Gmail has been one of my all time favourite web mail service not just for their mailing, but for their outstanding experimentation capabilities. Gmail we know is now no more a beta, that is not under development. Gmail blog published a video about Gmail tasks & what you can do with it two days back, so...
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What is your Weekend Blogging Strategy?
What is your weekend blogging strategy?
* Do you post less because people are not online as much?
* Do you post more to try to keep traffic levels up?
* Do you just take a couple of days off and just take a break?
* Do you write posts in advance and schedule them to go off automatically?
* Do you use the weekend to write posts for the next week because you’ve got extra time on my hands?
Interested to hear your strategy.
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* Do you post less because people are not online as much?
* Do you post more to try to keep traffic levels up?
* Do you just take a couple of days off and just take a break?
* Do you write posts in advance and schedule them to go off automatically?
* Do you use the weekend to write posts for the next week because you’ve got extra time on my hands?
Interested to hear your strategy.
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Stop the Twitter bots stop the spam
Have you had any of these tweets recently? I can name a few that I have had and they really do frustrate me as there is nothing you can do to prevent them, they are in my opinion worse than email spam. They aren’t even from a real person so even If you complain or respond to the tweet you won’t necessarily get a response from them. Worse than that you will probably get another spam tweet for contacting them.
What do they provide to the person receiving them, is there any benefit? In some cases they could be useful although I can’t think of any right now. In my experience more often than not they are a waste of time and just clutter my twitter account. Have you had any experience of Twitter bots?
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What do they provide to the person receiving them, is there any benefit? In some cases they could be useful although I can’t think of any right now. In my experience more often than not they are a waste of time and just clutter my twitter account. Have you had any experience of Twitter bots?
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The Importance Of Link Building With SEO
There are many facets to successful SEO, but one good basic place to start is with link building. Almost everybody who has had a site for a bit already participates in some form of link building. Simply put, it involves putting a link to another website somewhere on your page, in exchange for that website doing the same thing for your site. This is an effective tool that acts as a sort of advertisement for you in the eyes of the search engines, and it will work even for small sites.
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Careful with Those Shortened Links
Tinyurl.com started the trend some years ago, and now URL shortening services are everywhere, from social bookmarking sites to mainstream media sites which have their own shortening engines.
In a web that more than ever moves at 140 characters at a time, those services are quite handy (especially the ones that let you track the statistics). Shortened links also have a drawback, however, which is the fact that you can’t see where the link is pointing. Bring malicious users into the picture, and you can see the security risks. There are websites that will try to inject malware in your system as soon as you visit it. Others that will try to set special filters in your Gmail account and so on.
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In a web that more than ever moves at 140 characters at a time, those services are quite handy (especially the ones that let you track the statistics). Shortened links also have a drawback, however, which is the fact that you can’t see where the link is pointing. Bring malicious users into the picture, and you can see the security risks. There are websites that will try to inject malware in your system as soon as you visit it. Others that will try to set special filters in your Gmail account and so on.
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3 Methods to Showcase Your Best Content to New Visitors
Making sure that new visitors can easily access your best content is indeed very important. Here are the three methods to achieve that.
1. The “Popular Posts” Section
This is probably the most common method, and it involves creating a section in your blog template where you can display your “Popular Posts.” Those posts can be chosen manually by you, or you can use a plugin to rank them according to page views, comments and the like.
Usually this section goes in the sidebar, but it can also be placed in the header, footer, and below single posts (e.g., aside or replacing the “Related Posts”).
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1. The “Popular Posts” Section
This is probably the most common method, and it involves creating a section in your blog template where you can display your “Popular Posts.” Those posts can be chosen manually by you, or you can use a plugin to rank them according to page views, comments and the like.
Usually this section goes in the sidebar, but it can also be placed in the header, footer, and below single posts (e.g., aside or replacing the “Related Posts”).
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Five Sure-Fire Introduction Formulas
Imagine this: you come across a blog post that assumes you have $5,000 to spend on a start-up website, and asks if you think you’d blow it on the wrong things. Sounds like you’re interested in your budgeting now, huh?
The hypothetical situation is great for drawing attention from specific types of readers. It takes some imagination to put yourself in the shoes of readers, but once you’re there, they’ll follow you wherever you take them.
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The hypothetical situation is great for drawing attention from specific types of readers. It takes some imagination to put yourself in the shoes of readers, but once you’re there, they’ll follow you wherever you take them.
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How to Steal Email Time to Create Writing Time
You may be billing 2000+ hours a year, but if you want to be a writer, you've got to carve out time for it now--while you're still lawyering. One of the best ways to do that is to get a grip on your email habits. continue..
Successful Local SEO Searches
To get the best results from local SEO searches, a few simple steps can make a world of difference. Follow these quick tips and you should see improved results in your local SEO searches. continue..
Google Cheat Sheet
So I know it’s been quite some time since my last post, no worries, as I think this blog is going to come to a grinding halt.
There are soo many great seo blogs out there already, and in order to be a well-read blog, one needs to be on top of events as they happen. continue..
There are soo many great seo blogs out there already, and in order to be a well-read blog, one needs to be on top of events as they happen. continue..
Google Tricks
Enter just the word http for your search to find the top 1000 PageRanked sites.
Enter only www in your search to see how Google ranks the top 1,000 sites.
Manually type the following prefixes and note their utility:
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Enter only www in your search to see how Google ranks the top 1,000 sites.
Manually type the following prefixes and note their utility:
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28 Great Link Building Strategies
Link building can greatly help your business increase ranking within the search engines and cover any bad press about your business online. Here are some ideas that you can use to build links in the search engines: continue..
The 52 Top SEO Tips - Here Are 10 of Them
From the obvious to the "Hey-I-never-thought-of-that-great-idea-before", here are 10 of the top 52 tips on how to optimize your website for its turbo-charge rocket ride up the search engine rankings. continue..
How to Make Money with Marketing Pond
Join Marketing Pond to get free business resources and advice and learn how to make money online. Pond members can also join free advertising and marketing programs within the group. According to... continue..
How to File for a Copyright
Although copyright is automatically given to the creator of an original work, copyright registration establishes a public claim making it easier to prove ownership. continue..
Estimating your website/blog potential revenue
WebsiteOutlook gives you a very good picture of how many pageview, daily ads revenue your website has. It can be used for numerous purposes especially when doing research. An Advertisers can get an estimate of how many pageview a site has before buying adverts. If you want to buy a website or domain Websiteoutlook can give you a pretty good idea about the number of pageview and website worth the site has before contacting the owner. Websiteoutlook is good for any initial research or just because you're curious. continue..
10 Free Blog Promotion Tips
If you want to grow your blog, then it's critical that you take time to promote it. Unfortunately, the old theory, "if you build it, they will come," doesn't apply to blogs. With over one hundred million blogs being tracked by blog search engines such as Technorati, publishing compelling content isn't enough to drive awareness and traffic for your blog. Instead, you need to invest in some old-fashioned sweat equity to give your blog a traffic boost. The 10 free blog promotion tips below will help you get started. continue..
Add Twitter to your Blogger blog
If you're using new Blogger Layouts (or are not sure), just click the button on the left.
If you're not using new Blogger layouts, just grab the code and insert it into the sidebar of your blog template. continue..
If you're not using new Blogger layouts, just grab the code and insert it into the sidebar of your blog template. continue..
Check the load time of your site
In order to check the load time of your site you can use an online tool called “Website Speed Test“. It allows you to enter up to 10 websites, and the results display the size of the website, the total loading time and the average speed per KB. continue..
SEO Toolset
If you are trying to optimize your website to search engines you should check the SEO Toolset from Webconfs.com. The tools cover almost all SEO aspects, from keywords to domain names, from backlinks to redirects. Below you find some of the services that I use often: continue..
Test Your Website on a Mobile Phone
Lately there is a lot of buzz about .mobi domains and making websites compatible with people browsing from mobile phones. Personally, I believe that this issue is important for mainstream websites like Google or The New York Times, while small publishers (read you and me) still have at least one year before they need to pay attention to the problem. continue..
15 Tools To Measure The Popularity of Your Website
I came across this article a while ago already, but it has some nice tools inside to will share with you guys nonetheless. It is titled 15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity, and it basically has a list with tools that you can use to see how third parties see your traffic levels, the number of backlinks, social media bookmarks and so on. continue..
50 Tips to Speed Up Your Website
There are all sorts of tips and tools included, from reducing the number of HTTP requests to compressing images and playing with caches. Here are six articles that I wrote on the topic some time ago (they were included on the list): continue..
Add Twitter to MyBlogLog
Step 1: Login your MyBlogLog profile, and click the “add twitter” link under your user name. Or, directly goto add twitter feed page. continue..
Find Your Most Popular Web Pages on Twitter with Google Docs
If you were to measure the popularity of your website content on Twitter, the most effective way would be that you count the number of tweets (and re-tweets) that are linking to your web pages.continue..
Getting Noticed by A-list bloggers vs Getting on Digg Front Pages
Increase in Site Traffic - Digg will flood your blog with new visitors so much so that your web-host may even confuse that new traffic with a DDoS attack. On the other side, the traffic coming from A-list blogs might be disappointing - you may see regular traffic increasing by 1K or 2K but nothing drastic. continue..
Digg Traffic vs Referral Traffic - Which is Best?
It fits pretty closely to a comment I made last week in an interview with Jeremy when I was asked which social networking site I’d prefer to get traffic from. My response was (and I’m paraphrasing here) that while I don’t mind the rush of traffic of traffic that a site like Digg can bring in that I’d prefer a link from another blogger because it brings a different type of traffic. continue..
11 Ways to Find New RSS Subscribers for Your Blog
This past two weeks I’ve been talking about how to make your RSS feed ‘Pop’ - to stand out from the crowd a little - however covering this topic has caused a few readers to ask RSS related questions that don’t necessarily relate to improving your feed but which are worth covering. continue..
A - Z of Professional Blogging Tools
Following is my A to Z of Professional blogging including blogging tools, blogging platforms, blogging services and ways of making money from blogging (in fact whether you blog for money or not much of what follows should help you improve your blogging). continue..
10 Reasons Why Many Blogs Don't Make Much Money
Chris Garrett writes a good post on Can Anyone Make Money From Blogging? and says that the answer to the question is ‘yes’ - but then qualifies his answer with a number of factors.
My own answer to the question would be very similar. continue..
My own answer to the question would be very similar. continue..
Why You Shouldn’t Join a Blog Network
Having looked at some of the advantages of joining a blog network it’s only fair that we look at the flip side. Blog networks will not suit every blogger’s personality, style and goals and you should take into account the following before signing up for one: continue..
How to Drive Traffic to Your Affiliate Programs
One key to affiliate programs succeeding is that you have enough traffic that actually sees your affiliate links. There is little point in actually deep linking to products on pages that no one actually visits. So how can you increase the chances of people seeing and potentially clicking your affiliate links? continue..
10 Ways to make your Blog more Attractive to Advertisers
Today’s guest post comes from Chad Randall, the Director of Sales for b5media and the author of AdvertiseSpace. Chad has been working in the online advertising industry for over 6 years now, and has personally sold more than $5,000,000 in online ads. I figured he’d be a good person to ask about how to make your blog attractive to advertisers. continue..
Create a Heatmap of Where Readers Click on Your Blog
Have you ever wondered what readers of your blog do when they arrive at it? What do they look at? What links do they click on? What internal navigation do they use? What ads do they click? What positions on your blog do people gravitate towards? continue..
How to Increase Your Traffic With SEO Tools
To begin with you will need to know your Alexa Ranking and that of your competitors. This will give you a starting point and let you know where you are in relationship to your competition. continue..
The 4 Step Long Tail Keyword Traffic Blast
There are a number of methods and techniques out there for ranking high in the search engines but surely they can't all be right? Well, maybe they are but I know I have tried numerous techniques and this is the one that's produced the best, sustainable results. continue..
The 4 Step Long Tail Keyword Traffic Blast
There are a number of methods and techniques out there for ranking high in the search engines but surely they can't all be right? Well, maybe they are but I know I have tried numerous techniques and this is the one that's produced the best, sustainable results. continue..
3 Traffic Optimization Tips With Google Analytics
Have you ever wondered that at the end of the day where does your visitors really come from? Are they from the sites that you have tried to promote yourself on like Twitter or Facebook? Or are they from the sites that you are an active member of like Yahoo Answers or some forums? Well, today I will be talking to you about this online tool called the Google Analytics. continue..
Keywords Can Make Or Break Your Web Site Page Rank
SEO is a marketing ploy to enhance the popularity of your website. If your website is popular you will have enhanced traffic flow. This will naturally translate to better business. So what are the benefits of SEO marketing? We list them below:
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Get More Backlinks With a Little Known Google Tool
It is a fantastic little free service from Google. I should not really be writing about it as it can give you a real competitive edge in the race for getting backlinks and publicity for your website.
It is called "Google Alert". Do a search for it...on Google of course!
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It is called "Google Alert". Do a search for it...on Google of course!
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Website Promotion - Have Someone Do it For You
Your new website in next to worthless if you are not doing the proper website promotion. It will cost a little money to have someone promote your website for you but the results can be well worth it. The most important thing is to make sure you hire a qualified company to do your website marketing. You want to hire a company that knows how to use articles, back links, and blog and forum posting to push your website to the top of the search engine results page lists. continue..
5 Steps to a Well-Structured Page Title
Your Web site's page title tag appears at the very top of Internet browser windows and is the cornerstone of a well-optimized Web site. If your page's title is "home," "my company," or the same on every page, it's critical you make some changes. continue..
Simple SEO Tips to Get Your Site Noticed
You've created a website to promote your products and services, but what's next? With the web, you can't depend on the "if you build it, they will come" mantra. The World Wide Web is a huge maze of information, and your potential customers may not be able to find you even if your product is exactly what they need. continue..
Linking Strategies - Here Are Some Ways to Get Quality Back Links
You may have mixed feelings when it comes to building backlinks for your website. If you look around the internet you will get many different opinions of what is right and what is wrong when it comes to this. All the different opinions can make you feel really confused and you'll never get your link building campaign started. continue..
The Gatekeeper: robots.txt
The Robots Exclusion Protocol from 1994 defines "a method that allows Web site administrators to indicate to visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited by the robot". That's a quasi standard, but crawlers sent out by major search engines do comply. continue..
What to Do When People Unsubscribe?
If you offer email subscription via Feedburner, you probably noticed that you have the option to be notified whenever someone unsubscribes from your blog. I have this featured enabled, and on Daily Blog Tips around 3 people unsubscribe every week (luckily more than that subscribe, so the net result is positive). continue..
Do Small Bloggers Have A Chance With Digg?
I visit Digg on a regular basis to vote on stories that I like as well as to find new and interesting information. A few days ago I was reading through the items that were currently listed on the front page of the technology section, and was observing the rich getting richer and smaller bloggers having a difficult time cracking the upper echelon of Digg success. continue..
10 Important Facts of Blog Promotion
Almost every blogger aims to grow their blog and reach a larger audience. Unfortunately, most new bloggers don’t know much about promoting a blog when they are just getting started. The good news is you will learn pretty quickly if you are consistently involved and working at promoting your blog. Here are ten things that I have learned to be true from my experience. continue..
How to Get 2000 Subscribers in 12 Days
I was really happy to reach 2000 RSS subscribers after 5 months of blogging with Daily Blog Tips. Guess what, the guys behind FreelanceSwitch.com managed to accomplish that in 12 days! There is an interesting post titled “How We Took a Blog from 0 to 2000 Subscribers in Just 12 Days”, where they explain how they managed to do it. Below you will find my summary of the article: continue..
Buying Targeted Traffic
The Concept: Do a quick search on Google for “buy traffic” or “targeted traffic” and you will see an immense number of sponsored results. Those are basically websites that sell targeted traffic (or so they claim, but read on).
The amount of traffic and cost vary. Here are some examples that I gathered: “250,000 real visitors for $69,” “10,000 targeted visitors for $39,” and “10,000 visitors for $9,99.” continue..
The amount of traffic and cost vary. Here are some examples that I gathered: “250,000 real visitors for $69,” “10,000 targeted visitors for $39,” and “10,000 visitors for $9,99.” continue..
How to add bookmarker widgets in Blogger
This tutorial will explain simple way to add cool social bookmarker widgets to Blogger pages. In this case we'll use simple Blogger Plugin from BlogSocializer. This plugin allows us to add nine popular bookmarkers button on every pages of our blog. Including Digg, Technorati, Delicious, Yahoo! MyWeb, Google Fusion, Blink, Furl, Simpy, and Stumble upon. Here we go.. continue..
Use These 10 Tips to Write Your Most Popular Post Ever
One popular post can bring your more traffic and links than a month’s worth of your usual content.
In this post, I want to set you a challenge with the potential to launch your blog into the stratosphere.
Make the next post you write your most popular post ever.
The following ten tips form my key advice for tackling this task. I used all of them when hitting the Digg front page for the first time. There’s no blueprint you can follow to write an incredibly popular post, but you won’t have a chance unless you try. I’m confident these tips will give you a good shot at success. continue..
In this post, I want to set you a challenge with the potential to launch your blog into the stratosphere.
Make the next post you write your most popular post ever.
The following ten tips form my key advice for tackling this task. I used all of them when hitting the Digg front page for the first time. There’s no blueprint you can follow to write an incredibly popular post, but you won’t have a chance unless you try. I’m confident these tips will give you a good shot at success. continue..
50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers
Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right? continue..
Improve Your Google Rankings in One Easy Step
Having a top rank in Google is the holy grail for anyone who has a website. Organic Google traffic is free advertising and how most bloggers (especially those just starting out) achieve visitors and traffic to their site. It all comes down to a simple numbers game. Essentially, more traffic = more money-making opportunities from your blog. The question is, how do you get ranked higher for my blog posts using Blogger? continue..
How to display your web site logo on the address bar and in the favorites list
Want to make your web site standout in crowded favorites lists in browsers and address bars? How about displaying your logo next to links to your site. continue..
Top 10 Google Adsense Tips and Secrets
You ever notice how the more common sense something is, the more amazing it is on a list of secrets. If you can create a DUH!!! Factor, you've found a precious secret. So... In that spirit, I give you my most logical, common sense, DUH level google adsense tips and secrets. FYI, I am the holder of the all time engadget.com CTR for an advertiser. Ask Calacanis or Rojas about my 5% CTR. continue..
The missing UI library for the web
This page introduces two you the minimal setup for tabs. It's important to understand how this example works because it teaches you the theory behind tabs. Understanding this helps you to build any kind of tabs you want. Here is our example.
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Search Engine Friendly Query Strings
A search engine friendly URL doesn't contain a question mark followed by a list of variables and their values. A search engine friendly URL is short and contains the keywords describing the page's content best, separated by hyphens. This does not only help with rankings, it helps visitors and especially bookmarkers too. read...
The easiest way to redirect feed traffic
If you use Blogger, TypePad, or self-hosted WordPress to publish your blog or site, you\'re in luck! Each of these platforms offers an automated option to greatly simplify how to activate redirection. continue...
How can I make my blog load faster
The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users: continue...
What’s My Feedburner ID?
Feedburner is an absolute dream come true for a blogger. In fact, I would put in in the top 5 tools that every single blogger needs in their arsenal. It tracks the number of feed subscribers you have, it allows you to offer feed updates via email, and it even has professional site statistics now too! (all for free, mind you)
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Invite Search Engine Spiders Into Your Dynamic Web Site
Did the spider actually visit? Maybe not. Dynamic page content is often invisible to most search engine spiders, so it never gets indexed. Increase the traffic to your dynamic site by making your valuable content visible to search engine spiders. continue
Random Wallpaper for WinXP
Wallpaper is the background image of the computer on desktop view, and sometime users will feel bored when they see the same wallpaper everyday or every time when they boot up their computer. For escape from bored wallpaper for window computer, users now may set the random wallpaper on their computer. Bionix Wallpaper is the software can perform this task for users. continue
