Digg is getting buried in search

Search Fetaure on Digg is really pathetic. You really have to screw yourself real hard in irder to get something you want.

A known crap is here....

Submit a New Story - Are You Sure It's Not a Duplicate?

this feature really is of no use. It will give the list of possible duplicates which are nowhere related to the content that you are trying to submit. I am sure that they are not even checking the links of the story.

I am not sure what this page is for?

Please wait while we digg through your submission

I feel that it doesn't d anything except keeping user wait for sometime. Still if you think that I'm wrong then let me give you an example.

Check these two links:

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Hidden_Influencers_of_Digg_3

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Hidden_Influencers_of_Digg_2

Both the stories have same heading, same description and mind you..... same link too. How is it possible? Why digg is allowing me to submit the same link twice? Is it a limitation?

Digg is really doing a great job by introducing new features(pictures, Video...and may be torrents too ;), but they should concentrate more on the basic things like searching, I hope all of you will agree to to my view that digg search sucks and most of the times you would be using google to search digg, so why don't digg integrates google serch in the site to improve the user experience.

This is just a suggestion to the digg guys to improve the functionality of the site. No offence :)

Analytic tools For Better Optimization Of your Blog

Everyone wants to keep track of the kind of visitors they are getting on their blog or site. So that they can improve their contents or may be able to provide targeted content.That's why adsense is getting succeded.

Know your Audience

is the funda behind the success on web blogosphere.

Various analytics tools are available on the web. Some are free and some are paid. One among the most used is google analytics . But some people are really scared of it because of its privacy intervention. If you are on a slower internet connection, you will be able to notice that each thin that you do with gooogle will be stored as all link requests pass through ssl.google-analytics.com . Google is scrutinizing each and everything on web and that's why people are getting more and more frustrated. It would be a blog or may be a whole website if I will start scruitnizing Google's privacy policy, So its better to leave the topic for some other day.

One more good tool available out there is Feedburner . This also really cool. But is limited to few stats in its free version

Recently i have found a new service by ewebcounter, The site is really cool and provide cool information about visitors. The cool thing about it is its real time stats which may not be much of use to a blogger but it can be fun to play with. You can see who's online on your website.

Isn't it cool?

It also provides IP lookup on Google MAPs. Now that's what i found interesting. Its also a toy like facility.
So If you are joining them you will get the following facilities(since I'm not a flattering kind of person so I have copied these features from their homepage, but i guess you will get much more than that):

• A 100% free web counter that be can installed on virtually any website

• A wide assortment of invisible and graphical web counter styles to choose from

• A password protected account to view your detailed web statistics

• We provide a hosted solution, so there's no software for you to install and to maintain

• Over 20+ web statistical reports with detailed logs and charts

• Monitor who's on your website with real-time streaming data

• Track page views, unique visitors, visitor paths, referrals, search engine keywords, etc.

• Get statistical reports emailed to you

One more cool thing that it provide is pie charts for all the infos (viz country, ISP, browser, Platform, activity, referral, search engine, keywords, length of the session, pages visited) about visitors to you site. It has tonnes of information about your visitors, is very easy to use and install, but is limited to only 200 reports at a time in its free version. But you can upgrade it whenever you want. If you won't believe me then check it out yourself. I bet you won't be regretting about your decision to follow my advice. Check it Out for yourself

Few Sites For Blogging Dummies Like Me

I have found Some new sites(ok buddy! they are not new, But they are new to me) which can be useful for dummies like me banned from adsense.
Which may help you in getting some money and better Ranking.

• Text Link Ads is a site which claims to give you $100 in FREE Links. But The problem is that your site has to qualify there standards. Even If your site is not much popular, you can earn upto $40-50 bucks in a month.

• If you are banned from adsense and would advice you to Join the CrispAds Blog Advertising Network!, as they claim to give you targeted advertisements like Adsense. Here too they will review your site before accepting you.

• One more site that I would like to recommend is Trafficg. The site is really cool if you have low visits per day and would like to get a cool site like this with higher ranking.

• Exoclick is also a new PPC site which pays you in the same way as adsense does. But the problem here is that the CPM is low and the ADs are not targetted.
  

• And Ofcourse I would recommend my site, so that you can get to grow and earn with a dummy like me.
  

How To Manage Directory Submissions

'More than 80% of the traffic comes from the top ten search engines'.

You have probably read this statement many times and it's true at least for the majority of websites.

So how about web directories? Is submitting your site to them a waste of time?

Even if directories usually don't deliver a lot of traffic they contribute inbound links to your site increasing its link popularity a very important factor used by search engines to rank websites.

When someone queries a search engine using a keyword relevant to your site, higher is your site link popularity higher are its chances to come up near the top of the results.

Submitting your site to web directories will help you increase its visibility and attract more traffic from search engines.

However you need an overall strategy to successfully manage your directory submissions or you will only lose your time and energies.

Is your site ready?

You should never forget that directories don't exist to give away free links. Their purpose is to provide their visitors with good quality sites.

If you want some chances to get listed you need a well designed web site containing useful and original content or offering useful services.

Your site must also be complete without broken links or links to 'under construction' pages.

Other things that can cause a rejection of your submission are: too many ads (especially pop-ups and pop-unders), automatic redirections to another domain, having the same exact content of other sites (example: the 'self replicated' sites some companies provide to their affiliates).

Preparing your listing details

Open your favorite text editor and write down the following informations:

1) your web site URL.

2) your website Title. Some directories accept only the official site name as title, others allow some descriptive keywords, but in general stuffing a lot of keywords in your title is not acceptable.

Write 2-3 different titles in compliance with these different rules.

3) your website description. Write what your site is about in a couple of sentences. Avoid superlatives, exclamation marks, excessive hype and generally everything that makes your description sound like an ad.

Description should be written in third person. Avoid expressions like 'we offer', 'we are ...'.

4) a set of search keywords related to your site. Separate the keywords with commas, then write down the same set of keywords this time separated by spaces. Some directories require the first format, others the second one.

5) your full name and email address.

Once you have done save the document. By copying and pasting these informations into the submissions forms you will save time and avoid errors.

Finding web directories

The next step is finding directories where you can submit your site.

You can use browse the 'Directories' category of top directories like Yahoo and DMOZ to find minor and specialized directories.

Spend some time to determine how each directory is organized and find the most appropriate category for your site.

Submitting to the wrong category usually causes a rejection of your submission.

Compile a list of all directories where you have submitted your site indicating the date of your submission.

Verifying the results

Not all directories send you an email when your site is listed.

You should periodically visit your list of directories and make a search for your site title or url. Flag all directories where you find your site.

If your site has not been listed after about 2 months from the date of your first submission you can try to submit it again. My advice is to not resubmit more frequently.

You can also contact the directory owner and ask about the status of your submission, but if you don't receive a reply, don't insist. There may be many reasons why a directory doesn't list your site, simply accept the fact that not all submissions are successful.

Submitting your site to web directories is an essential part of your website promotion strategy. It's a time consuming task, but with the right planning you will be able to manage it successfully.

How to optimize your's blog for better ranking.

Now, you should have a blog full with content you have passionately written. It should be a very interesting grapevine for the community of your chosen niche, as opposed to a lifeless factsheet.
However, no matter how delicious your content is, if there is nobody to read it you can’t generate profit from it. Traffic is the lifeblood of your blog. In order to attract people, you must offer attractive information. Simple enough.
However, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. Where do people look when they need information? Yes, they search using search engines like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com and www.msn.com, to name a few more popular ones. So, to get these people on your blog, your blog needs to rank high on search result pages of these search engines. When these people search for information through the search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog! The art of getting your blog or website onto high rankings on search result pages is called search engine optimization. It is a very complex and hard subject to master, but that doesn’t stop us from learning simple yet effective techniques to conquer the search results for certain keywords. The more complex techniques are usually needed to fight for very competitive and general keywords such as “fat loss”, but I’ll teach you how to overcome that later. For now, let’s determine the keywords that you want to optimize your site for. For example, your blog talks about tech gadgets. Now, you’d want to check in Google whether it is a very competetive keyword. At this time of writing, there are 29, 000 ,000 search results. Think you can beat 29, 000, 000 sites at your first attempt? I don’t think so.

Now, let’s try to narrow down our scope. Let’s look for “technological gadgets” instead. At this time of writing, Google lists 792, 000 results. That’s more manageable, but you’d like to search for more focused keywords. However, let’s optimize your blog for “technological gadget” just for the sake of learning.
First, you have to pay attention to the title of your blog. Since you’re optimizing for technological gadgets, you need to have that exact phrase in your blog title. For example, a line like “Your Best Technological Gadget Blog!” would work great. You can change the title of your blog in the Blogger control panel or the Wordpress blog when you’re creating it. If you’re proficient with HTML, you can even do that on other blog engines like Moveable Type. Bottom line? Learn a little HTML!
Other than that, your page heading should also contain the term you’re optimizing for. The page heading is the bit of text in your code that is enclosed within the and tags. This is important as it tells the search engines what your page is about (in this case, “technological gadgets”). Since we’re posting a blog, the tags are usually the post titles, so remember to include the term there whenever relevant.
One last bit, you should also sprinkle the words “technological gadgets” in your posts whenever possible. The frequent occurrence of that phrase in your blog will hint the search engines that your blog is really relevant to that topic.

However, this is the most important bit of all. Always keep in mind that you’re writing for real life people who read your blog to obtain information, so it is very stupid to spam your blog with keywords! In fact, if you do that, the search engines will end up thinking you’re spamming and drop your ranking further down into oblivion… So keep in mind! Write for humans, not search engines!

Google Search integrates with google notebook

Check it out. Sign in using your google id register yourself for google notebook and search for anything apart from cached and similar pages you will get a new button called 'Note this'. Using this button you will be able to save the current search and its text to your google notebook






This can be very useful tool in research work.





This looks really cool. Take a look at it. I found it accidentally. Its really cool

http://www.google.com/