I never heard the word Affortable before, may be it is new creation by Google.
You can find this at http://www.orkut.co.in/html/advertise/IN/large.html, if you can’t fine it then don’t blame me, may be its fixed by Google.

I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker

So its time to upgrade my all blogs. They have added 180 features, changes, improments.
You can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex.

They have done a great job again. This is world best blogging and publishing platfarm.

The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in the press release, “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.

This is a fantastic day for Sun’s customers, developers, partners and employees across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO, also in the press release, “From the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun’s SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we’ll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace.

source – http://java.dzone.com/news/oracle-buys-sun

Some PR checker showing I am good PR but some showing negative. I can’t post my stats this time as I am not sure. I can’t see any big changes in Google Algorithm this time with PR. It is same as last update.

Google also updated Toolbar PR, It was updated last time at starting of this year.

As soon this update wil finish I will check my sites again and post progress of my sites here.

They have updated lot of things including Navigation, the way data shows etc. I think they also changed their method to calculate Alexa rank because most of webmaster sites yesterday rank is not so good as compared to other day but traffic is still same. And my non-webmaster sites have better rank now.

you can read more here.

Cricket is most popular sports in India ( I think this is only popular sports in India) and people are bored with 50 overs long cricket matches, now 20-20 over matches are everyone’s favorites. I am not a big SEO expert but from the last year Google search result I can predict that this year searched related to IPL will increase. Last year in IPL season everyone was searching for IPL matches, news, team information etc.

Orkut, most popular social networking site in Inida, is also preparing to earn money from IPL this year, I have no idea what they are going to do but as of now all youngster use Orkut so it is good time for Google to earn money from it.

I am making a site Related to Indian Premier League to earn some extra money this summer. I am planning to it advertise at orkut, youtube and other social sites so I can get more and more visitors.

If you don’t have any work then you can start a blog just to give updates of IPL, do little link building and your blog will be in SEs. Use Google Trends to check what you should write so you can get more traffic. Try to use Adsense, affiliates won’t do anything here as people just want to know about cricket. Use simple template where is it easy to get what they are looking for. Add a leader board ad on top to get some extra click and higher CTR, near top navigation menu add Adsense link ads, add rectangle under post title.. My all sites related to India get better CTR, so I am not going to miss this IPL.

This method is for those who want traffic for long term. You won’t see traffic overnight, it slow but more effective traffic method.
All you have to do is write articles related to your sites, if your site is related to computer then you have to write articles related to computers and it will be very easy for anyone because if you have a website then you must have information about that niche. You should write at least one article per day and submit it to ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com etc. When you submit your article they will ask resoure box where you can type your information and a link to your site. Here always add a section that is realted to articles.
As I said it will take time, may take some days or month to get traffic but it is stable traffic that keep coming.

2. Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a good way to get instant traffic, you should start from stumbleupon.com as it is very simple. Download and install stumbleupon toolbar. Open your site and give it a “thumbs up”. Do it for some inner pages too. Also give thums up to other sites too otherwise it will look like spam.
After it try other bookmarking sites like digg.com, delicious. Just search for social bookmarking sites, there are thousands of sites, more you submit more traffic you get.

I wil try to get my PR back if possible but still no idea how to do that.

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Register account and get link form your profile. Easier than commeting or spamming on blogs.

You can read more about it here. Google PageRank Update at End of The Year