I have decided to end my break and will start blogging regularly again from July 24th. I will close the Poll and will announce the results when I am back.

Keep reading the other articles till then and don’t forget to subscribe to the .

Thank you for your patience

My homepage has been stuck with PR 3 for sometime now. After the recent PageRank update, I found a lot of my pages having PR 5. But the homepage still remained PR 3.

I then contacted my friend Deep, who is good at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and asked him the reason. After he analysed my site he says the problem may be because I am using extra Meta Tags that do not have value now. I removed the extra tags and reported it to Google.

These are the Meta Tags I used











I removed all these tags except the Description and Keywords ones. Deep said that one of this clients also face this same problem and he too has such extra unnecessary Meta tags.

Yesterday my friend Keith Dsouza let me know that https://johntp.com had PR 5 even though johntp.com still has PR 3.

Do you face any such problems with your site’s PageRank?

Continue reading ‘What is wrong with my PageRank?’

You can now start with your Windows Live (MSN) Messenger contacts on Yahoo! Messenger 8 Beta.

To do so sign out of Yahoo! Messenger and sign back in. Then just click the Add a Contact button on your main Yahoo! Messenger window to start inviting your Windows Live Messenger friends to join the fun.

Get Yahoo! Messenger 8 from

Will you use services such as Trillian again?

For those of you who want to have multiple instances of Yahoo! Messenger 8 running in the same time, this is what you need to do

Download and run the ym8multi.reg file from this ZIP archive

For uninstall, download and run the ym8multi_unist.reg file from this ZIP archive

I found the Patch from here

Check here to find out how to remove all unwanted Yahoo! Messenger Ads. It works for the latest version also.

I have put Gabbly Live Chat on johntp.com for use until I am back so that you can talk about anything. Please do not flame anyone or use bad words.

Happy Chatting!

I have put up a Poll (on sidebar) to know on which Category you would like to see more Articles in the future. I will write more articles on the Category that gets the highest Vote.

The categories put for Poll are

• Blogging- Tips on increasing Blog Traffic and Readers and other interesting articles on Blogging
• WordPress- Interesting info about WordPress, it’s Plugins and Themes
• Google- Interesting news about Google
• Tweaks- Various tips on how to tweak Windows, improve startup and shutdown speeds, and other interesting articles that will help you improve your PC’s performance.
• Tutorials- Various useful Tutorials
• Technology- Interesting Technology news
• SEO- Articles on Search Engine Optimization
• Gaming- Interesting Gaming Stuff.
• Internet- Latest happenings on the Internet
• Great Finds- Interesting Findings
• Web Design- Articles on Web Designing, How to create a custom K2 Mod, etc
• Softwares- Info on various useful Softwares

So please start voting on your favorite Category now.

After voting, please come back here and let me know why you voted for that particular Category. Is there any other Category you would like to vote for? Also let me know which all Articles are your favorites.

I am sorry to say that I will not be blogging much till the end of this month. I have a lot of work to do at present and need a short break. But I will be back as soon as I am free with lots of interesting posts for you.

Till then I would like all readers to gather up some courage to say hello. Tell me a bit about yourself- who you are, where you are from and what you do. You may talk about your blog or site if you have one.

Let me know which posts on this blog are your Favorites. Help me improve this blog and make it a better place for you

By introducing yourself you can get to know some of the other readers and you will even get a few hits to your site if you have one

Also I have put up a Poll (on sidebar) so you can vote for your Favorite Category. I will write more Articles matching the Category that gets the highest Votes

I kindly request all readers to participate.

To know when I am back, please

Here are some great tips on how to tweak Windows XP for gaming. I have not tried it, so do not know how effective it is. Please let me know if you try it.

Anyways here are some tips on how to Tweak Windows XP. More tweaks can be found on my Tweaks Category

Happy Tweaking

Chris Garrett has written a good article giving 10 Tips for attracting more comments on your blog. It is a must-read article if you are looking to increase the number of comments on your blog.

Here are some similar articles from this blog that may interest you -

• 10 Ways to Engage Readers on your Blog
• 12 Tips for increasing your Blogs Readers
• How to help your readers
• How to get regular readers -part1

Today I found this blog having over 40 visitors online every minute. After checking my stats I found my referring pages filled with different referral links from the same site -www.website-traffic.cc.

Upon visiting the site, I found that it was a traffic exchange site that I have never heard of nor registered to. The traffic from this site had been pouring for hours and continues even when I write this.

www.website-traffic.cc let’s you visit many sites just the way Blog Explosion let’s you except that they load the next site automatically in less than 10 seconds!

Inshort the traffic from this site is completely useless as the visitors will only be able to stay on your site for less than 10 seconds. What’s the use of such traffic? All this does is waste our site’s bandwidth

Check out a preview here

Has your site received traffic from such sites?