I am now in the 3rd article of this series, much excited after the response to the earlier articles of this series. The readers who have directly reached this page are requested to check out the earlier two articles of this series,

How to make a website more Search Engine Optimized and Friendly? Learn Now, Article 1

How to make a website more Search Engine Optimized and Friendly? Learn Now, Article 2

The tips offered in this article are in continuation of earlier articles.

Here are some more tips for making you website more search engine optimized and friendly.

1. Internal And External Links

Internal and external links are very important from the prospect of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). You should use more internal links that relate to other relevant content of your website. You can also link to other sites you own where ever you can.

Using links that link to external URLs should be done carefully. The number of  external links that a site has is very important in SEO. Whenever you have an external link in your webpages, you are adding to the credibility of that site. You should only pass this Passive Juice/Credit to sites that you wish to. For others you can use the NOFOLLOW link relation(rel) attribute.

Learn more about NOFOLLOW and other link relation(rel) attributes.

2. Use Of Keyword Cloud

You should use a keyword cloud on your site you can use with your site. The blogging platforms Blogger, Wordpress, Joomla and others have widgets and extensions for this.

You can use the TAGCROWD service to create tag clouds.

Tag clouds will help visitors and search engines about the kind of and the quantity of the content with you.

3. Use Of Keyword And Their Consistency

You should use important words frequently in your content, header tags, titles, information, description etc. The frequency of keywords gives you an extra edge and there are more chances of search engines prioritizing you in search results. Due to the repetition of keyword in the content of your site, the search engines may believe your content more relevant for those keywords. You should make sure that you use relevant keywords or the search engines will throw you to the end of the results, they might also delist you for this.

You can also use these keyword in the anchor text for internal links and backlinks to your site. When the search engines find a specific word straight away linking to your site. They relate the word with the content of the linked webpage.

Learn more about anchor text and links.

4. Check The Pages Of Your Sites That Are Indexed By The Search Engines.

You should check the actual number of pages of your website indexed by the search engines. The more number of indexed pages gives more scope for you site to appear regularly in search results for a keyword.

You should also know that you are expected to have quality content to be visible in search results and the quantity of content relates to the quantity of quality content.

You can check the number of pages indexed by search engines by going to their webmaster controls interface.

Visit the Google Webmaster Tools

Visit the Bing Webmaster Center.

You need to have an account and your site should have been registered with them for you to see the details.

Use this tools to check the number of  indexed pages by search engines.

If the number of pages linked to is not in proportion to the actual number of pages on your site, the internal link structure of you site is not correct and you should create more internal links to your pages. The search engine crawlers may also not be able to crawl and index your webpages due to any reason. See to get help from the top search engines for the reasons of this.

This is it in this article , do check back and stay connected for upcoming articles in this series.

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I am continuing this series of articles on “Search Engine Optimization” in its 2nd article . I am sharing some simple but really important and effective tips for making website search engine friendly. Here we have few more such tips. I strongly recommend to read the earlier article(Article 1) of this series before readings this article. This article is in continuation with the earlier one.

1.  HTML H Tags ( H1 to H6)

The HTML heading tags are of great importance in SEO(Search Engine Optimization). These tags are used to set the order and render CSS(Cascaded Style Sheet) effect to headings and important words. These headers are [H1], [H2],[H3] and so on. You can use theses to the best possible way (I recommend having all up to [H6]) but make sure that you have only 1 [H1] tag in a single page and the words used in this tag are the most important/relevant words for the page. This will help search engines understand the key text of your page and the relevancy of the content.

Read more about H tags

Use this tool to check the [H] tags in a page.

I recommend using a WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) writer to write content and set H tags for important text.

2. The Image Search Engine Optimization

Images are used to make a webpage/website look good and to represent or associate the content with appropriate images. Apart from this images also play important role in SEO(Search Engine Optimization). The number of image searches made by people is increasing everyday.  The search engines can not see the images but read the image meta-data including the Alternate Text Attribute(ALT). You should use accurate and appropriate ALT tag to images that you have in your site. The image search engine, especially Google Image Search will index the images and show them in search results.

Read more about ALT tags and best ways to insert image.

Use this tool to check the ALT tags on a webpage.

I also recommend to restrict the number of images on a single webpage to make your web-pages light weight and support faster loading.

CSS spiriting  is also an important way to reduce number of HTML request and support speedy page load.

Learn more about CSS sprites

Use Sprite Me to to CSS sprites

3.  Text To Code Ratio

The text to code ratio is an important aspect for optimizing a page for search engines. This ratio lets search engine understand the quantity of text or content available on your website/webpage. You should always have more relevant text on a webpage to improve the SERP(Search Engine Ranking Performance).

Use this tool to check text to code ratio of a webpage.

4. Keyword Density

The keyword density is one important factor in SEO. A valid repeated use of a keyword in the content lets the search engines understand that the content is more specifically about a keyword . You should use relevant keywords more in the content of a webpage.

Use this service to check the density of a key word in a webpage.

The search engines are smart nowadays and  excessive, invalid or inappropriate use of irrelevant keyword will decrease the value of a page for search engines. Search engines may also penalize a webpage/website for doing this.

5.  Use of Flash, Frames and Ajax

Use of Flash should be restricted in a website from the prospect of SEO. Flash sites look beautiful but they take time to load and most importantly Flash content can not be completely indexed by search engines as of now. Still this will not be the case always.

Similarly the search engines have problems with Frames and Ajax( Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).

The search engines have been introducing technologies to index Flash and other rich media but still this type of content is not considered search engine friendly.

Read this from Google about flash and other rich media.

6. Use Of Blog On A Website.

Using blog on a website is great for SEO. Text is the most loved element of a web page by search engines. Having a blog and writing relevant content can give you a lot of traffic. Make sure that the content is authentic and original.

Various CMS(Content Management Systems) can be used to have a blog on a site. WordPress and Joomla are the best recommended by me.

I recommend having a blog that is integrated with your site so that you blog visitors can also access site in the same visit but you can also use links to your site from your blog.

A hosted solution for having a blog is Blogger by Google. Blogger is really a great and ever advancing service backed by reliable infrastructure and technology.

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Search Engine Optimization is a term that many aspiring webmasters surrender before. Like other productive topics SEO(Search Engine Optimization) is also an complicated but possible and result oriented area of learning. Though SEO is not a one time learning course but once started, you learn things that are important and as you go on you keep on learning.

Webmaster need to understand that traffic to a site is money it and getting organic traffic for free from search engines in the competitive world of internet is not very easy. Still there are people who have mastered the art of SEO by patiently learning it. Based on my own experience I am sharing few really important tips to make a website more Search Engine Optimized and Friendly. Following these simple tips one by one will make you website 90% more visible in search results.

Due to the possible length of the entire course and vast topics related to this, I have distributed this in series of multiple articles. This is the 1st article in tis series and will be followed by other articles.

Tip 1. Checking website traffic rank is the most easy and important step. You can use web traffic analytic and traffic rank service by Alexa.

Tip 2. The most simple, widely used way to SEO is social sharing. You can share your website content on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Digg and Stumble Upon. Pinterest is a new social media site with a different approach I suggest having an account with it and distributing content with Pinterest pins.

You should also have social sharing buttons on your website or blog, so that visitors to you site can share the content they like.

Tip 3. Mobile Version of website is a mandatory mechanism every site should have. Considering the huge and increasing number of mobile internet users, you may loose large number of visitors on not having a mobile site.

Use "How To Go Mobile" a service provide by Google to check your current site’s mobile compatibility and to create a mobile version of your site.

You can use services like http://quirktools.com/screenfly/ and http://viewlike.us/ to see how your site looks on different screen sizes

Tip 4.  You should also check the browser compatibility of you site on different browsers.http://browsershots.org/ is a good service that you can use for this. You can also declare that with which browsers your site is more compatible. However this is an old trend but I recommend if your visitors are from technically backward areas of the world.

Tip 5.  Your site should be able to resolve the WWW conflict. If you have a site abc.com then people should reach the homepage of your site even if they type abc.com or www.abc.com

Redirecting request has to be done for this and you can consult your web host or domain name registrar for this. This is important also because search engines conder URLs with “www” and without “www” as different URLs.

Tip 6. IP Canonicalization is basic but important step. There are different ways to get visitor of your website to your site but Your IP address should direct to the domain(website name) of you site. You can consult your host or domain registrar for this.

Tip 7. Your site should have a robots.txt file in its roots. The robots.txt file is the guideline you provide to search engines(search engines crawlers) as to how you want your site searched and indexed.

This is a bit complicated operation and I suggest to seek expert assistance if you can not do it on your own. This file should be written properly to make sure appropriate result and in case it is not so, it may harm SERP(Search Engine Ranking Performance).

Tip 8. Your site should have an XML site map and a link that search engine crawlers may access to reach this site map. Search engines kike Google allow you to submit a sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools.

Tip 9. Website or webpage title is also very important. You website/webpage should have a title which should be 10 to 70 characters including spaces and should consist of most relevant keyword to tour page and site. Refer to http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_title.asp to know more about title.

Website/Webpage meta description is also very important and I suggest to have a meta description of minimum of 60 to 160 characters including spaces. This description should be well formed and should include the most relevant keyword to your site. Visit this link http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp to find more info about meta data.

Use http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html this service to check what and how your title and description will be seen by Google Search Engine. This will help you to have better title and description.

Tip 10. Meta keywords used to be very important but due to Red Hat SEO(Negative Search Engine Optimization Techniques) search engine spammers. The search engine nowadays offer very less attention to these tags. Even tough I suggest you to have most relevant meta keyword tags. Use this URL http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp to learn about meta keyword tags.

So this is it for now in this article do also check the next articles of this series.

 

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The world of internet is full of digital media. The technology  era has made people use internet with every device they have with them. We know that Google is always of its toes to look for and cash every opportunity that internet has and now continuing this Google has a great news for all multimedia users and lovers.

 

 

 

Google’s own Digital Media Store “ Google Play” is now live. Advancing to the next level of buying,storing and accessing digital media like Video, Music, Games , Books and Applications, Google has introduced Google Play in an innovative manner.

Well this is not a topic that I am very interested in writing about but I could see that many people are looking for ways to do this. How to impress a girl ? is a question that might come in minds of millions of youngsters everyday. A simple answer to this is that impressing a girl or creating attraction within two people of opposite genders is a very natural thing and happens naturally as people come across. Due to the obvious conservative nature of girls, boys usually find it difficult to impress girls. While trying to impress a girl, the boys just need to make this natural law of attraction work by reducing differences and distances very obviously.

In this article I am going to share some basic tips that will help you to impress a girl.

1. The first and most important step is to have regular and gentle conversations. You should either discuss topics related to your studies,activities, work of any social topic that is commonly discussed. Not having regular conversation may eliminate the potential of any possible relationship.

2. People always try to be very different but the actual need is not to be very different, if you want to create space in mind of anyone you have to be special for that person. So just be very usual with the girl you want to impress and do not try to be extra smart. Trying to be extra smart in many cases will put you in difficult and humiliating situations. Be normal and usual. You should be very normal with things you do and you talk.

3. Expressions by words is the best way to reach hearts but the effective words are not measured in quantity and the sharpness of this tool is up to the way you use it. You have to be specific with your word and what you talk. So simply speak less but good. Some people believe that speaking less will keep you behind others and this is correct but this can be avoided by speaking on right time. Still speaking a lot may keep you out of league.

Girls generally like moderate speaking boys(men) and you have to be the same.

4. You have to express that you have a lot of interest in the girl you want to impress. You do not need to talk much about it but your acts should make this clear. Just a decent smile when you look at that girl will do the trick. The girl should be clear that you are providing attention to her but do not go strait away to express your interest in her. In most of the case straight away approaching a girl for any possible relationship produces negative results and may also spoil the prospect of future relationship. Relations need some time for building and in that time you should continue to show interest in that girl and wait for the right time to express this in word.

While doing this you should make sure that you do not make yourself aggressive with this thought and let the girl know that she is the only one for you(according to you). Not every girl like a man being in this passion about them. Be simple and gentle with your thoughts and expressions.

5. Girls generally like mild nature. So try to be of mild nature and be sensitive about the issues related to others(at least the girl you like). This is just an added advantage and you should not be over sensitive for others and ignore you key cause.

6. You have to express that you care about the girl but the message should not be that because you care for them, you will do anything they say. You should express that you love her but you also have some values and fundamentals.

7. This is a crucial step to find and know the interest areas of her. Even if you do not know or like and follow that specific interest. Still you should gain basic knowledge of it and discuss about this interest areas of her, only with her.

8. You have to be honest with her and be transparent with the usual aspects of your life like your background, work, social-financial status and relationships.

9. You have to let her know that you are an admirer of beauty but never directly praise some other beautiful girl in front of her and not even compare to show that she is more beautiful than  any other girl. She should only know that you praise beauty of a girl and she is that girl.

10. Avoid arguments of any nature. Even if there is difference of opinion you should let her know that you accept and respect her thoughts.

These are only few basic tips to make this easy for you. I will also write about this topic in future but for now you should know that knowing is different than implementing. The implementation of this is important and  I am saying this because I have never been good at this.

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This is the last article of this series on some useful but less know sites. Throughout this series I have been through with many exciting sites and services that I even never imagined existence of. I even could not have imagined that such services can be offered and can be of so great use for internet users. I thank all of those for creation of these sites and services. I will also like to write a new series of articles on this topic. Here are some last but not the least listing in this series of articles.

1. http://pancake.io/ allows you to publish files on the web. You can even create and publish a simple website. This site uses your https://www.dropbox.com/ account to store files.

2. http://builtwith.com/ lets you explore the technology used to build and run a site. This service provides you info that can not be known just by visiting any site.

3. http://www.woorank.com/en is an analysis service for website to analyze themselves from the perspective of search engine and social impact using the social media sites.

4. http://mixlr.com/ lets you record an broadcast live audio over the internet.

5. http://radbox.me/ is a simple tool to bookmark videos that you come across and watch them later.

6. http://tagmydoc.com/ is a service to create and use QR Code(Quick Response Code) in your documents and anywhere.

7. http://notes.io/ is a fast tool to create notes within the browser itself. This service lets you create links of notes, print notes or share them.

8. http://ctrlq.org/html-mail/ is a service to send great looking e-mails anonymously. The use of this service should be done for appropriate purpose though.

9. http://otixo.com/is a service that can be used to manage and share files on multiple file hosting platforms like Google Docs and DropBox.

10. http://ifttt.com/wtf is a great prospect service to link your online accounts from various sites, your devices and much more and synchronize between them. This service is in its beta mode and bit complicated to understand and use.

11. http://fiverr.com/ lets you hire people to do simple and complicated jobs for you for a little amount. This service is good for people requiring assistance for various simple tasks and projects. The minimum budget you should have is $5 only.

12. http://www.usefulsites.info/links/ is a service that can be use to find useful site and their information by searching within broad and niche categories. This is an online useful sites directory.

 

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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The power of internet as a technology and as a communication medium is known to us. The utilities available on internet make it the unmatched option to do anything that we may want to do. In the 8th article in this series I still think that whatever we have known is just a very small share of the internet but still it is so useful. Readers who have been through the earlier article in this series have expressed that their knowledge about the internet is much advanced now. So for them to further advance it, here are few more useful sites.

1. http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/ is a typing tutor website that can be used to make your typing skills better. This site has various levels of skills that you can practice, this allows user of any requirement polish their typing skill. It might be you hobby, fun or professional requirement, this tutor is of great help.

2. http://mailvu.com/ is service that can be used to send video e-mails across the globe. This site also allows you to send video emails to video e-mail by recording videos right from your web-cam. This service offers a free and a paid plan with advanced features.

3. http://timerime.com/ lets you create timelines for fun or presentations. You can include audio, video and photos in your timeline.

4. http://safeweb.norton.com/ is simple but useful service by Norton that allows you to check trust ability(Trust Level) of any site. 

5. http://studio.stupeflix.com/ is a great web based tool to create stunning videos from your audios, video and photos. This service provides you great tools to create videos. This service is paid and offers personal utility plan at a low price. The advanced plans have professional features at extra price.

6. http://deadurl.com/ is a service that lets you find a backed up copy of dead URLs. This is of great help when you desperately search for a resource that is on a dead URL.

7. http://teuxdeux.com/  is a simple but truly powerful to-do application. This web-based application has good features to set to-dos. This service also has an I-phone/I-pas application.

8.https://www.minutes.io/ is great tool that lets you quickly note important points in a meeting. This is very simple to use.

9. http://www.youtube.com/leanback is an additional service provided by you favorite video site YouTube. This service lets you watch your favorite channels and videos in Television mode. YouTube also provide you http://www.youtube.com/disco service that can be used to create your own playlists of videos of your choice.

10. http://www.talltweets.com/ is a Twitter utility service that lets you share tweets that are longer that 140 characters. This service automatically converts your longer tweets in shorter format and your followers can view them on their timeline.

 

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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Earlier posts in this series have give us a lot of information about some amazing utility sites. Let us continue this series in its 7th article and to explore the useful world of internet.

1. http://disposablewebpage.com/ lets you create a temporary web page that self destructs itself. This site is simple to use and you do not require  much web designing or HTML skills to design webpages.

2. http://www.urbandictionary.com/ is an uncommon dictionary that tell you meanings and definitions of informal words. This site is one of its kind and you can visit it not only to search but also to also to know a lot about new informal words. This site contains definitions of few slang words though.

3. http://www.seatguru.com/ is a service you can use before booking airline tickets. This service helps you to find the best seat you can have. You can check the reviews about various routes also.

4. http://www.sxc.hu/index.html is a great site for webmaster and web designers. This site gives you access to hundreds of free stock photos.

5. http://zoom.it/ is an online image viewer to view high resolution images online. This service is provided by Microsoft.

6. http://scribblemaps.com/ is a free service you can use to create your own Google Maps. This service is very easy yet powerful and can be used by newbies or even GIS(Geographic Information System) professional.

7. https://encrypted.google.com/ is a great service by favorite search engine Google. Using this service you can conduct Google Search that is untraceable by others and no one can know about what you have searched.

8. http://www.formspring.me/ gives you the opportunity to ask questions and answer questions over variety of topics.

9. http://sumopaint.com/app/ is a very good web based image editor that works like PhotShop. This editor is a layer based image editor.

10. http://snopes.com/ is a way to check the genuineness of any e-mail offer you receive. You can also search about various online scams related to variety of areas and industries just by using keywords.

 

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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The Share This team has introduce a great looking social bookmarking gadget. Webmasters can use this widget to give a great social sharing experience to visitors of their sites. This is a good looking and visually appealing gadget that is in shape of a heart and on users hovering(pointing mouse) on the heart. it opens to reveal many social sharing options to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest , Stumble-Upon and Share-This tools.
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Now you have a great looking heart social sharing gadget in your blogger blog.

Blogger by Google has been the best non self-hosted blogging platform. Many Bloggers rely on the Blogger infrastructure and technology which is provided and managed by internet giant Google.  A self hosted competition which overtakes Blogger is WordPress . Wordpress is far more customizable than Blogger but requires time to look after the technical aspects of maintaining blog.  One key reason why WordPress could still be choice of more bloggers is because of the SEO and Meta-Data possibilities in WordPress But a we always know that Google does not like to stay behind and by an exciting step further Google/Blogger has introduce SEO preference controls for Blogger hosted blogs.

Google/Blogger has introduced the following SEO and Meta-Data options in Blogger,

1. Blog meta description- Blogger allows you add a 150 character description to your blog. This description is for search engine crawlers to understand what your blog is all about. You can add a description by using SETTINGS>SEARCH PREFERENCES option in you blog dashboard.

2. Blog Post Description – This is a much awaited blogger feature to describe individual posts. This will help blogger to have a description for each post and make that post more search engine friendly. The option to add a description to the post is available in the POST SETTINGS options in the right side of NEW POST layout. This option is only available if you have set a blog description as mentioned in the point 1 of this article.

3. ALT and TITLE meta tags for images- This is also a great feature by Blogger considering the increasing number of image searches and use of images in blog posts. This feature allows you to set ALT TAGS(Alternate Text) and Title for images you use in blog posts. This will make it easy for search engines to find and show images from your blog in results for related search queries. However this option was also used earlier by experienced bloggers by using blogging applications like Windows Live Writes and such others. This feature available while uploading images using Blogger posting interface.

4. Custom Error Page allows you to use a custom HTML message to show when a page is not available on your blog. Currently Blogger shows its default error screen. This happens usually when someone tries to visit a page that is not available on you blog for any reason, most the reason is typing and spelling error. You can access these options by using SETTINGS>SEARCH PREFERENCES option in you blog dashboard

5. Custom Redirect allows you to redirect an URL to a different URL within your blog. You can access these options by using SETTINGS>SEARCH PREFERENCES option in you blog dashboard

6. Custom robots.txt And Custom robots header tags Feature  allows you to use custom entries in the robots.txt file in the root of your blog. The robots.txt file is used to instruct search engines that how they should crawl through you blog. I strongly recommend the use of this feature only if you are familiar with use of robot.txt file. Any incorrect entries in this file may result in poor search engine performance or anything worst that that.

This features provide you to scope to make your blog and blog post more search engine friendly.

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Internet is place where you find many expensive service for free. Internet has strength to change the world by spreading knowledge and helping people to achieve success in their professions. The only work to be done by you to know the world of internet. This series of articles is helping you to do this. Let us know about few more great sites and services that are less known.

1. http://www.midomi.com/ is also an unique service that lets you find the title of any song by just singing it. Is not it great?.

2. http://faxzero.com/ lets you send fax across the globe for free. You do not even need a telephone/fax line or machine. You just need and e-mail and the receivers fax no.

3. http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ is service for people who do not like to use feed readers. This sites creates newsletters from any feed and sends to your inbox.

4. http://ge.tt/ lets you any number of files to any user within seconds. It has a drag and drop interface and very easy to use.

5. http://host03.pipebytes.com/ lets you instantly share any type of file with anyone without uploading or saving it to any server. The service is very simple and you just need to create a code for the file you want to share and give it to the receiver.

6. http://tinychat.com/ enables you to create your own live-streaming chat rooms and invite people to your rooms. This service is very simple to use and very efficient.

7. https://privnote.com/ lets you create private notes that will destruct itself after reading. You simply have to write the note to create a link that can be shared with person you want to read the note and the note will no longer be available after reading.

8. http://www.boxoh.com/ lets you track the status of UPSC, UPS, FedEx or DHL/AirBorne shipments. You have to enter the tracking number and the result is displayed on Google Maps.

9. http://www.chipin.com/ lets you create widgets that can be used to raise funds for any cause or event.

10.http://www.aviary.com/tools/myna is an audio tool to record, mix and do a lot with your audio clips.

 

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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The series of articles on useful but less know sites is continuing and we are ready to know about some amazing sites on internet that we never knew exist. here are some of them.

1. http://gtmetrix.com/ lets you check the performance of any website online. This service uses multiple tools like Page-Speed and Yslow together to show results. This service is fast in comparison to other such services.

2. http://www.noteflight.com is a service that lets you write your own music notations and compose great music online. This service provides efficient tools to compose music and a great utility for music lovers and even for music professionals.

3. https://imo.im/ lets you chat with your friends on Facebook, Twitter , MSN, Google Talk, Skype and many such popular social connectivity solutions, from one place.

4. http://translate.google.com gives you a simple interface to translate text, office documents and PSFs to many key languages spoken/written across the world. The translation is really nearing accuracy.

5. http://www.similarsites.com/ lets you find sites similar to any site that you like. You can also enter a topic to find out good sites associated with it.

6. http://kleki.com/ is an online painting tools to create great painting. It has got many exciting and advanced features but are very simplified.

7. http://www.wordle.net/ is a great tool to create word cloud from any provided text. It will automatically enlarge repeated words and create a good looking tag cloud. It gives you many designs for creation of tag clouds.

8. https://bubbl.us/ is an brainstorming tool. You can visualize any thing that comes is your mind, just to brainstorm.

9. http://kuler.adobe.com/ is a service provided by Adobe that can be used to find color combinations and do advanced functions like extracting color from photos.

10. http://www.liveshare.com/ lets you easily share your photos and album with anyone. It has a drag and drop interface to create photo streams that can be shared online.

 

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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The “Facebookization” of Orkut has not taken too  long . Though we find many people “Orkutizing” Facebook, when we see thousands of subscribers number associated with fake profiles of beautiful girls. Anyway, our motto is not to challenge the manly attitude of social networking users but just to find out that why Facebook is so popular and people use it so much. I have figured out some humorous reasons for this. Many of these might not be very correct but few of them are seriously true.

1. Facebook is more specific than other social sites. I mean to say that Facebook has got lot of real members and people can find their friends and relatives very easily.

2. Some optimistic people believe that Facebook can be used to find friends(Girl-Friend is the correct word). I can say this because of the beautiful girls profile and subscribers ratio.

3. A lot of wok has taken people away from their friends and family but now people are trying to go away from their work and come close to their near and dear ones by using Facebook.

4. Some people think that updating Facebook status regularly is a sign of sincerity.

5. Companies, bloggers, celebrities and such other people believe that  Facebook page is mandatory to establish presence on internet and the least expensive mode of advertisement( Which is like finding water in desert)

6. People think that more Facebook likes  and comments is a symbol of popularity.

7. Some people think that having more Facebook friends is prestigious.

8. People think that every friend on Facebook is waiting know that what he or she is up to.

9. Few men think that liking and commenting on updates by women is a way to make some space for themselves.(Certainly in the mind of that girl.)

10. Women think that having more likes and comments and ignoring much of them is a sign of being beautiful.

11. many people think that using Facebook is the only good thing that can be done on internet.

12. Many newbies to internet think that using Facebook is using internet.

13. Many mobile phone manufacturers think that adding Facebook application can let them increase the price of their products.

14. Google thinks that Facebook will never become the no. 1 website and they do nothing to steal the social networking business.

15. Twitter thinks that they do not require the kind of users Facebook has.

16. MySpace thinks that Facebook will never allow its users to become friends with celebrities .

17. Many people in the world think that Facebook is funded by U.S government and using Facebook will save their nations from any attack by the U.S forces.

18. Many people believe that Facebook is a service in charity and is not commercial.

19. Some people even think that using Facebook regularly will make them popular and someday they will earn a lot of money by cashing their popularity.

20 People also think that ignoring updates by friends will weaken their friendship.

21. I think that Facebook is the only best way on internet to connect to real people you know outside Facebook.

 

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After exploring various interesting sites in the first two articles. I am going to continue the same in this third article of this series. I am sure that readers who have read the first two articles should be feeling more comfortable with internet and can use it better than before.

Some more interesting and useful services and sites are right here,

1.http://dabbleboard.com/drawis a Flash based Whiteboard(Drawing Board). You can create drawing of any type using this board. It has got great features for creating beautiful drawings.

2. http://scr.im/ is a very protective service that lets you secure your e-mail addresses from spammers. When we share emails on various forums or at other place over the net, spammers use crawlers to search addresses from such sources and once they have email addresses they send unsolicited e-mail communications. This services lets you convert your e-mail to a link and then the recipient can again convert it to the original form and use it.

3. http://www.spypig.com/ lets you know weather your e-mail has been read by the recipient or not. Great service when we want to confirm the receipt and reading of a sent e-mail.

4.  http://www.sizeasy.com/ lets you visualize the size of product before you buy them. In the images it is difficult understand the original size of the product but this service makes it very easy for you to visualize product and compare them.

5. http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ can be used to determine the font used in an image. Sometimes we like a font used in an image and want to use it but do not know which font is that this is one of its kind service to find fonts by providing images.

6. http://www.google.com/webfonts is a service operated by Google that lets you choose and make a collection of fonts for you use. This site has hundreds of fonts listed under many font families. You have various options to evaluate and choose from them. All the fonts here are open source fonts.

7.http://regex.info/exif.cgi is a service that can be used to find out various hidden details of images. These details are not generally known to us and are very specific. This service support nearly all image file types and also ZIP files. The info provided by this service is called EXIF Metadata.

8. http://new.livestream.com/ is great service that lets you broadcast events live. This service can be used to broad cast your desktops activities(screen activities) live on internet.

9. http://iwantmyname.com/ helps you to search availability of a domain name from all TLD( Top level domains).  This service is great when you want a specific domain name irrespective of the extension.

10.http://www.homestyler.com/ is really very useful service for every one. This is basically a web based DIY(Do it yourself) designer that lets you create 3d  designs for  you homes using quality tools. This is very easy to use and requires basic skills to design professional 3d models for any structure.

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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The world of internet is bigger than imaginations. We usually are aware of the large sites that we use or hear of but the world of internet is full of creative minds that create great sites providing extraordinary services. This services are very useful for us but we are not aware of them. So I am writing a series of article about such less known sites that provide very useful services. In this article I will make you known with few such sites.

1. http://www.screenr.com/ is a site that allows you to capture all activities of your computer screen and creates a video of it. You can send the video directly to YouTube. This is called screen-casting.

2.http://www.bounceapp.com/ allows you to capture screenshots of webpages. This service is better because it allows you to capture full length screenshots of webpages. You can also use this service to upload and test images. This services test and gives you a report of the webpages and images.

3. http://goo.gl/ lets you shorten  a URL. Many social sites need you to shorten URLs before submission. This service is offered by Google.You can use the http://untiny.me/ site to find out an original URL of any shortened URL.

4. http://www.qlock.com/ is a service you can use to find the current time of any city in the world. This service is really fast and shows results instantly as you enter the name of the city. This site offers I-Phone/I-Pad application and premium desktop application at a price.

5. http://copypastecharacter.com/ is a very useful service for all this service has got tons of special characters that we do not have on our keyboard. We can simply click and copy the character that we want and use it anywhere by just pasting it. We can use many caracters from this service in status updates of Facebook and other social sites.

6.http://postpost.com/ is a service for Twitter users. Twitter users can use this service to search content on Twitter shared preferentially by people they follow. It is a twitter search engine.

7. http://my.lovelycharts.com/ allows you to create charts of any kind. This includes flowcharts,Diagrams and sitemaps etc. This service can be used to professional scale charts also.

8. http://www.iconfinder.com/ can be used to find any kind of icon by just searching for a keyword. This site has got thousands of icons of all type and gives you useful search filters to find the right icon you are looking for.

9. http://www.followupthen.com/ is a very useful service for busy people. This service lets you set e-mail reminders by sending simple emails and you receive an email. Premium users also receive SMS reminders at a little cost. Really a great and very simple service. 

10. http://virusscan.jotti.org/en is a service you can use to scan files of any kind for malware/viruses. This site uses worlds leading antivirus services to scan the files.

I will continue to write on such useful services in further articles of this series. Do stay connected!

 

This series of articles is an advanced and further studied version of an article by Amit Agarawal but also consists of other additions and more information.

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Blogging is attracting many people across the globe. People are following blogging as a hobby or a part/full time profession. Making blogging a profession requires you to reach the basic blogging quotient(BQ). I have also found people very curious about how to earn from a blog? Here I have a starters guide explaining the primary ways to earn from a website or blog.

A primary way to earn from a blog or website is by showing them relevant advertisement and getting paid for this. Website owners get paid to show advertisements by three ways explained below.

1. CPC( Cost Per Click)

This is the most widely used manner of advertisements. In this method the publishers(website owners) get paid when they show advertisements on their websites and a visitor clicks on these ads. The payment for each click varies based on different factors.

2. CPM ( Cost Per Mile)

Cost per mile is another method generally used by sites with competitively higher traffic. In this type of advertisements the the publishers get paid for every thousand views of the ad. In this case also the earning for every thousand views may differ from case to case and based on certain factors.

3. CPA ( Cost Per Action)

This is also a popular advertisement method for niche (topic specific sites) websites. In this type of advertisements the publishers are paid when a visitor of their website does and act, for example the visitor buys a product from the advertiser or the visitor registers at the site of the advertiser.

 

Large sites like Facebook and Twitter have their own ad platforms and advertiser can directly publish their ads on such sites but small publisher need to register with various ad networks to show advertisements of different types on their sites. Following are the types of ad network generally available.

A. Contextual Advertisements.

The contextual type of advertisements are ads where  publishers put a HTML/JavaScript code in their webpages. This code is provided by the ad networks and when that page is viewed by a visitor. The code shows relevant advertisements to the visitor. The advertisements shown depend on various factor like the content of the page, location of the visitor etc. Ad networks like Google AdSense even show ads based on the search history of a visitor.

Google AdSense is the leading ad network for such types of ads and shares a large part of this market. Google AdSense has the maximum payout ratio and publishers always want to display ads by Google AdSense. The approval and participation norms by Google AdSense are very strict. There are hundreds of such ad networks available on the internet.

B. In Text Advertisements.

In text advertisement is another form of advertisement where similarly to contextual advertisement a code is put in webpages by the website owner but the ads shown are for a specific word in the content of the webpage. A word is highlighted or underlined and when a visitor hovers(moves the cursor) to this word an advertisement is displayed in a small box popping out  of the word.

Ad network like InfoLink and Kontera are leaders in such advertisements.

C.In image advertising

In image advertising is a type of advertisement where advertisement show are relating to the images shown on the webpage. Like other two methods mentioned above a HTML/JavaScript snippet/code is supposed to be put in the webpage.

GumGum is a leading ad network in  in image advertisements.

D. Affiliate Program

Affiliate programs are programs run by some ad networks. This method is a CPA method of advertisement and publisher show ads of the affiliates and get paid for an action by a visitor.

ClickBank is a leading affiliate program network

E. Direct Ad Space Sale.

Selling direct ad space on a website or blog is latest trend in advertisements in this type of advertisement. A publisher registers with an ad network and then the ad network sells the ad space to their client. The publisher decides which ad to show and after approving an ad the publisher gets paid. This is becoming popular in blog and site owners with decent traffic.

BuySellAds and BlogAds are  leading ad space selling networks.

The internet ad industry is growing rapidly and leading to people creating sites and blogs of different kinds. Apart from mentioned in this article there are many different types of ad networks and advertisement.