Anyone can get your adsense account banned

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Just imagine what will happen to your blogging dreams if your adsense account were to be banned. Well looks like if you are not careful enough any one can do that to you. 

I was having a chat with Pavan about whether use of adsense on my sample resumes website will result in a smart pricing. That is when it just dawned on me that if that is true then I can use anyone else’s adsense publisher details on that website and get his account to be smart priced. I am not that evil but still that is a possibility. Worse still, I can setup a p*o*r*n website and put up your adsense block in it and get you banned.

You can protect your adsense account from such evil people

Google adsense has a feature that allows you to control the websites on which your adsense can be displayed. Make use of that feature right now to protect yourself against any misuse.

Simply go to “adsense setup” tab and then the “allowed websites” subtab. Under the “choose your site settings” there are 2 radio buttons. Select the 2nd radio button and list down the websites where you want to display your adsense advertisements. Take care not to include any http or www prefix before website name. So I shall enter binaryday.com and mywalkin.com into that box.

Screenshot of how to enable the feature

Protect Adsense

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The perfect time for starting your blog

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Now

Yes, now is the perfect time for starting your blog. The greatest problem with many wannabe bloggers is that they read too much, think too much and do nothing. I will never understand the hesitation in starting a blog. The domain name costs 8-9 dollars. You can get a decent web hosting for another 8-9 dollars. 18 dollars of investment. That is what you spend on a single night out. But when it comes to starting a blog, you hesitate.

Some people do not start a blog because of technical challenge. Well wordpress has already made it exceptionally simple to set up a blog. However if you are still not sure that you can set up a blog, drop me a line at ask[@]binaryday.com and I shall personnaly help you set up your own blog.

Exercising or blogging, the first step is the toughest one. If you can beat the inertia, you can reach the top. Many of us are guilty of providing an overdose of advice to you. Ignore us. It is perfectly ok if you have not figured out a topic to blog about. I had started blogging about entrepreneurship, moved on to technology and now giving you advice about blogging, making money and seo.

I wish my post can convince at least one person to start a blog now. If you know someone who has been thinking about starting a blog, please send across this post to him/her and ask him to start blogging now.

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My secret of getting plenty of traffic using the Long Tail of search revealed

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If you have been blogging for sometime and especially if you have been reading some seo blogs, then I am sure that you have heard of the term “Long Tail”. Before I proceed with this post, I will let you on one secret. I can almost guarantee that you can take your blog to at least 1000$ per month by followin the advice listed on this one post alone. Hence even if this is the only post of mine that you are going to read, so be it. But read it very very carefully.

This is going to be a long post. I shall be discussing the following topics in it.

  1. What gives me so much confidence that my advice can be used to easily take any blog to 1000$ pm earning
  2. What is long tail of search
  3. Why is it easy to succeed by targetting the long tail?
  4. The steps to succeeding with the long tail
    • Setting up the blog
    • Identifying long tail keywords
    • Writing a post targetted to long tail keywords
    • Monetizing the long tail
    • A strategy that will increase your chances of success
  5. Improving the performance of the blog post

What gives me so much confidence that my advice can be used to easily take any blog to 1000$ pm earning

I have talked about many seo topics and monetization tricks previously. However I doubt if I have ever sounded as confident as this blog post. It is quite simple though. I am confident because I have done it myself. If you have been reading my blog for sometime, then I am sure that you must have been irritated by my posts about Ron Pratte, Intel core 2 duo and dual core, Catherine Gomez Boxxy, How to format USB drives etc. The fact all those posts as well as my recent posts about Abraham Biggs Suicide Video, Melissa Huckaby and IPL 2009 are all part of my experimentation of getting traffic by taking advantage of the long tail of search. And I have been successful at it beyond my imagination to say the least.

So what exactly is the long tail of search

Many of you must have heard of the 80-20 principle. It basically says that 20% of your customers/product bring in 80% of your sales. 80-20 is the basic rinciple that every large organization runs on. You see if I am a large book store then I need to concentrate on 20% of the titles that bring in 80% of my sales.

The concept of long tail was made popular by Chris Anderson in an article in the Wired magazine. The basic premise is quite simple. The remaining 80% will be good enough for you if your cost of production is low. I will not get into theoretical detail as this is not a post about long tail but rather about how to attract traffic to your blog using this strategy of targetting the long tail.

Why is it easy to succeed by targetting the long tail?

The basic premise of this strategy is quite simple. If I have a new blog, I will find it very difficult to compete with more established blogs for a given keyword. Think of a new blog trying to compete with Digital Inspiration on a technology related blog. It does not matter how great a post you have about twitter, Amit’s post about he forgetting his twitter password will outrank you on Google in all probability. So what do I do?

There are 2 types of blog posts that you can write to take advantage of the long tail.

  1. A detailed post about a very specific topic that target search terms with 3 or more keywords. So since I can not compete with existing websites on the keyword virus, usb or virus usb I write a blog post titled how to remove virus from usb and  Everything you may need to know about how to fix errors in USB Flash drives and how to Format USB Flash. Those long titles are there to target search terms that are 3 or 4 words long.
  2. A post about a topic that established websites have not already written about: Google gets to see around 30% of search terms for the first time on a given day. Many of those are search terms that have become popular only recently. Typically these are news items. However do not write about news items that are going to get coverage from big websites. Rather focus on smaller issues like Melissa Huckaby and  Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar that are going to have a decent amount of interest and not mch competition.

The steps to succeeding with the long tail

The idea of this blog post is not to tell you that you can succeed by focusing on the long tail. Rather I am going to reveal my secret of getting traffic and money by focusing on long tail. I strongly believe that all the steps that I list down below are essential for succeeding with the long tail strategy.

Timing is the most important aspect of success: We shall be removing competition from established websites and blogs by using this strategy. However keep in mind that you still have to compete with 1000s of other blogs for your success. That makes it quite important that you are amongst the first few guys to write about a topic, especially if you are targetting the hot words for your traffic.

Setting up the blog: When I say timing is important, it is not the time of you publishing the post. Since we shall be focusing on Google to get much of this traffic, it is actually the time when Google finally indexes your blog posts. A well designed wordpress theme with some essential plugins like sitemap plugin, all-in-seo plugin will normally do the trick. However to get the maximum benefit your theme must take care of many other issues including avoiding duplicate content issue, ensuring good internal linking etc. Do not worry if you are not too good at SEO. I am working on a wordpress theme that will take care of all these issues. But it will be available to the members of my how to make money with blogging ecourse. The course is absolutely free. So go ahead and signup with your email id alone.

Identifying long tail keywords

I think this is the single most important trick to succeeding with the long tail strategy is to find out keywords that have decent amount of traffic and not much competition. The simplest way to do this is to monitor google trends. Just go through that page and you will find 100 keywords that you can blog about. You can even target country specific google trend pages. However if you read that last line carefully, you will realize that I said Google trends is the simplest method and not the only method. Some other tricks that I use to find hot keywords includes analyzing submissions to social sites like digg, propeller, indianpad etc and Predicting what keywords will go hot on google trends in 2-3 days hence by going through event calendars like movie schedule, movie releases, valentines day, bloggers’ meet etc. Keywords identified by above methods are not targetted by many other sites. Hence you may use the above tricks to find superior result.

Another method to find long tail keywords is to use google adwords keyword tool. Let us say you want to do a post about seo. Enter the keyword in this tool and it will throw up a large number of terms related to seo. Depending on the level of competition for the keyword, you may choose a particular topic to create your blog post.

Find out low competition terms: It is not enough to identify terms that will have a lot of searches. You need to identify terms on which there is comparatively less competition to worry about. And the number of search results is not an indication of competition. Rather use the methods suggested by me to find out the level of competion for a keyword.

Writing a post targetted to long tail keywords: Ranking on Google is decided based on 2 types of factors off-page factor and on-page factor. Off-page factors include backlinks to your blog, age of your blog etc. While on-page factors include stuff that is on your page like keyword usage, formatting of your post etc. If you have a comparatively new blog you will have a disadvantage in the off-page factor. Hence it becomes extremely important that you make the most of the on-page seo factors. I have covered this topic in depth in my post titled The best way to use keywords on blog post for maximum impact.

Some exclusive tips to increase chances of success dramatically

  1. It is difficult to get links to a blog targetting long-tail keywords. Start your blog on some other topic like make money online or technology, get good number of links and then migrate to long tail keywords.
  2. Alternatively you may mix these posts with some other linkable topics like I do.
  3. Read my Beginners guide to building free backlinks to get free backlinks
  4. Hire me as a consultant to kick start your blog. :) On a serious note I am ready to work on other blogs on a revenue sharing basis.
  5. Avoid the issue of duplicate content by all cost. Never user ctrl+c and ctrl+v. Read others’ posts and then rewrite them in your own english. Do not reproduce the entire post
  6. Make use of images on your posts.

Finally become a member of my how to make money with blogging ecourse. The course is absolutely free. So go ahead and signup with your email id alone. Trust me I shall be revealing at least 3 more secret tips about how to find super hot long tail keywords in the ecourse.

If you found this blog post then please help me reach more people with a digg/ stumble/ twit or link from your blog

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Abraham Biggs Suicide Video : A Sad example of devil nature of social media

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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.

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IPL 2009 : what is your strategy

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Cricket is a religion in India. I am sure we shall see a lot of action around ipl 2009 in the days to come. Have you planned to take advantage of it.

My experiment of getting traffic from hot words on google trends seems to be working quite well with the post about Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar bringing in good amount of traffic yesterday. The other post about Melissa Huckaby has not been successful at getting traffic. I intend to make several changes to rank it as well.

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Melissa Huckaby arrested in the case of Sandra Cantu death | Melissa Huckaby Latest News

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Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher, was arrested late Friday  in connection with the death of Sandra  Cantu. Surprisingly Melissa drove in to the police station on her oown. First the news about Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar and now this. Looks like going to be a difficult time.

The death of Sandra Cantu

Sandra disappeared on March 27 only for farmworkers draining an irrigation pond to find her body in the suitcase. Earlier reports seem to suggest that Sandra had been murdered before she was declared missing. Looks like a very terrible plan anyways.

I intend to keep this page updated with updates on news about Melissa Huckaby. So keep checking this page for Melissa Huckaby Latest News.

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princess kemeria abajobir abajifar : the other woman in the divorce of Real Housewives of New York City star LuAnn de Lesseps and Count Alex de Lesseps

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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.

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Best posts of Binaryday (Last 30 days)

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Since I write about varied topics, it is possible that some of you might have lost out on some of the useful posts that I have made in the last 30 days.

  1. Image SEO : A Quick Guide : The best guide to image search optimization. period.
  2. Blogging is a marathon and not a sprint
  3. Why you need to know what type of backlink your blog needs : Not all blogs need the same type of link. Learn what your blog needs
  4. Remove stop words from your title to rank better : Stop words are commonly occuring words like from,in etc. The post talks about how to find out if the searchers are using stop words and a simple trick to remove stop words from your title and rank better
  5. Posting strategy for a super successful blog : How I mix different type of posts in my search for blogging success and how you can do it as well
  6. http://binaryday.com/Search-Engine-Ranking-Factors.ppt A presentation about search engine ranking factors
  7. 10 social media sites that allow dofollow links on profile page
  8. Step by step guide to making money with blog: My first attempt at an ecourse : Join the course now if you have not done so yet
  9. Need to change perception of India in the world of SEO
  10. Fixing com surrogate has stopped error in windows vista

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Ranking with internal links

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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.

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Free bollywood movies download and online bollywood movies website where users can watch free movies

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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?

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php source code for a tool to find pagerank of any website or page

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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.

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Need to change perception of India in the world of SEO

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I have never been angrier than when reading the last paragraph of this link building article by Josh Dreller on SEL. I have seen many stupid people calling Indians as spammers. But then who cares about what stupid people have to say. When a well respected site like SEL calls Indians spammers, it is time for us to wake up and take note. In the defence of Josh, he has clarified that there are smart people in India. Thanks Josh but you are wrong to assume that we are not smart enough to understand what the client is trying to achieve.

Then I came across a post titled Here’s How India Can Be Good for Your Links and I was happy that there is at least one enlightened soul who knows that not all of us are spammers. I read through the entire post only to be insulted even more. Here is what the author had to say

“While I agree with Eric that Indians may not be in touch with the cultural and business subtleties, I have to disagree that they need to be in touch with our cultural subtleties to hit the send button. From my personal experience, they’re quite good at it.”

It is not their fault

I do not fault the authors of the above posts. Both of them normally know what they are talking about. Unfortunately they seem to have interacted with the wrong set of people from India.

The problem lies with us

While the spammers, the mindless link brokers go out and agressively pitch their service, we who understand seo in more detail and can do a really good quality work sit silent or continue to work on our own websites. Is it any wonder that people from the west seem to think that the only skill we have is to hit the send button.

I am sure we can find a solution to this problem. Looking forward to your views on how to increase awareness about quality seo work that can be done from India.

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Why you need to know what type of backlink your blog needs

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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.

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Fixing com surrogate has stopped error in windows vista

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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.

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Most viewed videos : Most viewed video on youtube

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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.

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disable adobe updater

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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.

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Blogging is a marathon and not a sprint

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There is no secret sauce to Blogging success

That is the most important learning that I have got over the last one and half years of blogging. As you read about pagerank, commenting, backlink building, pro-themes, adsense and thousand other topics, you may end up getting convinced that one of these things are critical to blogging success. They are important, no doubt about it. But that is not what separates the successful bloggers from not so successful ones.

Failed Bloggers have a pattern 

If you listen to anyone who could not succeed in blogging, you will realize that all of them fall into one of the following patterns

  1. They had a friend or cousin who makes a lot of money blogging. And they thought that if that idiot can do it, why not me
  2. They were convinced by reading several articles that if they do proper keyword research, build links like crazy, they can make lots of money too.
  3. They downloaded audios, videos of many self pro-claimed dotcom-mogul who said that if they buy their 49$ ebook, they can make a lot of money.

If you fall into any of the above 3 categories then do a serious reality check.

Blogging is a marathon and not a sprint 

There is a reason why the people in the above 3 categories fail often. They enter into a marathon race with the mentality of a 100m race. They sprint. They write 45 articles in a month, they comment on other blogs like crazy, exchange links. Unfortunately the initial result reinforces their idea that making money with blogging is easy. You see  it is possible to get initial success with the above methods. The problem is they loose steam. Writing those 45 articles screws up their personal life. They get frustrated as that blog visitor number plateaus at 1000 visitors a day. Worse still more often than not the adsense income starts going down because google applies some not so smart pricing.

How to run the marathon?

A blog is not suitable for teaching how to blog like a marathon runner. It needs you to learn the basics and basics are best read in a sequential manner with enough time in between to allow you to assimilate the thought, to act upon them. That is why I have started an ecourse about step by step guide to blogging success. Join that course to read my experiences about building a successful blog over a period of time.

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April 2009 Pagerank update

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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.

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Image SEO : A Quick Guide

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  • File name of image: Make sure to include keywords in the file name. So if you are targetting format usb,then name the file as format-usb.jpg. Do not use underscores. Even Matt cutts has previously confirmed that dashes are better than underscores
  • Image Alt tags: This is good for usability and good for SEO as well. Make sure to use descriptive alt tags and include keywords.
  • Image Title tags: Same as alt tags. Simplify usage of good alt tags and title tags with Friendly images plugin for wordpress
  • Size of the image: Larger images have a better chance of succedding
  • Text around the image: Make sure to include keywords in the text sorrounding the image
  • Title tag, meta tags, header tags, and the relevancy of the content on the page
  • Make sure to use google image labeler to label your images
  • 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.

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    Step by step guide to making money with blog: My first attempt at an ecourse

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    I am starting a completely free ecourse on the topic of Making Money With Blog. Sign up for it to learn my views about Making Money With Blog

    I have always belived that creating a service is the best way to create a successful online business. Binaryday happened as my attempt to create a web presence for my second hand mobile site while the site was being developed. Development of that site was taking too long and I am completely helpless on UI design. So while waiting for the inhouse designer first and then the outsourced designer to complete the UI, I started my knowledge about internet business in general and seo in particular through binaryday.

    While writing for binaryday I have gone through the blogs of some really wonderful bloggers and analyzed their earning reports. The earnings report and my own experience with earnings from this blog has convinced me that blogging can be a good source of income. Not a million dollar income like the pro-bloggers but 1000$ pm earning is definitely achievable. That is a decent amount of earning for a part time work in India at least.

    Hence I decided to create an ecourse on this topic to share my experience of creating a successful blog. The ecourse is free to join. Inside the ecourse some of the things I intend to talk about are

    1. How to identify a topic to generate online income
    2. How to get a good domain name, get hosting space and set up your own blog
    3. How to make your blog lively with different widgets
    4. Keyword Research
      • My personal tool that notifies me of any new word that becomes hot within 10 minutes
      • How to find keywords that will keep getting traffic over a period of time
      • Keyword competition analysis
      • Optimum use of keyword on your blog posts
    5. How to get traffic to your blog
      • SEO
      • How to get a lot of quick links
      • My own tool that gets backlinks of a site beyond the 1000 link limit of yahoo
      • Writing content that gets natural links
      • Think beyond Google
    6. Different monetization tricks
      • How I maximize revenue per user by mixing different monetization methods 
      • Cost per action networks specific to India
      • A detailed analysis of Indian advertising networks
    7. Everything else you need to know to succeed
      • As I continue to experiment I will keep updating this list

    If you think there is 1 or 2 topic there that you might be interested in learning from me, please sign up for my course about Making Money With Blog 

    Btw I have developed quite good friendship with some really good Indian Bloggers. So I am confident of getting some of them to share their secrets with you.

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