Sid - Blogging for Newbie Webmasters’

It has been nicely explained in the following articles:

#1

#2

And in many other places. Worth reading and implementing the same.

Quick ToDO list:

Step:1

Open file, named as ‘hosts’ (found under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ folder in WiinXP)

Add the line mentioned below at the end of that file.

127.0.0.1 client-website-name.local

Save & close that file.

Step: 2

Open httpd.conf (Either search for it, or click White WAMP icon at system tray -> Config File -> httpd.conf)

Search for the string: DocumentRoot

DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www”

Add FOLLOWING LINES BELOW DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www”.
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>

ServerName localhost

DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www”

</VirtualHost>
AND below that, add these lines:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>

ServerName myclient.local

DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www/folder-name”

</VirtualHost>

Now Save & Close httpd.conf

Step: 3

Restart WAMP

Open your web browser and type: http://myclient.local

It will display local copy of your client’s website.

Hi! The search engine giant seems to be facing difficulties in keeping up to its promise - sites supported with paid links are still finding decent position in search results. I read about this news, sorry, can’t share the links - but it was in the comments section, where some traces of concrete evidence.

Fact is that it may be hard for the bot to detect paid links - irrespective of how much clever can it be. Or, the bot will penalize sites telling - ‘Your link here for $1′! It may be for advertisement purpose as well, and a claim like that does not guarantee that the owner has managed to earn a single paid link for that site. Getting paid link is not that easy!

So, it will be more like feedback or man-monitored algorithm? I need some serious in sight into this issue.

On the other hand partnership deeds are just going great for Google - with its new tie-up with Swiss Sunrise , the second largest telecommunications company in Switzerland is offering its customers a new e-mail service based on Google Mail.

It looks like Google is also being used as a password cracker read this story.

So the internet is full of Google activity!  More  Google stuff will follow. Stay tuned.

Significance of Inbound links are no more new to the web publishers. Inbound links help your site to get stable position in most of the modern search engines. Webmasters, therefore, like to check the number of inbound links pointing to a page.

I would spend hours each day earlier to check for link: operator updates, but over the past one year or more, it does not appear to generate accurate results. Webmasters tool seems to do better a job in reporting inbound links. There are some updates as well in those statistics, might have taken place within past few days.

As I was tremendously busy with customization of a Joomla Template, so, I could not manage time to check out the updates! Anyway, thanks to the news feeds, which keep me updated.

Please check out this.

Another new rocking social networking site - Flixya.com
Cheer up everybody, two most important social networking sites that i must name to start with - mySpace and Orkut;(Oops! Facebook is there too!) but now you have another - and actually there are few more like this one, but i’ve joined this community recently.
http://www.flixya.com

I joined it all of a sudden without really making any plan or strategy - just to try for something new; and i got what i could never have expected - traffic! It was a really a quick response. Yah! You can get some good hits to your profile page if you create a distinguished profile. I tried it and it did work. Now you can also give it a try.

Now let us be more specific: What can you do with Flixya.com?

The first thing you must do is to register and create your own profile and then, like many other social networking sites, you can blog a little bit, upload and share your photos or videos; i’m frankly speaking - did not like the photo uploading interface - still you can upload it without much hard work. Video upload is yet to be tried. Meanwhile i spent some good moment for blogging - Flixya.com has a great blogging interface with free tagging facility to tag your blog in the category you would like. Also, visitors can offer comments and send messages; the message-alert system too somehow clumsy as you can hardly distinguish, if there is any new messages in your inbox.

Anyway, the most interesting part of the story is that the site runs on Google Revenue sharing basis, and you can display your Google Ads in their site. As said by them it runs on 100% Ad Revenue share basis.

Another good news for eBay/Craiglist sellers - you can use Flixya to store your eBay/Craiglist photos for FREE.

And that last golden word of caution, like different other social networking Gurus - “The Flixya Services are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only”.

What do you do with your Google Adsense Account then, do you use use it for charity? Just could not figure out whether it contradicts there own TOS or not?

So, I’m again back to my favorite topic - Google Bot which has at times put me into deep frustration and at some other time, simply delighted me with terrific search results. Now anyone who cares little bit for SEO may not be unaware that duplicate content has been a mojor concern oflate for your websites. I just checked out Google Official Blog to get an insight into what Google has to say about this burning topic recently. There are certain changes in their stand regarding use of url parameters - and that’s going in the right direction, and must be a great relief for webmasters who love to play with url parameters.

Surprisingly, Bots may consider your site to contain duplicate content even when you have actually not copied the content of someone else. It may also arise due to use of

1. Session IDs to track your visitors
2. Affiliate Tracking IDs
3. Or any other url parameters

In each of the above cases you are pointing to the same physical file with different name,

like:

http://mydomain.com/

http://mydomain.com/sess_id=123456

and http://mydomain.com/sess_id=abcdef
are actually point to the same web page (http://mydomain.com/) . But bots consider it as three different pages, so, it is natural for them to index all the three versions of the page having the same content.

Now just see the index. All of the three versions of the same web page may have been indexed with great care and honesty.
http://mydomain.com/

http://mydomain.com/sess_id=123456

and http://mydomain.com/sess_id=abcdef
And how will the Bots interpret such pages? - Bots will consider that you are simply displaying (duplicating) the same content in different pages and may impose a penalty - and there is every possibility that your PR gets diluted - as the same IBLs ( Links pointing to your web page) may be distributed among all the three versions. So, this will in turn reduce your position in Search Engine Result Pages - a gross disaster for you!
But as told in that post - and the best part of it is the way Google Bot handles such url parameters, and seems to have somehow got rid of their earlier reservation regarding use of URL parameters…

It says:

1. They will try to cluster the three(or more) different versions of the urls
2. They will select the one they think as the “best” URL to represent the cluster.
3. Then all properties of the urls are attributed to the representative one.

It appears more convincing and relaxing particularly considering the vast majority of websites using dynamic URL parameters. Also a point in this regard is worth mentioning . As stated in that post - “webmasters need not be overly concerned with the loss of link popularity or loss of PageRank due to duplication”
However, you can still help Google by:

1. Submitting a sitemap
2. keeping the URL as clean as possible.

There are few other recommendations particularly for the merchant sites, which you can read here!

So, I think there is enough reason to relax a little bit for the time being if the bot behaves as they claim it to do in that post.

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I’ve all along tried to share with you guys what I’ve learnt and what I’m still learning during my stay here at internet. Site building is not that difficult today for the ready-to-install free scripts and free templates that meet up most of your needs. So, the biggest issue is how to promote a web site?

What is that Golden stick that will bring life to your web site by drawing attention of thousands of visitors each day? I searched the net a lot and ended up in dire frustration as most of those methods involve time consuming affair. But what if you need some real instant visitors?

Someone may have started thinking I’m going to talk about the age-old traffic exchange programs where you have to surf other people’s sites so that you can gain certain credits which in turn will be used to drive visitors to your site. Traffic Exchange may work for certain sites but not for every site in the internet traffic exchange is going to be useful. Also it involves a hard work or investment on your part again and the traffic driven to your site are not generic one and they are more likely to ignore your site as they are always in a hurry to surf more sites: so, traffic exchage is not the one I am going to talk about right now.

If you are loosing your patience to read upto this point, I must express my deepest regrets as I know if I would tell it in one or two lines ( it should not deserve more than that ) you will simply overlook it or ignore it. So, my every effort will be to produce a long lasting impression in your mind so that after reading this article you will also try to promote your site using the super hit formula.

When I started to observe the example site, a blog in fact, it had hardly one to two visitors per day; believe me - only one to two visitors per day. Is that enough for you? If it is enough then I’ll advise you to stop reading as I’m thinking of generating thousands of hits to your web sites. The blog was struggling hard to get some real traffic; the blogger was dissapointed but never gave up hope.

The blogger started a CONTEST. It looked like a very simple task but thrown in a very challenging way claiming that “You can’t do this, and, if you do this I’ll give you $10 as a prize money”. The blogger posted it in different forums and social networking sites.

It worked like magic.

The blog got thousands of visitors rushing at it to win that $10 contest in a single day. The blogger did not announce the name of the winner for quite some time and would continue to receive that amount of visitors per day. The blogger finally decided to declare the name of the winner - and - showed the payment proof also.

The contest was over. It was expected that the site would again start to starve of traffic, but, surprisingly it would continue to get 400+ visitors daily - the residual ones who have actually found some interesting stuff in that site.

Do I need to tell more specifically what is that “super hit formula“? If you expect me to do so, I’m sorry to say that I’m too tired after making this pretty long post.

Take Care. Good night.

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