How google helps you screw google!
Absolutely! I am not drunk, and neither are you! Google literally helps us to screw Google on the searches! Google actually lets you add your URL or Uniform Resource Locator on to their index so that anybody who makes searches that are relevant to your site and your site's content will be lead straight on to your site! So that means not only added traffic, but higher page rankings, better business, and a much better web site! This makes for much better and easier SEO!
The web site could be a blog or anything for that matter. Sub-domains are not a problem.
How does Indexing on Google Work?
The way it works is, google crawls and indexes all the new content and pages it sees every time it does. This means Google's GoogleBot actually updates it's archives of the internet every time it makes a "crawl". This is the only way Google will survive, because if they don't do this, their most relevant searches will be unanswered or will turn out absolutely irrelevant results.
So that means relevant results came for the 7-11 terror attacks on the net on 8-11 only because Google Bot crawled the web in between that time! Doesn't Google make Search Engine Optimization look so easy? Its like they offer all the tools, and if you're well informed about them , you are the SEO expert!
Will all sites added be indexed by Google?
This is a very interesting question. But according to Google, as they mention on their site, they do not add ALL URL s on their Google index. This is primarily because of robots, that are designed to spam the Google index with URL s. So Google devises its own clever mechanism to detect such spam frauds and eliminate such impostors and spammer sites. However, we can be confident that sites like your's and mine will be indexed successfully by the Google Bot without any hassles or problems at all! This is because of the usual but simple and strong word verification that Google relies upon so much to detract spammers and robots!
How fast does it take?
This depends on the Google Bots crawl timings. You can conceive the Google Bot as a man who takes his dog for a walk, on the internet. You really can't predict when he might go out for the walk He might take him out when the dog wants to pee, or when he feels like getting some fresh air himself!
But the Google Bot crawls pretty often, and crawls deep when it does so, so any minute and minuscule sties will also appear on the index within a few days of submission!
However, Google again plays safe by saying there is no specific time frame and they refuse to commit to anything!
How do i index my web site on Google?
GO to this URL.
http://www.google.com/addurl/
Enter the URL of your web site in FULL in the space provided.This includes http:?? and www for most sites.
for my blog, it would be :
http://www.techmechanic.blogspot.com
There is an option to add a few comments and keywords that describe your website or blog or whatever. This is important, I feel so at least. Google claims that they do not use this and these do not affect the search queries or results, but I prefer being safe!
Remember, you need to add the main page's URL only. The Google Bot will crawl through the sub pages of the site and index them automatically. So this makes SEO life a lot more easier!
Thats abou it for this SEO update folks. I'd advise you to keep looking out for SEO posts on my blog, so taht you can implement them and increse the rankings of your blog or increase your web stie rankings on google and yahoo and other search engines as well.
Cheers,
The Techmechanic...!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Engineering, higher education and the rest of the train...
Hi all,
Back again after quite some time huh.
Anyways, what's all the hype going on about higher studies?
Here's how it actually goes:
With a basic engineering degree, a B.Tech or a B.E , one has a fairly basic and convincing idea about the course and the subject that they learn in it. So a Mechanical Engineer , in his Bachelor course , will get a good picture about what he likes,as most fields of engineering , offered in Bachelors, are still very wide and diversified in their subjects and course structures. He will be taught subjects and lessons regarding automobiles,design, engines, heat transfer and heat flow, fluid mechanics, mechanics of solids, gas dynamics, air conditioning, refrigeration, cryogenics,alternative energy, nuclear energy, solar power, gas turbines, compressible flow, Metallurgy, manufacturing technology, machine tools, Metrology and a host of other subjects that may encapsulate Design, manufacturing and production.
He may be interested in theoretical subjects, like metallurgy, Manufacturing Technology, Machine tools, or Metal Casting and Forming. Or he may be more of an analytical person and may like subjects like compressible flow,solid mechanics,fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, aerodynamics, cryogenics, thermal engineering, heat transfer, etc. But since the system is not very flexible at the grass root level, and most colleges and universities prefer that students get to see all facades of their course and gain basic knowledge in all branches of their field, a Bachelor of Engineering or a Bachelor of Technology is made to learn a majority of these subjects and his choices of subjects are restricted to a smaller number.
However,once he has finished his course, he may get a clearer idea about what he might want to pursue as his career. But unfortunately, he does not know enough of his favorite subjects. Hence,in order to learn more and expand his knowledge and abilities in his area of interest, he takes up available opportunities like his bank(for a study loan) or his fathers bank(again, for a study loan)and applies to universities abroad or within the country to get a Master's degree on the subject. Thus our man is now a Master on the subject and can handle anything flung on him from a Bachelor effortlessly or with some thought. He now knows more in his specific field and can apply his knowledge in a variety of methods, and is confident of what he knows in that field. Now this man may have an invention or idea in mind , or may think that there is still a lot left unaccomplished in this field, or may still have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge in a further sub category in this field.And now, after paying off the bank, our man gets up and goes ahead to tackle the PhD, or the Doctorate course in his area of interest, which is a smaller section of his area of expertise, which in turn is a section of the field of engineering. So our man learns more and more, and once all of it is exhausted, gets ready to find out something new, and researches his own project and presents papers on his findings in international journals to prove that he has contributed to the area of super expertise. Then his work is reviewed by a committee and they decide on the fate of our man,after agitating him with questions and verbally and practically testing and verifying his knowledge, and his findings. Then they ward him a Research degree and his doctorate and our man is now one of the highest on the rung of knowledge of the ladder that constitutes his tiny field. He now finally sits down and selects which company(yes, selects!) and choose one where he will teach more bachelors and masters of engineering, and will encourage them to become like him, a researcher and academician and scholar. Thus the cycle goes on and on, and science seems to be improving only for the case of fatter salaries and pay packages and social respect and esteem. People are more interested if G.E. or Mercedes will recruit them, or if they end up working with N.A.S.A, or some other high five multinational company or organization that hits the headlines every time their CEO farts or their management takes a hike or their product fails miserably in the market, but they suddenly make a comeback with "amazing new technology"... It is pretty pathetic that nobody learns and studies for their thirst for knowledge or for self satisfaction.Alas, man has made a slut of science as well.
As my prof said, "higher studies is where you learn more and more about less and less, and finally you know everything about nothing!!!"
HOW TRUE!!
Cheers,
Techmechanic !
Back again after quite some time huh.
Anyways, what's all the hype going on about higher studies?
Here's how it actually goes:
With a basic engineering degree, a B.Tech or a B.E , one has a fairly basic and convincing idea about the course and the subject that they learn in it. So a Mechanical Engineer , in his Bachelor course , will get a good picture about what he likes,as most fields of engineering , offered in Bachelors, are still very wide and diversified in their subjects and course structures. He will be taught subjects and lessons regarding automobiles,design, engines, heat transfer and heat flow, fluid mechanics, mechanics of solids, gas dynamics, air conditioning, refrigeration, cryogenics,alternative energy, nuclear energy, solar power, gas turbines, compressible flow, Metallurgy, manufacturing technology, machine tools, Metrology and a host of other subjects that may encapsulate Design, manufacturing and production.
He may be interested in theoretical subjects, like metallurgy, Manufacturing Technology, Machine tools, or Metal Casting and Forming. Or he may be more of an analytical person and may like subjects like compressible flow,solid mechanics,fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, aerodynamics, cryogenics, thermal engineering, heat transfer, etc. But since the system is not very flexible at the grass root level, and most colleges and universities prefer that students get to see all facades of their course and gain basic knowledge in all branches of their field, a Bachelor of Engineering or a Bachelor of Technology is made to learn a majority of these subjects and his choices of subjects are restricted to a smaller number.
However,once he has finished his course, he may get a clearer idea about what he might want to pursue as his career. But unfortunately, he does not know enough of his favorite subjects. Hence,in order to learn more and expand his knowledge and abilities in his area of interest, he takes up available opportunities like his bank(for a study loan) or his fathers bank(again, for a study loan)and applies to universities abroad or within the country to get a Master's degree on the subject. Thus our man is now a Master on the subject and can handle anything flung on him from a Bachelor effortlessly or with some thought. He now knows more in his specific field and can apply his knowledge in a variety of methods, and is confident of what he knows in that field. Now this man may have an invention or idea in mind , or may think that there is still a lot left unaccomplished in this field, or may still have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge in a further sub category in this field.And now, after paying off the bank, our man gets up and goes ahead to tackle the PhD, or the Doctorate course in his area of interest, which is a smaller section of his area of expertise, which in turn is a section of the field of engineering. So our man learns more and more, and once all of it is exhausted, gets ready to find out something new, and researches his own project and presents papers on his findings in international journals to prove that he has contributed to the area of super expertise. Then his work is reviewed by a committee and they decide on the fate of our man,after agitating him with questions and verbally and practically testing and verifying his knowledge, and his findings. Then they ward him a Research degree and his doctorate and our man is now one of the highest on the rung of knowledge of the ladder that constitutes his tiny field. He now finally sits down and selects which company(yes, selects!) and choose one where he will teach more bachelors and masters of engineering, and will encourage them to become like him, a researcher and academician and scholar. Thus the cycle goes on and on, and science seems to be improving only for the case of fatter salaries and pay packages and social respect and esteem. People are more interested if G.E. or Mercedes will recruit them, or if they end up working with N.A.S.A, or some other high five multinational company or organization that hits the headlines every time their CEO farts or their management takes a hike or their product fails miserably in the market, but they suddenly make a comeback with "amazing new technology"... It is pretty pathetic that nobody learns and studies for their thirst for knowledge or for self satisfaction.Alas, man has made a slut of science as well.
As my prof said, "higher studies is where you learn more and more about less and less, and finally you know everything about nothing!!!"
HOW TRUE!!
Cheers,
Techmechanic !
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Talking to yourself- Not quite!
Hi all!
How many of you folks out there talk to yourself? Believe it or not, this may happen knowingly or unknowingly, and this usually happens when the thinking is so hard that you tend to become unconscious of your surroundings. Another fact is that many accidents and mishaps take place because of this habit!
Here's one that i did myself today. Don't know if you could actually call this self talking, but where do i put talking with inanimate objects???
Scene: I get out of rickety bus, hodge podge and five steps out on the road when-KRACK bOOOM!
(raining like crazy)
So I start running like crazy- until i realise i need cash- so there i run into my ICICI ATM . SO i enter in and this wierd habit of talknig to the spy camera in the ATM comes up.
Me: Heyyyy! looks like I've been seeing you too often these days. Do you still ahve my money?
ATM:Please enter pin..
Me: (while entering pin) Why should i enter a pin? You like getting poked??
ATM:Please enter you transaction choice...
Me: ......
ATM: enter the amount...
ME: punch punch punch in the numbers..
ATM:Please wait while we process your transaction..
ME: You are asking me to wait? It's freaking raining outside, and I must wait for a mute machine to "process the transaction"
ATM:Network error.Try again later.
Me: F*@#cking Machine.
(After one smoke and 15 minutes later)
Me:You dumb f*@#$ing machine, playing politics huh?
ATM: enter pin..
Me:you wish..(entering pin)
ATM:ENTER amount..
Me: punch punch upunch in the numbers..
ATM:please wait while we process your transaction..
Me: you better gimme my money this time. I will kill you(make a killing motion to the camera) and take all your money dammit! I will eliminate you! I will break your screen and use your buttons as scrabble pieces.
ATM:Please collect cash .
Me:THanks!gtg..bye!
People can be stupid- Even the techmechanic. But so can machines. including ICICI ATMs.
Cheers,
Techmechanic
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Science & Engineering: How raped our basics are..
Hi all,
There I was today, at Thermal Engineering class, and was sitting at the first bench, surprisingly paying attention to every uttered word (I desperately need better grades, and My Prof.(he's a genius, but sadly not the mad scientist types.That would have been cooler.) was just getting into the concepts of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. So there he was lecturing about what tonnage actually is and what they mean by a one tonne capacity of air conditioners.
It kinda went along like this>>>>>>>
One tonne capacity of an air conditioner would mean that the amount of energy required to convert one tonne of ice at zero dergrees to water at the same temperature.
!#$%!#%%^ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIPPPPP!#$!#%#%13
I awake immediately.."something wrong with this goddamit! "
q...3253125..@%24 ...352^&
(now that's me furiously thinking about what was wrong)
So i finally consult my buddies behind me and stop my Prof and ask him:
"Excuse me, but does the water, after melting from ice, still weighone tonne or does it weigh more or less? Shouldn't there be a difference in the weight because of the breakage in the intermolecular bond stuff? "
:) :) :) :) :) :)
(now that's me thinking I am very intelligent)
Until...
"No ! What's wrong with you today? Did you sleep enough last night? You seem to have lost it"
me thinking(with an open mouth):Huh??WTF?
Prof: "Law of conservation of mass man!"
Me: Errr...
Prof: "OK What weighs more? One kg of Steel or 1 kg of cotton"
A brief pause and me:"err they are both one kg right? It's the same"
Prof: "Yeah so what is your problem now? trouble cleared?"
Me thinking: Thank god I said it right..
Me: "Err...okay what about the weight???"
Me thinking:(Gotcha now sucker...)
Prof: "Fellow, Ice has the same weight as water even after melting.What is Weight?"
Me: "Err.."
Some Random SMart ass in class: " Mass into Acceleration Sir"
Me thinking :" Have i been saying "err " too much?
Prof : "Exactly , so even weight will be the same"
Me (now desperate): "But sir isn't tonne a unit of weight?"
Prof: "Man, tonne is a unit f mass like kilogram is"
Me:"aaaaaaaaaaah..."
Me thinking:Then why the hell did the newspaper say "the boat that capsized had cargo that weighed one tonne"....Idiots..
All Random Smart Asses In Class: HAHAHHAHAHHAHHA
........
Doesnt this make you think folks? Of course I admit I was a bit confused because of the intermolecular forces and stuff. So i didn't get it right. But I should have, atleast when he said "law of conservation of mass" ! Because the ice doesn't have any mass added to it or removed from it, so how can it's weight increase?
But this was the cake of it.
A friend of mine quickly ran out of class and asked another would-be mechanical enginner "what is heavier? one kg of Iron or one kg of Cotton?"
The intelligent soul actually said the iron would be heavier and more specifically
"why are you irritating me with such simple questions"
All I'm trying to say here is, what the hell is giong on with our basics? Where have they been raped? Why is it that I know the Law of Conservation of mass, but yet I still don't KNOW it??
Somewhere our education is being raped....WHERE????
Mr.Feynman..are you looking???
Cheers,
The Techmechanic....
Feel free to comment please :)
There I was today, at Thermal Engineering class, and was sitting at the first bench, surprisingly paying attention to every uttered word (I desperately need better grades, and My Prof.(he's a genius, but sadly not the mad scientist types.That would have been cooler.) was just getting into the concepts of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. So there he was lecturing about what tonnage actually is and what they mean by a one tonne capacity of air conditioners.
It kinda went along like this>>>>>>>
One tonne capacity of an air conditioner would mean that the amount of energy required to convert one tonne of ice at zero dergrees to water at the same temperature.
!#$%!#%%^ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZIPPPPP!#$!#%#%13
I awake immediately.."something wrong with this goddamit! "
q...3253125..@%24 ...352^&
(now that's me furiously thinking about what was wrong)
So i finally consult my buddies behind me and stop my Prof and ask him:
"Excuse me, but does the water, after melting from ice, still weighone tonne or does it weigh more or less? Shouldn't there be a difference in the weight because of the breakage in the intermolecular bond stuff? "
:) :) :) :) :) :)
(now that's me thinking I am very intelligent)
Until...
"No ! What's wrong with you today? Did you sleep enough last night? You seem to have lost it"
me thinking(with an open mouth):Huh??WTF?
Prof: "Law of conservation of mass man!"
Me: Errr...
Prof: "OK What weighs more? One kg of Steel or 1 kg of cotton"
A brief pause and me:"err they are both one kg right? It's the same"
Prof: "Yeah so what is your problem now? trouble cleared?"
Me thinking: Thank god I said it right..
Me: "Err...okay what about the weight???"
Me thinking:(Gotcha now sucker...)
Prof: "Fellow, Ice has the same weight as water even after melting.What is Weight?"
Me: "Err.."
Some Random SMart ass in class: " Mass into Acceleration Sir"
Me thinking :" Have i been saying "err " too much?
Prof : "Exactly , so even weight will be the same"
Me (now desperate): "But sir isn't tonne a unit of weight?"
Prof: "Man, tonne is a unit f mass like kilogram is"
Me:"aaaaaaaaaaah..."
Me thinking:Then why the hell did the newspaper say "the boat that capsized had cargo that weighed one tonne"....Idiots..
All Random Smart Asses In Class: HAHAHHAHAHHAHHA
........
Doesnt this make you think folks? Of course I admit I was a bit confused because of the intermolecular forces and stuff. So i didn't get it right. But I should have, atleast when he said "law of conservation of mass" ! Because the ice doesn't have any mass added to it or removed from it, so how can it's weight increase?
But this was the cake of it.
A friend of mine quickly ran out of class and asked another would-be mechanical enginner "what is heavier? one kg of Iron or one kg of Cotton?"
The intelligent soul actually said the iron would be heavier and more specifically
"why are you irritating me with such simple questions"
All I'm trying to say here is, what the hell is giong on with our basics? Where have they been raped? Why is it that I know the Law of Conservation of mass, but yet I still don't KNOW it??
Somewhere our education is being raped....WHERE????
Mr.Feynman..are you looking???
Cheers,
The Techmechanic....
Feel free to comment please :)
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Japanese Does the trick!
Well, hi again..
However awkward this may look(for reasons un known to me) this blog post is going to help you learn the little Japanese taht i have learnt from my Japanese classes at college, which by the way is still going on. Tomoki Nakamora seems to be quite the crazy, nut job Jap when it comes to teching the subject, be it dancing in class, pronouncing "blue" as "brue", or "village" as :
1."Billage"
2."Biyatch"(yes i was shocked when i thought he said that in class !)
3."Biredge"
So here we go. I am going to list out a few basic phrases to be pronounced phonetically . I don't have Japanese scrpits yet, so you will have to do with conversatinal Japanese for now atelast!
*Hello
*Kongnichiwa (pronounced conn-nee-chee-waa)
*good morning
*Ohaiyo (oh- haie-yo!)
This is for friends and people of similar age.
*good morning (with respect)
*Ohaiyogozaimaas (oh-haie-yo! go-zaie-maas) -you will have to say this pretty quickly so that they understand that it is one word. Otherwise be prepared to look like a retard that thinks he knows Japanese.
*coffee
*Koohi (koo-hee)
*park
*Kanou(kaan-nou)
*Where is the park?
*Kanou was kan desh ka? (Kaan-nou waa kaan they-sh kaa?)
*What is your name?
*Anatono namaei wa kan desh ka?
(a-naa-ta-no naa-maie waa kaan they-sh kaa ?)
*My name is ______ .
*watashi no namaei wa ____ desh.
(waa-ta-shi-no naa-maei waa #your name here# they-sh!)
*I am ________.
(waa-ta-shi waa #your name here# they-sh.)
*right(sense of direction)
mi si
(mee- see)
*left(sense of direction)
hidari
(hee-daa-ree)
*tomorrow
*ashita
(ash-taa)
*today
*Kyou
(ky-ohh)
*Day before yesterday
*ototoi
(oh-toh-toie)
*friend
*tomogachi
(toh-moh-gah-chee)
*Nice to meet you.
*hah jee meh mosh te.
(hah -jee -meh- mosh- teh)
And just in case you see pretty Japanese girls like the one's in this pic here :P , you can always go out and confidently say
*anata wa utsukushii des!
(a-naa-taa waa oot-soo-kooshy desh!)
which would in turn mean" you are very beautiful / attractive " in Japanese!
Well, i suppose this is good enough for those who have no clue about the language for now. I do know a bit more, and can converse a teeny weeny bit fluently , but I want to save that for later.
So that's about ti for now folks.
See you later
*Bye bye
*Sayonara
(sai-yoh-na-ra ! )
Cheers!
Techmechanic ...
Sunday, March 2, 2008
SEO : High Rankings on Google
Hi Folks!
Well, here we go..
This is my first technical post, or post taht is actually relevant to what this blog is about, so any criticism/hate mail/sarcasm/abuse and maybe a tiny, teeny bit of apprectiation would be absolutely welcomed :) !
Lets get down to business now..
What the HELL is SEO? Why is everybody talking about it?
And why the HELL am i blogging about it?
Well, the answers, are not simple, but i will try my best none the less.
SEo is an acronym for Search Engine Optimisation, and Search Engine Optimisation is the technique by which a company/person will help a wesite or another company to get their site ranked higher on the two of the workds biggest search engine competitors: Google and Yahoo!
Why should a site be ranked higher on search engines?
Let's imagine that someone, say Calvin, has started his blog. Let's say he's writing about motor bikes. He has finished about 15-20 posts on different motorbikes, but mostly on what his experiences were with each motor bike. Now Calvin has put up some adverts on his blog, and has also advertised his own special bike fitting, a small invention he came up with.
He does a google search for motorbikes, and cannot even find his blog. So this means, some one who ahs no idea of who he is and what his blog is about, will probably never ever land up there, and will never figure out his cool invention, will never see his advertisers messages or his own adverts, and thus Calvin will never earn money or gain exposure.
Now if Calvin decides to get some serious SEO done on his blog, then over the next few weeks, Calvin finds his blog is indexed on Google and Yahoo! , his blog now comes up in specific and even wide range searches, and thus, there is an increased probability that someone from Japan who has no idea about him will land up on his blog!!
SEO is the future of the internet's role in Marketing, advertising and Business Development.
The world is headed towards outsourcing and large scale project completion at cheap costs and short time frames. A site with a good SEO will therefore be the first choice for anyone who searches for anything on the search engines. If their site is impressive enough, they will get customers!
How does Calvin implement SEO in his blog??
Actually, there are a variety of ways in which Calvin could get his site optimised for motorbikes.
First of all, he could do a keyword search for motor bikes and see who his competitors are...
You can analyse what the others on top have done and get a basic idea of what content you need to put up.
Next, Calvin can make his page rich with pictures, but not too much, so that he may hit the image searchers as well. About three pictures of specific motorbikes can do the trick over 6-7 posts. Remember, each picture has a filename, and google's google bot includes the filename int he search as well. So if Calvin's blog has a picture of a Triumph motorbike, but Calvin hasn't even mentioned it anywhere on his blog, not even once, google will still show Calvin's blog on the results. So be smart while choosing your pictures!
Backlinking~~!!
Backlinking is one of the coolest algorithms that google has devised to rank web sites on their search engine. If Calvin manages to get some links from his friends blogs, that are popular hits on the net, or maybe froma popular myspace guy or girl (a few beers should do the trick!) , then google will value that link as authentication of the content provided on your site. There are no "robots" taht google has to do its work. Google just uses past results and tracks general searching behaviour of its users and we do all of their homework! So if a Site with a high Traffic rate recommends Calvin's blog through a link, then Calvin has managed to woo google into ranking his site higher! It's also great to get your friends who have started parallel blogs to link to you, and you will in turn link to them. This way even, if your friend/co-blogger hits it big, you have something to gain! Backlinking usually throws in some amazing results. Feel free to experiment!
In that case, what should Calvin focus on writing on??
That's the million dollar question now. The best way to figure out what exactly to write on, is to check out what the most popular searches on Google and Yahoo are at the moment. If Britney Spears just gave birth to a baby girl, then a post on a pic of a bike that has Britney modelling next to it can actually throw Calvin's blog right on top!! Be innovative, and be informed. Any current news and trends must be used and tweaked to your core subject of blogging(in this case motorbikes) and this will rock the search engines just right!
It is also essential that Calvin writes posts that are specific to a particular topic per post of his. If his entire blog is a mess of things related to motorbikes that are all confused and in bits and pieces, it will be like a jack of all trades, and instead of a steady Number 10 result on Motorbikes, he will find his blog on #5000 for all related searches, which is practically useless.
Maybe his first posts could be on choosing a good bike, the next few on the worlds best motorbikes, posts on dream motorbikes to own, current market reviews and rates on motorbikes, etc. This way things are more organised and people can easily find what they want, let alons the search engines that they use.
Anyway, i guess I've babbled off enough on SEO for now. But I will add another post on SEO after a while.
Please give me some feedback!!!! I would appreciate that!
(maybe witha few beers even, like Calvin!! hehe.. )
Cheers,
Techmechanic
Well, here we go..
This is my first technical post, or post taht is actually relevant to what this blog is about, so any criticism/hate mail/sarcasm/abuse and maybe a tiny, teeny bit of apprectiation would be absolutely welcomed :) !
Lets get down to business now..
What the HELL is SEO? Why is everybody talking about it?
And why the HELL am i blogging about it?
Well, the answers, are not simple, but i will try my best none the less.
SEo is an acronym for Search Engine Optimisation, and Search Engine Optimisation is the technique by which a company/person will help a wesite or another company to get their site ranked higher on the two of the workds biggest search engine competitors: Google and Yahoo!
Why should a site be ranked higher on search engines?
Let's imagine that someone, say Calvin, has started his blog. Let's say he's writing about motor bikes. He has finished about 15-20 posts on different motorbikes, but mostly on what his experiences were with each motor bike. Now Calvin has put up some adverts on his blog, and has also advertised his own special bike fitting, a small invention he came up with.
He does a google search for motorbikes, and cannot even find his blog. So this means, some one who ahs no idea of who he is and what his blog is about, will probably never ever land up there, and will never figure out his cool invention, will never see his advertisers messages or his own adverts, and thus Calvin will never earn money or gain exposure.
Now if Calvin decides to get some serious SEO done on his blog, then over the next few weeks, Calvin finds his blog is indexed on Google and Yahoo! , his blog now comes up in specific and even wide range searches, and thus, there is an increased probability that someone from Japan who has no idea about him will land up on his blog!!
SEO is the future of the internet's role in Marketing, advertising and Business Development.
The world is headed towards outsourcing and large scale project completion at cheap costs and short time frames. A site with a good SEO will therefore be the first choice for anyone who searches for anything on the search engines. If their site is impressive enough, they will get customers!
How does Calvin implement SEO in his blog??
Actually, there are a variety of ways in which Calvin could get his site optimised for motorbikes.
First of all, he could do a keyword search for motor bikes and see who his competitors are...
You can analyse what the others on top have done and get a basic idea of what content you need to put up.
Next, Calvin can make his page rich with pictures, but not too much, so that he may hit the image searchers as well. About three pictures of specific motorbikes can do the trick over 6-7 posts. Remember, each picture has a filename, and google's google bot includes the filename int he search as well. So if Calvin's blog has a picture of a Triumph motorbike, but Calvin hasn't even mentioned it anywhere on his blog, not even once, google will still show Calvin's blog on the results. So be smart while choosing your pictures!
Backlinking~~!!
Backlinking is one of the coolest algorithms that google has devised to rank web sites on their search engine. If Calvin manages to get some links from his friends blogs, that are popular hits on the net, or maybe froma popular myspace guy or girl (a few beers should do the trick!) , then google will value that link as authentication of the content provided on your site. There are no "robots" taht google has to do its work. Google just uses past results and tracks general searching behaviour of its users and we do all of their homework! So if a Site with a high Traffic rate recommends Calvin's blog through a link, then Calvin has managed to woo google into ranking his site higher! It's also great to get your friends who have started parallel blogs to link to you, and you will in turn link to them. This way even, if your friend/co-blogger hits it big, you have something to gain! Backlinking usually throws in some amazing results. Feel free to experiment!
In that case, what should Calvin focus on writing on??
That's the million dollar question now. The best way to figure out what exactly to write on, is to check out what the most popular searches on Google and Yahoo are at the moment. If Britney Spears just gave birth to a baby girl, then a post on a pic of a bike that has Britney modelling next to it can actually throw Calvin's blog right on top!! Be innovative, and be informed. Any current news and trends must be used and tweaked to your core subject of blogging(in this case motorbikes) and this will rock the search engines just right!
It is also essential that Calvin writes posts that are specific to a particular topic per post of his. If his entire blog is a mess of things related to motorbikes that are all confused and in bits and pieces, it will be like a jack of all trades, and instead of a steady Number 10 result on Motorbikes, he will find his blog on #5000 for all related searches, which is practically useless.
Maybe his first posts could be on choosing a good bike, the next few on the worlds best motorbikes, posts on dream motorbikes to own, current market reviews and rates on motorbikes, etc. This way things are more organised and people can easily find what they want, let alons the search engines that they use.
Anyway, i guess I've babbled off enough on SEO for now. But I will add another post on SEO after a while.
Please give me some feedback!!!! I would appreciate that!
(maybe witha few beers even, like Calvin!! hehe.. )
Cheers,
Techmechanic
Saturday, March 1, 2008
The Techmechanic is here...
Hi All!
Finally, , I managed to gather all my patience and sctually sit down and start blogging. So here we go, this is my first post, and just to keep things simple, we're not going to get into anything technical, and keep this post ...well...just a normal-and-nothing-more-to-it post :P
Let me fill everybody ouit there on what I think (and hope!) my blog is going to be about..
Let's see now..
Technical issues
(SEO, Copyscape, Online Marketing Strategies, New Softwares, Download sites, Free Mp site listings, Automobiles, Motorbikes, Science issues, Engineering Issues and the like..)
Music
(I love music- so this could include free downloads of music(where to get them), lyrics, hot new songs, music reviews, pop star reviews and gossip, tributes, ringtones, and where to get them, guitar chords and tabs(i play the guitar :) )..
Japanese / Japan
(I'm learning Japanese- so new words, funny things, ironies, general japanese trivia, scripts etc.)
Video blogging
I went for this workshop on Film making, so this blog will showcase any films or short films that i may make or act in , and also other short films or videos that i find interesting...!
These are the guys who organised the workshop, for those who may be interested...
www.ftfm.wordpress.com
Photography / Pictures
I am also a keen photographer, but without all the equipment, All i have to take pictures and photographs is my HP iPaq 512 Voice Messenger phone's 1.3 Megapixel camera, which i guess will do for me :)
I am an amatuer after all .... :D
You can count on some interesting photographs with funny quotes.. :)
Well, that's all i can think of for now atleast, lets see what comes down in posts in the future then :)
SO a good, japanese style "Sayonara" to you folks, and i bid good bye for now !
Krshna
Finally, , I managed to gather all my patience and sctually sit down and start blogging. So here we go, this is my first post, and just to keep things simple, we're not going to get into anything technical, and keep this post ...well...just a normal-and-nothing-more-to-it post :P
Let me fill everybody ouit there on what I think (and hope!) my blog is going to be about..
Let's see now..
Technical issues
(SEO, Copyscape, Online Marketing Strategies, New Softwares, Download sites, Free Mp site listings, Automobiles, Motorbikes, Science issues, Engineering Issues and the like..)
Music
(I love music- so this could include free downloads of music(where to get them), lyrics, hot new songs, music reviews, pop star reviews and gossip, tributes, ringtones, and where to get them, guitar chords and tabs(i play the guitar :) )..
Japanese / Japan
(I'm learning Japanese- so new words, funny things, ironies, general japanese trivia, scripts etc.)
Video blogging
I went for this workshop on Film making, so this blog will showcase any films or short films that i may make or act in , and also other short films or videos that i find interesting...!
These are the guys who organised the workshop, for those who may be interested...
www.ftfm.wordpress.com
Photography / Pictures
I am also a keen photographer, but without all the equipment, All i have to take pictures and photographs is my HP iPaq 512 Voice Messenger phone's 1.3 Megapixel camera, which i guess will do for me :)
I am an amatuer after all .... :D
You can count on some interesting photographs with funny quotes.. :)
Well, that's all i can think of for now atleast, lets see what comes down in posts in the future then :)
SO a good, japanese style "Sayonara" to you folks, and i bid good bye for now !
Krshna
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