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.

Why text chat over takes voice chat and video chat

As a human being you always try to listen to yourself. This is general tendency. And when you want to follow yourself, you will give least importance to other who you are talking to. This prioritizing what you want to do and what others make you do will be different in the text, voice and video chats.

In the Video Chat, you must look at the other guy to answer him when ever he asks a question. So the degrees of freedom for you are minimum. You are bound to look at him and answer him when he asks.

In Voice chat, the degrees of freedom are better where you don't need to look at the other guy and feel little relaxed. But you need to answer the other guy when he asks you a question. Delaying is not a nice idea.

When you are in text chat, you can reply to his question when ever you are free, the text stays there unlike the video and voice which dissolve in the environment. And there is no need to stop your work. Just see the message when you are free, reply it if you have one in your mind, go back to work. Here multi-tasking is possible.

Why the News Papers with great content wont conquer the SERPs

The shortest answer is,

The new paper editors are intelligent enough to make a 1 sentence view point to 2 paragraph view area. And the search engines are intelligent enough to cut the unwanted content from 2 paragraph index-able text to single keyword indexed database.

The news paper editors are very experienced, can produce a nice headings. And the better part is, they can make full page content from that single heading, without inserting extra data, and just injecting vocabulary.

Search engines need point to point questions and answers. The writers on the web should have at least this skill to its extreme. No matter how good they are with vocabulary. What they need is discipline in what they write. I wrote spelling mistake for “discipline”, before the auto-correct shown me. But I try to my best not to lose it in my writings.

You as a blogger should always, think of how important the others time is. You can go out of topic if you think it will let them relax for a second. But never take them to your play ground and ask them to pass time there.

Consider your blog visitor's time valuable & write short point to point post

I purely guess that, every hundredth visitor on the net has some time to spend. And these remaining 99 users are busy running on the web. They want a short point-to-point and sharp answers to their question so that they can utilize their time to the greatest extent.

As said in a Telugu movie, 'People are skipping their lunch to utilize the lunch hours for chit chatting.” And the web is much busier, they are busy enough to skip the chit-chat too.

Some times I'll be busy & when I search on the web, I just see the text displayed below the result in Google SERPs and wont even take time to get into the website. Thanks to Google for its intelligent index and display strategies, it had certainly saved me 5 more seconds per every busy search.

I guess Search Engines need to take this in to consideration and put an option called, Busy Search. I will write a post on it soon.

So in this fast track, you cannot eat up others time. So, just put forward what you want to convey that's it. There is no other option. And hence the blog posts written must be 300 word at max. I write much lesser here now as I have more topics to write on.

Blogging for users, or for Search Engines? Answer: follow SEO writing formats

While you are blogging, there are two things you need to keep in mind. One is users who read your posts, for whom you are writing, and the second is search engines which try to take your posts to those users who you are writing for. So this makes things little complicated when you think about how to write and for whom should you give more importance. You should not just focus on users and not just on search engines. Make things balanced. Let the search engines do their work and you do your work. But make sure to let the search engines carry your content to the users easily. This means that you are not writing for search engines, which you should never to as a good blogger, but you are letting them carry your content with ease by changing you sentence formation little different. That's a good idea, my mind says.

In this particular context, you need to keep your posts short for users and long for search engines. As this is contradicting each other, writing in specific format helps you. This format is SEO, Search Engine Optimization. So follow Matt Cutts guidelines in the videos about SEO in YouTube webmasters channel or in his blog. And keep your posts short and not too short.

My next post talks about why the posts should be short.

As a Blogger - To begin with – Sorry for my English

I say so as I write my posts in English. I am not a native English speaker. And here I start,

This is the most common statement that many writers or posters use in comments or forums. And yes I want to state the same too. To be more precise, Sorry for my English when ever I ill-form the sentence,  write a meaningless words, write a spelling mistake, put an incorrect character case, and all incorrect usages of prepositions and adjectives. For this very last sentence too, I have searched in Google, whether usage of  “ill-formed” word is there or not. So that's how I write. I search some combination of the words in Google and see whether there are any similar usages on the web.

As I guess, you get what I said and take those mistakes as “OK, everyone does mistakes,” kind of thing, I stop this post.

And before that, I want to tell that some of the posts starting from now, I will make myself clear to the readers. Meaning that I will talk about myself in few coming posts. And here I stop the first post.