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Subdomains and its SEO advantage

February 25th, 2009 Jigish Thakar 4 comments

Source: goarticles.com

Most people refrain from using sub domains because they use a prefix name and don’t “look” right. A lot of people are also under the impression that they are overlooked by the Search Engines.

basically, there are two kinds of subdomains:

1. Second Tier subdomains: These are linked to, and link directly to, the main domain.

2. Orphan Subdomains: These have no links to or from the main domain.

Second Tier Subdomains

You have a website. You spend alot of time building it, refining it, tweaking it into oblivion to get the search engine results you are looking for, yet you don’t get visitors. We have all heard by now the advantages of having a blog for promoting your website. You put it on a subdomain. Example:

www.yoursite.com will be your main domain www.blog.yoursite.com will be where your blog resides.

Once you have your blog, adding a link to it on your menu takes a couple of seconds, and voila – your blog is up and running. This is the part where you feverishly start posting articles about your niche market, your product, or your service, and link to your website from each article. Blogs are amazing: Search Engines love them, and they generally get good PR very quickly. This means, by default, that if your blog outranks your site in terms of PR, every link to your main site from your blog is a QUALITY INBOUND LINK… You can further up the PR on your main site by deeplinking (linking to other pages on your site, not only the landing/home page) to your site.

Orphan Subdomains

After pointing out the advantage of a Second Tier subdomain, you might be caught wondering what the use of an Orphan Subdomain is then.

Here’s a little known fact: If a subdomain gets banned by a Search Engine, it does not affect the main domain. I’ll repeat this: IT DOES NOT AFFECT THE MAIN DOMAIN. Important though: This rule ONLY applies to Orphan Subdomains, meaning there must be no link to, or from the main domain. So how do I use it then? Well, with this knowledge we can use the situation to our advantage. You can use a Orphan Subdomain to put up affiliate ‘cashcows’ or ‘moneymaking’ websites. Build a site, keyword spam it, and make a quick killing before taking it down and starting a new one. Whatever you do on this ‘site’ or subdomain will not affect your main domain, so go mad. You can also use it as a link farm, in terms of linking to other websites you might own. No one has to view the site, so it can be an ugly, confusing mess. As long as your keywords and on page SEO is fine, you can generate high quality inbound links to your other sites, pushing them in the SERPS. Putting up a blog with generated, keyword rich content is a good example of how to do this. Should the site/blog get banned for some reason while you are experimenting – no harm, no fowl.

Source: goarticles.com

Lenovo: Introduces New Range of Mobile Thinkpad Laptops

February 19th, 2009 Jigish Thakar No comments

Lenovo announced the debut of ThinkPad W700, a self proclaimed first-ever 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation for high end graphics work. Along with NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile graphics, the ThinkPad W700 incorporates the industry’s first built-in digitizer and color calibrator in a mobile workstation. The workstation supports the upcoming Intel mobile quad core processor and meets the Energy Star 5.0 program for computers, which takes effect in July 2009.

Given the specific and intensive needs of niche user segments like photographers and digital designers, we have created the ultimate mobile workstation.” said Jaivinder Singh Gill, Executive Director, Commercial Business, Lenovo India. “Lenovo has packed the ThinkPad W700 with sheer power, performance and cutting-edge innovation, thus, providing the perfect mobile solution for our users. We believe that the ThinkPad W700 will revolutionize and outperform the industry with its optimized speed, unmatched stability and ultimate visual experience.

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(read the rest of this post at tech2)

Building your own Captcha

December 17th, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments

A common sight on web forms nowadays is the Captcha check, a way to determine whether your are a human or bot user. Here is an example of a Captcha check, as taken from Digg.com:

jd captcha02 Building your own Captcha

Surely no user is having fun filling these out, right? Yet, it seems to be a neccessary evil in our fight against spammers. With the lack of a better alternative, we should use Captchas. However, who is to say that we should present a Captcha as the example above? As a hurdle for the user?

In this article we will get creative in building our own Captcha. But, why would we do such a thing?

  • Because a custom Captcha can fit exactly into the design and theme of your site. It will not look like some alient element that does not belong there.
  • We want to take away the perception of a Captcha as an annoyance, and make it fun for the user.
  • Because a custom Captcha, unlike the major Captcha mechanisms, obscure you as a target for spammers. Spammers have little interest in cracking a niche Captcha.
  • Because we want to learn how they work, so it is best to build one ourselves.

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Result Driven Keyword Research

November 21st, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments

Monika says :

Keyword research is one of the most important aspects of making money online. If you fail to choose the right keywords, money won’t come easy at all. Whether you are an affiliate marketer and promote other people’s products, sell your own products or build niche sites, you need to target the right keywords to attract search engine traffic because it is that kind of traffic that will click on your ads.

I think I’ve mentioned before on several occasions that social media traffic is great for numbers, but it does jack all for income. People who opt into social media networks are people like you. Most join these groups to connect with others and clicking on people’s ads on their sites is the furthest thing from their minds.

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Implement AdSense Revenue Sharing on a Multi-Author Blog

October 10th, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments

Let’s assume that you are the administrator of a team blog that has multiple guest authors.

The revenue sharing arrangement is such that all writers get to keep a fixed percentage of the actual AdSense revenue generated from articles that they have written.

This arrangement, from the perspective of team members, maybe better than dividing AdSense revenue based on pageviews because the author is getting exactly what he earned. You can have less number of pageviews but if the CPM of your niche is high, it kind of balances out.

Now to put such a thing in place, you have two options – either ask all the authors to open separate AdSense accounts and send you their ad tags or better still, you can have just use one AdSense account (your own) and create separate channels for all authors. Read more…