1. Read
What was your inspiration to Blog? By reading what someone else had to blog perhaps? That was my inspiration and it thought me that Reading is an important part of blogging, by reading you gain information, you gain inspiration. You also become a better blogger by picking up on the good qualities of other Bloggers.

2. Organize
Organize your mind, your information, your opinions, your blog.No one likes an Article where you talk about something in the first paragraph, miss out some information and then try to squeeze it in somewhere else or exclude that info completely. So first before blogging about something, organize your information, stats and everything else you are going to use in your article.

3. Avoid Blogging in the Spur of the moment
I think all of you have seen the Movie “The Social Network”, if you remember, right after Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend broke up with him, he went online and blogged about some personal issues, which turned out to be a bad decision. Now I am not saying that blogging in the spur of the moment will land you in trouble, but it may have some bad effects. Imagine you just saw your favorite football team lose a game to their arch rivals due to a bad decision by the referee, and in that anger you online and post something on your Blog with a lot of harsh words, most of which were uncalled for.Two days later you read some “disappointed” comments from your regular readers and you think to yourself, “What made me write such a Post?”.The answer is simple, The Moment.Keep a level head before Blogging and you should be fine.

4. Relate To Things
Did I get your attention in the previous paragraph by relating to something that you watched, like the Facebook Movie, or that bad feeling when your favorite sports team lost?

This is called relating to everyday things, engage your audience, make them think “Aah that happened me once” or “Yea, now that I think about it….”. This is a vital part of Blogging, without connecting to your audience, you will never grow as a Blogger.

5. Treat Your Readers as Friends
In today’s world there are a thousand and one bloggers, so if someone takes time out of their usual schedule and reads what you have to say, you owe to it to them to treat them well, as your Friend.Ask for a response from them, be it positive or negative, take it in your stride and learn from it.It will surely make you a Better Blogger, if not today, Tomorrow.

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EV SSL or Extended Validation SSL is a latest generation of SSL Certificates that was designed only for the purpose of conveying great strength as one of the best e-commerce security solutions as well as protect against phishing attacks to your website. Users or visitors can be sure of security by checking the green address bar that the website is secure and trusted for any type of communication or transactions. This will help the webmasters or business marketers can build long term revenue by increasing trust online.

Benefits of Getting Extended Validation SSL:

• Strong 128 / 256 bit encryption
• 99.9% Browser Recognition Rate
• EV Upgrade technology enables EV visibility for Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP systems
• Increases customer trust to increase conversion rates
• Helps to cut shopping cart desertion
• Protects your visitors from phishing scams

With the growing occurrence of the phishing attacks, the users can’t easily trust in online transactions and the online businesses have to suffer from less conversion rates. But here is a solution: the EV SSL certificates are developed only for the reason to win the customer confidence with the strong verification and visible display in almost all browsers like IE9 and Firefox 4.

When a user visits your website which is EV SSL certified, the address bar of the browser turns to green which shows that the site is verified and trusted to use it for transactions. Also one check the organizational identity with the name of the CA like VeriSign, GeoTrust next to the green bar to reassure that the website is genuine and not fraud.

Who can get the EV SSL Certificate ?

To get the Extended Validation certificate for any organization involves the most precise process among any other SSL certificate. The CA (Certification Authority/Browser) Forum sets the standards for an organization to qualify. The organization must have to be registered with an official registration authority within their jurisdiction. Corporations, partnerships, unincorporated companies, government agencies and sole proprietors can also apply for EV SSL. The Certification Authority (such as VeriSign, Thawte, GeoTrust, or RapidSSL) gets back to you with full qualifying questions and instructions for making your online business more secure and trusted.

The end users are looking for a system that help them to take better decisions about whom to trust on the web for making any type of transactions and for that CA forum needs to modify the trust infrastructure of the websites. They have developed an Extended Validation SSL certificate which fully includes the best user interface with the symbol of the trust and confidence for the end users. EV SSL Certificates provide their strength on specific identity authentication process requirements and certificate validity verification information for the users to check the security level.

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1. Check out the technical specs

The first factor to see is the technical specifications of web hosting service that one will be hiring. One need to make the mental note of software and hardware used and so based on technical specifications, the price of hosting service is determined. The ability to upgrade these services is something that is another crucial factor to keep in mind when choosing the hosting services.

You will even have to keep in mind the downtime and up-time of the company and the bandwidth offered. All these things are concerned with the needs of your site and so in case you have a big website, you will surely wish to opt for higher bandwidth so that it can feature all the content as well as graphics on your site prominently. As it is observed that most visitors have short attention span and patience, in case your site does not load smoothly, you may expect losing the clients.

2. Quality is the key

More so, quality and reliability are other factors that need to pay attention to when hiring the web hosting services. A large number of customers make the error of hiring cheap hosting services. Such services charge low rates but when it comes to hosting services, they are unreliable and undependable. But on the other hand, there are some companies as well that offer high end hosting services at affordable rates. All you need to do is to just research for the best hosting services that are not just affordable but qualitative as well.

3. See the features provided

Most hosting service providers also offer different packages and plans. This way, you can choose the one that suits your specific requirements and the needs of your site. Some top features that one needs to look for include unlimited disk space, domain and sub domain names, span protection, high speed bandwidth, email addresses, auto responders and site management tools.

4. Is the web host experienced?

You even need to see the experience of the web host when making your choice for the best web hosting services. The experienced hosts are more likely to offer you best deals and that too the reliable ones.

5. Customer support

Availability of the services is yet another factor that needs to be wisely considered. It is crucial that the web host you hire provides 24*7 technical support so that you can easily maintain your site efficiently. Also, look for the services that offer backup support.

Lastly, how would you come to know if the service provider is credible? Make a thorough research, read some customer reviews and find the best hosting services. The online customer reviews are crucial as they help people to choose the best hosting provider. Therefore, keep these factors in mind and they will definitely help you to hire the best hosting services around.

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The community manager of Google, Paul Wilcox said:

• If a person have received an update notification on your phone sometime ago but the update is currently not available for your phone, then it is likely to be the result of Google pausing the particular update in that area for monitoring feedback from the used customers.
• He also mentioned that the Android 4.0 update is continuing to roll out around the world hence your phone will receive another notification when it start getting available in your region again.

The Nexus S users have reported that they are able to download the latest update for this ICS but were unable to go ahead installing the same afterwards. They also feel that monitoring feedback looks like an excuse from Google as they are not interested in publishing related to the use of release of this particular update. It is still not clear which are the areas that are being stopped as some users have reported problems using Wi-Fi and in getting network signal right from the moment they have completed the upgrade.

Reason to hold the release:

The reason that Google mentions for holding the operating system is that they need to monitor feedback from the users as the users have faced typically high battery drain after the installation of the software in their Nexus S.

The high battery drain may have been caused due to the induction of spike in processor usage and this reason may not be enough to hold all the updates worldwide but they are not ready to return with the update till Google gets satisfied that there is no further issue or customers will not face any issue after installing particular update.

The problems that the users found with the recent update and what they have been mentioning in the Google forums is that they have seen battery drain issues. It is also doubted that this particular situation must have arise due to the Kernel behind the low-level software on the device is artificially keeping the mobile device awake even when the screen itself is off, reducing the battery power more than in usual cases where the battery lost for long.

Google has not officially announced when they are planning to come back with the update again and continuing with the current situation. People are also waiting to hear more from Google’s reaction to the entire issues and how they are going to overcome the same in the future.

Authors Bio:

Raj is writing for a Website Design Company that offers high quality Qatar Web Designing, Dubai and Middle East.

The majority of the following tweaks are relatively quick and easy things you could do on your website to help you to make even more money. Try one or try them all, but not matter how many tweaks you do to your site, you will most likely start seeing more money in your accounts in no time.

1. Share and Follow Buttons

Social media is so important, and almost everyone knows that if they want their site to make it, they need a presence on the major social media networks like Twitter and Facebook. This also means letting your visitors quickly and easily share the contents of your site with a single click via visible, easily found share buttons.

At the same time, you want your visitors to become your fans on social media. This way they will know when you have new content and will flock to your site. Make sure you have very visible buttons on all your pages that let your visitors become your fan, follower or whatever the appropriate title is for each respective website.

2. Make ads More Discrete

You love ads because you get to make money doing next to nothing. Your visitors hate ads because they just want the free content you are providing. In order to make sure that your advertisements aren’t driving away your visitors, make them small and discrete. Place single ad units instead of huge sidebars, and consider sticking ads in between posts instead of before the content. If visitors are seeing ads before they see any content, they probably won’t stick around to scroll down the page.

3. Make it Load Faster

If a site is slow to load, a visitor is likely to simply click away to view another page. If a site is consistently slow loading or fails to load altogether, visitors just may not come back. If your site is powered by WordPress, plugins like Super Cache can make your site (and all of its money-making features) load even faster. You may also want to go with dedicated server hosting; while it costs a bit more, the speed and consistency will pay off in the long run.

4. Tailor your Content to be Similar to Whatever Your Wrote on Peak Traffic Days

You surely use Google Analytics and other tools to monitor the traffic to your site. If you run a blog or other site with frequent additions and changes to content, you can see how each of these alterations affected your traffic. To optimize the numbers of visitors to your site, and the amount of money you make from it, you should try to tailor your content so that it is as similar as possible to whatever is posted on you top pages.

5. Forget the Flash

Flash sites are slick and they look super cool, but they are not helping you make money. Flash can take a long time to load, and sometimes it doesn’t load at all. It doesn’t work on the top iPhones or other mobile devices. This means that if you have a flash site, your visitors and potential customers don’t see anything, and they probably won’t head back to see more nothing.

On your next redesign, ditch the Flash altogether. If you really want it, make sure you have an alternate version of the site that can appear for users that don’t have flash. If you are serious about making money, you don’t want to lose customers because they can’t view your site. While you are at it, you probably want to make a mobile version of your site since mobile surfing is soon to eclipse website visits made from traditional devices like desktop and laptop computers.

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1. Title Tags

The title tag of your website appears in Google’s search results (it’s the text that links to your site) and is probably the most important on-page SEO element.  Give each page a unique and keyword rich title tag.  Keep the keywords around 65 characters and then add your business name to the end after a separator, like the pipe bar.

2. Meta Descriptions

Give each page on your site a unique meta description.  Though Google doesn’t factor these into their rankings, they show up under your link in search results and give you a great opportunity to convince potential visitors to click on your site.

3. H1 Tags

The H1 tag is an html element that denotes the main heading on a web page.  This is a factor in ranking, so make sure that each page’s H1 tag uses the main keyword from its title tag.

4. Internal Competition

In the title tags, etc., make sure not to target one keyword on multiple pages.  You can target more than one keyword per page, but targeting the same keyword on multiple pages will cause the pages to compete with each other in Google’s rankings.

5. Non-www to www 301 Redirect

Web servers create two versions of a site:  one with www at the beginning and one without.  This is so someone will still end up in the right place if they type in yoursite.com rather than www.yoursite.com.  Make sure to apply a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file so that visitors to yoursite.com are automatically taken to www.yoursite.com.  This will help to concentrate ranking power on the main version of the site, rather than spreading it between two.

6. Sitemap.xml

A sitemap is a file read by search engines that lists the pages of your site so the search engine knows where to crawl.  Adding one to your server will help to get all of the pages crawled and indexed by Google.  You can create one here: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/.  Then, open a Google Webmaster account and you can easily upload the file through the dashboard.

7. Robots.txt

Like the sitemap, a robots.txt file is read by search engines, but this file tells them what NOT to crawl and index.  You’ll want to upload one of these to your server and include any sections of your site that you don’t want to be indexed.  Check out tip #8 for some ideas about what to include.

8. Duplicate Content

Google doesn’t like sites that contain content that’s duplicated, whether the duplicated content appears within the site, or elsewhere on the internet.  To avoid having problems, make sure that each page on your site has unique content, and that it doesn’t appear anywhere else online.

9. Sorts and Searches

Many sites create pages and pages of duplicate content without the owner even knowing.  This is done by features for the visitor like site search and custom sorting that make new pages out of the site’s already existing content.  If your site creates these types of pages, block them out in robots.txt.

Often, these types of features create subfolders of pages that you can easily block out by blocking something like /sort in your robots.txt file.

10. Meta Robots, No Index Follow

If you have single pages that you don’t want to show up in Google’s results,  like a ‘Contact’ page for example, the ‘meta robots no index, follow’ tag is a better blocking option than robots.txt.  It’s a page-level tag that keeps Google’s spiders from crawling a page, while still following the links to the rest of your site.

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Torrent uploading or Torrent downloading is one of the favorite ways for internet users to retrieve copyrighted material for free. It involves downloading a (.torrent) file and loading it into a torrent program, which then finds users or trackers around the internet who have the necessary files stored on their computers. These “peers” then serve the files to the downloaders, thus the term peer-to-peer networking was coined.

On the more legitimate side of torrent usage, both Facebook and Twitter use Torrent programs to transfer updates to their servers, and many platform games deliver patches and updates using the same protocol. Also, torrenting is used by some legal content distributors such as BitTorrent Inc. for movies, music, or a TV show presentation and Linux operating system developers such as for Ubuntu and Fedora. As much as it is very productive, it also has its own flaws.

The process of utilizing Torrents, in all its existence, was highly dominated by illegitimate users and many torrent indexers have had legal action taken against them for hosting torrents that could be used for piracy.

While they can be used in a professional and legal way, crimes thrived within the torrent world.

Currently, popular torrent search engine IsoHunt has indexed 8.25 million torrents with a combined size of 13,635 TB. With 33.58 million connected peers, this gives a rough average of 4 peers per torrent. This also means the average size of a torrent indexed on IsoHunt is 1.64 GB.

Public torrent aggregator Torrentz is currently indexing a larger 11.70 million torrents across 33 domains, which provides for a good statistical base. Assuming the average torrent size is 1.64 GB, this means 19,188 TB of content is available through public torrents. If 99.86% of that is pirated, you have 19,161 TB of illegal content available compared to just 27 TB of legitimate material; this roughly means that for every 1 legit torrent, there are 700 containing pirated material.

99.86% of torrents contain pirated material is based from the legit-only torrent search engine Mininova, which indexes a measly 16,686 torrents.

If we bring back the average of 4 connected peers per torrent and assume that 3 of these have full copies of the material tracked in the torrent, this means that stored across the globe is roughly 57,483,000 GB of pirated material that is accessible to anyone.

Imagine what a scam this wonderful program turned out to be. A bridge for the breakers of the law through optic lines. This is not a complete representation of what pirated material is freely accessible to people. There are still private torrent trackers, newsgroups, file sharing sites and with these statistics only being rough estimates, there is so much content that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, anytime for any purpose.

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If your article won in making the reader to click on the resource box, it shows that they trust you and the rest should be provided by the landing pages. But for bad luck if your landing page fails to meet the expectation of the reader, changes are lot to divert them to other or another resources. Hence here are some factors to keep in mind while giving the landing page.

Why You Need A Landing Page

This is a common question that runs in the mind of online businessmen, hunters and visitors without a clear answer. Here are the best answers for why you need it.

Retain The Readers With The Site: In the end of the reading, it is the landing pages that prompt the reader to stay with your site to generate business.

Lead The Reader To Further Action: It is the landing page that leads the reader to engage in the further actions like signing up, promotion of services or purchasing of product etc.

So now you are aware about the importance of landing page. How to make it efficient will be your next question that runs across your mind. Here are some tips that can help you in this regard.

10 Tips To Make The Landing Page Efficient

1. Relevant content and link: The links and content in the resource box should be relevant to the article and your business. The links should take the reader to the page that expect. It should not take them to any other sub links or sub pages. It will kill the interest of the reader and divert them to other sites.
2. Privacy Line: Give a privacy line indicating that ‘your information is undisclosed to third parties’ or ‘your personal details are safe with us’. This creates trust in the reader.
3. Functional: Landing page should be functional, elegant and clean. It should match with website design, up-to-date and user-friendly.
4. Interactive: Landing page must induce the reader to do something on it. This ‘something’ is what you have to give. Make it interactive with giving it some Twitter links, Facebook links, newsletter sign-ups and more.
5. Clear messages: Give clear messages to the reader that keeps them without doubts. The message you deliver should not raise any doubts and make them to go through the site again.
6. Dual Purpose: Designs the landing page on your website. It makes the page search engine friendly and keeps the reader interested.
7. Unique Message: Make the landing page and message unique for each different product or service.
8. Fewer Forms: Don’t stuff the landing page with several columns or forms. Give fewer forms and get what you need from it.
9. Less space: Leave little space between form fields.
10. Fields: Give optional and required fields to make it professional.

These are the tips with which you can make your landing page to bring business for you.

Author Bio:
Rajkumar Jonnala Part time blogger and blogs at his own blogs namely SEO Blog and Tech Blog

Want to see how it works? See this picture.

Now, if you want to display your authorship information in Google search result like seen in the above picture, read through this quick tutorial.

Step #1: Adding Work Email

1. First, of all go to your Google Profile and click on Edit Profile.

2. Scroll down until you see “Work”. Click on it, and add an Email address and make sure it is visible to “Anyone on web”.

3. Now click on Save and Done Editing.

4. If your email address isn’t verified then you will see a hyperlink “Verify” near your Work Email address click on it. Then Google will send a verification mail to that email address. Once you receive it, open it and follow the instructions to verify your email address.

Step #2: Creating An About Page And Linking It To Google Profile

1. Now you must create an about page(that tells about you and includes a picture of you) on the very same domain which you are about to claim.

2. Add a link to your Google profile page from your about page. Add rel=”me” parameter in your anchor tag, just like this:

<a href=”https://www.plus.google.com/your-google-profile-id/” rel=”me”>Google+</a>

Step #3: Linking Google Profile Page To About Page

1. Go to your Google Profile, click “Edit Profile”.

2. Scroll down until you see “Contribute to” on the right panel, then click on it and add a custom link, that points to your About page on your website, make sure the visibility it “Anyone on the web”.

Step #4: Linking Article Pages To Your About Page

1. Add a link to your about page from all your article pages. You must add rel=”author” parameter in those anchor tags. Just like this:

<a href=”http://www.Geeks4share.com/about/” rel=”author”>About me</a>

Since you have to add these links to all your pages, it would be better if you put them on a section that is common to all your pages – like Menus and Footer.

That’s it, you’re done! Now you can check your pages with “Rich Snippet Checker Tool” to see if everything is set. Then wait for 2-3 days then you can see your Google profile picture near your search results.

If the rich snippet check tool says everything is fine and still if you aren’t able to see your author information in search result, just give it more time. As Google haven’t rolled out this feature completely, it might take some more time.

Stick around as I walk you through the process of transforming your dormant social media accounts into a money generating loophole. Everyone is building, but only few are building the right systems. Few online entrepreneurs who are making great success are too busy to share their tips or even guest posts honestly.

But it doesn’t take a lifetime to master social media marketing. In fact, the magic bullet you need to speed up your racing bike is right under your nose – a custom logo.

All the social media giants you hear and read about all have catchy custom logo designs. Without much ado, here are 5 sure-fire ways to build an enviable social following.

1. Get Personal With Logo
Personality is the “secret” ingredient that makes social media marketing profitable and proactive. If you’re still speaking strange language to social media users, you’re making a big mistake. It’s time to get down to the cradle and determine what makes people tick.

How do you get personal with your business logo? Make your logo simple. When it’s difficult to understand what you’re trying to say or pass across in a logo, it becomes impersonal. Stay away from abstract logo designs or you would confuse your prospects.

2. Define Custom Logo As Your Brand
What’s the definition of a logo as it relates to your business?

Well, I might not have the perfect definition but it’s an identity. What you’re known for in a crowded market or niche.

If you see a logo as a piece of vector graphics or cursive text cleverly designed by a savvy graphic designer, you’ll miss the point of building a profitable business online. The moment you embed a custom logo into your blog or business card, it automatically becomes your brand – an identity.

Have you considered Coca-Cola and how they stand out from other beverage and soft-drink manufacturers? They’ve a catchy logo designs which is second to none.

3. Socialize With Your Custom logo
Social media marketing stems from the philosophy that people wants to connect and share. I’m sure that’s the reason a lot of people signed up to Facebook. When marketing via social media networks, the ultimate goal is to share your opinion and product offers in a relaxed manner.

No, you’re not trying to sell anyone. These people didn’t register with Facebook to buy the latest “money making e-book.” They had the urge to converse with other people across the world.

Let this be your focal point as you socialize. Let your logo be at the forefront whenever you communicate with someone. Get them to know about you through your logo and blog. On your Facebook page, ensure your logo is situated for easy recognition.

4. Solve One Particular Problem
It’s so awful how internet marketers strive to solve every problem in the world. You can’t do that when using social media. If you try that with social media users, they’ll perceive desperation and run away.

You need to locate one particular problem that your prospects are facing. The truth is, within this specific problem lies other micro-problems that need solutions.

If you’re in shopping niche, you could solve the problem of researching viable coupon discounts and sending them to your Google plus circles. But it should be targeted. Researching Vista print discount coupon, psprint discount codes etc will do.

5. Don’t Bore Your Followers
Getting to know your social media fans will eliminate every guess work and put you on the right track.

As much as you can, entertain your fans. Don’t be a master at selling and persuasion all the way. There is time for everything. The moment you give them the opportunity to laugh or smile at what you say, a unique connection is established.

I’m not asking you to become the hottest comedian when you lack the guts or potentials, but be yourself and cause joy in the hearts of your fans and followers.

It pays greater dividends than most shares. Give it a shot and when you’re done, don’t forget to take action on the aforementioned tips. Challenge yourself to make this year productive and socially profitable. Take that baby step today and let’s meet at the top.

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