Well, my previous post which talked about if I should be an SEO or not….talked about that I’m helping my cousin Amit Gupta in trying to bring him to the top search result in Google for the keywords Amit Gupta.

Well, I did my regular check and found out that the if you search Amit Gupta on Google.co.in it’s coming at the first page but as the last result!

Well, considering that not much efforts have been made by me….and simple tricks have brought the website on the first page, I’m positive that soon it’ll be at the top of the result and as promised I’ll be able to drink and dine at my choice of place if I make that happen!

Amit bhai…..get ready to shell out some real good amount of money

Well, this question haunts me sometime that should I start offering SEO services or not ? The reason, I know good enough about SEO but I’m not a real pro in it. I still need to learn the black hat techniques, coz until and unless you know the bad side of the business, you can’t do the business correctly!

Recently, I helped Rishi Raj…well, not fully but yeah to a little extent and the changes which I did on his site, showed him some good results.

Now I’m helping my cousin with a little SEO and I.e. he wants to have his blog come on top as search result when some one searches for Amit Gupta.

Few days back his site was not even in Gindex but with in 3 days, his blog is indexed and in fact has come in the first 3 pages in Google.com & on 2nd page in Google.co.in

I hope that I’ll be able to bring him up on the top of gindex….although the competition is tough but my bro actually deserves it…after all, he’s my bro

yaar wordpress ko kya ho gaya chal nahi raha hai!!!!!!! AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHH!

In some way or the other we all are fascinated by Google and if at all a person is a well known SEO then you can imagine the situation……

I was having a conversation with my friend, a well know SEO and blogger Mani and was telling him that how I’m becoming stupid each and every day….well, to cut the story short…..here’s the chat :

Nah…wait for a while..this text is to ensure that the chat begines from next line…so that the image doesn’t dis-align the chat…now that I’ve achieved it..here goes the chat :

9:44 AM mani: ok..today since my car is coming along..i might be busy with it. but evening should be okay i think.i will give you a call

9:45 AM i called u yest,,,it was switched off

9:46 AM me: u won’t believe

i’m tryinmg to find my cell charger

and I can’t find it

in this lonely house

I can’t find my bike’s key

mani: lol

me: I don’t know what has happened to me

mani: lol

search in google?

And guess what just after the conversation…..I was able to find the Charger..
Yet to find the bike’s key…I know I’ll be killed by my bro…coz duplicate key is not with me too

Technorati Tags google,chat,seo,mayank

When it comes to influential bloggers, JohnChow tops the list and I experienced his power of influence today! Well, nothing personal and nor I’m involved in the whole scene. Its just that I saw that how influential power of person wins over the ethics and that made me make this post.

So here’s the plot :

The Thinking blog hosted a contest where it was decided that a person has to write a review of Ruff PC and the person who’s review gets the maximum votes will the Ruff PC as prize. The contest got popular and got 80 entries and it was decided that there will be two more rounds and then the winner will be decided. Our Mr. Root of all Evil got into the round 2 and decided that he’ll give away the laptop to one of the reader if they vote for him.

Now, lets look at the post of the contest holder :

We received quite a few comments and emails like how people are supposed to read all the 80 reviews, and concerns about “bribing” for votes among other things led us to take this measure to allow the best reviewer win - not the one with most loyal friends. This is not a popularity contest and we hope the giveaway goes for the one who deserve it most.

Now, you decide (well, I hope few people read this post…I know its my personal space and no one else reads it…at least that’s what Sagaro says…tera blog padhta kaun hai) that, isn’t it called bribing ?

Now, when I objected that this is called bribing, the contest holder suggested that by bribing he means giving money! Well, I believe Ruff PC comes at a price and naturally people will vote for John because they want to win the Ruff PC.

Then, Shaun suggested that because John is not making anything in between as he’ll give away the prize..so its not bribing. Well, Shaun as I suggested in the reply of the comment (which was eventually deleted by The thinking blog) that then the statement “This is not a popularity contest” is not valid as clearly John has more number of readers than the other contestants and so he will eventually win.

Now, isn’t that the perfect example of John power ? Well, I clearly think that the person who writes a better review should win the contest. It may be the case that John’s review is the best but still this isn’t a fair contest. I hope that other participants can say something about it and can share their thoughts.

Anyway here are the rest of the entries, I’ll take time and read them for sure and I still wish them good luck although, they won’t win :

01. John Chow Dot Com
02. Homespun Honolulu
03. Zero Hour Sleep
04. Everything and Anything
05. Jim’s Rants
06. Great Giveaways
07. Samuel Nova
08. Nakichiam
09. Tim Christie
10. Evangelical’s Anonymous
11. In The Brink of the Mental Warzone
12. Kissowa Insider
13. Drops of Blood
14. Bloggrrl
15. Must Read Files
16. Love and Horny
17. Widget’s Lab
18. Search for Blogging
19. TechTreak - Review 1 and Review 2
20. Wordout - Review 1, Review 2 and Review 3

Just to tell you that look at the guys who are doing hard work and are posting two and three posts…don’t you think they don’t deserve this partiality ?

Update : My comment was deleted over the thinking blog but it seems that the Intense Debate comment service captured it and that comment is in my profile.