Most popular blogs have a number of blog design elements in common. Read on to learn about ten of the most important blog design elements your blog must have in order to have a chance at success!
Thứ Hai, 31 tháng 12, 2012
How to Install the Google Analytics Code Into Your Website
This article will give you a step by step guide on how to install your Google Analytics code into your website in cPanel.
Google Analytics is a free software that provides detailed tracking of traffic to your website.
1) Copy your Google Analytics code (to find out how to do this, click HERE)
2) Sign into your cPanel account
3) Go to Files and open File Manager
4) Go to your public_html folder
5) Find and select the page that you wish to track. The code needs to be placed in every page that you wish to track. For this example, the code will be placed into the index.html file.
6) With the file selected, click Edit
7) Paste your Google Analytics code on the lines before </body>
8 ) Click Save Changes
9) You will then get a confirmation page that your changes have been saved
This concludes how to install your Google Analytics code into your website in cPanel
Source http://blog.arvixe.com/how-to-install-the-google-analytics-code-into-your-website/
How to Install the Google Analytics Code Into Your Website
Google Analytics is a free software that provides detailed tracking of traffic to your website.
1) Copy your Google Analytics code (to find out how to do this, click HERE)
2) Sign into your cPanel account
3) Go to Files and open File Manager
4) Go to your public_html folder
5) Find and select the page that you wish to track. The code needs to be placed in every page that you wish to track. For this example, the code will be placed into the index.html file.
6) With the file selected, click Edit
7) Paste your Google Analytics code on the lines before </body>
8 ) Click Save Changes
9) You will then get a confirmation page that your changes have been saved
This concludes how to install your Google Analytics code into your website in cPanel
Source http://blog.arvixe.com/how-to-install-the-google-analytics-code-into-your-website/
How to Install the Google Analytics Code Into Your Website
Thứ Bảy, 29 tháng 12, 2012
Social Media and Big Data: What a Perfect Match
While social media provides a platform for brand awareness and social interaction that can easily be seen, quantifying the actual value social media marketing brings to a business can be particularly hard. Online marketers love to measure, compare and contrast data – data that can tell us exactly which marketing techniques are working as well as those that aren’t. But how do we measure what social media is really doing and how can we use the vast amounts of data it holds?
A great example of using data to measure the success rate of a marketing strategy is something like PPC. We can set up a pay per click campaign and measure exactly how much we’re spending and how much we’re getting in return using Google Analytics and AdWords. We can use tons of data to learn, change, and improve – what a perfect world for online marketing. New ways to obtain data are always being introduced – data which analysts can’t wait to get their hands on. These examples can be seen all around us such as the increasing use of heatmaps, split testing, and even schemes that ask the customer to provide their data so we don’t have to run round finding it out ourselves.
So what happens when it comes to problematic things like social media? Just like TV adverts, we know roughly how many people are watching, we know where and when we’re showing our brand and products, but how does traffic flow from the point at which they see our brand to the point at which they make an online purchase, or sign up to our newsletter? These questions might be answered with some careful analysis but, more importantly, big data allows us to interpret what is actually going on inside social media networks, converting useless social noise into shiny looking graphs and charts.
Big data is the big answer to social media marketing and its problems. Twitter and Facebook provide wave upon wave of priceless, contemporary data that, if analyzed effectively, could answer questions so many businesses are dying to know. News organizations have the ability to determine the most popular and most talked about news stories just by analyzing tweets and posts. In the private sector there’s similar enthusiasm for the combination of social media and big data. New product launches, product release news, or company hiccups; we can now see what everyone thinks. This might be the use of sentiment analysis to let you know whether the product you are about to launch is going to be a success or a failure that you need to avoid.
We can now start predicting the future with social media; just take the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest; we already knew Sweden had won while their song was being performed. Real time analysis of tweet rate and sentiment showed us a huge spike in activity as Sweden performed, along with positive attitudes within a high proportion of tweets. This simple analysis of tweet activity can enable us to make predictions we could never have dreamed of just five years ago.
Another area with high potential involves, tweet analysis on a certain topic or conversation while analyzing those ‘top tweeters’ with real influence and power. If we can identify the interrelations between tweeters, we can determine who has power, who is likely to virally spread content and who is of real value to target and engage with. We have potential to measure theoretically how many people are exposed to a certain message through analyzing the complex way in which a message spreads throughout the Twitter network.
It is worth bearing in mind that in these early stages, interpreting human speech and interaction and turning it into data on a mass scale comes with its dangers. While we can use things such as sentiment analysis to extract subjective information from millions of tweets, the analysis algorithms have a particularly hard job getting things right. Even humans cannot always agree on the sentiment of certain bits of texts, highlighting the problems a mere machine could have in comparison. Varying languages and cultural factors, not to mention context, make turning thousands of conversations into accurate data particularly problematic.
This ability to obtain quantitative data from social media enables us to not only predict the future and give invaluable insights into success rates of products or events, but also allows us to establish some real idea of what social media is doing through using hard data which can be easily presented or used to carry out further analysis. Social Media and Big Data are perhaps a perfect match, a match that could change the face of online marketing along with the ability to drastically improve our knowledge and customer relations.
George Stevens, Post from: SiteProNews
Social Media and Big Data: What a Perfect Match
A great example of using data to measure the success rate of a marketing strategy is something like PPC. We can set up a pay per click campaign and measure exactly how much we’re spending and how much we’re getting in return using Google Analytics and AdWords. We can use tons of data to learn, change, and improve – what a perfect world for online marketing. New ways to obtain data are always being introduced – data which analysts can’t wait to get their hands on. These examples can be seen all around us such as the increasing use of heatmaps, split testing, and even schemes that ask the customer to provide their data so we don’t have to run round finding it out ourselves.
So what happens when it comes to problematic things like social media? Just like TV adverts, we know roughly how many people are watching, we know where and when we’re showing our brand and products, but how does traffic flow from the point at which they see our brand to the point at which they make an online purchase, or sign up to our newsletter? These questions might be answered with some careful analysis but, more importantly, big data allows us to interpret what is actually going on inside social media networks, converting useless social noise into shiny looking graphs and charts.
Big data is the big answer to social media marketing and its problems. Twitter and Facebook provide wave upon wave of priceless, contemporary data that, if analyzed effectively, could answer questions so many businesses are dying to know. News organizations have the ability to determine the most popular and most talked about news stories just by analyzing tweets and posts. In the private sector there’s similar enthusiasm for the combination of social media and big data. New product launches, product release news, or company hiccups; we can now see what everyone thinks. This might be the use of sentiment analysis to let you know whether the product you are about to launch is going to be a success or a failure that you need to avoid.
We can now start predicting the future with social media; just take the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest; we already knew Sweden had won while their song was being performed. Real time analysis of tweet rate and sentiment showed us a huge spike in activity as Sweden performed, along with positive attitudes within a high proportion of tweets. This simple analysis of tweet activity can enable us to make predictions we could never have dreamed of just five years ago.
Another area with high potential involves, tweet analysis on a certain topic or conversation while analyzing those ‘top tweeters’ with real influence and power. If we can identify the interrelations between tweeters, we can determine who has power, who is likely to virally spread content and who is of real value to target and engage with. We have potential to measure theoretically how many people are exposed to a certain message through analyzing the complex way in which a message spreads throughout the Twitter network.
It is worth bearing in mind that in these early stages, interpreting human speech and interaction and turning it into data on a mass scale comes with its dangers. While we can use things such as sentiment analysis to extract subjective information from millions of tweets, the analysis algorithms have a particularly hard job getting things right. Even humans cannot always agree on the sentiment of certain bits of texts, highlighting the problems a mere machine could have in comparison. Varying languages and cultural factors, not to mention context, make turning thousands of conversations into accurate data particularly problematic.
This ability to obtain quantitative data from social media enables us to not only predict the future and give invaluable insights into success rates of products or events, but also allows us to establish some real idea of what social media is doing through using hard data which can be easily presented or used to carry out further analysis. Social Media and Big Data are perhaps a perfect match, a match that could change the face of online marketing along with the ability to drastically improve our knowledge and customer relations.
George Stevens, Post from: SiteProNews
Social Media and Big Data: What a Perfect Match
Head in the Clouds? Computing Out of its Mind
Earlier this year, Steve Wozniak spoke about the newest darling in the IT industry: cloud computing. The engineering mind behind the first Apple computers spoke openly about his concerns for cloud computing during a recent public appearance.
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”
He added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.”
He is referring to the huge terms and conditions documents computer users must agree with when accessing a cloud service.
“I want to feel that I own things,” Wozniak said. “A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the Web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”
Some argue cloud computing is a reaction to music and film privacy because it overcomes the need for people to own files, thus eliminating their desire to BitTorrent or reproduce copyrighted content.
Take a look at Spotify and its worldwide popularity with more than 20 million users. Spotify founder and creator, David Ek, has publicly stated that Spotify is a reaction to piracy.
“I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services,” Ek said in an interview with ABC News.
“I decided I wanted to create a product that was better than piracy.”
Ultimately, Ek said his goal is clear: “For us it is about getting it out to more people. We launched in the U.S. one year ago. We want to bring music to every single person and bring it to every moment of their life.”
It’s ambitious stuff from the tech pioneer, but it supports the ‘fair access fair price’ argument that Internet evangelists and content pirates have been belting out at the top of their lungs for years.
Though it does need to be examined, what happens when we no longer own our files?
Apple’s iCloud service has struck out the need for audio content on iOS devices when paired with their iTunes Match service.
With even the quickest glance at the GUI of iTunes 11, it’s design clearly encourages iTunes Match usage over loading your own content onto iOS devices. Sure, it’s easy to see the improvements of accessing your content across multiple devices and saving storage space, but obstructing content management in exchange for pushing cloud services?
I think there’s some bad Apples in this cart.
Looking at cloud computing services more broadly, the service presents huge problems with user authentication and digital certificates not exactly reaching the end game on privacy and data protection. The potential for malicious access and harvest of personal data is scary, especially when vendors lease a server from another service provider.
Rather than acquire new servers, a cloud vendor can take leases out on servers as a more cost-effective and flexible solution. This creates vulnerabilities that could result in customer data theft, a worrying prospect for anyone using cloud services for business sensitive data.
If the vendor lost access to the servers for whatever reason, the users have lost access too, a potentially catastrophic situation for customers and vendors alike.
Cloud computing also presents a range of regulatory challenges for Australian consumers.
At the Global Access Partners Workshop on Cloud Computing, Deputy Chairman of the ACCC Peter Kell, detailed its efforts in consumer protections from unfair cloud service agreements. The presentation detailed potentially anti-competitive contract terms, protection from data use in marketing and advertising practices and complaints resolution.
“The ACCC will be closely watching key areas of interest as cloud computing becomes more widespread. The ACCC’s aim in consumer protection regulation is to ensure that consumers can benefit from innovation and competition through minimizing the impact of market failures, information problems and rogue traders,” said Kell.
When stored on a cloud, personal data can be used to gain marketing insights to inform campaigns. This is because cloud computing blurs the definition of ‘personal data’ so much that arguing ownership would be nearly impossible.
It’s a slippery concept so let me explain: Let’s say you put your couch into storage. A month later when you come to collect your couch, you find it sitting in their reception area. When you ask why your couch has been supporting anonymous butts in their waiting room for the past month, they throw a service agreement in front of you stating they have access and usage for the agreement period. You’d be furious, if not a little creeped out.
Would you let the company holding your belongings rent it out to other people? Perhaps furnish their own homes? Do we own a couch in the same way we own our personal data? It’s important we start asking these questions before our loss of data ownership becomes legally enshrined in service agreements.
As our personal data becomes more valuable in a digital age, we must start taking the right measures and protecting our data from abuse. New technology brings new regulatory challenges that find themselves in unknown territory. Keeping yourself informed and up-to-date on these emerging issues is the first step in protecting your business or personal data.
Article by Belinda Darling. Post from: SiteProNews
Head in the Clouds? Computing Out of its Mind
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”
He added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.”
He is referring to the huge terms and conditions documents computer users must agree with when accessing a cloud service.
“I want to feel that I own things,” Wozniak said. “A lot of people feel, ‘Oh, everything is really on my computer,’ but I say the more we transfer everything onto the Web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”
Some argue cloud computing is a reaction to music and film privacy because it overcomes the need for people to own files, thus eliminating their desire to BitTorrent or reproduce copyrighted content.
Take a look at Spotify and its worldwide popularity with more than 20 million users. Spotify founder and creator, David Ek, has publicly stated that Spotify is a reaction to piracy.
“I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services,” Ek said in an interview with ABC News.
“I decided I wanted to create a product that was better than piracy.”
Ultimately, Ek said his goal is clear: “For us it is about getting it out to more people. We launched in the U.S. one year ago. We want to bring music to every single person and bring it to every moment of their life.”
It’s ambitious stuff from the tech pioneer, but it supports the ‘fair access fair price’ argument that Internet evangelists and content pirates have been belting out at the top of their lungs for years.
Though it does need to be examined, what happens when we no longer own our files?
Apple’s iCloud service has struck out the need for audio content on iOS devices when paired with their iTunes Match service.
With even the quickest glance at the GUI of iTunes 11, it’s design clearly encourages iTunes Match usage over loading your own content onto iOS devices. Sure, it’s easy to see the improvements of accessing your content across multiple devices and saving storage space, but obstructing content management in exchange for pushing cloud services?
I think there’s some bad Apples in this cart.
Looking at cloud computing services more broadly, the service presents huge problems with user authentication and digital certificates not exactly reaching the end game on privacy and data protection. The potential for malicious access and harvest of personal data is scary, especially when vendors lease a server from another service provider.
Rather than acquire new servers, a cloud vendor can take leases out on servers as a more cost-effective and flexible solution. This creates vulnerabilities that could result in customer data theft, a worrying prospect for anyone using cloud services for business sensitive data.
If the vendor lost access to the servers for whatever reason, the users have lost access too, a potentially catastrophic situation for customers and vendors alike.
Cloud computing also presents a range of regulatory challenges for Australian consumers.
At the Global Access Partners Workshop on Cloud Computing, Deputy Chairman of the ACCC Peter Kell, detailed its efforts in consumer protections from unfair cloud service agreements. The presentation detailed potentially anti-competitive contract terms, protection from data use in marketing and advertising practices and complaints resolution.
“The ACCC will be closely watching key areas of interest as cloud computing becomes more widespread. The ACCC’s aim in consumer protection regulation is to ensure that consumers can benefit from innovation and competition through minimizing the impact of market failures, information problems and rogue traders,” said Kell.
When stored on a cloud, personal data can be used to gain marketing insights to inform campaigns. This is because cloud computing blurs the definition of ‘personal data’ so much that arguing ownership would be nearly impossible.
It’s a slippery concept so let me explain: Let’s say you put your couch into storage. A month later when you come to collect your couch, you find it sitting in their reception area. When you ask why your couch has been supporting anonymous butts in their waiting room for the past month, they throw a service agreement in front of you stating they have access and usage for the agreement period. You’d be furious, if not a little creeped out.
Would you let the company holding your belongings rent it out to other people? Perhaps furnish their own homes? Do we own a couch in the same way we own our personal data? It’s important we start asking these questions before our loss of data ownership becomes legally enshrined in service agreements.
As our personal data becomes more valuable in a digital age, we must start taking the right measures and protecting our data from abuse. New technology brings new regulatory challenges that find themselves in unknown territory. Keeping yourself informed and up-to-date on these emerging issues is the first step in protecting your business or personal data.
Article by Belinda Darling. Post from: SiteProNews
Head in the Clouds? Computing Out of its Mind
Thứ Năm, 27 tháng 12, 2012
Three Entrepreneurs That Went All-in with Guest Posting and Won
In 2012, Google made it clear that automated directory requests and spun articles spread across thousands of blogs and article receptacles wouldn’t cut it as a sign of quality any longer. Content publishers must make a conscious decision: Adapt and prosper or keep spinning Ezine articles and remain in obscurity forever.
The prior sounds like the more desirable choice to me.
But how does one adapt? One way is to finally start producing content worth being published on websites with a real audience. One of the most straightforward ways to do that: Guest posting on high-quality blogs.
In this article, we will examine three entrepreneurs that went all-in with their guest posting efforts – and it paid off with enormous amounts of traffic and business success. Familiarize yourself with their stories and duplicate their actions to achieve similar success with your own website.
Entrepreneur No. 1
Leo Widrich is the cofounder of BufferApp.com, a popular social media tool that enables users to pre-schedule updates on networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. But when Widrich first released BufferApp, no one knew about the tool or what it did. You might be able to relate to this situation with your own website.
To spread the word about his tool, Widrich went on an extremely ambitious guest blogging campaign in which he wrote about 150 posts over nine months. Initially, his results were paltry. Some posts sent a measly two to three visits to his website. However, through consistent posting across different websites, the results gradually increased.
Over a period of nine months Widrich worked to get his content published on more popular blogs. He also tracked, which websites sent him the most traffic by using analytics. The net result of his efforts after 150 guest posts: 100,000 new users according to this report from SearchEngineWatch.com .
Interestingly, our next entrepreneur followed almost the same type of aggressive guest posting.
Entrepreneur No. 2
Joseph O. of GuestBloggingTactics.com turned his success driving traffic through guest posting into a business. Joseph O. applied a similar strategy of high-velocity guest posting where he would, at times, have more than 30 guest posts published in just one month.
After one year, Joseph estimates his website received more than 120,000 visits, referred to his website through search engines alone due to the ranking as a direct result of guest posting. No other promotional tactics were employed.
Similar to BufferApp.com’s cofounder Leo Widrich, Joseph O. attributes consistency with guest posting as a key to his success. You won’t begin to realize these results overnight. But if you keep your head down and stay focused there will be a payoff.
Entrepreneur No. 3
If you follow the SEO industry closely, you’re already familiar with Anne Smarty, founder of <a href="”>MyBlogGuest.com, a community that connects blogs with guest posters. Anne Smarty was a longtime contributor to numerous authority websites before launching her own guest blogging community.
Today, MyBlogGuest.com is one of the top 3,000 most visited websites, according to Alexa.com . As awareness of the effectiveness of guest posting continues to grow, so will this website’s user base. Not surprisingly, Smarty continues to publish content regularly across industry blogs and websites in part to promote her community and personal brand.
What You Can Learn From Each of These Entrepreneurs
While each of these entrepreneurs employed a similar strategy to generate buzz for their projects, it’s important to note some of the nuanced similarities of their stories:
• No Cutting Corners – Each of these entrepreneurs wrote high-quality content to submit to real blogs. None of them tried to game the system by publishing re-spun or regurgitated articles to blog networks or article directories. Quality matters.
• Consistency – Both Leo Widrich and Joseph O. specifically mention they received very little traffic when they began guest posting. Only after contributing content to dozens of websites did they begin seeing results. Consistency is critical.
• Have a Goal – Guest posting alone does not create a successful business. Widrich, Joseph O., and Smarty each direct users to real websites that help folks solve a specific problem. This is a critical point to remember. Consistent guest posting can send loads of traffic to your website when done right, but you’ve got to have something of real substance to turn those visitors into users and customers.
Things to Consider Before Getting Started
Like any form of link building, you shouldn’t get too leveraged to using one tactic. If Google decided to devalue websites with a high percentage of links from guest posts your website could be negatively impacted. The best practice is to continue acquiring links naturally by producing link-worthy content, participating in social media, and yes… even submit your website to a few directories to increase your overall link diversity. Guest posting should only be one way of increasing the traffic and authority of a website.
Brett Lindenberg, Post from: SiteProNews
Three Entrepreneurs That Went All-in with Guest Posting and Won
The prior sounds like the more desirable choice to me.
But how does one adapt? One way is to finally start producing content worth being published on websites with a real audience. One of the most straightforward ways to do that: Guest posting on high-quality blogs.
In this article, we will examine three entrepreneurs that went all-in with their guest posting efforts – and it paid off with enormous amounts of traffic and business success. Familiarize yourself with their stories and duplicate their actions to achieve similar success with your own website.
Entrepreneur No. 1
Leo Widrich is the cofounder of BufferApp.com, a popular social media tool that enables users to pre-schedule updates on networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. But when Widrich first released BufferApp, no one knew about the tool or what it did. You might be able to relate to this situation with your own website.
To spread the word about his tool, Widrich went on an extremely ambitious guest blogging campaign in which he wrote about 150 posts over nine months. Initially, his results were paltry. Some posts sent a measly two to three visits to his website. However, through consistent posting across different websites, the results gradually increased.
Over a period of nine months Widrich worked to get his content published on more popular blogs. He also tracked, which websites sent him the most traffic by using analytics. The net result of his efforts after 150 guest posts: 100,000 new users according to this report from SearchEngineWatch.com .
Interestingly, our next entrepreneur followed almost the same type of aggressive guest posting.
Entrepreneur No. 2
Joseph O. of GuestBloggingTactics.com turned his success driving traffic through guest posting into a business. Joseph O. applied a similar strategy of high-velocity guest posting where he would, at times, have more than 30 guest posts published in just one month.
After one year, Joseph estimates his website received more than 120,000 visits, referred to his website through search engines alone due to the ranking as a direct result of guest posting. No other promotional tactics were employed.
Similar to BufferApp.com’s cofounder Leo Widrich, Joseph O. attributes consistency with guest posting as a key to his success. You won’t begin to realize these results overnight. But if you keep your head down and stay focused there will be a payoff.
Entrepreneur No. 3
If you follow the SEO industry closely, you’re already familiar with Anne Smarty, founder of <a href="”>MyBlogGuest.com, a community that connects blogs with guest posters. Anne Smarty was a longtime contributor to numerous authority websites before launching her own guest blogging community.
Today, MyBlogGuest.com is one of the top 3,000 most visited websites, according to Alexa.com . As awareness of the effectiveness of guest posting continues to grow, so will this website’s user base. Not surprisingly, Smarty continues to publish content regularly across industry blogs and websites in part to promote her community and personal brand.
What You Can Learn From Each of These Entrepreneurs
While each of these entrepreneurs employed a similar strategy to generate buzz for their projects, it’s important to note some of the nuanced similarities of their stories:
• No Cutting Corners – Each of these entrepreneurs wrote high-quality content to submit to real blogs. None of them tried to game the system by publishing re-spun or regurgitated articles to blog networks or article directories. Quality matters.
• Consistency – Both Leo Widrich and Joseph O. specifically mention they received very little traffic when they began guest posting. Only after contributing content to dozens of websites did they begin seeing results. Consistency is critical.
• Have a Goal – Guest posting alone does not create a successful business. Widrich, Joseph O., and Smarty each direct users to real websites that help folks solve a specific problem. This is a critical point to remember. Consistent guest posting can send loads of traffic to your website when done right, but you’ve got to have something of real substance to turn those visitors into users and customers.
Things to Consider Before Getting Started
Like any form of link building, you shouldn’t get too leveraged to using one tactic. If Google decided to devalue websites with a high percentage of links from guest posts your website could be negatively impacted. The best practice is to continue acquiring links naturally by producing link-worthy content, participating in social media, and yes… even submit your website to a few directories to increase your overall link diversity. Guest posting should only be one way of increasing the traffic and authority of a website.
Brett Lindenberg, Post from: SiteProNews
Three Entrepreneurs That Went All-in with Guest Posting and Won
Higher Google Results for Your Personal Brand
At one point or another, most of us have tried to Google our brand. Chances are, the results were less than pleasing. This makes sense considering there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people out there trying to promote their own unique brands with the help of search engines. Fortunately, there are ways to create results to make your brand appear higher in Google’s search results. Here is a guide on how to implement them:
Understand Google’s Power
To start things off, it is important to understand the kind of power Google has and how people see you through it. It should be said that every single day, more than one billion names or brands are searched on Google by people world-wide. Another interesting fact: about 94 percent of people who use Google search don’t go beyond the first page of results. This means, if you are to make it with the help of search engine rankings, you will have to dominate on the first page.
Dominating the first page is easier than it sounds, considering only two percent of people actually own the first page of Google; only 50 percent own their first result, a quarter of pages have absolutely no positive content whatsoever and 15 percent of page one Google results have at least one negative result that lowers their reputation. In other words, many first pages are still up for the taking within Google search rankings.
Which Networks
So how exactly should you increase your reputation? Well, social media profiles are an excellent way to do that, especially with Facebook having just reached the billion-user mark recently. Not all profiles will give you the same kind of boost. For starters, the most beneficial one is LinkedIn, ranking higher than all other networks and website builders. You can also use Facebook and Twitter as they have a large number of users themselves. As far as blogging goes, you should focus on making WordPress profiles; they rank much higher than even Tumblr and Blogger. Also, as surprising as it may seem, a profile on Vimeo ranks higher with search engines than a YouTube profile. Yet YouTube is by far the powerhouse that can deliver the reach and frequency of your message. If you are into hosting pictures, then Flickr should be your only choice as it is the only picture hosting website that appears within the first two pages of Google.
Unfortunately, simply creating a run-of-the-mill profile isn’t enough. You need to use a service such as BrandYourself which works by first having you submit content about your personal brand. Next, you are provided with tools you can use to make sure that your links are friendly for the search engines. Their tools are going to analyze your profiles and provide you with “boost steps” to increase your positive pages’ ranks. Finally, you are going to receive alerts whenever anything happens to your profiles, allowing you to constantly stay on top of your business. You can even find out who is Googling your brand and when.
Maria Elena Duron, Post from: SiteProNews
Higher Google Results for Your Personal Brand
Understand Google’s Power
To start things off, it is important to understand the kind of power Google has and how people see you through it. It should be said that every single day, more than one billion names or brands are searched on Google by people world-wide. Another interesting fact: about 94 percent of people who use Google search don’t go beyond the first page of results. This means, if you are to make it with the help of search engine rankings, you will have to dominate on the first page.
Dominating the first page is easier than it sounds, considering only two percent of people actually own the first page of Google; only 50 percent own their first result, a quarter of pages have absolutely no positive content whatsoever and 15 percent of page one Google results have at least one negative result that lowers their reputation. In other words, many first pages are still up for the taking within Google search rankings.
Which Networks
So how exactly should you increase your reputation? Well, social media profiles are an excellent way to do that, especially with Facebook having just reached the billion-user mark recently. Not all profiles will give you the same kind of boost. For starters, the most beneficial one is LinkedIn, ranking higher than all other networks and website builders. You can also use Facebook and Twitter as they have a large number of users themselves. As far as blogging goes, you should focus on making WordPress profiles; they rank much higher than even Tumblr and Blogger. Also, as surprising as it may seem, a profile on Vimeo ranks higher with search engines than a YouTube profile. Yet YouTube is by far the powerhouse that can deliver the reach and frequency of your message. If you are into hosting pictures, then Flickr should be your only choice as it is the only picture hosting website that appears within the first two pages of Google.
Unfortunately, simply creating a run-of-the-mill profile isn’t enough. You need to use a service such as BrandYourself which works by first having you submit content about your personal brand. Next, you are provided with tools you can use to make sure that your links are friendly for the search engines. Their tools are going to analyze your profiles and provide you with “boost steps” to increase your positive pages’ ranks. Finally, you are going to receive alerts whenever anything happens to your profiles, allowing you to constantly stay on top of your business. You can even find out who is Googling your brand and when.
Maria Elena Duron, Post from: SiteProNews
Higher Google Results for Your Personal Brand
Dial-In to Better Service for Your Small Business
If there was one thing you could change about your small business heading into 2013, what would it be?
Better communication among employees and one’s customers is oftentimes looked at as needing an upgrade. If you don’t communicate properly around the office, your employees may not get their marching orders. Fail to properly communicate with customers, and you could lose some of them to the competition.
To more effectively communicate with both, are you considering adding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to your game plan in the New Year?
According to an Infonetics report, worldwide service provider revenue from both businesses and residential/SOHO (small office/home office) services accounted for close to $58 billion in 2011, an increase of 16 percent from 2010. Meantime, the number of seats for hosted business VoIP and unified communication services are on pace to more than double between now and 2016.
For those business owners not dialed-in to what VoIP can offer them, consider:
• Savings – What small business owner is not interested in saving their company money? With VoIP, you not only save on in-house calls (talking to employees who are traveling for you or work remotely) compared to standard phone systems, but you also spend less on communication hardware. If you run a sizable call center at your business, you can see savings over time with all the phone traffic that you are required to handle.
• Efficiency – Along with the monetary savings, VoIP allows your small business to be more efficient, both among employees and in dealing with customers. Voice and data needs can be satisfied with a lone set of networks protocols and wiring, providing your team with better functionality. If you have employees on the road for work or telecommuting, you can dial-in to audio conferencing, with both national and internationals calls doable from one PC to another or via a PC to a landline.
• Hosted or Non-Hosted? - If you choose VoIP, you must decide between a hosted or non-hosted system. With a hosted system, an outside company handles all the placement and management of the system. A non-hosted system involves in-house management. A hosted system offers the opportunity for small business owners to get their hands on more recent technology and features for a monthly rate for each phone. In many cases, this will come with a PBX (private branch exchange) phone system. The question oftentimes becomes, do you want someone outside of your company having the responsibility and control for the system? With non-hosted, you purchase the VoIP equipment and set it up. While the initial expense for such a system is greater than that of a hosted system, keep in mind that once paid off, you own the equipment, essentially an investment for your business.
• Growing Business – Finally, VoIP can definitely make sense if you plan to grow your small business in the years to come. As you add more workers to the mix, you don’t need to pay for, and deploy more phone lines in your office. Simply provide an extension and hook it up to the current system to plug-in new lines. If you outgrow your office space, you can simply keep the same business phone number and take it with you because you are connected through the Internet, not one phone line in the present office. Speaking of growing, one item you need to have covered prior to choosing a VoIP system is your available bandwidth. Do some testing beforehand to see if your present network configuration can take on more traffic.
If 2013 is the year you give VoIP a try for your small business, you could be dialed-in to better efficiency and more communications savings over time.
Dave Thomas, Post from: SiteProNews
Dial-In to Better Service for Your Small Business
Better communication among employees and one’s customers is oftentimes looked at as needing an upgrade. If you don’t communicate properly around the office, your employees may not get their marching orders. Fail to properly communicate with customers, and you could lose some of them to the competition.
To more effectively communicate with both, are you considering adding Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to your game plan in the New Year?
According to an Infonetics report, worldwide service provider revenue from both businesses and residential/SOHO (small office/home office) services accounted for close to $58 billion in 2011, an increase of 16 percent from 2010. Meantime, the number of seats for hosted business VoIP and unified communication services are on pace to more than double between now and 2016.
For those business owners not dialed-in to what VoIP can offer them, consider:
• Savings – What small business owner is not interested in saving their company money? With VoIP, you not only save on in-house calls (talking to employees who are traveling for you or work remotely) compared to standard phone systems, but you also spend less on communication hardware. If you run a sizable call center at your business, you can see savings over time with all the phone traffic that you are required to handle.
• Efficiency – Along with the monetary savings, VoIP allows your small business to be more efficient, both among employees and in dealing with customers. Voice and data needs can be satisfied with a lone set of networks protocols and wiring, providing your team with better functionality. If you have employees on the road for work or telecommuting, you can dial-in to audio conferencing, with both national and internationals calls doable from one PC to another or via a PC to a landline.
• Hosted or Non-Hosted? - If you choose VoIP, you must decide between a hosted or non-hosted system. With a hosted system, an outside company handles all the placement and management of the system. A non-hosted system involves in-house management. A hosted system offers the opportunity for small business owners to get their hands on more recent technology and features for a monthly rate for each phone. In many cases, this will come with a PBX (private branch exchange) phone system. The question oftentimes becomes, do you want someone outside of your company having the responsibility and control for the system? With non-hosted, you purchase the VoIP equipment and set it up. While the initial expense for such a system is greater than that of a hosted system, keep in mind that once paid off, you own the equipment, essentially an investment for your business.
• Growing Business – Finally, VoIP can definitely make sense if you plan to grow your small business in the years to come. As you add more workers to the mix, you don’t need to pay for, and deploy more phone lines in your office. Simply provide an extension and hook it up to the current system to plug-in new lines. If you outgrow your office space, you can simply keep the same business phone number and take it with you because you are connected through the Internet, not one phone line in the present office. Speaking of growing, one item you need to have covered prior to choosing a VoIP system is your available bandwidth. Do some testing beforehand to see if your present network configuration can take on more traffic.
If 2013 is the year you give VoIP a try for your small business, you could be dialed-in to better efficiency and more communications savings over time.
Dave Thomas, Post from: SiteProNews
Dial-In to Better Service for Your Small Business
Thứ Ba, 25 tháng 12, 2012
How to Create your own Yule log video playlist
Want to cozy up to a digital fireplace as you unwrap your Christmas presents? You can find dozens of Yule log videos on YouTube, of course, but most of them are too short to last even through the stocking stuffers.
The trick: creating a video playlist, perfect for taking an all-day tour of your favorite YouTube Yule logs—the more, the merrier.
Here’s how to do it…
You can view your Yule log playlist on your Android phone, iPhone or iPad from Google’s YouTube mobile app.
Just log into your Google account, tap your name in the left column of the interface (on iPhones and smaller Android phones, you may have to tap the top-left menu button first to reveal the column of options), then tap Playlists.
Oh, one more thing…
Happy holidays, everyone!
The trick: creating a video playlist, perfect for taking an all-day tour of your favorite YouTube Yule logs—the more, the merrier.
Here’s how to do it…
- First, you’ll need a free YouTube account. Creating one takes just a few seconds, or you can log in to YouTube using your Google or Gmail profile.
- Next, start searching for Yule log videos. You can refine and sort your results by clicking the “Filters” menu just beneath the search box.
- Find a Yule log that suits your fancy? Click the “Add to” tab just beneath the video player (make sure to click through to the video itself from the search results page). A new “Add to playlist” section will appear, complete with a gray box containing the playlists (if any) that you’ve created in the past.
- Beneath the gray box, you’ll see a form labeled “Enter new playlist name.” Go ahead and make up a name (like “My favorite YouTube Yule logs”), select a privacy setting (Public or Private), then click the “Create playlist” button.
- Now repeat the process as you find more Yule log videos—except instead of creating a new playlist for each one, look in the gray “Add to playlist” box and click the Yule log playlist you just created.
- Want to see the results? Click the “Guide” button in the top-left corner of the page, just beneath the YouTube logo, then click the “Playlists” (or “Playlist updated”) link.
- You should now see a list of all the playlists you’ve created. Click the link for your new Yule log playlist, and it should begin playing automatically, one Yule log after another.
- Want to change the order of your YouTube Yule logs, change the name of your playlist, or make it public? Click the Guide button (top-left corner of the page) again, click Playlists, and click the Manage button (beneath and to the right of the search box). Finally, click the Edit button next to your Yule log playlist.
Just click your Yule log playlist in the gray box to add more videos.
Bonus tip
You can view your Yule log playlist on your Android phone, iPhone or iPad from Google’s YouTube mobile app.
Just log into your Google account, tap your name in the left column of the interface (on iPhones and smaller Android phones, you may have to tap the top-left menu button first to reveal the column of options), then tap Playlists.
Oh, one more thing…
Happy holidays, everyone!
13 Tips to Increase Android’s Performance
As it is with any other desktop or mobile operating system, the performance of your Android OS will start to diminish after you use it for some time. Mobile operating systems are supposed to be lighter and faster to keep up with our need to be on the move, yet still give us access to everything. Want to have the best of both worlds? Then, it’s time to do some housekeeping.
If you have noticed that your Android phones performance have been ‘slowing down’, particularly after you’ve been loading it up with tons of Android apps (we don’t blame you) from the Google Play store, we have a few tips to share with you.
With just a few tweaks and changes, you’d probably be able to breathe life into your Android specifically those that have been updated to Android 4.0 and above.
Tablets can also run on ICS and Jelly Bean now; you should be able to update it until Android 4.1 Jelly Bean via System updates (Check under ‘About phone’).
Don’t install apps you hardly use. Keep only the apps that you need and if you have got an app that isn’t really useful, you can uninstall or disable it.
They do have their uses but bear in mind that having too many of them running on your homescreen will cause your device’s performance to slow down.
You can keep Sync off for unrequired services or only have it on when you need to transfer or upload materials to Google servers.
When you choose Animation off, the screen just snaps to position without animation. You can also turn off Transition Animation Scale in the same way. If you are a heavy user, you’d probably notice that your Android performs faster with all animations off.
Set options to automatically kill unnecessary apps (based on your selections) after every set period of time. Some of the examples include Update Manager (updates don’t come every minute/hour) or any manufacturer-installed app which you don’t require.
You can then flash it with custom ROMs that may be a better fit to your job requirements or personality, or to enhance the performance and battery life of your phone. You can even update your phone to the latest OS or updates that could otherwise be unsupported for your phone model.
When Not to Root
There are a number of factors against rooting your Android device; for one thing, most manufacturers deem your phone warranty voided if your phone has been rooted. You also need to know what you are doing to avoid screwing everything up, beyond repair. This is called ‘bricking’ a.k.a. turning your phone into a useless brick. So think it through before you use this method to enhance the performance of your Android.
This way, your phone will have more free memory, boosting your phone’s battery and performance.
If you have noticed that your Android phones performance have been ‘slowing down’, particularly after you’ve been loading it up with tons of Android apps (we don’t blame you) from the Google Play store, we have a few tips to share with you.
1. Know your Device
It is important that you learn about the capabilities and drawbacks of your phone. Don’t overburden your phone with resource-hungry apps which would otherwise degrade your phone’s performance at your expense.2. Update your Android
If you haven’t updated your Android phone to the latest firmware, you should. Google brings great improvements to each new release of the Android operating system, including updates that ensure stability, higher performance speed and connectivity along with other user-friendly new features.Tablets can also run on ICS and Jelly Bean now; you should be able to update it until Android 4.1 Jelly Bean via System updates (Check under ‘About phone’).
3. Remove Unwanted Apps
Every app you install in your phone take some storage space and runs some background processes. The more storage space occupied or the more background processes running on your phone, the slower your phone’s performance.Don’t install apps you hardly use. Keep only the apps that you need and if you have got an app that isn’t really useful, you can uninstall or disable it.
4. Disable Unnecessary Apps
‘Performance assistant’ was introduced in Android ICS to help you disable apps that you don’t need. Disabling apps is different from uninstalling apps – uninstallation remove application files from the phone but no file is removed/deleted when you disable it. These disabled apps are not shown on the home screen or app tray but you can re-enable them for use whenever you need them.5. Update Apps
You should regularly update your phone’s installed apps from Google Play. Try to get updates your apps when they are available in Google Play. Developers fix bugs and add features in new released versions of apps. Updated apps perform better and faster, and will less likely crash your phone.6. Use High-Speed Memory Card
The memory card is the storage space of your phone. Phones with low internal memory can get a boost from high-capacity memory cards for maximum storage space. But it adds not only capacity but also speed to the mix. You can get between 2GB to 32GB worth of storage space to support high speed read/write operations. Always go for memory cards of Class 6 or Class 10 for your Android phone if you seek performance for your phone.7. Keep Fewer Widgets
Widgets are not apps, which only run once you choose to activate them. No, widgets are always running in the background; they are active all the time. While some Android users use it to keep track of the weather, and their important dates, others use widgets like ‘Extended controls’ for quick access for essential configurations such as switching Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or their GPS on or off.They do have their uses but bear in mind that having too many of them running on your homescreen will cause your device’s performance to slow down.
8. Avoid Live Wallpapers
You must be loving Android’s live wallpaper feature. Phones (from different manufacturers) come with different live wallpapers but you should know that live wallpapers that are badly made will need more CPU cycles to run, thus draining the battery faster. Everytime you activate the home screen, you run not only your apps but also your live wallpaper.9. Stop Syncing
Sync is a very good feature which synchronizes your data with Google servers. Keeping sync on, you can get notifications whenever new mail comes in or when you get new notifications or updates for apps. To do this, it does a refresh at every preset interval (e.g. it checks your mail every 5 minutes for new incoming mail), and this will eat into your android’s performance for other activities.You can keep Sync off for unrequired services or only have it on when you need to transfer or upload materials to Google servers.
10. Turn off Animations
What animations? Well, if you haven’t noticed, your phone screen actually fades out and in as you switch from one task to the other. To see this in action Go to Settings > Developer Options > Window Animation Scale > Animation scale 10x. Then choose Window Animation Scale again to see the fade in effect in ‘slow-mo’.When you choose Animation off, the screen just snaps to position without animation. You can also turn off Transition Animation Scale in the same way. If you are a heavy user, you’d probably notice that your Android performs faster with all animations off.
11. Use Task Killer/Manager
Download any free Task Killer apps or Task Managers from Google Play. Some of the good ones are Advanced Task Killer and Super Task Killer Free. Use a task killer to kill background processes and other apps that you don’t need or you don’t use.Set options to automatically kill unnecessary apps (based on your selections) after every set period of time. Some of the examples include Update Manager (updates don’t come every minute/hour) or any manufacturer-installed app which you don’t require.
12. Root your Android
As Android is built on the Linux kernel, like any other OS, it also can be rooted. Rooting your Android gives you administrator level access on your phone, which means that you can uninstall the apps that came with your phone but may not be what you want to use.You can then flash it with custom ROMs that may be a better fit to your job requirements or personality, or to enhance the performance and battery life of your phone. You can even update your phone to the latest OS or updates that could otherwise be unsupported for your phone model.
When Not to Root
There are a number of factors against rooting your Android device; for one thing, most manufacturers deem your phone warranty voided if your phone has been rooted. You also need to know what you are doing to avoid screwing everything up, beyond repair. This is called ‘bricking’ a.k.a. turning your phone into a useless brick. So think it through before you use this method to enhance the performance of your Android.
13. Use Lightweight Background Apps
Everyone enjoys listening to music but imagine how much memory the music player app requires to play a whole album for you. It’s the same with other types of background apps you may have. Use lightweight apps for these purposes, e.g., you can install a music player that requires 1 MB installation space (and thus less RAM too) than the ones requiring 10 MB or more.This way, your phone will have more free memory, boosting your phone’s battery and performance.
Conclusion
If you follow the above-given suggestions, tips and tweaks will help in making your Android faster and smoother while in use. Have other Android-related performance-enhancing tips and tricks? Let us know.How Authorship can take your blog to the next level in 2013
If you haven’t heard of Google Plus, Google’s new social network, then perhaps you’ve been living under a stone for the last year. Whilst it’s certainly not yet a Facebook or Twitter, Google is doing everything it can to push and promote it. That’s something that as a blog owner you should give serious consideration to. Taking on the might of Facebook is a huge challenge for Google and having learned many lessons from their previous attempt with social networking called Orkut, this time they’re out to really push G+.
Of course I can hear you asking why should I care, I already share my content on Twitter and Facebook which has a far greater reach. The answer is quite simple. Google is giving out plenty of encouragement for you to be active with them. As a serious blogger, you should take advantage of it! So if you’ve gone through your SEO checklist and think you have everything covered, don’t forget to markup your blog with rel=author!
Everyone likes a great picture
The first and most obvious advantage is the ability to have a pretty picture of yourself in the SERPS (search results). You’ve probably seen quite a few sites that have this when you search Google. Do you think you’re more likely to click the result with the picture or the one without? The web is becoming more social because ultimately people are social animals. Your picture in the SERPS not only makes you stand out from your competition, but it can make you appear more trustworthy. As the vast majority of blogs aren’t yet using Google authorship, then you really should be! Here’s what it looks like when implemented correctly.
Not only this but click through rates within search results are often much higher with sites that have authorship enabled. Bottom line, this means more visitors to your blog. If you even got an easily achieved 10% increase in your CTR, this means an extra 10% of organic search visitors to your blog. Obviously that’s clear value to you, no matter if or how your blog is monetised. A 10% boost in new traffic for 20 minutes of work to set it up is a clear and easy win for you. However, it gets much better.
The big picture, if you’ll pardon the pun
The big picture goes far beyond the ability to have your picture in the search results. That’s just a nice little carrot that’s dangled in front of you. Google wants to stay at the top and to do that they continually need to find better ways to organise and understand the plethora of documents on the web. Pagerank and links which are the fabric of their understanding of the relatedness of the web are buckling under the pressure. To take things further they need to understand who is adding the content and how authoritative these people are within the realm of their topic areas.
Authorship is a great way to do this, and it really is a stroke of genius. If they can get webmasters like you to link their blogs and content written around the web to G+, then they can start to understand more about the context of who is building the great stuff on the web. If they can understand who the great authors are then they can use that to rank quality sites much more easily and give their users a much better experience. If you put out great content, then that means you!
What does this mean for you?
This means that you need to be giving the right signals to Google that your content is the kind of content that deserves to rank well and to be receiving the gift of the traffic Gods. Do you already get the kind of metrics and interactions that Google loves to see on your blog? Do you get great comments, links, and social shares because of the quality of your blog? Then you should be telling Google that you are the author of this great stuff!
Once they know that you are the author you can start to build your ‘author rank’ or agent rank as their patents describe it. Now I’ll be honest, nobody knows if Google is currently using this as a signal for ranking. You have to realise that they’ve put so much effort into it this and it’s likely to be so potent a ranking signal that it’s obvious that it’s coming soon. Delivering quality relevant results is at the heart of what Google wants to do, and you dear reader should see the opportunity to be at the very heart of it from the beginning. Of course we don’t yet know what the full effects of this are likely to be, and this post is not the place for a discussion on correlation versus causation, but hopefully you can see that the potential is huge.
What you need to do set it up
Firstly you need to create a personal profile with Google Plus, fill out all the information required, and add a picture of yourself. Note, you need to use an actual real picture of you (a headshot is best). Company logos are not what was intended here. Then you need to add your site (or any others that you post on) as a site that you contribute to in your profile.
Finally you need to add the link to your G+ profile page on your blog posts and you’re good to go. If you use WordPress as many are, you’re probably using Yoast’s SEO plugin (which I highly recommend). Yoast kindly has made it easy for you by providing fields to do this within the plugin. Alternatively many other SEO plugins provide this functionality. Once you’ve done this you can test the results with Google’s Rich Snippets testing tool and if it all works you need to wait a couple of weeks.
The implications of doing this
Google already understands more about your site than you think. It knows about interactions and social sharing as well as other important metrics. Make sure that this great stuff is linked to you, the real life human being. Why? The answer is because as a ‘known author’ you can take this authority around the web with you. Think of it as a suitcase full of topic authority. If you contribute to other sites as well as your own, then your articles there should get a boost based on your authorship. Also if those other sites do the right things then your posts should further increase your author rank.
Finally one of the other obvious connotations of this that you don’t often hear about is the impact of people guest authoring on your site. It clearly will benefit them but think about how it would impact you to have the highest quality authors on your site. Once you see that Google can understand who is authoring all this content you can see that attracting industry thought leaders and experts to post on your site (with verified G+ authorship) is going to massively help. Top experts aren’t going to work with low quality sites, so in effect you can leverage the authority of others to help your own ranking. You should positively encourage expert authors on your site! However you need to make sure that these are quality authors, so your vetting process needs to be even stricter.
A semi advanced tip
If you’ve already shared content on other people’s sites through the connections you have then you should contact those site owners. Not only is it likely to be good to get back in touch anyway, but you can explain the importance of authorship implementation. If you’ve contributed to sites all around the web in the past then you may be able to build up very quickly by implementing this on your past work. A head start is always a good thing, but just make sure that you only link quality work back to you.
A final word of caution
I’ll finally say that if you do any kind of black hat SEO promotion, then you should stay far away from this. Of course most don’t do that stuff, but I thought I’d mention it. By creating authorship and taking it around the web with you, you are linking all of your work. You need to be sure that you’re ‘whiter than white’, otherwise the past might come back to haunt you.
Why not tell me what you think in the comments. Have you used rel=author markup and have you noticed a CTR or other improvement on your blog?
How Authorship can take your blog to the next level in 2013
Of course I can hear you asking why should I care, I already share my content on Twitter and Facebook which has a far greater reach. The answer is quite simple. Google is giving out plenty of encouragement for you to be active with them. As a serious blogger, you should take advantage of it! So if you’ve gone through your SEO checklist and think you have everything covered, don’t forget to markup your blog with rel=author!
Everyone likes a great picture
The first and most obvious advantage is the ability to have a pretty picture of yourself in the SERPS (search results). You’ve probably seen quite a few sites that have this when you search Google. Do you think you’re more likely to click the result with the picture or the one without? The web is becoming more social because ultimately people are social animals. Your picture in the SERPS not only makes you stand out from your competition, but it can make you appear more trustworthy. As the vast majority of blogs aren’t yet using Google authorship, then you really should be! Here’s what it looks like when implemented correctly.
Not only this but click through rates within search results are often much higher with sites that have authorship enabled. Bottom line, this means more visitors to your blog. If you even got an easily achieved 10% increase in your CTR, this means an extra 10% of organic search visitors to your blog. Obviously that’s clear value to you, no matter if or how your blog is monetised. A 10% boost in new traffic for 20 minutes of work to set it up is a clear and easy win for you. However, it gets much better.
The big picture, if you’ll pardon the pun
The big picture goes far beyond the ability to have your picture in the search results. That’s just a nice little carrot that’s dangled in front of you. Google wants to stay at the top and to do that they continually need to find better ways to organise and understand the plethora of documents on the web. Pagerank and links which are the fabric of their understanding of the relatedness of the web are buckling under the pressure. To take things further they need to understand who is adding the content and how authoritative these people are within the realm of their topic areas.
Authorship is a great way to do this, and it really is a stroke of genius. If they can get webmasters like you to link their blogs and content written around the web to G+, then they can start to understand more about the context of who is building the great stuff on the web. If they can understand who the great authors are then they can use that to rank quality sites much more easily and give their users a much better experience. If you put out great content, then that means you!
What does this mean for you?
This means that you need to be giving the right signals to Google that your content is the kind of content that deserves to rank well and to be receiving the gift of the traffic Gods. Do you already get the kind of metrics and interactions that Google loves to see on your blog? Do you get great comments, links, and social shares because of the quality of your blog? Then you should be telling Google that you are the author of this great stuff!
Once they know that you are the author you can start to build your ‘author rank’ or agent rank as their patents describe it. Now I’ll be honest, nobody knows if Google is currently using this as a signal for ranking. You have to realise that they’ve put so much effort into it this and it’s likely to be so potent a ranking signal that it’s obvious that it’s coming soon. Delivering quality relevant results is at the heart of what Google wants to do, and you dear reader should see the opportunity to be at the very heart of it from the beginning. Of course we don’t yet know what the full effects of this are likely to be, and this post is not the place for a discussion on correlation versus causation, but hopefully you can see that the potential is huge.
What you need to do set it up
Firstly you need to create a personal profile with Google Plus, fill out all the information required, and add a picture of yourself. Note, you need to use an actual real picture of you (a headshot is best). Company logos are not what was intended here. Then you need to add your site (or any others that you post on) as a site that you contribute to in your profile.
Finally you need to add the link to your G+ profile page on your blog posts and you’re good to go. If you use WordPress as many are, you’re probably using Yoast’s SEO plugin (which I highly recommend). Yoast kindly has made it easy for you by providing fields to do this within the plugin. Alternatively many other SEO plugins provide this functionality. Once you’ve done this you can test the results with Google’s Rich Snippets testing tool and if it all works you need to wait a couple of weeks.
The implications of doing this
Google already understands more about your site than you think. It knows about interactions and social sharing as well as other important metrics. Make sure that this great stuff is linked to you, the real life human being. Why? The answer is because as a ‘known author’ you can take this authority around the web with you. Think of it as a suitcase full of topic authority. If you contribute to other sites as well as your own, then your articles there should get a boost based on your authorship. Also if those other sites do the right things then your posts should further increase your author rank.
Finally one of the other obvious connotations of this that you don’t often hear about is the impact of people guest authoring on your site. It clearly will benefit them but think about how it would impact you to have the highest quality authors on your site. Once you see that Google can understand who is authoring all this content you can see that attracting industry thought leaders and experts to post on your site (with verified G+ authorship) is going to massively help. Top experts aren’t going to work with low quality sites, so in effect you can leverage the authority of others to help your own ranking. You should positively encourage expert authors on your site! However you need to make sure that these are quality authors, so your vetting process needs to be even stricter.
A semi advanced tip
If you’ve already shared content on other people’s sites through the connections you have then you should contact those site owners. Not only is it likely to be good to get back in touch anyway, but you can explain the importance of authorship implementation. If you’ve contributed to sites all around the web in the past then you may be able to build up very quickly by implementing this on your past work. A head start is always a good thing, but just make sure that you only link quality work back to you.
A final word of caution
I’ll finally say that if you do any kind of black hat SEO promotion, then you should stay far away from this. Of course most don’t do that stuff, but I thought I’d mention it. By creating authorship and taking it around the web with you, you are linking all of your work. You need to be sure that you’re ‘whiter than white’, otherwise the past might come back to haunt you.
Why not tell me what you think in the comments. Have you used rel=author markup and have you noticed a CTR or other improvement on your blog?
How Authorship can take your blog to the next level in 2013
Five Tips for Link Building Success in 2013
2012 was a year of changes in the world of SEO. Google came out with several algorithm updates that basically rocked the whole search engine system. With updates such as Panda and Penguin, the once easy way of getting a site ranked at the top of Google became a tough game of chess, where highly refined strategies and not short-lived tactics are the winning elements.
In 2013, with the rumors of Google launching a Penguin 2.0 update in our midst, it becomes quite critical to design and implement a link building strategy that won’t hurt your website’s search standing should this rumor inevitably come to pass. I say inevitably simply because it seems real enough that Matt Cutts and his team would follow up on their previous algo updates with a few more just to lock down their new rankings system and to mess with our minds a little bit more. Well, let’s show those nerds from Google a thing or two by coming up with a strategy that is at least two or three steps ahead of them.
Here are several link building rules and tips to keep in mind for your 2013 link building program:
Go Social
Google has never hidden its affinity for social media. Pretty much anything that goes viral gets a special place in the SERPs. That has been the case for the past two years or so. And, now that Google has its very own social network, Google+, you can bet that Cutts and his teams are paying more attention to social signals than ever before and making sure that these signals affect search rankings.
The logic is simple really. Promoting your website or blog on social media generates traffic for you. This means more people visiting your site and possibly more people sharing and recommending your site or your content to others. If that picks up, you will naturally get a tremendous amount of social backlinks that Google will easily see because, yes, they are always watching.
In 2013, focus your efforts on these social platforms for website or content sharing and syndication:
• Google+
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Tumblr
• Pinterest
• Stumbleupon
• Delicious
• LinkedIn
• Reddit
Stop Obsessing About Site Authority and Page Rank
About one or two years back, the whole SEO world went crazy about high authority links. At that time, Google held .gov and .edu domains in high regard. This meant that if you had backlinks on sites with these types of domains, you would have struck gold. Unfortunately, the frenzy opened the door to link spamming thus, depreciating the value of most of these domains.
The same goes with high PR or Page Rank sites. Post-penguin SEO saw a surge in link building tactics aimed at dropping links on domains and pages with high PR. While those kinds of tactics still seem to work today, Google looks to be leaning more into a path where relevancy becomes so much heavier than Page Rank or Domain Authority. This leads us to believe that it would be more beneficial in the long run to post content with links to your website to sites with low authority and low PR but highly relevant to your niche as opposed to posting on non-relevant high authority and high PR sites that have no relevancy whatsoever. Besides, if you really think about it, you will realize that the PR of a site or page naturally improves through traffic, syndication and engagement. So, with just a little work, you can actually have quality backlinks on relevant sites with decent PR.
Focus on Generating Traffic Not SEO Juice
Google has already changed the game in a way where the value of backlinks has become overrated. The way it looks nowadays, Google wants you to build links that will genuinely get you visitors as opposed to building links only for the SEO value of the link. Some experts speculate that Google will roll out future updates where traffic quality will become more valuable than backlink value in determining rankings. This line of thinking is actually aligned with the whole movement towards social sharing and syndication.
So, what does this mean? Simply put, just shift to building links that will get you more traffic and focus on that. Syndicate your links on social media instead of building all those forum and Web 2.0 profile links that many people don’t pay attention to. Be active on forums instead of just spamming them with hundreds of dummy profile links created with SEO software. Post content on sites that is relevant to your niche and syndicate it. Use videos to attract and drive traffic to your website (YouTube is a good platform for that). This type of mindset actually helps you to be less dependent on Google for traffic, and will make your site more adaptable should Google fully shift to this kind of ranking system.
Stop Purchasing Links
Buy a backlink from a relevant site with high PR? Sure, you will get a good boost in the SERPs. No question about that. However, eventually Google will catch on and penalize those sites because chances are, if they sold a backlink to you, they will sell to others. The high PR site will later end up with a high amount of OBL or outbound lLinks, which Google will view as spammy. They will penalize that site and the websites linked to it. Drop this tactic now and remain safe come 2013 and beyond.
Anchor Links Naturally
The age of the keyword-oriented link building strategy is almost over. Google wants your backlinks to appear natural and not forced or spammy. This means over-optimizing your backlinks over a select few keyword anchors is not a good idea anymore. Google wants to see more backlinks in the form of raw URLs and your brand name as this is the natural and organic way a link is shared online. Don’t worry. As long as the keywords you want to rank high for are properly inserted into the content on your site, you will be all right.
Don’t get me wrong – the occasional use of keywords as anchor texts for your backlinks still works nicely. Just minimize it to about 20 or 30 percent of your overall link profile leaving the remainder reserved for natural anchors like your URL and your brand or site name.
Conclusion
By now, you can probably see a trend forming. Google’s future thrust is to rank websites based on traffic. The more traffic your website is able to generate organically through mediums other than the SERPs, the better your rankings will be. Yes, it seems a bit weird but that is what many think Google’s nerds are hinting at. So, for 2013, focus on that and not on the traditional way of link building.
Mark Marquardt, Post from: SiteProNews
Five Tips for Link Building Success in 2013
In 2013, with the rumors of Google launching a Penguin 2.0 update in our midst, it becomes quite critical to design and implement a link building strategy that won’t hurt your website’s search standing should this rumor inevitably come to pass. I say inevitably simply because it seems real enough that Matt Cutts and his team would follow up on their previous algo updates with a few more just to lock down their new rankings system and to mess with our minds a little bit more. Well, let’s show those nerds from Google a thing or two by coming up with a strategy that is at least two or three steps ahead of them.
Here are several link building rules and tips to keep in mind for your 2013 link building program:
Go Social
Google has never hidden its affinity for social media. Pretty much anything that goes viral gets a special place in the SERPs. That has been the case for the past two years or so. And, now that Google has its very own social network, Google+, you can bet that Cutts and his teams are paying more attention to social signals than ever before and making sure that these signals affect search rankings.
The logic is simple really. Promoting your website or blog on social media generates traffic for you. This means more people visiting your site and possibly more people sharing and recommending your site or your content to others. If that picks up, you will naturally get a tremendous amount of social backlinks that Google will easily see because, yes, they are always watching.
In 2013, focus your efforts on these social platforms for website or content sharing and syndication:
• Google+
• Tumblr
• Stumbleupon
• Delicious
Stop Obsessing About Site Authority and Page Rank
About one or two years back, the whole SEO world went crazy about high authority links. At that time, Google held .gov and .edu domains in high regard. This meant that if you had backlinks on sites with these types of domains, you would have struck gold. Unfortunately, the frenzy opened the door to link spamming thus, depreciating the value of most of these domains.
The same goes with high PR or Page Rank sites. Post-penguin SEO saw a surge in link building tactics aimed at dropping links on domains and pages with high PR. While those kinds of tactics still seem to work today, Google looks to be leaning more into a path where relevancy becomes so much heavier than Page Rank or Domain Authority. This leads us to believe that it would be more beneficial in the long run to post content with links to your website to sites with low authority and low PR but highly relevant to your niche as opposed to posting on non-relevant high authority and high PR sites that have no relevancy whatsoever. Besides, if you really think about it, you will realize that the PR of a site or page naturally improves through traffic, syndication and engagement. So, with just a little work, you can actually have quality backlinks on relevant sites with decent PR.
Focus on Generating Traffic Not SEO Juice
Google has already changed the game in a way where the value of backlinks has become overrated. The way it looks nowadays, Google wants you to build links that will genuinely get you visitors as opposed to building links only for the SEO value of the link. Some experts speculate that Google will roll out future updates where traffic quality will become more valuable than backlink value in determining rankings. This line of thinking is actually aligned with the whole movement towards social sharing and syndication.
So, what does this mean? Simply put, just shift to building links that will get you more traffic and focus on that. Syndicate your links on social media instead of building all those forum and Web 2.0 profile links that many people don’t pay attention to. Be active on forums instead of just spamming them with hundreds of dummy profile links created with SEO software. Post content on sites that is relevant to your niche and syndicate it. Use videos to attract and drive traffic to your website (YouTube is a good platform for that). This type of mindset actually helps you to be less dependent on Google for traffic, and will make your site more adaptable should Google fully shift to this kind of ranking system.
Stop Purchasing Links
Buy a backlink from a relevant site with high PR? Sure, you will get a good boost in the SERPs. No question about that. However, eventually Google will catch on and penalize those sites because chances are, if they sold a backlink to you, they will sell to others. The high PR site will later end up with a high amount of OBL or outbound lLinks, which Google will view as spammy. They will penalize that site and the websites linked to it. Drop this tactic now and remain safe come 2013 and beyond.
Anchor Links Naturally
The age of the keyword-oriented link building strategy is almost over. Google wants your backlinks to appear natural and not forced or spammy. This means over-optimizing your backlinks over a select few keyword anchors is not a good idea anymore. Google wants to see more backlinks in the form of raw URLs and your brand name as this is the natural and organic way a link is shared online. Don’t worry. As long as the keywords you want to rank high for are properly inserted into the content on your site, you will be all right.
Don’t get me wrong – the occasional use of keywords as anchor texts for your backlinks still works nicely. Just minimize it to about 20 or 30 percent of your overall link profile leaving the remainder reserved for natural anchors like your URL and your brand or site name.
Conclusion
By now, you can probably see a trend forming. Google’s future thrust is to rank websites based on traffic. The more traffic your website is able to generate organically through mediums other than the SERPs, the better your rankings will be. Yes, it seems a bit weird but that is what many think Google’s nerds are hinting at. So, for 2013, focus on that and not on the traditional way of link building.
Mark Marquardt, Post from: SiteProNews
Five Tips for Link Building Success in 2013
Chủ Nhật, 23 tháng 12, 2012
How to find the most searched in Google
If You wanto find what is the most searched in Google, use Zeitgeist.
Here is about Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist
2012 was a year of big moments, from global games to historical elections and everything in between. With this site, we've analyzed over one trillion queries to showcase what the world searched for.
We studied an aggregation of over one trillion searches (or queries) that people typed into Google Search this year. We used data from multiple sources, including Google Trends and internal data tools. We filtered out spam and repeat queries to build lists that best reflect the spirit of 2012.
Trending
The "trending" queries are the searches that had the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011.
Most Searched
The "most searched" queries are the most popular terms for 2012—ranked in order of the queries with the largest volume of searches.
Privacy & Security
All the searches we studied are anonymous. No personal information was used.
The data here is normalized meaning it represents how many searches this year, relative to the total number of searches over time. This doesn't represent absolute search volume, but searches presented on a scale from 0-100. Each query is divided by the highest point the query reached (100). When we don't have enough data/interest, 0 is shown.
Note: A term can appear high on the "trending" list and still have lower search volume than the other queries.
Our year-end Zeitgeist is just a small sampling of the queries and search trends that we found interesting this year. Go beyond what we've shared here by using these tools to discover more about global and regional search terms over time.
Enter up to five search terms to see relative popularity over time. You can use Trends to compare terms in any language from any country.
The top trending search queries, updated continuously throughout the day.
There are a couple Google products that you can use to see your own search trends.
If you've chosen to enable “Web History” in your Google Account, you can get an interesting glimpse at your own web activity, such as top queries and peak activity over time. To try it out, go to your accounts page, on the landing screen, select “go to web history”. From here you can explore your web, image, and even your shopping search history . This might not account for all of your web activity, but it can be a fun look back at your query and browsing history over time.
If you use Google Reader to read blogs and RSS feeds, you can view your reading trends by going to the "Trends" tab under "All items" in the lefthand menu.
How to find the most searched in Google
Here is about Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist
2012 was a year of big moments, from global games to historical elections and everything in between. With this site, we've analyzed over one trillion queries to showcase what the world searched for.
We studied an aggregation of over one trillion searches (or queries) that people typed into Google Search this year. We used data from multiple sources, including Google Trends and internal data tools. We filtered out spam and repeat queries to build lists that best reflect the spirit of 2012.
Trending
The "trending" queries are the searches that had the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011.
Most Searched
The "most searched" queries are the most popular terms for 2012—ranked in order of the queries with the largest volume of searches.
Privacy & Security
All the searches we studied are anonymous. No personal information was used.
The data here is normalized meaning it represents how many searches this year, relative to the total number of searches over time. This doesn't represent absolute search volume, but searches presented on a scale from 0-100. Each query is divided by the highest point the query reached (100). When we don't have enough data/interest, 0 is shown.
Note: A term can appear high on the "trending" list and still have lower search volume than the other queries.
Our year-end Zeitgeist is just a small sampling of the queries and search trends that we found interesting this year. Go beyond what we've shared here by using these tools to discover more about global and regional search terms over time.
Google Trends
Enter up to five search terms to see relative popularity over time. You can use Trends to compare terms in any language from any country.
Hot Trends (India, Japan, Singapore and U.S. only)
The top trending search queries, updated continuously throughout the day.
There are a couple Google products that you can use to see your own search trends.
Web History
If you've chosen to enable “Web History” in your Google Account, you can get an interesting glimpse at your own web activity, such as top queries and peak activity over time. To try it out, go to your accounts page, on the landing screen, select “go to web history”. From here you can explore your web, image, and even your shopping search history . This might not account for all of your web activity, but it can be a fun look back at your query and browsing history over time.
Google Reader
If you use Google Reader to read blogs and RSS feeds, you can view your reading trends by going to the "Trends" tab under "All items" in the lefthand menu.
How to find the most searched in Google
10 Ways Brands Will Win With Content Marketing in 2013
As we look forward to 2013, it’s not just consumer brands that will lead the way. Corporate and B2B brands are investing millions of dollars into content-marketing campaigns that help generate leads, bolster their reputations as thought leaders and help inform and engage their customers. In the year 2013, marketers will break through with innovative content-marketing strategies.
Here's what we have to look forward to:
Here's what we have to look forward to:
1. Practice will be over
If 2012 was after-school practice, 2013 is the varsity championship game. Many marketers spent the past year getting up to speed on content marketing. They were interested in the growing trend, and realized they needed to leverage it, but didn’t quite know how to do it. Now that it’s game time, marketers face increasing pressure to drive traffic, leads and sales through content marketing. With the right data and strong analytics, marketers will have to prove that their efforts have real business value.
2. The microsite will die
The microsite just won't cut it anymore. Social media and new technologies have allowed people to hyper-curate their web experiences, meaning they’re way more likely to go to a brand’s Twitter page than homepage. Marketers need to think creatively to gain distribution beyond their owned properties. In the words of search-marketing guru, Li Evans: “Content doesn’t win. Optimized content wins.” Marketers will need to find out exactly where their audiences are, and use relevant content to drive them back to owned sites. Marketers must activate and amplify the content they create.
3. You’ll have to scale or fail
In 2013, marketers will need to figure out how to scale and sustain their content-marketing efforts; and the answer is technology. Having an intern write three measly blog posts a week isn't going to cut it. Even a network of freelancers isn’t enough. Scaling means customizing content to specific targeted audiences and delivering enough content to consistently capture their attention.
4. You'll either go big or go home
In the spirit of scale, marketers need to fully commit to their content-marketing efforts. If you’re going to be creating and pushing out content, it needs to reach all target markets, from international to hyperlocal. Our “always on” culture demands that marketers devote sufficient resources and time to carefully planned content strategies.
5. People will judge a book by its cover
Although the phrase “B2B” invites conservative and utilitarian associations, this does not mean B2B companies should offer user experiences that prove them true. Savvy, plugged-in consumers expect innovative platforms and design wherever they are, and B2B marketers need to deliver them. Innovation in design should not be limited to consumer brands or the new generation of publishers.
6. There will be 50 shades of copyright concerns
The copyright laws surrounding digital content are pretty gray. While marketers have gotten some practice purchasing stock images or using photos with a creative commons licenses, content distribution is new territory. Although navigating copyright is a mystery to many marketers, the proliferation of content marketing means that they need to get smart quickly. Squeezed out of print revenue, publishers are adapting quickly. They’re looking at what it means to steal or share content, and marketers would be served well to catch up to their publishing counterparts.
7. Brands will break news
The "brands as publishers" trend means brands need to think like newsrooms. Speed is everything. If the Twittersphere is buzzing with news about a company, that particular company can (and should) own that content. What are audiences interested in right now, and how can brands deliver it to them? Brands no longer need to rely on PR and publishers to react to news; they can be and break the news. Red Bull is the ultimate example of this, with 8 million people tuning into its Stratos mission. Think beyond evergreen content, and create relevance among content, audience, and current events.
8. Social content will be the new ad unit
We've seen the obituaries of the banner ad in pretty much every major blog. Now what? New ad formats are coming, such as the one from Flite, which put content front and center. With content at the heart of every campaign, brands will drive engagement, leads and sales. Again, technology will make these efforts scale.9. Native advertising will start to scale.
Native advertising is the next big thing, but many properties haven’t quite figured out how to scale it; that’s bound to change. We’ll start seeing a marketplace or ad exchange for native ads where brands can buy and sell sponsored posts. The success metrics for these ads will likely be social sharing and engagement. A marketplace or ad exchange will be the key to scale and sustainability for this ad format in 2013.10. Brands and publishers will be better together.
As the line dividing traditional publishers and brands continues to dissolve, we’ll see new partnerships form between the two that will open up opportunities—beyond the native ad—to engage audiences in creative, innovative and profitable ways. One example we’ve loved is the online/offline campaign from Microsoft and Conde Nast. Partnerships will be critical to standing out and gaining greater distribution in a sea of content.Article by Shafqat Islam
10 Ways Brands Will Win With Content Marketing in 2013
How to Monetize Web Without Hurting Your Community
At the Mashable Media Summit on Friday, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joined Mashablefeatures editor Matt Silverman on stage to talk about how to monetize a website while still putting the community first.
By doing so, Reddit hopes that advertisers will recognize the value. Ohanian talked about Reddit's old model of advertising, similar to billboard ads, and how it's becoming less effective.
"In 2005, we thought, 'We're going to get lots of traffic and advertisers will take care of the rest,' " Ohanian said. "Websites advertise like digital billboards. Now we can see click-through data on these ads and we realized: Holy shit, no one cares."
Moving forward, Reddit intends to flip the tables. Subreddits like /r/gameofthrones have more than 100,000 active users creating content even when the show is off the air, just because they enjoy it.
"They are spending hundreds of hours making fan art, debates, propagating for a show that's not even on the air right now," Ohanian says of the Game of Thrones community. "You're effectively getting free [advertising] from die-hard fan evangelists. "
AMA interviews, short for "Ask Me Anything," have been a valuable tool for brands to interact more organically with the Reddit community. They require a different marketing approach than Facebook or Twitter.
One of the biggest successes was President Obama's impromptu AMA during the 2012 election campaign. Brands have utilized comedians and athletes, among other notable people, to act as a spokesperson through the Reddit community.
Ohanian compared Reddit's plans to Digg, one of the site's early competitors, which he says put advertisers over users, ultimately leading to its demise.
"When you take away the core of what it's supposed to be about, the community is not going to be too happy about it," Ohanian said.
Ohanian claims that Reddit still has a lot to work on, but it intends to find a way to monetize from the community directly -- similar to how comedians like Aziz Ansari are benefiting from direct distribution to fans.
"We live in a world where there's just too much data to ignore, and there's just got to be a way to figure it out," says Ohanian.
There are other functions of Reddit that the company does not intend to stray from, but rather enhance -- for example, Reddit gold, a more ceremonial way for Redditors to show support for the network and each other. Users pay or gift $3.99 per month or $29.99 for one year as a Reddit gold member, which enables small bonus features like more statistics and the ability to subscribe to more subreddits.
"It's a status symbol, and it shows that you cared," said Ohanian.
Ohanian intends to expand upon users gifting "cred" to one another as a way to generate revenue that embraces the community, rather than exploits it.
Original article in mashable.com
How to Make Money with Social Networking
When it comes to making money with internet marketing, social networking websites definitely play a large role. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps two of the largest social networking sites on the web today that will help you make money in your internet marketing efforts. Whether you’re promoting your own business or an affiliate product, there’s money to be made when you put social networks to use.
Setting up Social Networks
The first step you’ll need to take when getting things in motion for your internet marketing money-making venture is to set up your social network profiles. Sign up for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and any other social networks that you want to use. Google Buzz is a newer social network that will definitely help if you leverage it in the right manner. You can sign up for Google Buzz through your Gmail service.
When you create each of your social networking profiles, you’ll want to be sure that each is inter-connected. In other words, link your Facebook page to your Twitter account, place links of your MySpace and Facebook profiles on your Twitter account. In addition, you’ll need to make sure that you have links going out to your main internet marketing, affiliate marketing, or business website so that your friends and visitors will have ample chance to click through to your site.
Promoting your Social Networks
After you’ve gotten your social networks such as Facebook and Twitter all ready to go, you’re going to have to work on promoting them, gaining popularity and friends, as well as updating your profiles on a regular basis. Facebook and MySpace make it pretty simple to gain friends and Twitter makes it easy to gain followings. In all cases, you can find people to connect with that are near your geographic region or who share your same interests. To maximize your earning potential with social networking, you’ll want to add as many ‘friends’ as you can so that you have more people to promote to when it comes time to make money.
Updating your Profiles
Post relevant information to each of your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts on a daily basis. If you have some important piece of news or information that you want to get out immediately, send a tweet with that information. If you include a link to the affiliate or sales page where your followers can buy and sign up then you’ll have a chance to make money.
The same principle applies to your Facebook status. You’ll need to keep it updated with fresh information about what you’re doing and give your friends plenty of chances to click on links so that you can make money. For example, if you post a status update about some really interesting or cool product and make a recommendation to your entire network of Facebook friends then you have just marketed a new product.
The major principle that underlies making money with social network websites has to do with the amount of friends you have or how big your network is. In short, having a large network of friends gives you more chances to promote your own business or affiliate product. Making hundreds or thousands of dollars each month as a result of social networking is an attainable goal for most people. The trick, however, lies in what you promote, how many friends you have, and your dedication to each of your social networking profiles.
How to Make Money with Social Networking
Setting up Social Networks
The first step you’ll need to take when getting things in motion for your internet marketing money-making venture is to set up your social network profiles. Sign up for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and any other social networks that you want to use. Google Buzz is a newer social network that will definitely help if you leverage it in the right manner. You can sign up for Google Buzz through your Gmail service.
When you create each of your social networking profiles, you’ll want to be sure that each is inter-connected. In other words, link your Facebook page to your Twitter account, place links of your MySpace and Facebook profiles on your Twitter account. In addition, you’ll need to make sure that you have links going out to your main internet marketing, affiliate marketing, or business website so that your friends and visitors will have ample chance to click through to your site.
Promoting your Social Networks
After you’ve gotten your social networks such as Facebook and Twitter all ready to go, you’re going to have to work on promoting them, gaining popularity and friends, as well as updating your profiles on a regular basis. Facebook and MySpace make it pretty simple to gain friends and Twitter makes it easy to gain followings. In all cases, you can find people to connect with that are near your geographic region or who share your same interests. To maximize your earning potential with social networking, you’ll want to add as many ‘friends’ as you can so that you have more people to promote to when it comes time to make money.
Updating your Profiles
Post relevant information to each of your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts on a daily basis. If you have some important piece of news or information that you want to get out immediately, send a tweet with that information. If you include a link to the affiliate or sales page where your followers can buy and sign up then you’ll have a chance to make money.
The same principle applies to your Facebook status. You’ll need to keep it updated with fresh information about what you’re doing and give your friends plenty of chances to click on links so that you can make money. For example, if you post a status update about some really interesting or cool product and make a recommendation to your entire network of Facebook friends then you have just marketed a new product.
The major principle that underlies making money with social network websites has to do with the amount of friends you have or how big your network is. In short, having a large network of friends gives you more chances to promote your own business or affiliate product. Making hundreds or thousands of dollars each month as a result of social networking is an attainable goal for most people. The trick, however, lies in what you promote, how many friends you have, and your dedication to each of your social networking profiles.
How to Make Money with Social Networking
Thứ Bảy, 22 tháng 12, 2012
My network is just so... slow!
If you are still having issues, there are a couple of other troubleshooting tips. Pay attention to what is slow in your network. Is it internally slow—transferring files among computers, for example—or is it browsing the Internet that's slow? Is streaming from one device to another painfully slow? Look into updating firmware on all affected devices, or if possible adding a more powerful USB wireless adapter to a slow laptop or notebook, if they are one of the culprits.
If Internet access is slow, check to make sure you are getting near the bandwidth promised by your ISP. Use multiple speed test tools such as speedtest.net, speakeasy.net, and AT&T's speedtest to get different results to compare. Keep track of bandwidth at different times of the day and night as well as weekdays and weekends. Contact your ISP for further troubleshooting if you are not seeing the bandwidth you are supposed to receive from your ISP.
Internet Connection Tips; My network is just so... slow!
If Internet access is slow, check to make sure you are getting near the bandwidth promised by your ISP. Use multiple speed test tools such as speedtest.net, speakeasy.net, and AT&T's speedtest to get different results to compare. Keep track of bandwidth at different times of the day and night as well as weekdays and weekends. Contact your ISP for further troubleshooting if you are not seeing the bandwidth you are supposed to receive from your ISP.
Internet Connection Tips; My network is just so... slow!
I can't stream multimedia files from my laptop to my phone.
Quick fix: Streaming files such as videos and music from one device on a network to another is one of the most common networking tasks home users want to do. Because of standard in wireless technology, it's easy to stream files from computers, set-top boxes and multimedia players to clients such as smartphones and tablets.
If you are having problems streaming, there are two settings you want to make sure are enabled on the router: UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). UPnP allows networked devices to discover one another. Newer routers and devices also use DLNA for easy streaming between devices. Both can be enabled through a router's interface, typically in the router's management or advanced features page.
Internet Connection Tips; I can't stream multimedia files from my laptop to my phone.
If you are having problems streaming, there are two settings you want to make sure are enabled on the router: UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). UPnP allows networked devices to discover one another. Newer routers and devices also use DLNA for easy streaming between devices. Both can be enabled through a router's interface, typically in the router's management or advanced features page. Internet Connection Tips; I can't stream multimedia files from my laptop to my phone.
My friend gave me his router, but it doesn't work on my network.
Quick fix: If you happen to inherit a previously used router, you most likely won't be able to connect it to your broadband connection and just start using it. The best way to set up a previously configured router is to reset it back to factory default (usually by pressing the reset button underneath or on the back of the router). You can then check the router manufacturer's website to find out the default IP address, username and password or download any available set up software to configure the router for your network. 
Internet Connection Tips; My friend gave me his router, but it doesn't work on my network.
Internet Connection Tips; My friend gave me his router, but it doesn't work on my network.
I can't connect my new wireless gadget to my router.
You have a router that’s been working fine. Your laptop and your computer can connect it without any problems. But when you get a new iPad, tablet or handheld game for the holidays, sometimes that new device just won't connect. You know it's not a problem with the router, so what's going on?
Quick Fix: When a new device won't connect to a router that you know is working the first thing you want to check is make sure there isn’t a problem with the device. Check to make sure you can connect the device to another network, maybe a wireless hotspot. If the problem remains, check to make sure your device is connecting to the right wireless signal on your router, if you have a dual-band router.
Dual-band routers transmit signals at two bands: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Some routers will use the same SSID for each band and then some devices can connect automatically to the correct band. Almost all tablets, e-readers, gaming systems, and so on can connect to the 2.4 GHz band. Some newer wireless devices can connect to 5 GHz.
Whenever I set up a router, I like to make sure I create different SSIDs for the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. This way I can control which device connects to which band. For example, if I set up a Linksys dual-band router, I can name the 2.4 GHz band "Linksys_24" and the 5 GHz band "Linksys_5."
It's important to know at which band specific devices can connect. For instance, the iPhone 4S only supports the 2.4 GHz band. Motorola's Droid Razr, the non-LTE version, support both 2.4 and 5 GHz.
To see a listing of Wi-Fi support for the hottest wireless devices, check out The Wi-Fi You Need for the Gadgets You Want. If you don't see your device listed, or are not sure about the wireless compatibility, contact the device's manufacturer.
Internet Connection Tips; I can't connect my new wireless gadget to my router.
Quick Fix: When a new device won't connect to a router that you know is working the first thing you want to check is make sure there isn’t a problem with the device. Check to make sure you can connect the device to another network, maybe a wireless hotspot. If the problem remains, check to make sure your device is connecting to the right wireless signal on your router, if you have a dual-band router. Dual-band routers transmit signals at two bands: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Some routers will use the same SSID for each band and then some devices can connect automatically to the correct band. Almost all tablets, e-readers, gaming systems, and so on can connect to the 2.4 GHz band. Some newer wireless devices can connect to 5 GHz.
Whenever I set up a router, I like to make sure I create different SSIDs for the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. This way I can control which device connects to which band. For example, if I set up a Linksys dual-band router, I can name the 2.4 GHz band "Linksys_24" and the 5 GHz band "Linksys_5."
It's important to know at which band specific devices can connect. For instance, the iPhone 4S only supports the 2.4 GHz band. Motorola's Droid Razr, the non-LTE version, support both 2.4 and 5 GHz.
To see a listing of Wi-Fi support for the hottest wireless devices, check out The Wi-Fi You Need for the Gadgets You Want. If you don't see your device listed, or are not sure about the wireless compatibility, contact the device's manufacturer.
Internet Connection Tips; I can't connect my new wireless gadget to my router.
The Router Shuts Itself Off
The Problem: After having a router for a while, you notice that every now and then it shuts itself off.
Quick Fix: This is usually caused by overheating. Many of us leave our routers running 24/7. As it ages, the router can become more inefficient at cooling. Check to ensure the cooling vents on the router are not obstructed. Unplug the router for a bit. Use a can of compressed air to clear out as much dust as you can from the vents.
Newer routers have energy efficient settings that let you specify when it should shut the wireless radio off or power down, such as after 30 minutes of being idle. If your router doesn’t have this feature, best practice is to turn it off when it’s not being used to extend its life.
Internet Connection Tips; The Router Shuts Itself Off
Quick Fix: This is usually caused by overheating. Many of us leave our routers running 24/7. As it ages, the router can become more inefficient at cooling. Check to ensure the cooling vents on the router are not obstructed. Unplug the router for a bit. Use a can of compressed air to clear out as much dust as you can from the vents. Newer routers have energy efficient settings that let you specify when it should shut the wireless radio off or power down, such as after 30 minutes of being idle. If your router doesn’t have this feature, best practice is to turn it off when it’s not being used to extend its life.
Internet Connection Tips; The Router Shuts Itself Off
I Forgot the Password to My Router
The Problem: You forgot the password to manage your router. Period.
Quick Fix: You have to reset the router back to its factory default settings. You'll lose all your configuration settings made on the router. On the back of most routers is a recessed button labeled "Reset." Using a paper clip, hold this button in until the LEDs on the router blink (the amount of time you need to hold the reset button may vary from router to router, so check the documentation). This will reset the router back to factory settings, enabling you to use the default username and password again. Also, many current routers allow you to save the configuration settings so you don't have to reconfigure after performing a factory reset, so check to see if your router has that capability.
Internet Connection Tips; I Forgot the Password to My Router
Quick Fix: You have to reset the router back to its factory default settings. You'll lose all your configuration settings made on the router. On the back of most routers is a recessed button labeled "Reset." Using a paper clip, hold this button in until the LEDs on the router blink (the amount of time you need to hold the reset button may vary from router to router, so check the documentation). This will reset the router back to factory settings, enabling you to use the default username and password again. Also, many current routers allow you to save the configuration settings so you don't have to reconfigure after performing a factory reset, so check to see if your router has that capability. Internet Connection Tips; I Forgot the Password to My Router
Port Forwarding Does Not Work
The Problem: You want to run an application that requires a specific port on your network to be open. You follow the directions that the app developers provide only to get the error, "Port closed."
Quick Fix: Usually, this isn't a problem with a user's configuration. It's a problem on the Internet service provider's side. ISPs will often block ports to strengthen your network against hackers and intruders. Before frantically going through your configuration steps again, check to make sure the port you are setting up for forwarding is not blocked by your ISP. Use a tool like the Open Port Check Tool to see if the port you need opened is being blocked. If so, contact your ISP.
Internet Connection Tips; Port Forwarding Does Not Work
Quick Fix: Usually, this isn't a problem with a user's configuration. It's a problem on the Internet service provider's side. ISPs will often block ports to strengthen your network against hackers and intruders. Before frantically going through your configuration steps again, check to make sure the port you are setting up for forwarding is not blocked by your ISP. Use a tool like the Open Port Check Tool to see if the port you need opened is being blocked. If so, contact your ISP.
Internet Connection Tips; Port Forwarding Does Not Work
When I Move to Another Room in the House, the WiFi Signal Drops
The Problem: In your living room, your wireless connection is fine. Move into another room and the signal becomes weak or nonexistent.
Quick Fix: There are several things that could cause a wireless signal to drop. The big culprit is interference. Cordless phones and any device using the 2.4GHz band could be the cause. Even things you couldn't imagine could cause interference, including mirrors and glass. Once you've checked for physical interference, test something: Do all your devices and computers lose signal at the same location, or just one in particular? If all, chances are the problem lies with the router. Consider external antenna for the router and also check for router firmware updates. If one specific machine is dropping the signal, update that machine's wireless client adapter or upgrade the adapter altogether.
Internet Connection Tips; When I Move to Another Room in the House, the WiFi Signal Drops
Internet Connection Tips; When I Move to Another Room in the House, the WiFi Signal Drops
The Wireless Network's Name/SSID Disappeared
Internet Connection Tips; The Wireless Network's Name/SSID Disappeared
The Problem: All of a sudden, your SSID or Wi-Fi network name is no longer listed when you click to see available wireless networks. There are various reasons this might happen, and it's not an uncommon occurrence.
Quick Fix: Force your computer or device to connect to the router even if it's not broadcasting. From Windows, go into Control Panel|Network and Internet|Network and Sharing|Manage Wireless Networks.
If you see your wireless network listed, right-click on its icon and click Properties. Check the option "Connect even if the network is not broadcasting its name (SSID)."
If you don't see your wireless network listed, click "Add" then select "Manually connect to a wireless network" and put your wireless information in.
Mac users: You can also "force-join" an SSID that has stopped broadcasting through a Mac's Airport Utility. Select to join "Other" and type in the name of the network and password.
Of course, you still want to find out why your SSID stopped broadcasting. Check to make sure broadcasting was not inadvertently disabled in the router's software, reboot the router, and check for any software updates.
Internet Connection Tips; The Wireless Network's Name/SSID Disappeared
The Problem: All of a sudden, your SSID or Wi-Fi network name is no longer listed when you click to see available wireless networks. There are various reasons this might happen, and it's not an uncommon occurrence.
If you see your wireless network listed, right-click on its icon and click Properties. Check the option "Connect even if the network is not broadcasting its name (SSID)."
If you don't see your wireless network listed, click "Add" then select "Manually connect to a wireless network" and put your wireless information in.
Mac users: You can also "force-join" an SSID that has stopped broadcasting through a Mac's Airport Utility. Select to join "Other" and type in the name of the network and password.
Of course, you still want to find out why your SSID stopped broadcasting. Check to make sure broadcasting was not inadvertently disabled in the router's software, reboot the router, and check for any software updates.
Internet Connection Tips; The Wireless Network's Name/SSID Disappeared
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