Thursday, December 28, 2006

Top 5 Ways To Increase Your Google Page Rank.

Page rank this word really hurts sometime but still if your website is ranked by google things fall in place quite easily for you as compared to others.After a long research on google page rank and going through a lot of articles by some professional bloggers,websites I prepared a note on google page rank and that's what i have listed out here.

Google Page rank is based on back links. Back links are Links pointing to your website from another website. The more back links you have the higher your PR will be.

1. Join forums, forums are a great way to achieve links to your website. In most forums you are allowed to have a signature and in your signature you can put a link to your website. But another important note to look on is making sure the forum is somewhat related to your website. You will still get credit if it's not, but if it's related to your website than you will be accomplishing two tasks at once.

You will be advertising for your website (bringing in targeted traffic) You will also be building your websites presence. Your websites presence is very important to your survival.

The more people see, or hear about your website the more credibility you will have and this increases your chances of having these visitors come back and possibly become leads.

2. Submit to search engine directories. Search engine directories are a good way to get a free link to your website. They also increase your chances at being listed higher on popular search engines like Google, and overture.

Most search engine directories allow you to submit to their website for free. This will allow you to increase your web presence by being listed on another search engine, and it will also be a free link.

Remember the more links you have the higher your PR will be

3. Using ezine ads (or newsletters). Creating an ezine will probably be the most beneficial step you can take to increasing your web presence. When you create an ezine you will be able to keep visitors coming back to your website for more by using signatures and giving special deals.

Ezine's will also allow you to increase your back links. By creating an ezine you can submit your information about your ezine to an ezine directory. This directory will than link to your website(thus giving you a free link).

4. Creating and publishing articles. Articles are an easy source of generating new traffic. You can include your signature in your article. This will bring in more traffic from article submission directories.

Your signature usually consists of 4 to 8 lines. Usually the first line would be the title of the website that you are trying to advertise. The last line would be the link to the website and the lines in between these would be a sales pitch to draw your viewers into your website

5. Links from related websites. Gaining links from related websites can be one of the most frustrating tasks you can attempt.

They are very easy to find, but can be somewhat difficult to obtain links from.

To find related websites, all you have to do is go to a search engine... say Google... and type in your subject. Maybe your website is based on ford mustangs.

You go to Google and type in ford mustangs, than you look around for pages that are somewhat related to your website. After you have done this (which should be very easy) you have to contact them in some way to get your link posted on their website. This can be the most difficult task because a lot of webmasters ignore e-mail's from people requesting links because they don't see the importance of it at the time. Some other reasons could be that they are rarely online, or they delete spam mail and sometimes delete their important emails in the process.

Important note: When looking for link partners don't just link with websites that have a page rank of 4 or higher. Link with anyone and everyone you get a chance to. If you link to someone that has a page rank of zero, this will not hurt your page rank. It will only increase it because you are getting a link back to your website. Google doesn't look at your back links page ranks to determine what yours is going to be. It simply looks at how many back links you have.

So if Google one day decided to link to a website that was just created and this website has a page rank of 0 and has a domain that goes something like this: mywebsite.geocities.com it's page rank wouldn't increase even though Google's page rank is 10, it's rank would still be zero because it would only have that one back link.

Tips to help you stay safe online

There are now thought to be more than 200,000 malicious programs in existence - the vast majority of which are aimed at subverting Windows PCs.

These problem programs can arrive via e-mail, instant messenger, through your internet connection or even your web browser if you visit the wrong website. The threats are so numerous and appear so fast that Windows users must feel under siege.
While there is no doubt that attacks on PC users are getting more sophisticated, it is possible to avoid the vast majority of problems by taking some straight-forward steps and exercising some common sense.

If you are worried about your computer it is possible to scan it via the web to see if it is infected. Companies such as Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Microsoft all offer free scanning services.
Organisations such as the Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) also offer advice on how to set up a safe net connection.

ANTI-VIRUS

The first piece of security software every PC user needs is some anti-virus software. It must also be regularly updated to ensure it protects you against the latest threats.
One of the ways that virus writers try to catch out anti-virus software is by pumping out enormous numbers of variations of their malicious creations. Good anti-virus programs use heuristic techniques to spot viruses that have not been formally identified but have all the characteristics

Many PCs now come with anti-virus installed and though an annual subscription can seem expensive, it might be cheap when you consider how much it could save you if it stops your bank details being stolen

As well as retail versions of anti-virus there are now some free programs that do a good job of protecting you. Avira, Avast and AVG all produce free anti-virus software

Microsoft now sells a package of security programs but, so far, they are only available to US users

FIREWALL

A firewall is also an essential piece of security software for PC users. Newer versions of Windows XP have a firewall built in and this will give you protection against nuisance attacks and many of the more serious ones
However some people feel that the Windows XP firewall is a bit limited in its features. Many anti-virus programs have a firewall bundled with them.
There are free firewalls available too from firms such as Comodo and Zone Alarm

SPYWARE

Increasingly simply browsing the web can subject you to all kinds of dangers. Specially crafted websites can initiate so-called "drive-by downloads" that exploit weaknesses in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install programs you never asked for.
At best these will annoy you with pop-up ads, at worst they will let someone else take control of your PC. Anti-spyware software will help stop these taking hold and help you clean up your PC if you do get hit.
There are add-ons for browsers, such as McAfee's Site Advisor that warn you about potentially harmful sites. Also Google has now started warning when you are about to visit a potentially unsafe site. Search sites such as Scandoo will also flag sites loaded with malware

UPDATE

With Windows it is also important to keep your system up to date. Windows XP now regularly nags people about upgrades and Microsoft produces security patches on a monthly basis.
Microsoft recommends automatic updating so patches are downloaded and applied as soon as they become available. As the time between the announcement of a vulnerability and it being exploited is shrinking, it pays to act quickly

APPLE

Apple users who feel confident that they are invulnerable to attacks should also take steps to protect themselves.
While virus attacks are virtually unheard of, the platform can be subject to malware and adware.
The firewall on an Apple computer should be switched on and common sense regarding potential phishing attacks should be applied.

Vista security flaw blow to Microsoft

MICROSOFT'S security experts had an uneasy holiday break after a security flaw was discovered in Windows Vista, the software company's new operating system.

It was the first security flaw discovered since Vista's official release four weeks ago.
The flaw is a symbolic blow to Microsoft, which has spent 5 1/2 years developing Vista.

The software, which was launched two years later than originally planned, is the biggest upgrade to the operating system since the release of Windows 95 and Microsoft focused heavily on improving security.

The company confirmed the vulnerabilities, which were first reported by independent third parties, but pointed out that no malicious programs taking advantage of the flaws had yet appeared.

The flaw allows a user with standard system privileges to gain wider access to system tools and settings without the approval of a network administrator.

This potentially disables a key security feature of Vista but attackers would first need to gain access to a computer through some other means before exploiting the vulnerability.

A vulnerability in the new web browser Internet Explorer 7 was reported at the same time. Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoft's Security Response Centre, acknowledged on the company's security blog that it was "closely monitoring developments" over the Christmas period. "Of course these are preliminary findings and we have activated our emergency response process involving a multitude of folks who are investigating the issue in depth to determine the full scope and potential impact to Microsoft's customers," he wrote.

He added: "I still have every confidence that Windows Vista is our most secure platform to date", and said that as always, Microsoft encouraged users to take other security measures such as firewall, security updates, anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Finnish security company F-Secure, said the vulnerability was significant for being Vista's first since its launch, but was unlikely to be a big concern either to Microsoft or corporate users of Vista, because attackers would need to already have access to the system to take advantage of it.

However, he said said criminal gangs would inevitably increase their efforts on attacking Vista.
"Within a year or two, there could be tens of millions of computers running Vista, so there will be more attacks."
This was reported by -The Australian News Website.

The Most Useful Sites-III

Here i am back again with the next series of the most useful sites.Well i surely hope this list will help in being updated with the best websites around.

Reference

Wikipedia now dominates the reference side of the web, partly because its pages are ranked so highly in Google. It competes with the Encyclopedia Britannica, which isn't free. However, another traditional alternatives is the HighBeam Encyclopedia, which searches more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia

Applications

If you have tasks shared between people at different locations, it makes sense to access password-protected sets of work. That's where these come handy:

News

The BBC marches on at the front. The New York Times site is vast (though it has shut off some of its content behind a "paywall").

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

The Most Useful Sites-II

Here is the second series of the most useful sites-II.This series consist of the popular sites which have topped their category list by various means.

Video

The crowds are all over at YouTube, the poster child of online video. But it's not the only place to find video. And sites like brightcove and currenttv even let you start your own TV station

Blogs

The open-source and free software project Wordpress has risen to prominence, elbowing aside, many rivals with its blog creation, management and (importantly) spam-beating tools.

Virtual worlds

The key distinction from social sites like Myspace is that virtual worlds give you an avatar - your representation of yourself in the online world.

The Most Useful Sites-I

It's a wired world after all!
This statement just seems to be perfectly matching the current status of the world information technology.Undoubtedly 2006 has been the year of the social network.Myspace, YouTube, Facebook have been the outstanding success stories.

I am starting a new series of the most useful sites where i will provide the list of the sites who topped their category list on the basis of popularity and the tremendous buzz they created around in the world of internet users.

Gaming

There are far too many videogame new sites on the internet today; an aggregator like Gametab will help filter through to the best

Music

Microsoft's Being able to find stuff that's similar to music you like is increasingly important, both to listeners and to record companies trying to profit from niches.These sites are a goldmine

Networking

The browser has grown up: now it's the path to meeting people of similar interests and creating your own personal space online in a shared area

Monday, December 25, 2006

Wordpress Blog Pinging - List of Ping Services For Your Wordpress Blog

Pinging the blog directories is one of the most important ongoing tasks after listing your blog in the various directories. If you use Wordpress, you can add this list for automatic pinging after every post. Simply add the list in your admin under Options…Writing after scrolling to the bottom of the page.
The current default entry is http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

Tips to get your blog noticed

So here are 10 important tips to get your blog noticed:

  1. If you publish directly through wordpress then you can add this List of Ping Services for automatic pinging after every post. Simply add the list in your admin under Options…Writing after scrolling to the bottom of the page.
  2. Submit your blog to all of the directories listed on Pingomatic which allows you to ping a few services all at once.
  3. Submit your blog to Pingoat which allows you to ping over fifty blog ping services all at once.
  4. Submit your blog to all of the directores listed at RSS Feeds directory
  5. Sign up for My Yahoo & My MSN and add your blogs feed to your own "My Yahoo" & "My MSN" account. This will get your blog included in Yahoo & MSN very quickly.
  6. Sign up for Google Pages, and add add some content (non spam) and link to your blog. This will get your blog included in Google very quickly.
  7. Place a link to your blog in your signature, so that any posts to Forums & add your RSS feed( There are some forums which allow you to add the RSS feed of your blog which will be displayed in the Postbit Template), Outgoing Emails, etc, will promote your blog.
  8. Submit your good articles to Ezine Articles
  9. Locate blogs with a lot of traffic and place relevant comments in their comment box . Do not spam or place the ‘I like your site,visit mine’ type comments.
  10. And last, post quality content as often as possible.

Top 5 Free Google Tools For Bloggers

Google always provides various ways to encourage webmaster to use their services. Besides, search-oriented services, Google also has other services that will help webmasters. For example, Google Analytics helps webmasters to track websites’ traffic, Google Adsense helps webmasters to earn extra income, Google Trends helps webmasters to find a good niche…

Now, I am going to list out top 5 FREE Google tools which will help bloggers to improve their blogs. And, some of these tools also help to improve their search engine ranking too.

1. Google Adsense

Nowadays, almost every blogger will use Adsense Ads to monetize his/her blog. Google Adsense is so popular that it slowly becomes the main income source for almost every blogger. Even though there are still many other income sources for bloggers, Google Adsense is still the main core income for bloggers.

Google Adsense is a kind of contextual ads which means that it will only shows ads that are related to your contents. For example, if you are writing something about laws, it will only show ads that about laws. Through this way, Adsense Ads only could attract the maximum attention from your readers.

Google Adsense is a CPC( Cost Per Click) advertising program. This means that advertisers pay publisher money based on each clicking. The cost per keyword may range from USD100 to even USD0.01 each. So, you must be smart to target the most expensive keywords for your Adsense Ads.

Link: http://www.adsense.com/

2. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a FREE service provided by Google to track your traffic in your blog. It has various useful features that helps to improve users experience. For example, you can know where your visitors came from, how long they stayed on your website, and their geographical position. All of these information are displayed on a clean layout:



Besides that, you can also know which keywords help to bring the most visitors to your blog by using Google Analytics. This could help you to target on the keywords that you think that you have low rankings.

Link: http://analytics.google.com/

3. Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools let you see how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems Google is having accessing it. You can also learn which queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.



Besides, you can also tell Google about your pages: which ones are most important to you and how often they change. You can also let Google know how you would like the URLs Google index to appear. You can doing so by submitting your blog’s sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools. Actually, this helps to improve your search engine rankings in Google.

Link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

4. Google Trends

Google Trends help bloggers to choose a niche for their blog. It is a tool from Google Labs which shows the most popularly search terms from 2004 to now.
Google Trends shows you how popular a particular search term according to the search volume from various countries of the world, and in various languages.



Above is an example of Google Trends for the search term “blog”. The horizontal axis of the graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched relative to the total number of searches, globally.

As a blogger, you can use Google Trends to decide which keyword is best for you to target to attract more search engine traffic to your blog.

Link: http://www.google.com/trends

5. Google Alerts

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Google Alerts help you to monitor new web pages appear in the top twenty results for the search term you choose. Through this feature, you can know which competitors are competing for the same search term you target in Google Search Engine. Google Alerts will notify you with email once there is a new competitor for the search term you wish to monitor.

Link: http://www.google.com/alerts

Sunday, December 24, 2006

MyOtherDrive.com Gets Upgrade For Photos

Ohio firm, ByteRocket, has just released a major upgrade to its Web-based file sharing service, MyOtherDrive.com. The free 5GB hard drive with an Internet Explorer -style interface, now provides storage as well as the ability for users to share full size original photographs, music and videos, along with files and documents in PDF.

MyOtherDrive.com users may also use privacy settings, to specify who can access the files on their site. The portal allows its users to add their customized groups, or make all their content public. In addition, the 'invitation by email' feature, builds a "Friends" list out of the users’ social network. Users may also email out a hyperlink to others that lets them view pictures, even if they are not a member of MyOtherDrive.com.

The site runs as a Java applet, similar to the Microsoft Windows Explorer or ACDSee, which allows the user to create a folder "hierarchy" on one side of the screen, with a list of files on the right. Future enhancements to MyOtherDrive.com include more "social networking" features, such as blogging, photo/video tagging, and friends search.

BBC Offers Content on P2P Network, Zudeo

BBC Worldwide has announced that it will offer its popular, high-resolution British comedies and dramas, on a new P2P file sharing network, Zudeo.com. The BBC content, will be available on Zudeo’s’ new platform early next year.

According to the agreement with Zudeo’s parent company, Azureus, BBC Worldwide will license international television series, such as Red Dwarf, Strange and Invasion Earth, to users of Zudeo. Other titles include International Emmy award-winning, Little Britain, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, Keeping Up Appearances, League of Gentlemen and Ideal, among others. Additional content partnerships will be announced in the coming weeks.
Gilles BianRosa, CEO, Azureus said, "BBC Worldwide understands our commitment to providing consumers with a rich entertainment experience and our desire to offer quality content to our diverse global audience. We are thrilled to offer programming that encompasses such a robust fan base, as well as the opportunity to expose a new generation to cult favorites from BBC Worldwide catalog via our new entertainment platform."
Zudeo, a US based, legal P2P file sharing network, enables content providers to publish, showcase, and distribute high resolution, long form content, including video and games in high definition or DVD quality over the Internet, free of charge. The portal also features search, browsing, channels and tagging, as well as easier integration with firewalls. Zudeo will also have enhanced features for P2P streaming, in the near future.