Let’s face it, advertising your website using just CPC may give you a boost in number of visitors but these will be just a bulk of visitors who saw your ad, found it fancy enough to click and then went away to other website. What you actually need to do is make your website strong and worthy on the net. Since search engines are the main source of what I call ‘working’ visitors who will actually benefit you, you need to tell the search engine how much important and useful your website is. SEO Link Building Strategies are the way to go to this. In simple language what it means is that you build up links pointing to your website and its particular pages with certain keywords carefully and strategically chosen by SEO’s. These links are obviously from those sites which belong to the genre of your website. Getting link backs from quality websites and choosing keywords is best left to expert search engine optimizers.

Suppose you have a website which sells ball pens. You need to attract students as well as corporate buyers who will buy pens in bulk for their office stationary. This means you need to get links from both educational websites which will be visited by students as well as those which deal with ball pens or other kind of stationary items. Search engine counts each quality back link and increase your website rank accordingly. Higher ranked website will be ranked higher in search results too. Other than link building, your website will also need to be optimized for better search engine crawling. This is again done by SEO’s who will set proper keywords, alt tags, page description and many such things in the code of your website.

The sooner you get the help of SEO’s the better it will be for your website. All those websites proving back links to your website with time also have much more value thereby increasing your website value exponentially.

Is it 1st April? No, then did RBI changed rules? No not at all. It’s called a silly mistake or maybe a crude joke and worse salts on still fresh wounds of Indian PayPal users. We all still remember how fast and easy it was to pay using PayPal. What I am talking about is about the resent mass sent email by PayPal to all its users about using PayPal to shop for mother’s day gift. Oh really can we do that? Obviously not as Indian PayPal users were well informed by PayPal long before that they cannot use their PayPal funds to make any purchase or even pay for any service. PayPal could have well avoided sending this mother’s day offer email to its Indian users but someone at their office clicking on that send email button did not bother to filter Indian account email Id’s.

Google every year post something out of the world, which is obviously not true and just a prank to make people laugh. Due to the innovative nature (or rather purchasing innovative technology) of Google, some people get fooled easily and start thinking about it seriously. Here is the link of this year’s prank:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Heck they even made an almost 2 min video on this explaining features and some photos of people using the technology which they call Gmail Motion in real, just to make people believe in it. Read the page, its sure funny but

Have you ever felt the laziness in your computer system in responding to your clicks when you are running multiple applications? Same happens with shared web server because they are also a computer after all and when they are loaded with burden of running multiple high traffic websites, they do come to knees sometimes. Dedicated hosting on the other hand though priced higher than shared one, is always ready to deliver their peak performance because it’s working only for single user.

In business everyone wants to save cost to get maximum profit, so if your website is new on web and not getting much traffic, you can do with shared for a while but make sure you don’t stick to it just for saving on hosting charges when your website traffic increase. If you do stick to it, you are losing on traffic which would have brought you more profit. Suppose your website gets 10,000 hits per hour and you are on shared host which goes offline due to this huge traffic, you will have less actual visits on your site and those who manage to open your website will get a poor experience because it will be responding slowly. Now a percentage of this traffic will get annoyed and never visit your website. If you would have upgraded to dedicated server before this rise of traffic, you would have provided a blazing fast browsing experience to your visitors and no downtime. One more benefit of dedicated server is that you get the root access which means you control everything, a typical feature of UNIX operating system which powers most web servers. There is another type of hosting called VPS (Virtual Private Server) where you get the root access too, but it’s virtual as the CPU is shared with other clients. However VPS Hosting is much better in performance than shared ones because if VPS you have dedicated RAM, dedicated disk space and dedicated IP just like in dedicated hosting. Due to sharing of CPU, VPS cost less than dedicated hosting so if you need root access and want better performance than shared but not willing go dedicated right now, you can opt for VPS plans and upgrade to dedicated when you are ready for it.

YouTube.com is undoubtedly the most browsed video site and used world over for uploading almost all types of videos, from pros to armatures everyone use this site. YouTube was purchased by Google long back but even when this big daddy of Internet has its hand on this baby; YouTube still lacks the basic video playing capability. The most important part of this website is its video player and I find it buggy.

Bug #1: Disappearing of buffered content. This bug is irritating for those who have slow internet connection. If you are on slow connection or when loading a long video in standard size player, the moment you decide to view video in full screen and click on that full screen icon, the buffered content is gone! Although YouTube Player is sometimes in good mood and does not vanish the buffered content but it happens rarely.

Bug#2: Play and pause button has a lag. When you pause a playing video on YouTube and then resume it, it skips some frames. Even freely available web based video player has smooth pause and play, don’t know why Google can’t fix this.

Bug#3: Player controls going off in full screen mode. This is not a bug but I do feel a great feature missing here. When you watch a video in full screen mode, the player controls go off and on when you move cursor. However I would say it would be good to keep it like windows media player i.e., keep the controls on screen when cursor is where controls are and make it go off screen when cursor is moved away from bottom part of screen. Reason is simple I always want to see how much video is left and at which point I am viewing the video when I am on full screen.

Indian PayPal users received a mail from PayPal few minutes back about some upcoming changes to PayPal User agreement for India.

This is totally ridiculous, now Indian users can’t buy anything using their PayPal funds and only use it to accept payment that too with $500 limit. This is the worst ever hit Indian PayPal users (incuding me) will get because many of us rely on PayPal for purchasing domains and buying stuff online.

Here is the copy of that mail:

With effect from 1 March 2011, you are required to comply with the requirements set out in the notification of the Reserve Bank of India governing the processing and settlement of export-related receipts facilitated by online payment gateways (“RBI Guidelines”).

In order to comply with the RBI Guidelines, our user agreement in India will be amended for the following services as follows:

Any balance in and all future payments into your PayPal account may not be used to buy goods or services and must be transferred to your bank account in India within 7 days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the goods or services; and

Export-related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed US$500 per transaction.
We seek your understanding as we continue to employ our best efforts to comply with the RBI Guidelines in a timely manner.

We regret any inconvenience caused to you and hope the advance notice will enable you to plan your future use of our services accordingly. For further information, click here.

If you have any questions, please contact PayPal customer support by logging into your PayPal account and clicking on ‘contact us’ at the bottom of the page. We sincerely thank you for your patience and continued support.

Sincerely,

The PayPal Team