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2012-06-07T02:31:00.002-07:00

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Optimize your referencing on Bing (Part 1)

2011-03-12T05:20:00.000-08:00

Since the launch of Bing in June of 2009, you are maybe looking to optimize your refenrincg in Bing Search, the new search tool by Microsoft. This guide will be in 3 parts.

Referencing on Bing : optimization on page

Title Tag

Put the most important words in the beggining because they are the most used by the algorithm.
Try to not go over 65 characters (and use more than 5 characters).
For the deep pages, first put the most strategic words, then the description words of the page cateogyr, and then eventualy the website title.
Ensure to never have 2 identical titles.
Do not use special characters such as : '"<>{}[]()

Meta description Tag

Even though it is not used by the classement algorithm, it can be used by Bing to show the snippet (description of your website). Some tips :

Make specific descriptions for each of your pages (never repeat the same description for more than 1 page).
Never re-use the Title Tag category, vary expressions and adopt a more incitative style.
Try to use between 25 and 150 characters.
Do not use : '"<>{}[]()

Meta keywords Tag

Don't hope alot from this Tag... Even though Bing says it's useful, so you can still make one..

Use secondary expressions from the one used in the Title Tag.
Don't use more than 874 characters for the whole tag (comes from Bing).
Don't repeat a word more than 4 times.

Other Meta Tags

Here are some other meta tags used by Bing :

<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="{code langue}" /> : To show your website language (See the codes on W3C)
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> : To show the characters type used (UTF-8, etc.). See the list on IANA)
meta robots : To set up the what the bot will do.

Put forward words in the page

To put forward some words in the page (and hope that the page will have be better classified), put them in specific tags :

sub title (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 ou h6)
a link (tag "a")
bold : strong tag (more than "b")

As for titles and subtitles :

only use one level 1 title per page (h1 tag)
use as many sub titles as needed ( h2 to h6 tag)
Try not to use more than 150 to 200 words for the title (it's alot !)

Optimize pictures for Bing

Even though it's more useful to use text than pictures, some tips :

include keywords in the picture's file name.
use text more than picturses themselves to make a link.

Next part coming soon !

World of Warcraft 4.2 update

2011-03-11T07:58:00.000-08:00

Patch 4.2 will add a Daily Area but also a Raid Area.
Patch 4.2 - Firelands Daily Area
Firelands will be more than a raid instance and will include a new questing area and probably a couple of other surprises.

Firelands Daily Zone - Map

Patch 4.2 - Firelands Raid
After the Firelands Daily Area, it's time to take a look at the only thing you all want to see: the Firelands Raid instance!

Just like the daily area, it's a little hard to gather a lot of information about it because the instance isn't even supposed to be in this PTR patch but hopefully the couple of screenshots/maps below will be enough while you wait a few more months (you could probably count in weeks, Patch 4.2 won't be far behind Patch 4.1) before you see it on live realms.

Firelands Raid - Encounters
According to the Blizzcon 2010 Raids & Dungeons Panel, the Firelands raid will have 7 bosses. We already know 3 of them from achievement icones:

Fandral Staghelm, former Archdruid of Darnassus.
Alysra, the green drake in charge of transporting Fandral to a safe location at the end of the Hyjal questlines in Cataclysm. (Note: Just because there's an icon related to Alysra doesn't mean it's really a boss, in the case of Valithria Dreamwalker the goal of the encounter was to save her)
Ragnaros the Firelord, that one isn't really a surprise, right? And he's so pretty now!
Source : http://www.mmo-champion.com

Referencing tool : Seoquake for Firefox

2011-03-09T10:13:00.000-08:00

SeoQuake is a plugin (Firefox or even Internet Explorer) that lets you gather alot of useful informations about a website. Once installed, this plugin will be under 3 forms :a tool bar , an element added on the website page and elements in search tools such as Google.
Concretely, this tool lets you gather :

Google's pagerank
How much pages Google gathered
How many links are pointing toward this page
When was it updated by Google
The same for Yahoo
And also for MSN
Estimated traffic by Alexa
How much bookmarked links in Del.icio.us
How much links by Technonat
Keywords density
Domain's Whois
See the robots.txt
See the number of links pointing outside and inside the website
And alot more

Why use such a tool ?

I can see three reasons to use Seoquake : for your own website/blogs, for your enemies websites/blogs or just to study. In any way it is very useful.
For your own websites, it will let you study in detail how referencing is done, how much links points toward your website and your keyword density, but also see your traffic. It's not efficient to use it everyday but is useful sometime
For other websites, this tool will let you study them and let you know your objective and how to be better than those websites.
To study a research result

You understood, SeoQuake is a very useful tool that will help you study everything about your own website or even others, and even research for themes that brings alot of traffic.

How to : Get more traffic in your blog.

2011-03-09T09:53:00.000-08:00

Optimize your pages names (parmalink)
Change the name of your permalinks so they contain keywords. For that, you will need to go in your Settings and Permalink. For example I put %postname% which allows me to generate URLs that use keywords from the article's title.

Optimize the structure of your blog
Prefer templates that load your text and articles before the menus. They are often those with 2 colons on the right. It's even becoming a standard for the pro bloggers. Also work on your tags and make keywords appear.

Use LinkBaiting
This technic permit to generate buzz around ur articles. Those are certain types of articles that naturaly brings links of others blogs or websites. They are contained in lists, interviews, top lists, how to articles, co-blogging, free tools, ...

Utilization of social tools
Those tools permit to submit your link to a community which will vote for your links. The one with most votes will be on the home page et makes a lot of traffic. This is known as the Digg effect. Post every of your articles there and you will get a lot more traffic..

Comment the articles on other blogs
You will end up on many blogs and read a lot of articles. If you can add informations in other's blog comments then go on ! Leave a comment of quality will bring you traffic, will help referencing, and will get you bloggers friends. Never comment with very short sentences such as "Cool" or "Awesome". Also put a link in your blog about your comment in those blogs.

Wanna feel like a pirate in Facebook ?

2011-03-09T03:29:00.000-08:00

I discovered many things today, and this one will be one of those i'm going to share with you.
I'm pretty sure you know that you can change your Facebook language, but did you know there was an English Pirate language ?
Want to try ?

1- Connect to your Facebook account
2- Go to your account settings
3- Switch to the Language tab
4- Click on the drop down menu and go for English (Pirate), it is not grouped with English UK and the others, it is far away below.
5- ?????
6- Profit !

Have fun feelin' like an ol' pirate. Yaarrr !

Don't forget to read my other Tutorials.

Meta Tags

2011-03-08T12:10:00.000-08:00

What is a Meta Tag ?

Meta Tags gives the search tools informations to reference your web pages and are placed in the part of any blogs or websites.

Those Meta Tags have informations on your page : title, description, keywords. But also the author name, E-mail, language, region, copyright, etc.

Meta Tags are very important to get in the first pages of a search tool and to get referenced.

But every Meta Tags became useless, excepted the one, which we are going to show you.

How does it work ?

You simply add a code in the part of your blog and Google and other bots will use it as your blog description.
This is not seen in any part of your blog, only in the HTML code.

How to add a Meta Tag

To be efficient you need to define manualy one Meta Tag per pages but we can work it out to make only one.
We are going to define a description for your starting page, and we will let Google choose a description for all of your other pages.

Now connect to Blogger, and go to your "Modify HTML code" page, look for and add those lines right after it.

"<meta content='Keywords' name='keywords'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='Description of blog as it appears on Google' name='description'/>
</b:if>
<meta content='ALL' name='ROBOTS'/>"

Exemple of what it would look like :

You need to use one or two sentences and make them short, and don't forget to add the keywords in which you want to be referenced :D

But : Your modifications can take hours/days to take effect into Google.

Comment if you want more tips for your blogs !
You can also ask for a specified subject =)

Minecraft

2011-03-07T12:33:00.000-08:00

Minecraft is a big hit now, despite it's price of 15 Euros and it's Beta test status.
I bought the game back when it was in alpha test, since then I've been mashing mountains, cutting down trees and slaughtering (or being slaughtered) the fauna, all of this to build structures, just like legos !

There is not realy a point to Minecraft, you are free in a randomly generated world composed of stone, sand, grass, water, trees, and monsters ! All of those being raw materials for your buildings, tools, weapons, armor and food. For the momment you don't even need any of those, you can survive without using any of it, but in the later patches you will have to eat and drink to survive, but of course, when the night falls down, monsters will track you down.

And inevitably, you will build, not only because you have to, but because you can.
Minecraft is a reak commentary on human behavior. It puts you in a sandbox with unlimited power and one condition: To create anything, you must destroy something else. It’s a lesson on natural resources, which might seem painfully obvious if so many other games didn’t stuff players with unlimited ammo and health-restoring chicken hidden in trash cans. It is a beautiful model of humanity’s need to destroy and rebuild.
That message is never forced on the player. It’s implied in the system Minecraft creates. And when the revelation strikes, as you’re digging into another mountain, chopping down another tree, butchering another cow, the joke’s on you.

But the best part of the game is not it's solo mode, but rather the multiplayer part. In multiplayer survival you can actually see how much a simple sandbox game can become very complicated. Each servers will be different because players are going to invent a life to those servers, some may build cities, become mayors, this game becomes like another life, even more powerful than MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, this game becomes another world to live in, you can put up societies or nations and build gigantic buildings, the possibilities are infinite.

And this is why Minecraft sold more than 1 million time, there are no rules, you make them.

Reference your blog/website !

2011-03-07T09:12:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, here is just a small tip, which I have not known about since a while ago, but it is still useful.
The easiest way to add your site to Google, is through http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl ! Mine got on Google in one day.

Another great way to add it to many major Engines, is http://www.submitexpress.com/free-submission.html
It requires you to add HTML links to your website like these:

Search Engine Submission - AddMe

Thanks to : http://www.thinkfeed.info/

Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark

2011-03-07T03:36:00.000-08:00

You like it ?
What's your favorite song ? Comment ! :)

Unlimited Megavideo ?

2011-03-06T13:35:00.000-08:00

I found the way to get UNLIMITED, BYPASSES Megavideo !

Here how to do it :

First download Firefox if you don't have it : http://www.mozilla.com/fr/firefox/central/

Then register on Illimitux : http://www.illimitux.net/

Download their plugin for firefox which is on the same page.

Enjoy unlimited movies !

Addicted

2011-03-06T10:47:00.001-08:00

I am addicted

First step is to admit it.

Is it a problem?

Define problem…………..

Firstly my unusual period of quietness, is not a demise of my love of the game, or desire to play, and nor is this a precursor for a sayornara post.

I have had some ISP issues which has not been helping, and calls and polite emails of my dissatisfaction has resulted in 2 months credit for the lackluster internet service, but the fix isn’t happening for weeks, and it is extremely frustrating when you want to play, and your not sure if your going to go from everything is going smoothly to crap everyone is running on the spot, and insta heals are the only ones that eventually hit your target.

Also If I was a bloke, my balls would be bigger then some of the lovely, charming, upfront and honest players I have had the honor of spending time with. Let me wipe away those globules of sarcasm for you, and keep my charming smile properly affixed to my face.

But yes, back to quitting.

Honestly I don’t think I could.

Primarily because I don’t have a reason to quit, I could find / do find reasons to reduce my playing. But quit, that’s crazy.

Say you did decide to quit Wow for various reasons, and want to stay away – wash Wow right out of your hair. Maybe there were too many asshats, things you thought you ought to be doing.

So How would you quit with the idea of not coming back?

Cause everyone I know that quits comes back

You could

Cancel your subscription.
Give your authenticator to a friend to hide and a promise not to return it to you even when begging them at 2am in the morning in tears.
Uninstall.
Destroy your PC.
Find distractions in a new game – patches of browser based MMO’s to lessen the pain.
Find distractions in people.
Get a new hobby. ( I am half serious about the idea of learning Archery and Welsh)
Just don’t come home and work on your fluro tan in the office.

But all of those things would be easily changed, and so easy to slip back into the habit.

I am a deleter. I delete things that could be bad for me that I would be tempted to keep and use eg Mobile numbers. It might sound a little odd. But deleting, or uninstalling it would most likely be the more affective way for me, as long as I deleted my back up files, and then threw out my cds.

What you can download it off battlenet?

Nooooo

I had a friend that went hungry so they could smoke. That’s what addictions do to you. What would I do to get my fix?

Me and Caffeine have had a love hate relationship for years. I have quit Caffeine successfully for short periods of time. Cold turkey. But I am glad I never smoked, because I can’t leave caffeine alone. I have Suffered through the withdrawal headaches of caffeine and the cravings and the crazy thoughts towards someone holding a coffee cup in the lift - the smell so intoxicating that I had to stand a little closer and take a long sniff.

Your coffee dear sir, has me in a swoon..

But I had several habits to break when quitting caffeine.

I had to break a ritual at the same time. Drinking the coffee wasn’t the only thing I had to change. The coffee place was on my way to work, walking cheerfully into the office so used to holding that cup, the cup sitting there next to the PC, waiting to be sipped.

I managed to do it by changing the direction I walked to work, buying a piece of fruit from a fruit vendor and eating that like I would drink a coffee. I replaced my habit with something, because the times I have tried to do it other ways. Feet! Keep walking! haven’t lasted as long as my successful attempts.

So quitting Wow, would need to involve more then canceling an account, not turning on the PC, Even hanging out with people is dangerous because it’s so easy to slot wow into a conversation, and the internet is dangerous because there are all these things about wow!

Can I come over to your place to watch you play Wow? No I really did come here for Wow.. Really, it wasn’t an excuse to see you.
I have resisted the urge to manage my auctions through my phone. Wow has already permeated my life, I’d like to say mostly for good reasons, but I dream about wow, stay out of my subconscious.
However a Chinese monastery sounds like it might work.
Practicing Casting animations while wearing a robe. It’s Wow Fu - Iron Shadow Priest form. Like this ” Waves hands around” Mindblast! I win against preying mantis!
Nope wouldn’t work.
I don’t have – nor can I forsee, a big enough reason to quit completely, and I think I would have great difficulty doing so. I guess that worrys me a little.
Though I am writing this instead of playing right now.
Must write more!

Dungeon finder changes !

2011-03-06T06:53:00.000-08:00

This is hot off the press.. and I felt driven to comment.
There are new Dungeon Finder changes being made to stop abuse.
Wow insider article linked here

Players who are outside a dungeon for more than a few minutes are now immediately able to be kicked.

It is disrespectful making people wait at the start, and I have come across those um, interesting people that leave party and came back when it suits them.

If queuing as a group with a tank or healer, and the tank or healer drops group (or is kicked) soon after joining, those that queued with them will also be removed from the dungeon.

HAHA no more tanks selling Insta que’s then leaving.

If three or more players group queue with each other it will require an additional vote for them to kick anyone they did not group queue with.

I can see this being a little more fair. It can stop unfair ganging up on one player and they would need to annoy 4 people not just three. However, if that 4th person is the person your trying to kicks friend, well your all stuffed, and let the battle of wills, and who leaves first commence.

If a group queue of 4 kicks the one person that they did not group queue with they will each receive a more severe penalty to their ability to initiate future kicks.

I don’t like this one. Some of the people I run with are allergic to Pugs, and so perhaps are a little harsher to strangers then they could be, but there is ok, and there is bad, it really depends on what they do. Eg if the Pug is a tank, that can’t tank, ninja looting, doing bad pulls, messing up cc, and is not listening to the healer crying out for mana then expecting a rez after a wipe all the while sprouting bull crap about how awesome he is. He deserves to be kicked. But as a single pug coming into a party of 4 - as one person put it ” feel kind of outnumbered” there is no Us – its us and them. So I understand the need to protect people from the mean masses, just wish there was some kind of check balance, in that if someone keeps getting kicked from the groups that they queue for, something has to be wrong with them.

If someone initiates a vote kick for someone they group queued with they will not incur a penalty to their ability to initiate future kicks.

Not sure how this stops abuse, when one of the people you queued with needs to go, they are more likely to leave party. If I even considered that someone I queued with outside of Lfg was going to be kick worthy, I wouldn’t be queuing with them in the first place.

Does tanking size matters ?

2011-03-05T12:55:00.000-08:00

Her silver nappy

Yes, these are the same pants
But they kinda look like a silver nappy. * ducks as gnome people throw things at me.
I did try and get them on my Tauren Warrioress just because I could, but getting 3 warriors in a run and some bad luck with the drop meant 5 runs and no sexy pants for her. It’s probably a good thing because I just would have posted more cow crack.
It’s terrible I treat my toons so.
As much as I love charging around with my little gnome tank, it feels more like a zip then a charge. Let me zip on over to that mob, and zip on over here, and it doesn’t really help that each time she gets hit she squeaks like a little mouse, and as a tank she is squeaking alot.
The Melee dps Step on me.
So overall , I do not feel like a tank, and I think that’s important. When I face down a massive boss, I don’t want to be ankle biting at them, picking at their toenails with my sword. It’s a bit hard acting like you know what your doing when you look so passive, and innocent.
I want my roar to be real, and guttural.
My armour looks kinda wonky as well. One boot is higher then the other, one shoulder is higher then the other. She looks lopsided in general, and now I sound like I am picking on gnomes.
She is cute to play, but I do not feel like a tank.