Outdated website design

December 15, 2009

Does your website fit any of the following? Then your web site’s design is outdated for sure. Either you or your web designer is living in a cave ;)

* Never disappearing Under construction clip art sign. Mostly with a nice hammer and nail.

* Home page says Click here to enter for no reason (Except for adult sites)

* Ever loading home page flash screen with a skip flash button.

* Site full of frames.

* Site optimized for Internet Explorer 6.

* The whole site is an image map.

* Non Unicode sites with “find-me-where” download font links.

Related post: Things I hate in web design

Can you think of more clues? Let me know in comments.

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Email Horoscope

December 15, 2009

One’s Email ID and usage behavior could reveal some info about his online history:

* Email IDs like sumathy1999@yahoo.com or john2009@hotmail.com with recent years indicates the year the Email ID was created.

* An Email ID with a very common name like ram@gmail.com or james@gmail.com indicates he was one of the earlier and long time users of the service. No way such a common name is freely available.

* Email IDs like mary1952@yahoo.com or mohammed1969@hotmail.com with very old years indicates the year the person was born.

*  An Email ID like biovishnu@xyz.com or mechsundar@123.com indicates the profession / interest of the person involved.

* An Email ID like writerkumar@gmail.com indicates that the writer is definitely Tamil and no global guy will recognize unless he himself declares as a writer ;)

* An Email ID like priya4raj@gmail.com or aruna4rishi@yahoo.com indicates that the girl is in love with that guy. Most probably the boyfriend will be checking her emails. Beware.

* Any email ID with hotmail.com indicates that the owner is an early user of internet who doesn’t know to move to better email services or he should be real dumb.

* A person with more than 3 email IDs (most likely from small sites) and checks it regularly is a newbie internet user.

* A person who keeps forwarding emails probably doesn’t use internet for anything else worth spending time.

* One who calls you to verify that you received an email is probably a grand father / grand mother who is excited to learn this internet stuff.

* One who uses Twitter instead of Email is a fairly advanced internet user.

Can you think of anything else? :)

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SEO beginners FAQ

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SEO beginners FAQ
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Read How to get listed in Google
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How to get listed in Google?
1. Create a useful site with at least 10 pages of comprehensive, unique and useful content.
2. Use a content management system like WordPress. WordPress takes care of 80% of the SEO mechanics ( See slides 11 and 12)
3. Add a xml sitemap. If you use WordPress, Google XML sitemaps works [...]

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SEO Article Writing

August 1, 2009

Article writing with SEO (Search engine optimization) in mind:
1. Have short, to the point article titles. Place your important keywords at the beginning of the title.
2. Remove non-keywords, common words from the article URL.
(For WordPress ) In a post’s edit view, under the article title, you have an option to edit permalink. Pleas edit it [...]

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