Category — SEO Experiment

I seem to have found a new interest in technology. After writing a post about free rapidshare premium account yesterday, I am back with a post about free download of Directx 11 for Windows 7. The few people who visit this post regularly for posts related to blogging, need not worry. The reason I am not posting about blogging is I am in the middle of a really good research about twitter. So please bear with these posts about Directx 3D while I complete my research.

Directx 11 for Windows 7 is the latest graphic technology

If Directx 10 was the preferred version for Vista, Directx 11 is the recommended graphic technology for Windows 7. Directx 11 is available as part of technical preview for public testing. It has got several new features. Hence our recommendation is that you must download Directx 11 ASAP.

Free Download Directx 11

The following are the links to the section on microsoft site from where you can directly download Directx 11.

• Download Directx 11 SDK here
• Download Directx 11 End-user runtimes here

Directx 11 with Directx 3D

The Directx 3D seems to be generating lof of buzz. Honestly I have not been able to figure out what is great about Directx 3D. Please leave a comment if you know the answer. The links to download Directx11 3D are the same as the ones listed above.

I have been working on a resume website to try out my seo skills and to put my theoretical learnings into practice. My progress on google.com has not been great though the site has started to get some fairly good results on the google.co.in domain for search terms like sample resume, fresher sample resume, java sample resume etc.

While I continue to study the reason for this sharp difference in ranking on google.com and google.co.in, I had decided to try my hand a single word keyword i.e resume. For this purpose I created a specific page about resumes with optimized title tag, meta description, h1,h2 tags and keyword usage etc. The page has been indexed by google for somedays now.

However I am facing a unique issue and on close examination I see that issue being repeated on my other domains as well.

• My initial content about sample resume was ranking at 90-100 range on Google.
• Google avoids keeping 2 pages of the same website on the SERP. For really good authority site it puts up 2 links as well
• Now google seems to be ignoring my new page. Since the original page was not optimized for resume as a keyword, it continues to linger at 90-100 position only.

Have you ever faced an issue like this? What is the solution to this issue?

I will appreciate some links to my sample cover letter page as well. It is right now at 45 position for “sample cover letter” and I shall like to see the effect of external links on the ranking.

People who have failed to understand the true essence of social media keep looking for proof of it being a devil. In one such argument amongst a number of my blogger freinds, someone used the example of the Abraham Biggs Suicide Video as an example of how social media, web 2.0 and pretty much all web technologies have made our hearts cold.

What is exactly the issue of Abraham Biggs Suicide Video?

Abraham Biggs Suicide happened around 4 months back. The guy must have his own reason to end his life. However this story attracted a lot of attention as the guy had done a live webcast of his death and it is suspected that the viewers had egged him on, instead of trying to convince Abraham Biggs, not to commit suicide. It has been 5 months since Abraham Biggs Suicide, but still distractors of social media use it as a proof that web 2.0 is pure evil.

It is stupid to blame technology for Abraham Biggs Suicide

Saying that web 2.0 was responsible for Abraham Biggs Suicide is like saying that medicine is responsible for every idiot that commits suicide by popping sleeping tablets. Moreover he committed suicide may be because of the fact that he was suffering from a bipolar disorder disease. Even if web 2.0 was not there, he would have committed suicide. So how can you blame technology for what mr Biggs did.

Real life seems to getting more interesting than reel life in the divorce case of Real Housewives of New York City star LuAnn de Lesseps and Count Alex de Lesseps.

Who is princess kemeria abajobir abajifar

Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar is the granddaughter of King Abba Jifar II. So basically she is an Ethiopian princess.

What is the claim to fame of princess kemeria abajobir abajifar

The DeLesseps separated in early 2009. Only in March Alex de Lesseps, the husband, sent a letter to LuAnn de Lesseps stating that he is having an affair with another woman. The website Ethiplanet revealed the identity of this other woman. That is how princess kemeria abajobir abajifar came to the light.

P.S: On a lighter note, if anyone figures out how to pronounce the name of the princess then do let me know. May be after such incidents our bollywood movies will look comparatively less filmi.

I had recently written about most viewed video on youtube. Related research shows that there is a massive demand for free bollywood movies onine. There are many websites that allow users to download free bollywood movies. There is also no dearth of websites to watch online bollywood movies. I have been trying to figure out a feasible business model for starting a website where users can watch free movies. I am not able to find much content related to the legal aspects of the topic. If any of you happen to have any experience in the topic, then please drop me a mail.

Also do you know if working on a seo project for a website which may be illegal is legal or not. My previous posts about romantic hindi songs and romantic hindi movie may get me a project from a site about bollywood hindi movies. I am not sure if it is legal though. What should I do?

The dreaded com surrogate has stopped error

Microsoft windows may be the most popular operating system in the world. But it is notorious for its vulnerability to virus attacks and several bugs that can cause error in most basic functions of a computer. Com surrogate has stopped  is one of the stupid bugs that can drive you crazy. As usual the help message from microsoft makes things worse rather than better.

What is com surrogate?

Com surrogate is one of the many dll files present in windows. The com surrogate dll extension is used by the OS while playing a video file. For those who do not know what a dll is, it is a software component that an application links to at the run time. My sense is plugins in wordpress will be a similar concept.  

What is com surrogate error?

The com surrogate error occurs when the video player tries to use a codec that is not compatible with vista. In such a case the com surrogate dll extension closes down while Vista tries to bring up the first frame of the video player. That results in the com surrogate error which in turn brings up the dreaded message of com surrogate has stopped error message.

How to fix com surrogate stopped error in Vista?

Microsoft makes all small problem look too complex by using its trademark cryptic message. The last I was faced with this issue, I tried a simple google search for com surrogate. The solution is quite simple. Check video related programmes like DivX and Nero. Upgrading them to latest version normally solves the com surrogate error. Else remove your existing codec files and reinstall newly downloaded codec files to get rid of this issue.

Most viewed videos series on Binaryday

There is a need for creating viral videos for a project I am working on. Hence I am studying successful viral contents in much more detail now a days. I intend to study most viewed videos, most forwarded emails and most shared content including pdf,ppt and blog posts. I find it convenient to capture my thought process on binaryday. That explains the latest series on most viewed videos.

Most viewed video on youtube

I always knew that hitting the top on youtube will bring in a lot of traffic. But exactly how big will that be? Well the most watched video on youtube has more than 13 million pageviews!!!!!!! Even with a measly 5$ eCPM that would have translated into an earning of 65,000$. 65,000$ from a single video is definitely not bad money.

Some interesting observations about the most viewed video on youtube

• Top 10 most viewed videos on youtube have been watched more than 70 million times
• There is not a single porn videos in the top 20 most viewed videos
• Unlike digg and other social news sites, the most viewed video on youtube is not dominated by any particular genre
• Excepts for coolniks, no other user has more than 1 video in the list of most watched videos on youtube
• I could spot 4 videos in the top 20 most viewed videos that are clearly India centric. Unlike SEO, Indians seem to be at the front of youtube marketing. Surprisingly I have not heard of any famous indian in youtube marketing. Must be my ignorance. Please let me know if you know of any Indians

Indian videos in yotube’s most viewed video list

I am facing problem in embedding videos. Following 4 are the links to indian videos in the top 20 most viewed videos on youtube.

1. Pehli Nazar Mein – Atif Aslam
2. Hot Video contrary to the name this seems like a nice south indian song.
3. Soniye……… ….Heeriye…. …
4. Kaziranga National Park – Tiger …

Let me know your views on my observations and share any good material that you might have on social media marketing.

Auto updater of all softwares including adobe is a good thing. Adobe updater allows your computer to stay upto date without any intervention from your side. However if you are using an internet connection that bills you by the data usage, auto updaters can kill you. Hence you will do well to disable adobe updater on your computer.

Looks like I am learning more SEO from the sample resumes website I am working on. It has been more than 4 days since I wrote about  resume format on my resume site and Google has not indexed it yet!!!! When it comes to blogs, Google indexes them in seconds from publishing. And here is a static website with good ranking for several target keywords related to resumes and Google has not indexed it for more than 4 days. I have added a sitemap to it and submitted the same to Google webmaster tool.

Learning: Even if you intend to create a static website, you will do well to base it on a blogging platform like wordpress and then customize the template code to give it a static look.

After advising others about SEO for close to 4 years, I have decided to walk the talk and try and get a website to rank on Google based on my SEO knowledge alone.** I have started working on a website for sample resumes and created 4-5 pages around 1 month back.

I was not able to follow up on the results due to problem with my internet. Yesterday I was checking the ranking of the website on Google. Following was the result for the keyword sample resumes

Google.com               204

Google.co.in              18 

Google.co.in              9 (Region=India in advanced search operator)

I know that Google provides different results based on geographic preference of user. However what puzzles me is “how does Google know that jhingalala is India focused website?” Some of the basic parameters that Google uses to determine geographic preference of a website are

The TLD extension of the website   .com is not specific to India

Server location                                    My server is located in USA

Linking websites                                 I doubt if I have any incoming links from India specific websites.

content on the page                            I have not included any geographic locations on the page

Then what makes google think that jhingalala is India specific website and will it hurt my efforts to make it rank on Google.com in future. I will appreciate your views on this topic.

** I have got some of my own sites quite good ranking on google. However most of that was natural without much concentrated SEO effort other than basic technical optimization

P.S: I seem to be getting much better understanding of SEO by trying to get this resume website to rank on Google. Will be sharing my experience on this project as I go along. Looking forward to your help and feedback on this topic.

I am just wondering if this will hurt the future chances of jhingalala ranking on google.com since

Rumor mill has it that Hollywood star and comedian Vince Vaughn is getting engaged with long time girl friend Kyla Weber after asking her to move in with him in Los Angeles.

Who is Kyla Weber

Kyla Weber is a realestate agent from Calgary and Vince Vaughn is one of the funniest actors.Since Kyla as a realtor can work anywhere, it is not a problem for her to move to LA, California.

White Horse from Fearless of Taylor Swift has been released

Taylor Swift’s music video promoting “White Horse” has been released. This is a song taken from her album Fearless. It is directed by Trey Fanjoy.

The Background story of the White Horse

According to Taylor Swift, the white horse is a very emotional song based on a rather tragic story. This is based on a moment when you realize that the person you thought would be Prince Charming and sweep you off your feet is really not going to sweep you off your feet. And besides breaking up with you, he ends up falling in love with another.

My views about White Horse from Fearless

I like the song for its lyrics. Quite touching story I must say.

Who is Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American country-pop singer. In 2006, she released her debut single “Tim McGraw“, which peaked at number six on the Billboard country charts. The New York Times described Swift as “one of pop’s finest songwriters and country’s foremost pragmatist.

The Fearless is the second album from Taylor Swift. It was released in November 2008 and debuted at No1 position on the billboard 200 album chart.

What is the most popular adsense format?

There are many gurus in the world who have talked about this topic. However I was not satisfied with only listening to what they had to say. I wanted to find out what are the formats that real bloggers use. What follows is not my view but my findings based on study of usage of adsense by real bloggers. The link to the excel file with the raw data is here.

The most popular adsense format is 468 x 60
Out of the 15000 blogs that I studied around 3000 used adsense. All these blogs had a total of 6272 adsense blocks. The 468 x 60 format was the most frequently used format followed by 160 x 600 format. Surprisingly link units seem to be used by far too less blogs.

Result of my study of most frequently used adsense format

How many adsense blocks should you place on the homepage
I was expecting atleast 2 adsense adblocks to be used on the homepage. Surprisingly 955 bloggers have only 1 adsense block on the home page. Another 722 bloggers 2 units of adsense. I am unable to think why so many people are using only 1 or 2 blocks of adsense on their homepage. Any ideas??

P.S: These studies take up way too much of my time. I was just wondering if anyone other than me finds them interesting or useful. Else I shall rather concentrate on technical posts.Will appreciate if you can let me know what you think of the above data in comments section.

P.S to P.S: Let me know if you want me to analyze something else.

Speculation about the death of Catherine Gomez Boxxy

There have been quite a lot of speculation about whether Catherine Gomez Boxxy is dead. However Tweetmoney has a very good logic about why Catherine Gomez is not dead and I agree with TweetMoney. If Boxxy were dead it will be all over the newspapers.

Kellogg Co. has asked stores around USA to remove a variety of Austin- and Keebler-brand peanut butter crackers after a recall by Virginia-based Peanut Corp because of possible salmonella contamination.Kellogg said in a release on Wednesday that it hasn’t gotten complaints or found a cause for concern.

A national salmonella outbreak has sickened more than 430 people.

Peanut Corp. of America, which sells bulk supplies to institutions, issued a nationwide recall of peanut butter from one of its plants as officials on Wednesday reported two more deaths associated with a salmonella outbreak. The Lynchburg-based Peanut Corp. of America company issued the recall late Tuesday for 21 lots of peanut butter made at its plant in Blakely, Ga., on or after July 1 because of possible contamination with salmonella.

Peanut Corp. said none of the peanut butter being recalled is sold through retail stores. Its peanut butter is made for bulk distribution to institutions, food service industries and private label food companies. The company said the peanut butter is sold under the brand name Parnell’s Pride and by the King Nut Co. as King Nut.

Health officials had recommended nursing homes, hospitals, schools, universities and restaurants discard containers of peanut butter linked to the outbreak. The peanut butter was in containers of 5 to 50 pounds. The recall was issued after an open container of King Nut peanut butter in a long-term care facility in Minnesota was found to contain a strain of salmonella.

“We deeply regret that this has happened.” Stewart Parnell, owner and president of Peanut Corp. of America, said in a news release. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are voluntarily withdrawing this produce and contacting our customers.

Customers were notified by phone and in writing, the company said.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture so far has found nothing in samples tested from Peanut Corp.’s Blakely plant, spokesman Arty Schronce said on Wednesday, but added the testing process can take several days.

Authorities have declined to identity the five people who died. But state Health Department spokesman Phil Giaramita said on Wednesday the two Virginia cases involved an adult over the age of 65 in southwestern Virginia and a younger adult in the northwestern part of the state. He said 18 cases of salmonella have been reported in the state.

Health officials said a man in his 70s who had numerous underlying health conditions was the second person to die in Minnesota, where 13 people have been hospitalized. The Idaho death occurred in the fall. The CDC has said the illnesses started between Sept. 3 and Jan. 6, but people became sick after Oct. 1.

King Nut recalled the peanut butter over the weekend in the seven states where it distributed it. King Nut president Martin Kanan had said he didn’t want to wait for Peanut Corp. to act. He did not immediately return a message on Wednesday seeking comment on the wider recall.

Georgia agriculture officials have one to three inspectors at the Blakely plant and more people working on the case at the department’s Atlanta headquarters, Schronce said. He said peanut butter plants in the state are inspected once or twice a year and more frequently if problems are found.

What is Ron Pratte car collection?

Ron Pratte car collection is perhaps one of the most popular collections in recent years. However Ron Prate is an excessively private man and that has made everyone ask who is Ron Pratte.Looks like Ron Pratte car collection has made him popular lately, almost without his own will.

The secret of the popularity of Ron Pratt car collection

To understand people’s fascination with Ron Pratt car collection and the curiosity to find out who is Ron Pratte, you need to see the astronomical sums that Ron Pratte has paid out in recent time to get his hands on some of the best car models. Ron Pratte’s claim to fame is that he is the man who has purchased all of the top-dollar Shelby’s in the past three years including the 1st 2007 GT-500 for $600,000, the 1st 2007 Shelby GT Mustang for $600,000, and the first Shelby GT-H for $250,000.

Know Ron Pratte Better

Ron is the CEO of the Pratte Development Company, Inc, located at Arizona. It builds one of the nations largest wood framing and concrete foundation companies. He has earned a fortune through profits of Pratte Development Company and uses that money to fund his passion for collecting top notch cars.

I am surprised by the popularity of this post about Ron Pratte Car Collection

I had written this post about Ron Pratt car collection as part of my seo experiment. It has already got 1100 visits and counting. Thank you Mr Ron Pratt and thanks for getting me so many visitors with the popularity of the car collection of Mr Ron Pratt.

You might have noticed that this blog has not been updated in quite sometime. That is because I have been busy with developing my new website that will allow users to buy or sell used mobile phones in India.

I always refer to the used goods as second hand goods. Most of the people I know also use similar terms. So I was confident that people must be searching for second hand mobile. However as a good webmaster I like to rely on data. So I went to google insight for search and compared 2 terms i.e second hand mobile and Used mobile.

Which one do you think won? (Hint: I was absolutely wrong, as usual ) You can see the result on Google

India searches for Used Mobile Phone and Not Second hand Mobile Phone. However I have still not understood why it is so? Is it really that indians use the term used mobile phone or is it something else? Please let me your view as I am starting work on my new site and this is critical to the success of the site.

I was going through google analytics pages of my sites. Google sent significantly higher number of visiotrs to my sites compared to yahoo. However when I looked at 2 important statistics pageviews/visit and bounce rate, Yahoo was better than google on all most all sites. For binaryday yahoo had a pageviews/visit=1.38 as compared to 1.24 pageviews/visit for google. Yahoo had a bouncerate of 77.63%. Much better than the 84.36% boucerate for google. It will be really interesting to know what other bloggers are experiencing.

Why gmail proxy sites?

Companies are increasingly blocking the access to popular sites like gmail. Following is a list of gmail proxy sites that you can use to access gmail at workplace, incase gmail is banned at your office. Make sure to check out my latest posts about dual core vs core 2 duo, most viewed video on youtube and free rapidshare premium account.

Gmail Proxies that I have been using for long

http://www.criclover.com

http://polysolve.com/

http://www.yoyahoo.com

http://www.myglite.com

Some more Proxy sites for gmail that I found out through research

http://www.browseprox.com I like this proxy for gmail a lot as this does not have many pop-up advertisements. However it has lots of contextual advertisements.

http://www.browser9.com

http://btunnel.com I am a little skeptic about using this proxy as the advertisements on the site look like those on malware proxies.

http://bypassgenie.com/ Looks like a good proxy website for accessing gmail. However the site was not working while I was trying to access it.

http://www.filtersneak.com I find this a little more trust worthy as it warns you about not supporting https protocol.

I am doing some research on google image search to learn image search optimization. As part of the experiment, I had uploaded 2 images yesterday in a post with text string xyzabcabpq, 1 image named xyzabcabpq and another image with the alt text xyzabcabpq. The initial result is in.

Text gets indexed faster than image

A search for xyzabcabpq in the web search returns the binaryday page. However image search does not return any result yet. Surprisingly even blog search does not return any result. Waiting to see who wins the competition between blog search and image search. Keep checking the SEO Experiment category till then.