Archive for September, 2009

6 websites to get your indian startup profiled

Getting the initial users is one of the most difficult tasks for any startup. If you are targetting online users then a good ranking on google will solve the problem to a good extent. As all of us know getting links from authority websites goes a long way in obtaining a good ranking on Google. The good news is that the following 6 websites specialize in writing about Indian startups. Hence try to get your website profiled on all these 6 and a good amount of your seo work would be completed.

  1. http://www.killerstartups.com/(6)
  2. http://headstart.in/(5)
  3.  http://www.pluggd.in/ (5)
  4. http://www.webyantra.net/ (5)
  5. http://www.yourstory.in (4)
  6. Startups.in (3)

The numbers in bracket represent the pagerank of the website. That is one PR6, 3 PR5 and 1 PR4 and PR3 links each. No website can get a better start in less than 1 week work.

Do you know who is tweeting your blog posts??

I am exceptionally thankful to every person who has ever tweeted the link to any of my blog posts. However till date it was next to impossible to figure out who have tweeted about your post thereby providing the all important traffic. That is why I love this new tool called tweetiator. Tweetiator lets you track all the people who share a link on your blog directly or through a url shortening service.

While it is a paid product, you get a 1 month free trial. Go and give it a try and find out who are tweeter power users.

Used Bikes : A real example of niche research

Warning: This post is a comparatively new one. However make sure to read it as I share a step by step method of finding profitable niche (used bikes) with a real example. This is my most successful strategy through which I have been making good amount of money.

Niche sites are a great and popular way to earn some really good passive income. The most critical part is the process of identifying the niche. There is no dearth of sites that talk about the concepts in a theoretical manner. However most of these sites do not share the real niche sites from which they have been making money for the fear of attracting competition. In this post I am going to share a niche site about used bikes for sale that I am starting to work upon and most importantly I shall share the exact process of how I zeroed down to this particular niche.

In this post I shall talk about

  1. Requirements of a good niche
  2. Identifying the broad industry
  3. How to find out potential niches inside the broad industry
  4. Competition analysis
  5. Identifying the income potential
  6. Selecting the niche to work upon
  7. Designing a niche site
  8. Preparing for niche domination

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Free rapidshare premium link generator

While analyzing the traffic for binaryday, I was surprised by the statistics of my post about free rapidshare premium account. The post has got more than 23,000 pageviews and 80 comments in the last 3 months alone. The numbers prove 1 thing i.e there are a large number of users looking for a rapidshare premium account. My search for a permanent solution to this demand of premium rapidshare accounts took me to rapidshare premium link generator.

 What is a rapidshare premium link generator?

A rapidshare premium link generator is a site that allows you to download files from rapidshare with all the features of a premium rapidshare account. That means no waiting time, ability to download multiple files simultaneously and so on.

List of free  rapidshare premium link generator

Here is a list of free rapidshare premium link generator that you may use for faster download.

  1. http://www.rapidsharepremiumlinkgenerator.com/
  2. http://rapidhack.prv.pl/
  3. http://www.rapiddownloader.info/
  4. http://www.rapidquick.net/

Let me know if you get to know about any more free rapidshare premium link generators. I shall update with the rapidshare link generator so that all the users can benefit.

Other posts about rapidshare on binaryday

  1. Rapidshare download Manager and Rapidshare manager
  2. 5 free rapidshare downloader

Passion or Potential : How to select the topic for your blog?

When it comes to one of the most important question, there are two distinct schools of thought and a large number of confused bloggers. How should one select the topic to blog about?

  • Option 1: Blog about a topic you are passionate about. You enjoy learning new things about this topic. It will be easier for you to excel on the topic. And if you become the best in any topic the readers will eventually come
  •  Option 2: Blog about a topic that has the potential to earn big bucks. Do proper keyword research, study the competition. Don’t worry if you know zilch about the topic, you can always learn these things later.

To be honest I have been searching for the answer for quite sometime now and have used both the methods. While keyword research driven method got me more traffic and hence adsense revenue, my blog posts about blogging (my passion) has earned me some really valuable friends and backlinks.

It will be interesting to listen to what you think about this topic and hence I have setup a forum on binaryday for this purpose only.  Head over to the forum and let me know your views about Passion or Potential : How to select the topic for your blog?

Win 100$ by commenting on Techzoomin

TZI Contest

Lax from Techzoomin is conducting a unique contest wherein he intends to pay out 100$ to the users for commenting on his blog. Unlike the typical top commentator contest it is not the top commentator alone who is going to win the money. Rather the prize money will be split across the top 5 commentators as follows

  • Top 1 commentator will win $50
  • Top 2 commentator will win $25
  • Top 3 commentator will win $15
  • Top 4 commentator will win $5
  • Top 5 commentator will win $5

This increases the chances of getting at least some prize money for all serious participants. More details about the contest can be found at Comment and WIN $100 Hot Cash Every Month

All the best for your participation in the contest which starts from October 1.

List of Indian Advertising networks

Seems like Adsense has made the entry criteria tougher thereby making it really difficult for new bloggers to get into adsense for first 6-8 months. While a number of adsense alternatives are available, none of them cater to the Indian population. This list of advertising networks that focus on Indian audience has been created to solve that issue.

  1. Admagnet is one one of the only 2 Indian networks that I have used. While I had a really good experience with them, there site is silent about terms and conditions. I shall contact them to get more details if people are interested
  2. DGM India is the other advertising network that I have used on my website with good result. DGM India is a CPA advertising network. However they have the best websites as their client and hence conversion is not that difficult. For example I used to run the affiliate programme of Shine and Monster on mywalkin.com through DGM.
  3. Komli.com seems to be the most high profile indian advertising network having got fundings from multipleVCs. They deal in CPM/CPC and CPA ads.
  4. Tyroo is the best option for beginners as it does not have any size restriction. Tyroo offers CPC advertisements. Minimum payout is Rs 2,500.00 only
  5. AdsforIndia needs at least 500 pageviews per day and minimum of 75% users from India
  6. Social Media Exchange was previously known as Axill India. They provide CPM and CPA advertisements offers. They do NOT have any minimum traffic requirement. Moreover they accept sites in languages other than English as well.

Hope this list is useful to some of you and let me know if I have missed out any India centric network from the list.

Selecting a domain name : An SEO’s perspective

I have known for quite sometime now that keywords in domain name and domain TLDs are important for SEO. But I been guilty of grossly underestimating the importance of domain name in my seo actions. Big error!!! I have been working on seo of my used mobiles website for quite sometime now. I shall use 2 primary keywords “second hand mobiles” and “used mobiles” to explain the importance of domain name in SEO and how I figured out my mistake.

Exact match domain name

Go to google.co.in and try the keyword “used mobiles”. Around the 6-7 result you will find usedmobiles.com. Click on the link and visit the site!!!!!! Google is stupis enough to think that a parked domain is more relevant than my website that has been linked from at least 4-5 established high trust blogs and websites. The only virtue of usedmobiles.com is the fact that it has an exact matching domain name. Do you need any more proof??

TLD of domain

Now go to google.co.in and try the keyword “second hand mobiles”. The second result is mobile4sale.in. contacthello is at 5-6 position. I have moved down from the 3rd position in the last few days. Sucks :( To be fair mobiles4sale.in is a really good site. However the more I research, the more convnced I am that a major reason of their ranking is their TLD which is .in.

Conclusion

Having spent a good amount of effort in my existing website, I do not want to move to a completely new website. I will fight back inspite of these handicaps. However if you are yet to book your domain name, then take my advice and book a domain with keywords in it and with a TLD specific to the country that you are targetting.

Return on time

I have been confused on a number of times thinking what should I do next? Should I write another post or should I concentrate on getting more traffic or do I try out different advertising networks. Even after I have decided to get traffic which method should I use? Blog commenting or article marketing or link building or social media marketing? Do I write keyword driven posts or posts that will do good on social media. The confusion meant I ended up spending more time reading other blogs and less time working on this blog.

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