The best resources on cricket

May 5th, 2007

The best information resource on cricket collected and put together manually over several years of research.

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One sport event in many stadiums - LIVE !

May 5th, 2007

Technology that can multiply sports event collections by thousand times and make event live for millions - LIVE ! Find out how ?

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Simply Geniass - Ideas, concepts, thoughts - totally unrestricted.

May 5th, 2007

Simply Geniass is just another website that offers you innovative ideas that the authors thought about but didnt have resources, energy or inclination to work upon them.

If you believe you have the “innovation bug” in you. Please write to us at guild at simply-geniass.com and you might become one of the authors on this website.

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Zitku the amalgamantion of all directories in one

May 5th, 2007

Zitku is a revival strategy for all Open web directories that have either gone dead or are unable to cope up with the growth of the internet. How does it unit the effort of all editors across all open directories including the mighty DMOZ ?

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Quick SEO guidelines

May 5th, 2007

The simplest instructions to create Search Engine Optimized pages in your website. Follow these and search engine crawler will do all the rest automatically!

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Reciprocal Link Building

May 5th, 2007

Simplest and cheapest way to boost search engine ranks explained in a step by step manner that works !

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Reciprocal Link Building

May 4th, 2007

Reciprocal Link Building is the process of exchanging links between your website and other websites on the internet that focus on the same subject as yours.

Why do you need to do Reciprocal Link Building ?

  • Increases visibility and reach of your website on the internet for human visitors as well as search engine crawlers.
  • Boosts rankings in search engines who believe your website is important if too many websites on the internet point to your web pages.
  • These links drive traffic to your website from those websites that place your link.

How to do Reciprocal Link Building ?

  1. Prepare a list of those keywords that you think “your website visitors” will search on search engines.
  2. Manually perform these searches on the internet and note down the list of websites that appear within the top 500 results on popular search engines.
  3. Create links of these websites within your own website on relevant pages.
  4. Write to the webmasters of the websites that you have linked to and request them to put a link about your website on their website.
    1. If they agree to put a link to your website, thank them and move on.
    2. Otherwise add a rel=”nofollow” attribute to their link. ;o)
    3.  Write to the new web master!

Pitfalls and things you need to be aware of

  1. Do not exchange links with “link farms”. Link farms are those web site where most pages contain > 100 links per page. These website usually do not contain much content of their own instead they are link repositories. Exchanging links with such websites will cause search engines to penalize your website for participating in link spamming.
  2. Concentrate only on those websites that focus on the same subject as your website. Links from unrelated websites will not do any good.
  3. Understand the difference between web pages and a website. A link exchange is done with a web page, not with a website.
  4. Keep checking with websites with whom you have exchanged links. If your link has disappeared from a website, write to the webmaster to restore it !
  5. Total reciprocal links should not be more than 5% of total outbound links from your website.

Is their an easy way out on Reciprocal Link Building ?

Yes! Let a professional handle the task for you, while you concentrate on your main business. Professional SEO services

What can I do being a COTE ?

April 25th, 2007

You can do a lot. COTE is about humanity and about how to run the world. Imagine yourself as the King of the entire world and then suggest a strategy to improve an aspect of the world, the way you would do it. Thats it! Thats your first contribution.

Important: Please note that the moment you make a suggestion. Many others COTE will attack you with criticism, do fault finding, complain and crib just about anything. Don’t feel disheartened or unwanted. COTE is a very open minded community and all ideas are subject to debates, no single individual is important. Please keep ego at home while contributing to the COTE project. Start by posing comments on an COTE article, eventually, you might be offered to become an author for COTE.

Quick SEO guidelines

April 13th, 2007

The SEO checklist is a “do it quick” method of determining if your website is “ready” to shoot up in the search results for prominent keywords and phrases.

The checklist includes list of freely available tools to ensure that your website is free from logical and technical mistakes, that can prevent your website from achieving top ranks in search engines.

The intended audience of this article includes

  • SEO specialists
  • Website owners
  • Freelance search engine marketeers
  • Students

Checklist for individual pages

SEO using Page URL

Page URL(Universal Resource Location) is the address of a page. An internet user can access a page only through the page URL. This includes the following methods

  • By typing the URL in the web browser
  • By clicking the URL link on another page

Both of the above methods are the recognized by search engines directly of indirectly.

By typing the URL in the web browser directly

This page visit by a user might be recognized by search engines only if

  • A tool bar of the search engine is installed in the browser. Such as Google tool bar, Yahoo tool bar or Alexa tool bar
  • You use a tool that is provided by a search engine such as Google Desktop, Google web accelerator, Yahoo Messenger or Gtalk.

If any of the above tools require you to login, the search engine might use your identity to match it against the information that you have been accessing.

  • The web page itself as an embedded link to a search engine analytical tool such as Google Analytics , Yahoo Badge or Zitku tracker.

SEO on Page URL Do’s

  • Include keywords in URL domain
  • Include keywords in URL path
  • Separate multiple keywords using “-” hyphen character.
  • Phrases in paths and URLs are better than individual keywords put together.

SEO on Page URL Dont’s

  • Do not over use keywords in the URL or path.
  • Do not use too many “-” hyphens to avoid being marked as spam.

Page Title SEO guidelines

Page title is the text that appears on the header bar of the web browser. The following is a checklist of page titles.

Page title SEO Do’s

  • Page title should include keywords.
  • Keywords should NOT be over present in the title.
  • Each page of the website should have a unique title most appropriate for that page.

Page title SEO Dont’s

  • Don’t over use keywords in title. Too many keywords diminish the importance of real keywords.
  • Don’t repeat keywords in title. Keep title “readable” for humans.

Page Meta tags

Page meta is the internal code of the website that includes two important tags Keyword tag and Description tag. Even though some search engines DO NOT use these tags, many still do.

Page meta tags guidelines

  • Keyword Meta: Keyword meta is your opportunity to write important keywords of your webpage in this attribute. Important to note that adding too many keywords in this meta is likely to reduce their importance. Include only significant keywords in this attribute.
  • Description Meta: Description meta is a tag that should be added to the page to include a description of the page in less than 200 characters.
    * Important to note that the description is a description of the page and not the entire website.

Page Content SEO guidelines

Page content is the actual webpage which is shown on the web browser and is visible to the visitor. The page content is the most important section of a page and should be dealt with care.

SEO for Page Content Do’s

  • Write original text.
  • Keyword density should not be less than 5% of the total text.
  • Keywords/keyphrases should appear in <h1>, <h2> and<h3> tags.
  • Use important keywords near the top of the page(in html).
  • Try to anticipate the phrase that the search engine user is likely to search for use the phrase in the same order in your text.

SEO for Page Content Dont’s

  • Don’t use too much javascript.
  • Don’t use “large” images on the top of a page.
  • Don’t use animations.
  • Don’t use Flash for the entire content. Flash is mostly unreadable.
  • Don’t use text in the form of images.

SEO for Images on the website Do’s

  • Always use “Alt text” as well as “title” attribute to describe the photograph. “Alt text” alone is not sufficient.
  • Image file names should be descriptive (apply Page URL + Path do’s and don’ts)

SEO for Images on the website Don’ts

  • Do not use too much text or important keywords in images. They cant be read by search engines.
  • Do not use images to make text invisible such as “plain” black background with black text.

One sport event in many stadiums - LIVE !

April 12th, 2007

Sports events have been one of the most successful crowd pullers in the history of this planet.

A soccer match between renowned rivals can attract over 50,000 people in a single stadium. Millions watch it at home.

The same is true to base ball and cricket. Tickets get sold out within a matter of hours and several millions unfortunates are forced to watch the match on TV !

What if there was a way to let everyone watch the same event LIVE in a stadium ?

Read on for how it can be done !

A friend of mine was unable to procure tickets for the most popular cricket match in the world. The India Vs Pakistan World Cup 07 cricket match. He came around cribbing and I thought perhaps someone could do something about it. I couldn’t get him a ticket, but I did write this article to give a concept of how it can be achieve in a few years from now.

The solution lies in holographic projectors and specialized cinematography.

A special set of cameras capture a live event in a stadium then a this video feed is transmitted to stadiums all across the world. The feed is picked up by giant holographic projectors which are then used to project the event live in stadiums across the world !

If the above is implemented, a lot of people have a lot to gain !

  • The ticket collections will multiply by several hundred times(if not thousand).
  • The advertising space will be multiplied.
  • More people will be able to watch the event in stadiums.

Challenges

  1. No one has made a giant holographic projector as yet.
  2. Preventing direct sunlight from projection stadiums
  3. 3d cameras have not yet been invented except a few succesful implementations with stills.

Solutions [stub]

Giant Holographic projectors

Holographic projectors are currently being used to host small products in showrooms etc.

What if it was possible to have the match is one stadium and then reproduce the match in several other stadiums to generate exact holographic presentation of the original in a hundred other stadiums.

Coming soon…

  • Time slicing technique for holography.