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SEO tips

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As you all know that every blog needs too many backlinks and getting
backlinks needs too much hardwork.To make this easy, I have found
great sites on which you can get backlinks.
The profits-
1.You can get as many backlinks as you want.
2.These sites have very high pageranks so your site will also be given
importance.
3.These sites are indexed and given importance by Google so, If a user
goes to this site \, he will see your site's address and will go there
too.
4.No one will stop you.
5.Your pagerank will also increase.

The loss-
1.If you have many links on one site then your blog may be classified as spam.

Sites-
1.Answers.yahoo.com
2.Wiki.answers.com
3.Qna.reddif.com
4.Blogspot.com (Blogger.com)

Guide -
For Yahoo Answers
1.Sign Up for yahoo answers.
2.Start answering.
3.Once you are experienced,go to Advanced Search in the side of the search box.
4.Search for the words which you think the user must have typed.(With
which your blog is related to.)
5.Answer the questions with your site's name given in the answers with http://
Tips-If you are a level 2 answerer then your sites will be hyperlinked.

For Wiki answers-
1.Sign Up
2.Start Answering.
3.Once you are experienced, do the step 4 of Yahoo answers guide.

This will increase your backlinks and hence your pagerank.

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How to check how many users are online on your blog?

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To check how many users are online on your blog,you need a user online widget for your blog.It can tell you how many users are online your blog and display the number on your blog in a small box.On www.whos.amung.us you can get a javascript or HTML code which when you will paste on your blog,will show a small box in which the number of users online on your blog will be written.It looks like this-

To put this Great widget on your blog instantly,click here.

The difficult and longer method-

When you get the code on whos.amung.us ,paste in the sidebar of your blog in the HTML/Javascript column.First go to "Layout" and then Page Elements(default).Then click on "Add a Gadget".A long list of Widgets will appear and then choose HTML/Javascript then paste the code and save the changes.Now,when you will see your blog,you will see a small box in which the number of users online will be written.

When you will click on that box,the site of whos.amung.us will be opened and you will be able to see the locations of the visitors also on the world map.

If you think that this box is very big,then go to "http://whos.amung.us/showcase" and in the extreme right side,you will be able to see a small box.Click on it.A code will appear.Copy the code and paste it on the HTML/Javascript column and you will be able to see a smallbox instead of that big box.

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Advertise your site for free

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Bloggers and online business persons are eager to promote / advertise their websites, seeking for more traffic, but some of them forgot that they can actually do it free yet effectively. The famous Steve Pavlina grew his website up to 50,000 visitors per month only using one of these methods. Would you like to know more?
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When promoting sites comes to people’s mind, most of them will refer it to advertisements. While actually, there are many free yet effective methods to promote our site besides using paid advertisements. The low cost ($0) of these methods should be very attractive for those who are just starting their blog / website. Here are four simple but effective free methods:

Carnivals

Blog carnivals are a great way to gain your website more audience, recognition, and traffic. Steve Pavlina stated that blog carnivals were his kick-start in growing his website up to 50,000 visitors per month.

For more details on blog carnivals, please read my article 5 Reasons Why You Should Use Blog Carnival To Gain Traffic.

Submitting your best articles to carnivals will certainly gain you more spotlight and traffic, if your posts are accepted. However, different host has different rules and quality standards, which is why you need to read each description well.

This method is my favorite, I always submit my articles to related carnivals daily. I am glad that almost all hosts approved my submissions, resulting in my articles appearing in many carnivals. However doing this is not easy for me, since my internet connection is a bit slow and unstable (256 kbps only). In addition, blogcarnival.com is usually heavy to load, but I guess it is worth it.

However, you can also host your own carnival to increase your traffic. This is a very good method, since by doing so, you also deliver genuine value to others. Writers whose posts you include in the carnival will gain more audience and recognition, while visitors and readers will get more solid knowledge from the articles. The favor will certainly go back to you, your website will be respected and recognized more. I have proven this myself, the day I held a carnival was the day I got most page views on my articles in the particular week. I guess those people whose articles I included in the carnival was so eager to read my articles.

Great Contents

Your contents are your ads, since they represent you and your brand in people’s points of view. Once visitors read your posts and love it, they will likely to the remember you and your brand. Sometimes, they will recommend your quality service / products to their friends without asked, either using direct speech, SMS, emails, up to social medias like stumbleupon, digg, delicious, etc.

Great contents are impressive exponential promotions, which mean that if some people are impressed with your masterpiece of work, they will recommend it to their friends. In addition, if those friends are impressed too, they will recommend it to their friends, and so on. The more help you give to others, the more help you will receive.

If your website delivers genuine value for your visitors through its content, meaning that it is very useful for someone somewhere, soon or later your traffic will rise higher and higher. The problem is, creating and delivering genuine value is not easy, we need experience and skills. However, if you fulfill the 2 Requirements of Definite Success, you’ll definitely be able to pull it off, either slowly but surely or fast but steadily.

However don’t be afraid of making bad / weak valued posts, because it is exactly the reason why a professional bloggers like Steve Pavlina could present his genuine valued articles, as stated in his article How to Create Real Value. This article is also very helpful if you wonder whether your posts are delivering genuine value or not. Check it out.

Comments

Quality commenting on others' websites will increase your popularity, and later on, traffic. People will recognize your name or brand more, as they see your comments more.

People want more comments on their articles, but sometimes they forgot to comment on others’ articles. If you want your website to be appreciated, go read others’ work and appreciate them. Do not expect to be appreciated if you do not to appreciate others.

However, be careful here, spamming irrelevant comments is definitely not a wise action. Unfortunately, the first comment I receive in my post “Why You Should Never get A Part-Time Job” is a spam comment. Let's use it as example:

“Best website links related to Online Job sites in India!

http://www.back2office.com

In order achieve success in their job search, job seekers must target a wide range of Job sites and use all the available resources. Yes, its time consuming. However, dedicating the time and energy will pay off with more and better job leads, more interviews and more job offers!”

Fortunately, I can use it as a real example to explain what a spam comment is. You can see that the comment has nothing to do with my post; it just tries to promote a website. Most people will simply delete this kind of comments, and making people annoyed is certainly not a good technique to market your site.

In commenting, you want to be unique and intelligent. Uniqueness means you have your own pattern and style in expressing your responses, which is distinctive to others, enabling you to stand out of the crowd and shine brighter. Intelligent means you have read the posts, understand it, and having your own stance in the particular topic, either agree or disagree.

You also want to be polite and humble in language, since as a mature person, either agree or disagree, you want to express it in the right way. And later on, receiving the right responses.

Chriss Garret wrote 10 Reasons Commenting Is Good For Bloggers, which states these strong points:

It's right thing to do
Make friends and influence people
Clicks
Develop a Bloggers Eye
Create Commentable Content
Comments = Ideas
You never know who is reading
What you give you get more of
Keep Match Fit
Comment on Fresh Blogs For Fresh Perspectives

Please visit the original article for further details.

Search Engines

To be honest, this method is not my favorite, but everyday I always see people coming to my site from search engines. My promotion strategy does not put search engines in the first place, but the fact is the fact, people keep coming from there. So at least do some basic optimizations to your site to make it search engine friendly.

You want search engines index your contents fast, so people can find your content fast. So, what you need to do is enhancing your meta tags to make your site even more search engine friendly. I don't want to talk big, but my site has very complete meta tags, and you are welcomed to compare and adopt them as you please.

I guess you will be lying if you say you don't want to know how to do free SEO yet gaining great results. I only did those simple optimizations yet Google always index my newest page no more than 10 minutes after I publish it, that's good enough for me.

Anyway, it's not advised to struggle to get your site in top search results (first page), since it is incredibly difficult and you will be wasting your time and energy. It is wiser to produce more quality contents, and more traffic shall be yours.

OK to sum things up, carnivals, contents, comments, and search engines are the simplest and the most effective free methods of promoting your website. If you haven't done all of them, do it as soon as you can. However, there are also some other free methods that may work, but I don't include them above since they are considered not too effective.

Promoting your best articles via emails may works, but the problem is, most professional bloggers dislike receiving it. Unless you are a good friend, your offer might be considered as spam. Chriss also wrote a good post titled Where To Find Fresh Blogs and How To Get Your Blog Discovered, where he stated 10 things to do or not to do in email promotions, which is:

DON’T email bloggers with your blog URL.
DON’T send link requests.
DON’T mass-mail - make each email unique and personalised.
DON’T assume - your email is a question and perhaps the start of a conversation, not a demand
DON’T have an inflated view of your value - you might think it is the best blog ever, others have the right to disagree
DON’T flog a dead horse - only email your best stuff and not too often. Move on if you don’t get results
DO put yourself in the other bloggers shoes - What is in it for them?
DO send a link to a post, one that is interesting to them and their readers
DO be polite and humble - you are asking for a favour, they have the right to decline or ignore
DO make your email appealing. Think about it, craft it

Please visit the original article for more details.

Belonging to social medias may also works in promoting your website, the problem is, if you spend too much time there, when would you produce your own quality contents? If your contents are nothing special, no matter whether you belong to 40 or 100 major social medias, people aren't going to remember you anyway. Your contents are your fame, my friend.

It's better to concentrate on producing great contents, and social medias will take care of themselves. Steve Pavlina Stated this too, and it works! I have proven it myself, I never submitted my article Why You Should Never Join MLM to any social media. But someone read it, loved it, and submitted it to stumbleupon, then in one night, boom! The article got a 500% boost of traffic.

Linking out to others' blogs may works too in getting the favor back. The problem is, if the blogs you are linking to are established ones and visited by more than 1,000 people per day, how would you think the owners would know that you send them some traffic? Do you think they spend most of their time watching the sources of their traffic one by one? Don't expect too much from this method, dude.

Anyway, what is you favorite promotion method and why? And if you know another methods of free promotion, please share it here.

Source:www.isaacyassar.blogspot.com

Youtube Embed Tool

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With this Youtube embed tool,you can embed the youtube videos on your site of which Youtube doesn't allow the embedding.This is the Youtube Embed Magic Tool-

When you click on "ok" a code will appear.Copy that code(press Ctrl +C without clicking anywhere .Even on the code don,t click) and paste it into your blog post.When you will preview the post,you will be able to see the video which you wanted to embed.

What Is Youtube?

YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Three formerPayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.^[2] In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.

The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.^[3]

Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation,pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service. Accounts of registered users are called "channels".^[4]

Company history

Main article: History of YouTube

YouTube's current headquarters in San Bruno, California.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal.^[5] Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[6]

According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Jawed Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, and Chad Hurley commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a story that was very digestible."^[7]

YouTube began as a venture-funded technology startup, primarily from a US$11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006.^[8] YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.^[9]The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 15, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months.^[10] The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo.^[11] The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.^[12]

YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005, six months before the official launch in November 2005. The site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day.^[13] According to data published by market research company comScore, YouTube is the dominant provider of online video in the United States, with a market share of around 43 percent and more than six billion videos viewed in January 2009.^[14] It is estimated that 20 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute, and that around three quarters of the material comes from outside the United States.^[15]^[16] It is also estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as muchbandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000.^[17] In March 2008, YouTube's bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately US$1 million a day.^[18] Alexa ranks YouTube as the fourth most visited website on the Internet, behind Google, Yahoo! and Facebook.^[19]

The choice of the name www.youtube.com led to problems for a similarly named website, www.utube.com. The owner of the site, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being overloaded on a regular basis by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www.utubeonline.com.^[20]^[21]

In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for US$1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006.^[22] Google does not provide detailed figures for YouTube's running costs, and YouTube's revenues in 2007 were noted as "not material" in a regulatory filing.^[18] In June 2008 a Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at US$200 million, noting progress in advertising sales.^[23]

In November 2008, YouTube reached an agreement with MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment and CBS which will allow the companies to post full-length films and television shows on the site, accompanied by advertisements. The move is intended to create competition with websites such as Hulu, which features material from NBC, Fox, and Disney.^[24]^[25]

Social impact

Main article: Social impact of YouTube

Jeong-Hyun Lim performsPachelbel's Canon in one of YouTube's most viewed videos.

Before the launch of YouTube in 2005, there were few simple methods available for ordinary computer users who wanted to post videos online. With its easy to use interface, YouTube made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to post a video that millions of people could watch within a few minutes. The wide range of topics covered by YouTube has turned video sharing into one of the most important parts of Internet culture.

An early example of the social impact of YouTube was the success of the Bus Uncle video in 2006. It shows a heated conversation between a youth and an older man on a bus in Hong Kong, and was discussed widely in the mainstream media.^[26] Another YouTube video to receive extensive coverage isguitar,^[27] which features a performance of Pachelbel's Canon on an electric guitar. The name of the performer is not given in the video, and after it received millions of views The New York Times revealed the identity of the guitarist as Jeong-Hyun Lim, a 23-year-old from South Korea who had recorded the track in his bedroom.^[28]

YouTube was awarded a 2008 George Foster Peabody Award and cited for being "a 'Speakers' Corner' that both embodies and promotes democracy."^[29]^[30]

Criticism

Main article: Criticism of YouTube

Copyrighted material

YouTube has been criticized for failing to ensure that its videos respect the law of copyright. At the time of uploading a video, YouTube users are always shown a screen with the following message:

Do not upload any TV shows, music videos, music concerts or commercials without permission unless they consist entirely of content you created yourself. The Copyright Tips page and the Community Guidelines can help you determine whether your video infringes someone else's copyright.^[31]

Despite this advice, there are still many unauthorized clips from television shows, films and music videos on YouTube. YouTube does not view videos before they are posted online, and it is left to copyright holders to issue a takedown notice under the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Organizations including Viacom, Mediaset and the English Premier League have filed lawsuits against YouTube, claiming that it has done too little to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material.^[32]^[33]^[34] Viacom, demanding US$1 billion in damages, said that it had found more than 150,000 unauthorized clips of its material on YouTube that had been viewed "an astounding 1.5 billion times". YouTube responded by stating that it "goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works". Since Viacom filed its lawsuit, YouTube has introduced a system called Video ID, which checks uploaded videos against a database of copyrighted content with the aim of reducing violations.^[35]^[36]

In August 2008, a U.S. court ruled that copyright holders cannot order the removal of an online file without first determining whether the posting reflected fair use of the material. The case involved Stephanie Lenz from Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, who had made a home video of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy" and posted the 29-second video on YouTube.^[37]

Privacy

In July 2008, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. The move led to concerns that the viewing habits of individual users could be identified through a combination of their IP addressesand login names. The decision was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which called the court ruling "a set-back to privacy rights".^[38] U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton dismissed the privacy concerns as "speculative", and ordered YouTube to hand over documents totalling around 12 terabytes of data. Judge Stanton rejected Viacom's request for YouTube to hand over the source code of itssearch engine system, saying that there was no evidence that YouTube treated videos infringing copyright differently.^[39]^[40]

Inappropriate content

YouTube has also faced criticism over the offensive content in some of its videos. Although YouTube's terms of service forbid the uploading of material likely to be considered inappropriate, YouTube does not check every video before it goes online. Controversial areas for videos have included Holocaust denial and the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 96 football fans from Liverpool were crushed to death in 1989, conspiracy theories and religion.^[41]^[42]

YouTube relies on its users to flag the content of videos as inappropriate, and a YouTube employee will view a flagged video to determine whether it violates the site's terms of service.^[4] In July 2008 the Culture and Media Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdomstated that it was "unimpressed" with YouTube's system for policing its videos, and argued that "Proactive review of content should be standard practice for sites hosting user generated content." YouTube responded by stating: "We have strict rules on what's allowed, and a system that enables anyone who sees inappropriate content to report it to our 24/7 review team and have it dealt with promptly. We educate our community on the rules and include a direct link from every YouTube page to make this process as easy as possible for our users. Given the volume of content uploaded on our site, we think this is by far the most effective way to make sure that the tiny minority of videos that break the rules come down quickly."^[43]

Blocking

Main article: Blocking of YouTube

Several countries have blocked access to YouTube since its inception, including China,^[44]^[45] Morocco,^[46] and Thailand.^[47] YouTube is currently blocked in Turkey after controversy over videos deemed insulting to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.^[48] Despite the block, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan admitted to journalists that he could access YouTube, since the site is still available in Turkey by using anopen proxy.^[49]

On December 3, 2006, Iran temporarily blocked access to YouTube, along with several other sites, after declaring them as violating social and moral codes of conduct. The YouTube block came after a video was posted online that appeared to show an Iranian soap opera star having sex.^[50] The block was later lifted and then reinstated after Iran's 2009 presidential election.^[51]

On February 23, 2008, Pakistan blocked YouTube due to "offensive material" towards the Islamic faith, including display of the Danish cartoonsof the prophet Muhammad.^[52] This led to a near global blackout of the YouTube site for around two hours, as the Pakistani block was inadvertently transferred to other countries. Pakistan lifted its block on February 26, 2008.^[53] Many Pakistanis circumvented the three-day block by using virtual private network software.^[54]

Schools in some countries have blocked access to YouTube due to students uploading videos of bullying behavior, school fights, racist behavior, and other inappropriate content.^[55]

Technology

Video format

YouTube's video playback technology for web users is based on the Adobe Flash Player. This allows the site to display videos with quality comparable to more established video playback technologies (such as Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and RealPlayer) that generally require the user to download and install a web browser plug-in to view video content.^[56] Viewing Flash video also requires a plug-in, but market research from Adobe Systems has found that its Flash plug-in is installed on over 95% of personal computers.^[57]

Videos uploaded to YouTube by standard account holders are limited to ten minutes in length and a file size of 2 GB.^[58]^[59] When YouTube was launched in 2005 it was possible to upload longer videos, but a ten minute limit was introduced in March 2006 after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films.^[60]^[61] Partner accounts are permitted to upload videos longer than ten minutes, subject to acceptance by YouTube.^[62]

YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most formats, including .WMV, .AVI, .MKV, .MOV, MPEG,.MP4, DivX, .FLV, and .OGG. It also supports 3GP, allowing videos to be uploaded directly from amobile phone.^[63]

Video quality

YouTube originally offered videos in only one format, but it now has three main formats, as well as a "mobile" format, for viewing on mobile phones. The original format, now labeled "standard quality", displays videos at a resolution of 320x240 pixels using the Sorenson Spark codec, with mono MP3audio.^[64] This was, at the time, the standard for streaming online videos.

"High quality" videos, introduced in March 2008, are shown at up to 864x480 pixels with stereo AACsound.^[65] This format offers a significant improvement over standard quality. In November 2008 720p HD support was added.^[66] At the same time, the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. 720p videos are shown at 1280x720 pixels resolution and encoded with the H.264 video codec. They also feature stereo audio encoded with AAC.

3D videos and viewing

In a video posted on July 21, 2009,^[67] YouTube software engineer Peter Bradshaw announced that YouTube users can now upload 3D videos.^[68]^[69]^[70] After each 3D video is uploaded and processed, users have several choices on how to view the video. For users without 3D glasses they have the option to watch the video Cross-Eyed, Parallel, Mirror-Split and Left and Right Image Only. Users who have 3D glasses simply have to chose what color pairing they have on their glasses in order to view the video in 3D. Neither GeForce 3D Vision nor polarized 3Dviewing are currently supported.

Content accessibility

One of the key features of YouTube is the ability of users to view its videos on web pages outside the site. Each YouTube video is accompanied by a piece of HTML, which can be used to embed it on a page outside the YouTube website. This functionality is often used to embed YouTube videos in social networking pages and blogs.^[71] Some mobile phones are capable of accessing YouTube videos, dependent on the provider and the data plan. YouTube Mobile was launched in June 2007, and uses RTSP streaming for the video.^[72] Not all of YouTube's videos are available on the mobile version of the site.^[73]

Since June 2007, YouTube's videos have been available for viewing on a range of Apple products. This required YouTube's content to be transcoded into Apple's preferred video standard, H.264, a process that took several months. YouTube videos can be viewed on devices including Apple TV and the iPhone.^[74] A TiVo service update in July 2008 allowed the system to search and play YouTube videos.^[75] In January 2009, YouTube launched "YouTube for TV", a version of the website tailored for set-top boxes and other TV-based media devices with web browsers, initially allowing its videos to be viewed on the PlayStation 3 and Wii video game consoles.^[76]^[77] In June 2009, YouTube XL was introduced, which has a simplified interface designed for viewing on a standard television screen.^[78]

YouTube does not usually offer a download link for its videos, and intends that they are viewed through its website interface.^[79] A small number of videos, such as the weekly addresses by President Barack Obama, can be downloaded as MP4 files.^[80] Numerous third-party web sites, applications and browser plug-ins allow users to download YouTube videos.^[81] In February 2009, YouTube announced a test service, allowing some partners to offer video downloads for free or for a fee paid through Google Checkout.^[