March 25th, 2010
World’s biggest encyclopedia Wikipedia has been down some minutes ago. It is hitting nicely in twitter.
Nothing yet has come to the media officially but Wikipedia.com is not working along with English version. Though some language version and Wikipedia.org are still live.
It is said that Google send it’s around 80% of traffic to Wikipedia.
[Update: Wikipedia is now running smoothly after around 2-1/2 outage keeping record of longest outage in online encyclopedia world.
CNET reports
According to Jimmy Wales, the site's founder, the outage was caused by a dispute between Wikipedia's ISP, Cogent, and its hosting service, PowerMedium.
Wales said that the dispute had nothing to do with Wikipedia, but rather involved what Wikipedia was told were other "bad" customers. However, when Cogent pulled a block of IP addresses, the group of addresses Wikipedia was leasing were included, and the site went down.
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March 24th, 2010
If you are reguler webmaster who analyzes owned website through Google Analytics then you might have noticed this already.
Once you got to Login page after clicking “Access Analytics” button or logout after you are done with your statistics then at the right top of the page you can see menu. Those menu include Home, Features, Support and Conversion University. Among them Conversion University links to http://www.google.com/analytics/conversionuniversity.html. This link is not working. It returns 404 Not Found Error.
Didn’t believe me? Try yourself 
But it is too bad to have broken link in one of the most visited (it’s like index page) page for such important website.
March 13th, 2010
Some random tips are hitting my mind. So, I thought I will better share them so that you can remind them too.
- Cloaking is black hat method showing different pages for users and search engine bot.
- 301 redirect is to inform crawlers that the page has been permanently moved to new URL.
- 302 redirect is to inform crawlers that the page has been temporarily located in another URL and will be relocated soon.
- It’s best practice to use ‘http://www.site.com/contact’ structure instead of only ‘/contact’ for internal linking.
- You are instructed to keep “rel=”nofollow” ” by Google for paid link so that it don’t pass juice to sponsored links.
- Bulk link buying was and will never be best practice to build natural links.
- Sitemap should be generated for every website so that spiders can crawl all of your links thoroughly.
- Never give outbound link with anchor text that you are targetting as your keyword.
- Increasing crawl rate by search spiders for your website can be increased with frequent content addition.
- Never compete your own pages for same keyword. Search in Google with operator “site:site.com keyword” to know which page is liked by Google most for your keyword.
- Never part your backlink building strategy with only one method continuously. Mix all those strategy at once so that your backlinks doesn’t look spammy. For example: never build backlink through blog commenting only for a month but use directory submission and link baiting too.
- Check frequently if you have broken links in your website.
- Make the most from Google Webmaster Tool and Google Analytics.
- Make your Title Tag less than 65 (I don’t agree with this though as Google can read a lot more than this limit and gives value too. But make first 65 character juicy so your CTR increases)
That’s all I remember right now randomly. Add yours too.
February 26th, 2010
Do you think so? I don’t think Facebook has gone so much popular that it changes the meaning of Book. I mistakely searched for Book today (which I don’t search normally without long tails). And I was shocked once to see the result. Not so much shocked but many things started playing in my mind. As trying to gain more knowledge in own field, many questions arised in my mind:
1) How could ‘book’ refer to ‘Facebook’? It is totally useless result returned for me.
2) Is PR everything for Google?
3) Why would user search Facebook with keyword Book? They could mistakely type ‘Face’ in Address bar and ‘book’ in Google’s keyword submission form in rush. But such users can again type ‘Facebook’ in address bar. But those users who are searching for books can be misguided as more than 50% users click on first result.
4) Facebook is normally referred by FB but I haven’t heard saying book ever. So, why was such result returned?
I don’t know exact answer for all those but I am sure that Google still needs to develop more algorithms and try to understand search queries.
But I am still happy to know that Google is just a bot
We are now Dofollow
We have removed all those nofollow tags from our website. We will now give you something in return for every important words that you submitted us. But be sure that we don’t approve all of your comments just for thanking us. So, try to remain under the topic we wrote and suggest us or give more detail on the topic.
Some of the criteria we use while approving comments.
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- Should not just Thanks us and say that you bookmarked us (we know you lied
- Don’t say you shared our posts in Social Bookmarking websites
- Don’t spread your one Master piece comment in all Websites, we check all of our comments in Google if similar comment has been posted in other websites.
- Should not link to illegal websites like Porn, Gambling, unauthorized Payday Loans, Drugs etc. We will link to our own websites instead giving it to you
These are the major criteria for us to approve blogs. So, try to comment with all above criteria or we are not going to give you anything.
P.S You can use your keyword instead of your name but we will be pleased if you write your name at the end of comment.