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Google India Map – One Map, Three Perspectives

By Shivam Vaid On May 16, 2011 Leave a Comment 129 views

The other day, I was browsing through Google Maps when I discovered something pretty interesting. India’s border conflict with Pakistan and China is no hidden a story. Each country claims the same piece of land to be their own territory. In the north, the border conflict exists in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and in the east, the state of Arunachal Pradesh is center of the conflict. So what does Google do in such a case – when all countries have a different interpretation of their borders? It simply….. Read More

How To Find Who Links To My Site

By Shivam Vaid On May 3, 2011 Leave a Comment 339 views

As a website owner/blogger, it is important to know which all websites are linking back to your site. Links from popular sites mean better exposure for your blog and increased credibility. Following are the two ways in which you can check out on who links to your website. Google Option 1 In the Google search box, just type in link:www.yourwebsiteurl.com replacing the yourwebsiteurl by your own domain name and click on search. The search results would represent the set of web pages that have a link pointed to this very….. Read More

How To Create Bar Charts

By Shivam Vaid On April 27, 2011 Leave a Comment 96 views

If you are looking at an online service, that helps you to make bar charts in a matter of seconds, look no further than Google ImageCharts. This online service from Google helps you create bar charts that you can share with other people as well as embed in your website. The whole process is just two step You select the chart pattern from a set of example charts. You fill in the details related to the chart and fine tune the look and feel You can change bar color, background….. Read More

Get Images For Commercial Use Through Google Search

By Shivam Vaid On April 5, 2011 Leave a Comment 160 views

In my earlier posts, I had talked about how can you get royalty free photos for your blog and also have creative commons images in your wordpress blog posts easily. However, if you are looking at an even simpler way to get free images for commercial use, you do not need anything more than your regular Google image search. So what do I need to do? Head over to Google advance image search. Enter the keyword for image search along with optional parameters like file type/size. Under the usage rights….. Read More

Google FeedBurner Socialize : A TwitterFeed Alternative

By Shivam Vaid On August 2, 2010 3 Comments 838 views

I had been using the twitterfeed service for sending updates about my blog postings to twitter. The service had been working well for about 6 months now. However, I had been facing a few problems where occasionally I was finding the some posts were getting skipped while others never got published on to my twitter account. So first I checked my settings on twitterfeed and suspected that possibly the reason for failure was one of the settings. Essentially I had told twitterfeed to scan feeds every one hour and update….. Read More

Website Traffic Recovering After The Drop In June

By Shivam Vaid On July 17, 2010 Leave a Comment 45 views

I mentioned in my previous post as to how Google traffic dropped to Inficone in late June. This was very surprising and disappointing as I get majority of my traffic from search engines. I remained patient since I was not able to co-relate this drop with the May update by Google since the drop happened only in late June. I was hoping that this is indeed a temporary drop and the traffic would recover back. Holidays in some part of the world OR temporary glitch in search results were my….. Read More

Website Traffic From Google Dropped In June 2010

By Shivam Vaid On June 30, 2010 Leave a Comment 32 views

The traffic on Inficone has been growing steadily and the analytics graph has been showing a healthy upward growth for the past few months. However, in middle/late June I suddenly noticed that the website traffic has considerably on the downside and has almost dropped by significant as well as serious 50%. I could not make out any apparent reason for this sudden drop. The main reason for the drop looked to be the fact that suddenly the keywords that used to give hits on a daily basis were totally absent….. Read More

Spam Detector Helps Detect Keyword Stuffing And Text Hiding

By Shivam Vaid On June 30, 2010 Leave a Comment 197 views

Inficone completed 100 posts recently. It was good to see the hard work of last 7 months convert to a small milestone. The readership of the blog also kept increasing all through this time encouraging me to write more as well as write better. I thought it to be a good moment to apply for Google Adsense. So I did the same last week and was eagerly waiting for a response. However – to my disappointment I recieved the following email “Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately,….. Read More

Some Google Search Tips That Help Get Better Results

By Shivam Vaid On June 28, 2010 Leave a Comment 26 views

Google is one of the widely used search engines on the internet. While most of the times, you would be able to get the information that you require – at times you would prefer to be able to arrive at the desired page faster than what you would have been able to do. In such a case – you might want to look at few of the following Google search tips that help to refine your search and make it more result oriented to your objective. Search within URL Content….. Read More

Beginners Guide To SEO For WordPress

By Shivam Vaid On June 24, 2010 4 Comments 101 views

If you are new to blogging and have recently started your blog on wordpress, in addition to writing engaging content on your blog – it is also extremely critical to take care of plenty of other things like SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ), social media presence, interaction with blog readers and so on. While there is a lot of material available on the internet if you do a web search, how about a small concise guide that could quickly get you started right from your post one so that….. Read More