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What is a Blog? Explained in Plain English[Video]

Some people say that a Blog is a  frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links, some think that it is a type of website usually maintained by an individual by which they put entries of descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video & some believe that it is like a personal diary or a daily pulpit or a breaking-news outlet or a collection of links or your own private thoughts or memos to the world….

So many definitions, notions & thinking about the blog which vary from view point to view point, interests & tastes of the people.

Here is a nice video explaining what a blog actually is, in plain English.

Everything in this video is put very well & helps you to come with the actual notion about the blog. So, I have chosen this video for the Video-Grabber Section for this week.

Web Designers Need Testing | How to Test your web page in multiple Browsers simultaneously?

What if your webpages are not properly visible in Safari Browser 3.8 or in IE 5.0, but you find them working nice in  Mozilla FireFox 3.0, it can certainly give the wrong impression to the non-mozilla users who are first time visitors to your website. While working on the design of your website theme or on webpages, it is necessory to check their compatibility accross different browsers.

Checking the website’s compatibility on different browsers one by one is really a time consuming job. So, Adobe is going to do that service for web professionals.

Adobe® BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web.

BrowserLab is ideal for professional web designers and web developers of all sizes, to help simplify and expedite browser compatibility testing.

Adobe BrowserLab How to Test your web page in multiple Browsers  simultaneously?

Difference between BrowserLab and other browser compatibility testing products

BrowserLab offers a unique combination of speed, ease of use, and powerful diagnostic tools, with customizable testing preferences. When used with Dreamweaver CS4® software, web professionals can also test local content and different states of interactive content.

Limited Free Preview

The BrowserLab free preview is available to a limited number of users, while they monitor its performance. The BrowserLab online service is available now as a limited free preview.

Currently BrowserLab service status is available.

Features

Supported Browsers and Operating Systems

  • Firefox 2.X and 3.X (Windows XP and Mac OS X)
  • Internet Explorer 6.X and 7.X (Windows XP)
  • Safari 3.X (Mac OS X)

Viewing and Diagnostics Tools

Screenshots can be viewed in a single view, side by side view, or as an overlay view with variable transparency. Each viewing option features a zoom function.

Browser Sets

Browser Sets allow designers to customize, edit, and save a combination of browsers to test.

Top 10 BackLinking Strategies helping Websites earn Traffic Boost

Back Linking, One of the most important aspects of increasing your Google Page Rank is still a traffic generator. Back Links are not only good food for search engines but search engines still believe that back-links are an important factor in assessing your site, so until that changes, we still have to work at generating valuable back-links. Although website directory submissions as the only alternative.

So, Back Linking provides you with that extra traffic that you may not think to get normally. It also helps gaining persistent readers who just jump onto your website while surfing & finding useful things online. The methods shown underneath are becoming popular as alternatives to plain directory submissions. Allow the steps below to inspire you to think of other ways to generate back-links.

Keep these in mind always because they are real traffic booster.

URL directories

Old method but most effective is to submit your sites to  search engines. As there are thousands of these directories on the internet, you really need to use  directory submission software to save yourself some time.

Organic back-links (Natural)

Its all that you don’t have to worry about because its a time taking normal process. As your site’s stature grows, you will automatically receive organic back-links from other web masters. This will take time as your site grows and the content becomes more valuable.

Forums, guest books and comment boxes

One technique that brings you most of the readers is joining forums, writing guest books &  feeling free to comment  on websites.  By leaving comments in forums, guest books or blog comment fields, you can generate back-links in an instant. Remember to put your URL in your signature.

Article Marketing

Show them content richness and uniqueness at your blog.

See article on How TechCrunch is ruling tech Media.

These have become intensely popular recently and are widely touted as the most efficient way to build back-links to your site.

Blogging

Blogging, yes its the thing letting readers know what you know about. By creating a free account with one of the blog hosting providers, you can set up your own blog in 5 minutes. By creating related content in your blog, you can sprinkle in links back to your main site as often as you wish. Try to put the best content in your articles.

You can see the 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article.

Creating something free

An exciting idea is to create interesting things like softwares, websites templates for blogger, themes for wordpress & then providing them free to the readers.  You do not even need to be a programmer, you can achieve this using software tools available on the internet. Once you have made the software & themes available for download on your site, you can submit to hundreds of software directories who will then link back to your download page.

Remember that:

Free softwares & themes spread like Fire.

Social bookmarks

Shared bookmarks, the most popular one allow other users to see which links are valuable. Create accounts on the most popular Bookmarking sites and share your site’s URL together with other bookmarks.

Google knol

You own the knol and no-one else can edit your entry, so this is a great opportunity for creating your own back-links legitimately.

RSS marketing

Create an RSS feed for your site or blog and use Feedburner to publish it to hundreds of RSS aggregators.

Video marketing back-links

Creating video channels including your own informative videos, you have opened up another method of generating back-links: Submit to YouTube and post your hot URL in the description box.

These strategies make up a killer back-link arsenal, now you need to spend some time investigating each topic.

Make sure your back-links are relevant to your site and you will succeed.

The search engines will show your more love and you will watch your traffic grow tremendously onto your website like never before.

How to submit your web site to Bing search engine? Obtain Bing’s Traffic

Microsoft new search engine, Bing.com ready to apply decision approach to its searches, & with its arrival bloggers need to mark the presence of their website & blogs in this newly search engine. It is important to submit your websites/ blogs to Bing.com to direct queries & searches into your websites, thus increase traffic ultimately. Here are the 3 easy steps to do that.

Step One

To Submit your website URL to Bing.com, go here :  It requires you must login using any of your Live / Hotmail ID. Just Sign in to your live or Hotmail account & you will be redirected to URL submission Page.

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Step Two

Enter your web address & Sitemap URL. Click Submit.

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Step Three

Now you need to Authenticate your ownership. For that either go for uploading the file into the ROOT directory which they provide with the provided content or go for the Meta tag authentication.

Adding Meta Tag to blogger Account

It will give you a meta tag code, you need to add that code in your blog’s head section.

Please do the following steps to add meta tag to your blog.

Please open Blogger.com -> Layout -> Edit HTML – > Expand Widget Templates

Please search for

Just paste the meta info given by Bing.com under the head tag.

All Done. Enjoy search results traffic from Bing.com now.

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See how to  Submit your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free to Increase Blog Traffic

Twitter (micro blogging) in plain English[Video]

Once again the highly creative people over at the Common Craft show have put together an easy to follow and informative video, this time demonstrating the simplicity and beauty of Twitter. Its a nice Video explaing the twitter beauty & usage in plain English.

If you want to follow me on twitter, go here. Easy & instant, twitter is growing its usage day by day & now its most eminent micro-blogging medium today.

SEO guide for Understanding Sitemaps to Increase Search Engine Discoverability of your website

Sitemaps play an important role in the Search Engine optimization. Why & How? All this  I will be discussing here.

Understanding  Sitemaps

According to Google.com

A Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

Sitemaps.org defines it as

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

So, Sitemaps is a name give to a URL map of a website which lists all the web pages URLs linked in the website with the necessary meta information required by the search engines to discover a website.

Types of Sitemaps

Sitemaps are of two type,  HTML Sitemaps which consists of the listing of the webpages present in a website XML Sitemaps consists the same information hierarchically but in a more organized order. Below you can see the difference in the content of HTML & XML Sitemaps of Inforids.com

HTML Sitemap of Inforids.com

HTML Sitemap of Inforids.com (Click to Enlarge)

XML Sitemap of Inforids.com

XML Sitemap of Inforids.com (Click to Enlarge)

XML Sitemaps are most common in use today.

Why Sitemaps?

Sitemaps are helpful for site to catch

  • Dynamic content
  • Discovering pages by Searchbots during the crawl process
  • New meta data and has new links
  • Large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

Sitemaps informs search engines about the

  • How often the pages on your site change.
  • The date each page was last modified.
  • The relative importance of pages on your site.

30 Must have WordPress Plugins for Admin to Enhance their Website Control

WordPress is the most eminent & competent platform for website owners & bloggers today. It’s also the most accepted one in platforms niche.  WordPress support for using plugins makes it more robust, easy & reliable platform for administrators, providing them full control over their websites & blogs. Here you can find the most requistic Plugins for WordPress Administrators.

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Experience the Digg Effect: Adding the “digg it” button to each blogger(blogspot) blog posts

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Today, Digg is a most eminent place for we people to get linked with the notions, contents & information from anywhere on the web. Digg, the biggest online destinations is powered by the richness of great stuffs, information & contents from multiple sources(experts, bloggers, websites, news etc). Digg button can provide a real source of traffic to blogs & websites (increased number of readers) and for that adding the “digg-it” button to each blogger post is necessary to experience the Digg Effect.
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Online Encyclopedia for Photos, Fotopedia Finally launched

After Encyclopedia, the online giant information service, Fotopedia, the online photo sharing and organizing service, is finally available to the public. It has been in private beta for a couple of months and was revealed as a read-only preview last week with a “coming in a few days” promise.

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Increase Blog Traffic: Submit your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

Search engine results makes all the differenceThe Primary Step in Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is submitting(or more specifically registering) your websites and blogs to the search engines which are the real source of traffic on any websit and blog. To increase search engine friendliness & traffic to your websites, you need to add your website/blog URL to different search engines & website directories so that your blog URLs get indexed in search engine’s databases.

Here you can can submit your website to about 100+ search engines & directories.

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