Google has announced on their official blog that they have launched a new updated versions of Google Toolbars and FeedBurner with the ability to offer its users with its new Url Shortner service, known as goo.gl.

Search engine, mail service, browser, operating systems, social networking etc. Well now there is a url shortening service to it. With so many url shorteners already available, there is always a difficulty to find a reliable one. But with goo.gl you will have a clear a choice as you know that google can be trusted. According to them (googleblog.blogspot.com), this service is suppose to be more

1. Stable:  ”Google’s scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users.”

2. Secure: “As we do with web search, shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites.”

3. Faster: “At Google we like fast products and we’ve worked hard to ensure this service is quick. We’ll continue to iterate and improve the speed of Google Url Shortener.”

Currently the service is just available with Google toolbar and FeedBurner, and not as a stand-alone service. I hope they’ll make it available for wider use soon.

Originally posted on 28th july

Answer to this – Yup, you can be a webmaster.

Hi everyone,

Years ago when I started, people would laugh at me when I told them I can create a website. Well actually I was still a noob then and used to create some silly static sites made using frontpage and hosted on some poor quality free hosts. Well I really wasn’t a webmaster then. I was just a small scale webdesigner.

So what actually is a webmaster?

A Webmaster is a person incharge of a site. He should have all the qualities of a webdeveloper, designer, he should be able to SEO, etc.

How can you be one?

Just keep reading my blog. lol

You need several things for a site. Make a checklist before you proceed. Here is a sample.

1. A Domain or use a co.cc domain. Click here to get one => http://co.cc

2. Hosting. Go for a free one with a good space and bandwidth, mysql databases, cpanel[maybe], PHP5 will be good, etc. You may use my hosting services at aliengang.net [under construction] Just mail me at mail@divyun.com for free hosting.

3. An idea to work on. Like, you can make blog about yourself, make a community for you and your friends, create a site on a specific topic like aliens, etc.

4. Create your site using any free pre-made software or start from scratch.

5. Then, you need to work on search optimization of your site so that your site is indexed properly and you have to promote it too.

Well, this is all for now. If you are having trouble with any thing in my post, well, google is a webmaster’s best friend. I’ll write more about the things that will make you a webmaster.

First of all :-

Google is a webmaster’s best friend.

If you keep searching and learning, you may be able to find all the info listed below from one or the other sources. But here is a contrasted summary or a small overview.

To get a domain you would require money.

Time is money

So a little time devoted can help you get a domain.

Some sources of free domains (are listed blelow) along with the “how to”:

(A) Hostbidder-

Hostbidder is webmaster’s forum which has been providing free domains, since 2003, in echange of points (which you get by posting) know as HB$.

FAQ

Q. How many points you get per post?

A. You can get a 10 points per post.

Q. How many you given points for per day?

A. Well, you get points for ever first 8 (>30) words post per day.

Q. How many for a domain?

A. 900 HB$ for a domain.

CLICK HERE.

Note:

4 posts * 10 points = 40 points * 23 days > 900 HB$.

So 23 days ins’t too long to wait for a domain.

Points and HB$ are the same things.

Just like hostbidder, there are plenty of similar sites. I have tried most of them but Hostbidder works the best.

(b) Earning cash online and using it to buy a domain:-

Domains( popular ones like .com, .net,etc.) usually cost around 10 $ or so.

.com for $7.75.

.net for $6.99.

Click for the price list.

Click here to register a domain.

So how to earn this cash?

I think, the answer should be PTC (Paid To Click) sites. But you need to find genuine PTC sites that pay.

Let me recommend some:-

1. B-U-X.net

2. bux3.com

3. Osobux.com

4. Pandabux.com

You clicking alone won’t do much good to you. You need to refer people under you.

20 ads * 10 referrals* $ 0.01= 2 $ in one day.

Awesome!

(c) Contests

Yeah! I mean contests. Find a contest and win a free domain. You’ll find of such kind if you keep searching webmaster’s forums. But this is gonna be hard. Try reading the next method. Its the easiest.

(d) Co.cc

if you think that other methods are bogus or you cost you a lost of time. Then this is for you, use might use a free co.cc domain. Actually, what you’ll get is a sub-domain but would work just like a professional fully functional TLD(Top level domain). No difference.

Well Oh my google! instead of god! Pagerank can be faked. I knew this before but came across this again.

Now, how is it done? and how to check a website for fake PG? Here are answers to such questions!

First to clarify the truth in this, a quote from wikipedia:

False or spoofed PageRank

While the PageRank shown in the Toolbar is considered to be derived from an accurate PageRank value (at some time prior to the time of publication by Google) for most sites, it must be noted that this value is also easily manipulated. A current flaw is that any low PageRank page that is redirected, via a 302 server header or a “Refresh” meta tag, to a high PageRank page causes the lower PageRank page to acquire the PageRank of the destination page. In theory a new, PR0 page with no incoming links can be redirected to the Google home page – which is a PR 10 – and by the next PageRank update the PR of the new page will be upgraded to a PR10. This spoofing technique, also known as 302 Google Jacking, is a known failing or bug in the system. Any page’s PageRank can be spoofed to a higher or lower number of the webmaster’s choice and only Google has access to the real PageRank of the page. Spoofing is generally detected by running a Google search for a URL with questionable PageRank, as the results will display the URL of an entirely different site (the one redirected to) in its results.

Direct link => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#False_or_spoofed_PageRank

Amazing right! a 302 server head and done, you have PR 10.

Another way of doing this is from http://www.monetizers.com/fake-pr.php

Faking Pagerank

Sites fake PR by looking for the Googlebot, then redirecting it to a high PR site, like Yahoo.com. Google sees that users actually land on Yahoo.com and the PR Bar in turn reflects the PR of the Yahoo.com rather than your site.

Here is an example of what Fake PR code looks like:

/* insert a cloaking script here to detect whether the visitor is
Googlebot */
if (Googlebot) {
echo ‘‘;
exit();
}
else {
echo “

My PR10 page!

“;
}
?>

So its not that difficult fake a PR.

Now where did it all start from?

It was started by SEOdarkteam. This trick doesn’t work anymore but is worth reading. http://seoblackhat.com/2005/07/26/how-to-fake-a-google-page-rank-10-or-any-pr-you-want/. I don’t know how but their demo at http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com still works.

So how to check a site for fake pagerank?

use Google’s cache. It always shw the real PR.

Don’t get scammed. Check for fakes before buying links on a site wth high PR.

Well Oh my google! instead of god! Pagerank can be faked. I knew this before but came across this again.

Now, how is it done? and how to check a website for fake PG? Here are answers to such questions!

First to clarify the truth in this, a quote from wikipedia:

False or spoofed PageRank

While the PageRank shown in the Toolbar is considered to be derived from an accurate PageRank value (at some time prior to the time of publication by Google) for most sites, it must be noted that this value is also easily manipulated. A current flaw is that any low PageRank page that is redirected, via a 302 server header or a “Refresh” meta tag, to a high PageRank page causes the lower PageRank page to acquire the PageRank of the destination page. In theory a new, PR0 page with no incoming links can be redirected to the Google home page – which is a PR 10 – and by the next PageRank update the PR of the new page will be upgraded to a PR10. This spoofing technique, also known as 302 Google Jacking, is a known failing or bug in the system. Any page’s PageRank can be spoofed to a higher or lower number of the webmaster’s choice and only Google has access to the real PageRank of the page. Spoofing is generally detected by running a Google search for a URL with questionable PageRank, as the results will display the URL of an entirely different site (the one redirected to) in its results.

Direct link => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#False_or_spoofed_PageRank

Amazing right! a 302 server head and done, you have PR 10.

Another way of doing this is from http://www.monetizers.com/fake-pr.php

Faking Pagerank

Sites fake PR by looking for the Googlebot, then redirecting it to a high PR site, like Yahoo.com. Google sees that users actually land on Yahoo.com and the PR Bar in turn reflects the PR of the Yahoo.com rather than your site.

Here is an example of what Fake PR code looks like:

/* insert a cloaking script here to detect whether the visitor is
Googlebot */
if (Googlebot) {
echo ‘‘;
exit();
}
else {
echo “

My PR10 page!

“;
}
?>

So its not that difficult fake a PR.

Now where did it all start from?

It was started by SEOdarkteam. This trick doesn’t work anymore but is worth reading. http://seoblackhat.com/2005/07/26/how-to-fake-a-google-page-rank-10-or-any-pr-you-want/. I don’t know how but their demo at http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com still works.

So how to check a site for fake pagerank?

use Google’s cache. It always shw the real PR.

Don’t get scammed. Check for fakes before buying links on a site wth high PR.