Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Overhaul Your Dying Business with Magento

Often business organizations feel the pins on their faces when it comes to face increasing competition from their cyber counterparts. It is indispensable for business organizations to gain a feat in cyber competition because the cyber technology is going to make a significant mark on overall business sphere. Therefore, all business organizations are setting up their online stores in order to come in direct touch with their customers. In this way, if you are also on this way to do this then you can take help of this article. It is needful for all business organization that they spend moderately on these additions until the stage of output generation comes. Hence, you should use open source tools like Magento for making your e-commerce store. This process will include four distinctive steps, which are mentioned below:

You just need to understand these steps and go further.

Define Your E-Commerce Idea


Well, idea is the most important part of Magento Development. You must be aware with the idea of your online store. You need to decide the shape & dimension of your store. In this way, you will decide that whether you want to create a multi layer e-commerce store or a domain-oriented store. Technically, the size and kind of your store depends on the nature of your business organization. You should conduct a short research to understand the nature of online stores of your business domain. Moreover, you should focus on simplifying the business interaction on your client’s end. It will be fun for you to make your customer interaction interesting & amusing.

Find Credible Magento Coders


For your information, Magento is an open source web content management system. Hence, you do not need to pay anything in return of using this iconic CMS tool. It is suitable for making all kinds of e-commerce stores whether large or small. In this way, you can hire a professional Magento programmer for the development of your website. It will help you in creating a technically sound e-commerce store. It will be easy for you to understand that the professional assistant will set you free from indulging too much in the creation of your e-commerce store.


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Take Part in Development


However, your professional programmer will give you the leisure to cast your focus on other important areas of your business. But, you should take an active part in the development of your business organization. You must understand that nobody can understand your business organization’s requirements more than you do. Therefore, you should devote a certain time of your professional life to give some essential inputs to your designer and developer.


Go for Testing


Usually, business organizations do not give enough importance to testing of their websites. They simply believe on the word of their developers. It is a wrong approach. Hence, you should not follow it blindly. Your website can have some technical irregularities during the process of integration & customization. Thus, you must go for testing your website.

Now, you can find a credible coding agency to assign the job of e-commerce development of your business organization.

Photo Credit Keith Williamson

Saturday, 24 August 2013

Which kind of online advertisements are the most suitable for your site?

All the professional bloggers launch their website in order to earn money. Some of them become successful in this venture and some do not. Everyone must agree on the fact that one needs solid quality content to win in the long race. While quality content is your bread and butter, you can’t ignore the other aspects. One such aspect is choosing the correct type of online advertisements and their placement in your site.

There are different kinds of advertisements available in the market.


CPC (Cost per Click) online advertisements


In CPC advertisement, the advertising network company charges the advertiser on per click basis. And the publishers also get paid accordingly. Adsense is the most popular advertising network in this area. However, be aware that the advertising network company never discloses the cost per click. The cost varies from advertiser to advertiser and it is also dependent on advertising Network Company. It also varies depending on the geographic region of the visitor. You will be paid higher amount if a visitor from the United States of America clicks on the advertisement.
Now the question is when you should give preference to CPC advertisement. Normally, majority of the blog traffic is organic or sourced through a search engine. The bloggers always concentrate on specific key word(s) to enable the search engine to find out their blog post. However, the revenue generating keyword may be completely different from search “Key word”. If you can take care of the both kind of keyword in your blog, it may make sense to give high preference to the CPC advertisement.


CPM (Cost per Mille) online advertisements


In CPM advertisement, you will be paid based on number of page views. Mille stands for 1000. Thus, if some advertising network company gives you 10 cents per 1000 page views, 50,000 page views will give you $5. Thus, if you have reasonable page views per month, CPM model is a reliable source of income. Unlike CPC advertisement, the placement of CPM advertisement is not that important.
Now a day, most of the advertising network has combined CPC and CPM model together. Thus it has become more difficult to segregate the income sourced from CPC and CPM.

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CPA (Cost per Activity) online advertisements


In CPA advertisement, you will get paid only when a specific activity is performed. For example, the advertiser made a contract that he\she will pay only when someone downloads a specific software. This gives good revenue in some cases and may be better than CPC or CPM advertisement. CPA advertisement works well for those websites, which have high authenticity in the same niche. Thus the websites should be very reputed and exist for quite some time. The placement of CPA advertisement is very important.

Affiliate Sell


In affiliate sell, you will be getting a commission from the revenue if the visitor purchase online and is routed from your website. Alike CPA advertisement, affiliate sell also demands high authority. The placement of affiliate advertisement is also very important. An advantage in affiliate sell is that you have good number of choices to select online advertisements from your niche.

Direct Online Advertisements


When you get rid of the advertising network and directly deals with the advertiser, it becomes direct advertisement. In one hand, it helps to increase the profitability by getting rid of the advertising network company and on the other hand, you may have to spend extra time to deal with the advertiser and track few things yourself. Direct advertisement may be of any kind e.g. CPC, CPM, CPA etc. In direct advertisement, one of the most important types is banner. Banner advertisement is the most reliable source of income to any blogger. It is like a fixed salary. You have contract with a particular company to show their banner at a particular position for a stipulated period of time and in return, they will pay you a fixed amount. It is quite obvious that to get a banner advertisement, you must have a huge traffic.
There are other online advertisements like In-Text, Slide, Pop up, Pop Under. In In-Text advertisement, key words are highlighted in your post and when clicked, it opens up a new link. The most useful factor for In-Text advertisement is that it doesn't need any extra space like any other online advertisements. The other types i.e. Slide, “Pop Up”, “Pop Under” do as it is reflected in their name. Extensive use of such advertisements may derogate your site performance.

Photo Credit Bess Georgette - Some rights reserved by Bess Georgette

Monday, 12 August 2013

Things you should know before you become an online affiliate

Most of the bloggers are more interested in earning revenue through different ad networking agency. These advertising networking agencies work like a middle man between you and the advertiser. They take a % of revenue from both you and the advertiser. There are number of advertising model exists in the market. However, very few bloggers show interest in online affiliate selling.

For those, who are not accustomed with the term online affiliate sale, I would like to spend few words. “Affiliate sale” is selling someone else's product and take a commission from the overall sale revenue. It is nothing different from setting up a shop and selling products after adding your profit margin. Let us take an example; We are showing a banner advertisement for Walmart in our website. Now, if any visitor sees and clicks on this advertisement, he will be taken to the Walmart side. When the user clicks on the banner on our website, it passes a reference code, by means of which The Walmart website can capture source website, from which the traffic has been sent. Now, if the person buys something from Walmart site online, you will be getting a percentage of the entire sale revenue.



However as you can understand, there is a probability factor works behind getting the percentage of the revenue. It is not guaranteed as it is in the case of "Pay Per Click" or "Pay Per Mile". Thus, obviously people are not interested in putting advertisement for online affiliate sale. Still, you may see that many people go for online affiliate advertisement. I do categorize these people into two broad categories. 1. people, who have carved out a niche for them and have good popularity for their website and 2. people, who have just started blogging and yet to generate proper revenue with any other advertising model.

If we look deep into the websites, which fall in category 1, you will be able to understand a stark similarity among them in many respects. The first and foremost important factor is that these websites are in existence for quite a long time (at least 3 years). With the due course of time, they have carved out their own niche and always put affiliate advertisement pertaining to the same niche. The best example is Wpbeginner. Wpbeginner is a blog started by Syed Balkhi in 2009. This site revolves around everything about Wordpress. The main source of income of this blog is online Affiliate Sale. When, people were searching around for their questions around Wordpress, wpbeginner has done a tremendous job by putting all the knowledge base and news under the same umbrella. Over a period of time, it has got immense popularity and currently have an Alexa ranking around 2900 and Google page rank 6. It means that it has got good authenticity. That is one of the major points for the success in online Affiliate Sale.

I am not here to dishearten you, in case you have also put affiliate advertisement in your site, without much success (as do I). But, you may want to check whether your ad is aligned to the niche of your blog. This can be further enhanced, if you put ad in article page, which is aligned to the context of your article. For example, if you are writing about Wordpress themes, it does make sense to put an online Affiliate ad for site selling Wordpress themes.

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The next question is how you get an appropriate affiliate advertisement. The easiest way to find out a site in the same niche as that of yours is that you just go to his site and find out the kind of advertisement has been put up there. It's okay even if the ad has been put up by some advertising networking company through PPC or PPM model. You must ensure that the ad is aligned to the central idea of your blog. Now, just go to that particular website and sign up for Affiliate sale. You can also go to some third party Ad agency, which manages affiliate sale. If you have good traffic from the USA\Canada, a good choice is linkshare. Through linkshare, you can apply for Affiliate Sale for different companies.

Photo Credit - Web Design Hot - http://www.webdesignhot.com/ [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Monday, 5 August 2013

Why should you post regularly in Your daily blog?

If you have a blog, you should regularly update it. The regular update doesn't only enrich your blog with contents but it also benefits you in different parameters. From the time, I started my blog, quite a few numbers of times, I was forced to keep a gap of good number of days because of several other engagements. And every time, I left blogging, the number of visitors came down and Alexa rank took a hit. However, the traffic is not the only point of concern; there are several other implications when you take a leave from your daily blog.

Your daily blog is your work place. Though it doesn't have a full-fledged office, it is nothing less than a routine office work. It does make more sense, when you are a full time blogger. When, you go for a leave, it becomes bit difficult for you to concentrate and write a good content, when you come back. Blogging also needs lots of reading. When you comeback, you still remain in another world; you may take some time to dive in the same habit of reading and writing your daily blog. Over all, it may take few more days to adjust yourself to the blogging habit.

You must be having a loyal user base for your daily blog. Your blog is just like a shop and you have handful of loyal customers over there. However, when you go for leave, your customers have to visit other shops to fulfill their needs. It is not sure that you will get back your customers, when you reopen your shop. Thus, there is always a threat of losing your loyal customers, when you are out for a vacation.



Many search engines including Google regularly crawl your site. These search engines always give a preference to the new and updated contents. If your site is kept idle for long time, you may slowly loose the rank in the search result. And the obvious result is loss of search traffic and the ripple effect is observed on your Alexa ranking.

Even if you go on leave, you don't have the luxury of keeping yourself totally isolate from your blog. This is more valid, if you are also handling administrative activity of your blog. You may get important e-mails from different sources pertaining to your daily blog, which may need your immediate attention. In an unfortunate case, your website may be hacked and it needs to be taken care of immediately. Thus, if you don't have anyone to take care of admin activity for your blog, you don't have any respite.

Does it mean that you will not be able to go for leave anytime? Not really; you have a work around for the same. You may have to have enough articles in stock. You have to post your stocked articles at regular interval of time. For the admin activity, you may have to have a back-up or otherwise you need to take care of it yourself intermittently.

Photo Credit Cortega9

Monday, 29 July 2013

How can you easily type a mail in your native language?

Are you fond of sending mail or chatting in your native language? It is very difficult or time consuming to type in your native language from a normal key board. So, if we get a keyboard imprinted in native language, our job has made much simpler. Here we will see how we can quickly type in our native language.

Open google translate. You can see there are two large boxes; the left one is for source language i.e. from where you want to translate and the second one is the destination language i.e. to which language, you want to translate. In the left, click on the “From” language drop down and select your native language. Now click on the left source language box. You will be able to see one small drop-down button on the left bottom corner. Click on this and select online keyboard in your language. It opens up a small on-screen key-board panel, which is in your native language. Now you can easily type in your native language and the same gets printed in the left source box.  Now just copy your native language text and paste it in the mail or chat.




The only glitch here is that you don’t have native language Keyboard for all the languages.



Also read on how to compose your mail for free through automatic voice recognition.

Featured Photo By MAKY OREL (Wikimedia)

Friday, 26 July 2013

10 Awesome Free Premium Wordpress Themes

There are plethora of wordpress themes in the market. Lot of these are free premium wordpress themes. Below you can find collection of free premium wordpress themes. We will constantly update and add on to this list. If you download any theme and used for your site, please update us on the same.

Free Premium Wordpress Themes


1. Bonpress


Bonpress is a personal blog theme. It allows you to embed both Video and audio. Multiple custom widgets like Twitter, Flicker etc are built in with in the scheme.



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2. Photoria


An ideal wordpress theme for posting photos. This simple and quite elegant theme is ideal for photo blog.




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3. Interstaller - Responsive Theme


Interstaller is a slideshow enabled theme. Its responsive design is ideal from platforms starting from computer\laptop, tablet to mobile. This theme is also compatible with all the major browsers.




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4. Realty - Responsive Theme


Realty is a powerful Wordpress Theme. This theme is also fully responsive from desktop to mobile phones. It has different inbuilt features such as property management, slideshow, custom taxonomies, advanced filters, contact form and Google maps integration. This theme is most suitable  for the Real Estate business.




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5. Channel


Channel is an elegant wordpress theme. Its layout is quite compact. This theme is cross-browser compatible.




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6. Fashionpress


Fashionpress is another theme from theme-junkie.com. It is simple but elegant in nature.





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7. Chooko Lite - Responsive Theme


Chooko is a sweet, colorful and responsive premium WordPress Theme. It is ideal for  personal, fashion, beauty or cooking oriented blogs and creative websites! This theme also has responsive design..




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8. My Money


This blue and white color theme has simple business class theme. It is a perfect solution for business , economists etc.





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9. Oxygen - Responsive Theme


Oxygen is a professional magazine theme with responsive layout for enhanced mobile browsing experience. This template has been built on well known Hybrid Core Framework.




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10. Playbook


Playbook is a traditional WordPress theme with a dual column post layout, a fully responsive design.




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Thursday, 25 July 2013

Mount Fuji is now available in Google 360 degree view

If you have been long craving for climbing on to Mount Fuji of Japan, but could never get a chance to fulfil your dream, you can now have a taste of the same in your own laptop. Google map’s 360 degree view is now available for Mount Fuji. So, now you can climb all 3776 meter of Mount Fuji with Google and cherish the beauty of Mount Fuji from the comfort of your home.



Photo credit - Goki

Mount Fuji is the most famous mountain of the Japan, which is located on Honshu Island. It is the highest mountain of Japan and one of the three holy mountains of Japan along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. Mount Fuji’s symmetrical cone shaped peak remains snow-capped several months of a year. After this mountain has become a cultural world heritage site, lots of tourists are expected to throng here. And it is one of the reasons that Google came out with its 360 view for Mount Fuji. Thanks to the Google’s street view team, who has put an outstanding effort to capture the street view of this Mountain. The street view has been mainly captured through camera in trekker backpack. There are approximately 14,000 panoramic view of the mountain, which is hitherto not seen by most of the eyes in the world. The street view covers the famous Yoshida trail, which is mainly the way to the peak for the hikers.


The most popular period of climbing the Mount Fuji is from July to August. So, even if you will not be able to get time in this summer, just sit back and enjoy the panoramic view in your monitor through Google’s 360 degree street view.

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Save Money with Adobe Lean Print



With the increasing cost of life, everyone is trying hard for cost cutting, whether it is an individual or an organisation.  As a person, you may not be a heavy user of a printer, but daily thousands of papers are getting printed in office. Many of these print-outs are just for temporary purpose e.g. to distribute as hand-outs or just utilised as use and throw. Adobe has come out with an innovative idea “lean print”, where you can cut off much of your printing cost while you print such materials.


How does Lean Print Work


Lean print works on different areas to cut down the printing cost. It works with Microsoft Office, Adobe acrobat and all major browsers. Adobe lean print works in two different modes i.e. Toner Saver and Super Saver. The toner saver prints in original format and only saves toner. In the toner saver mode, it optimizes the colour e.g. colour of the graph and saves the toner. Whereas, the super saver mode prints in optimized layout and saves both paper and the toner. The super saver mode may reformat your content in multi-column format without compromising the readability of the content and optimized the space required for printing.  It may also change the font for an optimized printing.

With web pages, Lean Print is very effective. Its intelligent system can identify the original content that is required to be printed and gets rid of banner, menu, advertisement in the sidebar etc. If there are multiple articles, it can detect that as well and print only the content in interest. As an illustration, if you normally print the home page of universal-post.com, it comes as below.



However, if you print it using Lean Print (see below), the print comes as below. It also shows that the lean print saves closely 3 pages and 87% of the toner. The saving is equivalent to $0.48.


Overall, the Lean Print is a great innovation and an excellent tool to save money and more importantly a way to save trees by saving paper and toner.

Lean Print is available in three modes i.e. Enterprise Edition, Small Business Edition, Individual Edition. You can download the free trial version from Adobe website.  The Lean print tool also provides a dashboard, which helps you to track your savings.


 Featured Photo - Laurel And Hardy © Copyright Stephen McCulloch and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence 

Friday, 19 July 2013

50 High PR free article submission sites

One of the very effective link building services is to share your article in other popular websites. These websites being popular and having high page rank, draws good number of traffic. By submitting your link, you can place a backlink to your website. Also, if the content is of high quality, you will get popularity. Below you can find out some high page rank free article submission sites, where you can submit your article.


Free Article Submission Sites - PR 7


1. itmanagersjournal.com
2. thewhir.com
3. webknowhow.net
4. webpronews.com

Free Article Submission Sites - PR 6


5. articlecity.com
6. selfgrowth.com
7. slashdot.com
8. articlesbiz.com
9. buzzle.com
10. ezinearticles.com
11. helium.com
12. meneame.net
13. threadwatch.org
14. webmasterbrain.com

Free Article Submission Sites - PR 5


15. a1articles.com
16. allmerchants.com
17. articlealley.com
18. articleblast.com
19. articledashboard.com
20. articledepot.co.uk
21. articlesnatch.com
22. articleworld.net
23. bukisa.com
24. free-articles-zone.com
25. marketing-seek.com
26. searchwarp.com

Free Article Submission Sites - PR 4


27. abcarticledirectory.com
28. articlebin.com
29. articleclick.com
30. articlegeek.com
31. articlemarketer.com
32. articlemonkeys.com
33. articlesfactory.com
34. businesshighlight.org
35. carolinaarticles.com
36. e-articles.info
37. expertarticles.com
38. goarticles.com
39. ideamarketers.com
40. members.article99.com
41. seoarticles4u.com
42. submityourarticle.com
43. workathomearticles.net

Free Article Submission Sites - PR 3


44. amazines.com
45. article-buzz.com
46. articlerich.com
47. articlewarehouse.com
48. media13.com
49. reprintedarticles.com

Free Article Submission Sites - PR 2


50. article-spot.com

Photo credit -  Bertil Videt (Wiki)

Thursday, 11 July 2013

Things You must know about Link Building service




When we initially launch a website, many people take help of link building service to generate huge number of backlinks. But have you ever wondered how do the Link Building Service companies create thousands of backlinks with in short span of time? If you have thought, you may become skeptical and do some research on their mode of operation.

There are number of reputed SEO companies. They might be having their own business agenda to generate backlinks, which is not known to the outside world. However, when you go for a cheap service, you need to be very careful about the way they are building backlinks for your website.

There are good numbers of services, which create backlinks manually, mostly through comments.  Even, you can hire people, who can create backlinks for you at a very cheap rate. Some SEO companies have automated the process of creating backlinks. But be aware that in the last change of Google’s algorithm, all the websites, which have spams comments, have been heavily penalized.

There are also SEO companies, which make use of tools that are available in the market freely. Three popular tools that are being used by many Link Building Service companies are given below
Xrumer – This tool can downloaded from http://www.botmasterlabs.net/xrumer/. Xrumer is pretty costly software, which costs $650 + $10 subscription per month. Xrumer activity is based on posting in forums. This program automatically registers in the forums and then log in and post a message with your website link.  It has special feature through which it can bypass any anti-spamming software. It also logs in through different proxy and hence avoids being blocked through an IP checker.


Scrape Box – Scrape Box activity is based on commenting in blogs. You can download this software from http://www.scrapebox.com/. It finds out site from Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. based on your keyword (same niche). Then it pings those sites. It can also automatically comment on all these sites on your behalf. Scrape Box uses proxy and hence can’t be blocked by using a single IP. Scape Box is much cheaper than Xrumer and is available for only $97.


Senuke – They claim themselves as World’s first cloud source link building system.  According to SenukeXcr team, it can create user id, blogs, articles, social bookmarks etc. in thousands of websites linking back to your website. The link building can be based on the keyword that you provide to SenukeXcr. SenukeXcr has two formats i.e. SenukeXcr Lite and SenukeXcr. SenukeXcr Lite costs you $67/month and the charge for SenukeXcr is $147/month. Both the formats are available with 14 days free trial period. The product can be downloaded from http://www.senuke.com/xcr/.


Some good SEO companies go for marketing routes to build backlinks to your site. This route may be much cleaner and comfortable for you.

So, next time you opt for a link building service, dig deep on modus operandi of the company. It should not backfire you and your website is penalized by Google.

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Content Marketing Strategy For Your Blog

There are good number of blogs in the market, i.e. Web-market. The reason may be its high potential to earn, combined with low cost of start. You spend few dollars to own a domain and another few dollars to pay your hosting service provider. However, there are many blogs, which end up with a frustration of not attracting substantial traffic to their site. The main reason behind it is poor quality content and an absence of proper content marketing strategy.

What is content marketing? You need not to have a management of business administration degree to figure out the primary factor of any successful marketing. Yes, it is one of the many “P”s in marketing, the PRODUCT. In online blogging business, you are selling your product and your product is nothing but your blog content. Whatever excellent design you have for your site; whatever excellent strategy you adopt, you will not be able to survive without quality content.  Though, quality content doesn’t do any good, unless you have proper content marketing strategy.

Your blog readers are your customer and you need to sell your content to them. You may adopt different avenues to attract your customers through proper content marketing strategy.


Drive Traffic through search engines


First and foremost important way to route your customer is through search engine. Though there are number of search engines available in the market, Google is the major one followed by Bing and Yahoo. You have to target these three search engines at the least. To drive traffic from the search engines you must apply proper search engine optimization (SEO) technique. SEO itself is a very big topic and always changing to be in sync with the change of Google’s algorithm. To adopt SEO, you can go through different articles (including few posted here under category SEO) and then act accordingly. If you don’t have enough time or not comfortable in optimizing, you can engage some organization, which can help you in SEO. Additionally, you should update your blog frequently and submit your sitemap to all these search engines. Nowadays, Bing and Yahoo share the same webmaster.



Content marketing through social media


The social platform is becoming more important in the area of communication. Facebook is the major social platform, followed by Tweet, Linked In, Google+ etc. Where, people join this social platform to keep in touch with their acquaintances, the other objective is to keep oneself updated in all the areas of his\her interest. In facebook, you can have your personal or business page, which can serve as a platform for content marketing. You can invite your acquaintances to join your page and can gain publicity through this platform. Similar facility is also available in many other social platforms e.g. Tweet, Linked In, Google +, Scoop etc.  With social media in limelight and gaining importance continuously, you cannot ignore this avenue of content marketing.


Viral Marketing


Viral marketing has got lots of popularity of late. But what is viral marketing? Suppose, you have said something interesting to one of your friends. He liked it and told it to his fiancée. And his fiancée liked it so much, she told it to all her friends. And this chain messaging keeps on going and spread it like a virus. This also holds true for your blog as well. If you can engage your customer, it is always possible that they share your post with his friends. Many people experienced fabulous result, when they successfully implement viral marketing.  Many bloggers provide “Give Away”, to “viral market” their content. So, you need to always have the Share button for the popular Social Medias next to your post. If, you are using any ready-made blogging platform Blogger, Wordpress etc, they already have the share button embedded next to your article. Otherwise, you may always have these buttons through some Plugins (Wordpress) or extension (Joomla).


Campaign


In the initial days, when you are not known to many people, you may need some publicity. As it is true for any product, it is also true for your website. Campaign always drives traffic to your site but you need to shell out some money for the same. You can have banner, advertisement block or just simple text to publicize your blog. You can opt to show these advertisements in whatever websites you want. But, it is always recommended to go for the sites aligned to your niche. We do have popular websites and also NOT so popular websites. Where the popular websites charge you more, they will be having very good traffic.  You need to keep a balance in the money that you are paying and the publicity that you gain through these websites. You also need to consider different options through which these websites charge you. There are fixed chargeable banner or pay per click or embedded text mode. Weigh between different options and check which will be most beneficial for you.

So which content marketing strategy has turned out to be most effective for you?

Photo courtesy Geoff Livingston

Monday, 8 July 2013

Free directory submission list for improved SEO

Want to improve SEO for your site? Then, you should explore all the avenues to an improved SEO. One of the easy options to strengthen your SEO is submitting your website url in many SEO friendly directory submission websites. All these websites work in different modes e.g. Paid. Free, Reciprocal. In the paid mode option, these websites allow you to submit your url for a fee and then place the link at a prominant place, where it is easily visible. In case of reciprocal mode, you are required to provide a backlink to the given site from your own website. Sometime, these websites provide you an option against a fee to deep-link your website. Deep linking means linking a searchable (indexed) page in your website, other than the homepage.


Below, you can find out free directory submission list. You can make use of this list to submit your website url and strengthen your site SEO.


Directory Submission List - PR 7


www.dmoz.org
www.traveltourismdirectory.net

financebuster.com

Directory Submission List - PR 6


www.scrubtheweb.com

highrankdirectory.com

siteswebdirectory.com

Directory Submission List - PR 5


www.abc-directory.com
www.amray.com
www.bible-history.com
www.blog-directory.org
www.blogeintrag.de
www.bloghints.com
www.canadawebdir.com
www.littlewebdirectory.com

www.teomankanyonda.com

bestseodirectory.net

Directory Submission List - PR 4


www.247webdirectory.com
www.321webmaster.com
www.a2zwebindex.com
www.amidalla.com
www.anybrowser.com
www.aoldir.com
www.blogdire.com
www.cipinet.com
www.completeonlinedirectory.com
www.ct-info.com
www.cyberwebsearch.com
www.digabusiness.com
www.ehealthdirectory.eu
www.femina.com
www.infotiger.com
www.marketinginternetdirectory.com

ezsearch.co.za 

gmdir.com

fishhoo.com

indiabook.com

hitwebdirectory.com

intelseek.com

freewebsitedirectory.com

directoryvault.com

diroo.org 

wldirectory.com

howtosubmiturl.com

nexusdirectory.com

eslovar.com
freetoprankdirectory.com

Directory Submission List - PR 3


www.allshops.com
www.blog-collector.com
www.cluboo.com
www.companiesindia.com
www.concasida2010.org
www.cryptcrawl.com
www.devoteclub.com
www.directory.pr-club.net
www.freelinksdirectory.net
www.onemilliondirectory.com

haabaa.ro

homepageseek.com

add2directories.com
technewscast.org
gp32wip.com
pushba.com
theloudonroom.com
pxdaj.com
featuredwebdirectory.com
bocaiw.net
hydeparkbooks.com
generalwebdirectory.org
linkdir4u.com
sites-plus.com
links.scrabblestop.com
vipdig.com
gaidso.com
seodeeplinks.net

Directory Submission List - PR 2


www.a-directory.net
www.bazsites.com
www.ccwos.com
www.cityplanweb.com
www.clayne.com
www.eastasiadirectory.com
www.ecool100.com
www.zoock.net

Directory Submission List - PR 1


www.agaccess.com

Directory Submission List - PR 0


www.a3place.com
www.abstractdirectory.net
www.acedirectory.org
www.activdirectory.net
www.adbritedirectory.com
www.addgoodsites.com
www.alive-directory.com
www.bedirectory.com
www.bestdirectory4you.com
www.clicksordirectory.com
www.crrv.org
www.crssdi.com
www.estateaddurl.com
www.hotdirectory.net
www.keywordaddurl.com
www.one-sublime-directory.com
www.openwebdirectories.com
www.polypat.org
www.seorapidshare.com
www.seowebdirectories.com
www.submissionwebdirectories.com
www.virtualwebdirectories.com

productsaddurl.com

bestbuydir.com

esiq.org


10 more directory submission list - updated as on 23-Jul-13


advancedseodirectory.com - PR 0

aweblist.org -PR 0

beegdirectory.com - PR 0

documentosbinarios.com - PR 0

ebay-dir.com - PR 0

exospy.com - PR 3

familydir.com - PR 0

huludirectory.com - PR 0

imdirectory.com - PR 0

linkedin-directory.com - PR 0

16 more directory submission list - updated as on 10-Aug-13 - Follow Color Code


More directory submission list - updated as on 20-Aug-13 (Follow Color Code)

Saturday, 6 July 2013

The most useful backlinks checker tools

It's imperative that you keep up your site's reputation. So, it is not enough to have quality posts, but in parallel, you also do need to have quality backlinks. But, while you try to build your backlinks, you need to be extra careful. With Google's new algorithm, many websites got penalized, because of backlinks originating from junk sites, porn sites. Thus, it is no more a good idea to pay some cheap service provider to get thousands of backlinks origination from some worthless sites. As you understand, building backlink has become tougher than ever. We will see here, how we can make use of some of the backlinks checker tools.

To build backlink, one of the simple and easiest ways is to follow some good website in your niche. The high rank quality websites have good number of backlinks. You can figure out from where these websites are getting its backlinks through some backlinks checker tools. Once, you get the list of backlink originating site, you can start building backlinks for your website as well.

Now, let us see how we can check backlink for your competitor website. There are number of backlinks checker facility available in the web.

Open Site Explorer - Open site explorer is the most popular backlink checking tool. You can use it without registering in the site; however there are some usage restrictions, in case you are not registered. You just need to enter the domain name and it will show you the details.



Backlink Watch - Another good service to check backlinks. I often use their service to track newly added backlinks and deleted backlinks.

Ahrefs: Believe that this is the same as the Backlink Watch.

Alexa: Alexa has recently started providing only five backlinks to any website. In case, you want to know the entire list, you have to subscribe Alexa Pro.

Link Diagnosis: To see the full list of backlinks, you have to use Mozilla and install an extension provided by them.



SEO Spy glass: They have a free desktop version. If you use their desktop version, you will be able to see, how your competitors are really faring for a particular keyword. You can also enter a keyword for your website and check what is the average rank of your site pertaining to the key word in different search engines.



iWebtool : This is another website, which provides online backlink checking facility. However, their database isn't very exhaustive.

Build reciprocal link: Another back link checker tool, which is bit outdated.

Ranks.nl: This is basically keyword density and prominence analyzer. You need to sign up in this site to check the complete list of incoming links.

SEO Attack: I like this site as it provides the incoming and outgoing link information for each post\article. Apart from the backlink information, you get little other information like number of tweets, facebook share etc. post-wise.  I found this service very helpful. Here also, you need to register to get the full details.

Rank Signals: The information is very concise. It provides the backlink information with "nofollow" information and anchor test.


Dig Backlink: Another website, which provides backlink information. However, in few scenarios, I found that the backlink information is not complete.

Majestic SEO: Majestic SEO is a popular name in the world of SEO. They have backlink checker tool. However, if you want to get the details of backlinks other than your website, you have to subscribe one of their plans.

Thursday, 4 July 2013

How to migrate from Joomla to Wordpress

Are you planning to migrate from Joomla to Wordpress but worried about the migration process. Well, you need not worry much; now we have a very reliable plug in for Wordpress, which can help you to do this migration. As we have recently moved from Joomla to Wordpress, we will walk you through the migration process step by step.



1. First of all, you need to take a complete back up of your Joomla site. Copy or take a local back up of the file systems. I generally use FileZilla to copy the files in my local drive. FileZilla is a free tool and quite reliable. You can download it from https://filezilla-project.org/download.php

2. Once, you take a file system backup, you need to take a back up of the database. If you are using mySql, log in to phpMyadmin and export the database. The file system and database back up can be restored back in case you mess up something.

3. Next, you need to install Wordpress. In many hosting services, Wordpress is readily available or you can install it yourself. Otherwise, you may have to put a service request for the installation of Wordpress.

4. Once installed and configured, login to Wordpress as admin and go to Plug In. Now in the Add menu, search for a Plug In called "FG Joomla to Wordpress". Once, you find the "Plug In" in the serach result, install it and activate it.

5. Now go to Tool-->Import. You will be able to see one option called "Joomla(FG)". Click on this and you will be able to see a form requiring different parameters for Joomla import. Enter all the parameters correctly and then click on "Test the Connection" to test connectivity to Joomla database.


6. Once, the test connection is through, you can move to the second section to set up some behavioural parameters. In Media section, you can opt for "Skip Media" in case you are planning to copy the media files manually.


7. Now click on "Import content from Joomla to Wordpress" to import the content from Joomla.

8. Once the Joomla content is imported, click on "Modify Internal Links". Once, the links are modified, you may want to check all the internal links manually or through some "Plug In", whether they are broken or not.


Once, everything is complete, you may want to verify few pages at random to check everything is coming proper. We have experienced that some of the images were not linked properly. It may be because of the fact that Joomla and Wordpress store images at diffent location and hence during import there was some mess up.

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Figure out Facebook Unfriend the easy way



Facebook is an enormous platform for socialization. We always add friends in Facebook to expand our social circle. However, there are chances that you lose facebook friends intermittently. If you track number of friends, you can have an idea, if any of your friends unfriend you. However, if you have good number of friends, it will be difficult to find out exactly who has unfriended you. Unfortunately, facebook also does not provide any option to figure out facebook unfriend list.

There is a facebook application that can be real handy to find out who unfriended you. You can download this extension from http://www.unfriendalerts.com/.  This is compatible with Internet Explorer 7 and above, Firefox and Chrome.  Once you install facebook unfriend extension, it will ask your permission to access your public profile and friend list. Once you provide the permission, it starts functioning. Unfriend alerts check your friends list every hour to see who has unfriended you, and then automatically alerts you about any changes.


After installing facebook unfriend extension, you can just continue using the Facebook as usual. You can see the facebook unfriend alert icon beside your account name. Now, if someone unfriend you, you will get a notification. Even if someone deletes his profile, you will be getting an unfriend notification.


Social Bookmarking sites - A list you can make use of

There are many ways that you can create backlink to your site.  One of the ways is to publish your article or provide article snippet in another reputed website and provide a link back to your site. Sometime, we call it social bookmarking sites. There are good number of sites, which will allow you to publish your article and link back to your site. The good part in this kind of back-linking is that if the article is of high quality, the author can build his popularity. I am enlisting below some bookmarking sites with high page rank. Digg is such a popular website, which has high page rank and very high traffic. Though, it is bit difficult to get a place in such website, if you can manage it, you will be able drive heavy traffic from digg. Thus having your article published in a high PR, heavy traffic site has three benefits a) It helps you to improve your page rank b) Author of high quality page gets popularity and c) Heavy traffic flow.  The below listed book marking sites are mostly doFollow sites and hence you will get the benefit of link building as well.



Sl No.Social Bookmarking SitesGoogle Page Tank
1http://citelike.org8
2http://delicious.com
3http://digg.com
4http://mixx.com
5http://reddit.com
6http://slashdot.org
7http://stumbleupon.com
8http://technorati.com
9http://weheartgossip.com
10http://bibsomony.org7
11http://designfloat.com
12http://diggo.com
13http://fark.com
14http://metafilter.com
15http://newsvine.com
16http://squidoo.com
17http://bizsugar.com6
18http://blinklist.com
19http://blogmarks.net
20http://clipmarks.com
21http://current.com
22http://dzone.com
23http://folkd.com
24http://hotklix.com
25http://icio.de
26http://jumptags.com
27http://kwoff.com
28http://pusha.se
29http://smallbusinessbrief.com
30http://sphinn.com
31http://svejo.net
32http://wikio.com
33http://buddymarks.com5
34http://designbump.com
35http://dropjack.com
36http://fwisp.com
37http://gabr.com
38http://givealink.org
39http://haohaoreport.com
40http://japansoc.com
41http://japundit.com
42http://linktab.co.uk
43http://netvouz.com
44http://newsmeback.com
45http://searchles.com
46http://shetoldme.com
47http://social-bookmarking.net
48http://swik.net
49http://tagza.com
50http://tipd.com
51http://wirefan.com
52http://youblr.com
53http://youmob.com