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Social Networks 3.0

2007-02-06T12:51:00.000-08:00

Social Networks 3.0

Let me simply start with this. I am a huge fan of the fabric of social networking. I believe that it makes up a crucial piece of the online communication that is driving the consumer web experience. But I do think that social networks have undergone an significant and important evolution, even since 2004, which will continue to pay dividends for end users.

For what it is worth, to my mind we are now experiencing Social Networks 3.0.

Social Networks 1.0 were built during the late 1990s to enable the initial set of consumer services that created such excitement about the promise of the web. Services like eGroups/OneList, ICQ, Evite and many many more relied upon groups of users organizing and communicating on the web through coordinated networks. Those networks were not explicitly described as such but they were the underpinnings of these communications platforms.

Social Networks 2.0 began in the early 2000s when entrepreneurs got to thinking about the nature of their online networks and the power that could come of making those networks explicit. Services like Friendster, Tribe, Orkut, LinkedIn, Spoke emerged to allow users to organize their recreational and business networks. The focus of those services as they were first built was to enable the creation, growth and management of an explicit social network. In other words, the consumer experience of Social Networks 2.0 was around the creation and discovery of the network itself, rather than a particular use of that network.

I believe that we are now in Social Networks 3.0. After a fair bit of excitement and energy around pure play social networks, it became clear that the building and management of a social network was not, in and of itself, a compelling consumer experience. In a nod back to the earliest instantiations of social networking, entrepreneurs have come to realize that social networks are enablers of other compelling consumer experiences. Thus, social networks are becoming an important ingredient of all sorts of consumer experiences. Social networks inform the conversations that take place among friends on LiveJournal. Social networks enable the discovery of new music on MySpace. Social networks enhance the multi-player gaming experience at Xfire. Social networks now empower recruiting on LinkedIn. And dozens of new social networks are emerging to enable specific, valuable consumer experiences that are enhanced by the underpinnings of the network.

I am more than a little excited about Social Networks 3.0 because I believe that social networking will be a crucial element of virtually all online consumer experiences going forward. And truly compelling online consumer experiences will always make successful companies. Thus, I look forward to seeing how social networking continues to evolve. I see great things in the future for Social Networking 4.0, whatever that ends up being.

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VentureBlog
http://www.ventureblog.com/

Social Networks, market segmentation in real time

2007-02-06T12:39:00.000-08:00

Social Networks, market segmentation in real time

In a New York Times article dated October 31. called "computing 2016: What won't be possible?"

But with the rise of the Internet, social networks and technology networks are becoming inextricably linked, so that behavior in social networks can be tracked on a scale never before possible.
“We’re really witnessing a revolution in measurement,” Dr. Kleinberg said.

The new social-and-technology networks that can be studied include e-mail patterns, buying recommendations on commercial Web sites like Amazon, messages and postings on community sites like MySpace and Facebook, and the diffusion of news, opinions, fads, urban myths, products and services over the Internet. Why do some online communities thrive, while others decline and perish? What forces or characteristics determine success? Can they be captured in a computing algorithm?

Social networking research promises a rich trove for marketers and politicians, as well as sociologists, economists, anthropologists, psychologists and educators.

For marketers, this is fascinating. Some day, when we are able to see buying patterns in real time through social network analysis, marketing will be performed the same way as a weather forecast. The implications in politics is also amazing. I wonder why so few global companies actually invest part of their marketing and R&D budget in trying to understand those things.

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mopsos
http://www.mopsos.com/blog/

MyBlogLog from yahoo Is Very Cool

2007-02-05T05:17:00.000-08:00

MyBlogLog from yahoo Is Very Cool

On MyBlogLog you take all the people who read your blog and allow them to connect to your blog as a community.

Once you sign up, you are added to blogs that you've viewed at least 10 times. You can change this in the settings, if you want, but I think 10 is a good number to show real interest in a blog.

Here's a write up that Mashable did on it. And, today I noticed that ReadWriteWeb had also written a piece on MyBlogLog.

Note one of the comments on Mashable's June post from a MyBlogLog insider:

We’re not making any effort to hide MyBlogLog communities, but we’re also not really telling anyone about it yet. We’re oldschool beta and still a ways away from delivering a complete experience.

If this was all we had up our sleeve, I’d completely agree with you — what the world needs now is not another generic social network. We’ve got a couple more weeks of serious work tying together the existing MyBlogLog capabilities with our new Communities framework. In the not too distant future, you can look forwad to a much greater intimacy with your readers.

It really is a neat little webapp. Oddly enough, Mashable has taken it out of the sidebar. Not sure if that says anything though, it could be that the real estate in that sidebar is worth too much for a social (but not lucrative) space invader.

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socialriots
Social Networking news and information
http://www.socialriots.com/

Google Blog Search overtakes Technorati's market share

2007-02-05T05:10:00.000-08:00

Google Blog Search overtakes Technorati's market share according to Hitwise

Search/Technorati

Google Blog Search has overtaken Technorati's market share in the United States according to LeeAnn Prescott of Hitwise. The success of the Google Blog Search is hand-in-hand with Google leveraging existing properties such as Google News and the Google homepage to drive traffic to its new property. Google Blog Search launched in September 2005.

Technorati is the green line above, and Google Blog Search is shown in purple. Google Blog Search received a huge traffic boost in October after blog search appeared as an option on Google News pages. Google Blog Search later received a spot on the front page of Google.com, gaining the top spot on the expanded "more" services menu.

The dreaded Google search box or Google OneBox integration can be a death blow to many Internet startups. Google Blog Search is now better able to tap into Google's over 108 million unique users in the United States, delivering a targeted and very focused index.

I was especially surprised by Hitwise's estimate of the age breakdown of Google Blog Search and Technorati. Google Blog Search is most popular with users age 18-24 while Technorati is most popular with users 35-44. The Hitwise age group breakdowns are similar to comScore numbers from June placing 36% of Technorati's users between 35 and 54 years of age even though 30% of Technorati's traffic was from MySpace at the time.

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Niall Kennedy's Weblog
http://www.niallkennedy.com/

Google Reader API

2007-02-05T05:03:00.000-08:00

Google Reader API

Google Reader is an online feed aggregator with heavy use of JavaScript and pretty quick loading of the latest feed data from around the web. Google's AJAX front-end styles back-end data published in the Atom syndication format. The data technologies powering Google Reader can easily be used and extended by third-party feed aggregators for use in their own applications. I will walk you through the (previously) undocumented Google Reader API.

Update 10:40 p.m.:Jason Shellen, PM of Google Reader, called me to let me know that Google built its feed API first and the Google Reader application second as a demonstration of what could be done with the underlying data. Jason confirmed my documentation below is very accurate and Google plans to release a feed API "soon" and perhaps within the next month! Google Reader engineer Chris Wetherell has also confirmed the API in the comments below.

A reliable feed parser managed by a third party lowers the barrier to entry of new aggregator developers. Google and its team of engineers and server clusters can handle the hard work of understanding feeds in various formats and states of validation, allowing developers to focus on the interaction experience and other differentiating features. You can also retrieve and synchronize feed subscription lists with an established user base that could be in the millions, providing a better experience for users on multiple devices and platforms. Google Reader's "lens" provides only one view of the available data.

Google Reader users are assigned a 20-digit user ID used throughout Google's feed system. ~~No cookies or session IDs are required to access this member-specific data.~~ User-specifc data is accessible using the google.com cookie named "SID."

Feed retrieval

/reader/atom/feed/

Google converts all feed data to Atom regardless of its original publication format. All RSS feed post content appears in the summary element and unlike the My Yahoo! backend I found no additional metadata about the feed containing full posts but Google does publish content data where available.

You may request any feed from the Google Reader system using the following URL structure:

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/ + [Feed URL]
Niall Kennedy's Weblog (RSS 2.0)
Niall's Flickr feed (Atom 0.3)
del.icio.us popular (RDF)

You may specify the total number of feed entries to retrieve using the n parameter. The default number of feed items returned is 20 (n=20).

Google strips off all the data it does not render in Reader. Stripped data includes namespaced data such as Apple iTunes podcast data and Yahoo! Media RSS, additional author data such as e-mail and home URL, and even copyright data.

Subscription list

/reader/atom/user/[user id]/pref/com.google/subscriptions

Google Reader's feed subscription list contains a user's current feed subscriptions as well as past deleted subscriptions. Each feed is contained in an entry complete with feed URL, published and updated dates, and user-specific tags, if present. Current subscriptions are categorized as a reading list state. You may request the full list of feeds by setting the complete to true.

Here is a copy of my Google Reader subscription list with my user ID zeroed out. I am not subscribed to my RSS feed (index.xml) and I have added tags to my Atom feed. Each listed feed contains an author element which appears to be empty regardless of declarations within the original feed. Perhaps Google plans to add some feed claiming services, but its own Google blog has no affiliated author information.

Reading list

/reader/atom/user[user id]/state/com.google/reading-list

My favorite feature of the Google Reader backend is direct access to a stream of unread entries across all subscribed feeds. Google will output the latest in a "river of news" style data view.

Here is a sample from my limited subscription set. You may specify the total number of entries you would like Google to return using the n parameter -- the default is 20 (n=20).

Read items only

http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/[user ID]/state/com.google/read

You can retrieve a listing of read items from Google Reader. You might want to analyze the last 100 items a user has read to pull out trends or enable complete search and this function may therefore be useful. You may adjust the number of items retrieved using the n parameter -- the default is 20 (n=20).

Reading list by tag

/reader/atom/user/[user id]/label/[tag]

You may also view a list of recently published entries limited to feeds of a certain tag. If you have tagged multiple feeds as "marketing" you might want to request just the latest river of news for those marketing feeds. The returned feed contains both read and unread items. Read items are categorized as read (state/com.google/read) if you would like to hide them from view. The number of returned results may be adjusted using the n parameter.

Starred items only

/reader/atom/user[user id]/state/com.google/starred

Google Reader users can flag an item with a star. These flagged items are exposed as a list of entries with feed URL, tags, and published/updated times included. You may specify the total number of tagged entries to return using the n parameter -- the default value is 20 (n=20).

Google treats starred items as a special type of tag and the output therefore matches the tag reading list.

Add or delete subscriptions

/reader/api/0/edit-subscription

You may add any feed to your Google Reader list using the Google Reader API via a HTTP post.

/reader/api/0/edit-subscription -- base URL
ac=["subscribe" or "unsubscribe"] -- requested action
s=feed%2F[feed URL] -- your requested subscription
T=[command token] -- expiring token issued by Google. Obtain your token at /reader/api/0/token.

Add tags

/reader/api/0/edit-tag

You may also add tags to any feed or individual item via a HTTP post.

/reader/api/0/edit-tag -- base URL
s=feed%2F[feed URL] -- the feed URL you would like to tag
i=[item id] -- the item ID presented in the feed. Optional and used to tag individual items.
a=user%2F[user ID]%2Flabel%2F[tag] -- requested action. add a tag to the feed, item, or both.
a=user%2F[user ID]%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred -- flag or star a post.
T=[special scramble] -- three pieces of information about the user to associate with the new tag. Security unknown and therefore unpublished.

Conclusion

It is possible to build a your own feed reader on top of Google's data with targeted server calls. You can power an application both online and offline using Google as your backend and focus on building new experiences on top of the data. Advanced functionality is available with a numeric Google ID and some variable tweaks.

Google has built the first application on top of this data API, the Google Reader lens, and judging from their choice of URLs the lens may not be Google's last application built on this data set. I like the openness of the data calls and think the Google Reader APIs are simple enough to bootstrap a few new applications within Google or created by third-party developers.

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Niall Kennedy's Weblog
http://www.niallkennedy.com/

Secret Feeds in Google Video

2007-02-05T04:59:00.000-08:00

Secret Feeds in Google Video

Here's a little Google Video secret. If you add "&output=rss" to the URL of a search results page in Google Video, you get a RSS feed for that results.

For example, if you search for "apple", the address of the search results page is http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=apple. Now append the output parameter and you'll get http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=apple&output=rss, a feed you can add to your favorite feed reader, so you can track the best videos about Apple. If your feed reader supports enclosures (like Google Reader, for example), you'll be able to play the video from the reader. Otherwise, you'll see a thumbnail and you can click on it to see the video.

You can also search for labels (tags) like this "label:matt cutts" and add the results to your feed reader, in case there's a new video created by Matt Cutts. As anyone can label videos, there's always the danger of spam labels, so not all the results will be accurate.

Labels can also be used to create rudimentary playlists: invent a long string like "videos from my favorite pop artists" and label your favorite videos. Then do a search for "label:videos from my favorite pop artists", add the output parameter and use the feed the way you want it.

Google Video shows on the homepage only the feeds for some sections (popular videos, music videos and others), but you should know that every search means a new feed.

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Google Operating System
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

SEO Tool I would Love to See Built - Site Theme Keyword Cloud Generator

2007-02-05T04:51:00.000-08:00

SEO Tool I would Love to See Built - Site Theme Keyword Cloud Generator

Posted by: Jarrod Hunt on Aug 07, 2006

Here’s another SEO tool I would love to see built.

Site Theme Keyword Cloud Generator

This tool would allow someone to enter the URL of their site in order to have a keyword cloud built based on the keywords found throughout their site.

The tool would spider a certain number of pages (Lets say 10-100), and return a keyword cloud.

Heres an example of a keyword cloud that blinklist.com uses

It would be great to be able to visually see the theme of a site. This would could be used to analyze your competitors or to just get a rough idea of how a search engine might see it.

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Textlinkbrokers

http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/

PROBLOGGER Darren Rowse BLOG NETWORKS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES DIGG LINKS

2007-02-01T01:07:00.000-08:00

PROBLOGGER Darren Rowse BLOG NETWORKS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES DIGG LINKS

I HAVE BEEN A REGULAR READER OF PROBLOGGER BY DARREN ROWSE FOR OVER AN YEAR NOW BUT FROM TIME TO TIME I FELT EVERYTHING IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS DARREN HAS WRITTEN OR IS QUITE DIFFERENT BUT I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AND OTHERWISE PROBLOGGER BLOG BY DARREN ROWSE IS QUITE A GOOD ONE.

BUT IT WAS AFTER SOME TIME I HAD REALIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF BLOG NETWORKS LIKE DIGG AND NETSCAPE AND ALSO OF SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES ETC AND WAS ADDING MY POSTS TO DIGG I REALIZED THERE WERE AT LEAST THREE ACCOUNTS OF DARREN OR OF HIS EMPLOYEES ETC IN DIGG AND WAS QUITE SURPRISED AS DARREN USE TO GENERALLY WRITE AGAINST BLOG NETWORKS-THAT THEY ARE OF LITTLE USE ETC.

THOUGH I DIGESTED THIS AND MOVED ON I WAS IN FOR A SHOCK WHEN I FOUND PROBLOGGER DARREN HAD ACCOUNTS IN INDIAN BLOG NETWORK INDIANPAD AS WELL AND HE HAD WRITTEN ON ONE OF HIS POSTS THAT DON'T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON BLOG NETWORKS.

ITS NOT ONLY DARREN ROWSE BUT ALSO A LOT OF OTHER SO CALLED A LIST BLOGGERS LIKE AMIT OF DIGITAL INSPIRATION WHO WRITE AGAINST BLOG NETWORKS BUT THEMSELVES USE THEM.

ONE OF THE POSSIBLE REASONS FOR SUCH A THING MIGHT BE THE BIG BLOGGERS REALIZE THAT NEW BLOGGERS WHO CAN WRITE GOOD CONTENT AND ALSO KNOW IMPORTANCE OF BLOG NETWORKS COULD GIVE THEM TOUGH COMPETITION AND HENCE WANT TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION THAT BLOG NETWORKS ARE OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE AND CONTINUE THEIR DOMINANCE.

OTHER THINGS I HAVE NOTICED ABOUT SO CALLED A LIST BLOGGERS IN RECENT TIMES IS THAT THEY ARE LINKING MORE OFTEN TO EACH OTHER AND A GREATER DEGREE OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THEM LIKE WRITING ABOUT EACH OTHER,SHARING CONTENT,USING SIMILAR KEYWORDS ETC.

ALL THIS SEEMS TO BE A RESULT OF THE FEAR IN THE MINDS OF BIG BLOGGERS AS A RESULT OF GROWING IMPORTANCE OF BLOG NETWORKS, SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES,BLOG COMMUNITIES AND DIRECTORIES.

good looking custom build blogs for search engine optimization / seo & sem

2007-01-29T10:53:00.000-08:00

good looking custom build blogs for search engine optimization

Recently i was looking for some good blogs on search engine optimization / seo & search engine marketing / sem on technorati and after having spend a lot of time i realized that most of the high ranking blogs didn't have good content and felt there would be some manipulation and felt bad for that.

but after some time i decided to spend more time to explore the reason behind this and was able to notice that,most of the links that the high ranking blogs were getting were genuine and was thus able to conclude that people tend to like good looking blogs rather than ones having good content and also love high ranking blogs,link to them and ultimately help them earn more dollars.

The Inefficiency of Feed Readers

2007-01-28T12:45:00.001-08:00

The Inefficiency of Feed Readers

Feed readers are a very inefficient way to keep up with the news. As most news sites and blogs have feeds, you might think you save time by adding your favorite sites to a feed reader. After all, you don't have to visit them ever again if they publish full feeds or only if you find some interesting if they publish partial feeds.

Redundancy
A feed reader shows you the latest information from each site you've subscribed to. Often, many blogs discuss a single news, but you don't have all these posts at a glance. A feed reader should cluster related posts.

Closed universe
You have a list of feeds, but you can't discover new feeds organically. Your list of feeds should automatically based on your preferences.

Lack of order
There's no hierarchy in your feed reader. You may have only 5 minutes to find out what's new, but you don't know where to start. A good feed reader should rank posts and prioritize breaking news.

Sense of guilt
If you don't open/visit a feed reader for a week, you may end up with hundreds of thousands of unread posts. You may want to mark all as read and move on, but what if you lose something important? A feed reader forces you to read (or scan) each and every post.

No related universes
Maybe there are other people with similar tastes that may help you improve your universe. A feed reader should automatically detect that and suggest posts that were considered interesting by your virtual group of anonymous friends.

In most of these affirmations, I've described a typical feed reader. If you know one that does all of these things (or only some of them), let us know.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

Google Mobile Ads

2007-01-28T12:45:00.000-08:00

Google Mobile Ads

After expanding the offering for mobile devices (web search, image search, news, local, personalized homepage, Gmail), Google intends to monetize their services. Entering Google Mobile Ads.

"Mobile ads are shorter text-based AdWords ads that appear when users search Google from a mobile device. Send users to your mobile web page, or offer them the option to connect to your business phone after clicking on your ad.

Mobile ads contain two lines of text, with a limit of 12 or 18 characters per line, depending on the language in which you write your ad. Your destination URL appears on a third line if you choose to enter one. If you select the option that allows customers to directly connect to your business phone, a Call link will appear next to your destination URL."

What's interesting is that mobile ads are a simplified version of the ads from the standard Google results page.

"When a user searches Google.com from a PC for your keywords, your standard text ads will appear alongside the search results. And when someone uses a mobile phone to search Google.com for your keywords, your mobile ads will appear."

Click-to-call, a feature that makes it easier for businesses to connect with customers, is more appropriate for mobile phones, where people don't have time to browse web pages and need information fast. Google also intends to use click-to-call VoIP ads on eBay.

For the moment, the ads are displayed only in Japan (a country where the Internet usage via mobile phones grows rapidly), but RCRNews.com reports that Google launched the service in the US:

"The Internet giant quietly launched the offering that allows AdWords customers to place marketing messages — including clickable links — in listings retrieved through Google’s mobile search service."

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

Google's Ranking Algorithm

2007-01-28T12:31:00.001-08:00

Google's Ranking Algorithm

Many people have tried to find how Google ranks web pages. While the algorithm is still secret and in continuous change, we know it uses more than 200 signals, one of the most important being PageRank.

As Google explains... "the heart of our software is PageRank, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools."

Compiling the opinions of webmasters, search engine optimizers and Google's explanation, Google Ranking Factors - SEO Checklist is a long list of positive and negative factors that may influence a page's ranking. While the list contains a lot of interesting observations and suggestions, you should take everything with a grain of salt.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

Matt Cutts Answers SEO Questions

2007-01-28T12:31:00.000-08:00

Matt Cutts Answers SEO Questions

Google's interface with webmasters, Matt Cutts, answers more questions on Google Video.

Some of the questions:

Google terminology - What's the difference between an index update, an algorithm update, and a data refresh?

Static vs. Dynamic urls: does PageRank flow the same to both?

Does Google Analytics play a part in ranking web pages? [ Short answer: no. ]

Should I worry about results estimates for 1) supplemental results 2) using the site operator 3) with negated terms and 4) special syntax such as intitle? [ Short answer: no. ]

Which is more important: search engine optimization (SEO) or end user optimization? [ Short answer: both should be the same kind of optimization. ]

One of the best pieces of advice to follow is not to design a site with search engines in mind, because search engines are not your visitors (they crawl your site), they change the algorithms often and their main aim is to have great results for the users. So if you design a site with the user in mind, you'll know that even if a search engine penalizes you for a while, it will change its mind soon. So everytime you make a change to your site, ask this question: will it help the visitors?

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

SEO Tips From Google

2007-01-28T12:30:00.000-08:00

SEO Tips From Google

SEO Egghead compiled 21 tips from Google's Matt Cutts and Vanessa Fox. Some of the most interesting:

* Hiding text using similar colors and background colors can actually be worse than using the same colors.

* If you sell links, Matt says you should use link condoms [rel="nofollow"]. Otherwise your reputation may fall. I assume this means they will devalue your outbound links.

* Assign unique, descriptive title tag and headings to every page.

* Use user-friendly URLs like "african-elephants.html," and not "343432ffsdfsdfdfasffgddddd.html." Don't overdo it either — african-elephants-and-their-habitats-etc-etc-etc-etc.html.

* Minimize the number of URL parameters — 1-2 parameters if possible.

If you think a little, it makes sense: all these tips improve the user experience. Hidden text is not visible to the user, so the page would not be relevant to the search result. The title and the URL are also an indication of the page content. Redirections slow down loading of a page. So if you don't know what to choose in a situation, think what your visitors would choose.

* SEO = optimizing a web page to rank well in search engines

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

social media blog networks communities social bookmarking sites directories

2007-01-28T09:26:00.000-08:00

social media blog networks communities social bookmarking sites directories

recently amit aggarwal of digital inspiration had written a post about social media which includes blog networks blog communities social bookmarking sites directories and blog directories etc and i felt such a post would leave a negative impression on bloggers about social media and strangely problogger darren rowse choose to support amit and hence i was thinking of writing a post on this,but my friend divya was more quick and has written a post on this topic.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/
http://www.problogger.net/
http://blogandpingtutorial.blogspot.com/

my comment on divya's blog to fame blog

great post divya

i had also seen these posts on problogger and digital inspiration and was wondering why are these people

writing such posts,which raises more questions than

provides answers for.

in past also darren has chosen to ignore topics such as

social media,blog networks,social bookmarking

sites,blog communities,blog directories and directories

like from google-dmoz,msn etc.

besides this its important to note that darren himself

uses digg and is also a part of b5 media.

also note that social media sites are most important

tools for search engine optimization or seo for small

bloggers like you and me and don't go by what the big

boys say on this.

akshay

blog communities vox for problogger and search engine optimization seo

2007-01-28T08:38:00.000-08:00

blog communities vox for problogger and search engine optimization seo

in recent past more and more bloggers and probloggers are using blog communities like vox,instablogs and livejournal related blog communities and those already using them have increased the use of blog communities to get in touch with other bloggers,get more readers,links and ultimately for search engine optimization or seo.

the reason behind this trend has been launch of many new blog communities and increased popularity and improved ranks of old ones.

the other reason might well be manipulation of blog networks.

most probloggers simply copy all or part of their content to blog communities despite search engines making public their disliking of duplicate content.

so if you also want to become a problogger, i recommend that you join at least 2-3 blog communities like vox or instablogs.

tags tagging seo search engine optimization in blog networks search engines

2007-01-25T11:59:00.000-08:00

tags tagging seo search engine optimization in blog networks search engines

use tagging for seo thats search engine optimization

tags is a new concept being used by search engines specially blog search engines and blog networks and is expected to be the major method used by search engines and blog networks.

here i will be telling you how to get into related blog which google blog search engine uses to tell its users about some useful related blogs.
and google finds these blogs based on the number of times that word has been written in various blogs.so if you for example run a blog on seo then to get into google related blogs for word seo write more posts on this topic.
i will also like to add here that don't unnecessarily repeat words to take benefit of this technique,google will find such things and then you may be in trouble.

Blog to fame

2007-01-23T13:41:00.000-08:00

Blog to fame

blog to fame, a blog on seo / search engine optimization and sem by my friend divya from india has become one of the fastest growing blogs in past 3-4 months and if the trend continues blog to fame may soon be one of india top blog and also a top blog on seo and sem etc and could help to a large extent in changing the mind set of many indians and main stream media in india who don't consider indian blogs and bloggers seriously.

about india uncut

2007-01-23T13:08:00.000-08:00

about india uncut

well india uncut is one of india largest and popular blogs and amit varma is the person behind this blog and he is known for his writing abilities and has certainly set very high quality standards for other indian bloggers.

but today i was seeing user traffic to various popular blogs and i was surprised to see that india uncut despite high quality standards doesn't get much traffic.

and the most important observation that i got from this blog is that indian blogging is yet to develop and even good blogs like india uncut don't get much traffic.

why seo and sem experts don't like problogger and digital inspiration blogs

2007-01-23T06:40:00.000-08:00

why seo and sem experts don't like problogger and digital inspiration blogs

well this post is not for why seo and sem experts don't like problogger and digital inspiration blogs but to find if headings of length greater than five words are liked by search engines or they simply ignore the words beyond the fifth word as amit agarwal of digital inspiration http://labnol.blogspot.com/ says.

problogger and text link ads

2007-01-21T05:08:00.000-08:00

problogger and text link ads

previous time i visited the site of problogger,i thought why not explore the earning streams of problogger.

i found many some useful ones like adsense and some totally irrelevant ones but it was text links ads which got my attention.

i explored this program and thought about it for some time and felt this program cannot be better than google adsense for small bloggers who get not more than 200-300 visitors per day and felt like why is problogger recommending this to bloggers.
why is he doing so???????????????

i believe you have understood why i don't go by what problogger says and why adsense is the best.

netscape overtakes digg blog network

2007-01-21T04:38:00.000-08:00

netscape overtakes digg blog network

when netscape had decided to change its business model from a website where top editors use to decide which story would make it ti the top to the digg model,most of bloggers had criticized netscape and many had even started calling it diggscape and a clone of digg.

but the people behind netscape didn't go exactly the digg way,they didn't allow netscape to be manipulated and abused by some top bloggers and has over a period of time has become messiah of small bloggers and now has ultimately overtaken digg.

talent search for bloggers and seo experts

2007-01-21T04:37:00.000-08:00

talent search for bloggers and seo experts

bloggers and search engine optimization experts take note

hi friends

i have added this post talent search for bloggers and seo experts to my blog so that you can use this platform to write about themselves and get more readers to their blogs and show to more people your true blogging and search engine optimization capability.

use comment section to write about yourself.

why problogger ranks so high

2007-01-21T04:25:00.000-08:00

why problogger ranks so high

seo concepts and basics explained

well this is a post from my old blog on seo for blogs by problogger.

these include:-

Darren Rowse problogger is part of b5 media

he is one of the oldest bloggers

his blog has thousands of posts(our blogs don't have more than 70-80 posts)

he is seo for several blogs(not confirmed)

all big companies /seo's want small bloggers and webmasters to belive what he says because of their own vested interests(they want us to believe seo is sort of rocket science)

and i don't buy the idea that he's best person for seo though i have to acknowledge he's quite good at seo.

closed blog networks

2007-01-21T04:14:00.000-08:00

closed blog networks

the game of seo

in my previous post on blog networks i had talked of blog networks like digg and netscape which people like you and me can join.
but their are another type of blog networks like b5 media and 9i networks which comprise of only 50-60 high ranking bloggers and are sort of tools used by top bloggers to push up their blogs rankings.

i believe such blog networks are bad for internet and need to be taken on.
i want this to be a platform for such an effort.

what i want is that you follow a few basic things
these are:-
not providing links to these blog networks simply because they rank high

stop writing to them for jobs as they wont entertain you

don't vote for them on other blog networks like digg etc.

blog networks digg netscape redditt

2007-01-21T03:57:00.000-08:00

blog networks digg netscape redditt

in my previous post on search engine optimization or seo for blogs i had written about getting a lot of links through blog networks.

in this post i would like to tell you about some blog networks.
these are
digg
netscape
and redditt

i have written them in order of their rank.

but be careful rank of of blog network is not reflective of its usability.
what i mean to say is a blog network like netscape(ranked 2) is better than digg(rank 1) as digg is controlled by some very powerful blogger groups who decide which story will make it to top and also digg out stories of people like you and me.

search engine optimisation seo blog

2007-01-21T03:48:00.000-08:00

search engine optimization seo blog

improving your blogs rank and seo

whats seo?

well ask this question to some top blogger he will say its not less than going to moon but if you believe me search engine optimization is too simple.

seo / search engine optimization only means using some good keywords,giving proper heading and subheading and getting a lot of links(through directories and blog networks).

and if you do what i say you will definitely succeed.
even if then you don't succeed write to me at AKSHAYFEEDSTER@gmail.com,i shall help you out.

akshay

problogger blog to fame seo blog

2007-01-21T03:16:00.000-08:00

problogger blog to fame seo blog

search engine optimization with problogger

hi friends

my name is akshay khanna and i am 21 year old boy from navi mumbai,india and have been blogging for more than a year now.
i basically started blogging on it and india but over a period of time switched over to search engine optimization.

yours faithfully
akshay