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Today I am posting some of the most common SEO mistakes which can spoil your Website or Blog rankings.

SEO Mistake #1: Packing Meta-Tags Full Of Keywords WONT Optimize Your Page

During the 90’s, the extent of “SEO optimizing” for many webmasters was simply to insert relevant keyword phrases into the meta-tags for a page.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with adding keywords into this field that represents valid information on the page itself, but placing a long list of similar phrases with duplicate words (reaching 10 or 12 phrases) is a major SEO faux pas.

And as of this year, September 2009 to be exact, due to many years of webmasters constantly using meta-keywords to spam keywords, Google no longer even looks at the meta-keywords in order to rank your website.  This doesn’t mean the meta-keywords are not useful for aligning the page with particular valuable search phrases – but it certainly is nowhere near as valuable as it used to be, and overusing it can put your site at risk for a lower ranking.

SEO Mistake #2 & #3: Not Using The Keywords In Your Title & Permalinks

Every SEO guru worth his salt knows that the two most effective areas of a webpage that you can get the most bang for your efforts is the title and permalink.

They don’t always necessarily have to the be same, but they do need to focus on the a primary keyword phrase that you’re trying to target with your article. If you don’t target that phrase in your title and permalink, you’re wasting your time and you’ll only reach a small fraction of your intended online audience. In Wordpress, you can set up your permalink to be descriptive like this.

So never set your default Permalink setting to any random numbering system.

SEO Mistake #4 & #5: Using Javascript Or Using Only Flash/AJAX

I would never suggest that a web designer shouldn’t make use of the latest and greatest website scripting languages that offer a more interactive online experience, but to use scripting to serve up all or a majority of your website content is SEO suicide.

Flash and AJAX websites are aesthetically superior to most traditional websites, however they struggle when it comes to search engine ranking because there’s virtually nothing for search engines to crawl. The same goes for websites that utilize Javascript to generate web pages on-the-fly depending on user interaction. Search engine crawlers cannot touch those script-generated pages at all.

SEO Mistake #6 – Keyword Spamming

There is nothing that Google hates more than a website that attempts to hijack the crawler with an overabundance of particular keyword phrases. You can be certain that if you are targeting the phrase “make money online,” and plaster the phrase all over your article a dozen times (this is known as keyword “stuffing”), you may actually see an immediate short term spike in traffic to that page. However, you can also be certain that in time, not only will that traffic drop off quickly, but your entire domain will struggle to rank very highly (if at all) in Google search results under every keyword phrase you write about.

SEO Mistake #7 – Spamming for Backlinks

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve always preached that you should post on forums and blogs in order to generate quality backlinks to your own site. This is what I described in my recent article on increasing blog traffic when I mentioned engaging the blogosphere every single day. However, simply posting for the sake of achieving a link back to your site is a major social networking no-no.

Some folks even “stage” conversations within the comment areas of blogs to generate interest. If your only purpose for posting comments to a blog or forum is to generate a link to your site, don’t bother. It won’t win you any fans within the industry or niche that you’re trying to target, and secondly, the transparency of the effort will make most readers skim right past your comment, or even worse you could get banned.

SEO Mistake #8 – Not Optimizing Images

In 2007, on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Google’s own Ríona MacNamara provided a very important clue to SEO enthusiasts with the statement, “As the Googlebot does not see the images directly, we generally concentrate on the information provided in the ‘alt’ attribute.” So, what does this mean for your SEO efforts? It means that you better start taking advantage of your image alt-text tags if you want to have some advantage over your competition.

So make sure you right relevant information about the image in its “alt” tag.

SEO Mistake #9 – Producing Stupid, Poorly-Written Content

One of the worst symptoms of black-hat SEO scammers trying to outsmart Googlebot’s crawl algorithm is the evolution of “content-mills.” Now, given just about every blog out there is a content mill to some extent, at least when there’s a certain level of investment and quality checks in place, you know that the articles you read are going to be written using proper grammar, offer a decent style of writing and provide useful content. However, there are countless blogs and writers out there who simply churn out 500 word blocks of text as fast as they can with the hopes of capturing search engine traffic.

What does this have to do with SEO? The SEO lesson to learn here is this: Yes, Google prefers websites and blogs that are fresh and constantly updated with new content, but that doesn’t mean you should ever overlook quality just to get your content published quickly. Focus on producing high-quality, valuable content that people will want to link to and return to again and again.

SEO Mistake #10 – Submitting Your Website

Do you remember the days when trying to get your website noticed online meant submitting your URL to as many search engines as possible? The fact is, these submission forms still exist on many of the major search engines even though they are completely outdated and unnecessary.

Search Engines rely on crawlers for visiting websites, and flling those silly forms is completely irrelevant.

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Hello Readers…

Here are some Must Have cheat sheets for all of you.  They will be extremely helpful to all of you for quick reference & usage.

Firefox Cheat Sheet (Windows)

Internet Explorer

Google Cheat Sheet

Google Reader Cheats

Linux Command Reference

Linux Manual

Mac OS X

Mozilla Thunderbird Cheat Sheet

Windows Shortcut

Firefox (Mac)

Enjoy friends.

Lars Rasmussen, Software Engineering Manager, explained Wave: “It’s a communication and collaboration tool we’ve been working on for a couple of years down in Sydney.

“A Wave is a single shared space where two or more users can exchange real time dialogue, photos, videos, maps and documents in what we call a Wave. Everyone can reply to a Wave, people can come and go and you can drag and drop information from all over the web.”

From around weeks, I am getting regular emails from my readers regarding help stuff on Google Wave, and this made me to make a FAQ post about Google Wave on my blog.

Today on iTechnOBuzz, I am about to post an idiot guide about google wave figuring out nearly all FAQ about Google Wave.

Google Wave is a new way to make contacts with friends and people and collaborate on documents and could completely replace email.

Starting the Wave FAQ part:

• What exactly are these “Waves“?

A wave is best compared to a conversation in an instant messenger, but in the case of a wave, you can chat to yourself or to a whole group of people.

Each wave contains a subwave called a ‘wavelet’, which focuses on a particular aspect of the main wave, and can be manipulated in much the same way. This means one wave can branch out into a number of other waves, but keep all the original associations.

This may not sound like a killer feature from the outset, but if you subscribe to a mailing list or want to bracket multiple wavelets within the same project wave, then this is a much more elegant solution.

• Isn’t Google Wave much of a kind of stuffs allready included in instant messagng services like Google Talk?

By coincidence, waves are actually built on the same Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) that Google Talk uses, but they deal with much more than just instant messaging.

Each wavelet contains entries, known as ‘blips’, posted by the various collaborators, extension apps, or even automated robots you converse with. These can contain anything, including text and video, and mean that your wave becomes diverse and dynamic, with content that’s constantly updated, either from an external source or your fellow collaborators.

• How can I embed other documents and files under this system?

Waves have full support for you to drag and drop files, text snippets or any web content. This will automatically be added to your document as a blip. This makes things much more interactive. As expected, you can also embed other Google services such as calendars, YouTube video, Picasa images and so on into your waves.

• Tell me the fun part of  “Wave“.

The best 3 things regarding fun on Google Wave I came up with are the instant messaging addons features from a web browser like:

Chat and Share, Play Games with mates, Collaborate documents on conference level, check out some of the exciting screenies from Google Wave:

PLAY GAMES: You can drag in information from the web and comment as you go

ACCEPT OR DECLINE: Meeting request or BBQ invite - you can collaborate with your mates or colleagues on events and chat about them in your Wave

CHAT AND SHARE: Look at pictures, then talk about them - you can drop into the conversation at any point

EDIT CONCURRENTLY: You'll see updates appear letter-by-letter, while you can see everything happen in realtime

• What if I don’t want someone to collaborate on my documents?

As a document creator, only the people you explicitly specify as collaborators can alter your work. You can remove collaborators at any time and cycle back through the changes they might have made. These features make waves a little more robust for enterprises who may find that disgruntled employees sabotage work before leaving.

However, its usefulness isn’t limited to big business – it will also come in handy for you if someone in the group of friends that you’re collaborating with disagrees with the general consensus, and starts changing things in their own way.

• “ROBOTS” now where do they came from?

Developers can program robots that create blips and respond in particular ways to content in other waves and external websites. They can even respond to you sending them messages, which means you can ask your robot for the latest sports scores and be told instantly.

The API provides Java and Python bindings, so if you found Nick Veitch’s tutorials on building a Python bot particularly interesting, you’ll be able to apply your skills here to integrate your favourite services. To include your robot in any wave, just add it as a collaborator, and off you go.

• The stuff on this post made me excited about Google Wave , where could i find more about it now?

This post is merely a collection of few Questions asked frequently from my friends and my readers. If you want to learn more about Google Wave, I would suggest you to go through some great articles like an excellent blog post on mashable which is an in-depth guide providing an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications. Plus a guide on techradar, that covers up All things you need to know about Google Wave.

Use the comment box to share experiences with Google wave plus, tell us more you learned about Google wave in out comment box.

In a post of Google Blog, Google’s Sundar Pichai announced “However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”

Yup, its all true. After the great success of Google Chrome web browser, google is competing with microsoft with the still to release Google Chrome Operating System for netbooks. Google chrome will be an open source, light weight OS specially getting developed for netbooks. It will be out in market in second half of 201o.

With this step, microsoft is surely not impressed, as they got some new competitors for manufactures companies, which could reduce their prices by providing some open source free OS with their netbooks.

The blog says that “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds.”

Google is trying to bring this lightweight OS in the second half of next year in the market. It is allready working with multiple OEMs so that it could be out asap. Google chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. And yup, it wwill be totally different from Android. The blog says that, “Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks.”

iTechnoBuzz is excited with the news and we are waiting for the release of the same OS. Lets see, how fast can google make out of this. Tell us, how you feel about the same. Use our comment box.

On gmail, sending mails with large attachments of 25MB was never possible before. But now, the favorite mailing service of all “Gmail” has raised the attachment limit from size 20MB to size 25MB. 

Sending mails with large attachment was always considered a “NO-NO” , instead people prefer to upload files to various uploading sites like rapidshare , 4shared and other, and mail the download link as an attachment or link within the message.

This service from gmail could be intresting for users who regularly sends email with large attachments and also for users who like to backup their files by sending it to there gmail account. The new service works for both the same.