Reason for prediction is the fact that the war between the webmasters and Google Search Engine. Google will continue to improve it’s search engine algorithm and SEO experts will find new ways to exploit the search algorithm. This will go on till Google’s search algorithm will get saturated, they will run out of options. Which I can already smell with there page rank algorithm. Google is now punishing webmasters for passing PR to other websites for a price. This just shows how desperate Google has become. As Google gets more strict with it’s algorithms there will be a time when webmasters will be so pissed that they will start blocking the Google search bot and that will start Google’s free fall!!. This is when all webmasters will unite together and there will be mass removal of pages from Google. With more and more quality pages taken out from Google index other search engine specially Yahoo! will go for the kill and attract webmasters to Yahoo! search.

When this happens Google will never be able to recover as all it is left with is useless spammed pages!! and falling share prices it will be only matter of time that Google Search will go backcrupt. Google will try to sustain the search engine by cutting profits from it’s other products only in vain. Why the year 2011 ? Because Google will be 15 years old.. And the 15th year of Google will spell it’s DOOM!!

I would say you bookmark this page and come back on 2011 and see..

1. GTalk Profile :

Google doesnt have a Member search directory like Yahoo. GTalk Profile lets you find other Google™ Talk users from around the world. You can click a point on the map to search for users at that location. Points on the map can represent countries, states/provinces, or cities/towns. You can also use the search box to even further narrow your search.

2. GTalk Sidebar on Firefox :

Firefox is one browser that has changed the way we browse the web, with lots of coders supporting Firefox no wonder all latest applications gets imported to Firefox one way or another. If you are still using Internet Explorer I highly recommend you to move to Mozilla Firefox.

GTalk sidebar is a small plugin on Firefox that lets you browse as you chat all via the same window. No need to open Gmail on a tab for chat or install GTalk IM application. Pretty handy plugin. To install this plugin you need firefox and you can get the plugin here.

3. GTalk on iGoogle :

iGoogle is a personalised homepage, it lets you manage all your news, mails, feeds, search etc. on the same homepage. Another way to say Google’s interactive search homepage. It is similiar to Yahoo’s Personalized homepage.

Add GTalk to your iGoogle homepage .

4. GTalk on Facebook :

It is now also possible to add GTalk to your facebook profile page using which you can chat with other added Gtalk members with out leaving facebook.

add the facebook application to your profile.

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When we started the optimization we found out that we were seriously lacking in these keywords. After following those steps I can see my rankings improving. Currently for the keyword “gimp tutorial” I am ranking 8^th in Google and for the keyword “gimp tutorials” I am ranking 11^th rank. My ultimate goal is to teach in the top 5 for these keywords, but again as I told with search engine lots of patience is required so I am just waiting.

What did I do to come into the first page. Since my niche is gimp tutorials, the best thing to do for me was to contact the gimp.org webmaster and ask him for an link inclusion. It does require some luck here as getting linked by those websites are not easy. But considering the quality and the service to them they gave a link back. This was a big boost to my SEO campaign form ghuj. I have also contacted other webmasters of other similar websites to link back to me. Just waiting for there reply, if they do. I also did a directory submission service for my site ghuj.com, submitted my site to over 1000 directories. It will take some time for Google to index those pages. I am excited for the next Google Page rank update, I am expecting at least a pr 5 or may be a 6, anything above that would be great.

What is important to consider in this post is:

• Ask famous/successful websites in your niche to link back to you.
• Submit your website to directories. It is very important to do it in properly i.e. under right category etc. ( You can contact me for this at info (@) idigitalcore.com)
• Have patience, search engines take time to update itself as it has to update millions and zillions of website, so you are in queue.

What’s next ?

It is time to take next step in to search engine optimization. It is a well known fact that Google loves blogs. So now I am considering maintaining a blog at ghuj.com where I will regularly post latest happening in GIMP. This will help me generate new pages and keep my site active. Once the website start generating some traffic I may consider starting a forum. Untill then happy optimization.

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In a previous post regarding SEO,one of my blog reader Ravikant had pointed out that I missed sitemaps. Sitemaps are very essential part of your website. Sitemaps are nothing but a page that links to all the contents/sections of your website.

Why sitemaps ?

Usually when it comes SEO we need to establish a balance both the visitors and the search engine bots. So, sometimes we compromise on design to make it search engine friendly or sometimes we need such designs for our users to make them comfortable on the website at the cost of search engine. So a perfect balance must be maintained as both search engine and visitors matters to us the most. But fortunately with sitemap it serves both i.e. the visitors and search engine perfectly.

• It helps the user to understand your website navigation structure.If he gets lost,he can follow the sitemap to browse through the website.
• It helps the search engine by listing all the links on a single page, this way it becomes easier for the search engine to index our pages by visiting these links.

After having a sitemap on your blog you will find out that users are staying on your blog for a longer duration by reading more contents. The chances of your website being bookmarked increases, because when he see’s the sitemap he finds many new articles and contents which he never knew existed. Not many of the visitors will explore through your monthly archive. Sitemap provides a shorter and a quicker way to explore the site contents.

With search engine you will give it an opportunity to explorer and index the pages which it could not index for some reason, simple reason being it never found it. The ultimate goal of SEO is to get maximum pages of your website indexed by the search engine.

Installing sitemaps

I found this really interesting wordpress plugin that automatically generates the sitemap as your keep on updating your blog. You can find this plugin here. You can see my site’s sitemap here.

This is from there website

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.

Upload the plugin to your wordpress plugin directory and activate the plugin in your admin panel. Once that is done go to options>sitemap plugin and set your preferences. If you are using permalink enter the text as sitemap.

Go to create new page select code and insert <!– ddsitemapgen –> into the page and give the page title as sitemap and save the page. You can find more insturctions on installation of this plugin at authors website.

As I started faced a strange problem with permalinks, because it was mandatory for me to maintain the same url structure as the tutorials are indexed into many tutorial directories and breaking on these links may mean loosing traffic. Also cooljeba.com is doing pretty good search engine wise so didn’t want to break the trend . So ladies and gentlemen get ready for new fresh tutorials in near future. A new age has begun for cooljeba.com he he..

• Leftbar
• Single Post
• Header

I have left the publisher id blank, where you can insert it and start using it. This theme follows all TOS of Google Adsense. I have added three adsense ads unit and 1 link unit.

Theme Preview :

Test Run:

You can see this theme live in action here. Install this theme on your server to find out how the ads are placed strategically.

Download:

You can download the 3k2 beta 101 Adsense ready wordpress theme . If it has helped in increasing your revenue do let me know.

Happy Earning.

This is what Google has to say:

Your site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity. However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. This is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact your site’s ranking in search results. Examples of link schemes can include:

• Links intended to manipulate PageRank
• Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
• Link exchange and reciprocal links schemes (“Link to me and I’ll link to you.”)
• Buying or selling links

The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. Before making any single decision, you should ask yourself the question: Is this going to be beneficial for my page’s visitors?

It is not only the number of links you have pointing to your site that matters, but also the quality and relevance of those links. Creating good content pays off: Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the buzzing blogger community can be an excellent place to generate interest. In addition, submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.

My Comments:

As a webmaster of a website we should learn to look beyond Google. Google does mean a lot of thing but it is not everything. Apart from the alteration of Pagerank ,I recommend you to read why Google is against paid links which I blogged sometimes back. Google expects us to submit our websites to Yahoo! Directory which costs us $300 and to DMOZ (you will grow old and die by the time (if) they approve you). So I recommend do not be bother about Google, if it strictly starts implementing this policy many non link selling website will be affected and there will be major changes in the search engine results.

Anyways lets get back to our SEO for website promotion, since Google says it may penalize websites we will try to avoid link building process and try alternatives to generate traffic for our websites.

Advertisement:

To promote your website the most important thing to consider is your budget. It is better if you have good budget, but if you are tight on your budget I consider you should get some free advertisement.

Social Bookmarking Websites:

You have to be exceptionally well if you want to make it to the front page of website for eg.Digg. But people can actually buy there way up. It is not the right way to do it, but it is a good alternative to get lots of traffic to your website.

Web directories:

Web directories are also a good way to build your links. There are thousands of directories out there where you can submit your links. Previously I wrote a post for directory owners, on how they can earn money from directory. As a webmaster you can buy these featured links to be placed above the rest of the websites in the category, it will help you get some traffic to your website. But directories can generate a lot of link backs, which seems ok to Google. Currently I am offering web directory submission service myself. You can contact me on [info [at] idigitalcore.com] for more info.

Packages Available:

Starters pack:

• 50 Directory Submission – $3

Directory Submissions without Excel Report Sheet

• 100 Directory Submissions – $5
• 200 Directory Submissions – $9
• 300 Directory Submissions – $14
• 400 Directory Submissions – $19
• 500 Directory Submissions – $24
• 1000 Directory Submissions – $49

Directory Submissions with Excel Report Sheet ( Consists of the Directory List sorted by Page Rank)

• 100 Directory Submissions – $9
• 200 Directory Submissions – $14
• 300 Directory Submissions – $19
• 400 Directory Submissions – $24
• 500 Directory Submissions +50 Directories Free = 550 Directories – $29
• 1000 Directory Submissions + 100 Directories Free (WOW) = 1100 – $54

Directory Submissions with Screen shot and Excel Reports Sheet ( Consists of the Directory List sorted by Page Rank)

• 100 Directory Submissions – $19
• 200 Directory Submissions – $29
• 300 Directory Submissions – $39
• 400 Directory Submissions – $49
• 500 Directory Submissions +50 Directories Free = 550 Directories-$ 59
• 1000 Directory Submissions + 100 Directories Free (WOW) = 1100 – $79

Article Submission:

You can also write articles regarding your website and submit it across various Article directories. You can find the list of free article directory at Directory critic.

For my website ghuj.com I have bought around 700 article submissions across various blogs and currently doing link building using directory submission. I am going to submit Ghuj.com to all the directories I have in my list.

META Tag:

It is time to observe the code. I opened the code and found that GHUJ.COM doesn’t have the meta tag. Meta tags are considered important in SEO because they tell the search engine about the website. In Meta we have two important fields the Meta keyword and the Meta Description.
Meta Description: Describe in brief about your website, keep it under 30 words.
Meta Keywords: Keep around 10 keywords.
Here is the TAG that I chose for GHUJ.COM

<META name=”description” content=”The Gimp tutorials for newbie’s and advanced users. “>
<meta name=’keywords’ content=’the gimp, tutorial, tutorials, gimp tutorials, gimp download, gimp windows, gimp brushes, gimp mac’>

Check out your competitor’s website for this description, do not copy the exact code instead you can modify it to suit your website.
TITLE Tag:

Titles are very important in SEO, Google searches for keywords in titles. So we must carefully write a page title for our webpage. Do not include more than 3 keywords in the title, else Google may consider it as spamming. Make sure you use the title depending upon the content of the page. Do not use the same title for all the pages.
Keep you code clean
If you have Javascripts in your header I recommend moving them into separate files. When Google bot visits your site and starts the process of indexing it may enter an infinite loop because of some JavaScript so after sometimes it times out and doesn’t index the file it may even blackmark the page so it may not waste it’s time again in the same page. So moving your JavaScripts to a external .js file is a good practice. Validate your pages at http://validator.w3.org/
IMG TAG (Image Tag):

In a previous post I have mentioned how to optimize your images for search engines. I recommend you do a quick read before we proceed.

HEADING TAGS:

Make proper use of the <H> tag, Mark your headings with <H1> Tags . Instead of the <b> tag use <strong>. Use the <p> tag to split up the contents into new paragraphs. To say it straight, if you have used a WYSIWYG editor go through the code all over again and make necessary changes.

Write Quality/Unique Contents:

This is the most important step in SEO, quality/unique contents gets natural links and perform better in search engines. The key is to write more and more pages, the more pages you write the more they are indexed and the more is your chances of being found. Never stop writing articles related to your niche as this keeps the site updated and Google likes fresh contents. This is why SEO experts recommend to start a blog for your website.

Let me summarize all the steps :

• Include a proper Meta Tag.
• Rework on your Title Tag.
• Clean up your code/validate your code.
• Rework on your Image Tags.
• Update your site regularly.

Now our website is ready for the search engine. The next step is to promote our website, which I will be covering tomorrow. Until then happy optimizing.

1. gimp tutorial
2. gimp download
3. the gimp
4. gimp windows
5. gimp brushes
6. gimp mac

Now I compared these top 5 keywords to choose one main keyword. Rest of the keyword will be supporting keywords. To compare these keywords I used Google Trends. It gives you the comparisons depending upon search volumes across various countries and sorted by month, year. I chose the region to be across the word and year to be 2007. You see the live comparisons here.
Here is the screenshot.

• Gimp Tutorials – 17th Rank
• Gimp Download – Not in top 50
• The Gimp – Not in top 50
• Gimp Windows – Not in top 50
• Gimp Brushes – Not in top 50
• Gimp Mac – Not in top 50

We can now see we are not performing well in the search engine for our niche. Tomorrow I will do onsite optimization to include these keywords and concentrate to make our page more Search Engine friendly.