A risky journey to home town

May 3, 2008 – 3:43 am

Yesterday afternoon till 2 pm i was in bangalore but 10:30 night i am seeing ipl with my father at hometown :). Look complex eh? Yeah it was a full blood bike ride from bangalore to hometown. A bus or train would have taken 9 hours+ the time to and from the stations to home. [...]

Difference between Bounce rate and Exit rate

May 2, 2008 – 12:15 am

Even though both the terms bounce rate and exit rate look to mean same, they are different web analytics terms.
Bounce rate : is the percentage of visitors leaving the site from the landing page.
Exit rate: Exit rate of a page is the percentage of visitors leaving the site from the particular page.
Now.. (Still confused??). Okay.. [...]

Back into this blog..

May 1, 2008 – 12:40 pm

Yes.. Some sad moments were needed to bring me back into this blog…. For a while I thought my websites are not sweethearts for me, someone was claiming that position…..
But today I have realized…. I was wrong……….
I had to refer this blog to someone for the first time. I had never revealed my online identity [...]

I spilled my Chocolate Coffe between the cup and the lip :(

May 1, 2008 – 11:55 am

(Sadly) It happened to me…….. This post is just to remember this day in my life………..
You may be wondering why I am worried about that specific chocolate coffee……. That was very much unique for me, I wont get the same coffee again….
I wish I laugh at this post and the stupidity I did, [...]

Broken links in a site - Are they good?

June 11, 2007 – 10:54 am

How do you personally feel when you end up on a page which says ‘Page Not Found’ in a site you were browsing? Do you like that? There is no reason for you to like that - I’m sure..
So will you purposely keep any link in your site which can end up in ‘Page not [...]

SEO For Wordpress - Making your blog SEO Friendly

March 25, 2007 – 2:37 am

Comparing a website, optimized for SEO and a default installation of Wordpress, one can conclude that it lacks friendliness in SEO, except the fact that it uses feeds, proper navigation and linking, pinging search engines etc.
Some of the things I observed are,
- You can’t have a separate title other than the post title, and the [...]

Basic On Page Optimization for beginners

March 5, 2007 – 1:40 pm

I assume that you have gone through the initial parts of my SEO Tutorial .
Lets get into the topic on how to do OnPage Optimization.
Search Engine Optimization consists of basically two stages - On Page Optimization and Off Page.
OnPage optimization refers to the SEO activities we perform on a page in our site, and offpage [...]

Using Wordpress as a CMS

February 26, 2007 – 2:45 pm

When you hear the name wordpress, what comes in your mind is a blog as it has become widely used blogging software. But it is much advanced software than a simple blogging tool where you can have a blog post live within a flash.
Wordpress has support for pages as well as posts. Pages, well you [...]

Using affiliate system for SEO advantages

February 8, 2007 – 6:18 am

In an affiliate tracking system, there will be usually a referring URL containing the unique id of the referrer to credit the commission.
If affiliates use there referring URL’s as links from their site, it will be counted as a back link pointing to the site’s URL having the affiliates unique id.
Now think of a situation [...]

Creating robots instruction document - Robots.txt

September 24, 2006 – 9:52 pm

In earlier post I have mentioned that using a robot directive file - robots.txt you can control whether a document can be crawled by a search engine or not.
Generally if there is no robots.txt file in the root of your website or it has no instructions written in it, it is interpreted by the crawler [...]