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Moharram in Pakistan

2011-12-06T10:07:00.000-08:00

Moharram is the first month of the Islamic Year. It is one of the most important months of the Islamic Calendar, owing it to the great sacrifice of Imam Hussain who was martyred on the 10th of the holy month. Imam Hussain teaches the whole world the real meaning of sacrifice. The great martyr of teaches the every Muslim the lesson that there is nothing more important than Islam and there should be no everything should be done to protect Islam from the evil eyes of the enemies of Islam.

May Allah help us in following the paths of Hazrat Imam Hussain. (Ameen)

Simple Tips to save your computer and data from hackers

2011-10-01T23:06:00.000-07:00

What is computer hacking?
Computer hacking refers to the practice of making malicious modifications to a program to achieve a goal outside the original creator's purpose. In simple words, hacking is what you do to someone else's resources to use it for your own purposes.

Computer Hacking

Computer hacking has truly become a headache nowadays. Causing losses of millions of dollars to Giant companies, computer is equal a threat to home users. Imagine your personal information or private data stolen by a hacker or your credit destroyed by spamming from your name.

Hacking is a complex problem but the prevention is not as complex. With these simple precautions you can save your computer and data from this serious threat.

Anti virus and Anti spyware software

Anti virus and anti spyware software are a must for every computer. It is the most basic of the steps to protect your resources from the malicious hands of hackers.

Viruses are malicious software which can replicate itself and damage your system files. What is spyware? A spyware is a self installing software which secretly gathers information about the user's surfing and computing. Virus and spyware are true hacker's tools. Anti virus and anti spyware software protects your computer from these threats and even remove an infection. Must have tools against hackers.

Software and OS updates

Hacking is a developing field with new advancements arising every now and then. Hacker's are always thinking of new ways to beat security systems so its important to keep the pace.

Your security software and OS tend to be more vulnerable as time passes and new developments are found. So its important to keep your OS and security software updated to ensure that you don't stay behind.

So its important to check for updates for your software and OS frequently or you can set automatic update to automate the process.

Using a Firewall

What is a Firewall? A Firewall is set of programs which sits at the network gateway server which protects a private network from unauthorized access from other networks. The term firewall originally refers to the wall which was used to confine a fire.

A firewall protects your computer from unauthorized access and malicious sites and acts as a locked door in your house. Thus a Firewall is a must if you want to ensure a hacker free computer.

Email Security

Email is one of the most convenient tool for hackers. Emails are cheap so a hacker can send thousands of emails without costing him too much. But the precautions to prevent this are quite simple.

Its important to be extra careful with emails because they can be very harmful. Make sure you don't give your real email address easily to anyone. Don't open emails from unknown sources and never try to open an attachment if you don't recognize the sender.

Switch to Macintosh

Sadly to say that Windows is not the best OS when it comes to security. Its actually the most vulnerable and unstable and the built in software are not very effective against the sophisticated hacking techniques.

Mac is much more safer. The built in features are capable of great network security and it is not prone to security failures as with the case with Windows.

For more tips and tricks against hacking, see:

Simple Tips to save computer from hackers

Top 5 tourist destinations in Pakistan

2011-09-24T10:18:00.000-07:00

Pakistan is like a rainbow with different colours. The beauty of Pakistan lies in its diversity. Pakistan has everything from mountains to beaches and from ancient ruins to modernized cities. Pakistan has something for everyone. These are the five must see tourist destinations in Pakistan.

Lahore

Lahore is a modernized city with a rich cultural heritage. The best thing to see here are Mughal architectures. You will also enjoy the delicious cuisine of Lahore.

Karachi

Karachi is the biggest city of Pakistan. The major tourist attraction in Karachi are its beaches. In addition to beaches Karachi has every quality of a modern city with shopping and cuisine varieties from around the world.

Moen Jo Daro and Harappa

Moen Jo Daro and Harappa are the ruins of a 4000 years old Indus valley civilization. A great attraction for history lovers.

Swat

Swat is the northern region of Pakistan. Swat is full of natural beauty and sceneries. Do visit there if you love ice skating.

Kashmir

Kashmir is the gem of Pakistan. This world famous region is a heaven on earth with magnificent natural beauty.

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Pakistan Completes 65th Year of Independence

2011-08-16T08:29:00.000-07:00

Pakistan's 65th independence day was celebrated on 14 August on Sunday. 14 August is always a day of joy for this terror shocked nation.

Pakistan gained independence from British Supremacy on 14th august 1947 after a long and tiring effort by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam (Great leader) and the Muslim League.

Celebrations were started weeks before the actual big day and with the start of the month of August. The whole nations gets painted in green with the joy of freedom. The graceful Pakistani flag oversees the mighty nation with great proud.

The day starts with special prays in mosques for the prosperity of Pakistan. 21 gun shots are fired at the four provincial capitals. Gun shots are also fired from the Quaid's Mausoleum to honor our founder.

Special celebrations took place in all parts of Pakistan. Houses decorated with green flags. Children specially filled with enthusiasm and excitement.

If you are a Pakistani then share with us how you celebrated the independence day and if not then tell us how you celebrate your country's independence day by commenting below.

We will definitely reply to your comments so do come back.

Link Wheel Tutorial For Dummies

2011-08-15T08:49:00.000-07:00

Link Wheel explained

Link wheel is basically all about building quality backlinks to your site. Creating a link wheel is a very effective SEO strategy which can be used by anyone to improve search engine ranking as well as increase traffic. A link wheel utilizes the power of Web 2.0 sites to build targeted backlinks back to your site.

A link wheel basically is a process in which you build new web pages using web 2.0 services such as squidoo, blogger, hubpages, wordpress, etc, all on the same topic as your blog or website. Google (Learn how to get Indexed by Google faster) loves these mini sites and the backlinks are often highly regarded.

Link wheel tutorial for Search Engine Optimization

This link wheel tutorial explains the creation of a simple link wheel for Search Engine Optimization. This link wheel tutorial is easy to implement and as you gain some experience with time, you can add your own ideas and try out different techniques to improve your link wheel. These are the steps of a link wheel.

1. The first step and the most important one is related to your own website. Your main site to which you want to increase the traffic or improve the search engine ranking. Make sure that it is full of keyword focused content pages properly optimized for your main keywords.

See this post for keyword research tips.

2. Write several articles related to your targeted market or keywords. Make sure that your articles are closely related to each other also.

3. Create accounts on several web 2.0 sites.

4. Begin by creating a creating a Hub at www.Hubpages.com about the topic of your website with one of the articles you wrote earlier and link your hub back to your site. Hubpage hubs are wonderful sources of traffic which makes it a amazing tool to power your link wheel in the beginning.

5. Submit another article to your favorite article directory like ezinearticles, goarticles, etc. Make sure you post two links in your article. One pointing to your main site and the other to the Hub you created in the previous step.

6. Use article #3 to create a Squidoo Lense and add links to your site and article you submitted to the article directory.

7. In this step create a Google Knol and include links to your lens and main site.

8. Post your article by creating a one page blog using Blogger or Wordpress and include links in your post. Continue posting articles until you have at least 4-10 articles on different sites.

9. After posting your last article, go to first article that you published and link it to the last article to close your link wheel.

5 Proven Tips to Get Digg Followers

2011-08-12T08:15:00.000-07:00

Digg is a social news website and one of the most popular of the social bookmarking services. Digg is a place to discover and share content from anywhere on the internet.

The follow feature has been introduced in the new version of Digg (v4). Check these tips to increase your Twitter followers. More Digg followers makes it easy to get more Diggs on your stories which can in turn generate more traffic for your blog or website.

The process of getting followers on Digg is not as difficult as it sounds if you know the secrets. Here are the tips to let yourself get Digg followers.

Profile

Digg like most social services provides a profile feature to its users. A profile feature is itself a wonderful feature to get recognition. The rule with profile is simple. COMPLETE YOUR PROFILE.

A profile should never be ignored. People will follow you when they know you. Get people to know you and they will follow you in return.

Follow other Diggers

This technique works for everyone. When you follow someone, there is a possibility that they may also follow you in return. Another benefit is of following others is that if you are following a popular person with tons of followers then his followers might followers might also follow you. So start following!

Be active

Avoid being dull. Digg your stories as well as other web content that you find interesting and useful. Make sure your profile look active or no one will care to follow you.

Comment on popular stories

Commenting is a great way to get noticed. Comment on popular topics with decent number of diggs and not many comments. Commenting on posts with 100s of comments will not give you any exposure.

Connect your Digg profile with social networking sites

Let your friends on Twitter and Facebook know you're on Digg. This is most easiest way to get followers.

Social Bookmarking Defined

2011-08-06T02:01:00.000-07:00

Social Bookmarking Definition

The definition of social bookmarking is to save, share and organize bookmarks online. Social bookmarking definition is all about saving and keeping your bookmarks organized. Social bookmarking is also defined as a method of saving or sharing your bookmarks online for future use.

For example, while surfing on the internet one day, you come across a great website. You think about your friend and thought that he might find the website useful too. So you emailed the url of the website. In this way, you participated in social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking is all about ease. You bookmark a website for future use but instead of saving it to your computer, you save it online to make it easier to access it from any computer.

Social Bookmarking Services

A social bookmarking service or social bookmarking website allows you to save a website online so that you can access them easily from anywhere. You can also select to make your bookmarks public so that other people can also see what you like. Its about recommending something useful to other people.
In social bookmarking service, you save a bookmark and provide relevant tags to make findability easier. You can also provide a short description to tell other users what the website is all about.

Some popular social bookmarking services are:

www.twitter.com
www.digg.com
www.stumbleupon.com
www.reddit.com
www.diigo.com
www.delicious.com
and many more.

If you want to know how to make the most of social bookmarking and harness its full power, see Tips to tons of social bookmarking traffic

Onpage optimization factors for a perfectly optimized page

2011-08-03T04:52:00.000-07:00

The process of SEO is getting more and more complicated as Search engines are getting smarter everyday. Hence nowadays it requires much more than just some quality content to impress the search engines.

Onpage optimization is related directly to the content and structure of your website. On page optimization is one of the very first step of SEO. It probably won’t even take you an hour to learn and implement some of these on-page optimization. If you can do proper on-page optimization for your website you can not only rank well in a search engines but also can provide a much better overall experience of your website for your visitors.

Below are the basic steps of onpage optimization for your website which you can follow to increase your exposure in the search engines.

Content optimization

The main aim of your content should be to impress the search engines as well as solve the problems of your human visitors. This one is a tough task, because its not easy to strike the right balance when you need to impress two totally different audiences (human and the search engines).

For your users, it's important to clear what a certain page is about, but for search engines it's better to repeat the important keywords several times.

Keep this in mind that the search engines are there for the humans. The search engines love whats best for the humans so write whats useful to them.

Title Optimization

The title tag is the most important factor of onpage optimization of your website. The title tag should be the first tag in the Head section of the webpage. Search engines give more weight to factors higher up the page.A title tag should be short and sweet but descriptive enough for your visitors to completely introduce your content. The Title tag is the first thing of your webpage that is shown and indexed by the search engines. Your title has to be appealing enough for the readers to entice him to find out more information. On the other hand, your title has to be attractive enough to the search engine to rank you higher than the thousands of websites in your niche.

The key factor in title optimization add your main keywords in the title. Let the Search engines find your most important keywords in a glance as well as making it easy for the search engines to recognise the main keywords.

Meta tags

Many webmasters spend a lot of time and effort creating meta keyword and meta description tags. But the truth is that the meta tags are no more used for ranking pages.But they should not be ignored completely.

The meta description tag is probably the most important meta tag. The Meta description should contain a brief description of the website. It is displayed in the SERPs (search engine results pages) and should be chosen carefully. If a searcher finds it appealing, he is likely to click and go inside your website. But if your Meta Description is not too good then there is a fair chance that your site will simply be ignored.

Headlines (H tags)

Headlines not only structure your content and keep it easy to read, but also for SEO reasons. Search engines pay high regard to content put between the H1, H2, H3, etc, tags. Headlines can also help search engines identify the most important keywords of your website.

Image Optimization

Search Engine spiders can only read text. Images are invisible to the search engines. Your human visitors can easily interpret your images but you need to add some tags to make it understandable to the search engines.

Some Important Image Optimization Elements are:

Alt text : ALT text or Alternate Text is the text to describe your image. The text should be short and relevant. You can use your relevant keywords as ALT text.

File name : Avoid using default image names like “DSC24045.jpg”. Give your images short meaningful names similar to the alt tags.

Image Title : Give relevant titles to your images. The title should be something which can describe the content of the image.

Image Linking : When you want to link to your image, use the image keywords in your link text. For Example: Use “view a Lamborghini”, instead of “Click here to view” as the anchor text.

Ramadan arrives in Pakistan

2011-08-02T04:13:00.000-07:00

Ramadan is the holy month for the Muslims. The Ramadan is welcomed
with great enthusiasm in Pakistan due to the Muslim majority population. Muslims fast from dawn to dusk in the month of Ramadan.

2nd August marked the start of Ramadan in Pakistan. Moreover, Ramadan started in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa one day earlier as day follow the Islamic calendar as in Saudia Arabia.
Ramadan brings great blessings for the Muslims so it is welcomed wholeheartedly by the Pakistanis.
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Surefire Tips to gain traffic from Google Image Search

2011-08-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

Google Image Search is Google's service for finding images for a search query as we do for websites in Google Search. Google Images traffic is not as large but is worth the effort that you put in optimizing your pictures. The process is not as techie but is effective for your traffic as well as your SEO.

Alt and Title Tag

Google is a text based search engine. The Google Bot can only read text so pictures are almost invisible to it. The images in your text are shown as empty spaces to the Google Bot which hurts your overall SEO.
The alt tags tell the Google Bot about the content of your pictures. The 'alt' stands for alternate text. It is the text which is displayed in the place of text if the picture is taking some time to load. So you're site will also facilitate those using the slowish dialup connections.
It requires no knowledge of HTML to add an alt tag to your images. Consider the following example:

<img src="cafeteria.jpg" height="200" width="200" alt="UAHC campers enjoy a meal in the camp cafeteria">

Notice how we use a relevant alt tag to the image. Also try to keep the alt tag descriptive and filled with your main keywords. Keep your images and alt tags as relevant to your text as possible.

Also if your image is a link than don't forget to add a title tag as well.

Placement of images

Keep your images as close to the text as possible. The best thing to do is to surround your images by relevant text.

Avoid Image hosting sites

When I did some research on how to rank in Google Image Search results, i found a lot of articles and many of them stressed on the importance of image hosting sites like Flick. But according to my own experience and learning from some of my friends I have found out that image hosting sites are no longer any good for Google Image Search. Do a search on Google Images and you will not find any images from Flickr or other image hosting sites in the top results.

Google highly regards images which are hosted on the same domain as the text. So avoid using image hosting services like Flickr and host your images on the same domain as your site.

Karachi: A highlight by a Karachiite

2011-08-01T04:56:00.000-07:00

Karachi, the city we call 'The city of lights', is the biggest city of Pakistan, With a population nearly 20 million, Karachi ranks with the biggest cities of the world. Speaking by numbers, Karachi is the 20th largest city in the world.
Due to the recent terrorism activities in the country and especially the disharmony in Karachi, Karachi is being related to terror. But myself being a Karachiite (citizen of Karachi), I find my city a wonderful place to live. A magnificent climate, beautiful scenery and lively crowds, Karachi is one of the most interesting pieces of land on earth.

Pakistan is a country of diversity. Pakistan not only has a varied landscape but is also home to many different types of people, with different religions and languages. Karachi which is also called 'Mini Pakistan', homes people from all over Pakistan, speaking different languges and belonging to different regions. Karachi is the financial capital of Pakistan. Therefore, it attracts people from all over Pakistan in search of employment. Which not only is a major factor in the uncontrollable increase in the population of the city but also is the cause of the great variation in terms of language and population.

The climate of karachi is wonderful. Karachi being a port city has a mild climate. The sunny beaches makes it a treat to people looking to escape from their cooler areas. The historical places are also good attractions to tourists. The Quaid's Mausoleum, where the country's founder rests, serves as the landmark of the city.

Many steps have been taken by the Government of Pakistan and City district government of Karachi to make Karachi a better and more beautiful city. This includes the construction of parks and steps being taken to eradicate terrorism. There are also many new projects being constructed in Karachi. One such project is the construction of a food street known as the Port Grand. It is a great addition to the beauty of this great city.

How to boost your Google Adsense earnings

2011-07-22T10:54:00.000-07:00

Google Adsense is the best source of earning online. Google Adsense is a powerful earning machine. Google Adsense earnings vary greatly from site to site depending on the topic, traffic and content of the site. You don't have much control over Google Adsense as you can't choose the ads that are displayed on your site but that does't mean that you can't increase your earnings. There are several tricks by which you can maximize your Adsense earnings. Here are some of the most effective ones that you can use to escalate your earnings.

The above the fold effect

The area that is immediately appears when a webpage is loaded without scrolling down is called “above the fold.”
This concept comes from the news paper industry according to which the news above the physical fold in the newspaper receives more attention then news present after the fold. The same concept stands in the case of webpages.
Ads positioned above the fold receive more attention of the user compared to the ads buried down the page. Which produces more clicks and in turn a better earning for you. The eCPM (effective cost per 1000 clicks or impressions) for "above the fold" ad units is approximately 80% higher than below the fold ad units. To boil it all down, you will get the best result by placing your adsense ads above the fold

The Best Placements

The best places for Google Adsense ads varies from page to page depending on the pattern and content of the page. I recommend using Google Analytics to recognise the hot spots on your site. It shows the places on your webpage which recieved the most clicks from the visitors.
There are also many places which tend to be more successful than others. The Google Adsense Heat map shows the best places on a sample webpage.
As a common rule, the ads placed near main content and the navigational button are more successful as these places are the main points of the user's attention. Another good place is to place the ad units just after the editorial content. It is like giving the visitor an option to go after hes finished with your content.

Optimize your ads

An important step in maximizing your income with Adsense is to optimize your ads according to your site. Google Adsense provides different sizes for ad units according to the needs of your page. Right ad units at the right places can hike your earnings while a wrong step can kill your income.
Due to their reader friendly format, wider ad sizes perform much better than taller ad sizes. There are many people who are perplexed whether to blend the ads in the page or to make them standout. For most people, making the ads blend into the contents of the page works more effectively than making them standout. The steps to blend the ads is to get rid of the border and making the background of the ads as same as the page. Also make the font and colour of the text same as the content. In this way, the ads will blend into the content and will receive better attention of the visitor. Also the page will not look cluttered.

Conclusion

These basic steps are effective in increasing your Google adsense earnings by increasing the clickthroughs. But keep in mind that the type of your website greatly affects your earnings. So, the most important step is to provide quality content and value to the visitors. And you earnings will increase automatically.

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Maximize Google Adsense earning: Add Adsense Ads below post titles in Blogger

2011-07-19T22:27:00.000-07:00

Google Adsense is the best source of earning online. Especially, Google Adsense is the best way to monetize our Blogger Blogs.

According to the director of Adsense ad placement issued by Google, the best place to put Adsense ads is to put the ads just under the post titles. Many bloggers use this trick to maximize their Google earnings.
But putting Google ads under post titles is not as straight away as putting Google Adsense ad gadgets (as we usually do). This tutorial walks you through the steps to put your Google Adsense ads under post titles.

Go to www.google.com/adsense and login to your Google Adsense account.
Choose your ad and customize it according to your blog and grab the code.
Now you must convert your Google Adsense code in XHTML format to make it compatible with the blogger template. And don't worry as it does not violate the Google Adsense Terms of service. Click here to convert your code to XHTML.
Log into Blogger >> Dashboard >> Design >>Edit HTML.
Check "Expand Widget template"
Then search for <data:post.body/> in your HTML.
Now copy this code below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE AD HERE

</b:if>

and paste it before <data:post.body/>.

Note:

Don't forget to replace PASTE THE ADSENSE CODE AD HERE with the converted Adsense code.

Now save your template and see the changes.

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Blogger tips: How to create expandable post summaries

2011-07-19T04:47:00.000-07:00

If you are a beginner blogger user than you must be surprised on seeing those summaries at my homepage. The fact is that it requires no magic to make it work. There are many advantages of showing summaries at your homepage instead of showing complete posts.
The first is that full posts on your page makes it load slower. You don't want to lose your visitors just because of slower pages. Also full posts makes it longer. No one likes to scroll. So you should keep that in mind too.
It is really easy to add these summaries.

You don't need to add any type of HTML.

Go to www.blogger.com and login with your username and password.
You need to make use of the jump break feature of blogger. If you want to add jump break to existing posts than you need to edit the posts. Go to dashboard >> edit posts and edit your existing posts. After every first paragraph, you need to add a jump break. So edit every post and add a jump break after the first paragraph.
Now go to dashboard >> design. Now edit the blog posts widget. Here you can decide on the number of post summaries to show. You can also customize the read more link here.

All done. Now you can view your blog and see the changes.

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If you have any other tricks or solutions then feel free to show your response by commenting.

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Twitter Earning: Top 3 services to monetize your Twitter account

2011-07-12T01:58:00.000-07:00

Twitter is one of the giants in the Social networking industry. All of you must have heard of twitter. For those addicted with, Twitter has become a part of life.
Apart from all the fun on twitter, twitter is an awesome tool to get your message to the world. This makes it ideal for brand and product promotion. This has opened new doors of opportunity for those who seek to earn money online.

However, there is also a side effect to using your twitter stream to show ads. People are allergic to ads. Ads on your twitter stream can distract your followers. This may result in losing some of your twitter followers.

if you are okay with this and still want to monetize your stream, then here are some sites where you can sign up to convert your twitter account into a earning machine.

SponsoredTweets

Sponsored tweets is one of the most popular and widely used programs to monetize your twitter account. Sponsoredtweets connects you with advertisers who are willing to pay cash in return for their ads shown in your tweets.
Once you have signed up to Sponsoredtweets, you need to set your price, add some keywords and a category. These informations will be displayed on sponsoredtweets and interested advertisers will send you offers. You can freely accept or reject an offer. Which means you have complete control over the ads shown.
You will get paid once your account reaches $50.

Sign up for Sponsoredtweets

Twtbuck

Twtbuck is one of the best earning programs for Twitter. Twtbuck is a combination of affiliate ad networks and contextual ad networks.
Twtbuck ads can be displayed on twitter,facebook, linkedin and blogs. Twtbuck is pay per click so you earn for every click on your ads.
Another great thing about Twtbuck is its low payment threshold. The minimum payout is only $10 which makes life easier. Twtbuck pays through paypal and wire

Sign up for Twtbuck

Adcause

Adcause is a wonderful program to utilize your twitter stream as an earning source. You will be get paid for showing ads in your twitter stream. The more popular you are and the more followers you have, the more the money you earn.

Adcause is a great tool when it comes to controlling your ads on twitter. You control the ads that are displayed on your twitter stream and how often the ads are displayed. So you can make sure that you don't lose too many of your followers distracted by ads.

Sign up is easy. You just need to provide your twitter username and password and you're in the run. Adcause pays by Paypal.

Sign up for Adcause

Conclusion

If you have any other ideas about monetizing your twitter account, then you can leave a comment below.

How to get indexed by search engines faster

2011-07-09T08:01:00.000-07:00

Search Engines are life to blogs and websites. If a website is invisible to the search engines then it is as good as DEAD!. Especially if a major search engine like Google, Bing or Yahoo is unable to find your site, then you're really missing some great free traffic.
I heard many people in forums asking questions about how to get a site faster indexing by the search engines. There are lots and lots of articles scattered around the web which explain the answer to this crucial question. But i found them either too confusing or not very clear.
There are a number of practices that you can perform to fasten the indexing process. Here are some tips to help you get your site indexed by Search engines faster.

Submit your site to Search engines

Many people claim that there is no need to submit a website to search engines as they can automatically detect a new site. I say yes, they can detect it. Here's how they do it.
If a website which has already been indexed by a search engine links to your site. Then the search engine spiders crawling that site can reach your site. And you can get indexed.
But this process is not that quick to be reliable. You can't wait that long for the search engines to reach you. Then why not reach the search engines yourself.
You can submit your site to individual search engines for free or you can spend a little bucks to get your site to be submitted to multiple search engines for free.

Heres where you can submit your site for free:

Get Quality Backlinks to your site

Some Search engines play strictly when accepting sites for their index. They require some quality backlinks before a site could enter their index. Backlinks are the most important aspects of SEO and vital algorithms of site quality.
You can gain great backlinks by creating squidoo lenses and hubpage hubs and linking them to your site, commenting on related blog posts, posting in forums and submitting articles to article directories. Good quality backlinks to a site also quickens the indexing process.

Quality Content

There is an important relationship between search engines and quality content. Search engines are hungry for quality content. So if you want the search engines to welcome you with open arms, you need to have quality content.
Content which is attractive to search engines as well as useful to the Search engines. Keep adding fresh and unique content to your site, and the search engines will be in love with you.

Title and meta tags are vital

The first thing you see for a website is its title. A title is not only important to entice humans but is also a vital aspect of SEO. Search engines highly regard titles for a website. Titles should be descriptive and loaded with high quality keywords. Keywords which convey your message. Do keyword research to dig up relevant keywords. Proper keyword research can do wonders for you.
Although the golden era of meta tags is now over but some search engines still regard meta tags to be an important algorithm for site quality. So its better to fill your meta tags with relevant keywords than to completely ignore it.

Social Bookmarking Wonders

Submit your site various social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon and digg. Most of the Social bookmarking sites have high page rank and backlinks from these sites can really help your indexing.
They are free and provide good amounts of traffic as well.

You will also find useful SEO: How to get indexed by search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing faster

How to do Keyword research for successful SEO

2011-07-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

Keyword research is the most valuable, vital and crucial part of your SEO campaign. The process of selecting the right keywords for your website is called Keyword research.

Keywords are the building blocks of SEO. Although the golden era of the meta tags is now over, but keywords are still one of the most important aspects of successful SEO. Keyword research remain one of the high return activities involved in the SEO game. By researching for your markets keyword demand, you not only find out which keywords to target but also learn more about your market as a whole.

Keywords determine the direction of your SEO campaign. They say that, "Well begun is half done". Right keywords can take your SEO to the skies while the wrong ones can ruin your efforts. Thats the first step to your site's existence, so you don't wanna slip on this one.

Now to boil it all down, keywords are important. You can't have a successful site without good SEO and you can't do good SEO without the right keywords.

Let's see about the process of discovering the correct keywords.

How to start

So how do you start with your keyword research. The answer is simple. Just start with yourself.

Think about your topic. See yourself as a person perceiving to find the answer to the question that you are going to answer.

What question will you ask?
What will be the phrase you will use?
What words will you use?

Create a list of keywords relevant to the content of your website. Take a pen or paper or take the e-route and use the all famous excel sheet. Do a little brainstorming and type all the relevant phrases that come to your mind. Use synonyms of your keywords.

After you have recorded all the keywords you could think of, move to your website. Go through your content. Jolt down the fresh phrases that spark in your mind.
Now visit your competitor's websites. See the source of these websites and read through the meta keyword section. This will also add some great resources to your keyword treasure.
By now you should have a list of relevant keywords. These are your potential targets.

Keyword tools
There are tons of keyword research tools available on the web. Each has its own benefits and features. Some are free and some are valuable.
Keyword research tools are vital to see what users truly search for on the web. These data are generally conducted from the search engines and are based on the search queries used by users during recent times.
There are all types of keyword research tools available. Choose the one that suits your needs and priorities.
You can use the free keyword research tools like Google Adwords keyword tool.

Google Adwords keyword tool: Google Adwords is a free service by Google originally designed for Adwords advertisers but also a wonderful tool for keyword researchers.Just add a phrase and you will be provided with hundreds of relevant keywords with the number of daily researches and frequency.Choose the best keywords. The best keywords are those with low competition and high demand. Select the keywords which is the most relevant to your content and also with low competition.

Conclusion
Doing research to find the best target keywords is the base for your SEO campaign. Without it your SEO campaign will lead no where. Take the time up front to do a little research. Research with a clear goal in mind. Don't be carried away by false hopes. Follow the facts. Target keywords after proper research. Remember your whole SEO campaign stands on this base.

Tips to Tons of Social Bookmarking traffic

2011-07-02T09:34:00.000-07:00

Social bookmarking Definition

The clear definition of social bookmarking is to spread the word about the useful websites. Social bookmarking sites are websites which usually allow people to share webpages with their network. The whole idea behind social bookmarking is to share the useful stuff that you found online.
Social bookmarking sites are wonderful tools for website promotion.Social bookmarking sites can be a great source of traffic and can quickly provide a lot of traffic.
Here is a list of steps that you can help you grab your piece of Social bookmarking traffic.

Provide a Catchy Title

Make a great, compelling first impression by giving an interesting title. Keep this in mind that your title is the first thing that the reader watches (and probably the last thing). Give your best to make it worth that click. Use keywords that completely convey your message.

Give a meaningful description

The headline is very important to draw attention but a bad description can fade away that interest. The description should be provocative but don't use lies or false facts to provoke interest. Don't make it sound like a blatant ad. Make it like a welcome note. Imagine you're welcoming your guests with a smile so don't sound like a salesman.

Descriptions should be short. Limit your descriptions to 100 to 150 characters (many social bookmarking sites limit you themselves). So think in advance, how to describe your article as briefly and effectively as possible.

A Great first Paragraph

First impressions are very important. You have worked hard to provide a intresting title and a provocative description to win your visitor by making him click to your article. So don't ruin your work with the first paragraph.
The first paragraph sets the stage for a lasting opinion. Think of your first paragraph as a hook to lure your readers.
A good first paragraph can get the readers fall in love with while a bad one can make them click that dreaded 'Back' button in the upper left corner of the screen, spoiling all your efforts.

Quality Content

Content is king. A key to a website's success is great content. Content is what powers a website.
People are hungry for quality content. Quality content is the difference between a loyal, trusting visitor which keeps returning to your website and visitors which make their way towards the back button.
Convert your visitors into coustomers through quality content. A good first paragraph can have a good first impression but you can't handle the visitor for long if you don't have quality content. Theres no optimization to perform (as in Search engines). Only quality content, to impress your human visitors.
Not just a good first paragraph but keep your quality constant throughout the article. And your visitors interest will lead him to your desired action.

Timing is Crutial

The time when you submit to social bookmarking sites is crutial when you are in the hunt of great traffic from social bookmarking sites. Especially if you have an English site than most of your audience reside in the United states.
On most social bookmarking sites, your site remains on the front page for 24 hours or so until it fades away. So you don't want to submit on times when your largest audience is sleeping.
The best time to submit is between 10am and 3 pm and 8 pm and 11pm Eastern time. These are the peak traffic hours. Also workdays are generally better in terms of traffic.

Submit to right category

Another thing to keep in mind when submitting to social bookmarking sites is to submit your links to proper categories. Go deep into categories and choose the most proper category to submit your links. Don't just throw them in generalized categories or your webpage will be quickly dumped by thousands of other sites in the same category.

Conclusion

Social bookmarking is like an assault. You get a sudden rush of traffic and then within a few days the traffic dies off. It’s quick and effective and if used cleverly can be a hidden pot of gold.
For more tips on social bookmarking see: 5 Things You Should know about Social bookmarking

10 truly powerful ways to drive tons of traffic from Youtube

2011-06-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

Youtube is one of the most popular sites in the web. Whats the first thing that strikes our mind when we hear "Youtube"? yes you're right, Videos. But apart from all those great videos that we watch on Youtube, Youtube is also a wonderful tool for for website promotion and traffic generation.
Like Facebook and Twitter, to harness the full power of this amazing tool, it is important to know the secrets.
Here are some tips to help you create buzz about you, your product or you brand on youtube.

Post viral videos

Youtube has millions and millions of videos and the numbers are increasing day by day. But not videos all videos get the response they want from youtube. There are thousands and even millions of videos lying dormant in the youtube server waiting for an audience.
People like useful videos. Nobody bothers to watch a junk movie. Nobody has that free time.
So post useful videos. If possible, post viral videos. Once your video gets viral, people will promote it for you and the only task left for you will be to reap the benefits.

Give your videos GOOD titles

Now what do i mean by good titles. Good titles are those titles which are interesting to humans as well as appealing to the search engines.
Make your titles interesting. That's the first thing your audience sees and if its a dull title, nobody will bother to go any further.
You can keep it long but make it catchy.
The other task is to make your title appealing to the search engines. This is achieved by introducing good keywords in your title.

Make your profile interesting

Like twitter and facebook, it is important for youtube as well to add compelete profile.
Give all the data that youtube asks and make it interesting. If people like your video they will go on to check out your profile. And if its an incomplete or dull profile, then don't expect them to go any further.
But in doing so, don't go too far and make your profile look like that of a teenager. You are doing it for business so keep some seriousness in it too.

Include your url

Remember your main aim is to get traffic from youtube for your site therefore it is important to introduce your website as well.
You can add your url in the description section of the video which is located just below the video. You can also add a short description of your site there.
It is also important to add your url in the video itself. You can add a picture at the end of the video or in the starting which has an address to your site. The picture can be shown for 5 to 10 seconds. But make it enough for the user to read what you want it to know.

Make your videos search engine friendly

People will get to your videos through search engines or by searching locally on youtube itself. So add high quality keywords in your title.
Try to find keywords with high demand and less competition.Then put these keywords in your title and description section.
Also add related tags to your videos but don't get spammy.
Google really loves videos and since youtube is owned by Google itself therefore Google pays high regards to Youtube videos.

Choose the best time to post your videos

When posting on youtube, timing is crutial. There are times when traffic is at peak and times when there are not so users (comparatively).
There was a research carried out by the students of the University of Calgary to analyze the traffic on youtube. It was found:

higher requests on weekdays than on weekends.
A steady increase in traffic was observed 8am to 1pm.
Peak traffic was between 2pm and 6pm.
Decline from 7pm to 7am
Traffic rose at night

Try to upload your videos in the prime time and hopefully your videos will have a great response.

Post Quality videos

As told before, there is no shortage of videos on youtube. This also means that there is no shortage of poor quality videos. Therefore to standout in millions, you need to have an interesting and high quality video.
It is seen that videos with entertainment subjects do great on youtube. Categories like Comedy, Music and Entertainment are the ones which receive more visitors that others.
Also try to post videos which helps people achieve a task. If your video helps people, it will easily be viral

Post short videos

Youtube doesn't limit the length of videos posted. But generally long videos are boring.
Videos longer than 6 to 7 minutes fades away the interest of the viewer. Therefore the best practice is to keep your videos 3 to 5 minutes long. More over 3 to 5 minutes are enough to convey your full message and also get into some detail.
Long videos are boring and not many people will watch it till the end (where your url and message are located).

Promote your Videos

You want your videos to get maximum response. Therefore its important to do some promotion for your video yourself as well.
Social bookmarking sites are good places to get some quick response and if you're lucky, some good traffic.
You can also post your videos on facebook which will also give you some great

bit of exposure.

Comment on other Videos

You can use plain good comments to promote your video. Search for popular videos in your category and comment on these videos. If viewers like your comments, they may go on to check your profile and probably watch your video.

Twitter victory: Gain Thousands of Twitter followers

2011-06-18T22:49:00.000-07:00

Twitter has taken the world by storm. The wide popularity of twitter has proven it to be a grand tool to create buzz about you and your brand. But to take full advantage of this amazingly powerful tool, it is important to know how to harness its power.

A successful twitter campaign requires a good amount of followers. Getting followers is a art in its own.

Don't know how to get followers? Heres how you can grab them.

Twitter Profile

Make your profile expressive. You can also make it unique by changing the background of your profile.

Make your profile standout. Remember its your identity on twitter. Treat it as a landing page.

Fill all the fields in the profile settings. Specially your bio should never be left empty. A complete profile gives you an identity which in turn can get you great number of followers.

Put twitter buttons on your website or blog

If you have a website or blog of your own than you have another good source of followers. You can convert your visitors into your followers. This is done by by putting twitter buttons on your website or blog.

Using these twitter plugins, you can display your latest tweets on your blog. Or just add a simple follow me button to give your visitors an easy path to reach you on twitter.

But not all visitors will convert into followers. People who genuinely liked your content will bother to take their cursor over that Follow me button and click. So it all boils down to the quality of your content.

Start following

What would you do if you are starting with twitter? How will you get people to know that you exist in this world?

A good way to start is by following other people. It is a good strategy to start off with twitter.

When you follow people, they may follow you in return and this will give you some followers quickly.

If you follow 1000 followers and only 20% follow than you can get 200 followers.Doing this consistently can earn you thousands of followers.

Tweet Constantly

Tweet constantly. No body follows you if you're twitter stream lies dormant.

Update your twitter stream consistently. If possible, tweet every 15 minutes.

If you don't know what to tweet then just tweet about what you're doing at the moment.

Like which food are you eating or the movie you are watching.

Retweet

Retweet useful content. If you find a useful blog post or a great tweet, don't hesitate to retweet it. If you found it useful may be others will find it useful too.

Specially when you retweet someone's tweet he may be thankful to you and may retweet some of your good tweets as an acknowledgement. This can in turn increase your popularity.

Automate your Twitter Job

If you're serious about using Twitter to your advantage and harnessing the complete power of this amazing tool, than the need of a twitter management software becomes vital.

Twitter management software are great if you want to concentrate on your website (Search engine optimization and other website related stuff). They take the burden of managing your twitter account off your shoulders.

Be faithful

Be faithful to your followers. Don't just forget them once they follow you. Answer their tweets.

Read their tweets. Build your good image.

A nice personality increases your popularity and increases the number of people who follow you.

Learn the tips to monetize your twitter stream. See Twitter earning: Top 3 services to monetize your twitter account