theme galleries around, it’s really hard to find one that the crowd will immediately identify as “professional looking.” Almost all the free Wordpress themes available are amateurish, and leave that “yet another copy” impression to your blog. If you are willing to move away from the “free” tag, there are actually, way better options for you. For instance, the wordpress themes from Elegant Themes are really very impressive and stands apart from the normal themes, including Continue Reading…

We all love stickers. Right from the school days till now. Here’s a collection of all the web 2.0 company logos and stickers crazy geeks like you and me “got stuck with” on their laptops. There’s Firefox logos, Skype, Wordpress, YouTube, Google, Flickr you name it they’ve got it. Some dudes got it way over the top as well. Check out !

- This guys got all the Hi-Res versions !

Image credit - Matiaslobos

- Grid alignment !

Image credit - Dotcommakers

- That’s too much. What? A volume control sticker?

Image credit - Kurioso

- A Mac Continue Reading…

The last Google Page Rank update  just got over almost two months ago (September end). For all those who weren’t able to get a better jump in Page Rank and who fell back, the upcoming update could be positive if you start gearing up right now. We are unable to determine when the page rank update will be, but my guess is that it might be sometime soon around December –Jan mid. Even if it is delayed, the point is that the time is right for us to do the necessary steps to gear up towards the Continue Reading…