The meet started exactly at 7pm with a self introductory session. Though I could see few professional/business people there, majority were the student faces. Each had different reasons for stepping into the blogging world which were like making revenue, entrepreneurship, sharing their own built softwares and so on.  But everybody there had a passion in blogging. As most of the people were new to blogging, I thought to share some useful tips to make their way to success more clear. For that I chose a topic “How To Take Your Blog To The Next Level” which I thought more appropriate for this meet. My quick born presentation was projected on the screen and I shared my thoughts for about 20 to 25 minutes, which I learned through my humble experience.

Here is that presentation of mine for those who could not make this meet.

After my preso, other bloggers also shared their own blogging experience which then continued to the delicious non veg buffet dinner. Just before the end of the meet, T-Shirts with “Blogger” logo printed in it were distributed to all the participants. The plan was to take a group photo of all wearing this T-Shirt to capture the memories. At once all changed their costume and  started to pose for the photo I was posing with the same costume. Being a wordpress fan, a non-blogger guy, and had thrown strong points to not use blogger any more during my speech, still I could wear that T-Shirt. But Shhh.. I guess I might have thought the T-Shirt wont fit my size at that time. lol

It is a simple workaround to get it running and I just wanted to share that with you guys.  You know all the joomla sites will run on only one domain either www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com. It will redirect to the original URL if you try the other one.  On this case find the actual domain that runs the joomla site. If it is www.yourdomain.com then the URL you are trying to embed SWF file should with start with WWW else it should not start with WWW. Simple.. Try this. Best if luck.

• Recently, I did some spring cleaning on my site and deleted a couple of old, orphaned pages. They now return the 404 “Page not found” code. Is this ok, or have I confused you?
• I was just reading your reply to Frankie above, and it raised a couple of questions.What if I have someone linking to a page that no longer exists? How can I make sure my visitors still find what they’re after? Also, what if I just move some pages around? I’d like to better organise my site, but I’m worried you’ll get confused. How can I help you?
• I have a problem—I live in a very dynamic part of the web, and I keep changing my mind about things. When you ask me questions, I never respond the same way twice—my top threads change every hour, and I get new content all the time! You seem like a straightforward guy who wants straightforward answers. How can I tell you when things change without confusing you?
• I am the kind of site who likes to reinvent herself. I noticed that the links to me on my friends’ sites are all to URLs I got rid of several redesigns ago! I had set up 301s to my new URLs for those pages, but after that I 301′ed the newer URLs to my next version. Now I’m afraid that if you follow their directions when you come to crawl, you’ll end up following a string of 301s so long that by the end you won’t come calling any more.
• I know you must like me—you even ask me for unmodified files, like my college thesis that hasn’t changed in 10 years. It’s starting to be a real hassle! Is there anything I can do to prevent your taking up my lovely bandwidth?

Google presented the answers with excellent method. Looking for the answers? Oh thatz here..

A general introduction to Ads Quality, including an overview of Quality Score and answers to some common questions about Ads Quality. If you don’t know how Quality Score works, this is a good video to watch.

Beyond the basics.. This video gives more detail on the recent changes made to Ads Quality. If you want to know more about how the change from inactive keywords to first page bids affects your campaigns, watch this.

Joomla 1.0.x: includes/class.phpmailer.php

Joomla 1.5: includes/phpmailer.php

Find the code around the line 537:

if(strstr($hosts[$index], ":"))
        list($host, $port) = explode(":", $hosts[$index]);
else
{
        $host = $hosts[$index];
        $port = $this->Port;
}

Replace it with:

if (preg_match('#(([a-z]+://)?[^:]+):(\d+)#i', $hosts[$index], $match))
{
        $host = $match[1];
        $port = $match[3];
}
else
{
        $host = $hosts[$index];
        $port = $this->Port;
}

Now login to your joomla backend and go to Mailer in Global configuration

Enter/choose the options in below format

Mailer: SMTP Server
Mail From: <your_user_id>@gmail.com (Google apps user: your_user_id@yourdomain.com)
SMTP Auth: Yes
SMTP User: <your_user_id>@gmail.com (Google apps user: your_user_id@yourdomain.com)
SMTP Password: <your_password>
SMTP Host: ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465

Be sure that you have enable POP in your Gmail or Google Apps before you save this and test. All the best.

Here are the new features.

1. User Interface refresh.
2. AdSense now integrated into GA.
3. Advanced visualizations: Motion Charts!
4. Custom Reports!
5. Advanced Segmentation!!
6. The Google Analytics API.
7. Automatic importing of AdWords cost data into Urchin.

Learn more about the new features in detail at Avinash Kaushik blog

The keywords with less than “Minimum Bid” will be marked as inactive for search and will not enter in to Google ad space. But after the years rolled by introducing this feature, now Google realized that minimum bidding option will not work out as it is stopping those keywords which may trigger ads to different highly relevant query matches. So thinking on some newly needed, they are introducing to replace their static per-keyword Quality Scores with a system that will evaluate an ad’s quality each time it matches a search query.

So that no more keyword will be inactive for search and all those are now having change to enter in to the auction to get placed on the sponsored space. But the thing is AdWords will use the most accurate, specific, and up-to-date performance information when determining whether an ad should be displayed. Your ads will be more likely to show when they’re relevant and less likely to show when they’re not. This means that Google users are apt to see better ads while you, as an advertiser, should receive leads which are more highly qualified.

As the  “Minium Bid” is not required on this migration it has been changed as “First page Bid”. First page bids are an estimate of the bid it would take for your ad to reach the first page of search results on Google web search. They’re based on the exact match version of the keyword, the ad’s Quality Score, and current advertiser competition on that keyword.

Here is the preview of the new changes in adword interface:

If you at once log in to your adword account and wonder on not seeing these changes, do not worry… Stay cool… Google planned to roll out this features slowly on the advertisers account to test.

Trinadh was waiting there already and we introduced our self as it was the first time we met face to face. Was expecting other folks arrival to start the session but it was an disappointment for every one since only very few came from the registered numbers. Started the session by self introduction and their experience on this field and how they got in to. Suchet from CTS, Lakshmi kanth from Veetechnologies, Sherin from Bharath Matrimony…. went like that….

Palani answered to the most of the questions arised during the discussion.  Sherin’s view on current Web Analytics practice and how to impress the boss by the way presenting the data was really admirable. Being country manager of Web Analytics Association of India, Trinadh shared his plans of moving to next level by having a local WAA website with blog and forum. Got answers for many questions and useful tips from UBC course to Self marketing..  Thanks Trinadh..  It would have been really bigger event if there were no absence.. Any way, I think it is an unforgettable day in my life, enjoyed lot…  Thanks to Palani to have a deep discussion from to my personal to salemjilla.com .. Thanks for your suggestions as well. I am glad about that….

Searching me?? Sorry guys… I am the photographer…

• Frequency Capping: Enables advertisers to control the number of times a user sees an ad. Users will have a better experience on Google content network sites because they will no longer see the same ad over and over again.

• Frequency Reporting: Provides insight into the number of people who have seen an ad campaign, and how many times, on average, people are seeing these ads.

• Improved Ads Quality: Brings performance improvements within the Google content network.

• View-Through Conversions: Enables advertisers to gain insights on how many users visited their sites after seeing an ad. This helps advertisers determine the best places to advertise so users will see more relevant ads.

This new features will help the adword advertisers to spend their money more effcetively. But it seems it will take couple of weeks this improvements..