Thinking of what’s next? Do you want to leave the site with the results that you have attained and be forget SEO since you have got your results? Nope. You shouldn’t.

If your targeted keywords generates enough revenue then think of how much competitive your keywords should be and how many of your competitors will be using those keywords and working for good number of quality links for their site

Search engine algorithm gives better value for frequently updated site with keywords around the content and for site that continuously gets quality backlinks.

Watch closely you’re competitor and find out what they do to compete your site. Here are the factors that needs to be frequently monitored

(1) Content update - It is always recommended to fine-tune and update your content at least once in a month or two with keywords around meeting keyword density and keyword prominence.
(2) Brushing up your Keywords  - As always monitor your top ranking keywords and fine-tune it according to the number of total search results and compare with your competitors activity on those keywords of your target. Check out the areas in your content to know where you can focus your top keywords and build quality backlinks for those keywords as anchor text. Be sure to meet keyword density and do not stuff keywords.
(3) External site link juice - Check whether all the links build exits with time period, since some may be removed or moved out to some inner folder level and the algorithm might not identity those backlinks. So build equal and relevant links as an alternative to those links that had been masked and improve or retain the position with good number of quality links.
(4) Monitory traffic - Analyzing your traffic is one of the essential factor were you need to know how site performs with search engine organic clicks and directories or sites referrals. If you notice any drops in traffic, identify those area and work on them to set your goal.

And also here are the checklists that can help you to maintain SEO results and withstand the competition

(1) Check how your competitors rank in Google, Yahoo and Bing for your keywords?
(2) Have you updated your content that meets current target market and information?
(3) Are you tweaking your web site structure for search engine friendliness that meets current algorithm?
(4) Are you working on building quality links regularly?
(5) Are you optimizing your site with the current popular keywords?
(6) Are you analyzing you traffic to know from which location your visitors are coming from and optimize the site for those location based search engines?

These important factors and checklist will help you to measure the site strength and weakness of your site. Now you should have known that search engine optimization is not one time activity and search engine algorithm gets updated often and competitors fight for your top keywords position. Keep in mind, your website needs continues SEO in order to retain and improve your good SEO results.

Maintaining the SERPs (result/Postion) are equally important as your SEO process. Continuous SEO is within the process of SEO to generate continuous business queries to make. So keep up the good SEO, Always, do not think about stopping your activities.

But when years passed by, the requirements too changed. When we started working collaboratively, (which was made easy with the internet and the bandwidth growth) people slowly started moving into web based application. Web based Emails are possibly the first web applications people used. People started developing cross-browser compatible web applications. We stopped application development with VB and started focusing only on ASP and then ASP.NET. Now Web 2.o has changed the perspective of ’software’ completely. Also Hybrid applications became possible with APIs etc.

Likewise, in Mobile, there are two ways to develop Mobile applications. Mobile browser based applications – which are websites optimized for Mobile browsers and Installable or Native Mobile applications. They both has advantages and disadvantages.

Why Mobile Browser based applications and why not?

Mobile Brower based applications are slow due to the bandwidth limitations and will eat up your download limits in your plan. Also, the user need to remember the URLs, Type it which is really hard. Advantage is that the development cost is low since the developer pays additional attention only to make it compatible with most possible mobile browsers. Also now the many Mobile browsers supports HTML and the smart phones comes with bigger screens to see the full sized websites, if not by zooming it. We have keyboards too to manage this. But, if you want to browse sites, you can do that in your tiny Netbook, which you carry with you always, right?

So, In short: The advantage is the low development cost and the disadvantage is the bandwidth limitations and the limitations of Mobile websites which does not access your Phone’s components like Address book, Camera etc.

Why Native mobile applications and why not?

Native (installable) application resides in your Mobile, if you launch it, the search with parameters which are within your mobile (Eg. The 50 state names in USA, Your favorite locations to see daily weather etc). Except free text search, the rest of the search parameters can be stored in the mobile – OR they can be updated just one time.  The communication between the Data/Web server and the mobile could be drastically reduced. An application like share portfolio can be created within your Phone and stored. Every day you just need to update the stock prices. You need not download the entire portfolio each day. Also, the application resides within the phone can access phone’s capability such as camera, phone book /contacts etc to and make the applications ‘Native’.

I also absorbed another  hidden advantage of native application is brand loyalty. If the customer installs a mobile application which you supply, he will rely on your application. For Eg. I use Viigo for regular information updates (News, weather etc) But a site called Justdial.com or Google local for local address research. If Justdial comes with a Blackberry solution, they captured me as their user

The disadvantage is obviously the development cost. No two mobile platforms share a mobile application, and there are too many Mobile operating systems (or platforms) exist in the market. If you develop a mobile application to market it widely, you need to develop that in J2ME (for phones that support only Java with no loaded OS), Symbian, Mac iPhone, Android, RIM, WebOS( for Palm pre), LinMo and Windows mobile. Though J2ME (or Java ME) is widely used, it has the Graphic limitations and I am sure it won’t look nice in my Blackberry Bold!. If the developer do not have expertise in more than one technology, then you need to run behind various mobile developers, finding them under one roof would be difficult.

So, In short: The advantage is quick access, less data transaction  and the disadvantage is the cost of development.

Hybrid mobile applications?

No, Hybrid application is not ‘going Green’ or developing applications ‘environment friendly!’

They are Applications that uses browser interfaces and native mobile components. With HTML5 and JavaScripts now the browsers are becoming capable of accessing phone’s built in features like contacts, camera etc. We started developing applications using PhoneGap and I believe solutions like PhoneGap should fill-in this gap.  Platform free mobile solutions are what we need now and the gap between the browser based applications and native mobile applications is getting closure.

Finally what could be the disadvantages in hybrid mobile applications? Two things comes to my mind. Application security and learning curve for the developers. Mobile developers need to know HTML and Web developers need to know mobile phone APIs. Right? Let us see how we overcome these.

God Bless for a Wonderful NewYear!

As most PHP projects characteristically connect to MySQL databases, Netbeans has made a concentrated effort to offer to this configuration. By means of the Netbeans IDE 6.5 Beta, web developers can now benefit from the standard features like the syntax highlighting, refactoring, code templates, pop-up documentation, easy code navigation, debugger and lots more.

I have been currently using Netbeans IDE and I have penned down few features and positives that I came across in writing PHP based web application.

• It comes free.
• Netbeans will go along with PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Java and lots more.
• Indentation format is out of the top draw in Netbeans. You select a block of code which contains css, html or php code, Netbeans will make sure it formats the code evidently and placed indentation adequately.
• Common functions of PHP are shown automatically or you can use ctrl + space.
• While writing HTML, Netbeans ensures it checks the div id properly and it indicates if there is any hitch so that you can easily fix the bug.

I can stiff my neck out and say it’s the most popular IDE and also the most popular. So I would give an overall score of 8 out of 10 for Netbeans IDE.

The symfony templating component is a flexible layer on top of PHP which provides you simple yet influential features that covers most familiar templating needs. One of the objectives of symfony templating component is to be as fast as possible. It comes as a tool which is very easy to use with just a single archive to download and that’s it, you are ready to be on the go.

You might ask me the next question, what is the exact need for any framework in PHP? PHP was supposed to be meant as a fast web based programming language. The ever escalating popularity of Open Source Technology today has given away to the position of PHP in web community.

Given this condition why do you need a Symfony? Why a framework in the first place? Let us see how the Symfony framework is going to benefit the customer and as well as the developer.

Benefits of Symfony Framework for Customers

• Released under MIT open source license, the Symfony framework comes as free software and you can use it for any commercial purposes.
• Symfony Framework is independent of database due to the ORM layer “Propel” or “Doctrine”.
• Use of tested code and also less lines of code which always results in less chance of bugs and also it will minimize your cost.
• Web applications are very easy to modify later on because of the clear Model View Controller (MVC) structure that separates application into separated layers.
• Swift developments of a custom-made website build on proven methods and principles.

Benefits of Symfony Framework for Developers

• All codes are object oriented and entirely in PHP5.
• You will gain plenty of time in the overall development process and get improved maintainable and testable code.
• Very appropriate for development methodologies like XP.
• Advanced cache system which includes file cache, apc cache, mem cache and few others.
• Offers tools to make use of every useful best-practice accessible on the web today.

Initially when I came across this Symfony software, found it really overwhelming and appeared a big step. But the structure of the framework and also because of the consistency of Application Programming Interface (API), the documentation provided was really wonderful.

I must admit that ever since we started using Symfony, we haven’t looked back.

3. Frameworks we like: 2. CakePHP and why?

2. PHP Frameworks we like 1. Zend and why?

1. PHP Frameworks we like

1. Test, Test and Test your applications before you send it to QA team

2. Fix all the bugs which you find

3. Remember this: If you forget to include QA in the project schedule and swallow QA time by extending your development time, you are doing injustice to the client, your employer and the worst is to yourself.

3. Fix all the bugs which QA team finds

4. Assure yourself that you leave no faults in your application before sending it to the client

5. Do NOT expect the customer to test your application for yourself. The customer need not be a Testing professional.

6. Make the list of changes and bugs reported by the customer.

7. Schedule them – and Let the customer know the turnaround time to fix them all.

8. Fix them and let the QA check them.

9. Make sure that you make the customer happy, and let him prefer him as your favorite developer.

10. Learn from the bugs; By not repeating them you can become a super developer.

11. If a project has strict deadlines, it needs strict QA.

12. Avoid reporting the known bugs to the client – instead fix them!

As I said learning never ends. So, I welcome if your valuable rules or strategies or comments could extend this list are welcome. Shoot them them as your comments.

As you know, CakePHP is an open source development framework for developing, maintaining and deploying web applications.  It is designed using Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural paradigm. This renowned design pattern provides you with an organized framework that enables to develop a complete web application at all the levels. CakePHP is released under MIT license.

There are few basic features:

• Cool Application Scaffolding – a way to staging the development
• Compatible with PHP 4 and PHP 5
• Easy and simple to understand
• Comfortable for both seasoned programmer as well as a beginner
• Aids HTML, Forms, JavaScript, XML, RSS and more
• Simple yet widespread validation of model data
• Code Generation through Bake for automatic code generation

There are more specific features which will make you take a look at:

1. Flexible caching to speed up your application
2. HTTP Authentication through Security Component
3. Powerful flexible data validation features
4. Use of Ajax will be a cakewalk
5. Full console environment supporting multi tasks
6. Router for mapping URL’s (friendly URLs)

Well, it’s not that often you get something which is so easier for the user to interface with the database. The above mentioned features are only a part of the wonderful framework. You can actually know about CakePHP and enjoy its features once you get going.

Next: Frame works we like 3. Symfony, and why?

MVC is nothing but an architectural blueprint used by software engineering. As a developer you would wish to separate data and user interface. This enables you as a developer to make changes to user interface without disturbing data handling and rearrange data without making any changes to the UI.

There were few positives which I came across and would like to share it with you:

• Easy to deploy and simple maintenance.
• You don’t have to make use of the entire package, instead pick and choose bits, and plug it together to get a complete product to suit your requirements.
• It supports your higher yet simple solutions in developing PHP 5 web applications for an international audience.
• Zend Framework is completely object oriented and very easy to enlarge and improve.
• Configuration files are not essential for up and running.

All in all, if you’re looking for a “face-lift” to PHP, Zend Framework provides you with powerful solutions for building a safe and robust website.

Next: Frameworks we like: 2. CakePHP>>

While many PHP developers reuse and code smartly, some developers code the same smarter with PHP frameworks. Frameworks help those smarter guys to complete a web project effectively and help them to manage the same easily.  Macronimous encourages programmers to work smarter and thats the reason why we use PHP Frameworks.

In these series of blogs, we will let you know the four solid Frameworks in PHP that helps our programmers and the site owners to ‘develop-own solutions effectively’.

I recommend you to make  quick visits to these previous blogs: Know more about PHP frameworks, Use frameworks – Cut down your web Development cost! before you read these series.

Next: PHP Frameworks we like 1. Zend>>

We have our iPhone application successfully approved by apple and available in iTunes.  The application’s purpose is to bring different love tools under one roof. With our first version, we have included four different modules and we are planning to bring more features in our future releases.

Our first tool is “Love Chart” where you can check the relationship you might have with your partner(s). Our Next tool is “Compatibility Chart” which helps a person to find their compatible, incompatible and neutral partners, using their moon sign. We believe this might help you in zeroing in on your mate. The next tool is “My Partners” using which you can preserve memories with whom you have spent time together. Our final tool is “Gender prediction” which helps a couple to predict gender of their baby they are going to have, using mothers age and month of conceive. The couple can also decide the month the mother has to conceive, to have baby of their own preference.

We developed the application using XCode 3.1 IDE tool to program our logic and interface Builder to design our interface. Since this was our first application, we went through almost all the video tutorials available from Apple’s Developer Site which taught us what is iPhone application development all about. We then started with learning Objective C programming. Finally we went through the Human Interface Guidelines, which is essential when you develop any iPhone application. With this base knowledge, we dived directly into our first application and successfully got it approved by apple without any problem.

We are working on our next application in the same Lifestyle category and it will be available soon in iTunes store and you can check this site for more information. You can expect more from this before this year end. We will keep them posted.

You can buy My Love Vault from:

Doing Unit testing is helps a team to produce quality application with in time by allowing the developer to test the code as soon as they write it. By developing a test document, developers are forced to do rigorous testing before it reaches to QA team. This way the span of life cycle is reduced by avoiding it going back and forth between the developer and the tester. The following few Frameworks help teams to do unit testing efficiently. This way unit testing could become a fun to your developers too.

Four Frameworks to perform unit testing in PHP are

1. SimpleTest

2. PHPUnit

3. phpt

4. SnapTest

SimpleTest:

It’s a Open souce unit test framework created by Marcus Baker for PHP. The test structure in SimpleTest is similar to the Junit and PHPUnit.  It contains all of the typical functions in Junit and PHPunit and also includes Mock objects. Simplte Test helps to automate the web application’s regression testing. Regression testing on web applications can be done by parsing the HTML page by using scrpitable HTTP client for simulations like Form submission and clicking on Hyperlinks. Some of the JWebUnit functionalities like web page navigation, cookie testing and form submission are also incorporated in this.

Download and test your version of Simple test.

PHPUnit:

PHP Unit is a part of xUnit family, which has testing frameworks in it. It provides a framework that helps in creating the test scripts easily and also the functionality to execute the tests and then analyze the results. The tests are arranged into cases in PHPUnit, which is very similar to Simple Test. A case is essentially a class in which public methods are singular independent tests.  A test name starts with “test” if the test is a public method. Any test, which is not, a public method will not be taken into account unless interpreted as a test under PHPUnit.  Helper methods are very useful for recurring tasks. If used Helper methods to set up a test, the test will be considered as a separate test by the framework. Refrence to assert methods are present inside each and every test. An assertion is mainly taking an expected value and then comparing it with an actual value. If the expected value does not match the actual value, then the test fails. Mock Objects are hugely important component in maintaining a unit test’s segregation from all other classes and resources except the one under test.

The following link will assist you to get more idea on PHPUnit.

PHPT:

A phpt test is a small script, which used by the php internal and quality assurance teams for testing PHP’s functionalities. Writing phpt tests helps to make PHP more stable. For writing up a phpt test, we need a basic knowledge on PHP language, a text editor and a method to get the results of the code.  Phpt test is used in following scenario: The run-tests.php scripts call the test and it takes different parts of phpt file to name and to create a .php file. The newly created .php file is executed and the output of the same is compared with different sections of a phpt file. The Test pass only when the output of the script “matches” with the output provided in the phpt script.  Phpt test will do the following: It tries and breaks the PHP functions. PHPT test check the functions normal parameters as well as edge cases.

More on Phpt

SnapTest:

The most powerful unit-testing framework for PHP 5+ is SnapTest.  PHP’s runtime language is the only one of its kind that can be used to make the unit test process simpler without sacrificing the agility tests. The philosophy on which the Snap Test was build: Unit testing should be transparent in Snap Test. Complexity of test harness and coding out stub files should be avoided in Snap Test. The obstacle in writing tests should be very less so that it becomes easier to write the tests than writing the code.

Features of the SnapTest are:

• JUnit Compliant Test Harness

• TAP Compliant Test Output

• Runnable from Command Line via .sh or .php scripts

• Full support for mock objects at runtime (minimum parallel structures) as actors and critics

• Extensible add-on system for adapting SnapTest to just about any developer environment

Here you go for:  SnapTest

Let me know if you are familiar with other frameworks.

Keyword frequency analysis (single words, two and three words)

The tool helps to pick top 10 keywords in-group of single, double and three word keyword phrases from title, Meta description, Meta keyword and ALT-attributes. This tool can be used to find competitors on-page optimization work related to keyword phrases tags.

http://oyoy.eu/page/keywords/

Search engine SPAM detector

The tool analysis and finds whether a webpage has followed keyword stuffing, doorway farms, hidden text through JavaScript or by CSS. This tool can be used to find web page aspects that search engines could consider as spam.

http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/

Backlinks Checker Tool – Backlinks Watch

The tool helps for the best to find everything related to inbound links and covers anchor text, backlinks quality plus limitations with nofollow tag and inbound links Page rank.

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/

Keyword mapping tool

The Keyword Map tool shows the relation between search terms / keywords in graphic with good interface for easier understanding on choosing the right combination of keywords.

http://www.kwmap.com/

Now let us see why you should avoid duplicating the content?

First of all, copying the content brings down the understanding of the concept. If you start understanding, that is only how you grow. The scriptwriter should understand why something is and how it works. If you copy, you are missing out on that. You are just resurfacing the upper layer and not getting into layers underneath when you do that.

If you are not willing to write on your own, you will not know the exact intention and get stuck at one place. You will not know how to take it forward. The originality of the content will be missing.

While it is easier to just copy from someone else, why do you have to create a new one? If you don’t do that, you will not know why it looks like, you cannot feel the way it feels like and you will not be able to read the way it should be read. The final outcome will be an artificial one.

Content Duplication and its impacts on SEO

1. Duplication of content will be considered a spam by all the search engines. There are so many websites with similar products, so the copywriter must be very careful in creating content. Search Engines likes fresh and unique content. It ranks websites depending primarily on the content used in web pages. 

2. Changing the phrase of an existing content and rewriting is also considered as content duplication. Search Engines have ways to find out and it is supposed to be spam. This will certainly affect the ranking of a website.

3. When a website is reported to have duplicate content issues, the total number of pages ranked by the search engine will automatically come down. Fewer pages to rank will lessen the rankings and might lead to lower traffic.

4. It is important to make your content unique; otherwise there is absolutely no point in doing all these. The search engines will not bother to feature your website in its result pages.

5. There is a difference between content duplication “penalties” and “filtering”. When we refer to penalty in search engine rankings, we actually talk of points being reduced from your overall score, but the truth is, the pages are just filtered like you filter unwanted particles from a can of liquid. Accidently, this filtering can sometimes filter out your good particles.

Tips to avoid Content Duplication

1. While preparing content, make sure you don’t copy it from somewhere and try to replace the words with exact meanings. The search engines have already come up with a solution to deal with this issue.

2. Before you sit down to write, ask yourself what exactly will create value for your users.

3. Try to get various perspectives, take the good points from them and fill the rest with your own thoughts and creativity. After all, you have to make it happen and move forward.

4. You can be influenced by many, but make sure you don’t copy anything.

So while preparing content, watch out for duplication from search engine’s point of view and as well as loyal customer’s point of view. At the end of the day, it is the search engine and ultimately the customer who are going to “look” at your content, so make sure it is liked by both, otherwise all the efforts you put in for your business to grow will go wasted.

The process goes this way:

1. Register and get an Apple ID
2. Apply for the iPhone developer program and wait for them. It took 15 days for them to contact us back.
3. Send your company incorporation to Apple with the registration ID by Fax. They provided 3 Fax numbers.
4. After Faxing, I also sent them an Email. Received an acknowledgement the next day from Apple.
5. Again, a waiting period, 8 days.
6. I wrote them again.
7. Got a call from Apple Hong Kong within an hour and then the agreement form by Email within another hour
8. Sent the agreement to them (Just a click to agree). It took me to a print form to send the credit card details. Printed it, filled it up and sent by Fax.
9. Next day, payment was processed, and we are allowed to access the iphone developer portal.

Everyone says that it’s not easy to join in the developer program. Actually its right partially, But Apple wants to allow only serious developers in. Their verification system is but time consuming, and they really want to see if the developer is providing complete details. I like this verification system, which filters non-serious developers.

Ok, now why take all these steps?

Here is the list of iPhone development program benefits.

1. Develop and test it on the actual device (iPhone or iPod Touch) – You can only test the application in the simulator, until you become a member.
2. You can distribute your application or game through iTune store for free or for a price.
3. Share your application with other iPhones (up to 50) for internal testing – called ad-hoc distribution
4. Coupon code for your application reviewers

Overall, your application is reaching millions of iTunes store users, and you get a chance to reach them easily.

I believe now RIM is also working on a store like this (http://mobileapps.blackberry.com/devicesoftware/entry.do?code=appworld) to support Blackberry developers.

To start, here is the list

1. Google Webmaster Tools are free and easy to set up through site owner verification process by adding a Google code Meta tag to the page or by creating and uploading a file with Google code. Once you are verified you can access the tools dashboard.
2. Sitemap tool allows you to submit XML Sitemap with details on pages to index and priority to crawl pages. If you don’t have a site map create one and submit to site configuration sitemap section.
3. Crawler access tool helps to generate and test robots.txt to specify how search engines should crawl and index site content.
4. When you Google for information you can see Sitelinks. Sitelinks displays inner links generated by Google algorithm depends on how related and useful for users queries. You have no control to add but you can block / remove the link from displaying the site links if you don’t want to list.
5. Change of address is a special tool to tell Google about your new domain and helps to move your old site users to you new domain easily. This process has 4 simple steps to follow like content link verification, 301 redirect from old to new domain, adding and verifying new site to Google webmaster tool and submitting the change of address
6. Geographic target tool helps to target users in specific location. You can select the country based on the users you target and it would help for .com, .org and other top-level domains. Country specific domains like .in, co.uk and so are already associated with Country based listing.
7. Preferred domain allows you to select the domain format you like to display. You have options to select http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com. If you have selected http://www.yourdomain.com and the site inner page links with http://yourdomain.com then search results display URL’s takes as http://www.yourdomain.com
8. Crawl rate can be changed depending on the site root level depth and default crawl rate is recommended to avoid increase server’s bandwidth. This Crawl rate has no connection with how often Googlebot crawls your site.
9. Top search queries tool has information on your site search keywords impressions and clickthrogh ratio along with keywords position.
10. Links to your site tool provides information on inbound links with anchor text for your site pages.
11. Keywords and internal links tool shows the common keywords Googlebot sees when it crawl’s the site and internal links shows the total number of pages linked by other pages in your site.
12. Crawl errors is another special tool that lists issues Google encountered when crawling your site. The list includes HTTP, error in sitemaps, not followed pages, not found pages, pages restricted by robots.txt, timed out / unreachable pages for Web, Mobile CHTML and Mobile WML / XHTML?
13. Crawl stats tool shows statistics on Googlebot activity on pages crawled per day, kilobytes downloaded per day, time spent downloading a page and PageRank distribution.
14. HTML suggestions are provided when Googlebot crawls your site and find issues with your site content. Working on these issues will help your site in better listing and users experience. Here you can find details on Meta description, Title tag and Non-indexable content in your site.

Now ask a question yourself why don’t I use Google Webmaster tools, if I have as many tools and information from Google for free. Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools with your Google account today!

Linkbait is one of the task in link building that takes both quantity and quality inlinks, relevant and irrelevant to your website through various types of tricks and practices.

The tricks and practices are vast enough and it can’t be covered as a theory since all these tricks would differ from person to person ideas and their needs. Few may try running a SEO competition, quiz or awards that represent their business website or blog and few may try writing negative contents on a branded company or about a high profile person around the web so that many would come forward to have the content link in their website or blog in which they may think such collections that would again get them linked from different website or a blog. This works as a chain.

Now one of the most adopted link bait technique is by providing free tools with a code embedded link back to your site or blog and this has been more successful. In fact many SEO companies do linkbating as a service in different forms

To linkbait or Not to Linkbait?

Many people goes with a logic Linkbait by default is something bad, is it so?

Before writing this post I just surfed web to find what bloggers and industry leaders have experienced about link bait. Few were moderate and few feels it has both bad and good

I would say it is how we use, see and perform to the web. We have lot of debate on this topic, still some say it as a spam technique and some say it as a quality information or link distribution. Techniques that are open and user favorable with a link falls under ethical and they are good portion of link bait and techniques that are off as said attacking a brand for their website publicity, hidden stuff and spamming through various means falls under unethical that results bad linkbait. As I have already told it is up to us whether link bait is good or bad. Besides I would like to get your opinion about linkbaiting techniques that you have come across or used

1. Ajax powered Wordpress Themes:

Alisha provides a list of Ajax powered Wordpress themes. You may want to try one or more.Some of them are good, Some are limted with one or two features like search. Some not found. But worth a look if you plan to use Ajax in your templates.

http://www.softtechreviews.com/web-design/ajax-enabled-wordpress-themes/

2. Ajaxed Wordpress

This is a Wordpress plugin which adds power, usability and the beauty of AJAX to Wordpress based blogs and WordPress based websites. The plugin improves the user experience, the administration capabilities and the design potential or the blog/site.

http://ajaxedwp.com/#awp::

3. Ajax for Wordpress plugin developers

So how about writing your own Wordpress plugins with Ajax? Wordpress codex helps you to begin: http://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins

4. Four Ajax Wordpress plugins

Finally, here are four plugins discussed. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9574 This should help you to get more ideas to start.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJncFirhjPg

It was presented in an attractive way – at the end of it, I am sure, you will know the basics.

Sharepoint has much more. It’s worth a visit to them if an authenticated Intranet solution is what you are looking for.The base product is Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), (which is free for Windows server users) however Microsoft office Sharepoint services (MOSS 2007) is pricey.

You may use them to create a secure place to maintain and share all of your business data such as documents, schedules, announcements, calendars, discussion forums, etc.Since we are familiar with ASP.NET 2.0, developing Web parts were no longer a big job.

Microsoft says, “Windows SharePoint Services Web Part infrastructure is built on top of the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part infrastructure and Web Parts that derive from the ASP.NET WebPart class are completely supported in Windows SharePoint Services. You should create ASP.NET Web Parts whenever possible”. So to provide customization and scaling up the product with additional features will not be a problem, if you know how to write Web parts.

If you have the development environment which consists of Visual Studio 2005, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Knowledge in C# or VB, You should be able to shoot.I found two good resources to start your first Sharepoint Web part development.Post as comments if you have more.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms452873.aspxhttp://www.15seconds.com/Issue/060914.htm

Additionally, if you understand how to add Web Part zone and Web parts using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can work on the design to to create containers for Web parts.The following are the two good resources to accomplish so:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101513941033.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101487201033.aspx

Finally to add more confidence let us understand the advantages of Sharepoint: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb684456.aspx

We will keep our Sharepoint experiences posted in future.

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Here some top Google tools to increase your sales conversion and ROI

1. Google Search suggest

When you type your business services or products words, Google suggest estimate what you type forth and the words listed are most searched terms. By this you can find the users search terms and compare with your site theme and go on with on page optimization. As well it do help for off page optimization by getting down the suggestion of most searched directory keywords.

2. Google alerts

Make use of Alerts to keep track on you competitor activities or industry or getting latest stories on specified key phrases through an email

3. Google Trends

Compare two or more terms to find out the search volume on a daily bases that are typed into Google’s search-box. The search popularity will be shown in charts and it is easy to find the difference on term search volume

4. Google Adwords keywords

The tool helps to get new keyword ideas and as well you can type your website URL so that Google lists out the search keywords related to your business services or products

5. Google Analytics

This is a web analytics solution offered by Google for free. It give you an insight on you site traffic and goal conversions. There are several options to track down your daily site visits / page views, keywords search visits, Geo, top contents visited, Goal tracking and many more

6. Google Web master tools

This tool helps you to find how Google see your WebPages. You can configure your sitemap about the page to be indexed and all about robots.txt. As well you can track total number of internal and external links, query traffic and diagnose problems if any

7. Search-based Keyword Tool

Using this tool you can get keyword ideas based on specific pages of your site and the keywords listed are from Google search queries

8. Google Insights for Search

This tool helps to compare search volume across categories, geographic distribution and Properties

9. Google Traffic Estimator Tools

Get quick traffic estimates for search keywords related to target location and bid amount without logging into adwords account

10. Google Website Optimizer Tool

This tool helps you to improve your existing web pages and traffic by testing your site content and design in relation with users performance.

These free tools are more of a pack from Google and hope you should have got an idea of these tools and how the tools can be used for your business growth exercise

Thanks to Ryan and Team for this precise information.

(1) Title tag – Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(2) Keyword prominence – Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(3) Keyword density – Bing looks for lesser keyword density compared to Google
(4) Link density – Google gives more priority than Bing
(5) H tag – Bing gives more priority than Google
(6) Clean code – Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(7) Meta tags – Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(8) Anchor texts – Bing gives more priority than Google
(9) Super relevant content for optimized keywords – Equal importance for Both Google and Bing
(10) Domain age – Bing gives more priority than Google
(11) Site popularity – Google gives more priority than Bing
(12) Social sites in links – Google gives more priority than Bing

BTW, if you are new to Bing and not listed in Bing search results you may submit your site to http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

In addition, to list better in Bing you need to implement some additional tasks along with above on page and off page factors.

Configure your site to Bing Webmaster tool http://www.bing.com/webmaster by adding your sitemap.xml file and with an XML file verification code for your site ownership .

And you may also validate your Robots.txt file using the Robots.txt validator tool in the Bing Webmaster section and robots.txt would look like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /media/

Sitemap: http://www.xyz.com/sitemap.xml

These would help Bing bot to crawl your site pages and lists in search results efficiently

Hope the post helps and more research has to done as the Bing algorithm changes. I will be positing than and then, so keep watching

Then you need to think of populating your website to your online customers and getting traffic to your website. Well to reach your customers you need to get help from an efficient SEO consultant. Why?

Search Engine Optimization is a do process and can’t be said done

SEO is a continuous process. Webmaster, small business owners, designers and developers learn online resources and go with the process. But do they know which resources are niche to the specific business website. Many may be theoretical than practical. SEO is a practice, which can be attained only by real time knowledge. SEO practices do change according to industries and targeted customers and as told SEO needs to be worked in long term. On other side many do not have time to carry out the process and update their knowledge on current search engine industry. There comes an SEO consultant role who can tell you “What to do and what not” and “Where to spend time and where not”.

Website Designers and Developers are not SEO Consultant

Website designers and developers are professionals who tend to have knowledge about SEO and say they offer SEO services by adding H tag, Breadcrumb, sitemap and few come up with website SEF navigation but they are not complete SEO. Why?

It takes years of experience in design to become a professional designer and the same for developer for efficient website development. They focus on one area related to the profession to find do and don’t and to find what client prefers and their customer and do you think they have time for below SEO essentials?

SEO consultant measures and balance on-page and off-page optimization

An SEO consultant reviews your website, provides advice to the success of your online business and performs the following SEO factors below

• Site competitor analysis
• Keyword analysis and research
• Right keywords identification according to targeted audience both locals and global
• Improvement in the HTML structure of each web page
• Improving home page and inner pages user friendliness for conversion
• Keyword density measurement
• Keyword effectiveness index
• Right Meta tag optimization
• Content optimization
• Website internal links structure
• External link juice creation through local and regional directories, news, press release, feeds and video submissions
• Analysis and improvement on the existing traffic
• Added: Social sites conversions and blogging benefits
• Search engine marketing report
• SEO Return on Investment

And many more SEO factors related to specific industry.

Do you think a designer, developer or a Webmaster without in-depth knowledge and experiance can provide these above factors in a professional manner? I would say big No; they are professionals in their own field but not in SEO. All these needs continues practice in the SEO field that can be achieved only through understanding business, handing various industry related projects and by all possible SEO examines

Now you would have known the real need of an SEO consultant to make your online business success. Start looking for one, the best!

Related links:

• Search Engine Optimization Service
• Search Engine Promotion plans and packages
• SEO for Ektron, CubeCart, Drupal, Joomla, Magento eCommerce, Modx, osCommerce, Wordpress, Typo3

Since clustered index reorders the table and arranges the data according to the index key, SQL Server allows only one clustered index per table. This results in amazing performance, when you only have to worry about one particular column. If you are in need to order the data by more than one column. Since we can’t use clustered index for multiple columns, unclustered index are used to gain a performance increase. We can specify a key value for every unclusterd index, plus the value obtained from cluster index; which acts as a pointer to the actual values when we need their data. If unclustered index is keyed on the values needed for a given task then query engine will never be in need of visiting the actual rows. After learning everything it needs from the index and scope then it will visit the qualifying rows.

There are two types of indexes: clustered and non-clustered, each with some unique advantages depending on the data set.

Clustered Index:
           A clustered index dictates the storage order of the data in a table. When searched for range of values the clustered indexes are more efficient on columns of data as the data is sorted. These index types also shines at finding a specific row when the indexed value is unique.

Non-clustered index:
            In a non-cluster index, the data is stored in one place and the data value in another place. When a query search for a data value, first the query searches the non-cluster index for the corresponding data value in the table to find the location and then retrieves the data from the location. Most often non-cluster  indexes are used for the queries resulting in exact matches.

Statistics:
               In a broad-spectrum, indexes should be kept as slight as possible, to reduce the amount of processing related with each query. For analyzing and optimizing the performance of a query the measurement and collection of statistical data is inevitable. The statistical performance data about the index keys are maintained in SQL server. If its configured, non-indexed keys can also be measured statistically.

 The basic statistical concepts, which a database administrator needs to understand regarding performance optimization, are:

• Cardinality: measures how many unique values exist in the data set.
• Density: measures the uniqueness of values within a data set. Density is determined by dividing the number of rows that correspond to a given key by the number of rows in the table. The optimizer will likely ignore indexes with high densities.
• Selectivity: measures the number of rows that will be returned by a particular query. Selectivity is determined by dividing the number of keys requested by the number of rows they access. To calculate the relative cost of a query plan, the optimizer needs a valid selectivity measure.

               SQL Server automatically updates the statistical information periodically as the data in the tables change. Sampling the data, rather than analyzing all of it minimizes the cost of this automatic statistical update.

Optimal performance:
               To design and choose indexes in a complex database table is normally a tedious task. Providentially, SQL Server has a built-in Index Tuning Wizard to establish an optimal set of statistics and indexes. Running the Index Tuning Wizard will provide a list of suggestions based on a scripted workload for improving the query performance of your database. We need to implement only the recommendations of the wizard, which applies to the particular situation. In case of any dynamic system, periodically we need to update our analysis on optimal database performance.

        Stored procedures plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of the database. The following three tips will help us to maximize database performance, when stored procedures are used.

Use NOCOUNT:
           If NOCOUNT option is turned off, on each operation: stored procedures returns information concerning the number of rows affected and it increases network overhead. By default the Option NOCOUNT will be turned off.  If we turn on NOCOUNT option, stored procedures will block row count information so that it will reduce the network overhead occupied with information communication to the user.

Use return values:
           Queries are used to validate information or to return a single value. The return value of stored procedure can be used to retrieve a single value from a query and mainly useful when inserting a new record. The information necessary for retrieval is the primary key value. Place the statement “RETURN <value>” at the end of the query to utilize the return value in stored procedure.                 
        
Optimize table access with NOLOCK:
          Transaction safety is not mandatory for most of the database access. This is apparent in MySQL database product that it does not contribute any record locking capability. Any access to a database table or a stored procedure in SQL will make tremendous performance gains when a table hint is used, which lets the SQL engine ignore and not perform locks for a given function.

In earlier 2005 I used to add sites in Dmoz and it gets listed within few weeks but not from 2006. In mid 2006 their Service was Unavailable, as most of the regular dmoz submitters should know. It was told that the editor server that had the problem and, was recovered only by the end of 2006.

From 2007 there had been huge delays and flaws in approving links. Many tried to have their sites listed following Dmoz guidelines. But they fail. These episodes made many webmasters to research Dmoz performance and many discussions, blog posts and forums has been raised claming Dmoz dead?

Here are few examines

(1) Most of the links are broken and do editors check old sites included in their categories and they maintain?
(2) Many site are listed with promotional words and this is against DMOZ guidelines. Any corruption?

Besides I have read a thread that states few dmoz editor’s sends mail for paid inclusion and charge $. Checkout the mail posted in the thread. Mail content is really funny, may be true or fake :)

Suppose if you get any such mails do not hesitate to post your query in Open Directory Public Abuse Report System. Lets make Dmoz as genuine as it was before and active

Web applications are growing tremendously, with more developers involved in finishing the projects. This is when the need for a control system for better code management, that handles revisions effectively, came into existence. 

And that is how the version control system called Subversion came into being. The details of the project being worked upon are stored in a repository, which is usually on a remote server. Every time a change is done to the project, the changes are highlighted in the repository as well. The changes can then be imported into your local machine. Any change done to the local working copy reflects upon the repository as well.  

Not only that, the changes that are done by other users to the repository, can be made to reflect in your local copy as well! This facilitates in keeping every developer involved in the project to know the changes done in the coding, by other developers, thereby allowing multiple developers to work on the same project effectively, in a hassle free manner. 

What all are required to manage web applications in SVN? 

The following are essential to handle web applications using Subversion:

• A public webserver along with a live webspace
• A testing webserver with one webspace for each developer, minimum
• MySQL server accompanied by two databases
• An SVN server

What is possible using SVN for web development? 

When we are working on a developmental project at Macronimous, with SVN, we found the advantage of maintaining a trunk and stable release versions. This is because, as changes are made in the local machine, these changes are equally reflected in the working copy on the server, with complete SVN update.

To automatically update a folder’s content, when the latest work done is saved in the repository, and get the latest work through your server, the following needs to be done:

The post-commit.tmpl repository of the hooks folder in the svn repository folder structure is of importance here. For *nix systems, it is required to rename the post-commit.tmpl into post-commit, so that permissions can be given to execute the specific task. For windows systems, it is required to rename to post-commit.bat. In Windows servers, permissions do not pose to be a problem.

When your files are named this way, Subversion understands to use your hooks. Because of this, there is no need of configuring anything to enable these features. This results in creating the script that is required to execute whenever the event starts off. No environment settings are required (like %PATH%) to run these scripts. Therefore, this requires a reset of the variables involved in the script or the usage of absolute paths.

If any changes are done to the production server of a site that is already being used by visitors, we have to be really careful enough, so that errors do not creep in for the website users. We must ensure that the server has got updated the way our working copies have, and this is done using a staging area, placed in the same server, but with the access provided only to the admin.

When the updates have to be uploaded into the server, an export is performed to the staging area, followed by a click through the site and checking through the checklist in order to check if everything is perfect. Once we have got it confirmed that everything is perfectly fine, the updates are copied to the production area. This makes the updates live, without any problem to the already online users.

Some advantages of using Subversion, with respect to web development include:

• No more need to take backups locally. The repository is available on a remote server. So every time a change is made to the repository, the changes reflect in the remote backup as well.
• Multiple users can work together on the same code base, simultaneously.
• Allows keeping a continuous record of all changes performed to a project over time. Subversion also has the facility of checking out what all changes have been performed previously in the project, as well.
  Few handy features like atomic transactions and Apache piggybacking are also available.
• One of the earlier web development techniques of using an FTP client while updating files into your production server has been replaced by SVN, wherein the production server can execute the repository just like how it does in the local copy.
• When large number of changes has to be uploaded in the project, including new codes, images, videos, fixing few bugs and the likes, Subversion uses only one command is run – the svn update; it effects down all the latest changes together.
• SVN clearly pinpoints on the files that have undergone changes and those that are new. Moreover, if the same server hosts the repository as well then the update comes into effect in a jiffy! If the repository is available in a different server, the speed of transfer is still fast, taking a few seconds.
   

Subversion is definitely a very powerful and useful web VCS, with the core importance given to the fact that changes can be done to the local working copy would cause mirror image changes to be brought into effect in the repository as well. Also it encourages many users to work in a collaborative manner on the same project, by effecting the changes done in the repository, on the local copies as well! 

Load Runner
Load runner is the contribution of Hewlett-Packard to the software testing industry for analyzing the conduct and concert of the system by giving actual load to the system. Load runner can make the application feel the load of hundreds or thousands of real-time users and mean while can repossess information from web server’s database servers etc.
When working with Load Runner we work with three different tools Virtual User Generator (VuGen) and Controller and Analysis, which are inevitable part of the tool.

The VuGen helps a user to record and replay the required actions against the applications under test. The required actions will be recorded in the form of scripts. The user can make modifications in the scripts. When the script is ready , the same is executed through the controller and finally analysis will give the scenario results in the form of graphs for the user to view and analyse.

QEngine 
Advent Net Qengine is a tool that supports both load testing and functional testing for web based applications. The tool mainly helps to spot the bottlenecks in the application code and eradicate the same then and there. This tool helps your ‘N’ Tier endeavor applications can meet heavy user loads during peak hours and have high uptime in production. This testing will provide supple user scenarios and reasonable load types for the application during load test. The tool can create real time user actions and perform load tests load with hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous users under active load conditions. The load testing features are:

• Load Test Recording
• Flexible User Scenarios and Dynamic Data Generation
• Real-world Load Simulation
• Distributed Load Testing
• Load Test Reports

SilkPerformer
Borland silk performer is a enterprise-class tool for delivering automated software load, stress and performance testing in an open and sharable model. We can create prevailing, realistic load tests for thousands of users running production scenarios across a broad range of endeavor application environments to identify bottlenecks, and then apply powerful diagnostics to resolve performance issues with help of Silk Performer. Adaptable visual scenario modeling enables any load scenario to be tested and compared – whether it involves a single, massive flood of requests to a website or the expected behavior of an enterprise application under daily heavy load. Any bottlenecks are identified, then spontaneous diagnostic and analysis capabilities help resolve the issue quickly, reducing test-and-fix cycles, accelerating time-to-market, and supporting critical release decisions related to application performance. Test creation, root-cause analysis wizards and Java & .NET deep diagnostics build it amazingly simple and efficient to use, removing the cost and complexity associated.

Few Performance & Load Testing  Capabilities in Silk Performer:
• Virtual user “types” enable shared, reusable access to load testing across all major application environments
• No license requirement for “controllers” or individual “protocols” means greater access to test creation and execution for more team members across the organization
• Discover ease of use with the built-in step-by-step workflow wizards
• Create tests and executions with Silk Performer’s intuitive interface, or leverage the Eclipse IDE
• Test a wide range of enterprise environments with versatile, sharable, multi-protocol virtual-user types
• Easily customize tests with random user data—without programming a single line of code
• Reuse test cases in different environments and scenarios without changing test scripts

WAPT(Web Application testing)
WAPT is a load and stress-testing tool for web sites, web servers, and intranet applications with web interfaces. WAPT provides easy-to-use ways for accurate load simulation and Run-time test data generation. We can test and analyze the performance characteristics in various load circumstances to find bottleneck of your web applications. WAPT can simulate multiple users for each scenario, custom implement delays between requests and dynamically generate test data parameters. The values of request parameters and URIs can be calculated in a number of ways and even be determined by the server response to the previous request.  The features of WAPT are to test web sites with dynamic content and protected HTTPS pages. It provides useful test results through descriptive graphs and reports. Additional features included in WAPT: support for secure sites and user authorization, simultaneous testing and batch operation.

To start, first step is to make certain that you use the ALT attribute in your web site Logo and further add descriptive captions in text as alt attribute around your images, photos and products as a standard practice. And second step is to avoid giving meaningless names to the images and be sure to name the image, relevant to site page title or keywords and add to your website HTML code. This helps search engine spiders to understand better the overall theme of the page and display search results accordingly.

For people who have no idea about writing Alt attribute and naming image, it will look like

<img src=”http://www.macronimous.com/images/seo-e-book.JPG” alt=“SEO E-book” width=”109″ height=”114″/>

How images help your site SEO by using photo / image sharing sites?

Here are few ideas using Flickr.com, Picasa, Photobucket and many others:

· Upload images including your business brand logo, products and site theme pictures

· Write suitable unique titles and keyword rich texts for each images and if it is a product image, mention product name and if possible with a brief text

· Add Tags to each image with your most significant keywords

· Compose good descriptions and add a link to your site with keyword rich anchor text

· Make sure the images are public

· Add the photo pages to social sites like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon

Word of advice – do not stuff keywords to the images and also do not add irrelevant keywords to the images and as a result don’t get into a chance of being banned, So be careful and work smart

Here is the list of SEO colors and definitions determined by various SEO communities 

White hat SEO – Called as ethical SEO, it follows search engines’ guidelines. In this a content page that the search engine indexes and subsequently ranks, would contain the same content that a visitor would see. White hat advice is explained as a procedure of creating content for users, not for search engines, thereby making that content easily accessible to the spiders, rather than finding out a method to trick the algorithm from its designated intention. 

Black hat SEO – known as Un-ethical SEO, is a procedure that tries to achieve high rankings in short time by using various SEO techniques that don’t follow search engine guidelines, or treated as means of deception. One black hat technique uses text that is hidden, either as text colored similar to the background, in an invisible div, or positioned off screen. Another black hat method is creating different pages for the search engines and the users, depending upon who is accessing the website. This method is referred to as cloaking. 

Gray Hat SEO – These are SEO tactics that cannot be termed either as ethical or unethical, but can be termed as something in between the two. It is unlikely that a site gets banned or can have negative affects on it, due to following Gray Hat SEO tactics. 

Green Hat SEO – It is just a matter of putting all unnecessary procedures and SEO actions to an end and focusing on what all is essential to get in website visitors. When focus is given more on the importance and prominence to the people who visit your website, your site will create more brand awareness, thereby becoming more trustworthy, rather than targeting keywords that provide more traffic, even though it means that you do not have any relevant pages suitable for them. It is to be understood that a happy customer is someone who is more important to your business to get in more profit to you, rather than getting more of inward links.  

Blue Hat SEO – Some say its related to advanced SEO techniques used for web promotion but the same has not yet been declared by any top SEO communities or SEO groups. Originally Blue Hat SEO is a name of a weblog so many misunderstand

And please do note that these SEO colors are not standard ones, they are marketing types distinguished between SEOs who adopt their SEO techniques from ethical to unethical or a mix of both. Probably in the near future we might even come up with more colors of SEO as seen in rainbow!!!

Function mysql_real_escape_string() :

In php, we have a function to deal with strings in MYSQL. (Modified Content)

Function:
mysql_real_escape_string()

Above function seize the string that will be used in the MYSQL query and return the same string with all SQL Injection attempts securely escaped. Above functions will assist to replace each troublesome quotes in SQL Injection query with “backslash \”

Magic Quotes:

Magic quotes will helps to escape from risky form data that is used in SQL Injection. It will automatically include “backslash \” for each special characters in SQL Injection query submitted.

Function to check whether Magic quotes are enabled on server is
“get_magic_quotes_gpc function”

Example:
After adding magic quotes
The   \  becomes  \\
The   ‘  becomes  \’
The   “  becomes  \”

HTML Entities:

HTML Entities function translates all applicable characters to HTML Entities and returns the encoded string.

Function used to translate is,

string htmlentities ( string $string [, int $quote_style=ENT_COMPAT [, string $charset [, bool $double_encode=true ]]] )

Example: 

 <?php $str = “A ‘quote’ is <b>bold</b>”;

// Outputs: A ‘quote’ is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str);

Validation:

Length Validation: Hamper of all the input fields in the application to the absolute minimum (7 to 15 characters). This will helps to block long queries input.
Input Validation: Validate the data entered in the input field. For eg. Age field should accept only number and only 2 digits are allowed.
User Privileges:  Create “Admin user” for each database and provide “create, drop and edit ” tables privileges only to the “admin user “

1. Describe the type of customers/audiences/visitors that you are targeting with your website.
2. What are the products or services that you provide?
3. What are your target specific keywords? Do you know what your customers to be will type in the search engine to find you?
4. Who are your major competitors online? Do you know them how they perform online?
5. What is the geographic scope of your market- International /National/ Regional/Local?
6. Do you have web stats (statistics) for your current site and monitoring the visitor status regularly?
7. Will you be interested in site restructuring, minor redesigns and content change if we strongly recommend?Promoting a client’s website is promoting their business. So, understanding their business is more important, and getting an insight about what they do, should be the first step you should do. Keep this in mind if you want to help them and retain them, since SEO clients are long term clients, and they rely on your marketing abilities.

1. Piwik Open source web analyticsa>: A web-analytics software which is free(opensource), is a real good way of calculating website ROI. It gives perfect reports on the keyword phrases and search engines, popular web pages etc.  It also has its own plug-in that are built-in for increased efficiency, with the facility of getting the reports in various formats like XML, PHP, CSV and the likes. .
 
2. Engine Ready Conversion Analyst: Another powerful analytics tool, the Engine Ready conversion Analyst is a alternate to Google analytics. You can generate reports on web site ROI, from keywords used in search engines, emails, banners or absolutely any other online campaigns that you perform. Engine ready is not a free service, but believe the services are definitely worth a shot. You also have a demo option, and only if you are happy, you would need to proceed with the purchase option, which I feel is quite decent enough.

Comments are welcome, if you have even better tools, post them. !  

Web development framework to open source developers are not new. There are many Frameworks are available for PHP, Python, Ruby and Java developers. With Frameworks, you get a project skleton, a structure and Libraries which you need to start. Moreover the structure forces you to keep the design and development seperated with MVC. MVC Stands for Model View Controller.

Choossing a Framework is based on the requirments, and the customer. There are simple to complex. I beleive every web development firm should invest time on evaluating few Frameworks in various technology (or atleast in PHP) to provide quick and low cost solutions to the customer. A single Framework may not allow you to fullfil all the features of various web development projects.

There are few popular frameworks widely adopted by developers, for Python there is Django and Pylons, Struts and Cocoon for Java, Ruby on Rails for Ruby, Several for PHP (Zend, Codeigniter, CakePHP etc) – See a very good comparions here.

While we use and recommed few like Codeigniter, CakePHP and Struts, Its better you try, evaluate and get insight on more than one Framework. This will help you/your developers to recommed the right framwork for the requirments and quick completion of the project. Please note reuablity and MVC are the prime factors for using Framworks, But indentifying the right framework which will meet your specification is even more important.

As a developer, you should be able to accomodate more projects if you reduce the development time. My team says you can save around 30%-40% of development time, this should be real good news to you and your clients, right?

(1) Search Engine Optimization for Beginners
(2) Increasing Link Popularity
(3) Practical SEO Techniques (Free E book)
(4) SEO for Ecommerce sites
(5) Understanding site visitors
(6) Developing SEO friendly URLs
(7) SEO for Flash sites

Now comes the few important SEO tips that might be useful for the year 2009. Some are bit simple but I am sure the post will certainly a good list to use.

(1) First and foremost is regular update of content. Absolutely unique and fresh content with target business and resource keywords
(2) Video Content with product or service link and adding to You Tube videos and related sites
(3) Regular update on website page in RRS Feed and submit to feed directories
(4) Audio content for Pod casting, a new target of Google
(5) Optimizing photos and images with alternative (ALT) attributes and image name with related keywords or theme
(6) Add tags to your site or blog
(7) Add and set your site maps to authenticate your feeds in Google, Yahoo, and MSN
(8) Get high-quality Backlinks on a local and regional directories, yellow pages, classified apart from general directories so that you can get high priority in local search engines too like Google.co.uk, Google.in so on
(9) Get listed in Google Local Business Center
(10) Get socially informed listing in Twitter and related sites
(11) Press release and News submission so that you wont miss chance betting listed in Google news
(12) Regular update of you blog minimum one post a week and submitting to blog directories
(13) Work on measures to reduce your website bounce rate
(14) Modify and update your existing website comparing with SEO checklist and also update your checklist frequently to current SEO industry
(15) Keep checking your competitor’s progress. Learn what they do to target your customers.

So work on these tips apart from your regular SEO practices and techniques and become an SEO ruler of 2009

Being an open source tool, it also facilitated my fellow colleagues me and to use it the way we need it. I can customize it the way I require, as per the requirements. This comes as a boon to me as I can keep my clients happy by delivering them the project status, the way they need. So contended clients, which means a happy company and a happy me!

To wrap it up, I have listed few of the advantages below that I have experienced in dotProject PM tool, which are 

• Calendar updates  
• Task delegation details  
• Various report generation like approaching deadlines, timelines, modules pending and completed, and much more
• Managing multiple projects and tasks, files with forum support 

So if project management is what is stealing your night’s sleep, then relax! dotProject is the solution!

One of the best things to do is to create a visually pleasing and attractive website, using normal HTML pages, with Flash put in the intro section or banner of the website. I have observed that this proves to be much more effective in terms of SEO, than having a complete website with only Flash content. This calls for double benefiting – One, allowing the search engines to crawl through your website, with the general optimization content, and Two, showcasing your prowess in Flash, making the site more interactive and attractive for your site visitors. Now isn’t that something that you would love your site to own?!

Something that I have also learned and observed is that using Macromedia products in Flash proves to be SEO friendly to a certain extent. The Macromedia Flash SDK is simply amazing you know, as it analyzes the Flash content and helps in indexing of the content into the database of search engines, by handling the content as normal HTML pages. Note that this also makes it important to optimize the flash content with respect to the search engines as well. Along with this, link building, when done effectively, can make the flash content SEO ready. 

Few strategies that I strongly recommend to optimize Flash sites would be using appropriate titles, Meta Tags, keywords and phrases and content inside the Flash piece, along with installing a sitemap and splitting of the flash content to various pages from a single page. Read our article  Search Engine Optimization for websites using Flash  wherein we have included a detailed article about how sites with Flash can be optimized and made search engine friendly.

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If the site has more number of resources pages or products, once user gets information from specific page they will obliviously close the page thereby leading to increase in bounce ate.

So, to grab the attention of the visitor or to help or divert the visitor to similar useful content pages, we also need to focus on user-friendly site navigation and we need to highlight similar or related resources, products or services on the page where user lands from search engine or from a referral link. Below are some measures that may help to reduce bounce rate of a specific page

1. Work on site load speed
2. Improve Look and feel of the design
3. Avoid too many ads
4. Add breadcrumbs
5. Add Similar or related pages / articles / products
6. Add Popular pages / articles / products
7. Avoid auto play video
8. Using H tag in titles properly
9. Highlight important sections in content
10. Avoid popup
11. Surveys and polls to vote and users to be around the pages
12. Tag clouds

Try out these measures and let us know how your site performs

Not only can users obtain updates through the Twitter website, but they can also get information through RSS feeds, emails that are sent and replied by third party companies; through SMS for users from the US, Canada, the UK and India. The UK number caters to the international audience. Also, applications like TwitterFon, Twitterrific, Feedalizr or Facebook are also available to circulate the updates.

Am sure you would want to promote your business site or blog among 3 million users and more

Start registering at twitter.com and add a link to your profile page from your website or blog. Initially you need to perform some ground work like adding your twitter profile page to some top blog post giving some valuable comments, also follow users related to your field. Once users notice your twitter profile page, several users will automatically follow you.

Also the search engines easily index Twitter status pages, and we can see many of them have been getting good Google Page Ranks individually.

In addition, the user pages in Twitter are created as subdirectories, for example twitter.com/username. When seen from the SEO point of view, the sub domains are handled as separate sites altogether, but the subfolders are processed as a component of the original domains itself. This way we get SEO benefits of Twitter to its sub folders that also include the tweets and the user status pages!

Each time I post a link on my Twitter status page, all my followers’ and friends pages get to display that link too. Also statuses links can be found in blog were they use my tweets; by this I get thousands of new inbound links and clicks towards the link I just posted.

So start building natural links through twitter and drive traffic to your website without straining too much

Also feel free to follow us @Macronimous through the TwitterCounter click

So we thought an ebook on SEO techniques, to boost your website’s ranking amongst the search engines, is something you will really be looking for. While you can find a lot of techniques online, this Book gives a list of  reliable approachs. Hear it from our SEO experts, who have been in the industry since the incepton of Search Engines and grab these good practical knowledge about the various SEO techniques!

 

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Read our article titled “Effective time difference management with offshore teams” wherein we have analyzed the importance of time difference management and how useful it proves to be for an organization that has an offshore team employed

Filter Factory 

This site has a huge accumulation of filters and plugins as well, that impart varying levels of effects in photographs and images. With more than 350 filters and plugins available, this site definitely contains a vast and excellent collection to its credit. With detailed explanation of what plugins and filters are and how to download them are clearly explained in the site as well.

http://www.photoshop-filters.com/html/filter_factory.htm 

VanDerLee plugins and filters 

A site with both free and paid versions, VanDerLee has an impressive collection of Photoshop filters and plugins. Along with latest news in the field of website designing and releases of various new versions of plugins and filters, the site also has a dedicated Support section that assists with useful FAQs and a list of Compatible applications that work with the site’s plugins.  

http://www.vanderlee.com/plugins.html  

Richard Rosenman filters and plugins 

This site has separate windows for both freeware and commercial collection that can be downloaded at a specified cost. Wonderful, amazing and varied collections of plugins and filters are available in the freeware section as well. A must checkout site for all Photoshop plugins and filters seeking fans!  

http://www.richardrosenman.com/software/downloads 

Mehdi Plugins 

A great site for Photoshop plugins, this site has a colorful and eye pleasing layout in itself! Not only does the site has a large collection of plugins, but it also has clear explanations as to how to use the particular plugin and also how to customize them in order to make it the way you need it. I have used this site for many of my plugin needs as well. Excellent site indeed! 

http://www.mehdiplugins.com

Apart from these four, I also happened to see a site called Virtual Photographer. A very useful site for creating special effects on photos, downloads are available in zip format as well. A site worth checking out for the photographer in you http://www.optikvervelabs.com/default.asp

Unlike your browser-based book marking, social bookmarking sites help your sites, resources and blogs to reach more, in social media; be it people, group or network of similar interest. This is another way to increase your web page popularity.

Why do we call Social Bookmarking as a tool for SEO and how it helps SEO: When visitors search for information in search engines using keyword phrases and find your site in Google, Yahoo or MSN, if they find the information in your site to be useful, they pass it over to their friends, by bookmarking your site.

Here is a simple tool, which helps you create a social bookmarking button of your own http://www.toprankblog.com/tools/social-bookmarks/ 

Do you think this acts as a tool for SEO? Definitely! Bookmarking the searched pages will bring back the new visitor again as returning visitors and there is a possibility for the searched pages to get popular in your network as well as your friends network to people with similar interest.

So go ahead! Start social bookmarking with this blog

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Wordpress codex has a detailed article on Hardening wordpress, and hence hardening your site. In fact its a guide to help you to find and prevent your PC vulnerabilities, Server Vulnerabilities, Wordpress package issues, Your network issues, Database, Files etc.

Go on here to read further to learn to secure your site.

Forget boring forms. The real difficulty in getting feedback is to push the visitor to leave behind little information.  The fun to use guest book from Macronimous tempts your user to enter and record his visit to your website. The exiting new guest book gives you the feel and effect of real book by allowing you to flip pages. Whatever information the user gives looks cool on the guest book, which automatically inspires him to leave an impression behind.

You can also get the freedom to delete unwanted entries. Change textures and colors with the slightest possible effort. Customise the guest book to your taste and need.

The new flash guest book is easy intergratable with your website. The annoying coding can be done away with. A few clicks will get the new guest book right into your website. You don’t have to be a computer geek to get your guest book fixed.

Please look at flash guest book screenshots below,

Flip to open pages:

The flash powered guest book is totally secure giving you 100% Spam protection. It is XHTML based, so you get the complete guest book on any browser. The coding is minimal , so you can still retain your web page light weight.

Macronimous also goes a step further in making sure you get your feedback precisely by maintain your guest book for you.

Get this cool new flash guest book from Macronimous and send your feedback to us. Download it for free, click here.

(1) Kaltura Video recording and management – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kaltura-interactive-video 

This plugin is quite apt to make the videos in your blog more interactive. With facilities like uploading, importing and recording of videos into your blog posts,  modify videos with the help of an online video editor; this plugin is definitely a hit! What I like the best in this is that it this plugin also supports a huge variety of codecs and audio/video file formats along with video sharing options. In short, complete management and administration of videos is possible with this wizard! 

(2) MTR Audio and Podcast Recorder - http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/09/15/free-podcast-recorder-plugin-for-wordpress
 

I would say a “must-download plugin” for the Podcast freaks; this plugin is called the MTR Podcast recorder that allows all the recordings to be saved in MP3 format. It is saved in the same server as that of Wordpress. The best part that I like in this plugin is that it allows handling the records and musical selection lists from the Wordpress administration itself. This helps in easy playlists management and overall blog site administration. 

(3) NextGEN Photo Gallery – http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery

One of my most favorites, this photo gallery plugin is very useful, especially for those interested in creating and sorting their own image collections. This plugin has a tinge of Web 2.0 and jQuery JavaScript library, all packed in one. The users can also upload images that have watermarked text or images. The best thing is that various JavaScript effects like Thickbox, Lightbox and the likes can be used. 

(4) Kimili Embedded Flash – http://kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed
 

So you want to embed flash based movies into your blog, then Kimili is the best choice! A very flexible plugin with many features attached to it, the Kimili  also complies with the standards. It is very useful for search engine optimization of blogs, as the plugin itself is search engine friendly. What’s more, this plugin also gels on well with other plugins in its 1.2 version, and hence is definitely the best pick for WordPress.

I have found these plugins to be remarkable and of great use to me. There are many more great plugins from WordPress, and if you feel anyone or more of them have stirred your web designing senses, then do not forget to suggest about them in my comments section.

(i) TouchGraph.com You can try it right away! Enter a URL or a set of keywords and then click on the button ‘Graph it!’ However, the following have to be kept in mind: · It is always advisable to have the latest version of java, minimum Java 1.5. Also popup blockers should be disabled to allow launching websites. · After typing out the URL or the search keywords, hit “Graph It!” Press the “Run” button when the question prompts as, “Do you want to trust the signed applet?” http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

(ii) Myriadsearch.com This is an excellent tool to view competition rankings across numerous search engines that are available nowadays. http://www.myriadsearch.com/

(iii) Seotoolset.com – competition research tool To show the present ranking of the top competitors across the prominent search engines, use this competition research tool. It gives the topmost 25 rankings across the board and sorts the results as well. The site that has the highest ranking is listed in the beginning. http://www.seotoolset.com/tools/free_tools.html

(iv) Spyfu.com SpyFu allows you to look at the keywords that are purchased by your competitors. It also shows the keywords that they optimize their site for. Once the competition is understood, you can become masters in their own game and at the same time can also tap on their weaknesses as well! http://www.spyfu.com Hope the above quoted sites have helped you with your search for top competitor tools

This video demonstrates explains how effective and easy social bookmarking practices are and comparatively you will know how much it is been complicated when it’s been explained in texts as articles or blog posts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Hopefully people who try to know Web 2.0 design standards should be knowing about normal design, so not much explaining here to bore

Starting, Web 2.0 websites allow visitors to do more than just retrieve information what we see in normal design. They can build on the interactive facilities, allowing users to run software applications altogether through a browser

Below are the attributes that can be followed for Web2.0 

• Clean & simple style
• Pastell colors
• Center aligned with 2 or 3 columns
• Bigger Logo
• Bigger Buttons
• Bigger font size
• Descriptive HTML (XML style)
• Bold text introductions
• Vibrant colors with gradients
• Visible header
• Content as Feeds
• Rich and interactive user interfaces
• Users active participation
• Video sharing
• Social Networking

Get ready to start furnishing a Web2.0 site

We have developed some Web 2.0 sites, for more clarification you can mail us for website names to get a clear picture

So how can one write effective content for their websites? Read it as “effective writing” and not “lengthy writing”. Out of my experience as an SEO consultant and professional content writer, the more crisp and easy to understand the content is, the greater are the chances for it to become a hit among the readers. Also I am of the opinion that regularly updating your website with data that is useful for the visitors would divert more traffic to your site. When do you think one needs to consider re-writing their website content? I have come across the following observations that I have mentioned below: 

• Traffic inflow is good, but the conversion is not as expected, because the visitors are probably not getting what they expected out of the contents.
• When the content is very less and the site is filled with only graphics and Flash designs
• The content in the website is not explaining more about your business and gives irrelevant information to your visitors.  

I have found the following tips highly helpful in maintaining effective SEO web copy for websites: 

• Know your audience: Understand who are your audience and write keeping them in mind. Also write stuff that they can relate themselves to and what is realistic.
• Give a clear picture of your business: The content in your website should give exact details of your business. This helps in your audience getting a better idea of your business, thereby encouraging an inflow of website-relevant traffic.
• Make the content heading more appealing: Now that you know your audience well, next try writing stuff that will appeal to them. For example, if your visitors are going to be more of careful and budget-conscious family ladies, then you could write articles like “Top 8 ways to organize your household budget effectively”(Gosh! Am sure I myself would be interested to read it as well, and am not even married!) The heading has a striking impact to attract readers and wins a main part of the battle of bringing in traffic.
• Give them some useful information: Well you have clearly understood who your visitors are going to be and you have catchy headings as well. But what if the content inside is of no use to the audience. Write stuff that contains utilitarian information to your clients.
• Choose apt keywords: You have got to think from a normal layman’s point of view, who is searching for products. Choose probable keywords that your audience would search in the search engines.
• Use Keyword phrases: Bank on phrases and not single words as keywords, because the probability of searchers using phrases of words is more.
• Keyword phrases in Meta tags, links and headings: Now that you have frozen on the keyword phrases, use them in Meta tags, link them with text links, so that the pages get related to one another. This increases the probability of search engines spotting them out. Also use these phrases in headings as well
• Check and re-check! And more importantly, check and recheck whatever you have written, to overrule any spelling or grammatical errors.  

According to me, these are certain ideal steps that you can follow from the SEO point of view, to optimize your site. I am sure, if written smartly and relevantly, web contents would help give a boost to your website, thereby increasing relevant traffic and sales conversion.

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But when we added articles, and  really wanted to know more about the readers, and what keywords they use. We needed a better tool actually, and found Webstat in 2002. Again we were really happy until we found we reached a number of pages. We also found urchin an interesting tool, and finally settled with Google analytics – which gives everything an SEO company needs.

We do not recommend Google Stats to everyone.  Spending time each day to study your visitors through Google stats might not be easier, unless you have a passion about your site visitors. If you need to know some simple reports to study in 5 minutes use some simple hosted solutions like Webstat or Gostat’s simplified versions. We have also written very simple custom Stat solutions in PHP/mySQL, write us if you need a Demo and a free version. It gives every detail you need to know in 3-5 minutes. We haven’t named it, as we have no intention of selling it until now.

I believe even if you use Google Analytics, you may need a simple analytic tool. 

 

You just need to spend 10 minutes to review your site with below SEO checklist. If you can mark “yes” to most of the SEO considerations then your site will be having a reasonable traffic which can be developed further by consulting an SEO professional or by going through some good practical SEO techniques

And in addition above simple SEO checklist will be very much helpful for designers who tries to follow best SEO design practices Cheers

You get a bigger screen for websites, unlike the other browsers there is no bottom information bar, the page loading information just comes as an Ajax(?) window, and vanishes after the page gets loads.

Our website menu is not positioned properly; Our CSS team is working on it to fix that soon. I used Chrome for writing this blog, and found it is working very fine. I hope Wordpress team do not have to work hard for these browsers. I noticed on issued in Wordpress editor issue – The format had gone completely, when I saved and opened this blog entry. This has to be fixed in the WYSIWYG plugin in Wordpress.

I am keen to check some of the DHTML sites, probably the scripts from Dynamicdrive.com, as their scripts are widely used for menus and browser side dynamics.

There is no favicon appearing in the address and title tab, no Google chrome Logo and title anywhere. The location of the Tab looks nice, most of the browsers do use this project for Product title. This is a smart move.
No Google toolbar for Chrome yet, hope it is in development, they should launch it any time now. Chrome does import your favourites etc from IE quickly.

Developers and designers have to spend more time for this browser too, as I do not think Chrome is going to be just another Browser, since it has better focus on web applications. Google office documents should perform well with Chrome, But I didn’t notice big difference when I opened Spreadsheets in Chrome. I expected the suggest for work well inside the columns, seems like such features are yet to come.
Overall the Browser is impressive, and I hope it will affect the market Share of IE and Firefox to an extent, especially the later one.

1. Distributed denial of service (DDoS)
2. Website Defacement’ attacks
3. Spreading false information
4. Google bombing
5. Pagerank attack
6. Malware-based attacks

These kind of attacks are called reputation attacks, and primarily they aim to collapse your online business reputation. I recommend reading a detailed article at Reputation Attacks: A Little Known Internet Threat, as the article calls, these threats are little known, But which you must know your enemies to do better actions.

I will make that as few questions to ask yourself or your marketing team.

How important SEO is to your website?
Do you want to make your website as a primary business gateway?
Do you know SEO is a continuous activity as your conventional marketing methods?
Do you know your competitor online?
Have you determined your keywords and targeted visitors?

If you say Yes, you probably know the importance of SEO and now you want to know how the process is going to be priced, and what factors determine your budget.

1. Your present site and its status.
If yours is a simple brand new site or a site which is not visible to any search engine – Your site will need Search engine readiness review and preparation. Commonly called as SEO setup. Your SEO consultant will start from this, and will make your site ready for Search Engine spiders, while they visit the site.

2. Your Industry/Market:

There is a difference between promoting a site which is selling houses and selling antique rocks. You know which segment would be more competitive and costs more to do SEO.

3. Link building efforts:

This is somewhat related to the previous factor, and based on the keyword and its competition determines the volume of link building efforts to be made. Link building will be a continuous activity, and mostly done on fixed monthly costs.

Finally, you should know SEO is not a onetime task, and can not be done for a one time fixed cost as your answer was Yes to the questions asked above.

I have just given those laws, But in the book they are dealt in detail.

22 Immutable Laws of Marketing:

  1. It is better to be first than it is to be better.
  2. If you can’t be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.
  3. It is better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.
  4. Marketing is not a battle of products, it’s a battle of perceptions.
  5. The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospect’s mind.
  6. Two companies cannot own the same word in the prospect’s mind.
  7. The strategy to use depends on which rung you occupy on the ladder.
  8. In the long run, every market becomes a two horse race.
  9. If you are shooting for second place, your strategy is determined by the leader.
10. Over time, a category will divide and become two or more categories.
11. Marketing effects take place over an extended period of time.
12. There is an irresistible pressure to extend the equity of the brand.
13. You have to give up something to get something.
14. For every attribute, there is an opposite, effective attribute.
15. When you admit a negative, the prospect will give you a positive.
16. In each situation, only one move will produce substantial results.
17. Unless you write your competitor’s plans, you can’t predict the future.
18. Success often leads to arrogance, and arrogance to failure.
19. Failure is to be expected and accepted.
20. The situation is often the opposite of the way it appears in the press.
21. Successful programs are not built on fads, they’re built on trends.
22. Without adequate funding, an idea won’t get off the ground.

 The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding

1. The Internet can be a business or a medium for your brand, but not both.
2. Interactivity is the single most important ingredient of any Internet site.
3. The kiss of death for an Internet brand is a common name.
4. Being second in a category is tantamount to being nowhere.
5. You have to be fast. You have to be first. You have to be focused.
6. Everyone is talking about convergence while just the opposite is happening.
7. Build a brand that will dominate a category over an extended period of time.
8. Find a proper name (instead of a common one) for your Website.
9. Take your brand into the global marketplace.
10. Avoid the biggest mistake in Internet branding: the belief that you can do everything.
11. Take advantage of the transformations that will occur in all aspects of life, thanks to the power of the Internet.

     

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When we offer consulting for Opensource CMS selection, it is not an easy job always. Building websites with the CMS our clients like and to make it work with our own custom design might become a nightmare if we aren’t considering and planning the UI design in advance.

We have customers who supply design for their web sites (as Photoshop source files – if they know Photoshop) since they have good sense of designing and they know how their site should look like. We can happily accept it and build HTML/XHTML and CSS based Static pages without any issues or provide a Custom written CMS easily. The real challenge starts when they want to make their site CMS enabled with an Opensource CMS framework such as Joomla, Wordpress or Drupal.

Most of the opensource CMS applications strictly adopt some design standards, and they give clear instructions for UI designing. Your design will not work well with the CMS, if it does not obey their design rules. The primary reason for these strict rules is to help with the CMS applications for design-content separation and for easy user interface maintenance. You can easily change the design without changing the programming sections and vice versa. But can you easily fit your custom design which is created as your mind wishes to an Opensource CMS application? Most of the good CMS applications does not allow you to create an unique site with your own custom design, custom graphics and custom XHTML.

Simply configuring a Opensource CMS application along with a template design (meant for that CMS application) may ease your job, But it will not give your client an user interface, which is unique for them. It will look like one another site made with that particular CMS. I have seen several Ecommerce sites with similar structures; I can easily identify them as “made with osCommerce without added efforts”.

So, how do we deal with this situation?

Take the case of Wordpress. If you start designing a site without keeping Wordpress in mind, and wanted to enable Wordpress CMS at later stage, I am sure you need much experience in XHTML coding  you may have to give up Wordpress in order to keep your look and feel remain unchanged.

Few months earlier, we did an Ecommerce web site design with Cubecart; with the help of Programmers and good HTML scripter, we were able to make the user interface which is very unique and no template look. Yes, good PHP and HTML programmers will have to give hands to change the way the application works and to fit your custom design with the CMS. If you need a decent design which does not offer you a standard template based site look, you need an experienced team’s support to make it possible.

Cost is one key factor why people like to use opensource applications and in most of the cases we almost get a free solution. Installing Drupal or Joomla with a pre-existing design, will only help you to offer a cheaper solution, But to give a unique look and feel to your site, you must be ready to invest in application customization too. Your CMS theme or template will need your programmer’s support to provide coherent CMS driven website, which is exclusive for the customer.

Opensource CMS applications are excellent tools for professional web solutions. No objections!. Opensource CMS applications will not cut the cost of custom development completely and making a design which has an exclusive and aesthetic look to your customer will need the time/cost of your developers and designers.  Don’t leave the CMS application to decide your site user interface by cutting the customization efforts.

I recently found few directories with a list of web2.0 sites. I was wondering what is the need for this huge list? Are they going to be used by people? How many of us are registered with more than 3 or 4 social networking sites? While I appreciate specific group based social networking sites, what is the need for 200 similar social networking sites for one community? Is that not looking potentiality waste of money. After investing few thousands of dollars what will happen if the site is not promoted due to the fear of its competition it already has? What market can the site catch? 20 registered users in 2 years? How many users will come back to the site after 2-3 visitors?

Here is a list of diretories which has 100s of web2.0 based sites, under different categories. Are they worth visiting and registering?

http://web2.econsultant.com/

http://www.go2web20.net/

http://www.digfoot.com/

I do not say there should be no competition. But uniqueness is needed for any web2.0. Many of them are offering free services, and that can not be the only reason for their success. I beleive the following points should be considered by anyone who wants to develop a Web2.0 application.

1. Does the market or the society need this application?

2. Does the site going to make impact in the market or the society?

3. Can I make money out of this site and this is not just my hobby?

4. Am I offering unique features that will attract used in my web2.0 site?

5. Am I NOT wasting my (or my VC’s) money by making Just another web2.o site?

6. Do I have enough funds to market the site heavily and to overtake my competition?

7. This is not just a trial I want to make since I have few thousand excess money in my Bank A/C, Right?

If you say even single “NO!, you should really think about your stratagy.

There are many such tools available nowadays and with its demand increasing every day, it only makes it more important to have more SERP trackers. While most of them are free services offered by these sites, few of them are also paid services. Below is a detailed description of top four SERP tracker tools.

SEOCase.net

This is a simple and easy to use SERP tracker tool. As usual, the keyword and the URL of the site are given, and this tool fetches results from 6 popular search engines! The results obtained are also accurate. One drawback, however, with this tool is that the search results obtained are only from the first 10 pages of each search engine. So only the top positioned rankings would be obtained from this site. But whatever data is obtained is reliable and accurate as well.

Mike’s Marketing Tools

Another cool site with SERP tools! It provides the rankings of various websites obtained from top search engines and web directories as well. Immediate reports of these rankings are provided in an effective manner. As I have mentioned before, this site is a free one and requires no registration as well. The URL of the main site along with a single keyword or collection of keywords is to be given in the slot provided, and Lo! The details of the search run are in front of you!

SERP Rank

This site is an exciting and reliable site. It asks for the URL and the keyword to be checked for. Checks are done across 5 popular search engines. What more, this site also has facilities to check local sites of Google like Google.de, Google.ca, Google.gr etc! Once the listings come, they can also be checked in with the help of the links provided. Now isn’t that simply superb?! A simple and reliable site!

Digitalpoint.com

This is a cool site and quite a famous one as well. One thing to be noted here is that it the user has to register in this site, before using it. This registration is free of cost. Once you have logged in, you can go ahead with using the SERP tool. Good tool to be used.

With the importance of SEO and its related tools increasing to a greater extent each day, it is only important to have such SERP tools that offer trustworthy and accurate results to find the position of various keywords in a particular URL.

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It is not enough if your site has many links, it is important to find out what is the quality of these links and who is linking to your site. Links that are positioned in a better manner are definite to achieve continuous traffic. I have given about 4 link popularity tools below. They are free to be used and are also accurate.

Mike’s Marketing Tools

Famous for quite a long time in the SEO tools industry, this site has a tool for link popularity checking as well. It gives immediate reports on the link popularity of a site. The results offered are from 3 major search engines Yahoo, Google and MSN. Here, the URL has to be given in the slot and it results in the number of backlinks available to that site, as per the search engines.

MarketLeap

This is another cool site that is an accuratse checker. It asks for the URL for which the popularity is to be checked. The checker also gives options to compare with 3 other URLs as well. One of the useful features in this site is that it also provides the specific industry that the search has to be performed upon, depending upon the site’s home industry. If there is no necessity to confine the search to a particular industry, then the category “General” can be chosen as well. Once the details are given, it gives the search results under two headings – Google/AOL/HotBot and Yahoo/FAST/AltaVista. Definitely recommended!

SEO Centro

This site is a simple yet effective tool for checking the number of links to your site. It gives search results from 5 popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live, AllTheWeb and AltaVista. The total number of links obtained from all the search engines is also given here. This is split up into various bands starting from 0-250 references, 251-1000 references etc. Each band is given a specific color as well, for easy identification. The site also has the links of the searches for you to check out. A cool site indeed!

SEO Book Tools

This is a simple to use, at the same time an efficient site. The URL of the site to be checked is entered, along with URLs of up to three other sites that you want to compare your site with. The result page gives the numbers of the searches in various search engines along with that of the comparison sites as well.

These link popularity check tools are useful in terms of knowing the status of the backlinks linked to your site. Ultimately all this is done for a single fact – the more the site’s traffic and its popularity, the better its rankings in various search engines

There are various keyword tools whose services are both for free and paid as well. I have listed down the top 4 Keyword tools that are free to be used by anyone.

Google Keyword Tool

A wonderful keyword tool from the house of Google, this site offers many keyword ideas even for the driest of words! When we enter a keyword or phrase, it lists out various related keywords along with shaded bars of the number of advertisers who are tendering on a keyword throughout Google, the search volume of that word in the previous month and the average search volume of that keyword in the previous 12 months. Doesn’t that sound wonderful?! I mean, how many other free tools can boast of these many features?!

Spy Fu

From the house of Velocityscape, this is another useful tool for keywords ideas. This site gives you to spy out on the keywords that your competitor is investing on! Available both in free and paid versions, it lists out the Ads for a particular keyword, the search results which is helpful in terms of SEO, the organic competitors involved and the Ad competitors. A sure check-it-out site!

Nichebotclassic.com

This site provides various keyword ideas with details on the particular keyword used in the past 100 days, the predicted number of daily searches done on famous search engines and the competition numbers on Google Yahoo and MSN. Also if you log in then you have the facility to save the searches that you have made. Cool, isn’t it?!

SEO Book Keyword Tool

Another free keyword tool, this site bombards too much of information! Shows the word tracker count, the daily estimate of top search engines separately, the various Google trends and much much more! This site also provides facility to download the content to CSV.

Search Engine keywords have become very important for a business to flourish online. Such tools give various combinations of keywords, along with search count, the costs involved and search results, thus making keyword writing easier and more effortless.

If you are new to the world of SMO, then there are chances that you might be swept over by many SMO sites. Here are four sites that might be of great use to one who is on the lookout of good SMO sites.

Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is (part of the Yahoo family) one of the most quondam social networking sites and also one of the best among SMO sites. Also very popular in the US, this is a collection of favorites of its members. This site allows saving links of favorite articles, sharing them with others while also discovering new sites and articles of interest.

Digg.com

Being one of the most preferred and famous social bookmarking sites, this site has become one of the predominant names in the field of SMO. The articles in the site have been segregated into two portions called the “Popular” and “Upcoming”. As the names clearly suggest, Popular means the articles that are popular among the members and Upcoming contains articles that are gaining popularity and importance.

StumbleUpon

Another great way to know and share great websites is through this site. Contributing to SMO to a greater extent, StumbleUpon allows rating of various sites, articles etc, which proves useful for the fellow readers. This site allows discovering new sites and also networking between like-minded people.

Technorati.com

This livewire site is an all time-updating part of the web that includes tagging, blogs and anything that is found of use, by its members. The site also allows commenting on topics by other members, thus developing a community of similar minded people. This site also promotes Blog reactions, which are articles or blogs that are connected or linked to your blogs. Your rank or authority in the site is decided, depending on the number of blog reaction links that your blog has.

With the field of SMO enriching and gaining importance very rapidly, these sites go a long way in making one understand what an SMO site is and how useful it can be to promote your business online.

(i) TouchGraph.com

You can try it right away! Enter a URL or a set of keywords and then click on the button ‘Graph it!’ However, the following have to be kept in mind:

* It is always advisable to have the latest version of java, minimum Java 1.5. Also popup blockers should be disabled to allow launching websites.
* After typing out the URL or the search keywords, hit “Graph It!” Press the “Run” button when the question prompts as, “Do you want to trust the signed applet?”

(ii) Myriadsearch.com

This is an excellent tool to view competition rankings across numerous search engines that are available nowadays.

(iii) Seotoolset.com – competition research tool

To show the present ranking of the top competitors across the prominent search engines, use this competition research tool. It gives the topmost 25 rankings across the board and sorts the results as well. The site that has the highest ranking is listed in the beginning.

(iv) Spyfu.com

SpyFu allows you to look at the keywords that are purchased by your competitors. It also shows the keywords that they optimize their site for. Once the competition is understood, you can become masters in their own game and at the same time can also tap on their weaknesses as well!.

Assume John uploads his code using FTP at the at 6PM, and Dave overwrites it by 7PM with his version from USA, Raj downloads the files uploaded by John using FTP from and Kumar downloads a Dave’s version, The next day is going to be the miserable day to everyone after all the hard work from the past day – Kumar has clearly overwritten everyone else’s code.

But CVS can solve this issue. A version control system is client/server software to keep track of the work done, allows several developers to makes changes on a set of files on different versions which is finally integrated – with a server having the current updated version of a project and the client can log in, work on the copy of the project, and sends the updation to the server. I would like to brief out the 4 most commonly used tools in CVS:

WinCVS (CVSGUI)
The general interface of a CVS is command line client but instead a GUI client can be used as a point and click interface to talk to the server. GUI interface allows easy automation, customization of common tasks and gives up a native lookup and feel on Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux due to its frameworks.WinCVS differs from CVS only in the terminology being used. The initial process of a version system is importing the files to CVS terminology where the import operation involves a “clean” directory structure means the files that doesn’t need versioning are removed. Every file is not versioned for certain reasons, in that case it can be removed during importing and moved after the versioning process is over.

I prefer WinCVS, as I was using it while I was programming in a collaborative projects.

SmartCVS
SmartCVS, a multi-platform client with powerful features is easy and productive to use. While working on a project, each person makes a change on the files; a SmartCVS organizes and groups the files of related changes referred through a change report file which helps to easily identify the newly added and modified files. SmartCVS also sets file permissions to specific users inorder to protect the files from unauthorized users.

CVSup
CVSup, a tool used to transfer files across the network has the ability to understand the CVS files & tags and updates the files on the server supporting all types of file. The CVS files are recognized easily and synchronized to balances the data transfer that occurs between the client and the server through algorithms, in turn compressing the number of data bits for easy data transfer.

jCVS
This is a Java based client (written in Swings), I never installed it before or tested, But its a poulataly know CVS, your team may want to try. Try any one or more of them; you need to read the installation manual carefully, as sometimes it may be tricky.

At Macronimous we encourage our clients to use CVS (it need little learning though) if they too are allowing their team to work on the code we produce from India. Start practicing a CVS will need little time, but you will certainly appreciate your decision of using a CVS with your client or team.

Web collaboration tools normally consist of a list web based applications which are capable making people work together via internet. Such suits of set of tools will simplify the communication and information exchange. For example A project team in different locations can work together with Web collaborative tools. Such tools normally consist of shared access to project files, share calendars, schedules and plans. They can have online discussions, share whiteboards and documents.

See my favorite tools below, But I recommend you to evaluate them before you start using them.

1. BaseCamp: Basecamp is a web based project management and collaboration tool, designed for small businesses, lawyers, publishers, manufacturers, and offshore web developers and outsourcing agencies. It has a very clean and interactive web based interface. It presents the clients and projects on one screen, you can make lists, add items, assign responsibility, upload files, categorize, sort and track versions. Message boards keep your communication centralized with no shooting emails back and forth. You can start practicing it with their 30-day free trial.

2. dotproject: This is a opensource application, written by several users, and it has the following features.

• User Management
• Email based trouble Ticket System, (Integrated voxel.net’s ticketsmith)
• Client/Company Management
• Project listings
• Hierarchical Task List
• File Repository
• Contact List
• Calendar
• Discussion Forum
• Resource Based Permissions

3. Twiki: TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Twiki also has several plugins such as, Actiontracker, Calender, Chart etc.

4. Goplan: GoPlan! has number of collaborative features like Track project progress through task management, calendaring, note sharing and issue tracking. Additionally, real-time in-browser chat lets you converse with team members. Goplan also has developer API which allows you to integrate our system to the rest of your infrastructure.

There are number of free, paid script, and paid hosted solutions are available, finding the one for your team and making your client to use it would be bit challenging initially. But once when you start using it, you will make everyone in your team proud of you.

When you plan to outsource to India, or planning to work with a remote development team like us, these tools make make our colloboration easier on information, project details and file sharing.

alexking.org. Its a simple Wordpress plugin, Its called Wordpress Mobile edition. Just follow the instructions, activate the plugin, The blog is up for the mobile now, just call blog.macronimous.com from your Mobile browser..and Yes.. you got it!

Alex has written it the Mobile site as a separate theme, with XHTML/CSS with less or no graphics (Logo is not coming up, you need to tweak the code a bit if you need). Otherwise the job is done. We are planning to write some Themes based on Alex, with bit more graphics – optimized for the mobile!

Tarmo Virki of CNET Says “The market for Internet services is approaching 100 billion Euros, and Nokia is the first big mobile phone manufacturer to embrace the Internet media business. Close rivals Samsung and Sony Ericsson could follow, but are a couple of years behind”. While Forrester Research says mobile Internet users to triple over next five years to 125 million just in the Western Europe, Nokia confirms their wild ideas like Apple and Google succeeded with many such ideas. Nokia now has its global device market share was about 40% in Q4 of 2007, so reaching their customers with innovative products is something they are working hardly now.

Changing new directions is not new to Nokia. They started as wood-pulp manufacturer in 1865 (Nokia wood Mills), after acquired by Finnish Rubber Works, they entered in to telephone and telegraph cables manufacturing. They were also involved in producing telephone and telegraph cables, and finally they entered in 1967 into commercial and military mobile radio communications technology.

Click here to see the official web page to read more on Nokia Marph.

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” – Says Herman Melville.
When you want to link your thoughts with others, when you like others to learn from you or others to make you learn – the good way is blogging. You have a though on personal, business, or social – and you need know what’s others view on it. Blogging helps you to do this – you share your thoughts, and make others to share their thoughts on their thoughts.

Read below, if you need a blog for you:
You need to choose the right blogging tool first, as all are not same, and all doesn’t provide the same. Most of them are Opensource scripts or free services, so you pay a little or nothing.

1. Hosted services:

If you want to start blogging right away, hosted services are the best bet. If you do not have your own hosting space, if you do not know how to install your own blog application, hosted services like blogger, Livejournal or Tyepad would be the right choice. You can straightaway register with them and start with them. Typepad charges a little as monthly fee but the others are free services.

2. Installable scripts:

You need more control with your blog, and want to host under your domain name (eg.blog.yoursitename.com) check with your hosting provider first. Many hosting solutions comes with some default preinstalled blog scripts – with their support manual you should be able to configure it easily.

If you do not like the installed scripts you should evaluate scripts like wordpress (PHP based), Movable type (Perl based), and install them in your server.

I personally recommend wordpress, Reasons:

1. Its free, ever.

2. PHP 4.x based, and most of the hosting supports this.

3. Easy to setup with simple mySQL setup. Again most of the hosting should support mySQL.

4. You do not need to be a big programmer to install, configure or change the designs which you like.

5. Hundreds of free themes are available – You have to just upload and enable/disable them.

6. Easy to configure plug-ins – which are additional features you would like

7. Easy to backup – just back up your database and keep a copy of your data

8. Good SPAM blocking (I like the plug-in akismat)

8. …and many.

We will post regular blogs on blogs, Visit here after some days to learn how a blog can help you to promote your site business.

If you still prefer someone to get your blog ready for you, Just write us. We charge a minimal fee to make your own blog ready under your domain, contact us for more details. In 3 days you will get your blog ready to shout.

Overall Wordpress is very easy to install, create the mySQL database and mention the mySQL login credentials in the configuration file, upload them all, Run the setup and you are done! – Hardly 15 minutes, If you are new to any application installation – maximum one hour! Your Blog or CMS driven Site is ready to post content.

Easy to configure Plug-ins from a huge list of Plug-ins Directory – You not need to be a programmer to configure the right plug-ins you want.

Flaws are fixed quickly – Watch for the right version and upgrade it to Quickly. We always research on Wordpress security and make any fixes quickly. The fixes are identified quickly by Wordpress team and fixed quickly. So I do not think it is something to be worried much – But just keeping you updated will help you some long term smooth running.

Most importantly, our designers said designing a Theme is much simpler than Drupal – We are using Drupal much, and I know how difficult it would be in Drupal. With great experience in XHTML and CSS it’s not difficult to create Themes. Sooner, our guys will come up with nice FREE designs soon for the Wordpress to download.

Easy to admin your blog or site. For a simple sites which need a good CMS, you do not need to load your customers with tons of features offered by Drupal or Joomla. If the site doesn’t have continuous, fast growing nature, you can make the site manager’s life easier with Wordpress.

For permalinks and comments you can create RSS. Nice feature.

Staticize plugin – to cache the content of the dynamic pages which makes the site fast appearing and I assume it will eat less server bandwidth. I know some of the features are available in other CMS applications too, But I like Wordpress allowing you to configure them easily.

Post via email – It is bit tricky to setup and post your blog by the post Post via E-mail feature. Though I am not planning to use it, you may definitely want to give a try! If you want to use Wordpress as your corporate private communication tool for information sharing, this would be power feature.

Trackbacks with pingbacks – Just mention the permalink of any post in your blog. This will do the trackback job.
What I didn’t see is versioning and a content approval system. If anyone knows you can reply here in comments.
We are writing a plug-in to post your comments via mobile; I hope sooner it would be available as our Contribution.

Link promotion proves to be the base for search engine optimization. People try to optimize their sites using strategies like competitor link analysis, identifying thousands of back links, say 10,000; but simultaneously keep worrying over the time consumed in adding their site to this huge link database. This is where you can go wrong – it’s all about quality links, not speaking of Page Rank (PR).

“One quality link” can give you the competitive edge. It can win over a competitor with 10 wrong links – Organic listings make this point clear to you. It proves that quantity does not matter – “it’s the quality”.

Are you confused on seeing a site with very few links and still stand in the top 10 in search result? Have a closer look to realize the quality of the Backlinks – links that are more relevant – “the right link at the right place”.

Go for related links or Trusted links. So “get the right links” and you might not need quantity links as you thought you need quality links.

Remember… that a website that is ranked high, yet have few Backlinks is due to quality links.

It is all about calculation like

1. Domain Age
2. Authority sites linking to it
3. Different c class IP
4. Number of DMOZ and Yahoo Directory listings
5. Rankings of site/page
6. Related Backlinks or Trusted Backlinks
7. No JavaScript Backlinks
8. No frame page Backlinks
9. Will it send traffic (Hits, hits, hits)

So spend your valuable time to get a few quality links rather than bundles of unrelated quantity links . Thanks for your time, Leave a reply.

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Several key benefits includes :

Anytime, anywhere Web publishing :

With some web content managment solutions, content “owners” in your organization
can securely add or update content from any Web browser.

Anytime, anywhere Web publishing:
With some web content management solutions, content “owners” in your organization can securely add or update content from any Web browser.

Eliminate the ‘Webmaster bottleneck’:
Web content Mangement solutions ease the pressure on Webmasters and IT staff,enabling them to focus on strategic IT projects

Efficient workflow management:
Web content management solutions manages content workflow, handling contributed content and notifying approvers via email that it’s ready for review and publishing.

Quicker Web Site updates:
Non-technical business users can make relevant, timely updates to your site, solidifying your message and ensuring content accuracy.

Protect Web Site branding:
WCM separates Web site content from Web site design, which protects your branding and navigation from content
contributors.

Save time and money:
WCM solutions make your organization more efficient and cost-effective by enabling the right person to manage the right content at the right time.

Sources : Literature from Ektron manuls

GOLD Partnered with Ektron :

We became a Gold partner with Ektron, which is a properity tool for web content management. Even though we develop applications using a Open source WCM (Web content mangement) we find it easy and confident in delivering the product using ektron much comfortable manner.

We had recently done using a open source WCM with Drupal, our experience was very good , our developers find it easy to work with too!! The difference comes with open source WCM and Properity tool like Ektron are support and the training we get!

We leave out this option to customers normally since we are comfortable with both the areas! Normally it ends up the arguing Windows with Linux and Mac OS which is the best kind of!.

PS : Recently (Feb 2008) Our 6 member team was awarded with Ektron Developer certification !! Check with us for more details and exclusing WCM demo’s using Ektron and Open source WCM solutions!

Reduce volume of tea intake

Do not eat bread which has JUST been toasted

Stay some distance from your cell charger

Drink more water in the morning, less at night

Do not drink coffee twice a day

Reduce your volume of oily food

Best sleeping time is from 10 at night to 6 at the morning

Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm

Do not take alcohol more than a cup daily (if unavoidable only)

Do not take capsules with cold water

Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping

Have 8 hours sleep. Lack of it will make a person unable to think clearly

People who get used to napping will not get old easily

If you can’t get on early morning runs, 5-8 in the afternoon is a great time for jogging

When cell phone battery is left with last grid, do not answer the phone. The radiation is 1000 times

Answer the phone with your left ear. (It’ll spoil your brain directly if you use your right ear

Do not use earphone for long time. Rest your ear a while after every 1 hour.

I would like to add few:

Eat one fresh vegetable a day, preferably at lunch.

Practice breathes 10 times at least a day – each time count 10 while you inhale and exhale

Do not check mails while you eat

Read at least a page – anything which you like

Do not hesitate to walk

Go to a hill or sea nearby once in a month

Do not forget to play with your kids at least for 10 mins

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I am sure you will find some simple facts and to-dos which will help you to understand how as a corporate you can support education in your country. This newsletter will carry the information for thr corporate readers in India, But I am sure you can apply that to your country too.

We will keep posted here the newsletter we release each month.

You can visit it at http://www.mosbeta.com.

At the SharePoint Conference in Redmond,Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced Microsoft Online Services, he said that the businesses can now deploy software as a subscription service, from servers they manage on-site or that others manage. He added that this choice is being added to all of Microsoft’s products. Google is already this online services, which Microsoft considers as a key competitor in search, advertising and now online business services. Google has already released online services for businesses, consumer groups and others.

Anyhow its a good step from Microsoft, you can access them with your Linux desktop.

For Windows Mobile:
Visual Studio 2005
Windows Mobile Developer Resource Kit

Here is a page of resource, which gives you details for all the technologies including Appforge and Codewarrier.

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