Then here comes the blame game [Search engine]. But, being a webmaster you should be aware that 3^rd party online tools can’t detect and analyse “The Paid Links and its effect on blog/website” [Though Google webmaster warns sometime].

 But, firstly what link is a paid link and how does search engine [Google] analyze it?

In a simple definition, it’s a Linking or Backling to an external website [Say from my.com to others.com] for a small fee and labeling it with ‘Sponsored‘ or ‘Paid Link‘.

Linking to other website passes a page rank juice and it should be done in more novel way but it’s considered an illegal process if do the same for a Money [where penalty are imposed to blog, not to the owner though ].

So, what’s the solution to avoid the paid links effect?

Very simple, just put a no-follow tag to all yours paid link. Yeah that’s it..!

Step to use the no-follow tag ..[<a href="other.com" rel="nofollow">Others Link</a>]. If not 100%,  but almost 80% of the most blog are meant to make and earn money. So, do the things professionally and rather don’t underestimate the search engines, they are more intelligent now [comparing 5 yrs back].

So, don’t try to trick them on paid links “even though the buyers insist to pay you more for a do-follow link”.

PS: If you are still not convincing with me, you better read this post [Right from the Google Engineer] link here.

                            Best Top 10 SEO blogs for bloggers

1. Search Engine Land: As the name suggest, this SEO blog mainly covers the SEO [Search Engine Optimization] tips and techniques designed basically for Google and Bing search engine. Each day, One can learn a new tips and techniques to improve it’s blog productivity. The blog is led by journalist Danny Sullivan, and have been in the field for almost 11 years. [Its one of my favorite SEO blog]
   

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2. SEOmoz Blog:  Blog purely dedicated on SEO topics. With daily 2-5 post update on SEO, you can learn and understand a lot.
   

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3. Search Engine Watch: Similar to Search Engine Land, it covers wide range of topics related on blogging.
   

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4. SEO Round Table: Another great SEO blog. A complete portal for the blogger. With it’s mission stated on their site is “to provide a single source for the reader to visit to locate the most interesting threads covered at the SEM forums“.
   

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5. Search Engine Journal: With daily updates on new and unique techniques on improving Blog’s productivity, this SEO blog is must for every bloggers.
   

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6. Search Engine Guide: A complete tutorial on SEO [Search Engine Optimization] tips. You can learn a lots from it.
   

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7. Matt Cutts Blog: Seriously  , do you need an introduction! Matt Cutts is an Google Software engineer and the head of Google’s Webspam team. In his blog, he writes lots on about white hat SEO tips. If you can follow its step, surely you would improve a lots in SERP.
8. Top Rank Blog: Another great blog, full of resource on SEO and other blogging tips like online marketing.
   

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9. SEO Chat: A unique SEO blog. Full of great resource on blogging tips.
   

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10. SEO by SEA: This blog is founded by Bill Slawski. As the name says, the blog is totally dedicated on the SEO topics, full of informative and logical ideas.
    

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If you are happens to be a beginner blogger, i would definitely suggest to follow any one of the given best top 10 SEO blogs. It’s a general fact that unlike academic course or subject, you won’t find any 100% foolproof tips/technique related to SEO but learning helps to improve a lots.

Given list of best top 10 SEO blogs are according to my research. You can add more in the list through comment section and let us we learn together.      

• Hostgator is now acquired by new Owner [Mr. Hari Ravichandran, CEO of EIG].  The approximate amount offered was $225 million. [This blog is also running on their server, lets hope for the best]

• Google search engine again rolled up  new algorithm update, ‘The Penguin update’ on April 24, 2012.  Affecting approximately 3.1% of search queries in English, about 3% of queries in languages like German, Chinese, and Arabic. [Hopefully, this blog is unaffected]

• Google PageRank Update rolled on August 2, 2012. You can refer the next upcoming dates for Google PageRank Update for 2012.

• Facebook, giant of the Social network site entered into live public IPO.

• And the most interesting one [For me, I guess ], is that this blog [crack me down] has now Google PageRank  2. The ScreenShot is given below,
• And much more…

It seems to be now very tough and competitive to again start the blogging after 3 month gap but again it’s more tougher to live without it.

Hoping for the helping hand with the fellow Readers and Bloggers. Stay tuned to know and learn more about the internet affairs and blogging tips.

• If you are looking to start a forum site, check this Free Wordpress Forum Plugins.

Forum Posting Tips

Since this post is basically a beginner’s guide, so I will be rather sharing some basic Forum Posting Tips keeping in account of new and preblogger, and new forum users too.

Some Do’s and Don’ts on Forum posting Tips

• Use Your Real Name: Whenever you register for any forum sites always make a habit to use the real name and avoid using of any fancy name such as “XYZ”. Fancy names sometimes create a sense of spam.

• Use Easy and Simple English: Good in English! That’s great but do remember that not everyone in the forum will be. Make a habit of using Simple English whenever you post or in giving replies on any discussion in forum. Simple the words, wider the audience.

• Correct the Grammar: A simple silly mistake in grammar can change the whole meaning of words and hence lesser chance of getting correct replies/response. So, check the sentence grammar twice atleast.

• Be Social: Add yours Social networking profile link (Facebook, Google+) whenever there are options to add such on the Forum Sites.

• Post queries on right Categories: These mistakes are generally done by new users. To get correct opinion and responses, posting the queries on right categories is must, and moreover there’s no logic in posting “About Mobile Reviews” on “About TV Reviews” category and hoping for correct responses. Just take your time, be calm and do correctly

• Watch your Fingers: Nobody likes to be get Insult, be it on real or virtual world; Do you?! Whenever you post or replies always try to maintain yours gentleness. If you don’t agree with others opinion or suggestion that’s ok, say it, put up yours view and point but then don’t bombard them with all slang words. Be good with others if you expect good in return .

• Avoid Posting unnecessarily: Post/reply only when there is need for, don’t simply post like, That’s Great, I like it; Such replies doesn’t helps or nor it gives benefit to anyone. Keep in mind that forum is meant only for discussion, it’s not a place for casual chat.

• Don’t act like Spammer: There’s no space for spammer and since forum sites are the first choice for spammer, forum admin and moderator are usually more alert and stricter on such activities. Avoid posting repeated questions, copying others post, posting unrelated queries, using slang words, linking on unrelated content. Spammer are banned permanently.

• Limit the link on Signature: Most forums provide an extra space for signature, where webmasters are allowed put its blog/websites link on it (for SEO benefits) but you should be careful while doing that. In general, at most 3 (three) link is more than enough and if you are thinking on bombarding the signature with 10, 20 number’s link, just hold on! Your account might get banned permanently because of spam works (using forums for only SEO benefits is also a spam work).

So, whenever you look to register on any new forum sites always keep those point on your mind to avoid any unnecessary account banned and to get maximum benefits. This forum posting tips is basically for meant for new users (as I already said) but even-though experience users can also use this as for reference.

What’s yours view on this Beginners Guidance on Forum posting Tips? What more points should be added to make this Guidance a complete one?

Forum, an online discussion sites plays a major role in driving traffic regardless the niche of the blogs. Be it on Health, Webhosting, Webmasters and Humour everyone has some doubts and keen to post its queries, and where the Forum fills this gap.

5 WordPress Forum Plugins

Forum Plugins

1. Mingle Forum   

Simple and cleaned forum with tons of features, the mission of this forum plugin is to “Keep it Simple”. The best part of this forum is its ease of use. Some of its great features are:-

• Updated and compatible with latest version of WordPress.
• Can upload image on post and in replies.
• Can also put features like Guest Post.
• Total SEO friendly.
• Has lots of Free Skins to use.
• You can also embed media (From YouTube, Flickr) in your post.
• Features to rank User levels (Like, Newbie, Beginner, and Advanced).

For downloading, link is here.

2. Vanilla Forum

Unique and engaging forum, and has around 10,000 developers and 500 add-ons to make vanilla forum among the largest open source. Some of its great features are:-

• It’s compatible with mobile browser (Has Inbuilt Mobile version).
• Compatible with latest version of WordPress.
• Easy to install, configure and customize.
•  You can add widget to your blog, displaying recent discussion and lots more.

For downloading, link is here.

3. Forum (MyBB)

This forum plugin is integrates with the MyBB bulletin board software. It’s one the most complete Forum plugin and you would be in love with it. Some of its great features are:-

• Comes with Multilingual features.
• Very easy to use (both for administrator and visitors).
• You get complete control over your forum.
• SEO friendly.
• Has larger number of community base (active in community forum) to help you out on any issue.
• Has inbuilt theme editor.

For downloading, link is here.

4. Simple Press

Fully customizable forum plugins, it has tons of free skins and add-ons to make your forum powerful and complete. Regardless of niche be it small or large community, you can use with full trust and confidence. Some of its great features are:-

• Can allow users signature and bio.
• Fully SEO friendly.
• Avatar can also be allowed.
• Tons of free skins and add-ons.
• Supports multilingual.
• Can create both Private and publics forum.
• Create custom Icons for Groups/Categories.
• Features like “Who is Online”.

For downloading, link is here.

5. Tal.Ki

Simple and rich forum plugin, Tal.Ki forum plugin helps you to add forum in your blog in a very easy way. If your’s targeted visitors are mostly from social networking sites like Facebook, Google+, then this forum plugin is much worth to add on your blog. Some of its great features are:-

• Global login systems with social network integration (Facebook, Google+, Twitter).
• Can create as many forums and sub-forums.
• Lockable Topics.
• Ability to create announcement at the top of the forum.
• Create private and public forum.
• Embed of media files (image, videos) in post and replies.

For downloading, link is here.

If you are looking to start a forum in your blog, you can give a try on this top 5 Forum Plugins  for wordpress. The best part of this Forum plugins are that “Its Totally Free” and are regularly updated.

Somehow, if I missed any of the deserving Forum Plugins (Free), You can share that through Comment..

And so the scheduled day comes, time to write a new post and a new update for yours blog, sounds great isn’t! Updates (regular updates) of the blog are indeed the vital needs and requirement; moreover Search engines (Especially Google Sir!) loves fresh content but let me ask you one question “Are you confident enough that yours post information will actually worth for the searcher?

Probably, 80% of blogger will say yes! Well if So, Does Google too knows about that?

Interlinking the post, the most basic and absolute SEO tips which works exactly in convincing the search engines that “You can also consider this post as quality one and I ‘am giving the guarantee for it”.

Learning  Google Psychology and it SEO benefits on Interlinking Post,

No matter, let the Google Panda, Penguin, Peacock, and etc updates comes in ; Search Engines dependency on LINK factor will always exist.

How come Interlinking the post means Confidence?

Let me tell you first, in the Google’s search algorithm a link (be it interlink, backlinks, outbound link) actually means a vote of trust (without considering the nofollow tag). So, whenever you interlink the post within the blog, Google treat that link as vote of trust voted by you (the webmaster), showing yours confidence to the Google about the post quality and its content. Hence, more you successfully convince the Google, better its chance in increasing the SERP of post/content.

Then let’s build a Hundred of Interlink per post, after all who doesn’t want to convince the Google!

Now that’s called Over Confidence! Google has never said or suggested to do the thing in such a way and neither will they. Even Though, one cannot tell you how much is too much but I will suggest, before linking the post you should first get the exact value of number of words in a post. In a general practise 1 link/100 words (per post) is an ideal way to maximize the benefit.

So, what are the key points to remember while interlinking?

One should be very careful while doing the stuff like interlinking because overdoing the link and linking the unrelated post might gets you penalize for spamming by the Google. Points to remember are:-

• While interlinking the post, you should be careful in selecting the Anchor text. The anchor text should have the main keyword used in the Post. Don’t just link the post on Google SEO Tips with anchor text of Yahoo SEO Tips (Google may penalize for spamming).

•  It should provide valuable information and should be related to the post on which you are putting the link.

• Avoid too many linking.

Since this post about understanding the Google Psychology and the way the Google mind works, so it’s better not to discuss about its technical SEO benefits on interlinking  post.

We all knew that Google is build with set of super program and algorithm but I believe “To understand more about Google and master the SEO work, we need to first Understand its Psychology”

So, what’s your views on Google psychology and how are they treating interlink in a post?

Extensions are awesome plugins which adds extra functions to the browser, making surfing more fun and enjoyable.

These 10 best Google chrome extensions are from my own favorite and “must have” extensions, and you could use this as a reference. Hence, can save your time in searching the best among the hundreds of extensions

Google Chrome Extensions

10 Best Google Chrome extensions to install

You can browse all the extensions and select more from the Google Chrome Market.

1. Chrome to Phone

Liked some content/link, you can now send that directly to your android phone*. This extension works awesome; it lets you to send important link and content directly from web to your phone. Items can send be either my right-click menu or directly from the extension icon in the chrome browser. For downloading, link is here.

P.s:- You will also need to install chrome to call in your android phone*.  
*Requires phone running Android 2.2 or later.

2. Dr.Web Anti-Virus Link Checker

As the name says, this extensions works by scanning all the link from viruses and unwanted malwares. Even though, if your system is installed with anti-virus software, you can have this extension work in side-by-side .

Most importantly, it doesn’t slow down the system or your browsing experience. For downloading, link is here.                                                                                                       

3. Google Calendar

This extension from Google helps you to see all the upcoming events and create the same. It actually works as event manager, helps you to manage your time and remind you about the entire event that are supposed to be come.

When an Event is fixed/creates in your page like in Facebook, you can directly add that in your Google calendar. It is working great for me and you too can give a try for once, for downloading link is here.

4. Google Dictionary

It’s one of the best extensions that I like the most. After installation, just double click on any work (new term/word, you are not clear about its definition), a pop up comes in a box form where the definitions of the word/terms is explained in detailed. Hence, improving your vocabulary and that’s too in free of cost.

This extension also works for foreign words, where definitions are translated according to your reference. For downloading, link is here.                                                                 

5. Readability

Don’t want to be get distracted by ads, junk videos, etc while reading an article on your favourite blog/website; then this extension is worth to use. Readability turns any webpage into more simple and readable format free from all ads, clutters, flash.

Install Readability and relax your eyes while browsing. For downloading, link is here.

6.  Awesome Screenshot

There are lots of screenshot tool available in the Chrome market, but Awesome Screenshot is the best among them with lots of inbuilt features and function.

Awesome Screenshot tool extension is very easy to use and can easily capture entire/selected webpage, add annotation, Share the pictures, save option to yours desired location, lots of editing features and most importantly, awesome screenshot can also save large image. For downloading, link is here.

7. Download Master

With Download Master extension, you can download all the content (images, videos, pdf, document and etc) from any of the webpage you are visiting.

Click on the extension icon and you will see a list of webpage link and content type from which you can select according to your need and download it. For downloading, link is here.

8. Time Stats beta

Do know how much time you spent on web and on in which websites?

Time stats beta collect statistics about your site viewing time and show awesome pie chart on a report.
Pie Chart shows total time you browse, most visited websites, and can also share the statistics report to your  Google plus or Twitter account.
For downloading, link is here.

9. Click & Clean

Want a total control over your privacy and history while browsing? You can have a look on this awesome extension Click & Clean.

It helps you to erase browsing history, Scan your PC for malware, clear cookies and flash cookies, clean up all traces of yours internet activities. It doesn’t slow down the system and works great in protecting your privacy. For downloading, link is here.

10.  Tin Eye Reverse Image Search

It’s actually an Image search engine. It helps to find a high resolution pictures and the source of the image around the internet.

If you happens to be image lover and do search in internet; then you might like Tin Eye Reverse Image Search extension a most. For downloading, link is here.

These 10 best Google chrome extensions are from my favorite extensions list and have currently installed on my chrome browser. If I  have missed any of the  ’must have”  Google Chrome extensions to include in my list, then let me know through comment. And what is yours 10 best Google Chrome extensions?

Having a broken/dead link in a blog actually eats up your all hard work you putted in and being a webmaster you should build a habit of checking the broken link within your blogs.

Broken link checker, it’s a powerful WordPress plugin and helps to monitor your sites looking for broken links (100% free).

Usually, Broken links happens because of using wrong URL address and dead external URL link.

Some silent features of broken link checker plugin:-

• If links get detected, you can directly edit from the plugins setting page. So no need for manual updating.
• It monitors all the posts, pages, comments, blogroll links.

• Also prevents the search engines to follow the broken link.

You might be thinking and want to ask now, Why this plugin only?

Yeah, there are tons of link checker plugins but most of are outdated and has less features.

Links plays a major role in terms of Quality and Authority of the sites, and if Search Engines (Google) detects large amount of broken links both internal and outbound, it might considers your blog/websites low quality one (Broken links degrade the site quality).

According to the report, this blog has 0 broken links!

Link report for this blog

How many broken links does your blog has? Are you too using this broken link checker plugin or has any more recommendation?

But before that you need to enable the Book Creator (Tool) first.

Easy Tips on How to download and print Wikipedia page in PDF

Go to Book Creator and click on start book creator.

Book Creator

• Alternate, Go to Wikipedia Homepage and click on Toolbox, you will see the Book creator option.

1. Now, in the Homepage and search anything that you are interested in. For instance, I will go for the term Google.

2. After getting the desired page just click the option Add this to your page. Refer the screenshot below.

3. Then, you will see a notifications on Show Book. Click on that option and you will be land on the download option page. Refer the screenshot below.

4. There are three format option (PDF, Text and OPenZim) but PDF format is a default set. You can choose according to your desired.

5. Click on download and then rendering process starts to takeoff.

6. The download copy is ready now.

That’s it, now you got the hard copy of the wiki page in PDF format and can be used both for printing (project work purpose) or saving that in computer for a reference.

Are you doing the same steps or have another tricks?