How to generate exhaustive keyword combinations?
When creating an exhaustive keyword list for your AdWords / PPC campaigns, you might face a tedious job of creating all possible combinations by joining two words / phrases to cover the keyword that your prospect might key in. This can be a very frustrating experience. Recently, I sumbled upon this website: http://www.imscripts.com/keywords It can generate […]
Managing vs. Leading – What an organization needs?
I regularly hear about terms like Manager, Managing, Management, Management Team, etc. The dictionary term for manage is "cope: come to terms or deal successfully with" and "pull off: be successful; achieve a goal" In my opinion, the word ‘manage‘ makes me think about: Control, Status Quo, Monitoring Come to terms Somewhere it reflects a sense […]
Sky-high bids on Adwords! Do they work?
The bids on AdWords are soaring to new heights everyday. Some advertisers are even shelling out up to $10 per click. So, naturally the question arises – Is this complete madness or is there any logic behind such aggressive advertising? To me, it does make some sense to bid aggressively if you have the right […]
Gallery submission to improve web site traffic and/or rankings
Attractive designs do get attention. It can also get good visitor-customer conversion if some best-practices are followed. But the question is – how can attractive designs get traffic to your website? They can! or, They can at least help your site in getting good traffic. Here is a simple technique posted by Daniel on his […]
TemplateKingdom revisited
I have recently revamped my five year old venture TemplateKingdom, which has till date sold 5000+ original template designs to companies and various template sites around the world. And so TemplateKingdom 2.0 is right here. Come, buy the ready-made web site template that best suit your next project. All our templates are quality checked and are […]
New kind of website spam
I just made a blog post – Buying and selling websites. Within minutes, I got a trackback. I was a bit puzzled at the lightening speed. I thought – how can someone read my entire article and blogged about it in less than a minute! I followed the link and found a new kind of spam, […]
Buying and selling websites
In recent times, I have seen a growth in marketplaces which help website owners to buy/sell websites. It looks like a good idea, as it allows website owners to reshuffle their portfolio of websites and offer services / products which are more aligned towards to their largest consumer segment (read traffic on their most popular […]
Cookie that fails to crumble
It is a true incident about, how a cookie shop messed up its sales! CookieMan is a fast growing cookie brand in India. They have a small outlet at Chennai airport. Till recently, before boarding the flight, I used to buy some delicious cookies from that outlet to keep myself indulged for the evening. Now, the real shocker! On […]
India’s Union Budget 2008 – Preparing for Lok Sabha Election 2009
Today, Finance Minister P.Chidambaram presented the Union Budget for FY 2008-2009. A full copy can be downloaded by clicking here. Some highlights of the budget are listed below with my comments: Revenues New tax slabs for Income Tax: No tax for earning less than Rs. 150,000, 10% for Rs. 150,000 to Rs. 300,000, 20% for […]
Offshore outsourcing in India – going through a tough time.
Offshore outsourcing – a concept that made IT & India synonmous with each other in the first decade of 21st century is loosing its glamour quotient consistently. It seems that by 2010, hundreds of software companies will run out of steam as they loose their competitiveness in the ever changing industry, since their business model has […]