“Rags to riches” is a very commonly known phrase used to those who were in a difficult life once but have become famous and rich. Here, we are going to see some of the most popular people of the world who were once in poverty or a very hard life. What I want to share with you here is that many great people of the world were once very weak and they have become great because of their determination, hard work and will power. When I think of this, I believe the world is a great place to live because any person can become great and powerful no matter how weak or poor he was in his past.

This is a great inspiration for all of us and I think that you should never give up your dreams for nothing because all it takes to be successful is will, determination and hard work. To make you even better, I’ll share with you some of the greatest people of our time like Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise, and Oprah etc. For a bigger list of such people, you might want to see the Wikipedia page on Nouveau Riche. In fact, I do believe that people who had a rough life in childhood is tougher and can challenge tougher problems. Now, talking about Nouveau Riche which means “new rich” in French, we see some of the richest people of the 1990s. The Nouveau Riche as listed in the CNN site has the list of the richest people of the world in the year 1991.

Now, if you see these people and their early life history, you will know that most of them had a rough early life which makes them strong and tough. They have a strong determination and will power that enables them to overcome the biggest hurdles of all time. Now, aren’t you inspired by them? It’s not about having a rough life that’s important. It’s about their strong feeling of determination, will power and hard work which they developed in their early life. But you can also develop that spirit if you try it today and never give up for anything. Be a strong, highly determined person and work hard and you will be like them some day.

It’s been around 3 days since the last Google Page Rank Update (I don’t remember exactly). Now, everybody must have seen how the Google page ranks are going these days. Even those sites with thousands of backlinks have a 0 Page Rank and even a simple site with 10 or 20 backlinks has a 3 or 4 Page rank. So, what do you think? Is there a bug in Google’s Page rank algorithm that instead of giving page ranks depending on the backlinks, they are just assigning the Page ranks in some random unknown way? Nope, it’s definitely not a bug and I can assure you a few simple ways to fight against this uncertainty of Google’s Page Rank.

Almost everybody knows some idea on how Google assigns Page Rank to websites. It’s definitely based on the number and quality of backlinks and some other factors. But how come some sites have 0 page rank even though they have thousands of backlinks. The reason is that there are some factors which can let Google blacklist your sites. And those factors are what I’m going to talk about today.

If you can simply avoid these mistakes, I’m sure you will get a Page rank that your site deserves. Now, let’s go to the 5 mistakes that most web developers make in the blind hope that it will increase their page ranks or SERP.

Mistake no. 1: Getting reviewed or linked from blacklisted blogs.
You do this; I’m sure you get a 0 page rank in the next update. I’m not talking about a single blacklisted blog linking to you. I’m talking about hundreds of blacklisted blogs linking to you. This usually happens when you pay a network blogger to post a review of your site in his/her collection of crappy/blacklisted/useless blogs or paying blogger networks like , blogvertise, payu2blog for reviews of your site. Because unknown by many advertisers, there is a mass out there in such sites with thousands of useless, made for money and anti-quality blogs. Many people do this thinking that this will increase their Search Engine Rankings but this will definitely affect your site’s page rank. And the more number of such blogs linking to your site, the more chance you have of getting blacklisted or getting a 0 page rank.

Well, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t advertise on these sites but you should advertise only on quality sites. Paying $100 for a review in a quality blog will do a lot better that getting reviewed by tons of crappy blogs. I mean “Don’t go by quantity. Prefer Quality instead”. Now, “How do I find out whether a blog is blacklisted or not?”. That is a good question and here’s the simple clue – “Does the blog has quality information?”. If the blog is a quality blog writing about useful information rather than pointless reviews of advertisers, then certainly, the blog is not blacklisted. But also see if the Page Rank of the site is 0. If page rank is 0, there is a big chance that the blog is blacklisted unless it is a new blog less than 3 months old. The point is – choose a blog which has a high page rank (check if the blog’s page rank is valid or not at http://www.checkpagerank.net), has quality posts and less number of advertisements.

Mistake no. 2: Very High Outbound Links
Unless your site is a directory or some link related site, linking to too many sites can be a threat for your site’s Page rank. This is not about the total links in your site but the number of links to other sites. This is because if you link to too many sites, Google thinks that you are selling links to other sites or something like and you already know that Google’s not happy with link sales. Having a high outbound links is not a good idea especially for blogs because blogs are not meant to link to other sites, they are meant to give information. So if you have a blog, cut off your outbound links, make it as few as possible.

Mistake no. 3: Having a tag or phrase or disclosure in your site
If your blog is in , you might have already added the disclosure policy. This policy declares that the content in your blog are not always your opinion and may be based on advertiser’s views and ideas. This is where Google kicks your ass. If your blog is not about a useful information but advertiser driven, it doesn’t have a place in Google. Google will definitely give you a 0 Page Rank in the next update if you still have the disclosure unless your site is some big old one like the Daren Rose’s or John Chow’s blog. So, if you are working hard to increase your page rank, it is a good idea to stay away from and that is why I insert an image instead of the word . Even having this word can be a threat.

Mistake no.4: Having very short posts with many links
Many bloggers whom I wouldn’t call bloggers have this habit of writing posts only for money and when they do, they write it so short that it just has the minimum number of words in it as it is required. Google knows it; Google has already taken necessary steps to blacklist such sites. So, keeping your posts lengthy and having lesser links will help you in the long run.

Mistake no.5: Cheating with Google
The biggest reason why Google dominates the other Search Engines is because they deliver quality results in their Search Engine Result Pages. It delivers the most relevant results when you search for a query. And the mystery behind this great Search Engine is its Page Rank. Page Rank is one of the most important factors upon which Google search results are based. So, if you try to increase your page rank or SERP (Search Engine Results Position) by cheating Google, Google will sooner or later detect it and will kick you out when it does.
The point is – Never try to use cheats or deceives to increase your search engine rankings or your page rank or try to deceive your users. Google wants a quality site and will definitely leave you with a bunch of page ranks if your site is useful to the users and if you don’t break rules.

In one of my blogs, I had been using the url format of http://www.mydomainname.com/index.php/2008/07/post-name . This url structure is not used by many people but somehow I used it because it wasn’t working when I tried to use the http://www.mydomainname.com/2008/07/post-name . So, I had been using this permalink style for around 2 years and I never changed it because my advertisers would simply complain that their post urls can’t be found. And it went alright until recently when wordpress 2.6 was released.
When I installed the new wordpress 2.6, this permalink is no more working and I have to change it to the more correct one – http://www.mydomainname.com/2008/07/post-name . But the problem is that if I change it, my post urls will all be changed and many advertisers won’t be able to find their posts -especially those posts which are written for advertisers. So, I had only one choice – to restore to the previous version of wordpress 2.5. For now, that is the only solution to this problem. If you are also having the same URL structure, I recommend you not to upgrade to the new version until a compatible version is released. However, I don’t think that the next version will work on this URL structure because I think they are trying to remove this structure altogether and the last option still remains the same.

Till yesterday, I have never downloaded a video from youtube. Once, I was looking for a youtube downloader but it never worked even after i downloaded the software. But yesterday, a friend of mine just came and downloaded a youtube video in minutes. I was amazed and said “Damn! What a Great Site?”.

Where does this “Great Site” come from? Well, my youtube downloader is not actually a software but a site. So, you don’t have to download a software before you download the video. All you have to do is to make a simple change in the url of the youtube video you want to download.

Ok Ok, just tell me what to do! Well, its easy. Just go to the video page of the video you want to download in youtube. In the address bar, the url must be something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxxxxx is some random string. Now, change the url by replacing the “youtube” by “voobys” so that the new url becomes http://www.voobys.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx and hit enter. Thats it! On the page that opens, there will be a Download button and when you click it, your video will be downloaded. Isn’t it easy that those buggy softwares that you have tried installing till now. Well, try it and you will see the difference.

Microsoft word 2007 which comes along with the Office 2007 is much more powerful and attractive than the previous versions. It has many features that just make the old ones incomparable. But one main problem with this new version is that it saves the files written in it in the .docx format. Even though this new format is powerful and has more features, it can’t be opened with the old versions like the word 2003 or 97. And this mainly creates a problem when you create a .docx file with your new office and takes it to a friend’s computer where there is office 2003.

Fortunately, there is an option through which you can save the files in the old format to make it compatible with the older versions of Microsoft Word. A simple way to do is when you save the file, you just choose the “Word 97-2003 Document (.doc)” option which is just below the file name. A small snapshot is shown below.

Another way to solve this problem is to permanently configure your Microsoft Word to save in the old format of Word 97-2003 Document (“.doc). You can do this by choosing the “Word Options” under the top left button of your word 2007 as shown below.

Then clicking the “Save” button on the left of the options window, Choose “Word 97-2003 Document (.doc)” under the options of “Save Files in this format”. Once you are done making these changes, your files will now be automatically saved in the all compatible .doc format.

For years, I have been using the Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Word is the most used toolkit amongst the tools included in the package. Using Microsoft word 2003 was always easy and it helped me correct grammatical errors. One special feature of word 2003 that I used more often is the word count feature which is available on the top menu at “Tools>>Word Count”. This helps me particularly when I was writing a review for some advertiser in one of my blogs although reviews are not written in this particular blog. I used the word count feature to see if the no. of words in my article has reached the minimum word count as specified by the advertiser and it was a great help.

A few days before, I installed the Microsoft Office 2007 and I have been using the new package since. The New Office is during quite great and I was very satisfied. But for almost a week, I was not able to see a link or button where I could find the word count as in word 2003. I searched for the button in the top menu and fond none. Finally, I just saw at the bottom left of the word 2007 that the word count is written there. Besides displaying the word count all the time, it also allows you to see the word count of a selected text against the total text in the document. This is how I was confused for a few days looking for the word count. Now, if you are also looking for the word count button in Word 2007, you are just not looking. Just look at the bottom left and you will see the word count like this.

For the last three months, I had been working on a new proxy bookmarking site. Finally, the site which is called ProxyWiky.com has been released though still in beta stage. Below is a screenshot of the new site.

Talking about its features, I’ll make a brief explanation of the main features of this new bookmarking site for proxies. Firstly, the site provides its users a way to anonymous surfing and bypassing. The site provides number web proxies which can be used for anonymous surfing and unblocking sites like MySpace, Facebook etc. There are also sites like proxy top sites, proxy lists etc. which list web proxies. Secondly, it provides a way for proxy owners to get free backlinks and traffic to their proxy sites. They can submit their proxy or proxy related sites and get direct backlinks and traffic. Traffic will come both from site users and from emails sent to users who have subscribed to the email subscription provided by Feedburner. So, it is a great site for both proxy users and owners.Lastly, it provides many proxy resources like articles on how to earn money successfully from a proxy site and other resources like proxy server hosting and information about them.

So, I think I made a clear description of the site and if you still want more about this site, then I think you will know more about it when you visit the site. I hope you like my new site and if you have any suggestion, don’t hesitate to give your suggestions here.