BinaryDay

It was not long ago that I completed my engineering. I did not have enough money to buy a PC. I still remember how I had to go through all the local PC shops, trying to locate the cheapest supplier of each component and then going through the hassel of putting them together to have a barely functional PC.

Or was it actually too long ago? My laptop was not functioning properly. Researching for a laptop today I came across this laptop that is available for less than half that amount.

HCL Mileap X has a intel celeron M Processor, 512MB DDR2, 7 inch LCD screen. It comes with a linux operating system. Piracy jindabad

Samsung has launched its flagship model SGH U900 in India.

Samsung U900 features a ‘magic touch’ navigation panel that changes according to the application or part of the phone that is in use. Like, when in music mode, music related icons will light up on the navigation indicators. When in camera mode, camera related icons such as zoom and brightness icons will appear.

Priced at Rs 20,585, the SGH U900 features a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and image stabiliser, to help get professional quality shots. It has a video record facility, and records at a QVGA resolution.

The Samsung U900 has support for HSDPA Mobile Broadband, offering high speed downloads of up to 7.2Mbps on compatible networks. It is also compatible with Bluetooth 2.0 which allows to listen music from the phone to a compatible wireless headset.

There are too many really good SEO guides written by SEO experts. However as a webmaster I found myself lost while going through many of them. So this is an attempt by a webmaster to write a SEO guide that will be better undestandable by other webmasters. (Hopefully).

What is Search Engine Optimization or SEO:

Google defines SEO as follows
Search-engine optimization means adjusting the content of your site so it ranks higher in the list of search results for a particular keyword or keyword phrase.

Shoemoney asked the same question to some of the leading experts. You can read their definitions of SEO here.

Why is SEO important?

Traffic from Search engine is free traffic. More importantly these are the users who are actively looking for buying some product. Hence they are more likely to click on an advertisement or buy a product. So you can monetize them better. Free Traffic + Better Monetization. What more can you ask for?

I want to be successful without depending on Search Engines:

Good Luck. I am not asking you to depend entirely on search engine traffic. However according to google analytics Binaryday got 62% of its traffic last month from Search engines (58% from google alone). If you think that is because binaryday is a pathetic unpopular blog then take a look at the sources of traffic for Techcrunch. Even Techcrunch depends on Google for 40% of its Traffic.

SEO is important but how do I go about it?

A good place to start your SEO activity is to go through this list of important ranking factors. According to experts the top 10 positive ranking factors are

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag
2. Anchor Text of Inbound Link
3. Global Link Popularity of Site
4. Age of Site
5. Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure
6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site
7. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community
8. Keyword Use in Body Text
9. Global Link Popularity of Linking Site
10. Topical Relationship of Linking Page

There are some negative ranking factors as well. The top 10 negative ranking factors are

1. Server is OftenInaccessible to Bots
2. Content Very Similar or Duplicate of Existing Content in the Index
3. External Links to Low Quality/Spam Sites
5. Duplicate Title/Meta Tags on Many Pages

Keyword Use in Title Tag and Keyword Use in Body Text

Incorporate keyword phrases While making a post
Think about terms that a searcher is more likely to use to search for your post and use them in the title of your post. You can find popular keywords using the tool here. AOL had released around 20M web queries collected from ~650k users over three months. That is a great repository for finding popular keywords.

Target longer phrases if they’re relevant Feel free to use longer titles. Google now supports 70 character long titles.Use this title tag plugin to be able to customize the titles of your pages and posts easily.

Use the keyword and some variations of the same in the body of the post. Include the important keywords inside h1 tag once, strong/bold tag once or twice and once or twice inside the post body. However take care not to overdo it else google may think that you are trying to spam.

It is a good idea to use a good quality image describing your post wherever possible. My own experience says it is comparatively easier to get some decent traffic from google image search. Make sure to keep the image on your own website and use relevant alt and title tags.

You can check how well your existing page is targeting a particular keyword using the Term Target Tool.

Write an Attractive Meta Description

I know I know, most modern search engines have stopped using meta description as a factor for ranking search results. Then what is it doing here? Well meta description will NOT help you improve your ranking in the SERP. However given a search ranking directly, it will help you improve your click through rate. Higher click through rate means higher traffic.

This is because google uses the meta description to create the search excerpt. See the example below. The underlined text is coming from the meta description of Mywalkin

Golden rule for writing a rocking meta description tag. Think like you are creating a 2 line advertisement for the post. Write complete sentences and try to limit your meta description tag to less than 150 characters.

Here is a wordpress plugin for you to add custom meta description tags to your posts.

A site or blog downtime is every webmaster’s / blogger’s biggest nightmare. Now we do not need to keep checking your site to know if it is working. Set up an alert on www.pingdom.com. It will let you know if your site goes down. I am already in love with this site. Try it out for yourself.

My freinds say I am a hopeless optimist. The gasoline price has now increased to more than 130$. The increase is causing a lot of problem to customers across the globe. In India, the government is subsidizing the price increase till now. However it looks like it will have to pass on the cost to the customers soon.

However I think that the increase in gasoline price is actually good for us because

1. It shall force the automobile companies to design more fuel efficient cars
2. It will force us to use more energy efficient options like travelling by public transport.
3. It will make the green energy sources more attractive.
4. There will be increased research for alternate sources of energy.

We shall be more prepared when we run out of petroleum finally

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Vikas Yadav and his cousin, Vishal Yadav have been found guilty of abducting and killing Nitish Katara six years ago because he was opposed to Katara’s relationship with his sister.

More Details of the case

A Delhi court is likely to pronounce its verdict in the six-year-old sensational Nitish Katara murder case allegedly involving Vikas Yadav, the son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal Yadav.

Vikas and his cousin Vishal had allegedly abducted Katara, the son of an IAS officer, from a marriage party in Ghaziabad on the intervening night of February 16-17, 2002. Katara’s body was later recovered from a village in Uttar Pradeshs Bulandshahr District.

According to the prosecution, Katara, a business executive, was killed by the accused, as they did not approve of their sister, Bharti Yadavs growing proximity with him.

more details here

+2 science and commerce results were announced at 9 am on 28, May 2008.