SEO – To Improve CTR
We all love to see an improved CTR in our Adsense Reports and with an aim to increase the CTR, i planned to take out some time and revisit each of my sites and do a few tweaks here and there. Some of my sites have been just lying there without any content update or design changes for years. This baby names site of mine – just4babynames.com is one such site. It was once a very very popular site with a good number of visitors and a fair income from Google and and other small time link buyers. However with time, i had no time to look into them… so i stopped selling link spots and the google earnings also went into a downfall.. i never bothered.. as my overall income from all the sites was increasing.
After working on two other sites, i had a look at this particular site of mine, studied the statistics, checked out the popular pages on the site and the popular keywords which was bringing a few traffic. On the 14th of jan, i made a few changes, removed some old content, put some new content on the home page and a few tweaks of the ads and other links. And as usual, i just uploaded the new pages and forgot to check the result. Today, 8 eight days after when i checked the stats, i was surprised to see a sudden jump in the traffic of this site. See the image below
It was a good jump from around 50-54 uniques visitors to more than 400 unique visitors a day. For a moment, i was wondering if i had put this site on Google Adwords by mistake. I am running ads of another new site of mine on Google Adwords ( because i got a voucher worth 2500 INR.. and i had to use that). I checked the stats again and it was for real. The site is listed on page one of Yahoo for a very competitive keyword and it was Yahoo which was sending all the traffic to my site.
I am happy that my tweaks worked. I plan to give some time to all my sites and increase traffic, to increase the CTR which will further increase the earnings.
Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year and Happy Earnings! 
The Komli Traffic
Two months back, I had written a post about the Komli Ad Network and had written my viewpoints. These days I am getting lot of Komli Traffic. Well, what I exacly mean by Komli traffic is the traffic generated from visitors who come to my sites looking for Komli related keywords.
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Relevance of Keywords
Today I was going through my website stats, and I noticed that so many people land up on my site looking for ICICI fraud cases, scam cases or ICICI cheating cases. Well, from the volume of searches, it seems that people are really cheated by this bank, otherwise so many people would not have been searching the net on these keywords… there are so many other interesting keywords to search for and sites to check out.
See some of the keywords related with ICICI bank and all these people land up on my website. I wish, I could give them a solution. But I am also a victim, just like them :( Read my ICICI story here.
- icici fraud
- icici bank important contact numbers
- icici cheating
- icici fraud debit card stolen
- cases of customer to icici bank
- icici fraud in india
- icici bank scams
- famous cases of cheating
- bank cheating
- is icici a safe place for my money
- famous corporate fraud cases
- contact details of marketing manager for icici bank
- how safe is my money in icici bank?
- icicibank credit card cheating
- i have bank in my country is not safe i want to hack the bank how ?
- icici bank manager held for fraud
- money transfer to india cheating case in usa
- famous people cheating
The most funniest one is “i have bank in my country is not safe i want to hack the bank how ?”
On my son’s website, people land up looking for these keywords.
- shake your body line
- shake your bodyline
- shake, shake, shake, senora, shake your body line
- shake shake shake shake your body line
- shake shake shake your body
- show me waiting for shake your body
It was because I had done a post on this cute dance put up by Urjit and his classmates in their school. Watch this cute video.
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The Google PR Update
It has been quiet some time that I have not really logged into those webmaster and SEO forums, so I missed all the excitement and discussions of those long threads regarding “Predict your Google PR” and how everyone used to keep a count on days..while Google used to enjuoy all the attention it gets during those days.
Yesterday, while updating one of my new sites, I saw a faint glimpse of that green bar on my toolbar and I was like.. Oh, so this one got a PR now, it was just 1 so as I said, it was not really visible 
And then I went onto check all my other sites and see what is the outcome of the recent update. As predicted most of the had lost its earlier high PR and lost 1 or 2 rank. It ddin’t really bother me also as I am seeing so much increase in my traffic and earnings. So the PR update was not really something I was looking forward to and was not too keen about getting high values.
I do agree, having a high PR certainly helps when you are selling ad space and trying to sell your website, but as we all know, PR is most importantly dependent on web page linking and with website owners buying links on high PR sites and making sure that they have links from all corners, the real authenticity and the importance of GOOGLE PR (as it used to be) is somewhat compromised these days. If you have money to spend on buying links, you certainly can get high PR. So my main aim is to work on the rankings of my keywords rather than getting high PR. I hope it does not become like the Alexa Rank, which you can increase double fold in just 1-2 days
Seo-Keywords-Ranking
One of my resolutions for 2008 was to do regular posting on my blog and make it more popular. So here I am thinking what to write today. Today there is no post, just figures to look at and I am happy to look at these figures. My SEO knowledge and work on the site is paying now and with the start of 2008, I am seeing an increased traffic on my site and also an increase in the earnings. Check out the image which shows my baby site’s keyword activity for 3 hours. Most of my traffic is from organic search and returning visitors or visitors recommended by the parents who frequent the site so often. It seems the site is doing really really well in mos of the keywords I aimed for and they are all ranked on first page and most of them on 1st and 2nd position.
