Hereafter, I’d be doing a podcast every weekend on selected SEO tips. This is the first of the series where, I’m talking about “Duplicate content issues on Wordpress and how to curb it”. The quality isn’t awesome, but this would be taken care of in the next episodes as I’m getting into the groove slowly. Hope you’d like the episode and forgive the mistakes in it (Aw, this is a tedious job I tell you! ) :D.
After all, it’s the information that matters. So here you go.

Have you noticed that Indian SEO’s are looked at with doubt by the rest of the world? A fact it is.

Just to get an idea how serious this issue is, first check out Mr.Seo’s(Joe Balestrino) podcast where he talks about SEO’s in India, and the “problems” he thinks you can run into hiring one.

Joe had a client who had initially outsourced his SEO work to a SEO firm in India and he ran into problems(which is why he approached Mr.SEO). The client complained that the SEO firm in India did not submit projects on time, and did not really communicate anything to him on what is being done. Joe adds on later that outsourcing SEO work to India may not be a good idea.

Well, if you ask me, I can’t agree completely with Joe because he’s talking from a single client’s experience. I think this is a one-off case, and Joe should not completely label Indian SEO firms(outsourcing) as non-credible.

The problems he found with the Indian SEO firm were..

They ere not on time with projects
Were incredibly cheap (So he suspected it was a fraud company)
Did not communicate with the client
Failed in on-site optimization, and rather emphasized more on link-building

Joe’s client was unfortunate, to having selected a poor SEO firm in India. This is not a problem faced due to outsourcing SEO work to India or any other company.
The real problem lies in un educated clients.
Clients sometimes may not know anything about SEO except the fact that they need their site on the top of SERPs. Many a times, they do not agree to the time  we suggest we require and wants to hurry things.

As you may be aware, SEO is not a miracle doer, it takes time, lots of time. In fact it’s an on-going project may a times rather than a “Start, okay, done” project. Search Engine rankings does not stand forever, they change as algorithms change. Unfortunately many clients are not aware of such things and blindly need SEO firms to..

- Get their site on the top asap.
- Make it stay there forever.
- Cannot stretch on time and
- Need guaranteed results.

I think with such unfair demands from an ignorant client, black hat SEO’s can grow easily. And which is what might have happened in this case.

As Joe’s observation goes, the client had copied articles from Amazon and other sites (which explains his motives), so there were lot of supplementary results in the site, which the Indian firm did not find out. And they rather focused only on backlinks. Joe further says that the Indian SEO firm did not let the client know as to where the backlinks came from. Which is a fair comment. SEO’s should let the clients know where the backlinks are from and firstly, why they need backlinks.

When ignorant clients are a reality (like this case), it could also be a fact that, Indian SEO’s don’t communicate well with the clients, making things tough.

But I don’t think it’s a healthy practice to label “outsourcing SEO work” as dangerous just because they are cheaper. Rather, efforts should be made to educate clients on why they need SEO, what can be done to help them and what cannot be.

Hi All, I’m happy to announce that here after, DailySEOblog would be featuring podcasts on SEO and blogging tips for bloggers.
Here is my first video on - How to get indexed on Google in less than 48 hours.

I’ve tried my best to make it enjoyable for you - hope you like it. There are lot of limitations( technical and others ) in the video, for instance the audio quality has not come out as good as I had expected. However, I’m welcome to feedback from readers - so please feel free to send in your suggestions and recommendations. Enjoy the video.

Yahoo audio search is another favorite Non-Google application of mine, second to Live image search application. Now it’s got even better.

You can now search for audio files (MP3, WAV, MIDI, WMA or AAC)  on the Internet (Online music stores, the web or Podcasts), play the sample from within the search results and if satisfied with the quality and clarity, go ahead to download/buy the song.

In the more options menu, there are even more options to refine your search by selecting the file types you want (MP3, WAV, MIDI, WMA or AAC), the duration fo the song etc. Pretty handy options there!

Small hint here for music lovers: In case you are looking to buy tracks, select the “Online music Stores” option (default), but if you are looking for free downloading of MP3 music, select the “Search web” option.

Indeed a great piece of technology from Yahoo. Google has yet to catch up with it. Googlers..you there ?

Get the whole story here.

Podcasts are quite a craze these days. Every Tom, Dick , Harry and Mani seems to be podcasting their own shows these days. There are indeed a couple of cool ones out there that are free podcasts and really help you in gathering knowledge. I’ve always wanted to create free podcasts for my blog but all the tools i tried came at a price. (Kindly let me know if you know another free podcast generator program.)

Anyhow, today i found the real one i was looking for, actually it delighted me rather than surprising. It gave me all that i was looking for and with quickness and ease that i hadn’t imagined.This is honestly the best one I’ve come across in quite some time. This is a free online tool that will help you create free audio podcasts of your posts on blog.

All you have to do is - register, copy down the html code and add it to the posts. Simple and straight forward. The code shows up a link that will download the corresponding posts mp3 file to the reader.A lady(US accent) recites the entire article srarting with the blog title, post date and author’s name. Quite amazing.

The tool is talkr and you can register here to get this tool.

This one is highly recommended - If you have any trouble setting it up let me know and i’ll be happy to help you with it.