Right back in February this year, i wrote something about my new web host “BlueHost“.  The experience has just been okay. I’m somehow not fully satisfied with BlueHost or HostMonster for that matter. Both seems to be owned by the same company. But really who cares about the owner!

So What Problem Am I Facing?

I’m not fully satisfied with the two webhosts i mentioned. I was lured into the deal by the prices they offer. Honestly, i prepaid for two years in advance. Saves me heck lot of amount and other things. But see the irony of it. Looks like i cannot get my money back even if i close them down. So i have to continue using them, just being careful about what sites i decide to put on them. But i am not very happy with them. Also, both of them are little on slower side and they are definitely not giving 99% uptime.

So I Talked To A Friend

I was chatting with a friend of mine, Stuart! He is the owner of Site-Sift.com directory along with many other popular websites to his name. I said i needed some change. A new web host. Someone which can offer me what i really want. So he just popped a site called “McKremie“. He didn’t say much. But at the first look at the site, i noticed that they have something i need. Two Hosting plans, dedicated IP’s, 99.9 percent uptime, and best of all, 100% moneyback guarantee! So if i am not satisfied with it, i have nothing to lose.

Later on, my friend, Stuart told me he owns this web host. Now that’s the reason he didn’t say anything about McKremie in first place. You see, all great businessman never brag about their sites. Or their benefits and stuff like that. He waited for me to give my true opinion first and then he told me about the ownership.

McKremie Web Hosting Solutions

So about McKremie. Well it has good prices/plans. I would call it easily affordable. If you go through the about us page, you will find the true reason why this web host was started. It’s because of frustrations from other web hosts that Stuart used in past. Understandable! It even does have Fantastico, which is the basic condition for me, whenever i look for a web host. The other major point, it does accept Paypal. A must must have option, as far as my requirements go.

So i think i have found my new web host. If you are looking for some new web host, then maybe you would like to consider “McKremie“.

P.S. If you are on McKremie’s website, try finding “Top Ten Signs You Need A New Web Host” article via Sitemap. Some point are really hilarious

Happy First Birthday

Hello friends.

It’s been an year since i launched this blog. So today on 5th October’2008, i would like to wish my blog a Happy First Birthday. It’s been a wonderful first year journey so far. I have made lot of friends and really have learned lot of new things, all thanks to my blog.

I would also like to thank you all for being so supportive, cooperative and such good friends. Hadn’t it been for you, this blog wouldn’t have made it to it’s first milestone. Besides, your comments, your feedback is the driving force that makes me blog. Hopefully the love and bond we share via this blog, will stay fresh and friendly forever.

Thanks everyone once again. And again. Happy Birthday SharatJaswal.com

P.S. Stats for the first year, 73 posts and 198 comments. Most users ever online (at the same time) were 36. Geez, not a bad start for a beginner like me.

I am sorry i haven’t been blogging, lately. As i see it, there hasn’t been a post this entire month. So i thought i would summarize the whole of September in one go. So bear with me.

Rock On!!!

Early September : I somehow made it possible to get second day first show ticket of the movie “Rock On“. I must admit, it’s a great concept, brilliant story, good acting and a fantastic movie. It’s a story about 4 guys who started a rock band in their college life (As we all probably did at sometime in college life). Anyways, the college life was good. They thought they had the world on their feet dancing on their music. I am sure every college going chap must have felt that one time or another. However soon they grow up. Realize what hard and cruel world has to offer. So they start their own businesses/ find jobs, etc. Only to go their separate ways forever. Until after ten years of separation, rock star Purab (known as K.D in movie) thinks of a reunion. Two of the four had some differences between them coz of the past things. But who cares. Eventually they get back, talks over their life and finally decides to start the rock band again. So they did. And it’s a movie, so you can expect success for them eventually. But i won’t take away any credits from the stars of the movie. Specially Purab, Farhan Akhthar and dashing Arjun Rampal. Arjun is a guitarist in the band and he is a hunk. I am not mentioning much about Luke Kenny or Prachi Desai, because hey, you guys had a very less role to play. So wasn’t much impressed. Anyways, the movie was great and if you haven’t watched it, i insist that you please do! You can visit their official site : Rock On!!

I had a serious laugh at Purab’s beard style in the first half. Nice going. Purab! You are the man!

8th September : WordPress comes with yet another update. Now, I am not even surprised that there is a new wordpress version. As if i am used to it. This time it’s WordPress version 2.6.2. Some bug fixes again. But hey, don’t be excited as WordPress is planning to bring out WordPress 2.7 very very soon. And that would be lot interesting as they plan to put in some kinda of Navigation column. Humm.

14th September : It was my Dad’s birthday. He is a doctor and he is the best guy i have ever met. He is my inspiration, my idol and no one can ever take his place as “The Most Important Man In My Life”. Thanks for being there for me always Dad.  I love you! A very very Happy birthday dad! God Bless you!

23rd September : It has been a month since i reported Dr Stephen Baker, MD and TopSeom as the people who robbed me of a small amount. But robbery is a robbery. i don’t care about the amount. But it’s always good to let the world know about people who don’t deserve to have good name!

So how do i punish them. Well, as my friend Amit Bhawani does it. Start ranking high for their name. So that world can know. Now eher am i for their names? Well, if only Google can stabilize their search engine ranking algorithms i could precisely tell you where i rank. Sometimes i am number two right after their official sites. And sometime i am lying somewhere in second page of the search results. In anycase, i am sure i am doing some help in someway or the other by letting people know about them. I hope Google can give good rankings to my blog in time to come.

Google PoorRank

27th September : That’s today. Well, Google PoorRank is updating again! and as you can imagine, i am very disappointed with the results. For all my hard work and ample amount of information i put all day on AllyDirectory.com, Google has been kind enough to grant me PR2 instead of the previous PR3. I wonder if there is anything i could do so that Big G can fix their PR determining algorithms and for Christ Sake, can they stop punishing the sites which actually have better things to offer than their competitors running just a simple directory? I saw a simple tag cloud site today, showing up PR7 on toolbar. Earlier it was PR6. Is that what you call informational content? It’s just a paid links and keywords on the whole site. What’s the point in that? He will now earn more by selling paid links on even better Pagerank. i, on the other hand, put so much efforts, so much content, just to make my site become more of information bookhouse rather than just a simple ordinary directory and this is what Google gives in return. Google is Bloody Demoralizers on the net, when it comes to Pagerank!

At least the Ally Directory’s sitelinks are still there, but then i never said Google is bad when it comes to anything except Pagerank.

In September : Well, i love free templates. Iam launching ten free phpLinkDirectory templates in September itself. You can check AllyDirectory’s PHPLD Templates section for those ten templates. At this point of time, three templates have been launched already. Rest all will be launched by 30th September. Hopefully

Well, i guess that was little about September. Obviously i have missed lot of things i did this month but maybe they are not good enough that i can even recall them!

P.S. : I almost forgot. No matter how much you hurt us webmasters with your Pagerank stuff, we would still like to wish you Google, a Happy Birthday. Many happy returns of the day. May God bless you with lot more success and some BRAINS in pagerank department!

Happy 10th Birthday Google

Google.com is experimenting with many things lately! I have just noticed that Google search has started prompting users for specific keywords as and when we enter the paricular keyword to search.  Of course Yahoo has been doing this since long, but Googl.com following it was least expected. In any case, better now then never!

Google Search

This is a good feature though. Many a times i am searching for Russian sportstars or Italian celebrities and i always end up mis-spelling the name. So this feature is going to be a time saver. Good you adopted this add on Big G. Not innovative but still welcome!

Alright, moving on. Well Google has already announced that it will be retiring Google Adsense Referrals during last week of August, which should happen anytime now. Many webmasters are feeling little emotional saying goodbye to good old referrals. But hey, i am not that bothered, simply because Adsense Referrals had already been retired in all countries except Japan, North America and Latin America, since early January’2008. So i bid’em farewell in beginning of year 2008!

New Adsense For Feeds

Other than Adsense Referrals, we did notice New and Improved Adsense for Search few weeks back.  It was followed by Adsense for YouTube units or Adsense Video Units. And then there was this Adsense for Mobile Content which i have really never used. Now comes the Adsense for RSS Feeds. Wow… Google is really onto webmasters now! It just keeps on getting better and better! I really liked the concept of Adsense for RSS feeds. They are placed in the feeds itself. You can place adsense units after every one feed or once in the whole feed. However i am yet to figure it out completely, simply because my account at feedburner is different from the account at Google. They are not migrating the accounts now, but when they should do it, i am sure to go ahead and get this units on my feeds.

Anyways, i also searched for the thug of Georgetown and a plastic surgeon, Dr. Stephen Baker. Google is doing a wonderful thing by ranking my post on Page 1 for his name. I just wish i can rank number one for his name so that he can realize why scammers should not mess with webmasters. Pity!

Alright….that’s all the latest i have got on Google. Keep Googling and keep visiting my blog for some more useless stuff

Consider this as a heads up!

I received a payment from TopSeom.com on AllyDirectory for listing of Dr. Stephen Baker’s website. The listing was added on 3rd June 2008 for the price of $24.95. After checking the site i readily approved it. All went fine. As usual, AllyDirectory started ranking for the keyword and for the site’s url as well. So we were very much ahead of our promise to bring traffic to Stephen Baker’s website by ranking higher in Search Engines. I mean that’s what we take the payments for! Traffic and little help in SERPS.

Anyways, days passed and finally on 1st August’2008, i received a chargeback dispute in Paypal. TopSeom and Stephen Baker’s credit card company (Unknown at this time) chargedback the listing’s price even though it’s clearly mentioned in our Terms Of Service that we will not refund any money whatsoever. Still, you know how Paypal works. It stands dumb and deaf in such situation! I explained the whole situation in Paypal’s dispute! But all fell on deaf ears, blind eyes, whatever.

And now 22nd August’2008, you won’t believe what happened. Chargeback was successful. I lost $24.95. If that wasn’t enough, Paypal charged me $10 as a Chargeback Settlement Fee! I mean, What the hell is Paypal doing! I get a listing in my directory. I approve it, work on it for ranking and then the thief TopSeom and Robber Stephen Baker ask for chargeback. And paypal the burglar robs me of $10 as settlement fee.

I would say it’s a nice way Paypal works. It ensures me that we don’t let anyone do chargeback until we investigate. So obviously i believed the m***********. But this is what i finally got from them.

So this is for everyone who owns a directory or is in all praise for paypal or who is looking for marketing and advertising from TopSeom.com or looking for some cosmetic surgery from Dr. Stephen baker……

Paypal Sucks in Chargeback Settlements!

TopSeom are thieves in disguise. Biggest As****** in marketing!

Dr. Stephen Baker: He is not a professional. He is a thief trying unethical and pathetic ways to promote his website. You can well imagine how he will rob you if you get cosmetic surgeries through him. So my advice, DON’T!

I am off to delete this as*****’s listing from my directory. But i am going to attach the proof for all you guys to know what all i do and what i get!