Dubai Video - My Last visit to Dubai

 

Last may I travelled to Dubai the very developed city. A good place for a small vacation and shopping. My Sister and family are staying there so for me accommodation was not a problem. I was trying to do some web video posting, by converting *.avi files to *.swf files and publishing for video streaming. Video podcasting is becoming popular these days and we find this more interesting. If you have a video and talk to them directly, I am sure that makes a lot of difference

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Asokan.in

I had been trying to get Asokan.in for a long time. I was going through my domain registration control panel to check the renewal status of my domains.

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Benazir Bhutto killed

Technorati Tags: Pakistan,Suicide Attack

Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister, has been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a political rally in Rawalpindi, the Interior Ministry said.

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Thoppilpadeetathil House Video

Just trying to test Video Posts

Thopilpadeetathil House

Schools reopening in Maldives

Its now vacation time for the school goers in Maldives. Many have come to Male’ from the Islands and some gone to the Islands and some abroad. Now it’s getting time to get back home and prepare for school. This year there is good news that the Government is taking care of the Books and uniforms for the students from Grade I to Grade X.

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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy new year

I would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and prosperous new year.

Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. The date of the celebration is traditional, and is not considered to be his actual date of birth. Christmas festivities often combine the commemoration of Jesus’ birth with various secular customs, many of which have been influenced by earlier winter festivals.

After Christmas, comes a new year. Everybody, plans for something new for coming year and I have many plans too. Many things to be implemented in Life

May God help you archive your goals, but you need to work hard. You are lucky only if you convert opportunities at the right time.

Guruji - The Indian Search Engine

Few months back I was going through the Indian search engine Guruji, and tried to submit one of my site, an Online Encyclopedia. When I clicked on the submit site button, I got a form which clearly explains that they are only accepting Indian sites and mine was a clear Indian site with .in

After submission I got an email from Guruji

We are sorry to inform you that our algorithm could not accept your site submission for – http://www.freepedia.in

This may have happened due to our algorithm detecting one or more of the following about your website –

The website is non Indian (At this point of time we are restricting ourselves to Indian websites)

The website is a spam

During the crawl the website could not be accessed by our crawler

However, if you feel that your website should not qualify under any of the above conditions, write to us at support@guruji.com with the subject line as “Website Exclusion” and we will look into the matter.

You can use Guruji.com – the Indian Search Engine - to search for anything related to India including your favorite restaurants, theaters, hotels, dentists and more, in more than 20 cities across India.

Keep exploring India on Guruji.com

Have a great day.

Team Guruji

Guruji

I was bit upset as they could not detect my site as an Indian site. I sent them a reply as follow

I do not feel the mentioned reasons are valid as this is a Indian site http://freepedia.in and not a spam. Its a true encyclopedia website by the Indians for the Indians

Thanks and best regards

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Kishore Asokan
Mob: +960-7772212
http://kish.in

A few days later I got an email from them stating that my site has been included. Guruji is still at an inception stage. The site is developed by a team of IIT students from India. May be they will prove to a future Larry Page or Sergy Bin. They are doing great and recently I was searching for my sites at Guruji and found most of my pages indexed.

Wishing them all the best for the future and we should be proud of this.

Google Inc Vs Wikimedia (Wikia)

Google and Wikia are soon going to be rivals. We find wikipedia dominating most of the top search queires on Google, will it have some effect soon? Need to wait and see.

Knol (Google’s new encyclopedia)

The news is that very soon Google is going to launch a Wikipedia rival. The Encyclopedia from Google is to be known as Knol as short name for Knowledge. This will again be a user contribution, but not same as Wikipedia. Knol will have users who can create pages and will have an option to put Advertisements on their pages and share the revenue. This will be an extra advantage to attract authors and good for professional writers. Like Wikipedia, every user will not be able to edit the pages, but can write reviews and comments. Knol will be connected to Google search engine. There was an a post about Knol at the Official Google Blog related to Knol

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Pagerank Importance for SERPs

The latest pagerank update is over and many webmasters have got positive results and many are disappointed.

I would like to discuss on some questions which usually come into our mind when we talk about pagerank.

What is SERPs?

SERPs is Search Engine Result Pages, which means when you do a search on a search engine, the search engine displays the results of your search on the result page.

To get on the top of the SERPs, you really do not need to have high pagerank, but need to write good content with information. Present it a good way, use words that a visitor may use to search for a page that you are writing. Do not try to overuse or flood your post unnecessarily with key words.

Just have a look at the picture on the right. I posted a page related to reasons for fall in pagerank and it was indexed by Google in just 2 hours time and when I searched for the reasons for fall in pagerank, my page was no. 1 in Google search results (Main Search (Google.com). Mattcutts had mentioned about quick and fresh results from Google in his post. I do not have a high pagerank, then how could this happen. I had a very large number of page hits from Google for this key phrase. Its very clear that pagerank is not really a major factor for getting on top for good keywords.

Now let me explain the other part. This ranking will very soon taken by pages with higher pagerank, yes thats the advantage of having higher pagerank. If my web site has higher pagerank, the period of staying in top position is high. Pages with lower pageranks go down very soon. I do not know, when you check Google for the above, you may not find my page on top, thats the

Why do we go behind the pagerank factor?

I would like to highlight some of the advantages and gains of having pages with good pagerank.

• We can proudly say our pagerank is high, Google has importance of the page.
• Can get good advertisers
• Sell links
• You get more backlinks as other sites with lower pagerank will be interested in linking to your site
• More crawling from Google
• More visitors as the result of more back links

What would be a good pagerank?

Yes thats a question which is debatable.

I feel something like PR 4 is good. To reach a site with a pagerank like 4, you need to wait if you are depending on natural back links or you will have to trade links which is very dangerous, (Latest PR update has already proved it, still some have escaped). I am sure still the link trade will be on in some or the other way. Google needs to check on this to maintain the purpose of Google PR algorithm, which is purely on back links. My worry is that some innocent websites will also be effected in this filtering.

What pagerank cannot do?

If you have web page with high PR and do not have good contents, you will never be able to gain good ranking on any key phrase or keywords. You will not be able to grow your backlink as there will be no reason to link to your site.

Getting on top of the SERPs

• Forget about pagerank
• Provide, unique, interesting information to your readers
• Keep your website updated
• Write clean and good content for the visitors and not for search engines
• SEO is a factor which you need to keep in mind like
• SEF URL’s
• Proper use of keywords
• Most important is the TITLE of the page
• Forget about dumping keywords and using the meta keywords tag
• Never try to spam the page with keywords or try to fool the search engine with hidden text
• Do not copy contents from other sites and do posts (Duplicate Content is a big problem, you will be put in supplementary indexing)
• Use proper Robot.txt to avoid googlebots to crawl a single page with different URL’s
• Ping Google

If you are looking to increase your pagerank for the sake of getting traffic, then its a wrong concept. You need to just follow the about tips. These tips are from my experience and I have done well using these. I have never tried to get any backlinks or increase my PR. Pagerank is something which we need to wait for long time as natural backlinks cannot be created overnight. Google is aware of this and if you suceed in getting 500 backlinks in a month or two, you will surely be flagged and screened for spamming. Backlinks coming from sites which has some relation to your sites are important

If you have anything more to add on to this post, please feel free to comment

Update

Its just 2 hours from now I did the above post. I searched for google using the key phrase pagerank importance serps and you can see the result on the right side.

How did I do this?

• I do not have any backlinks to this page.
• The PR is not yet assigned to this page
• I do not have any hidden text
• What I did is a clean post, and informed Google about this post. This makes very clear that Google indexes pages as soon as its pinged. Google shows fresh results and fresh pages can go to the top. So you do not need to worry about pageranks or backlinks. Do quality posts and just let Google work its own way.