Alexa Yesterday Metric added newly, Available for all the Webistes

From now on, Alexa will show the Yesterday Metric for all the websites irrespective of their traffic. Before this, it used to be a case, where if the websites traffic rank is less than 100k, it used to show the data for the yesterday parameter too. But now, Alexa has decided to extend it for all the websites. So a new website either has any data written in to Alexa traffic database or not will be shown with the yesterday parameter.

This includes the data for all the parameters like Traffic Rank, Reach, Pageviews, Time on site etc.

This would be helpful for those who want to update their website daily. As and when they update, they look at the stats and can come to a conclusion to whether or not to do the same thing again with the website updates.

Alexa hardly needs any extra load on the servers to let this. So it can be considered a nice move where it is showing much of the data it is gathering. Also, it is very nice to show other details like. When is the last time it has seen a page and when is the first time in the history has it seen a page from the website.

Alexa has been making changes in its appearance and all from the last one year. It is nice to update their website so frequently after all.

Bing wont group the results from same domain in SERPs

As you can see for yourself, Bing wont group the results from same domain in its SERPs. I searched a keyword, Halo addons, it show 2 results from moddb, But they are not grouped.

If you want to ask me whats the big deal, there can be! Suppose, there are 2 results from a same domain. You can give more weight to those results as it is discussing more about the topic you searched for. So there is more probability for you to find the topics you interested in, in those websites. There can be better topics in the other websites too, but you can have the domain name noted in your mind too. Also, if you see one of those results asks you to register, you can skip the second one too if you don't want to register. I guess you would support me when I say there is some advantage for grouping the search engine results.

Bing SERPs are full of forums for the keywords I search for

Firstly, when ever I go to bing. I dont type bing.com is the address bar. As my home page is set to Google, I just type bing and then press enter. Thanks to google, I can avoid typing 4 ore characters. This takes me to the Google SERPs for the keyword bing. And I click on the first result which obviously is Bing.com. Even when I am in some page, I just go to home and then type Bing, same procedure again.

When I try to see how the results vary, I mostly see that Bing gives some advantage forums. I searched for cs1.6 maps and saw that 7 out of 10 results are forums. For the same search there were 2 forums in the Google SERPs.

In the next search I searched for Halo Plugins. There were 5 results from forums in the Bing SERPs, compared to 3 in Google results.

Apart from these searches I generally see more forum results in Bing SERPs compared to Google SERPs.

Blogger Custom Domain, Blogspot & FTP Publishing Choice for serious blogging

Basically, if you want to be a serious blogger, nothing matters. But if you use a Custom Domain for your blogger blog, there are 2 advantages. One is that, there would be a brand name, and the other, click through rate. CTR in SERPs is the second advantage I was talking about. When you see a blogspot, you wont feel like the information is as authentic as you feel the same about the info in a .com or .net. Same is the case with .info domains. As a website itself is like a brand name which cannot be copied. There is no need for me to trademark it. As it is what you have for yourself. If some one uses Gaminglan.net as a brand name, the site, gaminglan.net gets the traffic, so there is no point using it. So, with your custom domain, you are at your own palace on the web.

If you have any possibility of getting a domain name for you, I will advise you to get one. But if there is no possibility, there is no point discussing or wasting time for getting one.

When you want to talk about FTP publishing, its better to go for Wordpress, than using FTP Publishing. That's the last thing I can talk about as I din't not use it, but I recommend Wordpress in those cases.

How to set Justify content for all the posts in Blogger blog

For those who are new to HTML or CSS, you might be worried about justifying each and every post of yours. It can be done very easily by adding one attribute to the post body in CSS of the blog template.

Go to Layout of your blog, the go to Edit HTML, then go to the template and search for .post-body. You will see some attributes in the flower brackets as shown below,

.post-body {
  margin:0 0 .75em;
  line-height:1.6em;
  text-align: justify;
  font: $bodyfont;
  font-size: normal;
}

 The text-align property should not be there in the default template. Add it. Thats it.

Whats the difference between a Root Domain & WWW Sub-domain

As far as I know, there is no difference. There is nothing in DNS settings which relates both www and root domain. But most of the times they are considered same by many internet users.

To show you the difference, just visit the http://webloggersunited.com and http://www.webloggersunited.com. You can see that both are completely different addresses. I have the root page set up at some other host and at WWW, my blog has been set up.

Also, I have made W, WW sub-domains both pointing towards the WWW to make it easier for the users to type the address in the address bar in the browser. If you have mistaken to type all the three w and missed 2 or 1, you will be redirected to WWW.

If you have any problems regarding the CNAME set up or any other DNS set up. Ask your questions, I will try to answer if I know the answer, or at least I will try to give some ideas to solve it.

Blog Post Titles & Links share 90% of the SEO Formatting

In the beginning, I used to keep my secrets of success. But with this post for the first time, I want to share all my experiences of blogging and traffic from search engine. No matter I lose or gain, as I am posting at my own blog, I chose to share them in the public. I am writing this for the visitors from the web, but I also ask my friends to read this post before they start blogging here or at their own blogs.

There are tons of websites which talk on blogging and SEO. Some say they have best tips of SEO. Some say they have easiest tips to blog and get success. Some say they have hundreds of tips and tricks. In the very same line I too am walking and I say I have live examples.

Here I start,

Titles of Posts:

I was writing like every other newbie blogger, 'write a post and give it a title, or take a title write on it.' My first posts was “Alchemy of Life.” That has two keywords in its title “Alchemy and Life,” not extremely bad. But if some one is starting a post with title “Cell Phones”, no matter how much content you dump into that post, you sit in a library with your laptop and fill the post with 9 books of content written exclusively on Cell Phones, Search Engines are not going to show your page. No matter how much rank you have, you always lose for that title. It is just because, you wrote a post on cell phones, there are other websites on cell phones alone. So they over take you. But when you add some more keywords like “Best Cell Phones with Android Operating System”, you may win.

And you can see, there are no titles matching all those keywords. So, write one right now, your post will be shown when types again. No matter what your website's rank is.

Finally “Content is not the King, Titles are!” You have understood 50% of SEO if you understand this.

Links to your Site:

Search any keyword in search engines and see whether there are any results with no keyword in title and are appearing at good position on the SERPs. You can see at least 4 in the 10 results shown. This is a contradiction to the above given paragraph. Yes! It is. The results appear because, they have links pointing towards them from another website with the keywords you searched as anchor text of those links. Try to see the cached page of the result and you can see it saying, the keywords appear only in the links pointing to this site. This is another 40% of what you need to learn in SEO.

Remaining 10% of it includes thinks like website ranks and all. Try searching for some keywords and see why some sites are ranking better. One observation you can make is, the keywords with all caps appear  first, then the results with lower case letters in keywords are shown. Also, 9 of the 10 results contain some special characters in titles of the results, like lesser than symbols, hyphens, colons and semi colons, flower brackets, braces, and square brackets etc.

And for the last 1% you can go for your own research of the SERPs of major search engines.