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Why is Backing Up your Blog Important?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Alok Vats

During recent time online blogs has converted into a very strong medium of expressing your views. Blog is not an online diary anymore; it has converted into a very strong medium of earning along with expression of thoughts. Creating a blog is quite easy these days; you can either take the help of WordPress (one of the most popular blogging platform) or Blogger.

You can either need a domain name and web hosting, or you can also use the free sub domain provided by these sites to own a blog. Creating a blog is not an impossible task anymore. Maintaining a blog is sometimes a tough task. Many people although did not understand the importance of the maintenance of the blog, as they are not aware about the truth that they might lose their blog at any point of time.

I learnt this fact when I lost many posts of my latest mobile news blog, which in fact was having around 50-60 posts, when out of sudden I had a problem with the hosting provider of the site and then I realized that I don’t have the back up of the blog and thus lost many posts of the blog. I any how managed to get a few posts from Google cache of the site.

This incident taught me that taking the back up of your blog is important, really very much important. Here are some more reasons why you need the back up of your website.

Hosting Changes: You might have some issues with your present hosting provider and you wanted to change your hosting provider, but if you don’t have the back up of your blog then never think about changing your hosting provider as you are sure to lose many posts from your blog. Many a times your hosting provider might suspend your hosting for whatsoever reasons and you will become handicapped with no back up, but if you do have the back up then you can plan something different and you won’t lose a single post of your blog.

Safety of Blog Content: For me my blog posts are like some of my valuable assets, and I never ignore them for any reasons. I being the owner of my blog have the responsibility to save them from any accident, and it can only be possible if I do have the regular back up of my blog. Taking a regular back up of your blog will be beneficial in case of some kind of hacking or phishing attack.

Tension Free Blogging: To get a tension free blogging life you do need the regular back up of your blog. I do remember the pain which I face when I have some problem with any of my blogs and it gives me sleepless nights too.

I don’t think that you need any more fact in support of the importance of taking the regular back up of your blog. Those who don’t know how to take the back up of their WordPress blog can take a look at How to shift the Hosting of a WordPress Website? This is a post written by me a few years back which also has the information about how to take the back up of the WordPress blog.

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Four Steps to Increase the Google Ranking of your Older Blog Post!

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Alok Vats

Blogging is not something which you publish and forget about it. You need to give regular updates if you are really looking for people to follow you. You publish a post then you need to answer the comments, build up links, all this is done just in hope of getting a high ranking on the search engines. This allows you to get organic traffic automatically on autopilot.

Then you publish a new post and what happens to the older post? Who has got the time for them? You might probably think of deleting your outdated content which has the potential of ranking you down, according to Google. But this is not what we are going to talk about it here, it is something different and more interesting which you can do with your older posts. With a little help your old content can prove very useful and especially when it comes to Google rankings.

Step 1 – Use Google Analytics and identify the post

Discovery is the first step of the ladder. Google Analytics is a completely free tool and helps you in finding your position. Google Analytics discovery process is a three step process. Firstly you need to click on the ‘content’ and then ‘top content’ on the side bar from your dashboard. This will allow you to see your pages lined up on the basis of most visited one to the least visited ones. Then you start clicking on the top pages and move down and then click on the phrase “entrance keywords”. After that, you will get a list of keywords through which people are finding your posts on the search engine.

SEMRush is another tool to find your ranking but the only issue with this tool is that it is paid. So, if you are ready to spend some cash then this is what you should go for.

Step 2 – Weigh Your Competition

If your page landed up on the first page without much effort it automatically means that the competition was not very hard but it is always advisable to check into it. Market samurai is one of the amazing tools for market as well as keyword research. The module named “SEO competition” on the website of market samurai will let you spy on your competition for specific keywords. This can save a lot of your time and energy.

Step 3 – On-page Optimization Should be improved

You already about the targeted keywords used in the title, header tag, description and URL by you and your competition. However you can still tilt the rankings in your favour by reworking the Meta tags. You can even add few internal deep links along with targeted keywords; it is quite easy yet effective method.

Step 4 – Get the links

Now, you have complete information about what all you need, it is time to get your one way link build up to the post. It will take hardly 10 minutes from step 2 to finally complete your post optimization.

Follow these 4 simple steps and you will see your ranking go up high on the Google.

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How to use Twitter hashtags properly!

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Alok Vats

Wondering what is actually a hashtag? Well, here is your answer. These are simply keywords antedated by a hash (#) symbol. It makes them both linkable and searchable on twitter.

Let me give an example so that you can understand the concept more clearly. Suppose, you wish to find out what all is going on between twitter users on the topic of ‘iPhone’. All you need to do is type the phrase “iPhone” (excluding the quotes) in the search field of twitter and in return you will get the related results on iPhone. One thing you might not have noticed all these years that the results you get on the term “iPhone” are not linkable and just bolded out.

Now, what you need to do is trying searching it with the help of hashtag “#iPhone”. One thing you need to keep in mind while typing the phrase is that hashtags should be continuous without any spaces in between and also they are insensitive towards cases. And now when the search is complete you will find that “#iPhone” is now actually linkable. By clicking the hashtag in any tweet you get access to live feeds of every tweet which has a hashtag in it. By clicking the bar which says “x new streets” you find the latest tweets till date.

The definition for hashtag according to twitter is “themes for your tweets”. In a more simple language you can say you are assigning a unique theme to your tweets with the help of hashtags. By putting a hashtag in the tweet, one is assuming that it will be searched by the individuals who would be interested in the same subject. This will allow millions of users all over the world to see your tweet who are interested in the certain hashtag. This is a really amazing and powerful tool just like twitter lists as it gives you the opportunity to be seen by people who are not even your followers.

When a certain hashtag is used by thousands of twitter users simultaneously then it is referred to as “trend”. The benefit of making a hashtag trendy is that it might appear on the home page of twitter because of its popularity. Therefore, it will be available to millions of people using twitter.

Hashtags can be converted into a de facto if used over and over again for a certain topic. And when a particular hashtag is used to identify tweets on a certain topic, it is known as twitter chat. With the use of hashtag participants in the chat need not waste time in explaining what are they talking about rather they would simply include the adequate hashtag, which will make everyone appear on the same page.

As hashtag is so useful people tend to forget its actual purpose, which is fun. Try having little bit of fun by using hashtags by creating funny hashtags and who knows that it might end being a trendy topic on twitter.

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Five Ways through which you can tell Google to like your Content!

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Alok Vats

Vertical search content is what all search engines look for. The representation of webpage in a traditional manner is not very popular these days rather SERP’s format seems to grow on a large scale on a daily basis. You may find looking for a vertical channel like video easier to find as compared to a traditional webpage by using the same keyword. Are you the one who is still struggling with SERP’s? Here are few amazing mediums which definitely deserve your attention.

  • Webmaster Tools – If you are not registered yet with the webmaster tools then I advise you to do it right away. You can do a lot of things which this mind blowing tool provided by Google like upload sitemaps, crawling issues and get different opinions of linking up of metrics. According to Google webmaster tools is a unique device which can provide you with all the report of your page visibility on Google and that too in a detailed format. In order to get started you just need to add and get your site verified and you will be allowed to see all the information right through.
  • Gadgets – Gadgets provided by iGoogle homepages are just fabulous but the promotion of gadgets solely depends on you. You can easily get some direct referral traffic if done in a right manner. Your fans will install your gadget and you get the traffic out of the deal directly. Google defines gadgets as a very impressive tool which is easy to use and yet very effective. You need to create a gadget which people would like to use and see on everyday basis and will guide them with a thoughtful planning. It is a 3-step process- first create, then promote and finally track and optimize, this will make your gadget a success for sure.
  • RSS and FeedBurner – Google gives us the opportunity to create a feed option for our content whether it is a blog, website, photos or even video/audio content. If one is using a popular platform for blogging and publishing tools like wordpress, typepad or blogger then you are likely to generate feed option automatically. FeedBurner service helps publishers already having feed by improving relationship with the audience and understanding them in a better way. You will realize a whole new set of benefits once you have got a working feed and have it run through FeedBurner.
  • Blog Search – This is definitely worth a look; it will make you come in contact with the world. In order to inform about your weblog updates you can make use of Google blog search pinging services. This information about your updates is then shared and published on other search engines and this allows them to discover changes in your weblogs.
  • Subscribed Links – It helps you in creating custom search results which can be added to Google search pages by users.

There are a lot more ways through which your content can be submitted on Google pages but I have presented you with best five. One should explore new things by thinking out of the box.


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Are You Appy? Nokia N8 is Here!

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Alok Vats

Nokia, the world’s largest producer of mobile phones, introduced Nokia N8 with unbeatable 12MP camera features. The stylish smartphone in blue box is also capable of recording 720p video, outputting via HDMI and introduces the promised Symbian 3 touch revolution, making an ideal gadget for savvy photographer.

Speculations spurred, expectations raised – will the new Nokia N8 re-write the best experience in its N series category? Does the new Symbian 3 create furor in the mobile market? For all such queries, read on a quick review and relate your own experience of Nokia N8.

Appearance:
The overall design of the N8 is impressive. It is slim, shaping a tactile candybar body and has adequate anodized aluminum in its chassis. The smartphone measures at 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm and weighting 135g with the non-user-removable battery. Available in five different colors, silver, red, blue, black and green, Nokia N8 has a protective metal cover which protects the smartphone from severe damages.

Hardware:
Talking about the design, the Nokia N8 has many features that get thumps up. The phone looks really good in hands and its vibrancy add into the persona of its carrier. The camera lens, camera button and volume controls have chrome accents and strengthen the display more. The hardware design is excellent which top-notch build quality. The use of gorilla glass in the screen makes it damage and scratch proof.

Nokia N8

Internals:
Nokia N8 has an ARM 11 microprocessor clocked at 680 MHz with 256MB RAM. The use of Symbian 3 technology makes the phone CPU management and a sharp memory but the speed of the phone lags behind. Large websites take a longer time to load on the Nokia N8 than the other available smartphones.

Connectors:
A truly mesmerizing gadget for image transferring, the Nokia N8 features an HDMI connection which gets connected to the compatible televisions and projectors to show off images, videos and others. The amazing USB-on-the-adapter connects your USB flash drives and accesses the files directly from the Nokia N8.

Speakers:
The loudspeaker is located at the back of the phone and supplies clear and loud quality. Listen to music or talk unperturbed, you will have nothing to complain about.

Camera:
A dream for photographer, the Nokia N8 produces remarkable picture quality and makes your every captured moment a delight to watch out for. The camera quality of Nokia N8 truly shines powered by the Carl Zeiss optics and the largest sensor into a mobile phone. With Nokia N8, the photos look natural and just precious. The camera also features excellent zoom and cropping features, making the phone quite usable.

Nokia Panorama is another great application available from the Ovi store in the Nokia N8. With this application, you can click your favorite pictures, share with friends and get on top of many social media websites. Isn’t it amazing?

The Nokia N8 has Xenon flash which can make your clickable pictures more natural. No more blurry photos but you can actually get a brilliant portrait looking at its best.

Video:
With 720p and 25FPS, the Nokia N8 captures HD videos conveniently. The phone uses a system known as called Active Hyper-focal Distance which simply denotes anything from 2 feet to infinity appear in focus. The feature works best while capturing moving objects and in dim lights. You can also make the best use of digital zoom along with the large sensor.

Software:
The Nokia N8 introduces Symbian 3 which is already announced to be used in Nokia C7, E7, and C6-01.  The new technology makes the gadget very powerful and offers better solutions such as multiple homescreens, visual multitasking, music cover flow, and multitouch pinch-to-zoom. You can make use of the most streamlined menu structures and UI moves with a faster pace. The capacity can be viewed easily while scrolling lists on the music player, conversation, contacts and messages etc.

Conclusion:
The arrival of the Nokia N8 brings you one of the finest users’ experiences in terms of camera use and video recording. The solid body and great-looks are surely its USP. The integration of Symbian 3 technology enhances messaging and running time of the web browser.

Realizing the tremendous opportunity of monthly contract phones, you can easily pick your choice without missing the latest mobile technology. With monthly contract deals, pick the latest handsets and avail maximum benefits. Make your move now and fly with the waves of mobile technology.

For every appy, the Nokia N8 is definitely a gadget to check out for!

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Why Guest Blogging is a Powerful Way to Gain Exposure for Your Blog!

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Alok Vats

There has been a number of bloggers all over the world. Even you may have been trying your hand at it lately but apart from your relatives and few close friends not many people ever pay heed to your blog.

In order to promote your blog you need to find certain unconventional ways to expose your young blog: well you can do it easily by guest blogging as it is one of the best effective and powerful way you can opt for.

If you’re good at writing with great ideas pondering in your mind you can try to write in a guest post for some big blog. This helps in building connections as well as promoting your blog making it a brand name all over. You must be wondering why guest blogging and how it would help?? So given below are the answers to your questions.

Increased likelihood:
This is because probably some other blogger would not be interested to provide a link to your young blog but he may for sure can give you a guest blogging spot. Now this happens as it lends his blog new ideas with a tinge of freshness in content and moreover gives him a break from writing. One must keep in mind that not every blogger would be willing to pour in a guest post, but if 10 are asked to do so only a couple of them would agree to it. So be tactful enough to deal with such people, inculcating qualities like positivity, politeness, friendliness and enthusiasm. You may also show him some best of your work to strike a deal.

Helping out a blogger:
You can help the blogger by granting him a break from writing and give yourself a chance to raise yourself up in the blogging world. Given a chance to work for another blogger always readily accept the offer, if you feel you can spare some time. This helps you to build business relationships in the blogging world, which could be beneficial for you in the long run. Even if it doesn’t pays off, it is any day helpful for you to develop more and more connections.

Increased traffic:
You can have an increased traffic halting at your blog at least for a couple of days if you work for a bigger blog by writing in some guest post for it having a link back to your blog. Now the count of the traffic depends on the traffic gathered at the other blog for which you have worked, but you must remember something is always better than nothing. It is for sure going to help you promote your blog to some extent.

Increased exposure:
Apart from the straight away benefit of accelerated traffic at your blog, you also need to realize that you’re exposing your blog as well as your name with it to an entirely new audience. This helps you in branding your blog and yourself along with it during the process. For the first time may people wont check your blog  and unnoticed  your name but next time whenever you will write a guest post for another blog that audience would read, they may notice your name and your blog too following the link to your blog. Thereafter you will start coming under the lime light making the audience to see that your name is everywhere; hence they will start remembering your blog’s name as well. Eventually you will find out that your blog is branded now, for which the credit goes to increased exposure.

Best advertising there is:
Advertising is also another effective reason to promote one’s blog. For the first step you can ask to another blog for putting up an ad for your blog on it. If you want you can even beg for a link for which you may get a dugg and may get almost 40k visitors visiting your blog per day. But as compared to guest post all other methods fail to compete with its effectiveness. Because an ad put up on another blog or the link may get unnoticed by many as it doesn’t highlight the best points about your blog and moreover it sounds a loss as it requires money. It doesn’t really help you to promote your blog.

Now if we talk about guest post, it is definitely going to work as people looking at the blog get to read your contents in depth and moreover it will give the audience the great material you offer. If just incase the audience develops an interest they would want to look more for it, which ultimately brings them to your blog. This is how you can get the best of traffic for your blog, which would stop, read and may even subscribe.

New audiences:
This point forms a connection with the above point, if you have certain amount of readership for your blog it means that you have already entered into your audience world. But if you desire for a bigger chunk of audience for your blog who haven’t ever heard about you, who put up in various sectors of the internet world, then you must realize your job is to reach out to such audience in order to promote your brand name as well as your blog. “The more the better” is the phrase for you. So keep doing guest blogging for as many bloggers you can as each blog consists of some readership from different sectors that will help you to form a great audience from all over the world.

Future reciprocation:
The best part about writing a guest post for a blogger could be that he may agree to pay you back by writing a post for you in return. Keeping an expectation would sound unfair but yes you can definitely make a request. This would work wonders in two ways: first being that your readers may get an excellent writing to read with fresh content in it and second reason would be that the bigger blogger may link to the guest post from his blog ultimately pouring in some more audience for you.

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iPhone 5 in the autumn?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Alok Vats

Apple’s latest iPhone 5 due to begin shipping in September?

Rumors have begun to fly that the latest of the Apple iPhones, the iPhone 5, is to stage its launch in the first half of September. These rumors which have been seen on the message boards of phones4u and talktalk have got into full swing in the last couple of months.

According to several reliable sources, the production schedule of the extremely highly anticipated handset has been arranged and outlined by Apple; parts have begun to be shipped to their respective manufacturers, with production due to commence over July this year, culminating in the release of the device in September 2011.

iPhone 5

There is speculation that this latest offering from Apple will incorporate an even faster processor than the iPhone 4; although this is set to really be the only major detail about the already incredibly popular model that is due to undergo a change – this has not come as a surprise to many critics of Apple’s development and release scheduling, who believe that more could be done to improve the device.

The rumors about the intended manufacture and release date of the latest iPhone have in turn sparked speculation that the announcement of the new version of the popular smartphone handset will coincide at Apple’s convention in September – an event that is usually based around Apple’s other flagship product, the iPod. Despite news of the impending release of the iPhone 5 being hot off the press, there are already rumors circulating that the handset will be plagued by delays in its schedule; this has been attributed to a lack of suitable components needed to create the device. Late supplier orders have also been cited as another possible reason that the company might begin to fall behind its schedule when releasing the iPhone 5.

As usual, Apple are remaining silent about such rumours; they maintain that whatever production decisions they have made will be timely and free from any delay of major problems. This is a luxery apple have been afforded after years of high quality, of all the contract phones on the market the iphone is the one always sure to sell well.

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iPhone Travel Tips!

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Alok Vats

The iPhone is already one of the most popular gadgets the world has seen, and with my iPhone travel tips you would be surprised at just how useful this advanced phone can be when you embark on your travels.

Traveling itself is one of the greatest experiences a person can have. Whether you are looking to expand your mind, or simply immerse yourself in a new culture.  However traveling around the world can become a little overwhelming, especially when you arrive in a new city and you suddenly realize you have no idea where you actually need to go.

So without further ado, let me give you my very best iPhone travel tips!

My first tip is all about Google.  From Google Translate to Google Maps, there are a wide range of free Google iPhone apps out there for you to use, make use of them!  They will help you find where you need to go, and help you understand nearly every language the Earth has to offer.

iPhone Travel Tips

My second big tip is to download an iPhone guided tour app.  Seriously, why bother paying for a new guide book, or a new tour guide in every city you visit?  Using an iPhone app such as TouringZ will help you solve this expensive nightmare by offering you tours in hundreds of cities, helping you see the best of every city with guides written by the app, local residents, and other travelers! GPS Tracking keeps you on course, and the iPhone gives you your tour straight through the iPhone earbuds to keep it a little more discreet than an open guidebook.

My third big tip is to use one of the many iPhone organizational travel tools to help keep you on time for flights, up to date on delays, and on course for hassle-free holiday traveling. There are even some travel planning tools which will give you luggage check lists and airport maps!

My fourth and final tip is to use your iPhone wisely. Don’t walk around a foreign city showing it off; it may make you a target to the criminal element which preys on tourists. The high value of the iPhone does mean that you have to use it a little carefully even in (Sometimes especially in) safe feeling areas of a city.  Pickpockets are a big problem in all the best tourist destinations, so try your best to keep your iPhone private.

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Your iPhone can make traveling a breeze, especially with an iPhone tour guide app. It can show you around and find out more about where you are with some simple iPhone guided tours

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Tips To Successfully Start Blogging For Business!

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Alok Vats
This Post is a Guest Article By Timothy Arends.

Before you start blogging for your business, it’s a good idea to plan things out in advance. Although a blog is fairly easy to set up, doing things right in the first place will save you some time and trouble later on. Here are some helpful tips to get you started on the road to blogging success.

Identify Your Target Audience

As with any business, the first and most crucial step in planning your blog is that of identifying your target or niche market. You can then apply the Paretto Principle, which, as Wikipedia notes, is also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity.  In business, this principle states that 20% of your customers will bring in 80% of your business sales and profits, so target the readers who are likely to become customers.

Decide What You Need to Say and Say It

In the process of setting up your business blog, you should decide what you are going to say to your target market. You want to be sure that what you have to say is going to be beneficial and informative for your customers.

Business Blogging Tips

Some bloggers have the tendency to fill their blogs with fluff just to keep the site active. Others may try to address fields about which they know little. This is a pity, because they are just throwing away the opportunity to engage with their visitors.

Decide How You Want to Set Up Your Blog

All Mac users have a capable blogging platform built into their Macs in the form of iWeb, part of Apple’s iLife Software suite. Though not the most sophisticated blogging tool, it is a viable option for beginners. An alternative is the third-party RapidWeaver, which has a similarly easy-to-use interface but offers more customization options.

Use a Blog Hosting Site

Alternatively, you can use a free blogging host such as Blogger.com. If you want to get still more advanced, you can use WordPress, which has a huge online support community and enables many useful plug-ins that can help with the SEO, promotion and maintenance of your blog.

Get Your Facts Together and Start Communicating

It is not enough that you merely throw down your thoughts; you want to give your readers a taste of freshness and uniqueness at all times. If you hate to type, a third-party voice dictation tool such as Dragon Dictate for Mac can be a big help. This makes composing new material for your blog almost as easy as talking. Even if you are a fairly speedy typist, you may find voice dictation a welcome interlude that allows you to give your fingers a break.

Remember that a successful business owner does not blog merely by bragging about his or her business or by chattering about issues outside of his or her area of expertise. Your readers can detect sincerity in what you are writing, so be heartfelt, convincing and true to your subject and you are sure to have success in blogging for business.

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