How to increase blog ranking

Posted On 2/28/2011 by Mark Jue Comments

Blog ranking is very important for a blog or a website that mainly for marketing purpose. It can make your blog or website famous in the search engine, hence, drive more traffic to your niche. Every blogger eager to have an enormous traffic to their blog, in order to generate more revenue for their Google Adsense and other Pay-per-click (PPC) ads.

How to increase your blog ranking?

1. Register  your site on alexa.

First of all, go to the alexa.com and sign up for an account or navigate directly with your Facebook account. After you have done registering your account and successfully log in, then you need to go to the Site Tool menu bar.

After that you need to claim your site by typing your blog address:

Then you’ll be directed to next page, which is the first option you need to download the text file and upload it to the blog directory (If your blog is self hosted). Finally, you need to “verify my text file”.

The second option is the best for the blogger platform. You just need to add the meta tag to the homepage of your blog. All you need to do:

  1. Open your blogger dashboard on new tab or window in your browser
  2. Go to design
  3. Edit html
  4. Paste the code between the opening <head> tag and the closing </head> tag of the HTML
  5. Save your template
  6. Go back to alexa site, and “verify my meta tag”

alexa

You should wait several days before your site will be approved. The important part is, you must download the alexa toolbar and install it on your browser. After that, set up your blog address as your homepage in your default browser. Trust me, this easiest hack, will work to increase your blog ranking in alexa.

Other than that, you must update your blog regularly, because alexa will produce a statistic about your blog, similar to Google Analytic.

 

2. Increase Google Page Rank

Google page rank is very important, as it will push your site to the front page of the google search if your site has the higher page rank and the user search something related to your blog entries. In this case of course keywords that you’re using are very important. Use unique keywords as your blog title.

I will give tips to increase your page rank on the go:

  • Link your related previous posts with your new blog entry
  • You blog should have various incoming links from other blogs or websites.

Many successful bloggers use these techniques to increase their Google page rank, then why you feel hesitate? Try to apply these info in your new blog entry, and you’ll see your Google page rank may increase. 


 

PC platform- FIFA 11 January transfer updates.

Posted On 2/26/2011 by Mark Jue Comments

Good news and bad news for FIFA 11 PC gamers. The completed January transfer updates will be released later than the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles. Approximately, PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers can get the update starting on Wednesday 23 February at 5pm GMT. For the PC platform, you should be patience because it will be delivered to your computer sooner or later.
To access the updates:
  1. Run FIFA 11 on your platform
  2. Enter My FIFA 11
  3. Edit Teams
  4. Squad
  5. Download the  updates
  6. Done
Of course you can find Torres wear the number 9 jersey on Chelsea's squad. Other than that, Liverpool’s big signing Andy Carroll and Suarez will be available, although he (Andy Carroll) does not make any debut yet.   forget about Edin Dzeko, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Ronaldinho. Every single of them will be available on Manchester City, Real Madrid and Flamengo.
What are you waiting for, Hurry up!!! Download the updates and feel the difference and the realism by playing FIFA 11 on your console. For PC FIFA 11 gamers, don’t feel down, you can download it too, just wait. 


 

Three categories of software

Posted On 2/25/2011 by Mark Jue Comments

Software can be classified into many categories. Can you define all its categories? Of course you have been familiar with the term Shareware, Adware, Freeware, but sometimes when you’re downloading a software, it allows you to try it for 15 days only!  very annoying. Why this is happening? Yes, because you’re downloading Shareware software.

What about a software that embeds ads on it. You hate them as much you hate spam. I can imagine your  feeling, but you must accept it because you have installed an adware software into your computer. Below is the clear definition about those types of software:

Shareware:

You can download this software from the internet. The user is permitted to use the program for free, but for a limited period, commonly for fifteen days or thirty days. This is what we call a trial time. At the end of the trial period, you must purchase the software in order to use it, otherwise you should uninstall the software.

The justification of shareware is to give buyers the opportunity to use the program and assess its usefulness before purchasing a license for the full version.

The examples of shareware software are. Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, WinZIp, and TuneUp Utilities.

kaspersky

Freeware:

This type if software also can be downloaded from the internet. The good news is, it’s free of charge. Hence you can use it permanently without  any trial period and no need to spend a penny.

The author of the Freeware typically limited to one or more users' rights, including rights to copy, distribute, modify and create derivative works of the software or derive source code.

CCleaner, Recuva, and Defraggler are the Freeware software produced by Piriform company.

ccleaner

Adware:

Adware or advertising supported software is any software that automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer. These ads may be in the form of a pop-up. User must view and cannot disable the ads as it violated the license agreement of the Adware.

The purpose of adware is to generate revenue for its author. Adware, by itself, is harmless, some adware may be bundled with spyware embedded as keyloggers and other invasive programs.

You can download these three types of software on Tucows, Filehippo, Cnet, Zdnet. Want to receive more info about software, subscribe to my feed or my newsletter.


 

2 Alternatives comment system for a blog

Posted On 2/24/2011 by Mark Jue Comments

Why you should migrate from the ordinary blogger comment system to these two new comment systems? I mean you cannot install both on your blog, but you must choose either one that you think perfectly match with your blog template  and style.

Have you ever heard about InstenseDebate or Disqus before? Now, this is the right time to take care about it in order to enhance your blog comment interface. For your information, these two comment systems are compatible with other blog platforms too. So, If you are using other than blogger platforms such as tumblr, wordpress and typad, you can consider  my opinion too to overwrite your default comment system.

INTENSEDEBATE

intensedebate

If you’re intending to install customizable comment system and has many features you should consider to install IntenseDebate. In addition, this comment system offers you:

1. Log in to comment by using:

  • Open ID
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Wordpress
  • IntenseDebate

2. Useful Plugins embedded on comment such as:

  • CommentLuv
  • Facebook Share – Comments
  • AddThis
  • Google Buzz This
  • YouTube Embedded Video

For a Demo, you can view this blog comment as it uses IntenseDebate

DISQUS

disqus

Disqus provides all the features as IntenseDebate. For examples, realtime comment system, notification and reply system. Other than that, Disqus supports  Gravatar likes InstenseDebate,  but also incorporates the best for your blog CSS as Disqus try to use the same colours of your blog does. You can also define custom CSS for it.

View Demo – Engadget use it as its user comment system..

Last but not least, IntenseDebate and Disqus provide automated installation for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, MovableType, TypePad. Hence you don’t need any expertise to hack your blog template to install these two comment systems.


 

Broadband bandwidth info

Posted On 2/24/2011 by Mark Jue Comments

Nowadays, broadband users have increased rapidly. Hence, the carrier companies try their best to compete with each other. As a result, people will gain the benefit as they can make a suitable choice about the data package  and the internet connection speed that have been offered based on their internet usage daily.

Many users don't know about the jargon which is  bandwidth. To make certain things clear, you must know this term first, because  it will affect the data package that you will subscribe later.

BANDWIDTH

Bandwidth means the frequency range of the high frequency signal component to the lowest. The most common context in which the bandwidth term is used today involves computer networks. Internet bandwidth refers specifically to a data transfer rate. The rate of data transfer involves the amount of information can be transmitted from a point A to point B within a specified period. Bandwidth is usually measured in a bits per second, known as bps.

The more bandwidth allocated, the faster your data transfer speed will be and the speed of your broadband connection will be increased. Plus, you need to know that, when a computer is to download and upload a lot of information, it uses a lot of bandwidth. Moreover,  when one computer connected and using bandwidth, the broadband connection and speed fully optimized.

In conclusion, Before you want to choose a broadband with certain bandwidth, you must know how often you’re using internet connection in a day, and what for? Is it for streaming movies, downloading music, movies and software? If it is so, you must subscribe for the broadband with the bigger bandwidth and faster speed as it will give you a sigh of relief and satisfaction.

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Five criteria of a good blog template

Posted On 2/22/2011 by Mark Jue Comments

A blog without  an eye-catchy template is no good for a devote blogger. Why template is so important? In a matter of fact, template is one of the trigger reasons or a factor why visitors will keen to read your writing. This is because your blog is not irritating their eyes, in fact, it is easy to read, and they will get your content points better. If you’re a serious blogger, of course you will hire someone to design your blog. What about for a newbie blogger? Definitely, they don’t want to spend their money for nothing.

No matter what type of blog platforms that you’re using, there are numerous of free templates that had been created by kind-hearted people. Your job is easy, Google and download the template that you think suitable with your style. Be careful, do not use a template that you think is very nice to your blog. You must know something, if you think that your template is good enough, it doesn’t mean that people will love it too. You must know these criteria before downloading and set up a template for your blog:

  • Type of layout
  • Background
  • Fonts
  • Colours
  • Additional features

1. TYPE OF LAYOUT

Usually  layouts that famous for the bloggers are two columns layout and three columns layout. As a blogger, you must define what type of layout that suitable with you. For example, If you’re planning to place more widgets in your blog, you better choose three columns layout as it provides more spaces to install those handy widgets.

2. BACKGROUND

After you have decided the type of layout, the second question that you must ask yourself is, What is the background design for my template? Decide whether you want a clean background or beautiful image as your background. If you don’t want to mess your visitor sight, you should choose a clean background. It is okay to choose a colourful background, but make sure it is not too obvious. This may disrupt your visitors from reading your blog contents.

3. FONTS

After you have done choosing a perfect layout with suitable background, the third thing you must consider is the fonts that the template will use. Don’t worry, usually, we can preview the template first for every site that provides downloadable free templates. Hence you can see the font type, it sizes, and it properties. You must choose the template that its font is clear enough to be read, the size is medium, and its properties are suitable. For examples, For the blog title, the font must be bolded to make it standouts from the content points.

4. COLOURS

When we talk about colours, it can be colours for the fonts and colours for the background image. In some cases, the designer of the template has fixed some colour to the template fonts, especially for the blog post title. Make sure it is different  colour with your background, thus it must be contrast with the background colour or image.

5. ADDITIONAL FEATURES

A custom made template usually comes with some built-in widgets, for examples blog archive, Facebook like button, page navigation and so on. Sometimes a custom made template doesn’t include it. In conclusion, you must do a lot of research to find what is the template provides that suit your need.