Quantity is not quality in KW volume. In most cases the more the search volume for the k/w the lesser the quality of keyword. I think actual buyer traffic in the internet is less than 1%, only these traffic can make you real money and get you conversions.

Always drill down to the most possible level and target low volume, high quality, targeted buyer keyword. You can make more money even with less traffic. The conversion is higher for long tail keywords than root info keywords. Read More…

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I’ve put in my thoughts on different Google penalties on websites that prevents sites ranking high in SERPs for the keyword they target for.

1. Google Sandbox:
Sandbox is an highly debated greay area which Google has not officially accepted about its existance. But sanbox makes perfect sense and hence they do exist. Every new website tend to be in Google sandbox for a particular period of time, this can be seen by a sudden dip in search traffic for a particular period of time. The period of time varies depending on the niche, your keyword competetion, your domain quality, content quality etc  Read More…

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SEO Salary Guide for SEO professionals:

by jai on January 24, 2012

SEO Salary Guide for SEO professionals from Onward Search: New York and Los Angeles are the top two cities that pays best pay packages for SEO professionals. The data is split across top 20 cities across US and also across different areas of SEO from link builder to SEO director. Read More…

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Pligg sites are on the rise after the superhit of Digg. All pligg sites operate in the same fashion like Digg, where they aggregate news and interesting content online. Since they are updated quite frequently and many times a day, search engine spiders visit them often. These free Pligg sites can be used for one good reason, indexing your links. Any new link you create for your money site, an article, a forum profile and blog comment can be powered up and can be indexed almost immediately by submitting to pligg sites.  Read More…

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How to Guestimate Keyword CPC for your adsense niche website, shown in Google free keyword tool may be misleading many times and make you pick a wrong keyword.

Usually the best way to do keyword research is by selecting exact match and unselecting broad match.

If you use the google keyword tool by logging into your Adwords account, you will be able to see the CPC column, it may be slightly higher that the CPC you get paid in adsense.

The data shown in keyword tool is for Adwords buyers and not for adsense publishers. Also this is for Search results listing and not content network (Adsense) ads. Read More…

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Hostgator Coupon Codes for UK

by jai on January 22, 2012

Latest Hostgator Coupon Codes for UK Webmasters and Small Business in the United Kingdom. In a latest update from Hostgator’s Web Hosting blog it released new coupon codes for UK. Not sure if it works for US and other countries as its for a promotional campaign to popularize Hostgator in UK

  • coupon code – smallbusinessuk”25% OFF webhosting Read More…

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One Day in the Internet – Infographics

by jai on January 22, 2012

Bloggers post 900,000 new articles everyday and is expected to grow in 2012. A cool infographic depicting the activities across the internet every single day. Staggering numbers on every aspect from number of emails sent to volume of data shared.  Read More…

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Small Businesses and Social Media

by jai on January 21, 2012

How Small Businesses use Social Media Infographic from Mashable: Twitter leads all the winning by a small margin over Facebook in terms of small business usage and driving user engagement. Another report even said Twitter was the social media winner for 2011.  Let us see how Google Plus fares in 2012 on par with Twitter and Facebook. Read More…

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Aweber – How to Extract List Reports

by jai on January 21, 2012

Aweber – How to Extract List Reports: If you use Aweber for your email marketing and list building, you may not aware of the nifty tools aweber offers, one such tool is list reporting.  You can track email opens, clicks for your newsletter broadcasts and followup messages, with download to CSV option too. Read More…

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How to Find Exact Match Domain Names

by jai on January 20, 2012

Find Exact Match Domain Names Free and using Software: 

Free method to find Exact Match Domain Names:

1. Type the root keyword in Google adwords keyword tool, example “winter boots” add filter to show keywords that only have minimum local search of 1000 (based on your requirement). Select exact match, uncheck brad and phrase matches. Run the query.

2. The list will be displayed, select download as csv option to download all the keywords as a csv file.

3. The keywords in CSV file have [] in them, as we used exact match, find and replace [ and ] to blank, both square braces will be deleted now, the weyword list in first column is ready to checked for .com/.net/.org domain availability Read More…

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