According to comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, Google is the leader in US search market. In a search release it states that Americans conducted 14.5 billion core searches in February 2010, with Google Sites accounting for 65.5 percent search market share.

The share of top 5 search engines is as follows: (Total US searches performed in home, work and university locations)

• Google Sites – 65.5%
• Yahoo! Sites – 16.8%
• Microsoft Sites – 11.5%
• Ask Network – 3.7%
• AOL LLC – 2.5%

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There is good news for all of those who have Google toolbar installed in their web browsers, and I know all of you have it.

All SEOs, SEMs and Internet marketers install Google toolbar in their browsers mainly for checking Page Rank, Google Cache of pages and backwards link. More functions include Google search, Skype Casts, Gmail, Articles search, Page Rank, Translate, Auto fill and lots more.

Now Google has also added Share button in their toolbar using which you can easily bookmark and share resources (web page articles, videos, music etc) with different bookmarking and social media websites.

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Finally Google PR updating Cycle Started on 2 April 2010. It seems that this time Google gad been generous in giving away Page Rank.

3 of my website went from PR 4 to PR 5, many of them from PR 0 to PR.

This blog RituRajMishra.com has gained a Page Rank of 2 without any specific work done.

How your sites have done in this PR update, share with us by posting in comments.

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An orphan page is a web page which resides on a website and is a part of it, but there is no active link pointing to that page.

Example: There might be a page “link.html” on a website www.mywebsite.com with URL www.mywebsite.com/link.html but none of the pages on the website has a link to the page “link.html”

Why is it used: Mostly orphan pages are created by professional link builders who don’t want to pass link juice to the specific (orphan) page. However this is a bad and deceitful practice.

Supposed I have a page “link.html” on my website with an active link, and after sometimes it get a Page rank, now what I have done, I have removed all the active links to the page from my website. During link exchange I present them with the same page and seeing its PR they get ready for a link exchange.

So what is the benefit, I got a link similar of the same PR (as of my orphan page), but the person who have done an exchange with me will neither get any traffic from that link and no link juice.

So in this manner with a deceitful practice I have got a valid PR link for my website.

PPC Marketers also use same practice for many situations, but here the intention is different.

Suppose they might be promoting many offers using same website and they do not want to loose their purchased traffic to some irrelevant offers, so they make many orphan pages for each offer.

In a nutshell if you are using organic traffic (by SEO) or PPC to promote different product or CPA offers from the same website it is quite right to use it, but do not create orphan pages to deceit anyone using link exchanges.

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After a long silence and meetings with the Reserve Bank of India, Paypal has started bank transfers in Indian banks but with effect they need some more information like contact number and PAN Card number.

So what does it mean?

Now RBI and Income Tax department will have easy access about the details about your transactions. If you are paying taxes honestly and retain invoices for all of your transactions, its fine for you but if you don’t it may create a problem. Who knows, they have a pact with RBI to provide information of each and very transaction.

So either do business with paypal in accordance with the IT department rules or stop using Paypal altogether.

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