Forms were always the same on wordpress. While the rest of the world had all sorts of fancy ones with immediate response alerts and immediate database checks, wordpress users were all stuck up with the traditional form with a captcha that throws up errors galore !

Well, to break out of this, here’s a brand new form available for wordpress, which is a clean lite weight, ajax powered one that’s slick and cool. It performs quick checks and throws up error messages if the form is not rightly filled, as and when it is being filled. Yes, no annoying re filling.

Check the plugin here. It’s worth a change from the traditional forms. Demo of the form is here.

This week, we’ll be focussing on onsite optimization strategies and quick fixes that will give you a shot up the ladder. Less time, quick work and immediate results are what we are talking about.
Today, let’s discuss twelve super quick fixes for your blog that will help you get that extra boost on the search engines. If yours is a well indexed blog, I’m assuming that the results should show up in a week or less on the SERPs. Ok, so here goes.

Add an H1 tag to your headings and titles.
Check your blog theme. Select your Continue Reading…

Many a times, I get asked, what do you do in social media marketing? And before I answer, there would be a warning saying - I already submit to Digg and other social media sites…so what is it that you do apart from that?

That’s an interesting question altogether. The fact is that social media marketing is not just about Digg, or submitting to a few sites as Digg. There is a much larger picture to be revealed.

Submitting to Digg is in itself a big chapter. We’ve discussed it on this article and this one.

Anyone can submit to Digg. But Continue Reading…

Before reading this article, you might have to check this article here by Rand, where he is suggesting 10 questions to the search engines.

I had replied to it over here with two more questions from my side to Google and here is Matt’s reply to my questions.

Well, basically I was trying to ask Google about sitelinks. I wanted to know from Google as to whether they would give us more control over the sitelinks as many of the links appearing there are not relevant.

We had a discussion on DailySEOblog over sitelinks over here once. Where we had discussed on Continue Reading…

It may be a big deal getting lots of fans on Digg. Most of us get minimum ten friend requests daily and there is a whole bunch of friends on Digg.Now, how many shouts do you get on email everyday from all of these friends? Quite some isn’t it? And how many do you reply to or digg? Well, keep the answer to yourself.

The question is - How can you effectively use the friends and community on digg to market your websites on Digg?The answer probably is in the question itself - You are trying to “market” your sites.

Digg Continue Reading…

Just a fancy title that one. Just got my hands on a Macbook, and it feels really good. It’s a sexy baby and an inspiring one.

Viewing websites on a Mac and safari is a great feeling to me as it reminds me every time of the quality levels. Every minute detail about the Mac is very impressive and it oozes out sheer brilliance in every application. Gradients, shadows, crisp lines, blunt corners and smooth curves it’s a beauty inside out.

I was always a Mac/Steve fan and always wanted to get one. I don’t feel pity for Windows or Continue Reading…

This is a great advancement on the Google custom search product. Now, Google allows you to customize your custom search by -

- Letting you chose the sites from the which the results are to be displayed.
now, you can type in the URLs from which you want the results to be displayed. Already Google lets the user decide whether he wants to search in the particular site or from the web. Now to top that, the admin (you) can decide as to from which sites the results should be displayed while the user selects “the web”.

- Letting you specify keywords Continue Reading…

Another innovation from Google is here to help you deal with your regional language, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil etc on the iternet.
You can now try out Google’s new English to Hindi translation service, and the translated search feature that lets you query in Hindi, obtain search results for the translated query in English, and then see the Hindi translations of these results.
Bright idea this one!
Read more about the new service here.

It makes sense for someone to look for the ROI when he’s investing money on an SEO project right?
When dealing with clients who have a limited budget, one question that they are keen on is -

“What ROI would I get investing all this money in SEO?”

And I think that’s an interesting question because, in any other project, there is a ROI calculator, especially SEM. When you are opting for PPC ads, there is a clearly a mathematics involved. In PPC, you have a daily budget and you know how much traffic you get, it’s all out there in Continue Reading…

Hey, do you have a doubt on SEO? I’ve opened a new forum at DailySEOblog, to let you ask those questions and discuss it with the community. Many a times the doubts I get on emails are interesting that it’s worthy to share it with others. The articles on them are fine, and I’ll keep doing that, but just more than clearing the doubt, i thought it’s important to pool in others ideas and discuss it. So we have a forum.

Check out the DSB How To forums here.

It’s a very simple forum with all the basic features, no fancy Continue Reading…