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Image Optimization Tips for Organic SEO Ranking

Pavan Kumar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:38:52 +0000

Recently I was going through my Google Analytics data and was looking the referring sites section and found that more than 2% of my traffic is coming from Google Image Search. I was surprised to see that as I never got more than 2-3 visits from Google Image Search everyday on my old blog. The only reason for this massive increase in traffic from Google Image Search is Image Optimization.

Apart from writing a good article there are many other things that need to be taken care for a blog post and image optimization is one of them. There is nothing much to be done to optimize your images and it just takes few seconds. The main things for image optimization are proper name for the image, alt tag and proper positioning.

Important Points for Image Optimization:

SEO Friendly Image Names : The first you have to do is to rename the file with proper name. "image001.jpg" or "DSC001.jpg" doesn’t make sense for the search engine. If your image is related to a mobile renaming it something like "Nokia-5800-Front-View" makes sense. Search Engines cannot read the image to find what it is, instead they read the image name and otehr things like alt tag, surronding text etc to get more information about the image. So do rename your images to something meaningful and relevant to the current context.

Use Effective Alt Tag : Alt Tag will give more information about the image to the search engine. You have to use better text and keywords thus helping the search engine to know more about the image. For example if you have got a mobile realted image you can have the alt tag as – alt="Nokia Slim 5800 Mobile Side View" rather than – alt="mobile".

Proper Placement of Images : Search engines usually read the text surrounding the image to know more about it. So we need to take care in placing the image near to the relevant content. For example, if you are writing an article with general mobile trends in market in the first paragraph and then about a specific mobile in the last paragraph, it makes more sense to place the mobile related image closer to the last paragraph.

Using Relevant Anchor Text : When you are trying to use anchor text to link images, it is always a better idea to use text that is more relevant to the images. It would be better to use "Click Here for Nokia Mobile Images" or "Nokia 5800 Pictures" rather than using "Click Here".

If you keep the above points in your mind you will definitely get good amount of traffic from the image search results. You can always check for the total indexed images of your website by typing "site:yoursite.com" in "http://images.google.com". Google also suggests users to use JPEG rather than other formats. Also use hyphens (-) instead of unserscores (_) between words of the image. Finally if you are using images from other sites, rename the image and change the dimensions to avoid image duplication issues.

If you have any other thoughts and points do share with us in the comments section.

Also read: Image optimization for fast websites, Remove frames from Google images traffic

This article is written by Samrat who blogs at TechHail. TechHail is a technology blog on Computers, Mobiles, Internet, Windows, Software, Tips & Tricks, SEO and Blogging.

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The Conceptual Google Adsense Trial Accounts

Pavan Kumar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:59:20 +0000

Ever heard of Google Adsense trial accounts? No chance! They don’t exist till date. But this is what I suggested Google Adsense team when they asked me to fill a survey for them. Indian Adsense publishers were invited for the survey and the prize is Apple iPod Touch. Details here. Entry only through invitation.

As I guess most of you have submitted your valuable opinions and suggestions, I would like to share what I suggested them and would like the feedback from you readers as this can influence Google’s Adsense team in some way and favoring thousands of Adsense aspiring webmasters and bloggers.

Adsense is an unmatched industry leader in online advertising and every budding webmaster / blogger / internet marketer wants to be an Adsense publisher, but getting an Adsense account these days is a very difficult task. I see many of my online friends and readers who run a successful blog are still waiting for an AS account.

Disadvantages of no Adsense account for budding webmasters:

Publisher may lose interest in content generation – growth of an aspiring person is affected.
He/She may join some unethical ad networks and finally comes into conclusion that all ad networks (including Adsense) are fraud. This is the current state of survey sites – though there are good survey earning opportunities, users always try to keep away from them.
As account applications get rejected for NO REASON, the real address of the publisher gets blocked. They can’t change their home just to get a new address for Adsense account. Same with phone number, website etc.
As blogging is a growing career option, it gets tough to choose blogging as profession if they don’t have an Adsense account. Most of the content / news websites depend mainly on Adsense for revenues.
Anyone can lose patience for resubmitting the same application form again and again for more than 15 times. Result of this can give raise to ad networks which don’t have a sole existence, but serve Adsense ads to fill their ad inventory. The publisher who has to get the entire revenue will start getting a small percentage of what he exactly earns. I am sure Google cannot be happy with this

The above are the reasons I could think while writing the post. The solution is ADSENSE TRIAL ACCOUNT. Though they have not assigned me a job of designing such a system, I wish such trial accounts come true in short future.

Google Adsense Trial Accounts

These accounts are short lived Adsense accounts of a test span of say 7-15 days.
Users can directly sign up for an account and get complete access instantly.
Ads are served as normal, but not paid. Hope everyone is happy to run Adsense ads for free if they can get an approved Adsense account.
Complete statistics like impressions, clicks, CTR, eCPM and earnings (eCPM and earnings are those they could get if it were an approved account, right now, they are just displayed, but not paid).
After the trial period is over, users get notification through mail / Adsense reports page if their account is approved or not.
No need to change tags after approval, but if rejected, you are welcome to remove the tags.

What Google do behind the scene?

Algorithm + bots decide if an account needs to be approved. Bots can identify whether the content is suitable or inappropriate according to Adsense policies. Google in the mean time gets complete details about site traffic, demography, user behavior and other required stats which influence account approval process. Only in few particular cases, a staff review can be expected.

Your suggestions / views / ideas:

Though I don’t bother about number of comments I get on any post, I request every reader to post a comment below sharing your views on such Adsense Trial accounts. If the response is impressive, there may be chances that Google can implement this in later stages.

Note to readers: It takes some more time for me to return to normal tone of blogging as there is a major shift in my personal and professional life at this time. Meanwhile check out my new website Deadly Tips where you can share your tips which rolls out of your blog niche and get a link back

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Watch TV Channels Live Free Online – Anywhere Any Language

Pavan Kumar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:45:53 +0000

There are many times you would like to watch TV channels for free online in live streaming. There are many websites which serve for live broadcast of important international channels, but most such services are paid and those which are free won’t work all the time and many a times, you will see them out of service.

If you are interested to watch TV channels online for free, TVU networks is the best service for you. If you want to watch free TV channels online, you need to download their free TV software called TVU Player which is available for free download. Download, install and run the free TV software and you will be able to select which language channels you would like to tune into and get a long list of available in your language. You can not just watch international channels, you can watch any channel from any language of any country without any bounds or fees.

You can also make use of the channel search feature available with the software which enables you to search any available TV channel if you know the proper name. There is also an option to browse through different TV channels based on its category – like sports, news, movies etc.

It is also possible launch your own TV channels with the help of TVU network broadcasting all time with content which can vary from your own shoot of tourist / home video or the series of your favorite movies. All you need is just a high speed internet connection. You can also monetize the video broadcast with TVU and make some handsome money if you channel gains popularity.

TVU Player is available for Windows and Apple Mac and TVU Broadcast software is available for Windows and Linux, but you can try to run Windows software on Linux / Mac.

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How To Run Multiple WordPress Blogs with Single Installation

Pavan Kumar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:34:20 +0000

It is a very nice idea to run multiple blogs on various niches you can work on instead of messing up everything at the same place. At the same time its a pain to install WordPress for every blog, maintaining the various blogs, plugins, upgrades etc. There are few options for you to ease the process of managing multiple blogs with single installation.

1. WordPress MU

WordPress MU can be used along with a Domain Mapping Plugin with a workaround as illustrated here. Wordpress MU offers the same features as WordPress, but this facilitates you to build unlimited number of blogs and users. The most popular Wordpress.com blogging platform with hundreds of thousands of blogs work on the same WordPress multi user version of WP.

2. WP – Hive: WordPress Plugin

This is for those who run all the blogs alone. Like you are the only administrator of your entire blog network. WP-Hive is a WordPress plugin which enables you to run multiple blogs across multiple domains and subdomains (and NOT subdirectories as of now) with single installation core files, plugins and themes. This is a benefit as by upgrading your blog only once will move you out of all securty threats for the installed versions, but at the same time another problem may arise if the plugin loses its compatibility with new version of WP.

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Reduce CPU Throttling on WordPress Blogs – CPU Limiting Factors

Pavan Kumar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:00 +0000

These days, the web hosting industry is filled with lots of unlimited plans and features like unlimited disk space, bandwidth, databases, domains, subdomains, emails etc. But web hosting providers do not disclose what exactly is that they make a limit on every hosted website in order to avoid problems at servers.

All shared web hosting plans have limits over system resources like CPU, memory, number of database connections etc. Though they provide unlimited disk space and bandwidth, you will be limited based on resource usage by your websites. If your website starts using too much of resources, then they suspend your websites in order to facilitate the smooth working of other websites hosted on your server. Web hosts like Blue Host etc provide statistics of CPU Throttling errors and few hosts does not provide any such details.

If you use WordPress blogs and suffer from CPU over usage problems on your server, here are few possible solutions.

Plugins: Plugins add great functionality to WP blogs, but at the other end a badly coded plugin can eat up the server like anything. As the WP itself is a server resource eater and increasing number of plugins will naturally take up most of the server resources like CPU and memory. Try to reduce number of plugins as well as plugins that consume much resources. If it is tough for you to identify bad plugins, head over to WP forums and experts are there to help you.

Theme: Not in every case, but sometimes the theme can turn your enemy and contribute in blog suspension. If you are using a theme which uses too much resources, its time to change that to a server optimized wordpress theme.

WP SuperCache: Here came the most important part you must try before trying anything else. Most of us use a caching plugin for WP, try increasing its duration of storing cached content which in other words can be called as Expiry Time & Garbage Collection in terms of Super Cache. You may need to increase it based on your CPU throttling, but don’t forget to check not to cache for logged in users.

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How To Mass Add Contacts to New Sony Ericsson Mobile Phones

Pavan Kumar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:46:39 +0000

Its a trend to switch mobile phones, everyone tries to upgrade their phones once in two or three years. If you have bought a new mobile phone for yourself from Sony Ericsson, here is how you can add all your contacts easily without typing on tiny keypad of SE phone.

1. With backup contacts available as file

If you have a backup of contacts from previous phone / email program, you can easily insert that entire phone book into your phone. You can try SE contact backup / restore method to carry out the process. or use Float’s Mobile Agent tool and import the contacts and synchronize with phone as shown in the image below. In the course, you may need some tools like CSV to vCard Converter.

2. When contacts are not available as files

This requires some sort of work, but typing on a PC keyboard is a lot easier than typing on mobile keypad. Again use the same Float’s Mobile Agent to add contacts and don’t forget to synchronize later. In the above screenshot, the right click context menu shows you the option to add New Person. You can enter all details on that and click Synchronize To > Phone Address Book.

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How to Use Inbuilt Microphone in Dell Inspiron Laptops / Notebooks

Pavan Kumar — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:38:37 +0000

Many readers of 0×8004240f vista partition problem ask me on using the internally built microphones of Dell Inspiron laptops for audio input. This is helpful many times as users do not need to plug in an additional accessory while they need to have a voice chat, audio/video recording or PC to phone free VoIP calling on system.

I use Dell Inspiron 1545 (almost same as 1525) with Microsoft Windows Vista and this tutorial is based on the same system configuration. But I hope the same/ similar way should work with other versions of Windows too. For those who don’t know about anything about the inbuilt microphone, Dell Inspiron laptops have an inbuilt microphone to facilitate you chatting / recording purposes. The figure below shows where exactly you find the mic on you Dell notebook.

First, you need to have all your drivers installed.
Launch the sound control panel either from Control Panel (classic view) > Sound or right click on volume control in taskbar.
Switch to Recording tab, click Microphone Array and click Set Default.

This will be in effect immediately without requiring any system restart.

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Know Detailed System Configuration for Windows Desktops / Laptops

Pavan Kumar — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:03:48 +0000

There are many questions which go around the mind of any person who have bought a new PC – be it a desktop or laptop, you will mostly have those questions which you feel shy to ask your expert friends. Those questions are regarding your hardware, if your vendor has provided the right hardware as given in invoice.

You will also have questions regarding the Operating System installed (mostly newbies), processor details, hard disk capacity, programs installed, memory size and speed, monitor resolution, printer features etc.

For very basic information about your system, you can refer to online system configuration service, but if more details about the computer/notebook is needed, SysSpec is the recommended tool.

Sysspec though being a free and tiny tool (1.8MB) offers a lot of details you might need to know about your system. The main categories of information it can display include personal user details (also includes Windows CD key, OS build, installation date etc), memory, display, hard drives, optical drives, processor (CPU), internet, installed applications, network, printers, audio devices and USB ports and devices. These information provided by this tool is enough to understand the detailed configuration in the computer.

This application works only for windows.

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Test Website Performance to Improve Loading Speed of Web Pages

Pavan Kumar — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:56:37 +0000

Website speed is one of the deciding factors for the popularity of website. Speed of website counts for both SEO purposes as well as regular readers. Its necessary for your site to perform well even on any low bandwidth internet connection. As a webmaster, it is obvious that you have a high speed broadband internet connection, but your site should perform great even on those 56k dial up guys.

There are many ways to test the speed of a website,

Absolute way to check website speed (comparing against fast servers)

This is when your server performance wrt speed is determined. Here your website speed performance is determined based on how much time it takes to transfer the specific amount of data. In simple terms, the speed is measured as seconds per KB. Let me tell you this way of measuring website speed is definitely inaccurate. You need to see the exact load time and not per KB transfer time.

If you have x seconds per KB transfer rate and your pages are 0.5MB in average, your load time is 512x seconds, but your competitor on a poor server with 2x transfer rate and pages averaging at 100KB will perform faster at 200x seconds.

You may use iwebtool website speed test tool here to test this way.

There is another reason to say these are inaccurate – they just measure the transfer rate and not website loading time you should also remember that your web pages comprise of not just html codes, but it is many times made up with php, javascript which requires some time for execution. Another agent which slows your sites are ads which you place on your sites – they depend on third party server to deliver ads and they consume much time which might not be measured with such tools.

Practically testing Website speed performance (Relative speed testing)

After knowing the faults with above testing method, let’s learn how exactly should it be done for measuring website speed. There are two methods I could figure out at the moment.

1. YSlow – Website Speed Testing

Yslow is a Firefox addon which works in integration with Firebug – a popular tool for web developers. If you keep it on while loading a webpage, it calculates the time taken to load the page and the page size and displays the same in your Firefox status bar. This is the most easy way which even works when you are offline developing site on local server.

2. Online website speed test tool

Stopwatch is a tool which helps you measure the website loading time in your bandwidth. The speed measured with this tool is relative to your internet speed available at the moment when you perform test. If you measure internet speed and test two sites’ speed, you will know which is relatively faster. And that relative speed in performance should be same on every internet connection.

Another great advice on tweaking website for faster performance is by reducing and optimizing website images.

Conclusion: The transfer rates of any site/server should be the very good, but at the same time the size of web pages should be less to make your website perform the best.

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How To Sort A Series of Text in Alphabetical Order

Pavan Kumar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:10:15 +0000

There are many times we strive to sort some list in an alphabetical order. The most easy way to do it offline is to use spreadsheet softwares like Microsoft Excel etc. which requires you to enter every text individually into cells and sort it on various terms.

If you have a series of text in some comma separated format or line by line and want to sort it in an alphabetical order, Alphabetizer can help you.

This is specially useful when you want to sort all your mail id contacts or cell phone contacts in a specific order before handing over it to your friend or while backing up your entire contact list. This has options to help you strip HTML, ignore cases while sorting the words, converting to lowercase. This also provides you an option to make the list in reverse or random order and you can convert only first character into capital letter. You can also remove duplicate entries in any given text.

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