These are some of the google enigmas that can’t be explained. Web marketers and googlers keep on guessing about google but google is still a closed book and theres so much to discover.

1. Does the Length of a Domain Registration Affect Your Rank?
Google became ICANN accredited domain registrar in February 2005, google officialy said that they have no plans to register domains but the information will be used to increase the quality of search results.

One big mystery regarding google is that is that Does the Length of a Domain Registration Affect Your Rank?. According to web marketing expert Yaro Storak,Google may be checking, for how much time your domain has been registered. Those that care about their domain and their brand will register their domain for a long time. This demonstrates commitment. So domain registration period will be yet another flag in the Google system that will keep certain sites away from top rankings. For more on this issue, read this article by Bizz Hartzer.

2. Is Google Pagerank significant ???

this:

• The last PR update could have been months ago.
• The number we see is not the real PR of a web page.
• PR can actually be stolen or faked.
• PR is only a small part of the entire algorithm.
• PR0 (PageRank zero) is not necessarily a bad thing.
• PR is not always passed from one page to another.
• PR doesn’t always pass its full value to another page.
• PR is sometimes estimated.

or that:

PageRank, which is largely based upon the number and quality of backlinks a webpage has, is an important factor in how well a particular webpage ranks within the Google search results.

3. Google Honeymoon
The 3rd enigma ,named by Yaro Starak as Google Honeymoon Period. The “Google Honeymoon” , is the period 24-48 hours after producing a new web page where it first ranks in the Google search index. For the next 2-4 weeks the page will rank particularly highly and then drop back to whatever is normal for the website.

As explained by Yaro, the honeymoon period occurs so Google can collect data on how relevant your pages are for those keywords. If during the honey your pages are clicked often and the visitor hangs around for a while (doesn’t click back and choose another option from the search results) then your drop after the honeymoon isn’t significant. The logic being that your page offers a good answer to the question being asked.

It’s foolish to ever believe you can be 100% certain of what Google is doing - Yaro

I agree…

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Google pagerank update is in process, usually google updates pagerank quarterly. It may take some more days before google start showing your static pagerank. Use this SEO Chat tool to check your current pagerank.

During pagerank update, the pagerank of a website vary between different data centers. You can use this SEO Chat future pagerank tool to check your pagerank across different data centres and to catch a glimpse of what your future pagerank might be.

Another good way to check your future pagerank is by using the iWebtool future pagerank tool, this tool predicts the future pagerank of your website by analysing the backlinks to your website and also the individual pagerank of websites that are linking to you.

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Most of the top bloggers agree that lists do well to attract visitors toward your post.

Dave Winer writes that the fundamental law of the Internet seems to be the more you send visitor away from your site, the more they come back. (Source)

According to problogger online readers are notoriously lazy and lists do well because instead of wandering through different websites, they get everything in one place. Also lists are often backlinked from other blogs and forums.

Read this problogger articles titled “8 reasons Why lists are good for getting traffic to your blog”. Read the comments section of the post and you will see that most of the people agree with that.

From a long time, the famous quickonlinetips blog is making good use of the lists-for-traffic idea and has constantly updated lists on many topics like Adsense tools, Flickr tools, Google tools, etc. All Quickonline lists are promoted to Digg front page and linked back from many popular blogs including lifehacker.

Recently lorelle published Lists of Firefox Must-Have Extensions List.

What are search engines like google, yahoo, msn ? they are sort of lists.

So create lists to get traffic
Also, the most famous post on freakitude is Orkut Hacks. Which is a list.
Comments awaited.

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Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a linux distribution which is only 50MB in size.

Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

• Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
• Boot from a USB pen drive
• Boot from within a host operating system (that’s right, it can run *inside* Windows)
• Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call “frugal install”
• Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
• Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
• Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
• Modularly grow — DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

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dotMobi is the new top level domain for mobile content.

To register a dotMobi name, visit mtld.mobi

Visit dotMobi blog (Unofficial) for related news and info.

Google, MSN and other websites have started using their mobi domains to redirect visitors to cellphone version of their websites.
Webmasters are adviced to register .mobi domain related to their trademark before cyber squatters grab their domains.

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Firefox Extensions are a great way to add browsing features that firefox guys missed out, also these extensions make internet browsing a real pleasure. These are the top 20 firefox extensions that i cant live without.

1. Extended Statusbar - A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera’s one).

2. Flashgot - handles single and multiple downloads with several external download managers.

3. Fasterfox - Extension to speed up firefox by prefetching Links, applying network tweaks, blocking popups, etc.

4. Tabbrowser Preferences - provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.

5. Tab X - Adds a close button to each of the browser tabs, and removes the close button at the end of the tab bar.

6. SubmitToTab - Allows you to submit a form to a new tab or window by simply middle-clicking on a submit button, or holding down the ctrl key before clicking on the button.

7. UndoCloseTab - To reopen accidently closed tabs.

8. Webmail Compose - Makes mailto: links load your webmail’s compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu.

9. Gmail Notifier - checks and notifies your email in Gmail accounts.

10. Forecastfox - Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar.

11. Stumbleupon - StumbleUpon lets you “channelsurf” the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people.

12. Google Images Re-Linker - This will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.

13. Google Toolbar - Official google toolbar for firefox. Lets you search google and all its services easily. Also powered by Google Suggest (Get query suggestions as you type in the search box), SpellCheck, AutoFill, Pagerank of webpage, access to gmail, WordTranslator etc.

14. Sage - Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds.

15. Bugmenot - Bypass compulsory web registration via Firefox’s right-click context menu. Powered by Bugmenot login database.

16. WML Browser - Simulate WAP browsing, view WML (Wireless Markup Language) pages in Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox.

17. Adblock - allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address. Block ads, applets, flash, embedded-media etc.

18. InFormEnter - InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address, etc.

For Webmaters:

19. Performancing - Full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. Compatible with various blogging platforms.

20. Adsense Notifier - Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.

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