Last week Google again smoothly made a pagerank update of all the websites.

http://techunknown.com got lucky this time. In just 5 months, that without much effort we got PR1.

I found one more useful website to check the pagerank of your websites in bulk at once @ http://checkbulkpagerank.com/

Regarding how exactly the pagerank algorithm of Google works, i found some pretty interesting images. Do have a look:

I was thinking from many days to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress (The CMS used in this blog), but wasn’t able to do it, maybe because of the fear of database crash or something.

Allhailmike was again and again asking me to do it, as he pointed out, the new ver WP 2.6 is more streamlined, search engine friendly and more stable. So, after all the tweaking last night, i thought to give it a try.

I downloaded the latest version from the official website http://wordpress.org/ and uploaded it to a separate directory, inside the main root directory where i had installed my old installation of WP 2..3.1.

Then i headed to the documentaion part, to help me out smoothly with the process. I must say even the short documentation (they even have step-by-step spoon feeding) was clear and sufficient enough to do all the things safely and successfully. The documentation is at http://codex.wordpress.org/

So here goes the step-by-step instructions (in short):

1. First extract the contents of the new version in a separate folder and upload it to the main directory (root directory where wordpress is instaslled). Uploading through FTP is a better choice.

2. Now delete your wp-admin and wp-includes folder, from the older installation.

3. Copy the new WordPress files to your server, overwriting old files in the root.
NOTE The wp-content folder requires special handling, as do the plugins and themes folders. You must copy over the contents of these folders, not the entire folder. Copying the entire folder overwrites all your customizations and added content.
Also take care to preserve the content of the wp-config.php file in the root directory. This file contains current settings for your existing installation, e.g. database sign-in information.
Compare your existing file with the new installation file which is named wp-config-sample.php. Either transfer your settings to the sample-file and rename it to wp-config.php or copy the new statemens from the sample file into yor current file.

4. That’s it.Visit your main WordPress admin page at /wp-admin. You may be asked to login again. If a database upgrade is necessary at this point, WordPress will detect it and give you a link to a URL like http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php. Follow that link and follow the instructions. This will update your database to be compatible with the latest code.

Everything done correctly, itself calls for a coffee break.

Techunknown is alive again…

It died abruptly soon  after being born in feb 3 2008 (the day i registered and started it), because of lack of interest, support and time.

But never mind, we are back again with a bang.
Now we have got what always lacked here; web 2.0, new clean theme, clutter free navigation, user friendliness, new posts…and all. You name it, and we got it

So here is the new team:

1. Me Anurag Upadhaya aka INFERNO (the lead developer)

2. and this time accompanied with Pushkar bhatt aka ALLHAILMIKE (man behind gadget posts, his web http://geekgyan.com ).

Wish us luck.

Mere starting of a weblog, commonly termed as “BLOG”, is not enough.

The success of your blog entirely depends on various factors, which in turn bring more traffic and make your blog popular and successful.

Some of the important factors are:

1. The readability of your blog
   This is as simple and straight as it sounds. You need not show your high-level English skills in your blog.
   The language should be as simple and appealing as it can be. Before writing your posts, just imagine whatever you are going to write, is for a “lower-kindergarten” kid. Simple and straight approach always wins.
   An interesting tool to check the readability of your blog:
   LINK: http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
2. Marketing of your blog
   This is not as simple as it seems. I take for granted that most of the starting bloggers, like me don’t have money to spend on top-level SEO (search engine optimization), to gather traffic from search engines.
   The best tools of a blogger to popularize his blog are pinging, submitting to article directories, quality link exchange, submission to blog search engines like Technorati.
   A tool to to check the total worth of your blog:
   LINK: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/

WTF: :grin: The tool to check the worth of your blog is entirely based on tagging and the activity record of your blog on Technorati, so if you try to check the worth of even Google , the result would be 0$ !! :lol:

Review-http://www.techshout.com

1. The site’s intension looks promising.
2. The professional approach is missing definitely.
3. Uses no customized theme, uses three column Kubrick’s theme, with just a customized header.
4. Too much full of ads.
5. Focus is on quantity of post rather than quality, content is updated like 3-4, sometimes more posts in a day.But all of them about every new hardware, game, gadget and anything latest, without a through product review and no personal opinion.
6. But sadly, has Google Pagerank 6 (surprising!)

Suggestion:

1. Put on a more professional approach.
2. Shed some bucks and get a new customized theme like engadget, spending on content writers heavily without watching the layout of blog is useless.
3. Remove hell lots of ads, apply quality and content-matching ads, if the content is worth, traffic will surely pour in and the money too.
4. Do a through review of anything, before going to post. Number of posts in a day doesn’t matters neither the quantity. Posts worth reading, are the thing that attracts the visitors and give a good reputation and feedback.

http://www.insideorkut.com/

This blog has been around for a while, and has in fact covered everything about Orkut in such depth and detail, that it should be termed as official site for Orkut .

Everything about orkut can be found here ex: Scrapbook flooders, scrap-all-at-once, new useful orkut scripts, orkut tools like Scrapboy, Orkut toolbar, Orkut messenger, and the most famous Greasemonkey script(for Firefox).

Hosted on Blogger itself, handling vast amount of traffic becomes easy for this blog, and this way Darnell Klayton, the owner of the blog saves some bucks too !!

Verdict: A frequently must-visit site for all orkutters.