Until now, My main income was from a website, and it was basically depended with Google traffic. The site was well ranked for over few dozens of short keywords and hundreds of long tail keywords. CTR also was healthy between 10%-20%, and has a strong back links. So theoretically there is no problem at all.

But as always, Ugly, but necessary evil cannot predicted, and� it does what it need to do. After the last July “destructive update”, my site went down 300+ for almost all keywords. Some were thrown out of SERPs. I though it was only me. but after doing some search, that has happened to many as me. Below are some comments of the victims.

� My domain example.com, used to be no. 1 for “example”, we are the only site called this, and very popular, quite a well known name in our industry.
This keyphrase was not even a prime keyword, as it was our product name… our prime keyphrases were big keywords in our industry.
Now when i look, the first listing i can see with my domain, example.com is a deep linked page within the site e.g. example.com?id=423423&page=whatever

if i actually search my domain (e.g example.com) it does come up no. 1, but if i search for my brand name (i.e. example without the .com) its gone, plus ive just lost all my other phrases. i’ve just been through every page on google searching for “example” and i cant see my homepage at all, its completely gone. no even on the last page.
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My positions have completely dropped this week for a site that has enjoyed good ranking for years. It happened over the weekend. On sunday, i jumped to position 4 for my major phrase, then when i check on sunday, it had completely dissapeared. Even when searching for my sites name (and we’re the only site called this, plus i have all the domains, .co.uk, .com, .net). Now when i look, the first listing of my actual domain is on page 6, all the previous entries are pages about my site.

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Today, our PR4 100,000 page site lost 80% of it’s Google traffic. We still have the same amount of pages indexed. While we have had relatively steady rankings for a couple of years, most of our rankings are significantly down today. Some rankings dropped by -3 or -10, etc. and some fell off completely while others (more towards the long tail) are still at #1. We haven’t made any major changes recently and are wondering if there’s been some kind of glitch or update by Google. (And hoping that it will correct itself) Any suggestions would be appreciated…

There are many remedies suggested including complete revamping of the link and site structure. But I think it will better to wait few more days. No one is perfect, including Google, so I hope dust will settle down in few days.

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Although I am new to Affiliate Marketing, I think I am on right track so far. Although it is not easy money as many crappy e-books and cheap fake gurus suggested, its not a cake walk. One needs lot of concentration, dedication, awareness to actually make a profit from a campaign. I recently did a good experiment with polls, and I can tell that It was actually an easy quick bucks. The process is as follows.
1. Setup a poll with poll factory (Poll factory is a great tool to set-up quick poll). It has many features as well as many of the generated contents were enough to pass the Google Adword’s quality score (if you are going to do Adwords campaign). When you setting up the poll just need to take care about the two options to be related in anyway.

2.� Find two related products to sell - I have selected two email submits for free samples and they have a good conversion ratio, but I think zip submit also will do better.

3. Traffic - If I put everything in plain English “Traffic is Money” .. If you don’t get enough traffic to your poll, there will be no use of doing all these things with great effort. We cant wait till big Google’s bot spider your site, Index, and rank your site well with SERPs. We are talking about Quick Bucks and therefor we need quick traffic. So we have to buy traffic here. If your star is right, Google will be give your poll a good quality rank, and you will not have huge CPC. The advantage of Adwords Traffic is, its controllable and more targeted. My other option was Buy Cheap Traffic from cheap traffic providers. I bough three 5000UV US traffic packages (15,000 UV) for $15. Please be warned that, unlike Adwords trafic, this kind of traffic has low conversion ratio, but remember this is damn cheap traffic.

My offers which I selected were email submits which pays $1.5 per lead, that means if you can convert at least 15 out of 15,000 (conversion rate is 0.001) you have a profit. So..not bad for few quick bucks at all..

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Okay. I am not going to talk much about that. Below is the easiest way to hide your affiliate links.
Create a file with easily identifiable name, eg: if your affiliate program is marketLeverage, then name the file as market_leverage.php or market_leverage.asp, in case if its ASP file.

PHP CODE:

< ?php
$my_link = "http://affiliate.com/aff_id=123&sub_id=456";
header ("location:$my_link");
?>


ASP CODE:

<%
mylink = "http://affiliate.com/aff_id=123&sub_id=456"
Response.Redirect mylink
%>


You are done.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Bank of England finally made a move to help out banks over the Christmas and New Year period to head off problems that might result from a squeeze on the market markets as year-end approaches.

Access to wholesale money markets has suffered severe restrictions following the US sub-prime loans crisis and the run on Northern Rock, leaving banks strapped for cash.

Bank governor Mervyn King said: “Continuing fragility in the banking system suggests a risk that money markets will tighten over the end of the calendar year.”

The bank has offered £10bn of funds at 5.75% for a period of five weeks, beginning in the first week of December. That takes them to 10 January – through the festive period and beyond most financial year-ends – to enable them to get their balance sheets looking straight.

Mr King added: “We stand ready to take further measures to keep the overnight rate in line with Bank Rate.”

The current overnight rate is at 5.83% - not far above the 5.75% - but is likely to rise as the cost of longer-term funding has been on the rise. The two-month Libor (London interbank offered rate) went up again, to 6.65%.

Mr King said the £22bn secured loans – to date – to Northern Rock would not impair the Bank’s ability to provide liquidity to other banks if needed, and added: “We are keeping money markets under constant review.”

Chancellor Alistair Darling was pleased with the Bank’s move, and commented: “It is entirely the right thing to do.”

MPs were told by Mr King that while a period of high uncertainty lies ahead for the UK economy, he and the Bank be striving to smooth out any problems.

“Although the official estimates of output still indicate firm growth, surveys suggest the economy is starting to slow,” he said. The effects of the credit crunch remained far from clear, he added.

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This is about the world map you will be seeing when you try to change the time on Windows XP (I think this is same with other Windows computers too. My Geography knowledge is not really good but I think it is good enough to spot a “newly created” gulfs and Islands on the world map because I have had my elementary Geography as everyone else, except some people at Microsoft. Either people who involved with this were too ignorant or they have no respect for geography at all when doing such thing (Although Microsoft’s Virtual Earth remarkable thing).

You can see many erreneous Geographical places on the above map (I have encircled few). And following the world map for your comparison. No wonder why many hates MS products !!!

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Recently Google Inc. bought g.cn and it made a buzz about single letter domains again. I decided to do a research on single letter domains because there is not much has done regarding single letter domains and I thought it is an interesting subject for a blog article. ICANN is the responsible authority to issue the single letter domains and it is currently not allowed to issue single letter domains to any top level domains (.com, .net, .org). I tried to find any single letter top level domain and could find only four active domainss although some articles suggest it is six. These domains were allowed to continue, because, these were already registered when the restrictions to single letter domains were imposed.The list is as follows.

1. q.com (Redirect to quest.com)
2. x.com (Belongs to paypal)
3. z.com (Belongs to Nizzan - originally for Nissan z series cars)
4. x.org (Belongs to X organization Fondadtion)
and some articles say following two domains also issued, but seems not active.
5. i.net
6. q.net

I also checked for some country level TLDs, and interestingly only China (.cn) allowed single letter domain names. Following the list of single letter domains for .cn TLD. Non of the domains in above lists were possible to check for the owners because almost all whois databases are returning anything for these domains.

1. a.cn (not developed)
2. b.cn (Parked)
3. c.cn (parked)
4. d.cn (Mobile site)
5. g.cn (Re-direct to Google)
6. h.cn (password protected homepage)
7. j.cn (Developed site in chinese)
8. l.cn (parked)
9. m.cn (developed site in chinese)
10. n.cn (un-developed site with an image)
11. o.cn (developed site in chinese)
12. p.cn (developed site in chinese)
13. q.cn (developed site in chinese)
14. r.cn (developed site in chinese)
15. s.cn (developed site in chinese)
16. t.cn (parked)
17. u.cn (developed site in chinese)
18. v.cn (un-developed site with an image)
19. w.cn (Re-direct to Windows Live sugnup page)
20. x.cn (developed site in chinese)
21. y.cn (HTTP 200 response)

Following the analysis of the 21 .cn single letter domains.

01. Parked 04
02. Mobile platform (opens a wml file) 01
03. Not Developed 03
04. Re-direct 02
05. Password protected homepage 01
06. Developed 09
07. HTTP 200 (Probably not developed) 01
TOTAL 21

As you can see from the list, at least 12 domains are not using to its potential (And I am not in a position to tell anything about developed domains because those are in Chinese). As per the current market estimate, it is believed that a single letter domain is worth at least a six figure value. Yet, most of these domains are not utilizing at all or not utilizing to its potential (Eg. w.cn is used for the windows live registration form)

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Recently my grand mother who was born on 1910, wanted to register with Facebook and asked my help with it. But it seemed as facebook thought my grand mother has nothing to do with facebook and not allowed to register using her real age. And the hilarious thing is she was asked to enter her real birthday and facebook is not willing to accept that, although 1910 was in the year drop-down list. My Grand ma insisting to register with facebook because all of her friends have profiles at facebook
So, I did a trick here. I made my grand ma a teen, and facebook took that without a problem. Finally everyone lived hapily ever after

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In todays technical documents, articles and jargons you may have encountered countless times the terms Encoding and Encryption. Those are terms which automatically come to mind when we need to hide or conceal some document or source code. It is common to see most people are using Encryption and Encoding interchangeably. Then What is Encoding and what is Encrypting?Encryption

The process of converting information into a form unintelligible to anyone except holders of a specific cryptographic key.

Encoding

to change a message into symbols, as encode oral language into writing, encode an idea into words, encode a physical law into mathematical symbols.

So, according to above two definitions, we can see though it seems as similar at the first glance, there is a major difference between the two terms. Simply, Encryption (someone calls this encipherment) is something like making a secret letter by changing, swapping, or replacing characters in previously defined order (This can be called “the Key”). The ‘format’ of the message is not changed. this can be also called “ciphertex”.

When we do encoding, the format of the data is changed. For example when we record a voice sample, the recorder will encode the analog voice signals into difital sygnals and store. Here the format has changed. The encoded data is not necessarily a “secret” as we seen in the encryption.

Usage:
Encryption is widely using when security is matters. There are many methods for encyption but the widely used, most common, and most efficient Encryption method is called PGP (some called it Pretty Good Privacy). A good mysterious encryption which remains unsolved even for today can be found at nowhere other than CIA headquarters. [link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos ]

Encoding is widely used today in internet technology. For example When we want to use ‘&’ with urls we “URL encode” it to “%26″.

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This is a common situation, hence I expect almost every developer has encountered this situation. Although IE can natively handle this without any problem (may be because IE’s integration with the Windows), Firefox seems having problem (?) with natively handling NTLM by default (NT LAN Manager) you can overcome this situation by making some changes.

1. type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar. (FireFox configuration page will appear.)
2.  type “ntlm” (without quotes) in the filter box.
3. Double click on the network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris and prompt will appear.
4. type “localhost” (without quotes) in the prompt and press OK.
5. Now it should work

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After the recent Pagerank update Vebguru.com has gained PR5 and I think that is a major improvement in terms of SEO. After all vebguru is still few months old, so this is a big thing. I am nor a SEO guru nor I did followed any extensive SEO methods, but I was generally aware about the technology and bells and whistles of SEO. So I didn’t forget to try one or two as always as when I get a chance. I think, my main contributor for the PR5 is my habit of commenting on blogs. I use search staus add-on along with stumble-upon tool bar. So I can easily spot a high ranking web page. I comment those page (Of cource my comments are always within the context of the article and I am trying to as informative or useful as possible)..but that was always a random process.

Other thing is my articles on the vebguru site, I first thought the subject I was writing on are not common and will not give any hits from google, but fortunately there was less competition for the words and the results is vebguru is getting more hits for ’strange’ search queries (ie. “moon phase actionscript”).
Other thing was the generous links I got from my friends, though none of those link is not over PR5, I know those links helped it well at the end.
Participation at more social networks also might help it, and I always used my signature with my URL.
So..The final thing is I have got PR5 this time, may be I am lucky or may be I am too smart ;), but I know the most difficult part is retaining or improving it after the next update. There are lot to do.

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