Do you know that half the people who claim themselves as seo experts try to rank for strong keywords. Let me use the most common examples. A typical directory owner would target the term “Web Directory”. But do you really think that people will type that in google? I don’t think so. That is just a vanity project to rank for such terms.

If I am researching for something, I want my key term to be very accurate, so if i am looking for a 3 column free wordpress theme, I won’t go in google and type wordpress themes, but I will go type in 3 column free wordpress themes. This keyword is called Long Tailed Keyword.

Many webmasters are interested in making money from adsense. I see alot of websites have adsense some where now a days because of the penalties caused by paid links. Well, the trick to make money through adsense is the more tragetted the better it is. Which means you need to rank for the long tailed keywords to get the targetted audience who will actually click on your ads.

When I call the general keywords a vanity project, Why I call them those is because they will cost you alot of money to make it to the top page, and staying there will require even more investment, and the return from those will not be as much as the return from the long-tailed keywords. The main keyword might get you 10 visitors a day, but 20 of the long tailed keywords will get you 20 visits which out numbers the 10 from that one main keyword.

As a blogger, I pick my titles very carefully because I know when i type this title most likely then not, My blog will show up for that long tailed keyword unless it is a competitive keyword. Since I have launched Balkhis, most of the Search Engine traffic is coming through the long tailed keywords.

A trick to rank higher for the long tailed keyword is to have those in your url and in the title, so for instance if the title of this post is Long Tailed Keywords, then the url of this post should be balkhis.com/seo/long-tailed-keywords

stay tuned and in my next post I will teach you guys how to set your permalink structure in a more seo-friendly way.

As soon as I saw this on Yahoo, I was like Wooaah!! At first, I thought of an Alien movie, but no this is in real life. A developing company in California is working on a hybrid car that can possibly give 330mpg. Thats about 10 times more than my car on highway. Well this vehicle is being classified as a motorcycle with 3 wheels with a complete futuristic sci-fi movie look.

Now, this is expected to be out in late 2008. Hopefully everything works out and this private company sells this project to a bigger company like Honda, or BMW and then it can be offered to public cheaper.

I might be getting it as my next vehicle from my online earnings :p though I do wonder how good the pick up of this car will be.

Any thoughts fellas?

Google PR is a thing of past now, but majority of webmasters are still stuck with it. The obsession of Pagerank is to an extent that each link purchase on websites, sale of a website and everything else heavily relies around Pagerank. Individually each person will say no i don’t believe that, but it is a sad fact that majority of webmasters still believe in Pagerank.

When I watch sales thread on Digitalpoint, and other places, there is something I find very funny. That would be the statement: My Predicted PR is 5 but the current PR of the website is PR 2. These predicted tools are completely inaccurate.

Iwebtool – the one which have all the tools for webmasters (half of those now don’t even work) have this Google Pagerank Prediction tool. I ran a query for Balkhis just to see what the tool have to say. Now I mean out of all things, this is not what I was expecting…

Even funnier part is the Accuracy because it is so certain that I will get a PR 6. In reality, I only have 15k backlinks and that will not get me anywhere near a PR 6 if blogs like Shoemoney and others are at PR 5. I checked alot of other websites, half resulted in Page Not Loading, and the other half were just pathetic.

Now the point of this post is to begg the new users to not take this tool seriously. This is just a thing to pass time. Play with it, but don’t take it seriously because tools of this type can only get your hopes down. Also stop trying to please google because the more you worry about google, the more your website will suffer.

Do let me know what do you in the result for your website in these tools.

I am now claiming this to be the Worst Webmaster Tool of the year.

These supplies I found are very good for local or online businesses which are starting or are already established looking to promote their website a little more. Vista Prints has been offering free Business Cards for sometime now and many other webmasters including myself has gotten themselves these free supplies. Now, Vista Prints is offering more than just Business Cards. Yes now the free package includes, 250 Free Business Cards, 100 Free Post Cards, Free Sticky Notes, Free Pen, Free T-Shirt, Free Checques and more on their website.

I have ordered everything except for a cheque book because I already have one from my bank account. All you have to pay is Shipping.

This is one of the best opportunities you will get to promote your business offline at a fraction of price. They are also offering huge discounts once you finish your order on alot of their products.

250 Free Business Cards

You have to choose one of the predesigned templates and there are 42 of them available. The back side of the card will contain Vista Prints link which you can easily remove by paying $2 for having a blank backside, or $5 to get your own text (which I did) because if it is my business card I dont want to have someone else’s link on it, and I don’t mind paying $5 for adding a little of my own text because it is an affordable price.

Free Rubber Stamp – You ever wanted to just stamp your address on the letter rather than keep writing it over and over? This is a free rubber stamp that comes with an extra black ink. This was one of the cool thing that I liked in their free promotion.

100 Free Postcards

They have their own pre-designed templates which you can use to write a description of your product and such and send these post cards out to your friends and families. Vista Print also offer mailing service which I didn’t bother with, but you can certainly go with it if you need to send the post cards to the people in your area. You can also use these as the little brochure I talked about in my Local Advertising post.

Free Custom Hat – I didn’t see this when I ordered my other supplies, but I found it when I was looking later, this looks very cool because there are tons of premade templates, and there are two colors available.

Free Sticky Notes

This I found were cool but they only offer one set I believe. You can write sticky notes to people and it will have your Website’s name and url, so people will know about your website.

Free T-Shirt – One free T-shirt with a pregenerated logo from their company. It is something nice to have not too special but it is free.

25 Magnets for your Business – This $12.99 value is completely free for you. Now you can also give out free magnets with your contact information for people so they can put it on their refrigerator and will never have to look for your contact information again.

140 free Return Labels – As I mentioned above with the small rubber stamp. This is something similar, but much more prettier. You can get 140 colored labels with your name and return address, and won’t have to write your return address on the envelopes again. A great way to brand your business.

10 Free Notecards – Now this is what I like alot. Through this you can get 10 folded notecards, flat notecards, notecards with your own logo etc. These make a great gift for those people who you want to thank in your business. Especially when sending a business gift these cards are very helpful.

Car Door Magnet – Free Car Door Magnet for your Car door. Just put it on your car and advertise as you drive to places. This looks cool to me, another thing that I will be ordering in my second batch.

Free Wallet Check – You can customize your wallet check with 6 designs with Vista Print. The check book will contain 25 free checks.

Just an Advice for those who bothered reading this entire post, don’t order these individually… Order in bulk and save on shipping because ordering each individual will cost you $10 each, and ordering all together will cost somewhere around $15 and depending on how much more services you add.

I seriously recommend that you guys get these freebies because this is a great opportunity and not many things you will get in life which are free

Enjoy

Alright this is the second one about my trip, but I can’t resist to share this, so here it is. Well, I am driving with my roommate to Gainesville from West Palm Beach, and just a little bit after Orlando we got stuck in a crash on Turnpike. Exact mile board 281. This crash was big and lasted almost 2 hours. There was no movement in the car and both lanes were blocked. All cars were dead stopped and it was miles back. The accident I would say was about 1.5 miles in front of my car, so I was very bored, but luckily I had my camera, so I decided I should take pictures.

Just to get the pictures of the actual crash, I ran 1.5 miles up and back to the car, so a total of 3 miles. I got my exercise for the day. This crash was pretty big and you will see it in the pictures. A big SUV was crashed badly. The clothes from the van flew all over. There were two trauma hawks that landed and took off with patients.

Enough with the talking lets view some pictures and the interview.

I had tons of free time there because we were stuck for almost 2 hours, so I made some short videos for time pass.

My Interview

My Roommate’s Interview

Interview with some random guy who i think was drunk and making up stuff because we weren’t there for 10 – 15 minutes as you can see the sun went down and how bright it was when I was taking the other pictures.

Mock Accident

It was very sad to see the crash, luckily I had the camera so I took some pictures. Apparently some people didn’t have a very good Spring break..