Monday, February 7, 2011

List of social networking sites

 * qualitypointtech.net- QualityPoint is a Social Bookmarking and News Site.
    * Artspoint.net - Arts Point is a social networking website which aims to make the integration process between Artists and Live Music Promoters.
    * slashdot.org - Slashdot is a technology-related news website owned byGeeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and -evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics.
    * flickr.com- Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo.
    * digg.com- Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's former popularity prompted the creation of other social networking sites with story submission and voting systems.  Digg popularity is going down now.
    * technorati.com- Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
    * http://del.icio.us- Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.
    * http://www.diigo.com/- Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. It allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff"
    * http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/- Yahoo! Bookmarks is an online service that lets you save links to your favorite web pages with your Yahoo! account so that you can access them from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere in the world. If you’ve bookmarked pages using your browser’s feature, you can import those links into your Yahoo! Bookmarks, and have all of your favorite pages at your fingertips.
    * google.com/notebook- Google recently stopped development on Notebook, which means it's no longer open to sign-ups by new users or being improved.
    * slide.com/- Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California.Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook.The company was acquired by Google on August 4, 2010.
    * twitter.comTwitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their followers. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. You may use third-party apps. for effectively using Twitter.
    * reddit.com-Reddit is a social news website, owned by Condé Nast Digital, a subsidiary of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. Users (also referred to as redditors) have the option to submit links to content on the Internet or submit "self" posts that contain original, user-submitted text.Other users may then vote the posted links "up" or "down" with the most successful links gaining prominence by reaching the front page. In addition, users can comment on the posted links and reply to other commentators consequently forming an online community. Reddit users may create their own topical sections, known informally as subreddits and officially as communities, for which to submit their links and to comment.
    * box.net- Box.net is a cloud-based content management solution for individuals and companies ranging from small businesses to large corporations. The company has adopted a freemium business model, and provides 5GB of free storage for personal accounts. A mobile version of the service is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Box.net's competitors include Dropbox, Sharepoint, Sugarsync, and Documentum.
    * blogcatalog.com- Blogcatalog.com is the ultimate source for all things blog. The site is mostly can be for people who want to start a blogging community,people who like to read blogs, or for promoting blogs.
    * fark.com-Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. As of June 2009, the site boasts approximately four million unique visitors per month, which puts it among the top 100 English language websites. The site receives approximately 2,000 story submissions per day and approximately 50 of them are publicly displayed on the site.
    * 43things.com-43 Things is a social networking website that is built on the principles of tagging, rather than creating explicit interpersonal links (as seen in Friendster and Orkut). Users create accounts and then list a number of goals or hopes; these goals are parsed by a lexer and connected to other people's goals that are constructed with similar words or ideas. This concept is also known as folksonomy.
    * simile.mit.eduSIMILE is a joint research project run by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and CSAIL and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Focused on developing tools to increase the interoperability of disparate digital collections, much of SIMILE's technical focus is oriented towards Semantic Web technology and standards such as Resource Description Framework (RDF).
    * esnips.com- eSnips is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. You have practically unlimited flexibility in choosing what you want to share, and with whom, in 5GB of free space.
      eSnips is the one place where you can share anything you want, about any topic: your thoughts, your photos, your music, your videos, your flash files, stuff you find on the web, and many other media types.
    * 9rules.com- 9rules is a blog network that serves as an online community of blogs and bloggers. In 2006 it took the award for Best Community Site of the Year at SXSWi in Austin, Texas.
    * linuxquestions.org- LinuxQuestions.org (commonly abbreviated LQ) is a community-driven, self-help web site for Linux users. As of April 2009, it has over 400,000 registered members. Started in 2000 by Jeremy Garcia, LQ is one of the most popular free software community sites and is usually reputed for helpfulness.
    * stumbleupon.com - StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles.
    * bookmarks.oneindia.in- Oneindia.in is an Indian online portal owned by Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd., which provides news updates, sports news,travel, entertainment, videos, and classifieds.
    * myspace.com-MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, News Corp. Digital Media, owned by News Corporation. Myspace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to comScore, Myspace was overtaken internationally by its main competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.
    * folkd.com - folkd.com (short for Folksonomy and pronounced like "smoked") is a social bookmarking and social news website that has been founded in 2006 by Bastian Karweg out of Germany. The website has grown into one of biggest services of its kind and currently lists over 8 million public bookmarks by more than 500.000 users (as of May 2010). Folkd is available in 4 languages and also has a strong user base in India. The site devotes itself to "enrich your websurfing experience" and also offers an IE and Firefox AddOn to collect, save and share bookmarks while surfing.
    * google.com/bookmarks/- Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders. It allows one to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and also notes.
      Users can access their bookmarks from any computer by signing in to their Gmail account. The bookmarks are searchable, and searches are performed on the full text of the bookmarked pages, not just the labels and notes.
    * facebook.com-Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users.Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups,organized by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
    * faves.com- Faves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to "fave" a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot.While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, Faves has a wider range of functionality that encourages interaction with "friends" in rating the content of linked webpages.
    * scribd.com
    * spicypage.com
    * linkedin.com
    * buzznet.com
    * friendfeed.com
    * clipmarks.com
    * amplify.com
    * tumblr.com
    * http://www.gabbr.com/bookmarks/add/
    * onlinesocialbookmarking.com
    * Dofollow Social Bookmarking Site with Good Alexa Ranking(18k+) mixx.com
    * yoorl.com
    * bebo.com
    * http://getstuff.howstuffworks.com/profi ... s?id=20789
    * livejournal.com
    * skydrive.live.com
    * blog-search.com
    * dropjack.com
    * goarticles.com
    * taggit.co.za
    * ca.answers.yahoo.com
    * in.buzz.yahoo.com/
    * squidoo.com
    * slideshare.net
    * a1-webmarks.com
    * lazyfeed.com
    * mister-wong.com
    * peerpower.com
    * wikia.com
    * politico.com
    * bharatstudent.com/
    * listal.com
    * http://mydailyflog.com
    * tubely.com
    * shine.yahoo.com
    * fanpop.com
    * boxbe.com
    * memotoo.com
    * triond.com
    * toostep.com
    * en.netlog.com
    * merinews.com
    * sphinn.com/
    * newsvine.com
    * qindex.info
    * submityoursite.com
    * bookmark-manager.com - Due to spam now private bookmarking only allowed
    * topix.net
    * simpy.com
    * eventful.com
    * plaxo.com
    * bloggerden.com
    * qualitytesting.info
    * phpclasses.org/
    * cnet.com/
    * blogged.com
    * ning.com
    * disqus.com
    * docstoc.com
    * yammer.com -
      Yammer is an enterprise social network service that was launched in September 2008.
      Access to a Yammer network is determined by a user's Internet domain, so only those with appropriate email addresses may join their respective networks.
      According to TechCrunch in September 2010, the service is being used by more than one million users and 80,000 companies worldwide, including 80% of the Fortune 500.
    * bnet.com/
    * macworld.com
    * jumptags.com
    * amazon.com
    * jaiku.com
    * mybloglog.com/
    * multiply.com
    * last.fm
    * kwoff.com
    * club.mocazo.com
    * myhq.com/- Easily manage your bookmarks in a banner ad FREE environment. Import/Export, create public pages (password protected if you wish), share bookmarks. All for FREE.
    * wayn.com
    * beforeitsnews.com
    * widgetbox.com
    * friendster.com
    * dotnetshoutout.com
    * bookmox.com
    * wirefan.com
    * blogmarks.net
    * citeulike.org
    * linkshares.net
    * amenme.com
    * arto.com- On Arto you can share pictures, videos,create friendbooks, make a blog and much more.You can participate in fun quizzes, interesting threads in the forum and join thousands of groups or try some of the fun games.
    * hi.baidu.com
    * bit.ly
    * bizsugar.com- Share Small Business News and Tips
    * bleetbox.com- To start a new bleet simply copy and paste any web address into the text box on the homepage to open the chat box for that page,
    * blinklist.com
    * cuzo.com
    * blurpalicious.com
    * qaafe.com
    * tugatop.com
    * bukmark.net
    * jackpea.com
    * siyudis.com
    * kannikar.com
    * bonzobox.com
    * social-bookmarking.net
    * bordom.net- Bordom is a collaboratively edited blog of funny memes, strange news, and other fascinating things found on the Internet.
    * buddymarks.com
    * care2.com- online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare
    * camyoo.com
    * tamilers.com
    * indiblogger.in
    * socialmarking.in
    * bibsonomy.org -A blue social bookmark and publication sharing system.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Link Building Strategies: PageRank Formula : Number of Backlinks for a Website

Every website should be optimized well for Search Engines in order to get top rankings in SERPs (search engine result pages). And when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the most important factor is Quality Link Building.

Link Building is a strategy/technique to get relevant (quality) links to your website from good ranking websites in your niche so that the top search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others rank your website higher in their Search Results. It also helps to increase website Page Rank.

Many of you may tried to build lot of backlinks to your website spending lot of hours in a day. But, Have you ever wondered how many number of links should i have for my website (or) what method should i use to get backlinks (or) From where should i get relevant links? I am sure you might have asked these questions many times.

Types of Links Building: 5 Star Rating

1.Content Distribution

Description: BackLinks from press release sites, article writing, guest blog posts, Feed aggregators such as RSS feeds
Method to Obtain: Write unique and SEO optimized content & promote using social networking sites
Difficulty Score: *
Quality Score: ***

2.Blog/Forum Comments

Description: Links from forum signatures, blog commenting, posts, profiles
How to Obtain: Search relevant niche blogs & forum topics, register in those sites and create profiles, create signatures for forums using anchor text
Difficulty Score: *
Quality Score: **

3.Purchased Links

Description: Links obtained through submitting in paid blog directories and other paid links
How to Obtain: Search for keywords + sponsor, advertise, sponsored by, banner ads, submit URL, add URL
Difficulty Score: *
Quality Score: **

WARNING: This type of link building is very dangerous and sometimes your website even gets penalized by Search engines.

4.Reciprocal Links

Description: Links from exchanges, partnerships and trades (always go for topic relevant site sites)
How to Obtain: Use only high authority relevant sites to exchange with, try to do a 3 way link building instead of 2 way.
Difficulty Score: **
Quality Score: *

5.Social Media/Bookmarking

Description: Links from various social media profile pages and bookmarking sites
How to Obtain: Find top bookmarking sites based on PageRank, Alexa Rank, dofollow and submit website using good keyword anchored phrases
Difficulty Score: ***
Quality Score: ***

6.Embedded Content

Description: Links via widgets, infographics, badges, and other embeddedable content
How to Obtain: Develop visually appealing and valuable content, elevate via social networks
Difficulty Score: ***
Quality Score: ****

7.Link Reclamation

Description: Links to no longer available resources to re-point at your pages
How to Obtain: Check Google Webmaster Tools for pages not found, contact websites linking to those to change link or redirect to your site
Difficulty Score: ***
Quality Score: *****

8.Natural Links

Description: Links obtained naturally due to link worthy content and link baiting techniques, etc.
How to Obtain: Create quality, informative content (avoid duplicate content) and promote via social networks
Difficulty Score: ****
Quality Score: *****

9.Link Requests

Description: Links acquired through manual requests from webmasters, site owners, etc.
How to Obtain: manual email requests by conducting competitive link analysis (always opt for high PR sites)
Difficulty Score: *****
Quality Score: *****

Note: Calculate the ratings based on 5/5 factor.

The above link building structure tells you the value of each type of link building techniques.

How many backlinks do we need to get a certain PageRank?

PR1 = 11 Average Links
PR2 = 58 Average Links
PR3 = 296 Average Links
PR4 = 1,520 Average Links
PR5 = 7,816 Average Links
PR6 = 40,185 Average Links
PR7 = 206,611 Average Links
PR8 = 1,062,280 Average Links
PR9 = 5,461,663 Average Links
PR10 = 28,080,881 Average Links

The above estimates shows you how many average links you need to get different Pageranks for your website.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

How To Register Google Webmaster Tools

For Google Webmaster Tools

1) Register for a new Google account

2) Once you have a Google account, you will need to register your site in Google’s Webmaster Tools

3) Once you are logged into Webmaster Tools, enter your site into the Add Site box and click on “Add Site.”

4) Now you will need to verify that you have control of the site. Click on “Verify Site” to go to the verification page.

5) Choose your verification method. You will either choose to upload a small file or add a new Meta tag to the code on the home page.

To upload a verification file:

- Choose “Upload an HTML file” from the dropdown box.
- Open Notepad (or your preferred text editing program) and save a blank file with the file name provided by Google.
- Upload this file into the root of your site. This will be the same place that your index.htm or index file will be saved.
- Once the file is uploaded, return to the verification screen and choose “Upload an HTML file” from the dropdown box. Click on the “Verify” button at the bottom of the page.
- Please note that the verification file must stay in place for Google to continue providing complete information in the Webmaster Tools.

To add a meta tag:

- Choose “Add a meta tag” from the dropdown box.
- Copy the Meta tag provided and paste it into the area on your homepage. Please note that if you are using a template on your site, this Meta can be placed on all of the pages without causing any problems.
- Once the verification Meta is in place on the site, return to the verification screen and choose “Add a meta tag” from the dropdown box.
- Click on the “Verify” button at the bottom of the page.
- Please note that the verification Meta must stay in place for Google to continue providing complete information in the Webmaster Tools.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Cloaking

Cloaking is a black hat search engine optimization (SEO) technique in which the content presented to the search engine spider is different to that presented to the user's browser. This is done by delivering content based on the IP addresses or the User-Agent HTTP header of the user requesting the page. When a user is identified as a search engine spider, a server-side script delivers a different version of the web page, one that contains content not present on the visible page. The purpose of cloaking is to deceive search engines so they display the page when it would not otherwise be displayed.

As of 2006, better methods of accessibility, including progressive enhancement are available, so cloaking is not considered necessary by proponents of that method[who?]. Cloaking is often used as a spamdexing technique, to try to trick search engines into giving the relevant site a higher ranking; it can also be used to trick search engine users into visiting a site based on the search engine description which site turns out to have substantially different, or even pornographic content. For this reason, major search engines consider cloaking for deception to be a violation of their guidelines, and therefore, they delist sites when deceptive cloaking is reported.

Cloaking is a form of the doorway page technique.

A similar technique is also used on the Open Directory Project web directory. It differs in several ways from search engine cloaking:

* It is intended to fool human editors, rather than computer search engine spiders.
* The decision to cloak or not is often based upon the HTTP referrer, the user agent or the visitor's IP; but more advanced techniques can be also based upon the client's behaviour analysis after a few page requests: the raw quantity, the sorting of, and latency between subsequent HTTP requests sent to a website's pages, plus the presence of a check for robots.txt file, are some of the parameters in which search engines spiders differ heavily from a natural user behaviour. The referrer tells the URL of the page on which a user clicked a link to get to the page. Some cloakers will give the fake page to anyone who comes from a web directory website, since directory editors will usually examine sites by clicking on links that appear on a directory web page. Other cloakers give the fake page to everyone except those coming from a major search engine; this makes it harder to detect cloaking, while not costing them many visitors, since most people find websites by using a search engine.


Friday, October 22, 2010

Spam and Illegitimate SEO Techniques

Google doesn’t appreciate being fooled, and once it discovers websites using inappropriate optimization techniques it may also punish them by reducing the website’s ranking and even removing the website from its search results altogether. If you’re not sure that what you’re doing is acceptable SEO practice or not, keep in mind the one golden rule: If it’s good for your users, it’s good for Google. Incorporating elements that are for Google’s bot eyes alone usually leads to fishy results. The following is a list of ILLEGITIMATE SEO practices. Here’s what you SHOULD NOT be doing:

Using Redirects to Manipulate Google Page Rank

An illegitimate redirect is a one that occurs automatically when you approach a certain URL. As you click on the link to that site, the page URL (address) will appear for a short while and then automatically redirect you to the main site. This technique is used to increase the number of times the website will appear in search results, as it will appear through different domains.

Google’s crawlers will see a different page than the users, fooling the robot into giving a false page rank.

Not all redirects are considered spam, there are several redirect types that Google accepts and acknowledges, which you can read about in other blog posts here, or through Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

100% Frames

We’ve already discussed iframes here in this blog. Just like the redirect, and the golden principle of SEO, if what your users see is different than what the Google bot sees, it’s a problem. A 100% frame page is a page covered completely by a frame that consists of different content from the rest of the website. End result – Google sees one thing on which it bases its page ranking and the user sees something entirely different.

Just like the redirect, this enables spammers to index the same site over and over again under different domains. While the different domains may have different content and get ranked as a result of that content, the end user will find himself viewing the same main site.

Hiding Texts and Links

If a text is visible to search engines only it is considered spam. So what does Google consider hidden text?

* Any text written in the same color (or close to) as the web page background.
* Any text situated in an area of the page that has been defined as hidden or invisible using CSS.
* Extremely small fonts that are not legible to internet user.
* Any text that is being hidden behind an image.

While you might find this useful, particularly if you don’t want to overload your web design with texts, it may very well backfire at you. It may get you kicked out of the ranking game altogether, not to mention that clicking ctrl-a in the browser may reveal your texts anyway.

Other Illegitimate Practices to Avoid

Spamming the keywords – using the same keyword over and over without any real content involved.

Cloaking – this is a technological ruse. As you enter the website, the website issues a query inspecting your status. If you are discovered as a crawler you will end up seeing a different page than you would have reached as a regular user.

Doorway Pages – these are pages created solely to optimize for a specific word. The chosen keyword is repeated over and over again on this page, suggesting high relevance to search engines. This doorway page will either include a link to the main homepage or it will include an automatic redirect to the homepage. Either way, this doorway is considered unethical SEO practice.

Excessive Linking between Websites – an exaggerated amount of links between two sites. What’s considered exaggerated? Good question. There isn’t a specific number of links and it depends greatly on the balance of the rest of the content. There is higher risk of getting caught when the two sites use the same IP. In general, triangle linking is much better for SEO purposes. This means that if your website is site A, and you sent a link to site B, site B will link to site C and site C will send the link right back to you – site A. Another unethical practice involves a bombardment of links on a single page or website. Link farms are a particularly deplorable practice.

Selling Links for PR

Lately, websites that have integrated a practice where they sell links to other websites (meaning, website x pays website y to include a link to it) have been losing ground fast. This is done in order to increase the page rank and is also considered deceptive.

So, How Will You Be Discovered?

Search engines use three different methods to discover culprit websites. The first is technological. Search engine bots are programmed to uncover some of the more obvious deception techniques. When the crawler runs in to such cases it will raise a ‘red flag’. This will lead to a temporary PRO penalty (in Google). Usually these penalties are only temporary but in certain cases they may become permanent.

Google and the other search engines also encourage users to report unethical website promotion techniques. You can report other websites through a special web page dedicated to this subject. This is Google’s Spam Report page. You need to sign in to use it though.

Forums are another method of discovering SEO scams. Apparently Google employees read webmaster forums and if they run into something suspicious… they do something about it.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Google Doodle mystery explained as new 'Instant' search results unveiled

Goggle has today announced new 'Instant' search results, introduced for users around the world.

Google searches will now predict what users are looking for from the very first letter they type.

Google's homepage will then switch instantly to a drop-down menu of results that continually updates as the user adds more letters to their search term.


Instant: Google searches will now predict what users are looking for from the very first letter typed


New feature: Google Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer speaks during the launch of Google Instant

A post on the official Google Blog on Wednesday declared: 'Instant takes what you have typed already, predicts the most likely completion and streams results in real-time for those predictions - yielding a smarter and faster search that is interactive, predictive and powerful.

'The user benefits of Google Instant are many — but the primary one is time saved. Our testing has shown that Google Instant saves the average searcher two to five seconds per search.

'That may not seem like a lot at first, but it adds up. With Google Instant, we estimate that we'll save our users 11 hours with each passing second!'

Earlier, there had been numerous suggestions over what the new interactive Google homepage, used for the past two days, meant.

On Wednesday the homepage showed the Google logo in pale grey, with no sign of the interactive balloons which appeared without explanation yesterday.

However when a word was typed into the search engine the letters that make up the word Google one by one reverted to their classic colours.

Tuesday's 'Google Doodle' was a collection of coloured balls that moved away when you tried to pass your mouse over them.

Then, if left undisturbed, they 'settled' and reformed the Google logo.

Google regularly updates the way the way its name is displayed on the homepage to reflect historic dates, famous birthdays and other world events.

Normally, when a user clicks on the Doodle, the reason for the design is displayed as if you'd done a Google search for it.


Faster: Google predicts the new instant searches will save users valuable time

But unlike most Google Doodles, this week's balloon design did not appear to be referring to anything in particular - sparking wild speculation on the internet.

Some commentators correctly predicted the design was a teaser for a big announcement that Google was due to make.

Others pointed out that the design's release almost coincides with what would be Google's 12th birthday.

And others said it was simply an exercise in HTML5 - the latest version of the standard programming code for displaying content on the web.


Google's homepage yesterday was initially grey but gradually recaptured its colour


The Google logo begins to refill in its original colours as you type into the search box


Tuesday's Google Doodle was an interactive balloon design that did not appear to refer to anything in particular