World economic trends are going to be the topics of 2009 and with it come the stock market speculations guided by experts.  Acquisitions and mergers of business giants are on the anvil, including that of popular Search Engines and one can not foresee what is to happen in 2009.  But one thing is certain for Search Engine marketers – it is not going to be what they have been experiencing over the last decade and major changes are sure to take place in the whole system. Change as a whole: 

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Following are the tips you can follow, if you want your website listed in primary Search Engines.  These are given for your catching the eyes and attention of “ROBOT” – the mechanical feature of the Search Engines. Internet users first type two to three important keywords when they search for a particular site or sites, and so it is important that you use the same keywords for Page Title; Description for Meta Tag; Page Body and the Links provided in the website. 

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 Voices: Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Dimple Kapadia, Rajpal Yadav

Now, animation seems to be the next big thing in BollyWood. And joining the league of Anurag Kashyap, Ajay Devgan and Saif Ali Khan is our very own Akki, yes he of the Midas touch fame because everything he now touches is turning gold. Meet fatherless Jumbo (Akshay), a young blue elephant who in a desperate attempt to find his dad, wanders into a village and make friends with humans. From there on, starts Jumbo’s journey from being a village elephant towards becoming the personal war elephant of the King himself. A jumbo-sized adventure!

Hot insight: Akki allegedly charged a whopping Rs 9 crore for the movie. And the way he’s promoting the flick, it seems the producers are milking the moolah!

Directed by: A R Murugadoss

Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan

Drama/Thriller: If SRK is here, can Aamir be far behind? Not really. So, here’s another Khan with Ghajini – a remake of Tamil blockbuster, which in turn was inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Mementoes. And after SRK went six-pack for Om Shanti Om, Aamir khan is flaunting his eight-pack abs for this monster release which has him playing richie rich Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) who falls for Kalpana (Asin). But soon, Kalpana dies a sad death. And now Sanjay is baying for revenge. The glitch: Wile trying to save her, he suffers a head injury that results in a short term memory loss. So, all the info that’s useful to him gets tattooed on his body. Will Sanjay be able to find the truth? Let’s watch out in theatre…

Website promotion can be done in two ways – Pay Per Click by advertising the site on the Search Engines (and wherever you deem fit on other sites) and Search Engine Optimization by making your site on top of the Search Engine results.  In both methods, keywords recognized by the searcher make the difference and yield results effectively according to investment made. (more…)

Thinking of it Christmas is a universal festival of joy.  Irrespective of language barriers in the East and West, this is celebrated with the same enthusiasm, which no other festival can match. Japanese, Chinese, Indian, African or the Arabian countries do have their own festivities in innumerable numbers and varieties, but none of them have this much of world fame as Christmas has.  Though Christmas was started religiously to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, 25th of December has become known with latest traditions of Santa Clause, or “Santa” in short for the Americans, as a day of love, friendship, and affection to be showered among people and rejoicing together.

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Lifebook U820 is a mini convertible tablet.  It has Intel Atom Z530 CPU; 1GB DDR 2 RAM; 5.6 inch WXGA touchscreen; with a hard drive of 60 GB; 4,200 RPM; GPS built-in; Garmin Mobile PC; Ethernet; a Webcam; fingerprint sensor; Blue tooth; WiFi with a 4 cell battery. Price is $1000.  NotebookReview.com is of the opinion that this device will appeal the niche market irrespective of its price. What has most impressed them is the size of the device and they have gone to the extent of describing the mini convertible tablet as the smallest and feature packed to the most. 

Another impressive factor about this new device is the incredible life of the battery – more than eight hours’ duration while in balanced mode. It beats the average netbook or for that matter a mini tablet.  Only the price tag is inviting pro and anti-comments. 

Users’ Comment: 

Fujitsu are making these solid and ultra portables for a particular niche market, even before the frenzy of netbooks caught up, and these people are not the ones, who make the choice between Aspire One and EeePC.  This is way ahead of the generic in respect of Fingerprint scanner; touch screen which is able to swivel around for converting to that  of a tablet – smaller than EeePC; Draft-N wireless; GPS and Bluetooth. 

The screen is super sharp in making available 1280 x 800 pixels in comparatively smaller 5.8” screen – when compared to the Asus 901’s 1024 x 600 resolution on a still more large screen. It is fantastic to toss it in a small shoulder bag and using it even in a running bus – standing. 

But installing Microsoft Vista is not ideal for an underpowered device of 60GB – perhaps XP will be most suitable. 

Search Engine Optimization – is the key to keep your website upfront, whatever business you are involved in, including business from home.  For many it is a difficult proposition to understand how this can be accomplished, unless they are experts. Simply put, a well and thoroughly optimized website can attract search engines as a magnet does to iron pieces and if you succeed in this, then you are through to get visitors in a line to your website. 

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Search Engine Optimization is the key in bringing your website, for whatever purpose it is created – business; propaganda; advice; providing information or clarification on anything – to the forefront, to be available to billions of searchers of Internet everyday the world over.  With a view to help search marketers, here is the list of Top 15 sites related with SEO, wherefrom you can get the comprehensive and complete service towards your efforts in maximizing viewing of your site through popular Search Engines of the Internet. 
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I am providing a complete list containing SEO Forums and would like you to comment upon adding them, if any, to the prescribed list.UPDATE: The SEO Training Program we have is strengthened by the addition of private and exclusive SEO Community forum on popular demand.

Meta Information on Forum: Skimming out the right stuff from the innumerable SEO Forums, like Thread Watch, which acts as a blog as well as forum, we have put everything inside.  In fact Thread Watch was created to help all levels of SEO professionals and contains enjoyable gossip type entries.

A first rated SEO Forum should be a place to pour out opinions on anything, even if the technique of that SEO is against the wishes of Search Engines, so far as it makes the right noise. With this perspective the following Top Rated SEO Forums are identified:

a) Search Guild : SEO Forums by Chris Ridings – Open and forthright views from a community angle in spite of slow activity, comparatively at summer.

b) V7N Web Dev Community: SEO Forum by John Scott – Challenging some “norms” with info at times going against the core.

c) Search Engine Watch Forums: A Forum fancied by even experienced SEOs hanging out in new Forum and breaking news items are aplenty.

d) Digital Points: Fast grown up new comer and active, innovative features combined with hands off policy socially and the SEO tools are also cool.

e) SEO Guy Forums: Springing up new from SEO Chat, SEO Guy Forums has many best members from the old hat with a good start.

Here are SEO Forums, which are largest in the sense, the contents and volume of information are immense. Large SEO forums often getting the community feel missing, excepting Digital Point, scaling out an amazingly good sense community feel of a forum:

Digital Point: Fast grown up new comer and active, innovative features combined with hands off policy socially and the SEO tools are also cool.
Jimworld:  Mainly Webmaster Forums:  Created by Jim Wilson as the first and popular SEO Forum has passed its glorious days.
Site Point Forums: Webmaster (Coding) Forums – Unlike many others driven by marketing angle this Forum focuses more on site development and coding.
SEO Chat: Darrin Wood started it at the time when SearchGuild was started and sold it to DevShed network’s owner. The heavy advertising onsite is working against it (prescription drugs buying for example) coupled with lot of posts in the “me too” type makes many well-versed SEOs flinching upon it.
Webmaster World:  Bret Tabke as well as other webmasters created it for beating Jimworld. Though successful in this, the forum has lost many best members, owing to strict guidelines for posting, who are posting presently at “Search Engine - Watch Forums”. This is the largest SEO Forum (Digital Point beating in daily posts) currently perhaps.

Then there are Big SEO Forums as listed below:

Abakus Forums – SEO Forums: Small forums but with German Version larger in size. Moderated by Webby – along with a large number of SEO forums.
Anthony Parsons SEO Forum: Anthony Parsons has made many a thoughtful pots in various SEO forums, but according to me, he has not promoted his own forum much.
AOSEP – small and new SEO forum by Searchguild moderators.
Bank of Gonzo’s Webmasters Forums: WebProWorld lead posters created this as their own and interesting pieces of news have been dug up by Dodger.
Cre8asite Forums:  In business and marketing posts it excels from usability and design with posts of experience by Peter D and Black Knight as also bragadocchio.
Digital Point Forums – by Shawn Hogan and is mid-sized. This Forum seems to be liberal as people from similar SEO forums having sent out of them learn to behave here. SEO tools are coolest.
Dirson Google Foro – Spanish forums mostly about Google.
Foro Buscadores – SEO forums of Spanish origin
Forums Abondance – Webmaster forums – French
Geeks on Steoroids – Newer Webmaster & SEO forums for discussions
Highrankings SEO Forums – A conservative “White Hat” forum by Jill Whalen – branded as “the SEO Copywriter”. Primarily inexperienced persons unfamiliar to SEO gear this up, but there seems to be experienced SEOs too.
HTML it : Webmaster forums of Italian origin
Ihelp You Forums: SEO forums of mid-size by Doug Heil, a self-nominated and vehement crusader to fight search engines and allied spam. Strongly worded opinions with quick judgments are his strength. About Dough Heil’s SPAM comes to my mind when I was writing gossip posts in ThreadWatch.
Jimworld: A large and old forum, visited by me rarely since I think it is past its old prime.
LilEngine Forums: SEO forums of small size with not much of activity now. I used to delete link drops in great numbers, by many people when I started moderating there.
Ozzu – webmaster forums of medium size, with a cool design and decent ratio of signal-to-noise, though I do not post there frequently.
Resource Zone : Open Directory Project (DMOZ) for interfacing by public with editors. Webmaster conflicts are usual with some great editors and some judgmental and mean.  What a best editor and worst editor can offer – you can see there.
Search Engine Watch Forums: My favorite and new SEO forum having long time experienced SEOs.
SEO Blackhat Forum – SEO technique is aggressive and it is paid forum
SEO Chat – By tons of link drops drowning signals and heavy advertising, many SEOs are not fond of these large SEO forums.
SEO-Forums.com – New and small SEO forums by James Mann. Other than that it is new and small, I can not give any review for lack of visiting.
SEO Guy Forums: Springing up new from SEO Chat, SEO Guy Forums has many best members from the old hat with a good start.
SEO Debat – SEO Forums of Danish origin
SEO Place – New SEO forum by Derek Chew, who runs also Organic Rankings.
SEO Project – small and newer SEO forum
SEO Refugee – Once SEO Chat got imploded, this forum sprang up independently
SEO Town – Darin Ward started this small newer SEO Forum afresh after the non-competing specific clause for 1 year by SEO Chat lapsed, but yet to pick up steam.
SEO Talk –Webmaster Talk people created this smaller and newer SEO forum
SEO Zip – I help Nandini Maheswari moderate this new SEO forums
Search Guild – This mid-sized Chris Riding SEO forum is my favorite and has good community sense and ratio for signal-to-noise.
Search This Forums – webmaster forums of small nature
SitePoint Forums – Rather than marketing, this site is focusing primarily on web development as webmaster coding forums.
Spider Food Forums – SEO forums of J.K. Bowman
Suchmaschinen Community – SEO forums of German origin.
Syndk8 – SEO forums of black hat
Top25Web – These SEO forums, small and geared primarily towards persons new to the SEO by Anthony Ettinger
VN7 Web Dev Community – SEO forums of mid-size by John Scott, who is blunt but meaning well. Frequently I post at this forum
Web Inspect Forums – newer and smaller Forums
Webmaster World – Search Engine Watch forums have penetrated into the user base, due to strict policies for posting in this large webmaster forums.
Web Pro World – This SEO forum of mid-size is focused towards new people to SEO forums
Webmaster Home Page – webmaster forums of German origin.
Webmaster Talk – webmaster forums focusing on creating, coding, promoting and hosting sites
Xeoweb SEO Foro – SEO forums of Spanish origin
Then about the News Groups we have: Google Group: Google Support; and Google Groups for Search Engines :   These Newsgroups have admirable stuff inside them. But they lack in moderation and thereby lead to misinformation largely. Google Groups 2 powered newer News Group, moderated by author Andrew Goodman can be found here.

He is writing in Traffick.com and is respected as among the leading Google Adwords gurus. Before I-lists going away, he was doing the moderator job of I-Search online list. Many sophisticated and seasoned marketers made posts of higger level in his newsgroup.

LED Digest – one of original exclusive email discussion lists. Issues of webmaster related, Internet marketing are also discussed along SEO.

Forum Article of mine about Old SEO – contains reviews about SEO forums near about 2003 end. Kindly note the info can be outdated slightly though, as I have been trained a bit more and change of things have occurred in last year. Rather than the info of that article, here on this particular page the information given is LOT MORE new and up-to-date.