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BY SHANE MELAUGH RICHQUICKREVIEW.COM Backlinks Quick-Start COPYRIGHT 2010 by Shane Melaugh This is a FREE report offered by Shane Melaugh and RichQuickReview.com. This product may NOT be sold. This product may NOT be re-written, modified or changed in any way. This product may NOT be redistributed by anyone but its author and partners who have the explicit permission to redistribute it. IN CASE YOU HAD TO PAY FOR THIS EBOOK PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: email@example.com 1 Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................... 4 Let's Get Real: "Click Here" Case Study ............................................................. 6 Backlinks: What Matters .................................................................................... 8 Amount of Backlinks............................................................................................................... 8 Anchor Text of Backlinks ........................................................................................................ 8 Backlinks Value ....................................................................................................................... 9 Page Rank ......................................................................................................................... 10 The Page Rank Lie ............................................................................................................. 10 Location on Page .............................................................................................................. 11 No-Follow Attribute ............................................................................................................. 11 Source Diversity.................................................................................................................... 11 Link Velocity and Trends ...................................................................................................... 12 One-Way-Links vs. Reciprocal Links ..................................................................................... 12 The Perfect Backlink ............................................................................................................. 13 The Innocent Internet ...................................................................................... 14 Google Standard Answer...................................................................................................... 14 We're All Gaming the System .............................................................................................. 15 How to Build Backlinks ..................................................................................... 17 Link Exchanges .................................................................................................................. 17 Blog Comments................................................................................................................. 18 Article Directories ............................................................................................................. 19 Squidoo/Hubpages/Gather .............................................................................................. 19 Social Bookmarks .............................................................................................................. 19 Forum Signatures.............................................................................................................. 20 RSS Directories .................................................................................................................. 21 Free Blogs ......................................................................................................................... 21 The Big Web 2.0 ................................................................................................................ 22 Backlink Building Strategies ............................................................................. 23 2 Link Wheels .......................................................................................................................... 24 Link Reinforcement .............................................................................................................. 25 Link Pyramids ....................................................................................................................... 25 Link Hubs .............................................................................................................................. 26 Combinations ....................................................................................................................... 27 Closing Words .................................................................................................. 29 More Training Material ........................................................................................................ 29 3 I NTRODUCTION WHAT ARE BACKLINKS AND WHY SHOULD I CARE? What a backlink is depends on your point of view. Let me explain: I'm sure you're familiar with links (a.k.a. "hyperlinks"), the little bits of text or images that connect different web-pages together, online. It also works offline, of course. Links usually look like this, i.e. a few words, highlighted in blue and underscored. A link is a connection from one webpage to another. If you're looking at a link that goes from page A to page B, then that's an "outbound link" from page A. From the perspective of page B, that same link is an "inbound link", i.e. a link from somewhere else pointing to page B. Inbound links are more commonly known as backlinks. To boil it down to a single sentence: A BACKLINK IS A LINK PLACED ON ANOTHER WEB-PAGE, POINTING TO YOUR WEB-PAGE. Backlinks are very essential to many methods for making money online, because backlinks are the most important factor that help Google determine where to rank web-pages. The more backlinks you get, the higher up in the Google results your site will show up. And of course, better Google rankings mean more traffic to your site. Now, I'll go into some more detail on why backlinks are so important a bit later on in the guide. For now, I don't want to bore you with more theory. Instead, let's dive right into the practical part of the guide, so that you can get maximum benefit right away. The examples and subjects covered in the next few chapters will give your "Backlink-IQ" a kickstart and just a few pages from now, you'll know how to get more backlinks to your site, you'll know how to build backlinks for maximum effect and you'll be able to determine exactly what kind of backlinks are worth getting kind of backlinks are not worth wasting your time on. 4 The things you'll learn in this guide have to potential to save you hours of your time and get your sites ranked much more quickly and efficiently. Lacking the basic knowledge covered here can mean that you waste hours pursuing "useless" backlinks and end up frustrated with the lack of results. So, take a bit of time to go through this guide and I'm sure you'll reap great benefits from it. 5 L ET ' S G ET R EAL : "C LICK H ERE " C ASE S TUDY A SIMPLE DEMONSTRATION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF BACKLINKS I believe in learning by doing and learning by examples, so let's check out what is probably the most popular illustration of the importance of backlinks. To see it, go to Google and type "click here" in the search field (without the quotes): The top two results listed are both from Adobe, right? Those two results are the download pages for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash Player. If you go and look at those pages, you'll see that the words "click here" are not featured on either of them. Even if you search through the source-code of those pages, you won't be able to find the words "click here". Think about that for a second: You tell Google that you want to find websites related to the term "click here" and it returns two pages that don't contain those words. What's going on here? Backlinks, that's what's going on. Here's an analysis of the top listed web-pages for the term "click here", (created with Traffic Travis): 6 The numbers in the "BL" column show how many backlinks are pointing to each of the listed results. As you can see, Adobe is dominating here because their pages simply have millions of backlinks. What's more, most of those backlinks have "click here" as their anchor text (more on in this later on), as in: If you aren't seeing this video, make sure you have flash player installed. Click here to get the newest version of Adobe Flash player. The Adobe pages simply outrank everything else related to that search term, because they are getting so many backlinks that it outweighs any other ranking-factor. By the way: You can also see how important on-page SEO is by the fact that clickhere.com makes it to position number three, despite having only about a thousand backlinks. Clickhere.com is getting this rankings boost because it has on-page content relevant to the search term "click here". Still, the example shows that backlinks win, at the end of the day. This is what all the fuss is about, when it comes to backlinks. If you have a website and it's not listed in the top spot for your targeted keyword, then backlinks are what it needs to get there. (And if you're wondering what a targeted keyword is and how to find one, click here to grab my free keyword research training). 7 B ACKLINKS : W HAT M ATTERS Ok, we've established that backlinks are important for getting to the top of Google search results. However, not all backlinks are created equal. There are high-quality backlinks, there are low-quality backlinks and there's everything in between. In this chapter, you'll learn everything about what determines the quality of a backlink. It's hugely important to know about this, since getting low-quality backlinks can be a complete waste of time, while acquiring even just a handful of high-quality backlinks can do wonders for your site's rankings. So, here's what matters, when it comes to backlinks: A MOUNT OF B ACKLINKS Undeniably, the sheer volume of backlinks matters. As a general rule, more backlinks are always better. You'll often read about people being concerned with building backlinks too quickly and getting their site "sandboxed" (i.e. punished by Google and demoted to the very late pages in the search results). Most of these concerns are completely exaggerated. Unless you're using hardcore link-spamming tools, you don't need to worry about building too many links. Doing the usual kind of link-building with articles, social bookmarking and so on, you'll be hard pressed to get a site sandboxed. I've never managed to make it happen, even though I use quite a few automation tools. A NCHOR T EXT OF B ACKLINKS The next really important factor after the amount of backlinks you get is the anchor text. The anchor text is the bit of text that people click on, to follow a link. It's the words used for the link. Google analyses the anchor texts of links pointing to a website and uses that data to determine which keywords to rank it for. Of course, it also looks at the on-page content to decide which keywords to rank a web-page for and, in fact, the on-page factors have the higher priority. However, as the "click here" example demonstrates, anchor text also plays a significant part. 8 As stated above, the reason the Adobe pages rank for the term "click here" is because of this standard reminder that can be found on almost any web-page with flash content: If you aren't seeing this video, make sure you have flash player installed. Click here to get the newest version of Adobe Flash player. And there's an equivalent message often found on pages containing download links for PDF documents. The point is that almost everyone links to the Acrobat Reader and Flash player sites using the anchor text "click here". This use of the anchor texts to determine site content usually makes a lot of sense. After all, if I have a website and I write something like: I just read this great article on Bob's fitness blog… Then it's reasonable to assume that the site I linked to is a blog about fitness and it makes sense to list it among the search results for the keyword "fitness blog". For your own link-building efforts this simply means that, whenever possible, you want to make sure that the anchor texts of the links you build to your sites and pages are descriptive. To make your backlinks look as natural as possible, I recommend using your targeted keyword in about 50% to 60% of your backlinks and mixing in variations of your keyword for the rest of the backlinks. The goal is to have most of the anchor texts closely related to your targeted keyword, but you don't want a "clone army" of identical anchor texts, because that might raise a red flag with search engines (spam!). B ACKLINKS V ALUE There are a few factors that determine the value or "weight" of any given backlink and these factors are: 9 P A G E R A NK Page Rank is an arbitrary score assigned to web-pages by Google. Page Rank (more commonly just called PR) ranges from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best (and rarest) score. In theory, here's how it works: Page Rank is divided up and passed on through the links on a web-page. Each of the pages linked to, receives a small portion of the PR. This means that a page with high PR and a low amount of links on it will pass along a lot of PR while a page with low PR and lots of outbound links will only pass along minimal amounts of PR. Now, most SEO experts will tell you not to worry too much about PR and I agree. Don't sweat it too much. However, it's still a fairly useful way to determine how valuable a backlink from any given web-page is going to be. T H E P A G E R A NK L I E At this point, I need to address something very essential: Note that it's Page Rank, not Site Rank. Each and every web-page has its own PR score. Why am I mentioning this? Because you often see people talking about links and PR value. For example, if someone is offering a link-building service, it will usually be described along the lines of: High-quality PR5 and above backlinks. Theoretically, this would mean that the backlinks built through this service are all placed on pages with PR5 or higher. In reality, however, it usually means that the links are placed on pages that belong to websites that have a PR5 or higher on their homepage. A link from a page with PR5 is something very different than a link from a page, belonging to a PR5 domain, but this is often conveniently overlooked when people talk about the quality of backlinks they have to offer. Admittedly, there is a connection between the PR on a homepage and the PR of every other page on that same site. After all, the homepage likely links to all the other pages and therefore passes on a portion of its PR to the other pages. Arguably, a link from a page on a PR5 domain really is more valuable than a link from a page with a PR1 domain, but still: Calling the former a "PR5 link" is simply incorrect. 10 L OC A T I O N ON P A G E Finally, even the location and context of a link on a page makes a difference. For example, a link that is surrounded by other links has lower value. In other words, if a backlink is coming from a page that consists of a large list of links, your link just being one among many, then this is a very low-value backlink (this valuation rule was introduced to discourage so-called link-farms – sites that contained nothing but tons of links to other sites). It also makes a difference whether a link is part of the main content area of a web-page or whether it's tucked away in a sidebar or footer, somewhere. In terms of location and context, the ideal backlink is part of the main body content of a page, it's the only or one of only a few links on that page and it's surrounded text relevant to your targeted keyword. N O -F OLLOW A TTRIBUTE No-Follow is an attribute that can be added to links. Simply put, it tells Google to discount the link in question. No-Follow was introduced to reduce link-spamming, particularly in blog- comments. The idea is that by removing the SEO value from a link by adding the no-follow tag, it's no longer worth sending out masses of comment-spam. If you run a blog or two, you probably know that this didn't really work out so well. In practice, Google will still check out no-follow links, but they don't transfer Page Rank. In other words, no-follow links can still help get a new site discovered by Google, but they aren't valuable for getting your site to rank in higher positions. No-Follow is something I don't worry about too much, in my link-building. I just look at them as lower-quality links, meaning that I won't invest a ton of time to get a no-follow link, but neither do I go out of my way to avoid them. S OURCE D IVERSITY The next factor to take into consideration isn't concerned with individual links, but rather looks at all of the backlinks going to a particular page. It's important that these links come from different sources. 11 For obvious reasons, a thousand backlinks all coming from one single website are worth far less than a thousand backlinks coming from a thousand different sites. Also, if those one-thousand different sites are all coming from the same IP-Address (i.e. they are all hosted on the same server), then they are less valuable than if they are coming from many different IP-Addresses. In general, diversity is always good. Make sure that your links are coming from different sources with different IP Addresses, different PR levels, different anchor texts etc. L INK V ELOCITY AND T RENDS Another important concept is that of link velocity or link-acceleration. If a site receives tons of backlinks in a very short period of time and then suddenly no further backlinks, it will usually rank very well for a short period of time and then drop in search engine position again. The reason for this is very simple: If a site gets a lot of attention (in the form of backlinks) for only a short period of time, it's probably got something to do with a trend, a fad or a seasonal phenomenon. Since it is Google's goal to deliver the most relevant results possible, it makes sense to show pages while a trend of fad lasts and then demote them when the trend fades and the formerly hot topic goes out of style. Of course, for your marketing efforts, you'll want to get your sites to the top positions and you'll want them to stay there. To ensure that this happens, make sure that you keep a more or less consistent rate in your link-building. It's better to build 10 links a day for 100 days than it is to build 1000 links in a single day. O NE -W AY -L INKS VS . R ECIPROCAL L INKS If two sites are exchanging links back and forth, that is considered as less valuable than if it's a one-way-link from one site to another. This factor is one you don't need to worry too much about. Reciprocal links still count and the majority of the link-building techniques discussed later in this guide produce one-way-links by nature. 12 T HE P ERF ECT B ACKLINK To summarize all of the factors we just discussed, here's what the perfect backlink would look like. The perfect backlink: …has our targeted keyword (or a closely related keyword) as it's anchor-text …is located in the main body content of a page with high PR …is one among only a few links on the same page …is surrounded by text relevant to our site and on a page that covers roughly the same topics as our site …does not have a no-follow tag attached …is not coming from the same site or IP address as lots of other backlinks to our site …and is a one-way-link. Most of the backlinks you will acquire or build will not fulfil all of the above criteria and that's perfectly fine. I'm not suggesting that you should strive to get that perfect backlink. The above list can be looked at as a checklist, of sorts: The more of the criteria a backlink fulfils, the better. 13 T HE I NNOCENT I NTERNET THE CONCEPT BEHIND BACKLINK VALUE Now that we've gone through all of the relevant factors that determine the quality of a backlink, I want to briefly describe the logic behind all of this. Unfortunately, this logic is based on the concept of an "innocent Internet"… The idea is that every link represents a "vote" or a recommendation. This, theoretically, makes sense in many cases. Picture a blogger who uses a technical term that might be unfamiliar to some readers and links it to a Wikipedia-page, explaining the meaning of the term. Obviously, this will only happen if that Wikipedia-page is worth reading and contains a good explanation of the term in question; otherwise, the blogger would look for a different source to link to. In the above scenario, the link can be seen as meaning: If you aren't familiar with this term, check out this page, where you'll find a useful explanation. In this sense, the link represents a recommendation of sorts. And the same goes for most situations where someone links to a video, picture album, facebook-page, blog, funny cartoon or whatever else they happen to have come across and liked. People link to stuff they like, because they want to share it with (read: recommend it to) their friends. The problem is that this system of evaluating websites breaks down as soon as people learn about how it works. As soon as the factors for getting a website ranked are known and there's money involved, people are going to start manipulating (or trying to manipulate) the system in their favour. And on the Internet, there is a lot of money involved… G OOGLE S TANDARD A NSWER Whenever a Google representative is asked any kind of question related to link-building, article marketing or off-page SEO in general, they always give 14 the same answer. It's what I call the "Google Standard Answer" and it goes something like this: You shouldn't worry about building backlinks and instead of submitting content to other sites, you should focus on creating more unique and great content for your own website. Great content on your own site is what will get other webmasters to link to you and it's the best way to eventually get your site ranked well. In other words, the Google representatives are defending the idea of the innocent Internet. While they can't really prohibit anyone from building backlinks, they'd rather you wouldn't. They support the idea of "if you build it, they will come", i.e. just create some great content and the rest will take care of itself. Unfortunately, that's complete hogwash. Yes, if you create genius-level awesome and original content, then you don't need to worry about building backlinks much (example: see The Oatmeal, which is getting almost 5 million unique visitors eight months after its inception). If you don't create genius-level awesome content and happen not to be a viral-marketing badass, then just putting up fresh content and twiddling your thumbs isn't going to get your sites anywhere. Keep this in mind for the next time you see someone claiming "article marketing/guest posting/link-building/content syndication is DEAD!" Maybe they just saw an interview containing the Google Standard Answer and got spooked by it. W E ' RE A LL G AMING THE S YSTEM The entire concept of the innocent internet simply doesn't work. As soon as there's money involved, people will start gaming the system. And technically, almost everything you can do to promote your website is in a grey zone. Even just encouraging people to bookmark your web-pages is a bit like cheating. Why do I mention all this? I simply wanted to illustrate how the website ranking system theoretically works and where it goes awfully wrong. Because of the situation being what it is, link-building is a major part of any kind of 15 website promotion. And don't get discouraged when you hear Google's official statements on the matter. Link-building may be "gaming the system", but it's the only thing that consistently works to get your websites to page one of Google. 16 H OW TO B UILD B ACKLINKS THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF LINK BUILDING Alright, now that we have the theory and the fundamentals out of the way, let's get to the nuts and bolts of link-building. To give a bit of context and enable you to find your own link-building sources, keep the following in mind: Any site that lets you submit/upload your own content is a potential candidate for link-building. Whenever you can submit your content, you can usually also include at least one link. The best places to build links are sites that have do-follow links, high PR and existing traffic streams (i.e. sites that already get a lot of visitors). Below, you find descriptions of the most popular and effective methods for getting backlinks along with a list of resources for each method. L I NK E XC H A N G ES Link exchanges are perhaps the most traditional (and for some weird reason often the most respected) method for link-building. A link exchange basically works like this: You find a website that is a good match for yours – based on the same general topic as yours but not a direct competitor and with similar Page Rank, age and authority as your website. You then contact the owner of this website to ask for a link exchange. You want to strike a deal along the lines of: "I will link to you if you will link to me." Ideally, this is done by getting a third site involved, to avoid reciprocal linking. In other words: "You link to my site A and in exchange I will link to your site from my site B." Since it takes research, negotiation and a lot of time to acquire backlinks like this, it's only worth doing for very valuable links. For anything that isn't a relevant, do-follow, high-PR link with your desired anchor text, negotiating link-exchanges is simply a waste of time. R E S O U RCE S Google Search to find potential link partners SEOQuake or Traffic Travis to analyze the potential link partner's website. 17 B L OG C O M M ENT S This method is very simple: Find some blogs on a related topic to that of your website and leave a few comments on the posts there. Your name in each of the listed comments contains a backlink. Two important pointers, when it comes to blog commenting: 1) Remember that most blogs are no-follow in the comments-sections. 2) Leave relevant, interesting comments. Stuff like "Great post!" will simply end up in the spam-filter. Despite many no-follows, blog commenting can be a good way to generate traffic, since readers will click through to your site if your comments are interesting. To get the most out of blog commenting, you need to make sure that you follow an exact system and schedule. Otherwise, you'll just spend hours aimlessly surfing the blogosphere, getting nothing important done (I speak from experience, here…). R E S O U RCE S Google Search Use the following custom searches to find blogs in your niche: o [niche] blog o [niche] "leave a reply" o [niche] "powered by wordpress" Example for finding blogs in the fitness-niche: The first example will return the most results. The two other examples can help uncover a few more blogs. SEOQuake to detect no-follow/do-follow links. Do-follow blog search engine Do-follow blog directory 18 A R T I C L E D I R EC T OR I ES Article directories typically let you submit articles of 300 words and above and include a "resource box" where you can add one or several links. The articles on article directories are free for re-publishing, so there's a chance your article will be picked up and posted on other sites as well, meaning more backlinks and exposure for you. The best article directories are the very popular ones that attract a lot of traffic, because they can send lots of visitors to your sites directly (given that you find a good topic, good keywords and have a strong call to action). R E S O U RCE S Ezinearticles – the internet's largest, most visited article directory. List of article directories sorted by Page Rank. S QU I D OO /H U B PA G ES /G A T H ER Squidoo, Hubpages and Gather are very similar sites that are something between article directories and blogs. On these sites, you can create articles and include rich media like images, videos, interactive polls and much more. Additionally, you are allowed and encouraged to monetize your articles and the sites offer revenue-sharing (i.e. they get half of the earnings generated by ads on your pages and you get the other half). And of course, you can insert backlinks to your sites in the Squidoo/Hubpages/Gather pages you create. R E S O U RCE S Squidoo Hubpages Gather S OC I A L B O OK M A R K S Social bookmarking sites let you save, tag and describe web-pages you like and want to visit again. They also give you the opportunity to connect with 19 other users, vote on everyone's bookmarks and see the most popular sites and pages. Since every bookmark represents a link, social bookmarking sites also represent a link-building opportunity. Social bookmarks are generally low-value links, but they are quite easy to create in large amounts. R E S O U RCE S IMAutomator for automatic bookmarking Socialmarker to find a few do-follow social bookmarking sites (not very suitable for the actual submissions, though). F OR U M S I G NA T U R ES Almost every forum lets you place a few lines of text, including links, in your signature. The signature shows up with each post you make. Much like with blog comments, signature links aren't only good for boosting your rankings, they are also likely to send you traffic from people clicking through on your links (provided that you write something compelling). I recommend you sign up for one or two forums on the topic of the site you're promoting and post there from time to time. Forums can be great places to get in touch with your customers and potential customers. However, you should also have a fixed schedule for visiting and posting in forums, otherwise you run the risk of wasting hours upon hours just browsing, reading and posting. Also, when you're new to a forum, tread softly. People hate spammers and blatant marketers, so if you join a forum, add a hypey signature and start pushing people to visit your site in every post you make, you'll get banned in no time. So, start out without a signature and just make some relevant posts, maybe ask and answer a few questions. R E S O U RCE S Google Search A search for some related keywords plus "forum" will return more forums than you can shake a stick at, in most niches. 20 You can also try searching for: [niche] "powered by vbulletin" (vBulletin being the most popular forum platform) RSS D I R EC T OR I ES RSS Feeds are a simple way of syndicating content, most commonly used by blogs. Every blog has an RSS feed and if you subscribe to it, you'll automatically get updates sent to your inbox or an RSS reader of your choice, whenever there's a new blog post. That's the original purpose of the RSS feed. However, it can also be used for link-building. All you need to do is grab the feed from your blog (and also the ones in your profile on article directories) and submit them to online RSS directories. There, your feed will get listed, including constantly up-to-date links to your newest blog posts and articles. R E S O U RCE S Your RSS Feeds (get them from your blog, create them with FeedBurner and get them from the article directories you're signed up with). RSS Directories: o http://www.rss-network.com/ o http://www.feednuts.com/feed/submit o http://www.solarwarp.net/submitrss.php o http://www.feedsee.com/submit.html o http://www.millionrss.com/add-my-feed.php o http://www.leighrss.com/rss-add.html o http://www.rssbuffet.com/submit.php o http://www.feedage.com/ o http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp o http://www.rssmotron.com/feed_submission.php o http://www.feedagg.com/ F R E E B L OG S Nowadays, there are more free blogging platforms than you can keep up with. They all let you create free websites in blog format, in some way or another. Free blogs represent a great link-building opportunity since you can add content quite freely (no word-count limitations, no editorial approval process), you can add rich media etc. 21 Keep in mind though, that you don't own the free blogs you create. Make yourself familiar with the terms of use for each platform and keep your postings within the guidelines. For example, WordPress.com is a fantastic free blogging platform, but they don't allow affiliate links. You can use WordPress.com to link to your money- sites, but you can't promote stuff directly on your free WordPress blog. R E S O U RCE S Blogger Blog.com WordPress tumblr Vox Wetpaint Weebly DoodleKit Online HTML Editor for composing your blog-posts T H E B I G W EB 2.0 As mentioned before, there are many different sites that let you submit some kind of content and they usually let you include links, as well. You could build links all day, using different free Web 2.0 properties. However, it wouldn't necessarily be worth your time. That's why it's important to know about how to estimate link-quality, which is what the first part of this guide was all about. If you're looking for link-building opportunities, have a look at go2web20 and search the blogging tag. Then, look through the results and evaluate them by looking at Page Rank and follow-status of the links etc. (use SEOQuake to do this). 22 B ACKLINK B UILDING S TRATEGIES Now that we've learnt everything about backlinks and where to get them, let's take a step back and go through some link building plans. At first glance, it might seem that what you want to do is simply throw every backlink you can get at your main site or at that one page on your site that you want to get ranked. This "strategy-less" link building would result in a backlink profile looking something like this: Your money site or page sits in the middle and you get a bunch of links pointing to it. This is the most straightforward approach, but it has a few fundamental flaws. For one, it's likely that not all of those sites pointing to yours will even get discovered and indexed by search engines. Obviously, so long as they don't get discovered, the links on those pages don't count towards improving your rankings. Another problem is that most of those links have very low value. Finally, there are some limitations that come into play. For example, you can only bookmark any one of your pages once per social bookmarking site (unless you create multiple accounts per site which is time-consuming and against the site's TOS). 23 The following backlinking strategies are all designed to circumvent these problems and give your backlinks more punch. L INK W HEELS Link wheels are probably the most commonly known type of link-building strategy. A link wheel consists of a series of online properties, all linking to your site as well as linking to each other in a daisy-chain fashion. Link-wheels have two things going for them: 1. Each site promotes the next site in line (i.e. provides a backlink to the next site in line), making each one of the sites slightly more authoritative and important. By the same merit, the sites pass Page Rank to each other. This, in turn, means that the links going to your money site get a bit of extra weight and pass more PR. 2. It's very likely that every page and every link in the link wheel will get indexed. A search engine bot finding one of the pages in the wheel will follow both links, one of which will lead to the next link wheel page. There, the bot will find the link to the next page in line etc. until every page is indexed. 24 This second strength of the link wheel is also its greatest weakness. Quite simply, the link wheel is totally artificial (real, organic links would never form a neat wheel like that). We can assume that Google gives more weight to what it considers naturally built links and link wheels are very easy to detect, so I recommend never completing the link-wheel like in the diagram above. Daisy-chaining a few sites together definitely makes sense and can benefit you, but I just recommend leaving one link open. For more information on link wheels, see this video. L INK R EINFORCEMENT Those of you who went through my Money Vine training course already got the scoop on link reinforcement and link pyramids. Link reinforcement is when you build links to your site and then build links to the pages linking to your site. In other words, you "reinforce" a link by building backlinks to the page it sits on, thus increasing its authority and Page Rank. In the example below, we see one simple link with reinforcement through two additional links: By linking to the article, we're effectively making the link from the article to our site more valuable. L INK P YRAMIDS 25 A link pyramid is the concept of link reinforcement taken one step further. To build a link pyramid, you reinforce one backlink with more backlinks, then reinforce those backlinks with even more backlinks and so on. The result might look something like this: The idea here is that you create one really high-value backlink by stacking a lot of other backlinks on top of it, each passing Page Rank and authority down through the pyramid structure. Note: Remember how I said no-follow isn't something you need to worry too much about? Well, this is one of the exceptions. Before you start building a link pyramid, make sure that the page you're building a pyramid on doesn't have the no-follow tag on your backlink. (Use SEOquake to check). L INK H UBS Link hubs are also based on the principle of link reinforcement. Each hub is a group of sites linking to one particular page which contains a backlink to your money site. Link hubs are most commonly used together with massive (automated) link-building. The theory goes like this: If you get a brand-new domain, set up a new site on it and then start blasting massive amounts of backlinks at it, this will look suspicious in the eyes of the search engines. Search engines tend to trust 26 aged, established domains more than new ones. And tons of backlinks popping up for a fresh domain might seem spammy. To avoid that kind of trouble, you just go ahead and blast all of those backlinks at an aged, established domain like an article directory, free blogging platform or other Web 2.0 site. The idea is that, directed at such a site, all of those backlinks won't raise a red flag. Here's what a site with two link-hubs might look like: C OMBINATIONS The strategies described above are all based around similar principles and it's up to you how systematic you want to be about your link-building. Theoretically, all of the strategies can be combined; You could build link-hubs using the pyramid-structure for each of the hubs and then link them all together as a wheel. That's squarely in the territory of "overthinking it", though. Realistically, your backlinks will never be quite as neat and organized as shown in the example diagrams above – and that's a good thing, since a bit of randomness makes a link-network look more natural. It's quite likely that you'll want to combine a few of the strategies. You'll definitely want to have a whole range of simple backlinks, just going from some online property to your site. In addition, you'll want to make use of link-reinforcement, to give your site another boost. Whether you prefer 27 building hubs, wheels, pyramids or a combination of the three is really up to you. The most important thing to take away from all this is that for successful link- building you must make use of the principle of link-reinforcement in one way or another. 28 C LOSING W ORDS Now, all that's left to do is for you to get started with your link-building. This guide has provided you with everything you need to know to get your sites and pages listed for some high-traffic keywords and as you may have noticed, all of the discussed methods are completely free. I highly recommend that you create a system for yourself (also see bonus video nr. 2 on this subject). Create a habit of doing certain link-building activities each and every day. It doesn't have to be a huge chore and you don't have to spend hours on it. 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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Rice Noodles with Tom Yum Dressing
Rice noodles - a handful, cook as per direction, drain and keep aside
Mixed Vegetables - carrots, bell peppers, onion, etc, cut into thin slices
Fresh Shrimp / defrosted Shrimp - a cup
Eggs - 4
Olive Oil - 3 tbsp.
Turmeric - a pinch
Cayenne Pepper - a pinch
Cilantro - a handful, chopped
For Yom Yum Dressing:
Soy Sauce - 2 tsp
Fish sauce - 1 tbsp.
lime Juice / white vinegar - 1 tbsp.
Coconut Palm Sugar / Jaggery - 2 tsp
Garlic Cloves - 4
Ginger - 1 inch
Lemongrass - 2 inch
Red Thai Chilies - 5 or Red Chili Powder - 1 tsp
Keffir leaves - a couple
Cherry Tomatoes - 5 (optional)
Blend everything together to make a smooth paste
In a large pan, add a tbsp. of oil and scramble the eggs. Remove and keep aside. In the same pan, add the fresh shrimp, a little salt, turmeric and cayenne pepper. Cook till the shrimp is done. Keep aside.
Add 1 tbsp. oil and cook the vegetables on high heat till they are done but still crisp. Remove and keep aside.
Add the remaining oil and the tom yum paste. Cook for a few minutes till the raw garlic smell reduces. Now add the cooked noodles, vegetables, shrimp and egg together. Mix well and cook for a minute more.
Sprinkle chopped cilantro on top and serve hot.
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Labels: Thai
Monday, June 29, 2015
Mung Beans Dosa / Mung Beans Savory Crepe
Mung Beans - 2 cups
Grated Ginger - 1 tsp (optional)
Soak green mung beans in plenty of water overnight.
Drain and wash in running water once. Add a little water and grind in a blender to make a smooth paste.
Add salt and mix the batter well with your hands.
Cover with a plastic cling loosely (or make a few holes on the cling) and place the batter inside the oven to ferment for 8 hours.
Remove and mix the batter well. You can add some ginger paste and chopped green chilies to the bather. Heat an iron skillet. Brush with oil and pour a ladle full of the batter. Spread with the back of the ladle. Add a few drops of oil to the edges of the dosa.
Cook till the bottom browns. Flip and cook on the other side till brown and crisp. Serve with sambar and potato curry.
Posted by Madhu at 10:29 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Lentils / Dal, South Indian
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Mung Beans Chaat
Cucumber - 1 small, chopped
Red Onion - 1/2 cup, chopped
Green Chili - 1, finely chopped
Tomato - 1 small, chopped
Boiled Potato - 1 small, chopped (optional)
Cilantro - a handful, chopped
Roasted Unsalted Peanuts - 1/2 cup
Lemon Juice - of 1 whole lemon
Rock Salt - to taste
Aamchur powder / Dry mango powder - 1 tsp (optional)
Tamarind Date Chutney - 2 tbsp.
Sev / Crispy gramflour noodles - 2 tbsp
Mix all the above ingredients together, drizzle some more chutney on top and serve immediately.
Posted by Madhu at 10:21 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Appetizer, Lentils / Dal, Salad
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Chingri Bati Chorchori
Fresh Shrimp - 10 to 20 (depending on the size), peeled and deveined
Potato - 1 big, cut into small cubes
Mustard Oil - 2tsp + 1 tbsp after it is cooked
Yellow Onion - 1 , chopped
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1/2 tsp
Whole Garam Masala - 1 cinnamon, 2 cloves, 1 green cardamom
Ginger and Garlic - 1 tsp (minced)
Water - 2 cups
Cilantro - a handful chopped, for garnishing
You can also add a mix of other vegetables like eggplant, butternut squash, etc and omit the shrimp altogether.
Mix everything together in a pan. Cover with a lid tightly and cook on slow fire till the vegetables are cooked and the gravy is reduced.
Add the remaining mustard oil on top, mix well, sprinkle chopped cilantro and serve hot with steamed rice.
Posted by Madhu at 10:15 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Seafood and Poultry
Monday, April 27, 2015
Instant Chili Pickle
Jalapenos - around 10, remove the stem, wash and dry well
Mustard Oil - 1/4 cup
Mustard Seeds or Paanch Phoron - 1/4 tsp
Rock Salt - 1/2 tsp
Hing / Asafoetida - a pinch
Coarsely Crushed Yellow Mustard and Fenugreek Seeds - 2 tbsp.
Yellow Mustard Powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric - a pinch
Red Chili Powder - 1/4 tsp (optional)
White Vinegar - 3 to 4 tbsp.
Jaggery / Gur - 2 tsp
Cut the jalapenos into thick roundels
Heat mustard oil in a sauce pan. Add the mustard seeds or paanch phoron. Add a pinch of Hing.
Then add the jalapenos, crushed mustard and fenugreek seeds. Cook for a minute.
Add salt, jaggery, red chili powder, turmeric, mustard powder, vinegar and mix well and cook for a minute more.
Remove from heat, cool and transfer to a glass bottle. Store it in the refrigerator.
Adapted from http://kichukhonn.blogspot.com/2015/04/is-teacher.html
Posted by Madhu at 10:34 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Chutney / Spice Mix / Pickle
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Oven Roasted Vegetables
Mixed Vegetables - Any combination of Red onion, White Sweet Potato, Carrots, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Bell Peppers, Brinjal, Butternut Squash, Zucchini, Tomato
Garlic - 3 to 4 cloves, minced
Olive Oil - 2 tbsp.
Dried Herbs - Mix of Thyme, Rosemary, Oregano, Basil or any one of them
Salt & Pepper
Preheat the oven to 400 F.
Dice all the vegetables into pieces that are approximately the same size (no larger than 1/2 inch).
Place the vegetables into a baking dish. Season with salt, pepper, minced garlic and herbs to taste and then pour the olive oil over the vegetables. Mix thoroughly but gently.
Put the dish/tray in the oven and cook for 45 minutes to an hour. Halfway through the cooking process, remove the dish from the oven and very gently stir the vegetables so that the ones at the bottom come to the top.
Towards the end of the cooking process, stir a second time. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly. Check for seasoning and serve.
Posted by Madhu at 11:07 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Vegetable (Mixed)
Sauteed Radish Greens
Red Radish - 1 bunch, with the greens
Oil - 2 tsp
Garlic - 4 cloves, minced
Dried Red Chili - 1
Turmeric - a pinch
Roadted Peanuts - a handful (optional)
Cut away the radish from the bunch. Wash well and grate using a box grater. Keep aside.
Soak the radish greens in a big bowl of water for a couple of minutes to remove sand and dirt. Remove from the bowl and wash under running water. Chop the greens along with the stems and keep aside.
Heat a pan and add the oil. Immediately add the garlic and dried red chili. Once the garlic starts to brown, add the grated radish.
Stir fry on high heat till the radish starts to brown.
Then add the greens, turmeric and salt. Cook for a minute till the greens wilt. Add peanuts, mix well and remove from heat.
Serve hot.
Posted by Madhu at 10:31 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Vegetable (Radish)
Shrimp Biryani
Basmati Rice - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups
Oil - 2 tbsp.
Shahi Jeera / Caraway Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Green Chilies - 3, slit
Vegetables - a mix of potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, cut into 2 inch lengthwise
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1/4 tsp
Yogurt - 1/2 cup
Homemade Biryani Masala - 2 tsp
Fresh Mint Leaves / Pudina / Dried Mint leaves
Shrimp - 15 to 20
Boiled Eggs - 2 (optional)
Red Onion - 1 small, thinly sliced
Roasted Cashewnuts, Golden Raisins or Soaked Almonds - a handful (optional)
Cook the rice with water till done. Do not overcook the rice. Fluff with fork and keep aside to cool down.
Heat a tbsp. of oil in a pan. Add the sliced onion and cook on medium heat till the onion caramelizes.
Heat 1 tsp of oil in a large pan. Add the boiled eggs, a little turmeric, red chili powder and salt. Toss on all sides till the eggs become golden brown. Remove and keep aside. Add the shrimp and cook till done. Remove and set aside.
In the same pan, add some more oil and the shahi jeera. Then add all the vegetables, little turmeric, salt and green chilies. Cook on medium high till the vegetables are almost done.
Beat the yogurt well and add the biryani masala and mint to it. Remove the pan with the vegetables from heat and add the yogurt.
Cook on low heat for a few minutes. Then add the cooked rice and mix well.
Add cooked shrimp and egg and mix together. Sprinkle fried onions and nuts on top and serve hot with cucumber raita/salad.
Posted by Madhu at 7:25 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Brown Rice, One Dish Meal
Raw Papaya Curry with Fresh Coconut
Raw Papaya – half, peeled and cut into small cubes
Potato – 1 small, peeled and cut into cubes (optional)
Water – 2 cups
Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
Red Chili Powder – a pinch
Fresh Coconut – ¼ cup, made into a paste with little water
Coconut Oil – 1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp
Curry Leaves – 4
Green Chili – 3
Place the papaya cubes, potato cubes (if using), water, turmeric, red chili powder and salt in a pot and bring to a boil.
In a small pan, heat coconut oil. Add mustard seeds. Once the seeds begin to pop, add the curry leaves and green chili and pour the oil over the papaya curry.
Adapted from http://malluspice.blogspot.com/2007/12/green-papaya-curry.html
Potato – 1 small, peeled and cut into cubes (optional)
Water – 2 cups
Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
Red Chili Powder – a pinch
Fresh Coconut – ¼ cup, made into a paste with little water
Coconut Oil – 1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp
Curry Leaves – 4
Green Chili – 3
Place the papaya cubes, potato cubes (if using), water, turmeric, red chili powder and salt in a pot and bring to a boil.
Reduce and cook on low heat till the papaya is half cooked. Add the coconut paste and cook till the papaya is soft.
In a small pan, heat coconut oil. Add mustard seeds. Once the seeds begin to pop, add the curry leaves and green chili and pour the oil over the papaya curry.
Adapted from http://malluspice.blogspot.com/2007/12/green-papaya-curry.html
Posted by Madhu at 10:48 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Vegetable (Green Papaya)
Friday, February 20, 2015
Veggie Quinoa with Poached Egg
Quinoa - 1/2 cup
Water - 1 cup
Olive Oil - 1 tbsp.
Garlic - 2 cloves, grated
Ginger - 1 inch - grated
Gren Chili - 2, thinly chopped
Mixed Vegetables - Broccoli, Carrots, Green Beans - chopped into small pieces
Green Peas - a handful
Turmeric - a pinch
Rock Salt
Roasted Peanuts - a handful (optional)
Organic Eggs - 2
Vinegar - 1/2 tsp
Salt and Pepper for the eggs
Place the quinoa in a large sieve and wash it well under running water. Take a saucepan, add a cup of water to the washed quinoa and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat and cook till the water is evaporated. Fluff with a fork and keep aside.
Add water to half fill the saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and add the vinegar. Break an egg in a small container and carefully slide it into the saucepan. Repeat with the other egg. Cook for 4 minutes (for a soft yolk) and remove with a slotted spoon to drain any water. Sprinkle salt and pepper and keep aside.
Heat a large pan and add olive oil, grated ginger, garlic and the green chilies. Saute for a minute.
Then add all the vegetables except frozen peas and mix well. Sprinkle some rock salt and turmeric and cook on medium high heat. When the vegetables are half cooked, add the frozen peas and peanuts. Continue to cook till the vegetables are done but still slightly crunchy.
Mix the quinoa with the vegetables. Serve with a poached egg on top.
Posted by Madhu at 6:42 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Breakfast, Eggs, Healthy Whole Grains, One Dish Meal
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Singapore Noodles
Thin Rice Noodles - a fistful
Olive Oil - 2 tsp
Peanut Oil - 1 tbsp
Garlic - 3 cloves, thinly sliced
Ginger - 1 inch, grated
Yellow Onion - 1/2, thickly chopped
Green Chili - 2, chopped
Thinly Chopped Mixed Vegetables - carrots, green beans, cabbage, capsicum,
Curry Powder - 1/2 tsp
Soy sauce - 1 tbsp.
Fish Sauce - 1 tsp
Organic Eggs - 4
Sriracha Hot Sauce - 1/4 tsp
Shrimp - 1/2 lb along with a sprinkle of turmeric and red chili powder
Boil 4 cups of water to boil in a large pan. Switch off the burner and add the rice noodles. Leave it for a few minutes and strain it out. Separate the strands with a fork and keep aside
Heat a skillet, add a little olive oil and scramble the eggs with a little salt, pepper and hot sauce. Keep aside. Add a couple of tsp of olive oil and the shrimp. Sprinkle a little salt, turmeric and red chili powder. cook for a few minutes till the shrimp is just done. Keep aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon of peanut oil in a wok. Once the oil is very hot, add the chopped garlic, ginger, green chilies and sliced onion. Cook for a minute.
Then add in the vegetables and stir fry on very high heat. Mix half tsp of curry powder. The trick is not to overcook the vegetables, they should remain crunchy. After 3 to 4 minutes, when the vegetables are almost cooked, add the noodles and add a tablespoon of soy sauce and fish sauce and salt to taste.
Add the scrambled eggs and the cooked shrimp. Stir for a bit more time on a high flame so that a few strands of noodles become a bit crunchy. Serve hot.
Posted by Madhu at 6:02 PM No comments: Links to this post
Fish Croquette / Machher Chop
Fresh Trout or Tilapia Fillet - 1 lb (lightly steamed with a little salt and turmeric)
Yukon Gold Potato - 1 (lightly sleamed with the fish fillet), cooled and grated
Red Onion - 1, finely chopped
Garlic - 3, minced
Green Chili - 2, finely chopped
Ginger - 1 inch, grated
Oil - 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric - a pinch
Red Chili Powder - 1/2 tsp
Homemade Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Cilantro - a handful, chopped
Raisins - a handful
Roasted Peanuts - a handful
Lemon Juice - half lemon
Egg - 1
Salt- a pinch
Red Chili powder - a pinch
Whole Wheat Bread Crumbs or Coarse Corn Meal - 1/2 cup
Peanut oil for shallow frying
Heat oil in a pan. Add the minced garlic cloves. Immediately, add the chopped onion and green chilies and cook on medium low heat till the onion gets soft and starts to caramelize. For better taste, this has to be done on low heat and till the onion begins to get brown and slightly crispy. In between, when the onion is half cooked, add the grated ginger.
Now add the mashed potato, mashed steamed fish, salt, sugar, turmeric, red chili powder, garam masala powder and cook on low fire for 5 to 10 minutes till the mixture comes together as a smooth dough. Mix the chopped cilantro, lemon juice, peanuts and raisins and keep aside to cool down.
Heat a cast iron pan and add some oil for shallow frying. Beat the egg with salt and red chili powder.
Take a small ball of mixture, press it a little to form a patty. Dip it in the egg wash, roll in bread crumbs/corn meal and shallow fry till golden brown on both sides. Serve with raw onion, ketchup and mustard sauce.
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Labels: Appetizer, Seafood and Poultry
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Simple Potato Curry with Nigella Seeds / Kalo Jeera diye Alur Tarkari
Yukon Gold Potatoes - 3 big, cut into small cubes
Oil - 1 tbsp.
Nigella Seeds / Kalo Jeera - 1 tsp
Green Chili - 4, chopped
Tomato - 1 small, chopped (optional)
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Water - 3 to 4 cups
Cilantro - a handful
Heat a deep pan. Add oil and the nigella seeds and green chilies.
Then add the cubed potatoes and turmeric. Mix well and cook on medium high for a couple of minutes.
Add chopped tomato, water and salt, cover and cook for around 15 to 20 minutes, till the potato cubes are soft and almost breaking apart and the gravy becomes soupy.
Add chopped cilantro and mix well. Serve hot with luchis/puris/deep fried indian bread.
Posted by Madhu at 11:21 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Breakfast, Vegetable (Potato)
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Pickled Chili Peppers
Red, Green & Yellow Chili Peppers / Jalapenos - 8, cut into thin rounds
Carrot - 1/4, peeled and thinly sliced
Red onion - 1/4, thinly sliced
Rice / White vinegar - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Garlic - 1 clove, peeled and lightly crushed
Sea salt - 1 tbsp.
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Dried oregano - 1/2 tsp
Black peppercorns - 10, lightly crushed
Bay leaf - 1
Add the chilies, carrots, and onions. Cook in the pan for a minute, then cover, remove from heat, and let it stand for 15 minutes.
Pour the mixture into jars, close them, and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Storage: The pickles will keep for at least a month in the refrigerator, and will start to lose kick after that.
Adapted from http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2014/10/pickled-jalapeno-chile-recipe/
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Labels: Chutney / Spice Mix / Pickle
Monday, October 27, 2014
Badam Barfi / Almond Fudge
Blanched Almond Flour - 21/2 cups (I used Honeyville Blanched Almond Flour)
Sugar - 1 cup
Water 3/4 cup
Saffron - a pinch of strands
Ghee - 1 tsp
Roast the almond flour over low heat for around 5 to 10 minutes till it emits a nutty smell.
Mix sugar and water and a few strands of saffron and bring to boil. Once the sugar melts, add the almond flour and mix. (If the sugar syrup is too thick, the barfi becomes brittle and hard)
Continue to mix over low heat for around 7 to 8 minutes till the mixture becomes a soft dough. Do not cook for long as again this will turn the barfis hard.
Transfer it to a ghee greased plate and knead for a couple of minutes using the backside of a small bowl. Apply a little ghee to the back of the bowl also before you start kneading.
Transfer the dough between two parchment paper and roll into desired thickness. Cool for a few minutes and cut to diamond shape.
Cool completely and remove and transfer to an airtight container.
Posted by Madhu at 11:05 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Desserts - Non Milk Based
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Masala Puri with Potato Curry / Deep fried bread with potato curry
For the masala puri:
Whole Wheat Flour - 1 cup
All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Coarsely Ground Black Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1/4 tsp
Coriander Powder - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Ajwain - 1/4 tsp
Oil for Deep Frying
For the potato curry:
Yukon Gold Potatoes - 2 big, cut into cubes
Chana Dal / Split Chick Peas - 1/3 cup, soaked in water for at least an hour
Frozen Green peas - a handful
Mustard Oil - 1 tbsp.
Dried Whole Red Chili - 2
Paanch Phoron / Mix of whole five spices(cumin, mustard, fenugreek, fennel, nigella( - 1 tsp
Hing / Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
Tomato - 1, chopped
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1 tsp
Cumin Powder - 2 tsp
Fennel Powder - 1 tsp
Raw Sugar / Jaggery - 1 tsp
Heat oil in a pressure cooker pan. Add the dried red chili and the whole spices. Then add the hing and sauté for a few seconds till strong aroma of spices come out.
Add the cubed potato and turmeric. Mix well. Then add the soaked chana dal, green peas, salt, red chili powder, cumin & fennel powder, sugar and about 4 cups of water.
Close the lid, bring to full pressure, then reduce and cook for 5 minutes or upto 3 whistles.
Mix the flour together and add the remaining spices and a tsp of oil. Add water little by little to make a soft dough. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for a few minutes. Knead again and make small balls. Flatten & roll them into puris and deep fry both sides in hot oil.
Serve the hot puris with the potato curry.
Adapted from http://riappyayan.blogspot.com/2014/10/masala-puri-runny-potato-curry-kolkata.html
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Chia Cashew Pudding (Raw & Vegan)
Raw Cashew nuts - 1/2 cup
Water - 1.5 cups
Chia Seeds - 4 tsp
Maple Syrup / Honey - 1 tbsp
Pure Vanilla Extract - 1 few drops
Orange Zest - 1/4 tsp (optional)
Mint - for garnishing
Serves two.
Soak the cashew nuts in 1.5 cups water overnight. Blend in vitamix along with the water for a minute. Divide the cashew milk in 2 small serving bowls.
Add 2 tsp chia seeds in each bowl. Add a few drops of vanilla extract, orange zest (if using) and drizzle some maple syrup on top. Reserve the bowls in refrigerator for at least an hour.
Garnish with mint leaves, drizzle some more maple syrup on top and serve chilled.
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Labels: Desserts - Non Milk Based
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Peach Strawberry Almond Smoothie
Slivered Almonds - 1/3 cup
Water - 1 cup
Frozen Banana - 1, (slice a ripe banana and freeze it for a few hours)
Ripe Peaches - 2, pitted and sliced (preferably frozen for a few hours)
Frozen Strawberries - 6
Raw Honey - 2 tsp.
Soak the almonds in water overnight. Blend along with the soaked water in a high speed blender like vitamix till milk like consistency. Do not strain.
Add slices of frozen banana, peaches, strawberries, honey to the almond milk and blend till smooth. Serve immediately. These smoothies are very thick and can be served as a soft serve ice-cream.
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Labels: Drinks
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Pan Seared Halibut with Rosemary Crust
Halibut Fillet - 2 (around 5 oz each, preferably refrigerated overnight to keep the fish firm)
Rock Salt
Flour - 1 tbsp. (APF or use brown rice flour for gluten free option)
Fresh Rosemary Leaves - 1/2 tsp, chopped
Olive Oil - 1 tbsp.
Heat a cast iron pan over medium high heat till it is almost almost smoking hot.
Season the fish with salt and pepper on both sides. Mix the rosemary leaves with the flour. Dust the fillet with the rosemary flour.
Add the olive oil to the smoking pan. Place the fish fillet on the pan, reduce the heat slightly and cook for around 5 minutes till the bottom is brown and crispy. Carefully flip the fillet and cook on the other side for a few minutes more.
Serve hot with lemon wedges.
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Labels: Seafood and Poultry
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Explore the history of Venice among the halls and corridors of the Doges Palace, the heart of one of the worlds oldest republics. Marvel at Saint Mark's Basilica, from its east-meets-west onion dome to its dazzling mosaics. Then climb up to the famous terrace level for a rare birds eye view of St. Marks Square.
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Our Best of Venice Walking Tour and Doges Palace tour is perfect for visitors with only a limited time in Venice, who want to get a true taste of the city. In just a few hours we take you to the most famous sites of the city, seeing the Rialto Bridge and venturing inside St, Marks Basilica and the Doges Palace. Well also visit some quieter spots among the winding streets and piazzas of Venice, where you can get a feel for what it is to live in this floating city.
Our tour starts at one of Venices must-see sights, the Rialto Bridge. Then its through the winding streets and over the tiny bridges of Venice as we delve into the heart of the city. Accompanied by an expert, English-speaking guide, youll visit Marco Polos house and hear about the Venetian son who went to sea one day and came back with stories of China. Learn about the history of culture of Venice, from its beginning as an uninhabitable marsh, to one of the worlds most popular visitor destinations. As you walk, youll encounter the lively piazzas of Campo SS Giovanni e Paolo and Campo Santa Maria Formosa, where Byzantine influences, Renaissance buildings and modern structures tell the eclectic story of the citys development.
Next we pass the Bridge of Sighs before coming to the heart of Venice St. Marks Square, once pronounced the finest drawing room in all of Europe by Napoleon. With Skip the Line Access well get straight inside St. Marks Basilica, saving precious vacation time that would otherwise have been wasted in line. Marvel at the diversity of Venetian culture, where eastern architecture and western design have blended to create a structure with an onion dome, before following your guide through the beautiful frescoes inside the basilica.
Special access means well steal some extra time inside the basilica when we climb up to the first floor terraces. Rarely included on guided tours, the terraces offer beautiful views over the piazza, photo opportunities and some down time to soak up everything you have learned on your walking tour.
One of the highlights of our tour comes at the end when we visit the Doges Palace. Once home to the Duke of Venice and the citys courts, it is the center of Venetian history and as one of the worlds oldest republics, thats quite a history. Well explore all the best sights of the palace open to the public, from spectacular works produced on demand by artistic masters Tintoretto and Veronese, to the evidence of the genius checks and balances that made the republic so successful. With your guide on hand to lead you through the most important rooms, to explain magnificent frescoes and to tell you the tales behind every nook and cranny, your visit to the Doges Palace will be the perfect way to wrap up your tour through the history and culture of Venice. Small group sizes of 20 people or less and headsets on group tours means your tour will be intimate and your guide easy to hear and interact with. Join us for an introduction to Venice, that shows you the very best of the Floating City.
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We've seen some interesting developments out of Small-Cap stocks over the last week. On Thursday we mentioned that the S&P Small-Cap 600 Index had closed at all-time highs, along with the S&P Mid-Cap 400. This is definitely a time where we'd expect the little guys to outperform, as the January Effect is in session. As we've discussed, there is the tendency for small-caps to outperform large-caps towards the end of the year and beginning of the next. So it should come as no surprise that the Russell2000 Small-Cap Index ($RUT) was also able to reach record highs last week.
But I think that the chart of the week has to be the breakout in the Russell2000 relative to the S&P500. As we can see, after 18 months of underperformance, the small-caps are finally breaking out against their larger-cap counterparts. The area chart at the top represents the S&P500. The bar chart shows the Russell 2000 with a the blue line chart for the $RUT / $SPX ratio:
"Given the tendency for small cap stocks to act as leaders for large caps on the upside, yesterday's bullish breakout is an encouraging sign for the rest of the market" – John Murphy Jan 5, 2013
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BONITA SPRINGS - State Rep. Trudi Williams hasn't tapped into her campaign account with much frequency so far in her re-election bid and her opponent, Stephen Cosgrove, has had to loan himself money to spread the word about his quest to unseat the incumbent.
Williams, R-Fort Myers, who represents District 75 encompassing South Fort Myers, Bonita Springs and the Naples Park area, has raised $76,980 and has spent $16,041 so far, her latest campaign report shows.
Cosgrove, who is a Republican but is running without party affiliation, has brought in $1,600 in contributions and loaned himself $11,400, campaign reports show. He has spent $10,635 to date.
Williams, 57, who has served in the House since 2004, said the top issue for state lawmakers is the budget.
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Cosgrove, 47, says tax policy reform and eliminating government red tape are critical issues to address to help get the economy get back on track.
Cosgrove, who served as a Korean translator in the U.S. Air Force and today is a speech pathologist with the Collier County School District, said Williams is a political insider in Tallahassee and among the incumbents who aren't listening to the needs of voters.
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Author Notes: Easy preparation. Blackberries and Rasberires pie with sour cream. —Hidemi
Serves 4-6
- 1 crust Refrigerated Pie Crust (14.1 oz)
- 1 cup Sour Cream
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- dashes Salt
- 1 cup Blackberry
- 1 cup Raspberry
- 1/2 cup Water
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 tablespoon Corn Starch
- 1 tablespoon Water
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Unroll the pie crust and place it in ungreased 9 inch pie pan.
- Make sour cream filling. In a bowl, combine 1 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup of sugar, 2 eggs and dash salt. Mix well. Then pour into the crust. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
- In the mean time, make berry filling. In a sauce pan, put 1/2 cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of water. Heat over medium heat. When sugar is melted, add blackberry and raspberry and cook for 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl, combine 1 tablespoon of corn starch and 1 tablespoon of water. Mix well. Then add to the sauce pan. Simmer until thickens. Let cool.
- When the sour cream filling is done, pour the berry filling on the sour cream filling. Chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or until served.
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almost 4 years ago Hidemi
Thank you very much for such a encouraging and sweet comments!
almost 4 years ago Hidemi
Thank you very much! It is sooooooo good! :)
almost 4 years ago Sagegreen
I love your use of sour cream!
about 4 years ago lapadia
I can attest to using sour cream in this recipe, for years I have added a sour cream topping layer over my cheescake (without eggs)...it is delicious,and I am sure this recipe is too!
about 4 years ago Cucina Chiaravalloti
I am intrigued by the sour cream custard pie that underlies this recipe. What a valuable technique. It could be adapted to many fruit fillings.