Earn Money Smartly from Home

5 Ways To Promote Blog With YouTube

2014-01-02T00:30:00.000+06:00

YouTube is the most successful and biggest video media in the internet world and accommodates above 3 billion views each day. No doubt, it’s a good number to promote your blog or website across the four corners of the globe. There are innumerable ways to promote your blog via social media, but this article will reveal ways to promote your blog via YouTube.
Most of the new bloggers strive hard in order to find miracles for their new blogs and one of the easiest things that can help them in achieving their goals is YouTube. You can put videos related to your blog and can grab attention easily.

Following are some of the hottest ways to promote your blog on YouTube effectively without burdening your pockets.

1) A dedicated channel:

This is the very basic technique that helps in generating traffic with YouTube. Make a new, fresh and devoted channel that just talks about your online business, blog and about your products and services. For better results add a customize Logo, brand image to give it a more professional look. However, make sure that you are not utilizing the channel for irrelevant activities like commenting on irrelevant videos or blogs.

2) Making related videos:

The next trick is to make a list of effective videos related to your niche. You can make a video of product review, blog post, a tutorial and something etc. Tutorials work like a magnet and bring enormous traffic towards your site. Make sure that you have invested into some premium recording software for good and clear videos. On the other hand, the web cam is perfect to shoot video type posts. The digital camera can be a good choice as well. Make use of Window Media Player or similar other competitive formats to edit videos in order to upload them on YouTube directly.

3) Linking videos to the blog:

Try to make videos resourceful, also add a unique description to the video and link it to the blog or a particular blog post. Also add an informative “about me” section in your channel profile. Moreover, must pay special attention towards nofollow and dofollow links.

4) Optimize:

After making your channel and videos must assure that it is search engine optimized. Make use of SEO friendly keywords, catchy titles and include the sub keywords that boost your search traffic. Don’t ignore the meta tags and headings as it works wonders from SEO point of view.

5) Linking with social media networks:

Never forget to connect your YouTube channel with social sites like Google+, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and much more. At the right corner of the channel there is an edit button change it and associate it to your social accounts.

If you want to make a list of video blogs like tutorials then, utilize every single opportunity to promote the blog to its fullest and add your blog at the end of each video. Additionally, addition of footnote like announcement of events, bonuses, promos etc. also helps a lot in promotion of your blog.

Guide to Start an Ebay Business in 2014

2014-01-01T00:00:00.000+06:00

Ebay is one of the greatest platform for all those who wants to sell to get extra income in the pocket or to run a business. What you have to pay is to just the fees for each sale. It just needs good marketing of the product. On ebay there is no limit for your earning one can make 500 dollars a month or even can earn 50,000 dollars per month. You can read lots of business success stories. The success of your ebay business depends on the time and your dedication that you give to your business. To be a successful businessman with ebay you have to be updated with the changing rules and policies and follow them.

Following tips will help you in running your business with ebay.

Search for a niche:

First of all search a niche in which you will run a business, give priority in the area of your interest because you will have great information about that niche and will be better able to run your business. About the competitors, prices, market demand and supply. The best time is to sell the product at the proper time. For example if you want to sell uniform the peak time to get good sale is June to August, so it will get a better return if you offer it in April or May it will not get any buyer.

Get ideas from the market leaders:

Know from them what technique they usually used, what is their daily, weekly or monthly sale. What prices they are charging and what is their profit margin, either they are using auction or bin option. What kind of information they are providing to their clients, what is their starting price. What kind of photos they are using, are they charging shipping fees or adding in the product price. What areas they are covering. Such information will helps you a lot in competing with your competitors.

Buy an affordable and professional template:

If you have a professional look for your business people will buy from you, you can get a cheap template for the business. Most of the inexpensive templates range from $3 onward. The template seller will guide you about the use of the template so, you will better able to add your products.

Clear photos:

Photos plays an important role in getting success to your ebay business. In online business you are dealing virtually with the customers from all over the world. So, when you are dealing with them you just have an option to show them the photo of the product so, always take a clear and good photo so, they will better view and see the object and can make a purchase. Always choose a black background so, everyone can have a clear view of it.

Research all items:

One of the best ways to decide the mode of selling for your product is to go to the top of the page and write the name enter a search, so, at the bottom of the page you will get the list of similar products. It will be helpful for you to tell about your sale and whether to sell through auction or bin.

Add Extra Income To Your Pocket With Google

2013-12-22T23:39:00.000+06:00

It's a great feeling!!!!!!!!!!! This is my 100th post. I have tried so far to gather information that help my readers to achieve what they want to by following my post.

There are a large number of opportunities for making money from home with easy and simple access to the net. These opportunities include internet ventures, creation from mail projects, phone sales all these needs less time and are easy. It’s a great feeling to sit at your home by wearing pajama and making money from the ease of your home or office. One of the best way is to make money from Google without any training, education or any hard effort. The first thing that you have to do is submit an application to Google. Adsense is one of the Google program in which content is displayed in the form of video, images, text and any other advertisement forms with different domain name. As a host you just need a venue for the advertisement and display of these content. Google will pay a specific rate on the basis of per click and by impression.

Prerequisites for Earning:

The simple requirement of the program to work with are just few. You need to have a blog, a site, for it you need a domain name or any other source for the advertisement of the adverts. The requirement for the application of hosting are your address, legal name, bank information, website, and a social security code to get direct deposit of the amount in your account and to maintain the record of tax. The person gets paid based on the familiarity and popularity of the website. The traffic to your site will determine how much will the host be paid. Google will maintain the content that you will display on your site, what is your job to get paid is to add quality content and direct the flow of traffic to your site. You can also add advertisements of other sites and brands to your site for which you will be paid that is another source of income for you.

Other possible options:

And another option is a company will pay you for the advertisement that is displayed on your site and how many visitors and customers that company will get through your advertisement they will pay a specific amount per click. It is important to say as many people see and visit the ad and more chances you have to earn money. Now, a large number of Adsense programs are there from which you can add an additional cash to your pocket. Apart from websites ad there are many other sources as well for making cash like an RSS feed. You can also install different ad of mobile applications that will also bring you money. Large number of other advertisements in search engine. People are engaged in this program for a long time. In 2003 this program was launched and after serving for two years this program accounts for almost 15% of the total revenue of the company. It is one of the reliable and stable program, with this person can earn extra cash simply by sitting at home. It is very essential and a true fact that traffic generation with social media will boost your business and increase your profit.

Happy Reading..........Best Earning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Top Sites for Teenagers to Earn Money Smartly from Home

2013-12-22T23:34:00.000+06:00

To generate income online, it shows that adults have the upper hand due to availability of all programs and resources. But, deeply it shows that not only adults but kids can also find enough programs, resources and options to earn money online. There are following 10 huge sites which teenagers can use to make money online:

1) E-poll

Most surveys taking about ten minutes of its completion, pay on average about 1000 points. When you reached at 3500 points equal to $5 then you can cash it out. Different options are available for you, either you can request a gift certificate, check or select from a huge collection of prizes which they have.

Here’s the link !

2) Mylot

There is also a great website where either teenagers or anyone else can make money online by uploading photos and asking questions or answering questions. To complete some simple tasks is another way to make money online on mylot. These tasks are so simple such as writing a few paragraphs about a specific subject, finding a specific image, and any other thing according to the needs and requirements of the people. After reaching at the minimum monthly payout of about $10, you will be paid in your Paypal.

Here’s the link !

3) Gangster Greed

Gangster Greed (GG) is a really fun site to earn money for teens. You can earn money online on GG by filling online surveys, signing up for free trials, referring to friends, and etc. You can participate in lots of games and contest to win cool prizes as well. The commission varies from the people on those games which are referred to your site by the referrals or referred by you on other sites. You can earn 6.25% commission from the people who referrals refer to the website and 25% commission from the people who you referred to the site. With respect to pay out Gangster Greed is by far the fastest site. When you reach at the $10 threshold and it is required to be cashed out, you can request for payment, and you will get the payment in your Paypal within minutes.

Here’s the link !

4) Cash Crate

One of the most famous sites to make money online with Get Paid Programs (GPT) is the Cash Crate. Money is earned online by completing offers, taking online surveys, doing shopping, free trials and etc. Money can also be earned by referring other people to cash crate. You can earn 10% from your referral’s referrals and 20% from your direct referrals. You can request a payment when you reach at minimum $5 amount (which is not difficult to earn with all the different ways to make money online) and the amount is paid to you on the every 20th of the following month by check.

Here’s the link !

5) Data Telligence

Points are earned on each survey for which you are qualified and complete it. Once you have earned 1000 points in your account, then your points can be redeemed by you for an item from their massive record of items.

Here’s the link !

6) My Opinion Now

Survey invitations are sent to you by them after completing the registration process. You can earn points which are called as Reward Points on each survey you complete. Of course, the number of Reward Points which you can earn depends on the length of the each individual survey and its importance. They also send you products at your home to try and get your opinion about that specific product.

Here’s the link !

7) My View

It is also one of the recreation survey sites which focus on music, games and movies. You can make money by watching music videos, movie trailers, playing games and answering the questions asked about them.

Here’s the link !

8)FocusFwdOnline

They do not send many survey invitations. They send only 1 to 2 surveys within a month. Their payments are very high and surveys are usually much more interesting. Once you earn $10 in your account, then payment is paid to you by Paypal or check. It’s up to your choice. They also provide lots of group opportunities as well. The huge amount is paid by focus group studies than online surveys.

Here’s the link !

9) Test Spin

You can earn money not only by taking online surveys, but you can also get payment by testing new products, videos, websites, music, and many more. You can earn $30 on each focus group participation and $4 for each survey you take. Their focus groups are conducted online. The minimum payment for cash out is $10 and it is not difficult to reach at this point. By receiving the big number of survey invitations from them, they will offer you considerably high payment for each survey. You can also redeem your earnings for Amazon.com gift certificates.

Here’s the link !

10) Teens Eyes

Points are earned for participating in other projects and taking surveys. On joining you can receive 300 points. After registration a letter is sent to your parents or guardian with them to let them know about it. On completing each survey the points which are earned vary from few hundred to thousands. Every 1000 points equal to $10 and when you have it in your account then you can request for it.

4 Basic Steps To Start an E-commerce Website

2013-12-22T23:24:00.000+06:00

These days starting up a business are not void of risks and threats. That’s the reason behind the hike of online businesses and now, the wholesale gifts are sold on the e-commerce business sites instead of the brick and mortal stores. Low risk and low maintenance make it a smart move for the investors who are hunting for opportunities having significant payout. The main reason is anyone from any nook of the world can be your loyal customer. In other words you have a large target audience beyond the geographical limitations. Moreover, discounts and other alluring prices for customers are the main attractions.

How to start an E-commerce business:

The basic question is how to start an e-commerce business? Does the entrepreneur must have products? The main thing every businessman should know is the truth that you have to be web savvy to leverage the e-commerce opportunities in the best possible way. You can also hire professionals from leading freelancer sites like LinkedIn. The interesting thing is this business is not just limited to products only in fact, you can offer services online as well. Following are few steps that help in starting a successful e-commerce business.

Step 1:

The very first step is to know what you have to sell on your site. Every business has the things that are highly in demand at present whether the demand is large or small instead, business should be able to determine it. The demand can be either on the product or the service. Though, the entrepreneur has to face challenges while fulfilling that demands of the target audience, but the end result will always be profitable.

Moreover, studying about the current market situation and the fierce competition is the need of the online business as well. You have to find the quality plus the price of the same products in the market offered by your competitors to design effective strategies that keep you ahead of the mob.

Step 2:

It is highly essential to lessen the cost of operating and running an e-commerce site. So, your next step should be selection of a hosting company. For example Big Cartel is an ideal choice they offer free hosting services and also offers an inventory option at a cost of about $9 per month.

Step 3:

This is one of the most critical steps of building an e-commerce website. This step involves credit card information of the people.The security team of the web developer and designer plays an important role in this step. They make all the necessary measurements for your buyers mainly when they are fully experienced with SSL and similar other quality and necessary security measures.

Step 4:

Making your e-commerce live is not the last step. However, the important step among all is creating awareness among the target audience. Moreover, attracting others people attention is your main goal as well. SEO, social media and other promotional tactics are useful in this concern.

The above 4 mentioned steps are (in my opinion) useful to know while planning to start an e-commerce business, which may earn you noticeable bucks online from the ease of your home.

Learning Alphabets The Obsolete Way

2013-12-22T23:13:00.001+06:00

Not only can children learn the alphabet with this handy chart, but they’ll also pick up a bit of history! Isn’t it awesome?

via Wrong Hands

Visual History of Computers

2013-12-22T23:09:00.000+06:00

The very first electronic programmable computer was created in the early 1940s, and technology has evolved immensely since then. Today, you and I know computers as desktops, laptops and tablets. Even smartphones can be considered computers since they’re capable of performing various computing tasks. Let’s briefly take a look at the last 60 years of computing advancements, and appreciate the tools we have today that enhances our lives.
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via Akita

A Guide to Freelancing

2013-12-22T23:01:00.001+06:00

If you’ve decided you have what it takes to be a freelancer, and are willing to take the plunge, this infograph is for you. Designed by SurveySpencer.com, it’s lists over 200 ways to make money online: from blogging to affiliate marketing — all of the usual suspects. Sure, there may be a couple of errors in the infograph but the author’s knowledge on the subject matter more than makes up for it.
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37 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

2013-12-22T22:31:00.000+06:00

Apart from thinking of making money Smartly from Home let's move our mind something that's different ............

A beautiful collection of Inspirational quotes that are loved and highly shared throughout our Twitter & Facebook pages.

Inspirational Life Quotes

“Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” - Unknown

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine

“Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown

“One of the most important keys to Success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you dont feel like doing it.” - Unknown

“Good things come to those who wait… greater things come to those who get off their ass and do anything to make it happen.” - Unknown

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

“Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown

Dont be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone.. - Unknown

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” - Unknown

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs

“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown

“When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” - Unknown

“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” - Unknown

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” - Unknown

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown

“Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown

“We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.” - Unknown

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Unknown

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

“Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!” – Unknown

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

“When the past calls, let it go to voicemail, believe me, it has nothing new to say.” - Unknown

“Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.” - Unknown

“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” – Unknown

“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknwon

“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” – Unknown

“The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.” – Unknown

“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” - Unknown

“No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.” - Unknown

Do you like it? I thought you may be ........as because these are really amazing, isn't it?

Creative Ways To Earn Money Smartly from Home

2013-12-22T22:22:00.001+06:00

Now we are moving our focus on the ways described below to Earn Money Smartly from Home in some creative ways..How? here you are to follow...........

If you’d claimed it was possible for the average guy on the street to make millions of dollars online just a decade ago, the chances are good you’d have heard nothing but laughter in response. Today, though, there are countless Internet millionaires who turned a great idea into obscene profit, used the power of the web to promote their offline business or simply worked their butt off to sell their skills online.
While it’s unlikely that you’ll ever earn enough to buy your own private island, there’s nothing to stop you from using your skills to make a comfortable living online. In fact, while the media would have you believe that online success stories are limited to just a few lucky, hard working people who stumbled on a great idea that went on to make millions, the reality is that there are tens of thousands of people who make a living exclusively online. Here are just ten ways you can join them.

How To Make Money Online

1. Sell Stock Photography

The Internet has caused an explosion in the demand for stock photography. As the number of media and commercial outlets has increased dramatically with the growth of online media there’s an enormous need for high quality stock photos.
Yuri Arcurs is the man everyone turns to for their stock photo needs. As the world’s top selling stock photographer he sells an image every 8 seconds, 24 hours a day (that works out to over 4 million images each year). Arcurs makes millions of dollars each year simply by being the best at what he does. There are lots of great photographers in the world and the barrier to entry is as low as ownership of a camera, but Arcurs has managed to build a reputation online for consistent, high quality and imaginative images.
If you’re a professional photographer (or even just a hobbyist) you should consider the possibilities of selling stock images online.

2. Tweet For Sponsors

SponsoredTweets.com is an online platform that allows you to make money on Twitter by charging sponsors for communicating their advertising messages to your followers. You set the amount you want to get paid for every tweet you make, choose a category and select keywords you want to work with. You then wait for advertisers to contact you and take you up on your offer, paying you the amount you specified for each tweet that you make.
All throughout the process, the tweeter has full control over his or her account, and may choose the wordings of the tweets, or may choose to reject the tweet altogether.

3. Blog for Ad Revenues

If, however, you already have a blog with a devoted following it should be easy for you to leverage your readers into hard cash. Ad networks such as Google AdSense pay big money to place their ads on your site, and you’ll receive a payment every time a reader clicks one. While it’s easy to go overboard and fill every spare pixel, if you place your ads well it’s possible to make a comfortable income from your site.
One of the most successful bloggers around today is John Chow, a Canadian blogger who makes more than $40,000 a month through ad sales and other revenue streams. Ironically, his blog is about ways to make money online.

4. Sell Affiliate Products

If you have a flair for sales copy you could try your hand at selling products for affiliates. While many people take the seedy route of selling diet pills and penis enlargement products, if you want to keep your conscience clear you’ll find that Amazon runs a very successful affiliate program that allows you to make money advertising any of the products for sale on their site. eBay also have a pretty good affiliate setup, with their top affiliates earning $1.3 Million a month, WOW!

5. Write an e Book

In recent years the self-publishing world has exploded online to the point at which you don’t even have to run your own site in order to promote a book. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo are just a few of the sites on which you could self-publish today, with commission rates of around 70% available on every sale.
The number of eBooks on Amazon reached 8 million last year, and Amazon stated that eBooks are outselling hard backs 2 to 1, 62% of ebook sales fell into the Thriller and Mystery genre, so if you feel that you could pull this style of genre off then you will be in for a good chance of sales.
26 year old self published author, Amanda Hocking from Minnesota makes more than $2 Million a year from her ebook sales. Amanda Hocking’s stories about, trolls, vampires and zombies and ‘supernatural teen romances’ sell for $2.99 or for as little as $.99.

6. Become a Virtual Assistant

Every small businessman would love to hire a full time assistant to take care of the little things, but many simply can’t afford one. Thanks to the Internet, though, they can now hire part time assistants who work for a whole host of clients, and all at a much lower cost than a full time staff member.
If you work from home this may be a perfect opportunity to make a consistent income. Virtual assistants can earn $20 an hour in return for booking travel tickets, interacting with clients and dealing with the daily needs of small businesses.

7. Lease Your Skills

Most people have at least one skill that carries a market value, though until now that skill may have been impossible to monetize in the traditional job market.
Sites such as 99Designs, Elance, Freelancer and iWriter allow people to hire out their skills as writers, coders, designers, translators and lots more on a contract basis. Freelancing sites are a great way to boost your income in your free time, and with enough motivation and hard work you could find yourself earning a comfortable full time income from them.

8. Selling on eBay

eBay is a great way to turn your unwanted things into a little spending money, but it isn’t just a place to sell your old Star Wars action figures. In fact, eBay’s global marketplace can offer a great way for canny traders to buy and sell their way to profit. By buying wholesale you can sell anything with a mark up. Even better, if you have the skills to make things people want to buy you could start your own home-based craft business, selling to customers around the world.
Matt & Amanda Clarkson are a successful couple who so far have managed to make over $8 Million in eBay sales.

9. Become A Mobile App Tester

People that are rather uncertain of their application development potential can still make some money through the usage of iPhone apps.
People that have the time and desire to test iPhone apps and discover bugs can be rewarded payments for their efforts. uTest is one such application. Individuals that have signed up will also build some reputation on the basis of the testing they have done so far.
Better reputation signifies access to more profitable app testing opportunities.

10. Designing T-Shirts

Finally, if you have something of an artistic streak you could kick off the next viral sensation with your own range of funky, arty t-shirts. Sites such as CafePress allow users to upload their own t-shirt designs and sell them on their personal online store.
You can also contact distributors such as threadless.com or designbyhumans.com to release your t-shirt designs to the masses. If your designs catch the eye you could be looking at enormous profits when they take off in a big way.

You should understand that the online world is just like real life. The same opportunities are there for the taking, but instead of drawing your customers from just your home town you can reach out with your great ideas to the far reaches of the earth.

So why not start today?

A/B experiments for ad unit settings - the easy way

2013-11-18T23:00:00.003+06:00

Find out the easy way of experimenting Ad Unit Settings revealed recently by Adsense.If you go through the topics you will find the way of settings ad unit for experiments what settings will works best for you:

If you’re a regular blog reader, you know that we regularly emphasize the importance of testing changes to your ads to ensure they’re performing as well as they could be. The most effective way to do so is by running an A/B experiment to compare how one setting performs against a slight variation of that setting. To make it even easier for you to run A/B experiments, today we’re releasing a new AdSense experiments feature for your ad unit settings.

This new feature is available directly from your AdSense account and lets you quickly create, run and analyze A/B experiments for specific ad units -- all without needing to make any changes to your ad or page code. It works by comparing your original ad unit settings to a variation you choose, and ultimately tells you which one performs better. Here are just a few examples of the types of tests you can run:

Compare the performance of text-only ads to ads that have both text and display enabled
Determine how ads with a visible border perform compared to those that are ‘borderless’ (where the color of the border matches the background of the page)
Analyze the effect of changing the color of ad text on ad performance

Approximately 24 hours after you set up an experiment in your account, you’ll see a confidence score for the two ad units settings. This score indicates how likely the original or the variation is to be the better performing setting in the long term. Confidence scores may change as the experiment progresses, and we recommend waiting until one of the scores reaches at least 95% before choosing that setting as the winner. Once you chose the winning setting, the experiment ends and the setting is automatically applied to the specific ad unit. Please note that while an experiment is running, our system will automatically optimize the traffic split between the two ad unit settings. The better one setting performs, the more traffic it will receive, helping you maximize your revenue potential even during the experiment.

Give A/B experiments a try using this new feature to ensure you’re getting the most out of your ad units. To learn more about AdSense experiments, visit our Help Center. We look forward to hearing what you think - feel free to share your thoughts and feedback on our AdSense +page.

Posted by Nick Radicevic - AdSense Product Manager.

Happy experimenting......to get the very best of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Every Link Builder Needs to Know(Contd.)

2013-05-03T23:35:00.000+06:00

At last it happens! I have completed the total post that I want to share with the readers. It takes long since I started the topics but happy to reach at the terminal point.

44. How To Check For Duplicate Content

Copyscape is free and you can quickly tell if someone is duplicating your content elsewhere. They also have a premium version that lets you check to make sure that post you’re about to publish is original content. Since scraped sites have been known to outrank those hosting the original content, knowing how to check for this is critical when the site you’re building links for starts to lose rankings and traffic.

45. How To Figure Out If Links Are The Problem Or Something Else Is

Due to the recent panic about unnatural link warnings, links are being blamed more than ever when things go wrong. They can definitely be the cause of your problems but it’s very wise to learn how to see if they are and check out all the other potential culprits.

46. How To Use Advanced Search Operators

If you do manual discovery these can be a massive time-saver, helping you remove a lot of unwanted results. There’s a good cheat sheet here.

47. What rel=author Is & How To Implement It

This sounded so simple when I first read about it but making it work really wasn’t nearly as easy as I expected. Verve Search has a great guide about how to implement it as does Rick DeJarnette here on SEL. If you write a lot, you need to get this set up.

It’s like a personal version of the big brand effect wherein you can build up a trusted name and (hopefully) enjoy more visibility on the Web. If one of your pieces shows up in the SERPs, you’ll get a More By X Author link so that all the other articles for which you are a verified author can be displayed.

48. Why Site wides & Footer Links Might Not Be A Good Idea

Usually footer links are site wides but occasionally you see them on their own. A site wide link is one that’s on every page of a site. This used to be a way to get lots of links years ago, and it’s still occasionally a valid way to build links. A blogroll tends to be site wide and if it’s on a relevant blog and it makes sense, that is perfectly legitimate in my opinion.

However, when you scroll to the bottom of a page and there’s a massive paragraph filled with links, those aren’t good site wides. Site wides form a pattern which the engines can easily detect and devalue, so they aren’t anything that I’d usually pursue unless one made sense. Generally speaking, links that aren’t in the actual content of a page aren’t always the best ones.

49. How To Determine Whether You Have A Lot Of Site wides

I bring this up mainly because many people I’ve spoken to had no clue how to check to see if they had sitewide links. If you run a link check it should be very obvious, as you’ll see a list of pages all on the same domain.

Some people still like site wides but many link builders don’t actively seek them out anymore, as many people suspect that they’ve been discounted, and some suspect that they can actually hurt your site. I think that some are very legitimate but don’t think that algorithms are always sophisticated enough to be able to detect legitimacy.

50. What Deep Linking Is

Deep linking is the practice of building links to internal pages and not just your homepage. If you only have links to your homepage, that seems as if you have no other decent information on the site. That’s not a good signal to send.

51. What rel=canonical Is

You can read all the details but basically, this is used to specify the preferred version of a page when there is similar content elsewhere.

52. How To View Source Code

In Chrome, you can right click and click on View Source and you can do the same in Firefox. Those are the two main browsers that I use so if you don’t have that functionality, just dig around until you can figure out how to see the code. You’d be surprised at how many people have no idea how to look at the code.

If you’re trying to figure out if a link is no followed, you need to know how to see the code so you can check that by hand and not rely on plugins. The same goes for viewing the code to see if robots are being blocked (listed above at #4) and identifying reasons why your link may not be working properly. From what I’ve seen, a very common link code error is with not closing tags properly.

53. How & When To Submit A Re inclusion Request

If you’ve been penalized and you’ve cleaned things up, it’s time to submit a reconsideration request. If you have been penalized and you haven’t cleaned things up, don’t bother submitting one in hopes that Google won’t take a close look to double-check your honesty.

You can submit one here but remember, if you haven’t actually cleaned up any mess, it’s not a good idea to submit this. If you’ve been hurt by an algorithmic update but not actually penalized or warned, you may just have to make some changes and wait for the next update in order to get back into favor.

I am feeling better that I have done it. Sorry for taking so long to complete it.It's a great relief to settle down after a job has been done.

Every Link Builder Needs to Know(Contd.)

2013-04-15T23:24:00.001+06:00

Here is the next part of the post that I have to post earlier.But it is better late than never.So, here you are with the details what I want to share with you...

38. How To Find Mentions That Don’t Yet Link To You

One very easy way to do this, moving forward, is to set up Google alerts for your name, site, URL, etc. If something pops up and there’s no link, ask for one if you like.

Many people will mention you and link to your social media accounts, especially Twitter, but if that happens and you’d rather have a direct link to your site, thank the person who mentioned you and ask if you could have a link to your site instead. This is a tricky one as some people might find it rude to be asked to do something when they’re doing you a favor by mentioning you, but still, it’s best to know how to use this tactic judiciously.

39. What A Bad Link Neighborhood Is

We’ve dealt with a lot of clients who say that they don’t want links on sites that link to certain niches. That notion aside, the bad link neighborhood effect is what happens when you have your great link on a site but it’s surrounded by other spammy ones, usually just a bunch of links that aren’t related to each other and are only there because they’re been purchased. These links can cause the site itself to be valued less in Google’s eyes.

A bad link neighborhood can also be a network that’s been devalued or deindexed. Think of it as the same idea as if you wanted to open a kid’s clothing store and you had to decide where to rent a business space. You wouldn’t want to be next to a strip club most likely but if you found a space in a section that had a McDonalds and a kids’ bookstore, you’d probably think that was ideal.

Google says to “avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.” This kind of thinking goes both ways as you can see. You don’t want to link to bad neighborhoods and you don’t want links from them either.

40. What Link Spikes Are & Why They Can Be Worrisome

For one thing, they can indicate network links all being activated at the same time. They can indicate a negative SEO attack. They can also be 100% legitimate (think press releases, new television ad, etc.) but still, you need to understand how to get more information about them when they happen.
This looks a bit odd, no? One quick tip: any time someone approaches me and says “I think some of my past links are hurting me now” I immediately go and do a backlink history check in Majestic. The weird spikes in 2008 make me think that maybe something suspicious was going on (networks maybe?)
This could be natural, but after seeing it, I have a good idea of the questions I’ll need to ask this person.

41. How To Be Suspicious Of A Site Or A Link

If a site has content that does not at all seem to match up with the URL (let’s say the URL is home mortgage.com and the content is all about pet care) then something is definitely amiss here. If you start to see a lot of new links coming in and you’ve done nothing to get them, you need to go and check them out.
With all that’s happened recently with Google, links, negative SEO, and link warnings, you can never be too careful.

42. You Need To Actually Read The Content Of A Site

In other words, don’t just rely on its metrics when evaluating it. Wow, this is a big one. I think that sometimes we all have blinders on when we’re cranking out work, and we tend to be so focused on easy ways to analyze a site quickly that we forget to slow down and actually see if the content makes sense.
I’ve seen links come in that look fantastic at first. The site seems totally relevant to the niche, the link looks perfect, the social signals are good and look like they’ll keep improving, but when I read the article, it reads like it was written by a robot. That kind of site might be ok for awhile but it’s probably not a good long-term potential for traffic.

43. What Markov Content Is

Markov content is content that has been randomly generated to pass as proper text until it’s closely inspected. At its best, it just looks like someone might not be a native speaker of the language in which it is written, but something about it will just be “off” when you try to make sense of it.

Beware of this when you’re evaluating a site that you want a link from, just as mentioned above.

I am dare to say that some points of the topics hasn't covered with this post. I don't want to bore my readers with long post that's the reason I decided to complete it with in the next post to follow. So, till then relaxed and be patient to grab it............

Every Link Builder Needs to Know(Contd.)

2013-03-01T14:59:00.002+06:00

Here is the next part of what a link builder needs to know. Although a bit gap between the post but hoping that will make you benefited if you go through it.

31. How To Optimize Internal Links

Recently there has been more talk of this since most of the discussion of over optimization has been taking place regarding links coming into your site from another site, not your own internal links.
Since the goal of internal links is to help a user navigate a site, you should understand that proper keywords in internal links should be present if they make sense to a user. There’s an excellent article about site structure and internal links here.

32. Ways Of Identifying A No Followed Link

Yes, there are plugins that can highlight them but you know what? You can also just look at the code. If a link has a rel=”nofollow” on it, it’s nofollowed.

33. How To Do Keyword Research

There are a bazillion free and paid tools that do this but here are a few that I use regularly:

34. How To Write Well & Not Just Well Enough

While I am definitely a grammar/spelling freak, I still truly believe that badly written content (whether it’s a blog post, an email, a review, or whatever) makes you look like you don’t truly care enough to take the time to do something well.
Some people have fantastic ideas and points to make but it’s hard to wade through something that is badly written. Spellcheck exists for a reason. I also realize that some people write just to get content out there. Trust me when I say that it shows. However, if you’re not a naturally gifted writer, practice, read some fantastic writers, and you’ll get better. Just believe that it’s important.

35. How To Find Your Influencers

I view this in two ways: finding those whom I can influence and finding those who influence me. I’ve been doing this for a long, long time but there are many people who’ve been doing it longer and who do it better, and those are the ones I keep my eye on so I can keep learning.
Crowdbooster is really useful for this as they have an Influential Followers tab. This lists then people who follow you on Twitter, along with their number of followers. If you want to get the attention of someone who has a massive reach, this is a good way to do it.
However, remember that influence isn’t always directly correlated to number of followers. Don’t ignore people who interact with you just because they don’t have a billion followers. Many people are much, much more influential than their Twitter metrics would suggest. I know several people that I speak to regularly on Twitter, and none of them have more than 1000 followers. I get more feedback from them than I do from a lot of other people, and they’re the ones I’ll go to when I need something because they’re the ones who’ve interacted with me.

36. How To Tell If A Link Is Giving You Traffic

This is dead simple but I mention it because of a recent conversation that I had with someone who was concerned about removing potentially harmful links. I asked if they gave him traffic and he said “how can I tell?” If you’re running Google Analytics it’s easy to find your referrals under Traffic Sources.
If you’re considering removing a link and you find that it sends you a lot of traffic, see if it’s converting traffic. If not and you still want to remove it, go right ahead and try. If a link sends you converting traffic, I’d leave it alone.

37. How To Find Dead Links To Your Site

If you have some great links coming in to dead pages and you haven’t 301 redirected them, you’re losing some great link juice most likely. It’s also a bad user experience. Check to see if you have any 404 errors on your site. If so, put those pages into a link check tool to find out who’s linking to them. The W3C Link Checker tool is one that I use frequently to look at broken links, redirects, and other issues. It’s also free.
If you find that you have links coming into pages that aren’t found, put in a 301 or contact the webmaster of the sites linking to you and point out where they could link to. Honestly, that’s my preferred option because when you don’t go through a 301, you don’t lose link juice.
However, if you were going to switch from url.com/thispage.html to url.com/thatpage.com and you had 500 links pointing to it, a 301 is a heck of a lot better use of your time than sending 500 emails and checking to see whether the webmaster complied with your request.

So be involved to reach your goal and wait till come back again with last part of this topic.Till then good ByE and all the very best.

Every Link Builder Needs to Know(Contd.)

2013-02-05T13:20:00.000+06:00

Sorry for being late in posting.Thanks for your patient waiting and here comes the third part of this topic for you.If you are a bit of helped that will be pleasing for me.

24. How To Guest Post

You need to know how to find sites that accept guest post, you need to know how to write one, and you need to know how to promote the ones you write. My Blog Guest is a guest posting system where people looking for guest posts or looking TO guest post can connect.
You can also just simply add “guest post” or something similar to your keyword search when you’re doing discovery. Most guest posters are allowed a link in either the content or the bio, which is where the link benefit lies. Considering how spammed up this practice is becoming, make sure you’re savvy about how to actually find good placements and make the right pitch.

25. How To Analyze A Site In 5 minutes

While you need to understand what all the metrics mean, you need to be able to judge a site just by looking at it. There is an overwhelming amount of information that you can get for a site from various tools and plugins, and this information can be extremely useful for various purposes.
However, let’s say all your tools and plugins aren’t working for some reason. You need to be able to manually check the important metrics and see if a site is a good fit for a link to you. Is the site indexed in Google? Is the content written by humans? Would you trust this site?

26. How To Find Contact Information If It’s Not Listed

You can try a Whois search, looking for the webmaster on Twitter, or use Rapportive. I’ve even found email addresses in the source code. Sometimes bloggers don’t list their email addresses on their site but they may provide contact information elsewhere, such as on sites where they’ve guest posted.

27. How To Check For Social Signals

On older posts and sites (way back before Twitter!) you aren’t going to find lots of social signals in terms of tweets, likes, and shares but you should still see comments.
On new content, you may see more tweets, shares, and likes than you do comments, as lots of people discuss blog posts on platforms other than the actual blog posts themselves a lot of the time. Bottom line: new content should look like it’s being seen and enjoyed by people. Danny Sullivan wrote a great piece about social shares as the new link building. Definitely worth a read.

28. TBPR (Toolbar PageRank) Is Different From Actual PR (PageRank)

What Google shows you on the toolbar is not frequently updated information. If you’re judging a site based on what you see on the TBPR, you’re doing it wrong.

29. What Link Juice Is

Link juice is basically link popularity passed from one page to another. Nofollow is intended to stop its flow. It’s a much more intricate concept than the example I’m about to give but in a nutshell, it works something like this (note this is not an exact/ real formulal, but used for illustration):
Page A has 10 link juice points to give. There are 5 links to other sites on this page, so each of those pages receives 2 points of link juice.
Page B has 10 link juice points to give. There are 10 links to other sites on the page, with 5 of them being nofollowed. The 5 links that aren’t nofollowed should still send 2 points of link juice. The pages linked to from the nofollowed links shouldn’t get any link juice.

30. What Page Rank Sculpting Is

Using the idea mentioned about link juice that I discussed above, page rank sculpting is the practice of trying to funnel link juice into certain pages in order to make them perform better and restrict it from others in order to prevent them from getting any benefit from your links.

So you have your third part on link building. A bit of it if help you a little all my doings get rewarded. Keep reading and wait till I back again with the next part on this to inform you shortly.Till then ReLaX and eNjoY.

Every Link Builder Needs to Know(Contd.)

2013-01-13T23:44:00.000+06:00

A warm welcome to all the followers of this blog in the fresh NEW YEAR. Here is the second part of the previous post. I breakdown the whole article into five parts to relieve the sluggish feelings of my readers. I feel reading a long post is boring, A short post is much entertaining to me. So, here you are:

13. How To Use Google Alerts

I don’t really see why people wouldn’t take advantage of this truly amazing (and free) tool. You can set up alerts for your brand, your name, your URL, your competitors, your important keywords…anything you can think of.
You can choose how often to get alerts, what types of results to monitor, and whether you want all results or just what Google determines to be the best results. The email from your alert makes it very easy to click through to the result, so if you’re trying to keep informed when something that you’re interested in is indexed, this is a fantastic, easy, and free way to do it.

14. How To Use Some Form Of Web Analytics

I use Google Analytics on some sites, but there are other good packages out there. Don’t simply rely on rank checks alone to indicate how well the site is performing.

15. How To Use Google’s Webmaster Tools

While I wouldn’t say that everyone needs to use Google Analytics, if you get even a small percentage of your traffic from Google, you need to use Webmaster Tools. It’s my first stop when something’s wrong. They alert you to problems with your site, allow you to run crawl checks, see your new links, look at your queries, and do about a ton of other things.

16. What Makes A Link A Bad/Spammy Link

Considering the amount of times I’ve pointed out what I think are bad links to people, I don’t think that this is anything we all agree on. However, if a link exists on a page for no easily detectable reason other than that it was purchased or slapped on there through a network, it’s probably a bad link.
There are many awkward link placements that are totally legitimate of course, but if you see a link that doesn’t seem to belong, it’s most likely not a good link. In terms of a spammy link, those are links on sites that are just utter crap. A link for a shoe company that’s on a blogroll comprised of 99 links to everything from payday loans to the best hotel in Baltimore is a spammy link.

17. How To Tell If Code Is Invalid

There are a lot of different validators but a great resource is always http://validator.w3.org/. Bad code can potentially render properly (enough) in a browser but that doesn’t mean that things will work as they should. If you don’t know how to code and you can’t just identify bad code by looking at it, make friends with a validator.

18. How To Check Redirects & Why They Matter

I always head to Rex Swain’s HTTP header check for this one If you’re building links to a site that runs on both a non-www and a www version with no 301 from one to the other, you’re splitting your link juice. If you’ve asked the tech guys to put in a 301 for a page that’s no longer where it once was, you need to be able to double-check to make sure it was done properly.

19. How To Remove A Page That Has Lots Of Inbound Links

People have different opinions about this but I’d either 301 redirect the old page to the most relevant current page or to the home page. I wouldn’t remove it completely without handling it with a 301, as a 404 error just wastes that link juice.

20. Recent Link Smack Downs

If you’re building links and you’re unaware of the fact that big brands can get penalized, you need to be paying more attention. Remember JC Penney’s troubles? If not, go look it up. The same goes for the recent deindexing of a few major blog networks. You need to keep yourself informed about all the guys who get into trouble because knowledge is (hopefully) power.

21. Alternative Engines To Google

There’s Bing and Yahoo of course, but there are also some really cool meta search engines that are well worth exploring. Dogpile is one of my favorites, as is MillionShort. Don’t limit your discovery to one engine. You can find some jewels if you look somewhere else, and that includes directories.

22. Crazy Methods For Discovery

This is one of my favorite things to do…just sit down and brainstorm some off the wall ideas. My son recently said, out of the blue in the car, “taco death pool.”
That’s what I mean by crazy discovery. I can safely say that I’ve never seen most of the sites that show up for that search in Google. If a search brings you something you’ve never seen before, that’s a good thing.

23. How To Use Social Media For Discovery

Icerocket is my favorite tool for this but there are others, and you can just go the old-school route of doing a search in Twitter of course. This is a particularly good way to keep your eye on bloggers who might write about content that pertains to your own site so that maybe you can snag a nice guest post slot.
Followerwonk is also a great tool that lets you search keywords in Twitter bios. Not only can you find bloggers talking about content that’s relevant to you, you can see what topics might be trending so that you can craft content around those as well.

Here comes end for the day. Relax and enjoy reading! More to come next.Till then a very good reading and all the best. Coming soon with a short break.

Every Link Builder Needs To Know

2013-01-01T11:44:00.003+06:00

Like it or not, link building has been and still is big, big business. Doing it well takes a lot of time and resources, which means that many webmasters/site owners can’t or don’t want to do it themselves. Many agencies that handle other aspects of search engine marketing want to outsource it simply because of the massive resource drain.

That’s great news for people like me who specialize in link building but the intense supply and demand nature of links coupled with the ease of promoting yourself through social media have led to a frightening increase in people who build bad links and really have no idea what they’re doing.

As link building is considered an offpage tactic, to actually sell yourself as a link builder, you don’t have to do very much. People are desperate for help.

However, it’s better to build no links than it is to embark upon a link building campaign that is full of nothing but spam that you will pay for twice: once when you put it up there, once when you have to remove it. If you’re shopping for link builders, make sure that the one you go with knows most of the following.

1. Why Links Matter

There’s no way to describe that quickly here but if you don’t know why links are important, you shouldn’t be building them alone. Links are how users and search engine spiders move around the internet and they give clues to what the linked-to content is about.

2. HTML Code For Text & Image Links

For a good reference you can visit http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp but generally, it’s pretty darned easy stuff:

3. How To Read A Robots.txt File

These can be tricky and you’ll see a lot of robots files that are coded incorrectly, so if you’re unsure of how to read one, there are a few good validators that are online. (I usually gravitate towards http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml.)

Robots files are always named robots.txt and are always found at the root, which means you can always access them at yoursite.com/robots.txt. If one doesn’t exist, well, you just won’t see one. That’s not a problem, but if one is there, make sure it’s valid.

Here’s the code you want to really watch out for:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

That tells the search engines to go away when they show up. People commonly use this when they don’t have a development/test environment so that they can code live but not have the site get indexed. That’s ok if it’s how you want to work, but remember to remove that exclusion when you do want the engines to index you.

If your site has recently disappeared, check the robots.txt immediately. You can also block engines using the method listed below.

4. How To Check For Robots Blocking Outside Of The Robots.txt File

There are some intricacies involved with using this method so it’s a good idea to read what Google has to say about blocking robots here.
If your site has just disappeared and you have checked the robots.txt file and it’s all fine and dandy, check to see if this line is in your code:

5. How To Use WordPress

As one of the most common blogging platforms, you should familiarize yourself with it. It’s quite user-friendly in my opinion but there are tons of tutorials out there. However, like with many things, it’s something you can learn best by actually setting up a site and using it.

If you don’t want to use WordPress, that’s fine – just learn how to set up a basic site on a popular platform. Here’s why I think this is so important for link building: once you are intimately involved in the innards of a site, you do start to think more critically about SEO, content creation, and usability. Those are all aspects of marketing that aren’t always involved with link building, but they should be.

6. How To Do A Link Audit

Don’t wait to audit your links until you get a warning letter from Google. Check and see what’s there right now. There are some great free tools that will give you a list of your back links so use them. You won’t always get all the functionality that you need from free tools and free versions of tools so if you’re doing a decent amount of link building, you should probably invest in at least one major paid link tool.

Grab your data and start to analyze it whether you can export it or you have to copy and paste it. You need to know how to look at your profile as a whole, break it down into different parts (like percentages of sitewides, money keywords, etc.) and actually look at the sites in the report and evaluate whether or not that link is a good one.

7. Google’s Webmaster Guidelines

Located here they’re something you should be familiar with, especially if you plan to violate them.

8. How To Do A Basic Link Check In Various Tools

Don’t limit yourself to one. Some databases are refreshed more often than others, some give you more information that you might ever need, some give you less, etc.

9. How To Analyze Anchor Text

You need to be able to grab your information and sort the anchors into categories like brand, URL, money keywords, and noise at a minimum.

10. How To Do Competitive Analysis

I truly don’t think that there’s a better post about this than one written by Jane Copland. Whether you always perform competitive analysis or not, you need to know how to critically analyze your competitors and figure out why they’re doing better than you when they are. Sometimes people only do this when things go wrong, so I suggest you do it when things are going well so you aren’t trying to think critically when you’re in panic mode.

11. How To Negotiate A Link

Whether it’s through an emailed link request, a phone call, a guest post, a connection on social media, etc. you need to know how to deal with people. Just people this is all online doesn’t mean that you can ignore basic manners and politeness. If you want something specific, lay it out and don’t take 10 emails to say so. If you don’t get what you want, either speak or or shut up and deal with it.

12. How To Keep Up With Algorithm Updates

If you’re involved in SEO and pay attention online, it’s pretty obvious when a big algorithm update happens. However, if you’re not that involved, SEOMoz has a good list and the Google Webmaster Central Blog does an excellent job of explaining changes. If you notice something odd, just search for “algorithm change” and if there’s anything notable, you’ll see it.

That's all for the day...Will be back with more on the issue..till then Enjoy with lots of fun n music coz it's time to go ahead forgetting all the past failures to retain success.... Happy New Year2013.

How the Google Docs Update Affects Freelance Writers

2012-12-29T13:40:00.000+06:00

Google is always on the forefront of change on the internet. Those in the world of freelancing are used to their Panda updates, but if you have been a long time user of their Doc’s platform, then you should get ready for the changes be effected there as well.

Google Docs has proved to be a great way to share, save and upload your documents without the need for additional costly storage. In addition to being free, documents shared via Google docs are compatible with every computing platform making it one of the must have items in your freelance toolbox.

One common hurdle most users found however was the inability to use it offline. Granted, freelancing is typically done via the internet, but there are plenty of occasions where you may choose to work with your files sans the net. Google has placed a custom application on all Apple products as well as many other mobile devices to better implement the new offline functionality of Google docs. Google Chrome Books also come pre-installed with the Drive program, the new name for Google Docs.

Using the offline feature is very simple; all you have to do is to enable offline usage on your Google doc’s program. Initiating that will cause the system to download local copies of everything in your file for offline use. Any documents you choose to work on while not connected to the internet will be synced automatically when your computer senses a connection. This feature is similar to the way Google’s Picasa syncs your images to their cloud servers while still leaving them accessible to you.

Right now, Google Docs and Google Drive exist separately while the internet giant completes the merge, after the merge is complete, only Drive will remain. You will have all the services offered by Google Docs, but with a whole lot more. One thing to note, during the conversion many files are simply not editable unless you are on your computer, accessing them from a mobile device will be the same as simply viewing a photo or using a file viewer.

Don’t let that deter you, as a freelancer, I don’t know how many times I have wanted to look at something I created months or even years ago but didn’t feel like turning on my computer. The ability to view those from my handheld device in itself is stunning. Not to give only bad news, there is a great new upgrade in the form of the drive’s search feature.

What is this feature you may ask? Well in the past, you had to either label your documents or put a title on your files in order for the system to pull up what you were looking for by name. Google has eliminated the need for labeling by introducing optical scanners that “read” your documents when you input a search. Say for instance you have 1,000 PDF files, but want to locate one that has certain information. If you know one or two words on the document, type that in the search bar and you will be presented with the exact document you are looking for or at the very least, a range of documents that have that stream of words together.

The update makes organizing and keeping your freelance files that much easier, I can’t wait to see what else Google has in store!

Is SEO Dyeing!!!!

2012-12-28T09:00:00.000+06:00

Is SEO Dyeing? Is it hurts you? SEO experts may anguish with fire in that who I am to saying like this? What proof drive me to saying like this..But be assure that I am not saying this! One of the expert's analysis tells all about it...... May this help you in your outsourcing career...............

The use of technology has upgraded mankind’s capability to accomplish great things. Recently, the knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) increased the prominence of website development and the visibility of these pages on famous search engines. As a result, there are millions of contractors online that specializes in SEO development. Although there are various techniques and methods to achieve the goal of making websites visible to search engines, SEO experts are open to the idea that Google might install a technology that can predict what the SEO technique does and its intentions. Is it possible that this may lead to the death of SEO?

Google is strict with SEO contractors and experts who do not follow their policies. They are making sure that contractors do not abuse the system. However if search engines are capable of upgrading their systems, SEO experts will look for ways to counter this new algorithm updates. A dying man who refuses death might live! Nothing is impossible. Although it might take some time, but the possibility is experts can counter the new algorithm with a new technique.

Check what strategies work and start from there!

If this algorithm update happens today, contractors must not panic. If there’s a will, there’s a way. Understand the new system first. Try to analyze how it works, and never try anything stupid that will cause a client’s website to suffer even further. Try your new strategies on “ghost” websites first; this is the safest thing to do. If it works, try it again until you are sure.

Observe policies.

In the first place, Google updated their system because of abusive SEO contractors who uses unethical techniques. Let clients understand that white hat strategies will benefit them in the long run, rather than those that are “spammy”. If clients are concerned with the reputation of their website, contractors must adhere to the policies of search engines for long term advantage. But it is possible that some clients are pushy and are willing to take the risk even if it is against the rules. If that is the case, contractors must specify their terms and conditions, point blank, lay down the cards and discuss the possible repercussions. But as a general rule, it is more beneficial to observe policies than break them, like in all working societies.

Ask for Assistance

Two heads are better than one. GetACoder is the place where experts and buyers meet to start the drill. There are millions of SEO contractors in the freelancing world. Try to ask one, two or as many experts about the algorithm updates and exchange some ideas. There are times that even experts need opinions from other individuals. Just try to imagine that there are millions of contractors who are also trying to solve the puzzle, so it is definitely possible to crack and work within the system.

Nino Sherwin is a freelance writer based in Manila, Philippines. He started his freelance writing career three years ago and continues to write for online clients. He holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and is taking up a short-term course in research methodology. Nino is one of several freelance writers on the GetACoder Blog team.

Courtesy: GetACoder

Be a Better Freelancer!

2012-12-27T08:00:00.000+06:00

How to be a better freelancer? It's a difficult proposition but get ideas to be successful from the expert is a good idea, Isn't it? But let's find how it is as Heather Howell describes as under.

Freelancing is a great way to do the things you love on a schedule you can live with all, while taking more money home at the end of the day. That being said, freelancing also has its own set of expenses. When you work in an office environment, most of the tools to get the job done are already provided, but GetACoder freelancers have to fend for themselves when it come to building a productivity toolbox for their projects. New freelancers and veteran freelancers alike will tell you that saving money is always important in the business, so here is a list of resources that are reasonably priced that can help you be a better freelancer.

Google Apps

You can almost manage your entire freelance business via their apps without paying a dime. Calendars, document sharing, real time chats, free blogs and so on. The app store also has some nifty design tools for the more advanced freelancers.

Project Bubble

This is a great tool that allows you to create files for each client to track your progress on their assignment, invoice and communicate all in a bed based platform. The interface is easy to use and attractive to boot.

Creative Commons

This is a great place for sourcing stunning images for all of your projects. Not only can you get permission to use those images, but you can upload your creations for others to share and use as well.

Right Signature

Most client-freelancer relationships need contracts to be successful, not because there is no trust, but just because professionalism works better that way. But how do you get documents signed when you and your client are in different parts of the world-Right Signature of course. There is a free trial that allows you to create and have 5 docs signed before you need to purchase the service, and even after you go premium, the monthly fee is minimal. The documents are legally binding and copies are stored not only on the server, but also are given to all parties.

Vyew

Collaboration and communication are a big part of the freelancing world. Without effective tools, your project could be delayed or easily run off track. This free site allows you to have conferences online, set meeting with clients or team members and also has a premium options for video conferencing.

Free Contracts for Freelancers

Writing a contract is one of the hardest things to do, often, you will end up hiring some one versed in the field to do it for you. This resource gives you great templates that allow you to customize contracts and agreements according to your work and the project specs.

Zoho

This is another great site dedicated to applications for business management. Google has a lot, but Zoho has much more. Invoicing, presentation, database tools, doc management and much more are available for only $13 per month.

PayPal to Go

This is a new one that I think hasn’t hit most lists yet. Most freelancers already use PayPal for billing clients that they don’t see in person, but PayPal released a new gadget that allows you to process credit card payments in person with nothing but your mobile device. You attach to the top of your phone and it connects to the PayPal app. It is secured to your account lets you swipe a clients card for your services.

These are a few of the handy affordable tools that I use to make my freelancing business more successful, I would love to hear some of the tools you use in your daily lancing.

Heather Howell is a native Southern Californian. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. She devotes most of her time to rural development in Bangladesh. Having obtained a degree in from UCLA, she enjoys writing on a variety of topics that range from Infant health and International politics to fashion trends and health advice. Heather is one of several freelance writers on the GetACoder Blog team.

Courtesy: GetACoder

Learning the basics of Outsourcing

2012-12-26T14:21:00.001+06:00

A Must readable topics for clients and contractors before start deciding to outsource:

Deciding to outsource some of the work for your company is a major decision. It is tempting to keep all the work in-house, where you can monitor every action; it is not always economically feasible. Sometimes outsourcing can save you a significant amount of labor and money. If you have considered outsourcing as an option for your company, you want to read as much about the topic as possible before you jump in. While there is plenty of information available online, some great books also cover the topic in depth. Look at some of the top books about outsourcing before you make your decision.

“The Black Book of Outsourcing: How to Manage the Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Scott Wilson

This is often considered the bible in the world of outsourcing. Dozens of critics and specialists in the field have heaped praise on this guide, calling it a necessary read for anyone who considers outsourcing part of a project, or anyone who works as a contract worker. It provides an overall view of the costs and benefits to outsourcing, all the potential applications and how best to manage a team of outsourced workers. While outsourcing is a hot topic among business leaders, this book teaches you how to best utilize it for your company. If you are an employee that has been outsourced to work on a contract basis, you will appreciate learning more about the other side of the business.

“Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing” by Thomas M. Koulopoulos and Tom Roloff

A bit of a lighter read when compared to the Black Book of Outsourcing, this is a great book to start with. It points out many of the benefits of outsourcing and helps decide the best ways you can utilize it for your company, without sacrificing quality of work.

“Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing” by Kate Vitasek, Mike Ledyard and Karl Manrodt

Even if you are an old hand at outsourcing, this book sheds new light on the subject and can help you view the subject in a new way. This book essentially teaches you how to adapt your business model into one that is outsourcing-friendly. Learning more about the potentials of outsourcing is one of the best ways to get the most for your labor dollar.

These are just a few of the more popular titles on the subject. Because outsourcing is such a controversial subject, it is easy to find information that covers both sides of the debate. Make certain you learn everything you can about both the pros and cons of outsourcing before you make a major decision for your business, then choose an outsourcing site of your choice to get started.

Increase adsense CTR from Latest 300 x 600 units

2012-12-12T13:51:00.003+06:00

Great News! For the Adsense Publishers. It is a good opportunity for the publishers to increase their adsense CTR by placing new add unit Google has recently introduced i.e. 600x300 units. But before you go on remember what google says "Because this new format is larger than all our other ad units, we want to help ensure a balance between content and ads across publisher sites. With this in mind, going forward, publishers will be permitted to place a maximum of one 300x600 ad unit on each page. If you’ve placed more than one 300x600 ad unit per page on your site, we ask that you remove any additional ad units by Jan 10, 2013. We’ll also be sending email notifications shortly to affected publishers, asking them to make this update".

Google's AdSense has launched a new larger 300 x 600 ad-unit for publisher. by adding this large units for optimize your website and increase your adsense earning. Google Adsense team said :“As mentioned in our recently released Display Business Trends, the 300×600 is one of the fastest growing ad units by impressions and is indicative of a trend where publishers are offering more visually impaction ad sizes that are preferred by brand advertisers. As per Google adsense news this unit is new to this network, so you will currently see a large number of text ads in these placements.

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SEO Link Building Strategies 101

2012-10-08T20:09:00.000+06:00

Plan your link building strategy, and you will probably be a step ahead of your competition. Link building can be a time-consuming effort that takes time to show results. However, carefully building your links can attract your target customer to your site. Below, I’m sharing link building tips to help you get noticed by both search engines and people.

Write Compelling Web Content

In a recent Women Grow Business chat about search engine optimization (SEO), someone asked me for my number one tip about SEO.

One chat participant chimed in, and I agreed, that writing compelling and relevant content proves extremely important. An organization can work just as hard to get 100 or 1,000 backlinks, so make sure the people visiting your site get their problem solved.

Good websites solve problems. What is the problem your content can solve? Do your potential visitors need to organize their house or get health questions answered? People won’t stay on a website or convert if the content isn’t answering their questions.

Your well-written, keyword-targeted content can help people and move your website higher in Google rankings.

Use a Tool to Help

The BatchBlue tool allows me to track my communications with bloggers and website owners.

Instead of searching through my old emails, I can view all relevant communications inside the web-based BatchBlue software. This saves me hours of time when I want to track responses and what was said.

When a blog stops publishing or contact information changes, I have a place to track those changes so I don’t waste time using old information next time. In addition, I can outsource certain tasks to others, saving myself even more time.

Ask and You Shall Receive

In a past life, I was a business and life coach.

What I noticed most in conversation with my clients was that they did not ask others for what they wanted.

One client wanted to take a class and lived in resentment about “not having time.” When she did finally ask her husband to watch their son—the spouse immediately said yes—she was able to take a class.

Have you asked that powerful website owner you admire for a link back to your site yet? If they say no, then volunteer to write a post for them (and ask if you can include a link to your site in your blog). If they still say no, then ask other people.

What is the best way to ask? Ideally, you know a little about your market. You’ve done your research about whether the site owner prefers email, Twitter, or another communication method.

You could even—gasp!—use the telephone to request a link. If you call and ask politely, you will certainly stand out from the all the other website managers sending emails.

PR + SEO = SEOPR

During the Women Grow Business chat mentioned above, chat host Shonali Burke asked me how PR and SEO could work together.

In the old days, I optimized press releases. Ideally, these press releases would appear online and the links from the press release service’s website would increase a website’s search engine rankings.

Sometimes press releases were written expressly for the purpose of getting the links, which is not a good idea.

When writing your own release, think of your organization’s story. A pitch you write for your local business journal will be far different from a release you write for your regional newspaper. Don’t overlook local news sources or stop yourself from aiming high.

If a news organization picks up your story, you may receive a coveted link from a high-quality news site. Among search engines, these highly regarded websites help your site’s credibility.

Take it Offline

I learned this from following the #pubcon hashtag on Twitter. I am not sure whose idea this was. However, I think Lee Odden tweeted it during a presentation. Find 50 Tweeps (people on Twitter) who blog and live in your local area. Organize an event around your business and invite them all. These folks will often live tweet or blog about your event later. This, as you can imagine, is an excellent want to get legal links back to your website.

Courtesy: deborah AGER

Ways to Become an SEO Expert

2012-10-08T13:53:00.000+06:00

This is part two of my article on becoming a SEO expert.You can find out the part one of this becoming SEO expert Here @ How to become SEO Expert-1.

By spending time in online marketing forums, you may find you absorb a lot more search engine optimization (SEO) information than you realize. When I joined my first tech forum, I was baffled by the techie language. Within a few months, I could hardly believe I’d ever not understood what they were talking about.

This article shares seven SEO forums and two excellent online marketing blogs. On SEO forums, you’ll find a mix of people managing niche websites, people wanting to market their brick and mortar business, black hat SEOs, and prominent leaders and “gurus” in the SEO field. As with anywhere in the world, some people will be kind and others rude.

Read on to get the list of seven SEO forums and two blogs.

Warrior Forum: This internet marketing forum encompasses numerous aspects of SEO and online marketing issues. You can organize networking functions in your geographical area, complain about the latest “launch buzz” in the internet marketing world, or get advice on how to get top ten rankings. The forum is moderated, though not to a suffocating extent. At the same time, be sure to learn the rules and stick to them. People get annoyed easily here.
SEO Black Hat: This is the only one I’ve not personally tried myself. I found out about it from Aaron Wall of SEO Book fame. You have to register before you can read any of the posts. However, it intrigued me enough to include it here. I’ll be checking this one out for myself soon.
Digital Point: This is one of my favorite forums. The moderator(s) is extremely laid back, and the information shared proves more useful than not. The main website, Digital Point, offers a number of free SEO tools to help you analyze and assess your online marketing work. Keep in mind that you are giving away your website information when you use these free tools, so be careful.
Search Engine Watch (SEW) Forums: This website, and its forums, have been on my “visit” list the whole time I’ve worked in SEO. I first started to learn the ins and outs of SEO at SEW. The site has an excellent reputation and many of the online marketing “gurus” hang out here and offer up useful information. Right now, there’s an interesting thread on a downturn in online sales. You can also find out the top 10 search terms in various categories.
SEO Guy: The free SEO tools offered by the forum manager set this site apart from most.
Thirty Day Challenge Forum: This is mostly for people doing the 30-Day Challenge I mentioned in part one of this SEO education series. However, it’s a great forum to get your feet wet and get your newbie questions answered. My only warning is to be sure that you are getting advice from someone who knows what they’re talking about — and not from another newbie.
SEO Chat: Like most SEO forums, this one offers the Google chat rooms towards
the top. These forums offer multiple rooms on affiliate marketing, link popularity, MSN, Google, Yahoo, site reviews, SEO scripts and more.
Sugarrae Blog: Rae Hoffman never minces words when it comes to SEO or any other topic she cares to tackle on her blog. I find her irreverent tone a breath of fresh air.
SEO Moz Blog is read by nearly everyone I meet in SEO. The blog posts I’ve read recently have not offered the nuts and bolts and the latest SEO tips. Most of those are reserved for the paid membership. The blog does offer interesting takes and philosophical posts on subjects such as advice for startup CEOs.

Good luck creating your educational SEO plan. One day, you may find SEO offered in colleges. (I like that it isn’t yet.) Until that time, the best way to learn is to teach yourself and through trial and error.

What tools, forums, blogs do you find useful? Share them in the comments below.

Ways to Become an SEO Expert

2012-10-08T13:44:00.001+06:00

Are you curious about how to improve your SEO skills? Are you a small business owner who wants to know a bit more about SEO?

It is now-a-days everybody's question what resources to use and which are best for learning about search engine optimization (SEO). With some of these resources, you may wonder what is the relation to SEO. Magazines.com may seem like an odd choice, yet it works to help you with your website and SEO if you let it.

Below are the first nine of my top 27 resources, including websites and online training, that may help develop ones skills.

This list is in no particular order. Here you go!

1. SEO Book: Aaron Wall, a delightful SEO blogger, wrote the big great book of search engine optimization. If you have the time and inclination to learn SEO, then this book will get you on your way. It’ll take study and work — no magic results unless you take action — yet the rewards you reap will help you achieve your online marketing and sales goals.

2. CopyBlogger: Thanks to Copyblogger, CopyBlogger is my all-time favorite copywriting blog. It offers numerous articles about content creation, SEO copywriting, engaging your readers, and even idea generation. When I need inspiration for writing an article, I often come to Copyblogger. Top Tip from the Site: Use Magazines.com for headline ideas.

3. Magazines.com: If you create niche websites, then this is a great place to start research and uncover interests people want to know more about. You might find magazines on golf, fishing or knitting here. That, in turn, can generate ideas for you to pursue in terms of website or product creation.
What if you are not a niche website owner? You can still use Magazines.com to generate headline ideas for your pay-per-click campaigns and avoid the common AdWords mistake of not writing the right kind of headline.

4. The Thirty-Day Challenge: If you are willing to work hard for 30 days, then this FREE training may appeal to you. Over the 30 days, you will have access to videos and podcasts that teach you how to use social bookmarking sites to promote your work, how to increase your site rankings and more. It is a lot of work! So, this is only for those willing to devote the time to it.

5. Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool This will provide you with limited access to keyword research results, yet even this free version gives you some great data. If you like the tool, you can purchase a monthly subscription to WordTracker, which is an economical way to test it out.

6. Keyword Discovery: This is another research tool that provides insight into what key phrases will receive the most traffic. Once you determine there’s traffic for a keyword, then you know what you should be writing about to get more visits to your website.

7. DoshDosh: I have affection for the writer of this blog. Observe how she or he uses links inside the blog posts to encourage you to visit more pages. That strategy is also known as “internal linking.” This site provides a good example of internal link strategies as well as numerous articles on juicy topics such as gaining more traffic
with StumbleUpon. I read DoshDosh on a regular basis.

8. Bloglines: Bloglines offers a way to organize your subscriptions to various blogs and RSS feeds. I’ve created folders called ‘internet marketing,’ ‘poetry,” and a few others to help me keep my feeds organized. Once you have your folders set up, you can easily add new feeds to them and then scan through several blogs in a short period of time to check out items of interest in your field. I use Bloglines to help me keep up with the latest in SEO and underwater basket weaving. (Just checking to see if you’re awake.)

9. Social Poster: This tool is free and allows you to post your articles to social bookmark sites quickly. If you’ve socially bookmarked your articles before, then you know how time consuming it can be to copy and paste the headline, URL, tags and so on each and every time. Social Poster removes some of the drudgery by allowing you to input the information one time. Your information either appears automatically or you click and drag to input it.

Do you have favorite SEO resources? If so, we’d all love to hear about them. Please post your favorites in the comments below.