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Black Hat SEO Vs White Hat SEO

July 28th, 2009

When we are selecting an SEO expert agency, it is important to review how they balance ethical SEO with the need to maximize search rankings, mainly for competitive keyphrases, through exploiting considerate of how the search engine ranks position.

Black hat SEO is about getting higher search rankings in an unethical manner. Black Hat SEO involves in questionable and sometimes illegal search engine techniques. Black hat SEO is about spamming. Black hat SEO focuses on earning money without even trying to provide any value to the visitors. Black hat SEO is primarily about cheating/manipulating the search engines with non ethical search engine techniques. It is also about misrepresenting content to search engines.

White Hat SEO refers to the usage of SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus on a human audience opposed to search engines and completely follows search engine rules and strategies. White Hat SEO techniques include using keywords and keyword analysis, backlinking, link building to improve link popularity, and writing content for human readers. White hat SEO is also called as Ethical SEO in SEO terminology.

Advantages with WHITE HAT SEO:

  1. White hat SEO work refers to legitimate and proper way of increasing traffic
  2. White hat SEO work has been proved very effective in long run
  3. White hat SEO work always focuses upon quality of web content
  4. White hat SEO work includes regular tracking of visitors and always keeps them prepared for any sorts of challenging task
  5. Most popular white hat SEO techniques are original & relevant content creation, article submission, director submission, request site feedback, create back links, prepare business blogs, create site mappings, RSS feed, forum contribution and so on.  

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e-Commerce Industry Opposes New Indian Online Security Rules

July 27th, 2009

A decision by India’s central bank to mandate another level of authentication for card use for online transactions will deter such transactions in the country, according to an association of India’s e-commerce industry. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) told banks in February that it would require that online credit and debit card transactions have an additional level of authentication using information that is not visible on the card. The new rules come into force on Aug. 1.

To make a transaction, a user is currently required to enter his name, card number, card expiry date and card verification value (CVV), the three digits printed on the signature strip on the back of the card. Banks are also required to have a system of online alerts to the card holder for online card transactions for a value of 5,000 Indian rupees (US$102) or above, the RBI said.

The addition of a new security password will add a new layer of complexity for people wanting to do business online, Mehul Gupta, associate vice president of IAMAI (Internet & Mobile Association of India) said on Wednesday. Card holders have not been informed by their banks about the requirement for another level of authentication, which will lead to fewer transactions getting completed online once the new rules come into force, Gupta said.

Customers are already finding it difficult to complete transactions, because of the poor Internet connectivity in India, and the inadequate infrastructure of payment gateways, IAMAI said in a paper. Additional authentication requirements will result in a high failure rate of transactions, and increase customer inconvenience, IAMAI added.

Online card fraud accounts for only 0.16 percent of the country’s 92 billion rupees e-commerce industry in India, according to IAMAI estimates. Most of that fraud is through cards that were not issued in India, and which are not covered under the new rules, Gupta said.

IAMAI has asked the RBI to delay implementation of its order, to give time to merchants and banks to improve their capabilities to handle the new authentication mechanism, and also to give customers sufficient time to get acquainted with it.

"Online card fraud, given its current miniscule scale, should ideally be seen as a business risk that merchants are free to take or not to take," IAMAI said. In the e-commerce environment in India, the risk arising from non-payment or fraud is borne by the merchant site and not the banks or the card companies, it added.

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Top Social Networking Websites in India

July 10th, 2009

2008 Leading Social Networking in India

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E-Commerce Industry in India

July 3rd, 2009

E-commerce industry has touched 9210 crore, online classifieds: 820 crores, online travel: 7000 crores (30% jump from Rs 7,080 crore in ’07) as per the survey conducted by the IAMAI and IMRB

  • Online Travel Industry: growth rate of 30% to Rs 7,000 crore by end FY08 (from 5500 crores in ‘07)
  • Online Classifieds: reached Rs 820 crore by end FY08
  • Online retailing/auction (eTailing): Rs 1,105 crore industries by end FY08 (from Rs 850 crore in FY07.
  • Digital downloads (i.e. downloading from Internet to mobiles using wap phones or web) and paid content (research/exclusive videos/articles etc) for the rest of 285 crores.

 

e-Commerce Industry in India

Source: IAMAI and IMRB Analysis Report

The major triggers of e-commerce in India were:

  • Saves time and efforts
  • Convenience of shopping at home
  • Wide variety / range of products are available
  • Good discounts / lower prices
  • Get detailed information of the product
  • You can compare various models / brands

Some of the major barriers at present were:

  • Not sure of product quality
  • Cannot bargain/Negotiate
  • Not sure of security of transactions / Credit card misuse
  • Need to touch and feel the product
  • Significant discounts are not there
  • Have to wait for delivery

 

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