Archive for January, 2009

How to get yahoo.com email ID and not a yahoo.in or yahoo.co.uk or other country specific Yahoo accounts?

When you go to register with yahoo mail for a new email account, yahoo detects your location based on the IP address and gives you the option of email id only for that country e.g.

  • Europe (UK)

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    Your choice is limited to yahoo.co.uk

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Top 10 Tips for Google Adwords Quality Score Improvement

imageQuality Score is central to the Google Adwords system. Here is what they have to say about the Quality Score:

Quality Score for Google and the search network is a dynamic metric assigned to each of your keywords. It’s calculated using a variety of factors and measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad group and to a user’s search query. The higher a keyword’s Quality Score, the lower its cost-per-clicks (CPCs) and the better its ad position.

Quality Score for any keyword on Google and the Search network is calculated based on the historical clickthrough rate (CTC) of the keyword and the matched ad, your account history, the historical CTR of the display URL in the ad group, landing page quality, keyword relevance to the ad in its ad group, relevance to the query of the ad text and the keyword, your account’s performance in the geographical region where the ad will be shown and few other factors.

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Top Travel and Airline Ticket Booking Sites in India

Recent years have seen a splurge in new travel booking sites in India. I have had the chance to use a lot of them for my bookings. Here is a list of sites which I feel are good. Remember, all these sites keep offering new deals or another to outbid each other, so you are money conscious, do check few before you decide to buy book your travel plan or airlines ticket.

Aggregator Travel Sites

(sites which bring to you prices from various other sites at one place, do not sell the tickets but only help you locate tickets and then you book on those sites from the link they provide)

image http://travel.bixee.com/: offers air (domestic and international), rail, bus and hotel ticket search. It also gives you the fare price graph so that you get an idea on when the prices are low and when high.

image http://in.farechase.yahoo.com/: Yahoo’s offering for airlines ticket search for domestic flights in India. They have integrated this with Yahoo Messenger so you can your friend can plan for a travel and choose flights together. [Yahoo Messenger India Flight Planner]. They also have a neat “my fare alert utility” which allows you to create an alert for flight fare for a certain date. As soon as the price falls below your set limit, it can alert you via email or your yahoo messenger.

image http://www.ixigo.com/: one of the first travel aggregator sites with fare trends which I know of. Very fast and user friendly. Brings you flight, hotel and bus deals from several sites at one place.

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