Amit Agarwal an Indian Pro Blogger On CNN IBN

Armit Argawal is the man behind Digital Inspiration at http://labnol.blogspot.com/, one of the most successful blogs in India. He has been blogging professionally since 2004 and he’s perhaps the first professional blogger in India.

Considering that India’s population is exceeding 1 billion out of which, 26 million are Internet users - about the same as the population of Malaysian population – it would be interesting to get to know this first Indian pro blogger a little closer.

Amit was recently featured on CNN IBN, an English language Indian TV news channel which is a partnership between an India media corporation with CNN.

Google Pay Per Action Screen Shots

Here’s some screenshots of Google Pay Per Action in action for those like myself who are wondering how it works from the Adwords advertise side.

The stat offerings look more basic compare to those available via some established affiliate networks like CJ.com and Linkshare.

Google offering is promising but lacks value added services as one would expect from an affiliate marketing company.

It does not allow the flexibility for affiliates to offer various creatives such as banner ads, email campaigns, besides the normal text link ads and put them in any context a publisher may wish.

The Longest Domain Name In The World

Internet domain name allows sixty three characters maximum and six people last year registered the longest Internet addresses allowed for the European .eu domain.

The domains names range from the tongue-twisting name of a Welsh village to the first 63 numbers that make up the mathematical constant pi.

The domains include

thisisthelongesteuropeandomainnameallovertheworldandnowitismine.eu

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.eu

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.eu

Another French company has registered a French language phrase promising that its services would help Internet business grow

lerelaisinternet-com-favorise-la-croissance-de-votre-entreprise.eu.

Another tongue-twisting name is

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.eu

which is a village on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales.

How Google Rank Your Blog

Most search engine optimisation articles focus on issues that are applicable to general site when discussing about optimizing a blog for Google search engine. You may have read from my previous post that these issues include using the correct use of title tags, URL structures, post headings and so on.

However, it’s good to be aware that Google might use a slightly different criteria when it comes to ranking a blog at Google’s Blog Search.

Phillip Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has written about a patent application from Google for ‘ranking blog documents’, filed in late 2005.

Make Your WordPress Blog Search Engine Friendly

Jim Westergren has written a collection of useful tips to help you improve your blog ranking in Google.

While I’ve discussed some of tips here at Sabahan.com, Jim’s post covers most of the topics and more in one location.

There are many variables that you can tinker with to improve your ranking in Google, and reading the article will ensure you are heading in the right direction.

However, contrary to what Jim said, I think RSS feeds link are not ‘totally useless’ and therefore using the nofollow attribute would not be advisable.

Google Introduced Personalized Homepage Themes

Google’s personalized homepage has been my start page for a while. I use it because I want keep track of new emails, feed updates and other info right after I launch my web browser.

The page design was rather plain and uninspiring to my liking; until a new feature was introduced recently.

To see this new feature, just head to google.com/ig and login to your Google account. On the right side you’ll see a ‘Select a Theme’ box where you can select from 7 nice looking designs.

March 24 World Shutdown Day - A No Computer Day

We already have the CSS naked day where webmasters turn off their style sheets from their website for one day on April 05 every year.

Then someone came up with another idea of a day without something – this time it’s a day without a computer.

The day is supposed to be on March 24 which falls on this coming Saturday. People running mission critical operations should stay away from participating as I think this move is for those using computers personally. You wouldn’t want to shut down your company’s servers now would you?

Google Pay-Per-Action Program Now In Beta

The idea of Google introducing pay per action ads has been talked about for sometime.

Today, Google has announced a new service called the Google Pay-Per-Action advertising.

Pay-per action works like many other pay per lead affiliate programs where you get paid when users completed certain action such as a lead, a sale or a page view after they clicked on the pay-per-action ad that appear on your site.

The referrals beta allows some flexibility where you can select matching products with your site’s content and you can customize your referral units to match the look and feel of your site.

4 Mbps Broadband Will Be Available To TM Customers Soon

Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) is partnering with US-based Verizon Business to offer cheaper, faster and more reliable broadband package soon.

Verizon’s network will offer additional redundancy link in case of nature disasters or other mishaps like what had happened during the quake off the coast of Taiwan in December last year.

Unfortunately no figures were disclosed as to how these translate into the exact package their will offer. However, TM CEO, Datuk Abdul Wahid Omar revealed that TM will offer a 4 Mbps broadband package soon.

The Correct Anchor Text Will Get You On The First Page of Google Search Results

I can help but feel a little jealous about JohnChow.com . In his latest blog post he described how he managed to be on the first page on Google search result for the term “make money online”, barely four days after he changed the rules for reviewing his blog.

You can view the top anchor text people used to link to your blog through Google Webmaster Central.

Since the ranking is dynamic; I believe John Chow will go up the rank as more and more people use the “make money online” anchor text to link to him.

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