Ghajini the much awaited Aamir Khan’s latest flick is going to be released on 25th December. The movie has been marketed extensively and Aamir has succeded in creating a buzz around it.

Recently a friend told me two interesting things about Ghajini.

The Aamir starer Ghajini is a remake of a superhit Tamil movie of the same name where the Tamil Actor Surya played the lead role. Interestingly, the same guy (Allu Arvind) – who directed the Tamil version – has also directed the Hindi remake. Even the actress (Asin)  is also the same. However, what is more interesting is the fact that even the Tamil Ghajini was also inspired from a Hollywood thriller ‘Memento’ . This Hollywood movie was so confusing to general public that in the opinion of most viewers, one needs to watch it at least twice to understand the entire movie.  The film has got some exceptional reviews which can be read here :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/

It is yet to be seen how the Hindi Ghajini will fare at the box office. Some comparisons are bound to be there.

The another interesting thing my friend told me was about an SMS which is going around for last few days.

“Someone killed Aamir’s girlfriend and he lost his memory. Then he tries to find out the killer. Suspense Aamir himself is the killer. Now enjoy ‘Ghajini’!” says the SMS.

Whether the SMS is true would only be clear once the film releases on Friday. It may be a publicity stunt from the film makers. But let me tell you that the original movie ‘Memento’ was considered as on of the top top 5 movies with the best twist endings.

So you can expect a surprise twising end of the Ghajini.

The verdit will be out in next few days.

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A few days ago a friend told me about a site where a report is being sold for $67. This report is claimed to have contained the secret of getting #1 ranking on MSN search engine for any keywords. For all of you who are not very tech savvy , let me tell you that MSN is the search engine of Microsoft and is the third most popular search engine in the world after Google and Yahoo.

It is also known as Live.com

So this guy is claiming to have known the ultimate secret to rank number one on Live.com for any keyword.

He is also showing his result in a Youtube video. See for yourself :

By the time this video first appear on Youtube (2nd November I think), this guy was ranking number one on MSN organic search results for the following keywords:

• Online Credit  (online-credit.org, now nowhere in the results)
• get rid of debt  (get-rid-of-debt.org, now at number 6)
• poor credit rating (poor-credit-rating.com, now nowhere in the results)
• reducing debt (reducing-debt.net, still number one)
• low mortgage (low-mortgage.org, now at number 3)
• bicycle accessories (bicycle-accessories.org, now nowhere in the results)
• debt assistance (debt-assistance.net, now at number 7)

You can check for your self by conducting a search in Live.com for the above keywords.

As you can see within a span of 10 days, most of his keywords have fallen from their number one position. However, this report is selling like hot cakes on Clickbank.com and has become the number one product in the Marketing & Ads category.

Just why on earth people are going crazy on a technique which can’t even withstand a period of 10 days ?

There are two answers for this question : Greed and frustration.

Greed because everybody wants to get the elusive number one spot on his desired keyword and make huge pile of cash. If you can secure a #3 spot out of 35,400,000 results for the keyword ‘low mortgage’, you can monetized this position in any way you want.

Frustration because it is becoming more and more difficult to rank on the first page of Google. The entire Search Engine industry revolves around getting top position in Google and it is difficult to get a top ranking in Google without following an intense  and systematic plan of link building and content creation. In such a scenario , if someone gives a recipe to rank in top 10 results of world’s third most popular search engine, it is going to create massive interest among people. No wonder this product is selling hot.

Now let us come to the report itself. I have read this report and I must say that it does contain some very unique method for attaining top position in MSN. However, I don’t think that the creator of the report can explain why some of his sites completely disappeared from the search engine result.

Second important thing about this report is that contrary to what has been claimed by the author, you can not rank your existing website for the desired keyword. One of the most important prerequisite of this technique is to have your domain name exactly the same as your keywords. For example see the above list, all keywords and their domain names are identical (reducing debt :  reducing-debt.net etc)

Apart from the above, there is a powerful link rotating suggestion in the report which keeps creating new links for your desired domain. I shall not reveal about this method as it will be disclosing too much info.

However, I think that this report is highly overpriced for the info it provides. All of you who have some experience of SEO must know that MSN’s search results are heavily favored towards domains name containing exact keywords in them. Let me show you this with an example.

Every month the keyword ‘Make money on internet’ is searched 1900 times (as exact search), 4400 time (as phrase search)  and 49500 times (as broad search) on Google.  Though most of this search are conducted on Google, assuming that some percentage of search on this keyword also comes to MSN, we should assume that there must be some competitive sites in the top 10 search results of MSN for this keyword.

However, if you search the keyword ‘make money on internet’ (without quotes), you will find that out of a total 154,000,000 results, the number 9 position is occupied by a website where not even a single article is written !!

Here is this site. Just a freshly installed WordPress blog !

So this is the situation of MSN. No wonder a guy finds a loophole to control MSN’s search engine results.

For all those who are interested in clicking that MSN loophole report click here

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I have become a big fan of Hostgator, one the internet’s leading web hosting companies.

If you are looking for a reliable, supportive and affordable web hosting company for hosting your website/blog, I strongly recommend you to go for Hostgator. Here is why I recommend them :

First of all a quick summary :

• They provide the facility of hosting multiple websites in a single hosting account for a very nominal fee. A big money saver!
• They have an excellent support team which respond to all questions in shortest time
• They have an always-on Live Support so that you can contact them anytime you want.
• They will shift your website to their hosting account free of cost no matter how big your website is.
• Their hosting servers are robust and reliable. Expect almost no downtime for your site.
• You can try them for one month for only 1 cent only by using their easily available promotional coupon !

Summary ends.

Let me now tell you in detail why I became such a huge fan of Hostgator.

My earlier experiences with my old hosting providers.

My first host was an Indian web hosting company based in Mumbai. They were charging me Rs. 1000 ($25) a year for a 25 MB web-hosting plan without any MySql database support. They did not have any control panel and I was allowed to access my files only through my ftp client. When I felt the need to install a blog on my website, they charged me additional Rs. 500/- ($12) for creating just one database (for installing Wordpress) on my site. They told me that for every subsequent database, I’ll have to shell out Rs. 500 each. What a rip off !

Since during those times, I was a complete novice and did not know much about web-hosting plans, I preferred to stay with them despite their being so costly. I was thought that in view of their location in India, I could easily talk to them on phone in case of an emergency without incurring huge International call charges which would be the case had I chosen an American hosting company.

However, my trust in them ended one day when their server crashed suddenly and my website went offline. After trying for many hours, I finally managed to contact their support team, which informed me that they had not backed up the files on their server! As a result I had to again upload my entire website on their server. During this chaos, my site remained absent from Internet for three days.

Even then, I continued to host my site on their servers as I was hoping that such incident would not occur in future.

However, the final blow came when I decided to add new sections to my website and requested them to increase webspace limit of my site. They asked me to shell out Rs. 250 for every additional increase of 25 MB. Though I was prepared to give them this amount, I noticed that even their highest hosting plan could provide only a maximum of 150 MB of webspace for any website (it is still the same!).

After making some queries with them regarding their various hosting plans, I finally realized that they were the reseller of a hosting company and their sole aim was to extract money from newbie webmasters like me by selling their high priced hosting plans. I decided to cancel my hosting subscription with them.

Then I opted for a new company based in Lucknow, India. This company was far better than the previous one. They had an excellent support team, regular backup facility and a range of affordable hosting plans. I purchased a $10 per month plan which gave me 2 GB webspace, 15 GB bandwidth, unlimited Mysql databases and a control panel. I was quite happy with this arrangement as this was an excellent deal as compare to my earlier host. Though I was paying 4 times more what I paid in a year to my earlier host, I was getting 80 times more webspace and unlimited databases. Further, first time I got the facility of point & click installation of various popular webscript such as (Wordpress & Joomla) to my website.

Except for some minor billing issues, my overall experience with this company remained satisfactory. They were very helpful and had a great support staff. I was planning to host all my subsequent websites on their servers. However, one day I got an email from them wherein I was informed that my website had exceeded its monthly limit of 15 GB bandwidth and I was asked to pay for more bandwidth. Clearly my website was getting popular day by day. They told me that their next plan costs $15 a month and I must buy it to ensure 24-hour online availability of my site.

Clearly I had only two choices. First one was to go ahead and purchase the $15 a month plan. The second option was to look for some reliable and affordable alternatives. Though $ 15 a month was not a big deal given the growing popularity of my site, in view of the fact that I had other websites also, I calculated that maintaining more than one website this way is going to be very costly in the long run.

However, finding a new webhost was also not that easy. My site, which had a total of 12,000 pages, was approximately 1.2 GB in size. Transferring so much data to a new server was itself a problem given 5-6 database scripts I was using. If I had to do it manually, it was going to take me many days.

Then I found …. the Hostgator.

One day while browsing the internet in search of a perfect host, I came across a blog post wherein the author had mentioned about this free facility Hostgator provides for transferring the entire site from old web host to their server. I promptly visited the Hostgator site to know more about it. Much to my surprise, a live support was available for answering all my pre-sales queries. I chatted with a Hostgator employee and asked him if it was true that they can shift an entire existing website to their server free of cost. He answered in affirmative.

Then as I read more about Hostgator’s hosting plans, I found that they allow hosting of unlimited websites on a single hosting plan. It simply meant that purchasing their one hosting plan would allow me to host all my existing websites on their servers. Given the cost I was incurring on hosting my websites in different hosting plans, it was going to be a big money saver for me. Finally I chose their $15 a month plan, which gave me unlimited hosting space and unlimited bandwidth along with the facility of hosting all my sites on their servers. All other facilities of control panel, unlimited database and emails were also there in the package.

The process of shifting my website to Hostgator’s server went smoothly. They asked me whether I want to transfer only some portion of my website or the entire website. When I told them that I want to transfer my entire website on their server, they just performed a full Cpanel transfer of my website to their server. As a result I continue to manage my website through its older control panel without any hassle as the entire Cpanel was now on their server. All this process took less than a day. Though I had to make some queries with them before I changed my domain’s nameservers, I never experienced any delay on their part in getting a response. My all questions were answered promptly and satisfactory.

After shifting my website to their server, I transferred my other websites also on the same hosting account. As of now, my all websites are working very smoothly and I am quite satisfied with the service Hostgator is providing. My sites has experienced 99.99 % uptime and there has been no problem whatsoever with their hosting plans. .

If you are thinking to host your website/blog on a new webhost, I strongly suggest you to go for Hostgator because :

(1) You’ll be able to host unlimited domain on a single hosting account.

(2) Their hosting plans are quite affordable and their minimum plan with unlimited domain hosting is for just $ 7.95 a month.

(3) They will transfer your entire website to their servers free of cost.

(4) You can test their service for as little as 1 cent only. Just enter any promotional coupon while registering and you’ll get first month discount. A great way to try their effectiveness J

(5) They have a 24 hour live support where you can chat with their representative on any matter related to their service (including pre-sell questions etc).

(6) They are one of the most reputed companies in web hosting business. They have their own brand image and they try very hard to maintain this good image. So keep expect an excellent service from them.

So here concludes my experience of using Hostgator web hosting service. As of now I am a huge fan of them and this post is my attempt to tell about their excellent service to all those who are looking for a reliable and economical host for their website/blog.

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Internet has presented a huge opportunity to people for making money online. Everyday millions of online transactions are taking place. People are buying all kinds of stuff online. This has resulted in an enormous online market for almost everything imaginable. Apart from big online stores like Amazon & Ebay which sell thousands and thousands of items in hundreds of categories, there is an emergence of relatively small websites that caters to only one particular niche. These specific websites are build around a particular niches and sells items related to the niche. For example, the site FamilyPet.com caters only to topics related to Pets and sell products related to pets.

Finding profitable niches and building websites around them has become one of the most trustworthy models for making money from Internet. The reason for calling it trustworthy is that by using right promotional strategies and developing a search engine friendly website, a niche related website can become a huge money-spinner.

If you have any interest in making money online and have ever indulged into searching about this topic, you must be aware of how much emphasis is given on finding a profitable niche before doing anything. I think finding a profitable subject for your website is the most important factor that’ll ultimately decided the ultimate fate of your website. If you choose a not profitable topic for your website, you are simply asking for trouble. There is no point wasting your time, money and energy on a venture that will not yield the desired fruit (money). So the first thing you should do towards building a profitable website is to find a profitable niche.

Now the question is how to find a profitable niche?

This actually is very simple. Just make some research and see what people are buying on net. If people are buying something on net, it shows that there is a market for such products. Few important places to research on what people are buying are :

1) Amazon New Releases : This will give you a list of all the new DVD’s, Music, Books, Toys, Apparel, and Video Games which are brand new and are likely to generate buzz in the days to come.

2) Amazon’s Hot Sellers : This will give you a list of all hot sellers which are being bought by products

3) Google Product Search On the home page there are 25 products that people have recently searched for on this site. It’ll give you a fair estimate of what is in demands online.

4) Magazines.com This is an amazing site for finding profitable niches. Magazines spend a lot of money testing what to put on the covers of their magazines. Further, if there is any magazine on a subject it means that there is a buying market for that product.

5) ClickBank.com : Clickbank is a marketplace for Digital products. Here you can make a search for the most popular products in each category which gives you a hint of what is selling on the net.

6) Finally please have a look at this video, which is made by a niche expert ‘Adam Short’. This guy conducts a niche marketing membership course in which he gives fist hand training to absolute newbies on establishing profitable web business on net in various profitable niche. Here, in this video watch him picking Hot Markets out of thin air’ while strolling down the 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica, California. It is a very interesting video that will provide you numerous ideas for profitable niches. See the video below by clicking on its image :

So here concludes my post on choosing a profitable topic for your website. I hope it’ll help you in taking the right decision as you build your web business.

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It will be a real shock if true i.e. if really comes from Google.

Recently I came across a small pdf file (download link in the end) which is being circulated as a leak document from Google internal training manual for ‘Quality Rater’. (The above is a screenshot from that report and the last line is underlined by me). It is not known whether it is a fake report or a real one. However, if it is a real report then it reveals interesting (and a bit shocking information) on the methodology being adopted by Google to rate the quality of its search results.

It appears that in its bid to outperform itself in search quality (there is no serious search competitor actually ) and to constantly improve the relevance of its search results Google is applying many innovative ways. Recruitment of Quality Raters, who are being trained to manually assess the quality of webpages that appears in search results for billions of queries generated everyday, is one such important step. Yes. they are actually recruiting Quality Raters.

Coming back to guidelines being imparted to these Quality Raters at Google, it seems that Google is very serious about filtering low quality content from its results and the guidelines provided to the Raters demonstrate it very clearly. There is a full detailed chapter on what Google perceives as Webspam. Explained with many real life examples, it clearly shows what in Google’s view a spam is. I have provided a link at the end of the post where you can download this whole report, but here for your convenience here is a list of web content considered as spam by Google :

• PPC Pages
• Parker Domains
• Thin Affiliates
• Hidden Text and Hidden Links
• JavaScript Redirects
• Keyword Stuffing
• 100% Frame
• Sneaky Redirects

If you are into some kind of web business on net, you can easily understand what the above methods are and how they are being used by black hat marketers to promote their sites. However, I am a bit shocked to find that the ‘Thin Affilaites’ has also been considered as a part of webspam by Google.

The ‘Thin affiliate’ is nothing but the traditional method of promoting products of other merchants using your affiliate links. It is a very normal thing and has become a part of web life. Anybody wanting to make money using affiliate programs will have to use the links/banners provided by the merchant to promote the products.

If this is considered a spam by Google then I think a huge majority of webmasters is at the mercy of Google’s Quality Raters who may stamp a page as spam just because of the presence of an affiliate link on it. In fact affiliate from ebay & Amazon have also come under the category of spammers (See screenshot above, page 42 of the report)

However, while considering affiliate links as webspam, Google has also given additional instruction to the Quality Raters that if a particular webpage offers some value (by means of original content, price comparison, product review etc) it should not be considered as spam.

What is the message for webmasters in it ?

Simple speaking : Please don’t build a webpage which is a collection of scrapped content, PPC ads and affiliate links. Sooner or later it will catch the attention of a Google Quality Rater who will stamp it as a webspam thus removing it from the search results.

Instead, build a quality rich, informative and original webpage which enhance the perception of your affiliate products to visitors. Do it by providing a honest review, a price comparison or any other piece of original content which make that webpage rich in quality. Once you do this, you can be assured of a place in Google Search result.

This also means that the days of copy/pasting just one text link/banner code of an affiliate product on your webpages are over. Now you need to get involve in the selling process by pre-selling the product. This is the only way to ensure the quality of your links. It is also indicative of a trend (which may start soon) of directly linking to the order page of a product by completely bypassing the merchant page. This method will ensure that the product appears to be your own product instead of belonging to some other party. This is a tricky issue though and many merchant will not be comfortable with it. However, if Google’s perception of considering an affiliate link as a webspam do not change, this will be the only way to save affiliate marketing industry.

As promised here is the direct download link for that leaked report on ‘Google’s guidelines for Quality Raters’. It is a pdf direct download. And let me clarify once again its authenticity is yet to be verified.

Google’s guidelines for Quality Raters’

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If you have spent some time on Internet you must have heard about this three letters word : RSS. If you already don’t know about this useful tool for efficiently browsing the web, here is a simple introductory article which will explain everything you need to know about RSS .

OK let’s start !

What is RSS anyway ?

RSS is an acronym for : Really Simple Syndication

It is also known as : Rich Site Summary

Some people also called it : Really Simple Subscribing.

In simplest terms,

“RSS is a simple and efficient way to keep in touch with a website without actually visiting it “

Yes. To keep in touch without actually visiting !

Now what does that mean ?

Let us understand it by an example.

Suppose you are planning to set up a small garden in your house and you are in need of good information on gardening. You search the Internet for some good websites on gardening and come across a nice website with excellent contents on gardening. You find that this website has a huge collection of Gardening tips such as : How to choose the best saplings, best gardening tools, places to buy good composts, water schedule in different seasons and precautions in Gardening etc.

You realize that this informative website is filled up with so much useful information on gardening that it is impossible for you to read all the information in one sitting. So what will you do?

If you are web savvy, you will simply add the site to your favorite folder. You will bookmark the site so that you can read it later whenever you want.

Adding a website to your Favorite (in Internet Explorer) or Bookmark (in Mozilla Firefox) folder is the most preferred method to revisit a website for future reference.

However, this excellent method has some flaws in it. Extending the same example of Gardening tips websites, suppose, instead of just one website, you came across five or six excellent websites on gardening and you want to read all of them. The only solution is to add all these websites in your favorite folder so that you can select and read these websites one by one from your browser’s favorite folder. Right?

However, as you read these websites on gardening, you will find that many of these websites keep adding new articles and tips about gardening on regular basis. So in order to keep in touch with all the latest additions on these websites, you will have to visit them regularly through your favorite folder.

However, as you regularly visit these websites, you’ll also find that not all of them get updated daily. Most of them follow an infrequent updating schedule; some are updated in 2-3 days, some in 4-5 days and some on weekly/monthly basis. As all these websites are updated by their owners depending upon their own convenience, it is not possible to know exactly when a site will be updated. So you are left with no choice but to check these websites daily by actually visiting them in your browser.

Well, if you are passionate about Gardening and have lots of free time, you can afford to actually visit these important websites on Gardening on daily basis. However, practically this approach is not always possible.

What if, in addition to Gardening, you are also passionate about Home Decoration, Fishing and Muscle-Building? Can you really afford to visit all your favorites websites on Gardening, Home Decoration, Fishing & Muscle Building daily and keep track of their latest updates? Though it is always possible to do this, practical realities of life do not allow so much browsing time to most of us. We all are busy in our lives and, owing to time constraints, it is not possible to keep a track of all our favorite websites on daily basis by actually visiting them in our browser.

So what is the solution?

One solution is to subscribe to the newsletters of these websites. You must be aware that many websites publish a weekly e-zine or newsletter that contains a summary of all the latest updates made on the website .

This newsletter is sent to the subscribers on daily/weekly basis. This newsletter can be subscribed by readers using an opt-in form and every subscriber gets a copy of the newsletter in his email. So if you subscribe to the newsletter of the websites of your choice related to Gardening, Home Decoration, Fishing & Muscle Building, you can be in touch with the latest updates on these websites through their newsletter. This method is much better than daily visiting the websites using the favorite folder of your browser. As you need to check only your inbox, this results in a quick reading of all the updates.

Subscribing to newsletters/e-zines of your favorite websites is an excellent way to keep abreast with the latest updates on them. However, this method also has some flaws which can make it a bit complicated & annoying in the long run.

First of all you have to disclose your email address to the website owners for subscribing to their list. Though in a majority of the cases, the email is not disclosed to third parties, you never know when and how your email can reach to spammers which may flood your inbox with shit. The element of email misuse is always there when subscribing to a newsletter.

Secondly, as you keep subscribing to newsletters of your favorite websites, slowly you will realize that everyday your inbox is getting filled up with emails from these websites and it is taking a substantial part of your time to segregate the mails that really matters. If you are a professional and work online, a constant flood of regular emails even from your favorite websites will soon starts irritating you. Further, the task of opening every email, reading it, deleting it or shifting it to another folder will be a time consuming process in itself. If you subscribe to a list of more than 10 newsletters, you will always be involved in managing your emails. Further, if you take a break from your online activity for some time (say to spend your vacation), you should be ready to find an overfilled inbox of unread emails when you return.

In short, subscribing to newsletters of your favorite websites can also become an unmanageable task.

So is there any solution to be in touch with your favorite websites in an efficient and time-saving manner ?

Here comes the RSS.

The solution to the problems being faced by regular readers of a website in keeping abreast with its latest activities lies in a powerful technical facility known as RSS.

What actually happens in RSS is that whenever a website updates itself by means of producing an article/news item, it simultaneously produces a document that contains in itself the summary of all the updates made on the website. This document is in the form of an XML document. The ‘XML’ is a specialized language of web (similar to HTML language) which can be accessed by specialized softwares (knows as RSS Readers) that reproduce it in a readable language for the end user. The summary of the updates written on the XML document is known as a ‘Feed’. This XML document usually has an .xml extension.

So whenever somebody wants to keep in touch with the latest updates being made on a website he simply subscribed to its RSS feed. Subscribing to an RSS feed is as simple as copy & paste. You just need to copy the address of the RSS feed of your favorite website in your RSS reader. Now whenever you want to know whether any new updates has been made on a website, you only need to check it’s RSS feed in your RSS reader. If there have been any update, the same will be reflected in the feed. Simple

This way you can easily know whether a website/blog is being updated or not without actually visiting it.

RSS has some very significant advantages over the other two methods of keeping in touch with a website (i.e adding a site in the favorite folder or subscribing to its newsletter). You don’t have to save the file in your browser’s favorite folder and visit it regularly to check any new updates. As and when the site is updated, you can read it in the RSS reader. Further, you don’t have to disclose your email address to subscribe to the ezine of the site/blog. You only need to add the address of the RSS feed in your RSS reader. This ensures that you’ll never need to worry about receiving unsolicited mails in your inbox.

Let me elaborate now a bit on how to use an RSS reader. As I already explained above, an RSS Reader is a specialized software which interprets the RSS feed (written in XML language) and present it in a readable form to end user. Though there have been many online/offline RSS reader available, one of the best RSS readers is Google Reader which is fast, free and extremely reliable. There is nothing to download as the Google Reader is online. You only need a free Google account to use their reader. Just go to Google.com/reader, login into your account and add your favorite feeds. After adding the RSS feed, you will be able to read them in the reader easily. They will be listed in the form of a list just like emails in your inbox.

Alternatively here are two excellent offline RSS software which you can download and installed in your computer :

Alnera Feed Buster ( Paid $19.95)

RSS Reader (Free)

Currently a majority of all websites/blogs are coming up with their RSS feeds. If a website is not publishing its RSS feed, by all yardsticks, it is going to be obsolete very soon as RSS is slowly taking a center stage in the ways people surf the net. Everyday more and more are people are choosing RSS as their preferred way of surfing the net. And why not ? It is such a great time saver and helps us browse so many websites so quickly.

Almost all the blogging platforms of today (like Wordpress, Movable Type etc) have an inbuilt feature of creating an RSS feed automatically every time the blog is updated. So the blogger does not require to create an RSS feed separately for his blog. He only needs to keep blogging as always and the feed will be created on its own.

How to find the address of any RSS feed ?

If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed of a blog, look for the following orange icon :

This orange icon has become the standard symbol of RSS and whenever someone needs to subscribe to the RSS feed of a blog/website, he only need to click on this icon to find the feed address.

For your kind information the RSS feed of this blog is :

http://feeds.feedburner.com/theindianblogger

Initially, reading various websites through their RSS feed in an RSS reader may appear a little odd to you. However, as your regularly use your reader, you’ll find that it is the fastest and the easiest method to keep in touch with your favorite websites/blogs. In our ever increasing busy life, RSS is a big time saver. If you are a heavy net surfer, you’ll soon be addicted to your reader.

So here was my attempt to explain the concept of RSS in a simple language. I think this is all you should know to have a general idea of what RSS is all about. I have refrained from explaining the technical details of RSS as I don’t think you need to know every internal part of a Car to drive it.

I would love to have your suggestions/comments on this explanation. If there is anything which needs more explanation or something which I have not covered here, feel free to mention that in your comments.

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If any one of you is using Gmail as your email account (in addition to Yahoo etc), then please read this true story about a security hole in Gmail which may lead to some very serious problem if you ever send/receive any password related information through Gmail.

The website of a guy was hijacked by a hacker who controlled his Gmail account. Though it appears that this security hole is fixed by Google now, you never knows what can happen

Read here :

WARNING: Google’s GMail security failure leaves my business sabotaged

How he got his domain back : Read here

Read about : Gmail Hack technique

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By Titus Hoskins (c) 2007

If you’re like most webmasters, you have probably spent years building your site. You have spent years adding content, building links and cultivating traffíc – but how well do you really know your website?

How well do you know the intricate details of your website’s traffíc? Where do your site’s visitors come from? How long do they stay on your site? Just where do they go to on your site and how well do they convert into buyers or subscribers?

Do you know your site’s rankings in the major search engines? What are your site’s top keywords? What’s your site’s Google PageRank? Who are your IP neighbors? What your site looks like in other browsers? How much is your site worth?

These are just some of the questions you should know, mainly because the more knowledge you possess about your site, the better equipped you will be at improving it. So here’s a simple líst of free site checking tools/sites that will let you “Big Brother” (monitor and watch) your site.

1. Google Analytics

Perhaps one of the most helpful analytical tools you can use on your site. Google Analytics will give you a wealth of information about your site’s traffíc. Where it comes from, how long it stays on your site, where it goes on your site, how well your content converts… invaluable information every webmaster should have in their possession.

2. NetMechanic Toolbox

Review your site’s mechanics – find broken links, test browser compatibility, find bad HTML code, spot slow-loading pages, and review your spelling… all by using the NetMechanic Toolbox.

3. Keyword Suggestion Tool

This free keyword suggestion tool will tell you how many searches are done in WordTracker and Overture for your site’s keywords. Extremely valuable information since much of the web’s traffíc and ecommerce is keyword driven.

4. Iwebtool

This is another free site which offers many valuable webmaster’s tools that will give you information about your/any site. Google PageRank, PageRank Prediction, Link Popularity, Search Engine Positions for Keywords, Backlink Checker… also Visual PageRank where you can see all the PR values of all the links on a given page – both internal and external.

5. Alexa Traffic Rankings

Alexa tracks the web’s traffíc by using the Alexa bar in a surfer’s browser. Most people know it is not an accurate assessment of the traffíc on the net but it is a handy measuring stick, nonetheless. It is also a handy tool for comparing sites and seeing the long-tern traffíc trends of different sites, including your own.

6. Your Site’s Traffic Logs

Most webmasters know your raw traffíc logs are worth checking and reading. They contain valuable information about your site. Especially helpful, if you’re checking for broken links on your site, you don’t want to see those 302’s everywhere. Close examination and regular checking of your traffíc logs and stats will point out the profitable keywords on your site.

7. BetterWhois

You can use this site to find out the domain information about your site. Do you have control of your domain? Many webmasters buy their domain name thru their web hostíng company. While this is not a problem in itself, if any dispute should arise, who has administrative control of your domain; you or your hostíng company? Can you change hosting companies?

8. Google Alerts

Another valuable tool from Google which notifies you by email when your link or site is found anywhere on the web. Great for keeping track of any new links your site is getting. Many webmasters also use this handy tool to keep track of their competitors’ sites. They also use Google Alerts to keep track of whenever their own name is mentioned anywhere on the web. This one would even make Orwell proud.

9. IP Neighbors

Many webmasters have their site hosted on shared hostíng plans, which means there can be hundreds of sites sharing the same IP address. This site lets you discover who your IP neighbors are. Why would you want to know your IP neighbors? Well like neighbors everywhere; there are good ones and there are bad ones. For example, if you have a neighboring site that uses email to sp@m, it could get your IP address blocked or shut down.

10. Any Browser

Use to this handy site to discover what your site looks like in different browsers; you could be in for a real shock.

11. Google Toolbar

The Google Toolbar can be placed on your browser so that when you’re surfing you can see the Google PageRank of each page/site you’re visiting. Many SEO experts believe Google is not giving us the true PR of a page and this bar is rather useless. However, like the Alexa rankings it is a handy measuring stick, nonetheless.

12. What Is Your Site Worth?

Please take this last analyzing tool with “a large grain of salt”, but it is fun to use and to see how much your site is worth. Measurement here is done largely by the amount of links you have coming into your site.

In conclusion, all of these free handy tools/sites will give you a better, more complete picture of your own site. Remember, the more knowledge you acquire about your own site and your competitors’ sites, the more equipped you will be to succeed. This is one case where being a “Big Brother” can truly benefit your site.

About The Author
The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites, including two sites on Internet marketing. For the latest and most effective web marketing tools try: BizwareMagic.com . Or why not try these excellent free training manuals and videos. 2007 Titus Hoskins.

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