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I had recently made a post about most viewed video on youtube. There is fair amount of competition for the keyword and my post was ranking at >150 on the SERP. However yesterday I linked this post from 2 existing posts and a new post with varied anchor text and today the post has moved into 11th position on SERP. I am going to link my posts about Com surrogate, dual core vs core 2 duo and free bollywood movies to see if internal links can push these posts up in the SERP.

While I am at the topic of ranking with internal links, let me make one thing clear. WordPress plugins for internal links are good for getting posts indexed. However they are not the best way to use internal links to rank for particular posts. You should always identify relevant posts to create internal links.

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?

There are many tools to find the pagerank of a website. Do you want to have the tool on your own domain? Well here is source code for a tool that can find pagerank of a website. Store this page as pagerank.php on your domain. Then try out http://www.yourdomain.com/pagerank.php?url=rediff.com to find the pagerank of rediff.

You should store this file on your server to take care of a number of upcoming seo tools that I am going to publish in the next 1-2 months. Online tool to find pagerank of all your internal pages is almost complete and will be published in less than 1 week time.

P.S: I will appreciate a link/stumble/digg/tweet for this page. Thanks in advance.

I have already posted a technology related posts about com surrogate error and a smm related post about most viewed video on youtube. I shall compensate my regular readers by revealing one of the most useful SEO trick that I have not shared with anyone yet. I have used this trick on several of my blogs and websites to take them to 2000-5000 users a day in less than 6 months.

As I had discussed in my backlink building guide, not all links are equal. That is a well known fact among SEOs. However one thing no SEO blog seems to talk about is the appropriateness of particular type of link based on the lifecycle of blog.

What do I mean by lifecycle of a blog

Your blog may be in one of the following stages on Google index

1. The blog has just been released. Less than 30 posts have been indexed by Google
2. Your blog is 2-3 months old. Your posts get indexed on a regular basis. However you are getting no or little traffic from Google
3. Your blog is more than 6 months old. Your posts get indexed on a regular basis. You get 600-1000 visitors a day from search but mostly from long tail search terms (search terms with 3 or more words).
4. You have an established blog. You rank in the first page for most keywords as soon as you make a post.

Link Building stragtegy

• If you have a recently launched blog (less than 2 months old) then Google will be looking at you with suspicion. 3-4 duplicate posts, too aggressive link building etc will straight away get you blacklisted on Google’s index. Hence keep your calm. Try to write completely original posts. Write attractive headlines that will attract people’s attention. This is the time you should be active in social media sites like digg, stumbleupon etc and try to develop relation with other bloggers in your niche. Try to get the first 5 links in a natural manner. Resist the temptation to build 100s of free links through dofollow blog commenting, social media profile creation or forum signatures etc.
• If your blog has crossed the first stage then you have successfully created some amount of trust for your blog. Now is the time to convert those wonderful posts into traffic and money. Start concentrating on keyword usage in your blog posts. This is the time to build free backlinks to your blog. Make sure that you are not building all the backlinks to your homepage though. You will do well to read following posts of mine at this stage
  1.  guide to free backlinks
  2. 10 social media sites that allow dofollow links on profile page
  3. Remove stop words from your title to rank better
  4. Image SEO : A Quick Guide and
  5. The best way to use keywords on blog post for maximum impact
• If you have a blog that is already ranking for long tail keywords, building 1000 more free backlinks is a complete waste of time. Stop your focus on quantity and start focusing on quality. Link-baiting is the way you must go. I am yet to write a post about link-baiting however you can google linkbait, link-bait or link bait to find some awesomely great articles about the post.

April 2009 pagerank update is on right now. I am seeing changes to the pagerank of several client websites. However the PR is fluctuating indicating an update in progress. Check your own pagerank. I shall come back with a detailed post soon.

Image search results do not monetize well since google shows the results in an iframe. Solve that problem by adding the following code to your page. Now when a person clicks on a image search result, he will directly come to your site like normal search.


<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
if (top.location != self.location) top.location.replace(self.location);
</script>

Here is a video from Google that provides more detail about image search. It is 15 minute long, so watch it in your spare time.

1. Flickr
2. Digg
3. Propeller
4. Technorati
5. MyBlogLog
6. BloggingZoom
7. Current
8. Linkedin 
9. PostOnFire
10. CoRank

Recently a local SEO company had requested me for a small talk about ranking factors. I had created a presentation to help me talk about 5 most important ranking factors. Here is my presentation about search engine ranking factors. Make sure to through it. It has knowledge that you will take at least 5 days to gather on your own.

P.S: I will appreciate if anyone can convert that into flash. I will like to be able to embed it in the post.

Stop words are some commonly used words like a,an,the,from, to etc. Since these words occur atleast once on allmost all pages, previously google and other search engines used to ignore such keywords. If you ever conducted a search with these keywords, you would have seen a message the “the keyword from was ignored”. Looks like Google has changed the algorithm and now uses stop words for ranking the pages.

I found a proof of this fact while analyzing the ranking of a post about removing virus from USB drives. While I search for remove virus from usb, the binaryday post appears at the 6th position. While a search for “remove virus usb” finds the same post at 11th position. Similar is the case with my post for gmail proxy. While the entire world searches for gmail proxy, I am stuck with a title that reads gmail for proxy

How can you use this for better ranking?

Many users just enter the keywords like gmail proxy, remove virus usb, resume format etc to search for required information. You can make your posts to rank better by removing the stop words from

• the title
• backlink anchor text
• use of keywords in the body

A good way to remove the stop words without making your title to look spammy is to make use of tags. So while my post continues to have a title of “how to remove virus from usb?”, I can add a tag of “remove virus usb”. Next I can edit the theme code to convert the title of the page as “remove virus usb” and that will take care of the ranking issue and the post will rank well for both the keywords. Similarly a little time spent in writing the post copy will help your page to rank for both keywords.

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.