You can use any of the following channels to contact me for these :

Web Designing,  Website domain booking and hosting and Search Engine Marketing

Most preferred method:

By Email:   abhilashpillay@gmail.com

I prefer emails because you will get a much detailed response to your query and you will have a written record too and it becomes easier for me too for future reference. You can expect a reply to email well within 24 hours, sometimes as fast as couple of hours.

By Phone: 9823161918

The problem with this method is that, sometimes I might not answer the phone if I am in middle of some coding and rarely call back. But in case if its something urgent leave a sms after you get a ‘no answer’ describing yourself and the query. I will call back.

Abhilash Pillai

Websites Design, SEO, SEM and Internet Marketer.

If you are the one wholly dependent on the profession of SEO for a living, you will be out of business within next four years. The reason : SEO is dead and its only matter of time that people realise it.

Gone are the days when very few people knew about SEO and lot of them needed it. Now virtually every webmaster, every web designers knows the basics of SEO and there are no takers for any SEO product. Apart from this, the fact that now search engines use technologies like site speed and user preference ruin the SEO efforts. People get different search engine results on every PC depending on their preference.

A lot of companies and SEO firms switched from SEO to SMM ( Social Media Marketing) in an attempt to survive in business. But Social Media sites were created with a totally different purpose and these efforts will soon have no value too. The reason is quite simple: Social Media Sites are becoming targets of spams and will soon be categorized as link farms as was the case with directory submissions.

If SEO is officially dead how are the companies already in business still existing?

Only a handful of them will survive. Those companies which have large clients (big companies) and have changed SEO with other marketing methods with the changing times, and have provided value for the clients will survive.  What these clients need are visitors to their sites and not SEO. If you can provide that in the best possible way you can survive. The worst affected will be ’smart start-up companies’ and will mostly shut down business. Its a critical situation out there for those who are just starting a career out of SEO. If you are passionate about SEO, you can still make a living, but would require years of dedication, passion, hardwork and patience.

And yes, we are not shutting down we are very much in business and will stay on for years to come. We have adopted with the changing times and keep changing before the search engines change.

Search engines have changed and so is the method to SEO a site. Gone are the days when doing a handfull of Directory submission and Social bookmarking would make your site rank high on the search engine. Now its a lot more complicated thing than just that. Now search engines are very close to Artificial Intelligence and can pin point what is natural process of growth of a website. So any artificial attempt to high rank a site might just fall back and take your sites lower in ranking. Now the results are even influenced by Google Toolbar data, Google User history, and Google Analytics data in Google search , so the results you might be seeing might be different from the ones your friend sees.

So Does that mean SEO is dead?

Yes and No. Yes because the traditional techniques are not going to work in future like directory submission, article submission, social bookmarking etc. No because there is a more challenging way to do SEO now.

So whats the latest techniques for SEO?

SEO is done differently by different people. For some it may work and for some it may not. Everybody has a right to keep a secret in a profession and now as it has become more challenging as its a lot of work and research to find out the right technique.  Never ever expect somebody to give you the technique so easily. Especially a person who is providing SEO services will never let it out. And in todays context its much unimaginable. But for an hint: SEO is no longer just an offline technique…You have to flex every part of the site and marketing technique in the world.

Do we SEO a site?

Yes, we do. We provide complete SEO packages for a site. We have ranked third globally in the World SEO contest 2008 after which no further contests were held. We have proven overselves to the world and our clients.

How do you contact us?

Just mail me at abhilashpillay@gmail.com giving details about your site and the keywords you wish to rank. A reply will be sent after complete analysis of your site for those keywords free of charge.

If you are still wondering what GAO stands for? is Google Adsense Optimization…

The skills to do so have gone so vast that nowadays webmasters are hiring an expert in the field to optimize adsense on their websites for better revenue. The scope is tremendous as the skills of such engineer affects the revenue of the site directly where adsense is the main source of revenue.

Having worked for years optimizing ads …I see GAO as challenging as SEO is… Which changes with time and its more challenging as like a SEO has little scope of using black hat methods..so is in GAO where you have to follow the google adsense guidelines…

Overall anybody who is looking for a nice profession 10 years from now… GAO looks like a promising option..

So start experimenting with the google ads on your site so you gain maximum exposure to whats works and what doesn’t…

Not only the speed at which your site will load will be important but also the ability to keep site fresh and connect it through social networks. Tweeter is something which would be considered seriously in future. Tweeting is getting into the search algo and first signs of that is the introduction of Google Latest Live results.

Google even released a video on this and you would be surprised the way it updates the results in real time. So in future you might see results change even after you searched. So its time to take note of this.

Note:

This post got into the google latest real time index within 1 sec of posting. Here is the screenshot:

Showluck.com is a site which calculates your luck on the basis of inputs which you provide. If you want to just try it out just use the following link:

http://www.showluck.com/mind.php?id=555575

Don’t be surprised if you get pranked, that what the site is all about. Its meant to prank your friends and get personal details from them. Try it out for yourself !

Yeah, I know it is pretty late for me to try this out, but eventually its turning out to be the coolest thing I have noticed in Desktop blogging platforms.. The Windows Live Writer. All windows 7 users can download the windows live writer from the Windows essentials pack on the Microsoft site.

It did discovered my wordpress blog with great ease and also downloaded the template styles so as to give me the natural look of the online blog. I did add multiple blogs in the Windows live writer and everything seems too smooth now.

Sample Table created by Live Writer

Creating tables is a breeze…and so will be adding maps…Let me try the maps..

Well it was cool too…however anybody would have loved the google map integration instead of the bing..:D But its not hard to guess why Microsoft didn’t include that. And thats where Microsoft makes mistakes, to appreciate a competitors product if it adds value to your own products.

Coming back to the writer, I just love this… Simply a great product for bloggers. Something really good from Microsoft ! And free too !

And its also notable to mention the name of Cinestar Ritesh Deshmukh who also belongs to latur.

More info about Latur city and its people will be available at a seperate site called My Latur Pattern – The url is http://www.mylaturpattern.com

Some views from different people:

@sonneti:

You should realize though the whole point of a degree is not what you learn its about having a certificate that says:
Yes I know how to play the game of passing a course
I may also have the following talents
Telling people my grandparents just died when I haven’t handed in my coursework/failed an exam.
Plagiarizing
Sometimes attending almost one whole class per week.
Plagiarizing
Manipulation through either pity or being best friends with all the lecturers!
Plagiarizing
Survive almost entirely on a diet of weed and alcohol
Plagiarizing
Defrauding banks of student loan monies

@knoxgates:
Degree earns you a respect in the soceity which you live.
If you are skilled you can get a high paying job.

@antonio
Degree for sure! Just check out the statistics – people that go to UNI will earn much more in their lives, they get late start though and that sucks. By the time you are out of the University (with a juicy loan that you have to pay back) your buddies already own a nice car and have a steady job that makes them good $$$
15 years later -> they are all bald and fat and live in the projects, while you are bald and fat, driving a Porsche.

@Bighustlah
I have met so many wildly successful people in my life that don’t have degrees. I also know quite a few that DO have a degree. IMO it’s not the degree itself that is helping you. It’s the confidence you project when you have a degree. If you can be confident, it doesn’t matter if you have a degree or not.

@smoov1
It depends. Me personally i think degrees now days are BULL SHIT, college has become big business. I have many many many friends with degrees of all kinds shapes and sizes and all they do is complain about the money they are making and paying back loans. I make at least 4 times more then all of them and I have to admit that I feel dam good knowing that I was one of the only ones from my high school class that never attended college but yet somehow at our high school reunion I was the only one driving a s550 Benz!! Nobody with a degree that I know is even coming close to the level of comfort and success im feeling. Me choosing not to go to college might be the best decision I have ever made in my life! I have been making money online for about 10 years now, and im clocking well into the 6 figures every year consistently just to sit on my ass and my income is only growing!

@jmascis
I have a buddy that never got a degree and still had a very successful IT career. On the flip side, he is always paranoid about not advancing in his company when up against other college graduates.

Time for some conclusion:

Before giving out my view, let me tell you that I do have a degree but not a post graduate one , a graduate degree that too not in the field now I am in but a graduate in commerce. A B.com degree which has very less or no value in India. Some of the better degrees for me to have is something like the M.C.A or BE , something related to the software field. So do I regret not having a post graduate degree ?

Absolutly not ! Why? Because I feel if someday I wish I need a degree, I will get it ). Well its all about the confidence and the need ofcourse.

I never felt the need of a degree because I learnt everything from the internet myself and make a living from an independent owned business where nobody asks me for a certificate.

So my personal view:

If you are planning to work for somebody else or planning to work in a company : – Go for a Degree : Because unfortunately thats how companies and the HR will judge your initial talent.

If you are planning to work independently all throughout your life, have the confidence in yourself to succeed, then it really doesn’t matter whether you have a degree or not. You can keep several employees who have a degree instead :p . Having said that, I would say always go for a degree if you can get it without compromising the knowledge factor. For example if you plan to work independently and you have to attend  the college for long hours to get a degree, then in this case you are compromising the knowledge you were bound to get independently.

I know several people will argue that college provides knowledge too and so and so…but in the region I am from…even though its known for educational values…degrees very rarely impart practical knowledge to succeed, they often provide bookish knowledge to write the exams. Its more of a memory test where you have to memorise the content in the textbooks and write it down in exams.

So If you plan to work for somebody else: Go for a Degree : If you plan to work for yourself : Degree doesn’t matter

And the most important point: Don’t take the degree seriously..What makes you successfull is the knowledge not the degree

Here you see various options you can use such as http://www.URLHERE.com/2009/09/09/sample-post/ or http://www.URLHERE.com/2009/09/sample-post/

However, the best option to use is a Custom structure: Enter this in the field:     /%category%/%postname%/

That makes the URL SEO friendly by showing the category and post name in the URL. If you wish to remove the word “category” in the category url, what you have to do is just put a dot “.” without quotes in the Category base field below and save the changes.

There are a lot of variations and views regarding which is the best one to use, but in my view this is reasonably the best and the one which I use on this blog. Hope this post helps

Update:(26th Aug 2010) The “.” in tags fields no longer works with the latest version of wordpress. The better option for removing “category” is to edit the rewrite.php file located in includes folder.