Archive for February, 2008

Google Webmaster tools now on iGoogle homepage!

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Just noticed a new feature on Google webmaster tools. Now we can get important information directly on iGoogle homepage. Adding this gadget is very easy. Simply log in to webmaster tools and under tools there is a new option called Gadgets. Thank you Google and keep coming up with cool ...

SEOs Dance with Google - Tuesday 26th Feburary 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Yesterday was Google Dance day and the SEOs are perhaps still dancing today (Tuesday in US). Some say that page rank is useless, but i tend to believe it has some relevance. At least it is an indicative of the link authority of the site. First noticed it yesterday evening(early a.m. ...

Drupal vs Joomla - The SEO viewpoint - Part 2 (Meta Tags)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

This is the Second part of my side by side comparison of Drupal and Joomla from an SEO viewpoint. In the first part i wrote about Search Engine Friendly URLs, this part will talk about meta tags. Meta tags are an important part of the web page. They are used to ...

Google Adsense text ads in Youtube’s embedded player?

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Today while searching for photography tutorials, i landed up on Cameratown's tutorial page. Surprisingly, there was a contextual text ad for "Canon Flash Photography" on it. Wonder if it is a new phenomenon, searching on Google would only lead me to articles/posts about the adsense video ad units. Take a ...

Google maps for Thailand now speaks English!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Google maps for Thailand is now available with English Language Labels - Better late than never. The moment I heard about this I couldn't help myself, still jumping with Joy. Google has finally answered my prayers... Gives me great plans for my travel portal. I can now increase the usability for ...

Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake rattles Indonesia

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Feburary 20, 2008 (Bangkok) By Sajal Kayan for thaindian.com A Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake with its epicenter at Simeulue struck Indonesia today 03:08:31 PM (Thai time). People from Medan(310 KM from epicenter) have informed thaindian.com about feeling the tremors in Medan. Simeulue is an Island 150 km of the west coast of ...

Piwik the Google Analytics Killer!

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Just today Jan told me about Piwik. At first glance it looks quite neat and developer friendly. The idea seems to be to make an Open Source alternative to Google Analytics and the advantages seems to be many. Piwik is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds ...

Why cant FOSS succeed in India?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Recently Julie posted an interesting article called "open source development: women and Asians last". This attributes the main reason for Women and Asian people's lesser involvement in Open Source development to be its confrontational nature. It does make sense to an extent as far as Thailand is concerned, Thai people ...

Drupal vs Joomla - The SEO viewpoint - Part 1 URLs

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Last month I started using Drupal and explained how Drupal is better in terms of organizing content when compared to Joomla. Today I am going to explain some SEO benifits of using Drupal over Joomla. This is the first part of a series and I will blog about Search Engine Friendly ...

How to Negotiate - Tips for Yahoo!

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Awesome video reached homepage of digg from 2 separate links!