How i earn Big Bucks from my blog Doing Nothing!

Hey ! You might be using the below websites or WeBrands Daily or almost always when you are on the internet, like Google search and Yahoo email.

But ever wondered How much these internet Giants make ? or Whats their worth income each minute you browse for them ? its mind boggling amounts ! So just dont drop Jaws, But lets get inspired from them!!

Their Earnings might vary from the number on the List as of now 2010 Jan, But these are approximate figures, but would certainly help you gain an idea on how much money is flowing Only from ONLINE source!

So before we start, lets me inspire you with some great earning websites

1. Google :  $21,000,000,000
2. Amazon:  $19,200,000,000
3. Yahoo:  $7,800,000,000
4. Ebay:  $6,600,000,000
5. Paypal: $2,450,000,000
6. Hotels.com: $1,000,000,000
7. Myspace.com:  $800,000,000
8. Buy.com: $400,000,000
9. Youtube.com: $300,000,000

Some Bloggers who make a lot of $$ every months

1. Techcrunch – $200,000 amonth !
2. Mashable – $180,000 a month
3. Smashing Magazine – $60,000 a month
4. Problogger – $40,000 a month
5. Noupe – $ 5,000 a month
6. Just Creative Design – $3000 a month

I derrived these stats from another Great earning Blog:  Income Diary ( owned by Michale Dunlop)
These are great numbers right ?
So what are really helping them to earn, is it that they simply grew up or is it that they are earning by just throwing a few 125×125 ad banners all over their websites ? Absolutely not !
Smart and sucessfull website owners earn Big Cash from their websites due to few Solid methods or call them even reasons that i can even list below:

• Quality Quality / Unique Unique Content ! I will give this point a 5 star rating as this is the most and the very most important part in this article, If  you have regularly updated content and that too with qulity, give it some time and do your homework, Money and traffic will follow.
• Advertising Banners : It is one way of earning money from your blog But not one of my methods, it makes your blog feel like a ad newsletter, so limit it to only quality ads and very few in number.  To get good ad banners, i suggest you  to directly contact webmasters and website owners you find in Forums like Digitalpoint and explain your traffic potential and get them to put up ads on a monthly or yearly basis. (this option has not worked that great personally for me, but contributed for about 10% of my earnings)
• Affiliate Sales: This method of advertising has Really been over the web and has really worked for me and for many others well. ( nearly 40 -60% of my earnings are from the Affiliate Sales, so tie up with some good affiliate products in your niche and suggest them with your affiliate links within your articles so that you can convert your sales from REAL People who trust you and  are in need of the good products you suggest. Read this to know more on that: 12 WordPress Plugins to monetize your Blog ( this article will also give you know how about wordpres s plugins that automatically convert your keywords to affiliate links, isnt that nice ? )
• Private Advertising : Another very important method that i use to make some cash, How ? its simple, browsing the web a lot is important when you have just begun, Some regular forums i brows are : Digitalpoint forum, Statcounter forum, SEO Chat forum, Programming Talk forum, WebdesignForum, SitegroundForum – Just google these website names and you will get the forum link.  do regular posts here, Talk to people you find there, Show off your traffic in the Sell Area, and invite potential advertisers to buy text links on your home page etc ( this has been working well for me) But remember not to over crowd your Blog Roll 
• Selling your Products: Its always nice to take out time to write in your own niche, like i have been writing ebooks and intially do a free giveaway and let people get a taste of what you write, then sell your or others ebooks on your website and make cash !
• Adsense/ Chitika: These two PPC admodules have worked well for me, again dont over do it, only use these when you have lot of quality content and when people would not mind you using 1 ad in your article, that might also count helpful. Eg. while reading about best paints if they see an add to buy paints, they would ofcourse click i, there Again youve learnt how to get cash 

How to get Quality Traffic
I have written many article in the Orangecopper blog about many methods of Building a trust between you and your readers, So getting traffic could be difficult, but Getting returning visitors is Even Difficult, But Do-able !!

• Again Quality Content comes first
• URL rewriting and preparing your website/blog for the search engines
• Using Of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, technorati, Stumbleupon etc effectively as soon as you have your article ready.
• Publicizing your Blog well:  use forums signatures, reply in blogs ( and dont simply do it, do it when its really required and when you have something to say, otherwise people wont even take a note about your post then forget about them noting your signature.
• PressRelease websites: Using PressRelease has always helped me get good quality inbount link and traffic.
• Blog Carnivals: Use Blogcarnivals, blogcarnival.com. release blog carnivals. I have got upto 5000 Visitors on an article on many Blog carnival releases, its a good method to further flow in visitors.
• Make Friends: Find Opportunities  to talk to webmasters in your own niche and exchange blogrolls.
• Help others: with your articles, in forums and boards, so let people com to your website and learn rather learn from the same page  . so that will open up a road to your Blog.
• Keep Them coming ( The most important ): Would it be of any use if a potential visitor comes to your website, stays there for 1.5 minutes and leave and never come back ? Absolutely you would not want this to happen! So bring them back and use Newsletter systems to keep your members enlightned and informed. Set up a RSS FEED and Newsletter system on your website and make sure you dont iritate them with frequent posts, but send Valuble ,good and informative newsletters linking to articles on your blog so that they keep coming.

So thats how i earn from my blog doing nothing ! (now ) But the above is the honest list of things i wanted to share with all of you so that you would also do nothing and earn in the future  good luck dear friends..

Some refrences that would elaborate the points i have mentioned here:
48+ web Design Related Twitter Accounts To Follow
Useful Tools that help you keep your Twitter account clean
How to add membership feature to your wordpress blog
12 WordPress Plugins to monetize your Blog
5 Most Important To Do s for a New Blog Launch

Hope you have liked the stuff and tricks i have shared here, I would really LOVE to hear back from your guys!!!

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Free Magento Themes / Templates Download: updated list

Magento is an open-source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0.
Magento Enterprise Edition, a paid for version of Magento aimed at larger companies, was launched on April 15, 2009
Below is a compilation of FREE magento themes ready for download
Updated post with more 80 magento templates to download – Dont forget to check that too!!

Free Magento Templates

Modern Theme | Live Demo | Download
This is an alternative to the default theme created by the Magento core team. It brings a more corporate look and feel, with a clean and simple design.

Magento Classic Theme | Live Demo | Download
Templates-Master’s first free professional Magento theme, the Classic Theme is available in 10 colors, all available for free download. This is CSS3-powered theme, easy to customize and coming with free updates.

Telescope Theme | Live Demo | Download
Created by MagThemes, this theme is very popular in the Magento community. It is freely available for download and has already been downloaded over 6,000 times.

Pet Store Theme | Full Preview | Download
This is the first free Magento theme from Template Monster. Very simple and light design, and easy to customize according to your needs.

Computer Store Theme | Live Demo | Download
When you download this ready-made Web page design, you can practice editing it to gain experience working with this type of theme.

Blue Skin | Live Demo | Download
Another alternative to the Magento default interface, this one with a very minimal design that focuses on the shopping cart.

Electronics Store Theme | Full Preview | Download
This theme has a rugged, mechanical appearance. The strong color and font would show off electronic devices well. To download this theme, just go to the store checkout and pay nothing; you’ll receive the theme by email within 24 hours.

Linen Theme | Live Demo | Download
Another free theme from MagThemes. Linen Theme is very flexible. It has a stretch design (can stretch to fit 90% of your browser window) and a clean and simple layout that draws your customer’s attention to the products.

Eco Fashion | Full Preview | Download
The Eco Fashion e-commerce template is very easy to customize. With minor changes to the CSS and images, you can transform this into your own personal theme. It comes loaded with some key SEO tools, such as lightweight CSS menus and main page content that appears before the column, footer and header blocks.

Girly Store Theme | Live Demo | Download
A free pink theme for stores targeted at girls. Includes theme files, the PSD source file for the logo and fonts. It has the same power as the default Magento template; only some minor changes were made to the CSS, images and theme code, but not the core files. So, you can update to new releases of Magento with no problem.

Refresh | Full Preview | Download
Refresh is a free W3C-compliant, CSS-based template based on the original HTML/CSS template by StyleShout.com. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means you are free to use and modify it for any purpose.

iPhone Optimized Theme | Full Preview | Download
One more alternative skin to the default Magento interface. The very clean layout was created mainly with the iPhone in mind. It includes automatic detection and delivery of packages and themes (templates, skins, CSS, layout) based on the user-agent (client) that can be configured to global, website and store views. This video shows a preview of how Magento looks on the iPhone.

Thanks to smashingmagazine.com which was referred for the selected themes
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5 Most Important To Do s for a New Blog Launch

There is nothing more exiciting than startying your own blog on the niche that really intersts you and the prospective visitors to your Blog.  And guess what ? its more exciting when you see your Blog doing well and imagning you sitting there on your lappy and viewing the visitor stats after all that hard work you have put up for brining up your blog.

So i guess you would be already knowing that how easy it is to start a blog and how difficult it is to keep it going with Quality content that is unique ! ( the most important part ) so Prepare yourself before you plunge into the web ocean. Below are listed a few most important things in your ToDo list you have to do before launch of your blog.

1. First Impression when someone visits your Blog

Be ready with a stunning design or hire a designer to do that, because i ve seen many blogs that have really quality content but still you feel like leaving the blog beacause of the non user friendly look.

2. Grear up your self as an admin
Be ready with your google, google webmaster accounts, google analytics, Feedburner accounts so that you can get your blog equipped when you start off itself.
3 Plugins and Widgets
Be ready with all the required basic and important plugins for wordpress that would help your blog to take-off well in all arena, be it user experience, features, SEO etc. ( Read this: 30 Best wordpress Plugins required for Any WP Blog )
5. Have your Social networking accounts ready to shoot.
Social networking has grown big time and is one important weapon in any webdesigners or developers or any blogger’s arsenal, so have your all SN ids setup and ready
6. Content , Content and more Content
The Most important part, Before you are launching your website, have enough and more contents that would keep your blog running for a period of atleast 2 months, so that your blog is always daily updated and has unique contents always.
7. Welcome your visitors with Gifts and give aways
Its important to keep your visitors charged up. we meet hundreds of people in our life, how many would you recollect ? So its important that you leave a mark in your visitors mind, that can be achived with some give aways, offers etc.  So that your blog catches some attention.
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7 Excellent jQuery menus and jQuery examples and downloads

 

  

  

  

  

Below is a list of compilation of jQuery menus that is provided by various websites, click on the link to the websites so that the tutorial and details can be viewed. 

1) LavaLamp 

  

  

  

  

  

  

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2) A Navigation Menu- Unordered List with anchors and nested lists, also demonstrates how to add a second level list. 

 

  

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3) SuckerFish Style 

 

  

  

  

  

  

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Tabs

4) jQuery UI Tabs / Tabs 3 – Simple jQuery based tab-navigation 

  

 

  

  

  

  

  

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5) TabContainer Theme – JQuery style fade animation that runs as the user navigates between selected tabs. 

  

 

  

  

  

  

  

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Accordion

6) jQuery Accordion 

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7) Simple JQuery Accordion menu 

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Compare WordPress – Joomla – Drupal and their features

The last few years has been a great year for webmasters, Drupal , Joomla and wordpress has come a long way and are now a very stable Opensource CMS that can be very handy and useful for developing stunning blogs and websites.

But when it comes to You making a website and deciding which to select for your website, It gets Difficult ! So the way out is Sit down a while, chill and write down your requirements, use the Pros and Cons below to analyse which is best for you for your requirement as all are great CMS softwares !

WordPress Pros

• Simple to use – No need for modifications
• Excellent for blogging or sharing thoughts in a sequential manner
• Even the most elderly of users can get the hang of it quickly

WordPress Cons

• Not developer friendly
• The community seems to like to complain
• Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes sometimes

Drupal Pros

• Extremely developer friendly. If I loved code more I would almost always pick this system.
• Strong community to help discern the dozens (hundreds) of functions and tags available.
• Can be used to create some really awesome websites that can outperform a majority of other sites out there.

Drupal Cons

• Not very designer and user-friendly. It’s hard for someone with little code knowledge to make the leaps required to do the very cool things that Drupal is becoming known for.
• Theming of Drupal has been a huge case of fail (until recently). Probably because it has been developers, not designers, that are making the themes.
• Getting a Drupal website published could cost you more time, and thus more money, than WordPress or Joomla
   

Joomla Pros

• Friendly for all types of users – Designers, Developers and Administrators
• Huge community is awesome for assisting with creation of websites
• Has been rapidly growing and improving itself for the past three years

Joomla Cons

• Still not user-friendly enough for everyone to understand
• Not quite as powerful as Drupal, and can be a bit confusing for some to jump into
• Recently rebuilt the entire system from ground-up, and so there are still many out there sticking to the old versions (1.0.x)

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How to promote your old Blog posts

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How to promote your old Blog posts

Personally I’ve been blogging for more that like 6 years.. But i find visitors to my blog mostly browsing most recent posts or write ups. So how can we encourage them to read other good posts in our blog as well? Its important because there could be lot of other good information that could be very useful for our visitors. Today i would be writing on some of the best methods to really keep your visitors clinging to your blog and making use of it to the optimum.
Promote your old posts by using a good Archive script.
A good wordpress plugin option i would suggest is SRG Clean Archives.
Website: http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/projects/clean-archives
Download: http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/downloads/srg_clean_archives.zip

This plugin would give an ajax preview of your blog’s archived posts and hence revealing the entire blog to your visitors and its best posts.

Use interlinking plugin
This is the MOST Effective method to bring attention to older posts, simply install the interlinking posts and the texts in your blog would change into links to old posts. The best part of this option is:
1. You can control the threshold of number of links in a blog posts (keep it low so that you don’t look spammy )
2. Existing links would not be further linked and will be avoided
3. you are opening infinite possibilities to keep the visitor feel that your blog is full of information.
Example of plugin you could use for this are: interlink, YARRP, SEO Smart links etc.

Use “related posts” plugin to show related posts after each blog posts
This is another very effective method to keep your visitor sticky – it gives them few random related posts to what they are reading and they could find them interesting and continue to read on or return again -see you’ve captured one more heart hear 

Auto post rotating scripts
This creates an automatic rotation between old posts in your blog, dusts them away from your old archives and brings them to the front of the blog giving it more exposure.
Example of such a plugin is “archivist”
Plugin link: http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/archivist

Promote them yourself
The rest of the way to promote them is through forums, blogs, social networks etc… where your blog could be used as reference giving more information, this can effectively work when you don’t spam the forum directly with the link and use it wisely. Hope you have learned on How to promote your old Blog posts

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How to avoid 404 Page not found errors on your website

How to avoid 404 Page not found errors on your website

Before we start off, let me explain 2 related terms, in case you are not aware:

Bounce Rate: When a visitor arrives at your website through normal search or any referral link, post viewing the page if the visitor instantly leaves the website without exploring the rest of your website, it’s called a Bounced Visit. (Here the landing page and leaving page are the same).

To calculate a website’s bounce rate for a given period, you divide the number of bounces by the total number of site visits during the period, and multiply by 100. Most of the Analytic tools like Google analytics have a tab or a metric that shows you the bounce rate. A healthy Bounce rate is always less than 30 – 40%, the lower the better. You can learn more about

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How to configure Newsletter subscription on your Website

How to configure newsletter subscription on your Website or Blog

Undoubtedly newsletter and email marketing is one of the most effective methods for publicizing your website content and gaining a consistent traffic to your website. The two best options for integrating newsletter or email subscription to your website or blog are:

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How to Create a Vanity URL for Facebook Page

How to Create a Vanity URL for Facebook Page

• Log on to Facebook.com
• Click on Account Settings Tab
• Navigate to “Username” and check for the availability.
• Save your new username and you are done.

Once you have saved your new username, say for example: “orangecopper” Now, a vanity URL is automatically created in the following format: Facebook.com/orangecopper

The vanity URL could be used on your visiting cards, websites and links directing your contacts to even your Facebook page. The usage of vanity URLs can be a great way to brand your Facebook page and account.

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User Generated Content website using WordPress CMS

User Generated Content website using WordPress CMS

User generated content websites (UGC) are one of the best methods to trigger activity on any form of websites when compared to the Admin Generated Website model. Some of the best examples on the web are: Digg, Reditt, Twitter etc.

WordPress is considered to be one of the best content management system (CMS) available for free to use on the internet. With a little creativity and know how, one can easily convert the WordPress platform into a user generated website model.

The biggest advantage of using WordPress is because of the scalability it offers with thousands of amazing plugins that are available for download. Few plugins could convert your WordPress blog into a complete user generated content website.

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How to Import Large SQL Database files using phpMyadmin

How to Import Large SQL Database files using phpMyadmin

Often migrating websites from one host or domain to another could lead you to situations where you would have to import one Database SQL Dump to another database using programs like phpMyadmin.

While importing smaller databases of size less than 20 MB it would not be an issue using phpMyadmin, but in some cases we would have to import larger databases ranging from 20 MB to even GBs which the phpMyadmin program would not allow us to do. Today I will share an extremely useful light weight application that automatically splits SQL dumps into smaller chunks of your choice that you can effortlessly upload using phpMyadmin.

SQL Dump Splitter is a 180 KB application that gives total control over splitting huge databases into smaller SQL files with ease. With SQL Dump Splitter you can:

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How to Transfer a WordPress Blog to a new Server

How to Transfer a WordPress Blog to a new Server or Web Hosting

I have been seeing many queries and requests about transfer / migration of a WordPress blog installation from one server to another server or web hosting account from different webmasters.

There is an increasing demand for a dependable and detailed tutorial for the same. Hence I decided to create a detailed tutorial with screenshots and steps that will clearly explain on how to migrate an already established WordPress blog to a different web hosting server without any issues.

Tutorial Legend:

• OLDserver – The server on which the blog is already installed on.
• NEWserver – The destination server of the new target web hosting company.
• OLDdatabase – The database file of the original blog.
• NEWdatabase – The database of the target blog.

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Is Google Page Rank dead?

Lately I have observed that there is lot of anxiety building up in the Internet showground regarding the Google Page Ranks not being updated according to the earlier patterns. Finally, I decided to do a research and get this cleared up.

Two major facts worrying the webmasters are:

• The Page rank display has been taken off the Google toolbar.
• No page rank update as expected and its taking longer time.
• Page rank patent grapevine spreading.

Let’s start with what Google rep had to say on the Google forums

Why Google page rank is not updating?

We do Toolbar PageRank updates 3-4x/year but to be honest, it’s not something that you need to wait for. The PageRank shown in the Toolbar is an older snapshot of the PageRank that we use internally (which is continuously updated). Changes in Toolbar PageRank will not change anything with your site’s crawling, indexing, or ranking, so as a webmaster, I’d strongly recommend focusing on something else.

If you are using PageRank as a means to sell PageRank-passing links, keep in mind that this is against our Webmaster Guidelines, and can negatively impact your site’s ranking in search results.

Guidelines links:

• Paid links – Webmaster Tools Help – Google
• Report spam, paid links, malware, and other problems to Google
• Webmaster Guidelines – Webmaster Tools Help – Google

Is Google PageRank DEAD?

PageRank is not dead — and PageRank is not everything. We have well over 200 factors in our algorithms, so while PageRank is involved, it’s by far not the only thing. As I mentioned above, we continuously update our internal PageRank, and for the time being we’ll continue to update the Toolbar PageRank occasionally.

Since I answered your questions  — can you tell me why you’re so interested in the PageRank number shown in the Toolbar? Why do you worry about it enough to post here?

So, What really going on:

• PageRank building has become a big business and Google simply does not seem to like it.
• Webmasters have spend big bucks to optimize there websites and look forward to improved Google PR to further capitalize or SELL it for more money – that’s the major cause of worry on the Internet.
• Since Google PR is one of the ingredients to the Google search engine position – it would continue to discourage forced search engine optimization as it loves genuine results only.
• Google PR is not dead! As the rep says – its very much alive. The PR would be less frequently updated and would be internally used.

To learn more about the above responses, you could read the Google’s response in their support forum here:

And regarding the Google PageRank patent issue, for more details – you could find the content in the 15^th page of the document Form 10-k (2009) filed with United States Securities and Exchange Commission here

Take home: As per the trends that the Google PR showed all these years, A Google PR update is expected in January 2011. But seeing all the action going around, I personally feel, it could take some time for such and update. It’s clear that Google does not love the idea of paid links. If you really like it or not, it would be a good idea to concentrate on developing great websites and unique content. The Google PR is not going to affect the way your website is being crawled or indexed.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: (First Google PR update of the year updated on January 20, 2011)
Now i have enough confirmation from thousands of webmasters and forums that it has finally arrived here. I would say the Pagerank was updating data center by data center and now majority of the webmasters confirm that the page rank update for the year 2011 has arrived on January 20, 2011. Thanks for your valuable participation in discussions we had.

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My Google Pagerank Dropped Suddenly – Dont you worry

Recently I have been receiving many queries on the Orangecopper forum regarding the Google PR dropping for many websites and its creating chaos among webmasters who have been working hard on building up pagerank.

Firstly I would comment on this as Google PR should not be over hyped as what really matters is your content and the traffic it delivers.  So firstly don’t worry on the PR dropping, concentrate on building your content and quality you offer to your visitors.

Why PR seems to drop suddenly

It could create an anti-Google wave, but I support their move in penalizing heavily on websites and dropping pagerank. This should be a Google initiative to improve the credibility of Page rank and kill the link building business. Page rank is supposed to be auto calculated when genuine websites link each other due to the quality of related content. Now, what is going on is selling and buying back links to improve the page rank – this is not a healthy sign to evaluate the rank of a website.

So things would settle down and your page ranks would recover, let’s support Google in the betterment of internet and not encourage the buy / pay pagerank idea and let’s get our websites and contents rich. Since you are not the only one suffering; many of the major websites have also dropped ranks. So to summarize, do not panic – things would settle down and be better – Lets build a better internet.

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Google Pagerank update status

Dear members,

I have been seeing there was a huge discussion going on in the internet among all the webmasters regarding the Google PageRank update. You can find the previous discussion on the orangecopper blog here as below.

Google PageRank update for 2011

Why Google PR is not updating, Is it dead?

Next Google Page Rank update of 2011

Post checking the PageRank of 20 of my own websites , i did not find any major change. Many of my members have responded confirming to there being a small update. I request you to check the page rank from below and update if it has changed for you as well.

Check your Google pagerank from here

NOTE:

We cannot yet confirm there has been a page rank update. There could be minor page rank updates or this could be part of some Google dance or shift. I observed 3 – 4 of my websites showed a slight pagerank changed and the rest 16 websites are having the same page rank.

I was also updated by majority of my users that PR did not change on my forum and very few ppl observed a change.  lets wait to confirm the news and i would request you all to post your update if the PR changed for you. this would help us study the trend.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: (updated on January 20, 2011)
The above 3 discussions that were going on our blog was regarding the first Google Pagerank update for the year 2011. Now i have enough confirmation from thousands of webmasters and forums that it has finally arrived here. I would say the Pagerank was updating data center by data center and now majority of the webmasters confirm that the page rank update for the year 2011 has arrived. Thanks for your valuable participation in discussions we had.

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First Google Page Rank update of 2011

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: (updated on January 20, 2011)

The below 3 discussions that were going on our blog was regarding the first Google Pagerank update for the year 2011 for the last few month. Now i have enough confirmation from thousands of webmasters and forums that it has finally arrived here. I would say the Pagerank was updating data center by data center and now majority of the webmasters confirm that the page rank update for the year 2011 has arrived on January 20, 2011. Thanks for your valuable participation in discussions we had.

Check your PR from the links below:

http://www.prchecker.info
http://googlepagerankupdates.com

Previous discussions on Google page rank update could be found below

Google PageRank update for 2011

Why Google PR is not updating, Is it dead?

Next Google Page Rank update of 2011

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Next Google Page rank – PR update 2011

When is the Next Google Page rank – PR update 2011

Note: This is regularly updated article as to followup with the Google PR changes on the internet. This was last updated on January 20 2011.

Assuming you have that you have reached this page because you already know what is a page rank, Let me continue.. Page Rank values vary from 0 – 10, PR0 being the least and PR10 the Highest valued.
As per the previous Google Page rank updates as we have seen yet and shown in the table above we can approximately say when we are expecting the next update. The updates till now as per my observations were :

• June 2011
• January 2011
• April 2010
• Dec 31, 2009
• October 2009
• May 2009
• April 2009
• December 2008
• September 2008
• July 2008
• April 2008
• January 2008
• October 2007
• April 2007

NOTE: All the above data is based on assumptions made on the previous patterns. Google might have minor PR updates throughout the year, but the Major update pattern is as above. Lets hope the update is as expected All the best for all webmasters.

Announcement: (First Google PR update of the year updated on January 20, 2011)
Now i have enough confirmation from thousands of webmasters and forums that it has finally arrived here. I would say the Page rank was updating data center by data center and now majority of the webmasters confirm that the page rank update for the year 2011 has arrived on January 20, 2011. Thanks for your valuable participation in discussions we had.
Latest Announcement: (We have not yet seen the PageRank update and it seems to be very close and coming shortly)
We will continue to use this thread to discuss the Google PR update for 2011 after January also. Let me know your thoughts, Hope you are anxious to know When is the Next Google Page rank – PR update 2011

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Most Searched Keywords on Google for the year 2011

Most Searched Keywords on Google for the year 2011

Today Google has released the most searched keywords for the entire year  2011 based on their search query database. Since Google is so widely used, we could use this data to understand the pulse of the Internet.

The search analytics could be analyzed and dissected at the Google Zeitgeist application for free. The searches are widely classified into the below categories to give you Bar charts, pie charts and even Google map API based 3d analysis.

• Overview
• In the News
• Celebrities
• That’s Entertaining
• Around the Home
• Sports
• Science & Technology
• Humanity
• Quirky
• City by City
• YouTube Videos

For example the fastest rising search keywords on the internet for the year are:

1. ipad
2. chatroulette
3. iphone 4
4. world cup
5. justin bieber
6. myxer
7. facebook
8. grooveshark
9. glee
10. mocospace

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