Windows 9, Exit of Windows 8

Microsoft launched Windows 8 in order to make the Windows 7 a new companion and an upgrade for the users. The company made very significant changes and features in the operating system which made it to overcome the problems and gave a boost in the using experience of the operating system. Though the new operating system was cool to use as it was new and good at using and working, it still had some lacking and problems. Efforts were made to overcome and solve the problems in the update of Windows 8 which is Windows 8.1.

There are some leaked news and images which are prevalent in the internet nowadays about the new operating system of the company which is named Windows 9. The leaked news and images have showcased, how the new operating system will look and appear to the people. The company has removed the charms bar of Windows 8  as it was the biggest problem faced by the users while using them.
There are some similarities between the new and previous operating system which is the existence of virtual desktop and metro-style additions which will remind you of Windows 8. The makers and designers of the operating system have laid their emphasis on creating the best for the desktop and laptop users. They have tried to completely wipe up the negatives of windows 8 and jump to a complete new Windows 9 OS, with added features and user compatible mode. The uncomfortable user interface is completely tried to be avoided in Windows 9 like bringing the start button back alive which was lacking in the previous versions.

The main problems of Windows 8 were tried to remove in the update of the OS Windows 8.1 as to change the mixed reviews from the people, but with the partially numbered update the company fail to lure the people and change their view on the operating system. Microsoft seems to have realized that the previous operating systems have less compatibility for the desktop and laptop users which is to be compensated and cleared in the new operating system. The company has tried to make the look and design of the new OS as lucrative and attractive as possible for the people as they feel to use Windows XP and Windows 7 rather than upgrading to Windows 8.
Microsoft is set to remove the stains and negative impacts made by the past operating system and create a new, positive mark on the minds of its users. Windows 9 is expected to come out in the market in April 2015 after two years of the release of Windows 8. There is an expectation of an update of Windows 8 in the upcoming months of 2014 which might be Windows 8.1 update 2 or Windows 8.2.

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Best Free Backlink Checker Tool for Bloggers

Backlink Checker Tool I Like as Free.

Best Backlink Checker Tool

Every Bloggers or Webmaster know very well that SEO is very much important to Rank website in top Position in major search engine. SEO optimization is not easy task, Off page and On page SEO is also a time taking job. But 90 % of the bloggers are focusing on developing more and more backlinks, They should understand, Google is not fool, In forum discussion, I have seen so many people asking to create backlinks from where and how,  They should know Google have put certain limitation on every act at SEO, I have given here some of them for your better understanding, all of them I have refered from top forums and SEO site,

1. Too many backlinks in short period
2. Many non Quality backlinks
3. Backlinks from suspicious site.
4. Many Quality or say high PR backlinks in short period.

So you should be very careful for developing backlinks, I prefer to join any of the top reputed forum to know more about such practice, For me Backlinks is a Vote, but it should be from quality website that have good Google page rank. But how to know about that, I prefer to watch a site which holds the good position and good page rank. Analyze their Backlink report and try to develope that backlink first. But please take care of above mentioned points otherwise Google will penalize you. So today we are here to discuss about Backlink Checker tool, Here I have listed some uses of the same for your easy approach.

1. Backlink Analysis of your competitor website
2. Backlink analysis of your Own site
3. disinfecting Link Check to prevent Rank dropping
4. analysis of anchors Test

It is also required that, what Backlink Checker tool we are referring that should provide accurate and live data, Here I have listed top Premium Backlink Checker Tool that I am using and recommend you to use.

1. SEO Profiler 

Best Backlink Checker Tool

It is very good tool to analyze your backlink. The good thing for SEO

Profiler is they also provide an additional tool for analyze infected Backlinks, it is a must have tool to analyze which link drop your ranking. SEO Profiler also provide the data of anchor text of the link, source, dofollow/nofollw, rank analyse etc. But the same service is free only for a month for new account after that they will charge some penny for their service.

2. Majestic SEO

Best Backlink Checker Tool

It is similar Backlink analysis tool like SEO Profiler, but you don’t get disinfective link analizer here. Their report of backlink is trust worthy, report provides the details of backlink with graph analysis, anchor text analysis, trust flow, citation flow etc. This is other one of my recommended Tool for checking Backlinks.

3. Rank Signal   

Ranksignal is also a good and free backlink watch service providing all nofollow and dofollow backlinks to your blog. It displys only backlink watch, and good thing its free, they also have their crome extention to have quick watch the alexa rank, number of backlink etc seen below image.

4.  Smallseotools.com 

This is the tool I most liked as free tool, This site gives you the report of your all inbound liks to your site. Result is accurate. It also shows the nofollow or dofollow attribute, source site pagerank and anchor text. There is no other special services like suspecious backlink checker etc. It can be used as backlink checker tool.

5.  ahrefs.com  

Best Backlink Checker Tool

The site name is somewhat ugly, but the service is good, Report is trust worthy, provides detail report on backlinks with analysis. But the service is limited to show only 5 links, after that they require Premium membership. So you can try above to tools that will analyze all backlinks report free for some period of time.

6.  sheerseo.com 

SheerSEO is new in market provides the premium service of SEO, backlink watch, keyword rank analysis etc, the service is like SEO Profiler. SheerSEO provide one month free service to use all their tools, Keyword rank updates weekly and provides the good results. It is recommaded tool to use all type of your SEO need.

Conclusion

We have discussed on the top and recommended Backlink Checker Tool for analysis of site Backlink, You can share your experience with above tools or suggest other useful tools through comments.

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backlinks; Good & Bad side

buy backlinks ? Good & Bad side

buy backlinks good and bad side

Google gives more value and high rank based on good backlink. Backlink is considered as a Vote to a site. Good vote from trusted and high PR site will give you top ranking, all knows. Building backlink is not easy. Many webmaster are spending lot of hours to build such buy backlinks. I have surveyed many top ranks site from PR2 to PR9. All their outward links are nofollow. So it is very hard to achieve such good PR dofollow link.

Due to such hard work and lack of knowledge, people generally move for buying a backlink package to rank high immediately on search engine. To buy backlinks (votes) is like paying money to voters to vote for him, which is always not authentic. Many companies also gives surety to rank on top page within 10 days after buying a backlink package with them. But you know, it is risky and chances for the Panda or Penguin penalties. It is easy to buy such package, there are a lot of sites online will provide you such package in very cheap price like 1000 backlink in 10$ or say 25 high PR backlink per month in 5$ etc.
Google will penalize the sites which are involved in such activities and the penalties may be sever up to 6 month or some times for lifetime. It will also create a black mark in front of Google and get banned in future also. Google will immediately penalize while caught for buy backlinks or linked with such type of buy or sell backlink site anyway. According to Google, who, by having such a significant share of the search market, effectively make the rules, you shouldn’t buy backlinks.
After all, there are many websites or some business buying links or package with some reputed SEO experts and get good rank within 1 or 2 month for targeted keyword and have never been caught. The reason behind that is there are millions of backlinks made hourly online and it is difficult for Google bot to identify the Natural backlink and paid editorial backlink with third-party. So they have put some limitation to identify such Paid buy backlinks and natural backlink, refer the same below.

• Too many high PR backlink
• Too many Home page backlink
• Too many backlink in short period of time
• Too many same anchor text backlink
• Too many backlink at different Niche compare to your site.
• Too many backlinks without Anchor text

So above are some of the criteria, on which Google will identify the backlinks whether it is natural link or Paid link. Google algorithm is more strong than we think. I am sure they also have some other good tool to identify such links better way.
Some of the Gurus still believe to buy backlinks and there are experts available also to build such backlinks. There is the lowest risk for paid buy backlinks which is created in a way that it looks like a Natural link. If the link is posted within the article (not in sidebar or blog roll or on homepage), and article and website should relevant to your site niche, also the site content is 100% unique (not copied) thus ways such sold link is difficult to find as Paid link and such practice are very popular now in days but for that you need to pay some good amount of money. It will take 5$ to 25 $ per article with targeted backlink. Also such one link may not give you the required results; you need at least 10 to 15 backlinks from different PR sites.

This is the best way to get rank in Google by buying such some high Quality backlinks but due to high value, some people are moving to buy some cheap packages as I have mentioned above like 1000 backlinks in just 10$ etc. In such packages, the backlinks will be made by bot (not human edited) also there is not relevant practice followed to made such links, hence it is easily identified by Google as Paid backlink or buy backlinks and your site will be penalized. So for such links its say no, you shouldn’t buy backlinks. It is risky and also waste of time. For completing your packages they have made your site backlinks from many non related niche websites including Gambling, xxx etc (Google hates this). As I say, bad vote may lead your ranking down. So always try to get good vote for your site. (high PR backlink)
I have seen many people who have taken their blog from PR0 to PR5 in just 3 to 4 month by following Google practice and building backlinks naturally. iGau.org is a part of one. Building backlinks by yourself is time taking but surely gives you great results. Some people who can’t provide time for such activities are buying links from others. It is always a bad practice and also not allowed by Google but if you have decided to buy backlinks at your own risk then at least follow the below steps to minimize your chances to caught by Google.

• Buy individual article to post on some high PR site with same Niche having your site backlink with proper anchor text
• Deal directly with the workers or executors.
• Check the site state first who are selling backlink.
• Site should be relevant to your site
• Always allow backlink inside the article text and not in sidebar or blogroll.
• Prefer to promote any of your good articles in place of Homepage every time with different anchor text.
• Keep such paid links below 10%.

Success ratio to buy backlinks and rank high on search engine is depends on your SEO consultant and their link building practice. Link builded as buy backlinks with the above criteria looking like natural link and difficult to identify as Paid link. So buying link is 50/50 % good or bad, that is your decision to do or not. Share your valuable comments and any experience with such topic.

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Top PPC Ad Network sites with high PPC/CPC rate

List of Top PPC Ad Network sites for Publisher

PPC (Pay Per Click) or CPC (Cost Per Click) is a proven Advertisement publishing methods from years and approx 70% webmaster are using Pay Per Click Ad network to earn online. I have reviewed many websites from top PR to low PR, 90% of the blogger use Pay Per Click Ad network. It serves as a main income source for most of the bloggers.
If you have seen, there are thousands of PPC Ad Network there online. But what and how to choose the best one ? There are many PPC Ad network who just affiliate the Ads from other big and reputed resources and earn commission. So it is better to join with father than son, right? So based on my experience and research, I am listing here the top PPC Ad Network worked best for your blog and earn you good income.

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For me, rating each PPC network listed below is difficult because all are good within some specific limit. However it can be determined and rated by below ways.

• Check how many traffic their homepage generating and what is their site Alexa Rank.
• Their Ads Conversation rate
• What is the best rate they will give per click of Ads for your traffic source country.

For an example, in UK & US, Media.Net (a Bing Yahoo Network) PPC Ad Network will give you good bid for your ads but the same ad network will give very low rate in Asian Counties. However Google Adsense will give the good PPC/CPC rate in Asian countries also. So it is also depend on your source of traffic. Some Ad network are best for some counties and not be for others also.

What is PPC/CPC ?

PPC or CPC is an earned value you will get per click of Advertisements done by your site visitors. Its is a simple term to identify the normal and average rate of money to be given to Publisher per click of Advertisements.

Why PPC or CPC Ad Network ?

PPC/CPC is a well-known marketing style mostly liked by the advertisers. You should not be paid for any fraud clicks. Today the Advertising is being Contextual and so the Advertisement seen beside your content is related to your content topic. Hence the particular Ads will get targeted traffic. So most of the advertiser moves for PPC advertising today. If there is more advertisers than Ads bid will automatically increase because of competition and hence the PPC/CPC rate also will increase. This is the main reason why most of the bloggers are using PPC Ad network of monetization.
Sharing here the best PPC Ad network to boost your earning.
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Google Adsense

Google Adsense is a market leader for online publisher PPC Ad network. The main reason behind that Google is a big brand today and hence lot of advertisers are now joined with Google and regularly Advertising. So the number of quality Advertisements are more. It will lead the quality Advertisements with good CPC rate will be shown on your site. As Google Adsense is a Contextual Ad network so Advets showing on your site are relevant to the topic and content and hence you will get good CTR (Click through Rate). Thats why most of the bloggers and webmasters are preferring Google Adsense as the best PPC Ad network.

Media.Net PPC Ad network

It is another good PPC Ad network as Google. Media.Net is a part of Bing Yahoo Network so the big Advertisers they have and hence due to good number of Ads inventory Their PPC rate is high. Refer the Complete Review of Media.Net

Vibrant Media PPC Ad network

It is one of the best PPC ad network with Premium advertisers. They have provided their Ads to many high traffic niche site. It is one of the best premium PPC player and well-known network in the industry. Their PPC rate is the highest in the industry and also they are not allowing all site to join, You at least require half a million page views per month to join this network. They also work well on Tablet and Mobile Ads. So if you have a premium site with good niche and something about half a million traffic per month than you should consider Vibrant Media.

Chitika PPC Ad network

It is another good alternative to Adsense. Mostly I have seen the people who have banned by Google finds Chitika as a second most PPC Ad network to use. Approval may take a week and after approval of your any one site, you can use Chitika Ads at your other websites also. Their PPC revenue is lower compared to Adsense and Media.Net but good than others. Payout is at 50$ if you want check or bank transfer and 10$ through Paypal. which I like as most of will release after 100$. However PPC rate is depend on keyword and source of traffic.

Kontera PPC Ad network

It is another good PPC advertising network. The difference is that they serve ads based on users’search term and not by contextual. They are expert in “in Text” Advertising. So it is good to use it with Google Adsense for “in text” Advertising to generate extra revenue.
Apart from above there are some other PPC Ad network are listed below. You can review their site, Ad conversation rate, PPC rate and based on that you will have ideas weather it is useful or not for your site.

• Chitika
• Infolinks
• Bidvertiser
• Exit Junction
• PocketCents
• Blogads
• CPX Interactive
• Click Booth
• Link Worth
• Intellilinks
• Qadabra
• AdSide

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Best Collected Views of all PPC Ad Network for Publisher

iGiri Rank	Top PPC Ad Network	Approval	Payout	Payment Option
1	Google Adsense	Require at least 6 month old site with original article and some good traffic	100 $	Through Check
2	Media.Net	Require some good amount of traffic from US/UK country.	100 $	Through Check, wire transfer and Paypal
3	Vibrant Media	Require at least half an million pageviews monthly	50 $	Check
4	Chitika	Easy	50 $ - Bank transfer or check, 10 $ - Paypal	Paypal, Check, Bank Transfer
5	Kontera	Easy	50 $	Paypal, Check, Wire Transfer
6	Bidvertiser
7	Infolinks
8	Exit Junction
9	PocketCents
10	Blogads
11	CPX Interactive
12	Click Booth
13	Link Worth	Easy	25$	25$ for Paypal, 100$ for Wire Transfer
14	Intellilinks	Easy	NA	Paypal
15	Adside	Easy	50$	Cheque
16	Qadabra	Easy	1$	1$ for Paypal, 500$ for Wire Treansfer

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On Page Search Engine Optimizations – Best Tips

On Page Search Engine Optimization - Top Tips for On page SEO

When it comes to the On Page Search Engine Optimization of the content, I am sure you have already heard about the Meta tags & Keywords.
if you are looking for some effective and practical strategy, then I am sure these post will be useful for you.

On Page Search Engine Optimization

is the very first step for the SEO which is necessary for all the webmaster to rank better in search result. It will take not more than half an hour but well on page optimized content do well in search results and gain the chances for the first page rank. It is not only useful for better rank but well optimized content also improve your user satisfaction and readability.
So not wasting much time, Let us come on the topic. I have listed below the practical strategy for the on page search engine optimization to rank well.

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On Page Search Engine Optimization Tips

Define the Best Targeted Keyword
Firstly, define the best keyword for your content. I suggest to choose the keyword which is searched high in the search engine. For example, I am writing a content on “Search Engine Optimization” for the same topic there are two keyword, one is “search engine optimization and other is SEO. Monthly search for the “SEO” is high that “search engine optimization” so I should choose “SEO” as my content targeted keyword.
I recommend to use Google Keyword Planner for checking estimated search quarries of any keyword.

Meta Title Optimization
Title is the most important part of your site which is directly attract traffic. Well written title will boost your ranking and traffic 20 times than normal one. Your targeted keyword should appear in the Title of the Content, Title starting with the targeted Keyword added more value. Title should explain your content topic otherwise your bounce rate will be high. I recommend to use targeted keyword in title only one time.

Meta Description Optimization

Meta Description is the second highest important part of the search results, search user generally read it and click on the link. So well written Description is much more effective. Use your targeted keyword once inside the Meta Description.

H1 and H2 Tags
It is the very important factor for the on page SEO, your H1 tag must be your Title of the content and H2 tag must be the first paragraph title tag. Bot should contain your target keyword.

Targeted Keyword inside the First Paragraph
The first sentence of the body text and the first word of that sentence is the most important for the on page SEO as per latest Google’s LSI algorithm. I recommend to use your Targeted Keyword inside the first Paragraph initially, you should use it as heading tag like I have written here or you can use inside the text paragraph and bold it. Bolt letter will be given more weightage by Google Algorithm, so I suggest to have at lease one keyword in bold inside the post.

300 Word minimum
Your content should be of minimum 300 word at least, land and descriptive content always get good trust and rank. For below 300 word content, Google bot may not be identifies the proper keyword of your content and also identified as scrap content. Descriptive content is always given more value.

Target Keyword in Sub-heading
Use your Targeted Keyword inside your sub-heading, not for all but at least one time. It is not a major ranking factor but sure it is beneficial for better SEO.

Image with Alt Tag
Your Images will be described by the Alt tag. Images are the windows to attract visitors to read the content. Good images will improve your visitor readership. But images without Alt tag is no use and Google can not identify it. I suggest to use your Target Keyword inside the Alt tag of all content images.

Url of the Content
Same as Title, use your target keyword inside the url of your content. Avoid ugly word in url. Keep it short as possible.

Target Keyword Density
Over optimized content will be penalized and removed from the search results. Limit your Targeted Keyword density inside the post up to 2% which is the max limit. However SEJ suggest to have max 5%.

Sitemap
Make sure that your sitemap is responding for the latest updates of your site to fetch Google bot.

Example -
Let us see one of the Wikipedia page for the On Page Search Engine Optimization, have look the below image.

You can see the target Keyword is “Super Mario World”, the same word repeat in Title tag, First Sentence and first word, with bold, Also the Alt text of the image is the Target Keyword. Url (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_World) of this page also have this target keyword.
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It is called well On Page Search Engine Optimization.
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• Frequently Updation of Blog with Awesome fresh Content
• Google Authorship Integration
• Appropriate Depth of Content
• Content Optimization for Multiple Related Keyword

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Get Accepted by BlogAds with 4 steps

Get Accepted by BlogAds

is somewhat difficult in todays scenario. If there is very good option available like Adsense, Media.NET etc, then why people should move to BlogAds ?

Why BlogAds ?

Let me tell you,

BlogAds is one of the best online direct advertising solution for all bloggers and website owners. They gives the best Ad space rate in industry so the earning of your blog becomes high. Who don’t need good earning. ? But opening an account is not easy like others to Get Accepted by BlogAds.
So I have listed here the most effective ways to Get Accepted by BlogAds.
By reading this post, you can learn..
How to get approved by BlogAds
How your blog Get Approved by BlogAds

Effective Tips to Get Accepted by BlogAds

BlogAds network is a group of people who accept blogs based on the below criterias. So one should follow the below all criteria to Get Accepted by BlogAds.

Improve Alexa Rank.

Alexa Rank is showing how important your site is online and howmuch traffic they receive. Alexa Rank also show the brand value of your site among others. Hence Alexa Rank is very important to gain to Get Accepted by BlogAds.
I have listed here the most effective tips to improve your Alexa Rank

Improve Page Rank

Like Alexa Rank, Page Rank is alsi very important, Page Rank of a website will be provided by Google and it will show you the value of your website among Google. It will be provided in the range of 1 tp 10.
Visit here to have the most effective list to increase Page Rank

Quality of Content

Today, Internet being most trust worthy, So All the search Engine including Google will try to rank the pages of quality content so that when people search any phrases, they always find quality results. Hence Quality and unique content will boost your traffic. BlogAds is more interested in quality and unique contents of the blog. In Addition Consistent content topic will give you more value.
BlogAds will need appx 50K page impression per month to Get Accepted by BlogAds which is not so hard to get if you can develop the above three. Quality content with good page rank will give your good Alexa Rank and good amount of Consistent traffic daily.

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Be on 1st Page of Google with 7 Easy Steps

Be on 1st Page of Google 

is a requirement for a successful online business or website. Most of the SEO companies provides such services to make your site on 1st Page of Google search results by doing some Link Building and other menial work. Small or large business online provide such work to such SEO companies and it is also easy for them to do so, just you have to follow some proven SEO techniques.

Be on 1st Page of Google

To get Top 10 Ranking on most of the search engine, you can also do the manual work at yopur own for your website if you don’t want to pay such bucks to SEO companies. For such work , I have listed below the important points to follow to make your blog SEO ready. Following I have listed all the important SEO points that should be optimized well to get top ranking in any search engine.

Important Points to Be on 1st Page of Google

1. Keyword Density
2. URL of Article
3. Title
4. Description
5. ALT name
6. Heading tags
7. Content

Focus on following 8 steps is to load your pages with as many “keywords” as possible to get Be on 1st Page of Google.

Steps to Be on 1st Page of Google

1. Keyword Density

Keyword is the most important aspect for the Good SEO practice. Before writing an article, decide first the topic of an article and research about the most searched or frequently searched
Total text ÷ Target Keywords= Keyword Density
Use this formula on your competitors web site and see how they score, then aim to beat that score.
Choose keywords that best relate to the information, products or services that you are offering. For instance, if I am designing a site about “Be on 1st Page of Google”, I want my site to include the words “Be on 1st Page of Google” as many times as possible.

However, most people don’t just search for just one word, they type phrases, so you should consider the phrases that best suit your sites target market. For example, if I am creating a site about “Be on 1st Page of Google” in New Orleans, I would include “Be on 1st Page of Google in New Orleans” in my keywords. Another way around this is to not separate my keywords with commas, just use spaces, and the Search Engines will make the phrases for you. The most important thing to remember is that the content of each page is different, so only use keywords pertaining to that page.

2. URL Text

Same as Title, use your target keyword inside the url of your content. Avoid ugly word in url. Keep it short as possible.

3. Description Meta tags

Meta Description is the second highest important part of the search results, search user generally read it and click on the link. So well written Description is much more effective. Use your targeted keyword once inside the Meta Description.

4. Title Tags

Title is the most important part of your site which is directly attract traffic. Well written title will boost your ranking and traffic 20 times than normal one. Your targeted keyword should appear in the Title of the Content, Title starting with the targeted Keyword added more value. Title should explain your content topic otherwise your bounce rate will be high. I recommend to use targeted keyword in title only one time.

5. Image Names

Your Images will be described by the Alt tag. Images are the windows to attract visitors to read the content. Good images will improve your visitor readership. But images without Alt tag is no use and Google can not identify it. I suggest to use your Target Keyword inside the Alt tag of all content images.

6. ALT tags

Alt tags are keywords that you can attach to images, giving more weight to the image since Search Engines can’t analyze the content of the image itself. Here is a chance to slip in more keywords without writing great content, use it.

7. Heading tags

Heading tags are associated with the bold font that leads into a section of text. Like this:
Be on 1st Page of Google
We offers 1st Page Ranking on Google for your Website…
Your heading tags should only be your keywords or consist your target keyword, and should be presented in the order that your Meta tags follow.
Try to utilize all 6 heading tags on each page to ensure maximum page optimization.

8. Content

Every one knows, around 70-80% traffic are from Search Engines, and Search engine loves the fresh content (not copied content), so try to write fresh and descriptive content on a topic you like with at least 2 images.

While choosing Content topic, try to cover evergreen topic which covers most of the audience from all countries, so that when people will read in future, they will show interest.

9. Hyperlinks

Hyperlinks are text links to other pages on your site. The rules of SEO and hyperlinks are easy:
• Use hyperlinks so the Search Engine will have a text link to follow to the next page
• Don’t use one word links, use long link phrases, preferably keyword phrases
• Use bullets, or some sort of small image that you can attach an ALT tag to, this will ad more importance to the link, and throw in a couple of free keywords for you.
Keep these 9 aspects in mind when designing a site, and you are sure to have a leg up on the competition to get Be on 1st Page of Google.

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Effective Tips to Increase Alexa Traffic Rank

Efeective Tips to increase Alexa Traffic Rank
There are many ways to judge your site rank compare to other websites in terms of traffic, visitors like Google Pagerank, MozRank, Alexa Traffic Rank. In above, Google Pagerank and Alexa Traffic Rank are so popular and used to judge any site for many reasons.

When your site get certain level in terms of traffic and fresh content, Google will improve your Pagerank, Pagerank updates will take a good effort. Alexa is also a very good tool to judge your site ranking, visitor flow, traffic, backlinks and search term etc. Today Alexa be the main metrics to decide the popularity of a site.
Some Publisher Ad network like BlogAds etc provides the ad bids based on the Alexa Rank, good rank means good earning. So today almost all webmaster are trying to increase Alexa traffic Rank.
Alexa Rank is not much important while startup or say for newbies, but after getting certain level, It is necessary to build an image among visitors and other webmasters. Also it will help to improve your earning through Blogads and other Publisher network who bid your ad space based on Alexa Rank. Alexa Rank defines your site Authority
I have referred many threads at forum and some top websites about increase Alexa traffic Rank and concludes the following best tips for you. But before moving to the tips lets understand first, What is Alexa ?

What is Alexa ?

Alexa is a Web information Company, subsidiary of Amazon, decide and stores the website rank data based on the daily visitors and pageviews of a site. Alexa only calculates the traffic from visitors who have installed their Alexa Toolbar. More traffic means higher Alexa Rank, It also depends on the site niche, traffic sources etc.
Alexa is founded in 1996 in california as an Independent company and acquired by Amazon in 1999. Alexa collects the data of websites from their Toolbar installed in a browser and provides the collected view at their website, So more Alexa Toolbar visitors views means good Alexa Rank.

Many people say, Alexa rank is not accurate and not differed sometimes for months also, But from last year, I have seen daily updates of my site ups and downs, and their traffic estimation also quite right, Many SEO Gurus know that Alexa is the good place also to know the long tail keyword of your site that is generating search traffic. Further wasting any time, let’s come on a topic and understand how to increase Alexa traffic Rank effectively.

Improve Traffic at your site

I hope now you understand why I have written this steps first. Alexa systems ranks site based on the traffic so improving traffic to your site will boost your rank automatically. Let you refer some of my best traffic generation post through Blog commenting, Social Bookmarking and Guest Posting easily.


As mentioned earlier, Alexa Rank depends upon the traffic to your site. Google loves fresh and Unique content, It will give you quick rank in Google and improve your traffic and SERP’s. Fresh and unique content also improve your search engine visibility and backlinks. So research before to write your content, make it SEO friendly. Also add at least 2 fresh images related to your content. It will improve the readership and decrease the bounce rate.

Be Regular to Update your Blog 

Regular updating of your blog will improve your crawl rate and improve your Alexa Rank also. Based on your blog updation, Google botes will decide the crawl time. So be regular, If you are able to update 3 post weekly, maintain it at 2 days intewal. irregular updating sometimes lately crawl your content on Google. No one like dead blog, It will surely improve your Alexa Rank also.

Install Alexa Toolbar

Alexa will define the rank based on the site visitors having Alexa Rank Installed. So install Alexa Toolbar at your browser, All your visits to your site then converted in to traffic and will help to improve Alexa Rank. Also encourage to your visitors to install Alexa Toolbar by promoting a badge at your site. Yo can also customize Alexa Toolbar by putting your site feed inside the toolbar, so your visitors always be in touch with the latest updates of your site and improve your traffic.

Put Alexa Widget on your site  

Create Alexa javascript widget and put it on your site sidebar showing your site Alexa Rank. Make the Alexa widget here.

Encourage your Visitors to Install Alexa Toolbar 

Make a customize Alexa Toolbar and encourage your visitors to install it by putting a badge at your site. When the same visitor will come again, it is brought to notice to Alexa it will improve your rank.
Create your Custom Alexa Toolbar here.

Claim your site at Alexa. 

Here is the like to claim your site at Alexa, Refer the below video on How to Claim you site at Alexa.

Make Quality Backlinks = More Traffic

Quality backlinks will improve your site search engine visibility and improve your SERP’s, So Traffic will improve, there is no doubt. Such traffic will improve your Alexa Rank Quickly. Nofollow backlink will not create any value to the search ranking, so try to make dofollow backlink from high PR sites.
Find some best sites to build Quality dofollow Backlinks.
High PR CommentLuv Blogs for getting dofollow Backlinks
Top High PR forum for Getting dofollow Backlinks
Sharing some important feedback of Internet Gurus on Alexa Rank.

Conclusion 

Alexa Rank is not much important while startup or say for newbies, but after getting certain level, It is necessary to build an image among visitors and other webmasters. Also it will help to improve your earning through Blogads and other Publisher network who bid your ad space based on Alexa Rank. Alexa Rank defines your site Authority. So try the above tips to increase Alexa traffic Rank and let you give informative comments on it and share your valuable experience.

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How to Increase Adsense CPC Rate

Increase Adsense Pay Per Click or Cost Per Click rate

There is no doubt Adsense is world’s top most and highest paying Ad CPC Publisher network and used by approx 90% webmasters. So How to increase Adsense CPC (Cost per Click) is a common and famous question for all webmaster. I have used so many technic in my 5 years of experience in three education and tech blogs and conclude some of the very effective tips to increase Adsense CPC. So hope the same will be useful for you also. Let it discuss in details.
Refer - Increase Page Rank – Top Effective Tips

What is Adsense CPC or PPC ?

Cost Per Click (CPC) or Pay Per Click (PPC)- Webmaster Earns some bucks by simply clicks per Ads on their Advertisements by their site visitors. CPC is varies by county to country. For example in India, CPC ratio is in between 0.06 $ to 0.4 $
Read more on : Google Adsense

Why to Increase Adsense CPC ?

Every blogger and webmaster is having aim to get high revenue from Adsense, for that they simply focus on increasing their Blog traffic and on making better SEO, but they missed to optimize their site to get high CPC Ads and they may get good traffic but lower CPC clicks and low earning. So it is required to learn about getting high CPC ads on your site so that you can earn more Adsense revenue per click.
Also the good CPC Ads is not enough to get much earning from Adsense, you should have that much of traffic also to give you a good CPC clicks. Read some of my articles to improve blog traffic.
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Refer the following tips to increase your site Adsense CPC.

Site Niche – It is very important for getting high CPC ads

Your site niche plays the great and important role to pull the high CPC ads on your site, Ads shows on your site is based on your site content or say niche on which you are writing so choosing a right niche to increase CPC should be the first choice. Some niche like gaming, casino, jobs etc have low CPC and some like weight loss, Health, Banking etc earns you 1$ to 2$ per click. Listed here some good niche topics, you should write on it and can get good change in your CPC.

1. Weight Loss
2. Banking
3. Health
4. Beauty
5. Real Estate
6. Tech
7. Travel
8. Education

Traffic Sources – Another important point.

Traffic sources is the another very important topic to optimize for getting higher CPC ads, like in India or Asian traffic, not more than 0.4$ CPC you get but for western country traffic you can get up to 2$ to 4$ CPC ads.
So you need to try to write such content to attract more visitors from western counties also.

Pagerank

Higher the pagerank, more the chances of getting higher CPC ads on your site, every advertisers wants their ads on high traffic and reputed

blogs, so at that condition Pagerank plays the important role. Google find such blogs based on Pagerank and provides good CPC ads, after PR4 google provides some good CPC ads as per my experience.

Ad Placement and Sizes

Currently Google Adsense allows 3 ad units on site except premium publishers, more ads pulls low CPC ads. if you place 3 ad unit on your site you may get one of them good CPC ad but rest will be low CPC. so placing 1 or 2 ad unit will improve CPC rate of that ad unit.
Also ad unit at top of the blog page gives you better results than at the end. 336×280 ad unit has good performance except all. Banner ad you can put at the end. Also allow to have text and image link ads, Adsense also recommend the same to increase CPC rate.

Recommended Ad placement
336×280 Ad unit – below the post title
300×250 Ad unit – Below the post
Horizontal Banner – at Bottom
Also you can place link unit at top, bottom or at side bar but not recommended.

Other Ad Network – competition is good always

By serving other ad network ads on your site will push Google to display higher CPC ads to beat the competition and to ensure that Google is the sole network of all.
I haven’t tried yet but based on review and reference it may useful, try your self and get back.

Write lengthier Post

Some times, due to low content in your post, Google bot can not identify the best keyword of your post and in such condition shows the default and low CPC ads, so in such condition lengthier post will give enough keywords and help Google bot to identify the right keyword so chances for getting right ads will increase.

Site Performance

Recently Google added some features in Adsense Dashboard for site performance, speed etc now the same also plays a good role for it. Good performance and speedy site get good CPC ads. so try to optimize it.

Ads Review Centre

Inside the Google dashboard, you can find the Ad Review centre, where you know that which ad unit plays the good role and gives you good earning and which one are least, try to remove the unit gives the least earning and experiments others.

Keep Experiments

Based on the review centre feedback always try some new things and learn from it, choose best ad unit and best position based on your site heatmap and fix the same.

Conclusion

So, we have discussed on to increase Adsense CPC rate and discussed so many points, try the same in your site, I am sure it will change your CPC rate to some extent. Have feel or faced any such issues on your site and do you agree on that Niche of site and Traffic sources (country) plays the big role to get good CPC ads ? Please share your views through comments.

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Media.Net Review – Best Adsense Alternative of Yahoo Bing Network

Media.Net Review – A Yahoo Bing Publisher Network

When there is a option for earning money online through  blog, PPC Ad Network is a first option by most of the bloggers. The best reason is PPC Contectual Ad network will serve ads related to your content and so the CTR will be very high in compare to direct ads. Among all PPC Ad Network, Google Adsense is the best Contextual publisher network because of their highest CPC and CPM rates for all source countries and Niche.
But when if you are getting banned by Adsense for any reason, you will search for best Adsense Alternatives, Today, after Google Adsense, Media.Net is a best Alternative of Google Adsense because of their tie up with Yahoo Bing Network and good CPC and CPM rate.

Media.Net is good for small scale and big scale websites. There are many good things about Media.Net, the one is they are providing Dedicated Account Manager for quick start and setting up your pesonalized dashboard. The same service you can get at Adsense by getting Premium Adsense Account.

Currently, Media.Net is accepting Publisher
Account by request only. If you will get any request mail from Media.Net then trying is worth, however you can also visit their site and request for review your site and to give request mail for opening Publisher Account. Request an Invitation for Publisher Account at Media.Net

Let us discuss regarding Media.Net good and bad in compare with Adsense. It is always good to comapre with leader, right ?

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Why Media.Net Ad Publisher Network? Media.Net Review 

As it is an owned by Yahoo Bing Ads Network, so the first image is good and hence Media.Net will attract many Advertisors for getting Premium leads to their bussines. Refer the below discussion about Media.Net CPC, CPM, Ads Style, Type of Ads and on other major topic.
Ad Network – Media.net is basically contextual Ads Network, so it will serve ads based on Content of your site and that is the best way to improve your CPC and CTR. As I say earlier, Media.Net is the strong competitor of Adsense so many things you get here same as Adsense. Contextual Ad network is
like, if your one of the blog article is about computor, then Media.Net will serve the Advertisements related to computor or its assesories. Such way you can get very good CTR (Click through Rate) and earning also.
Type of Ads – Media.Net is serving the same ads option in size like Adsense. All different sizes are available as per your requirement same as Adsense Ads unit. Apart from that they are providing Mobile Ads with the same network. In Adsense before 2 years, Mobile ads option was their inside the Adsense Dashboard but now they separate both the Publisher options and serving Mobile Ads through Admob.

Dash Board – Media.Net provides Dedicated Account manager for all account, compare to that, Google Adsense provide such service to Premium Adsense Account only. So that is the good thing for Media.net to optimize your earning.

Technical Support -  I am so surprised to see such a wonderful Technical support they provide, I was firstly invited by Media.Net but you I was not interested more as I am satisfied with my Adsense Account, So I have simply replied them why I joined you and How I can earn more. I have got replied within the same day with proper point to point reply and also he gave their total contact information and told me to assist throughout the journey, I have never received such type of mail from Adsense directly from Adsense officials for any reason. I like their Technical Support service, He also suggest me some banner size and location to earn more and improve CTR after reviewing my site.

Good Platform to Earn More – Because of Yahoo and Bing big Network involved, the inventory of Ads and list of Advertisers are very sound and provides the good Ads bids that will earn you more.

Easy Payout – Payout is easy and at 100$. Currently Paypal and Wire Transfer Payment option are available.

Unlimited Websites - After getting approval of one of your site, Media.Net allow to serve their Ads to all your websites with the same account manager same as Adsense.

How to Join Media.Net – As Media.Net is not directly open for all publisher but accept only those having some good amount of traffic specially from US/UK or good niche website with quality content. However they are sending request for signup otherwise you can also put a request to invite your for the same network.
Request an Invitation for Publisher Account at Media.Net
http://www.media.net/publishers
Typically, Bing and Yahoo Ad network will provide their Ads inventory
through Media.Net so if you want to use Bing Ad Network then its better to request an invite at Media.Net. After getting requuest mail from Media.Net, their one of representative will give your the Account manager Login details to add your details.

Adsense Vs Media.Net – Comparison

Topic	Google Adsense	Media.Net - A Yahoo Bing Publisher Network
Owner and Ads Inventories	Adsense is Owned by Google so All Ad Inventories are for Adsense Only.	Media.Net is owned by Bing Yahoo Network and hence All Media.Net Ads Inventories are shared between Yahoo, Bing and Media.Net
Dedicated Account Manager	Provides Dedicated Account Manger for Premium Adsense Publisher Only	Provides Dedicated Account Manger for all Publisher Account
CPC Rate	Adsense have lot more Ads inventories around the world so their CPC rate is much much higher.	Media.Net Ads inventory is good but low compared to Adsense, their Ads CPC rate is good for US/UK Traffic but low for other countries.
Approval Process	User should signup for the Adsense Publisher Account, Team will review and provide approval based on some minimum quality and traffic of the site.	User can not signup, but he account creation will be done based on the Invitation given by Media.Net team, However you can also request them to invite you for their program. Approval require some good amount of traffic from US/UK countries.
Payout	Payout is 100$	Payout is 100$
CPM Rate	Google Adsense CPC rate is not beatable and best in the industries, for US/UK Traffic you can get up to 100$ CPM Ads bid and for Asian Counties you can get minimum 1.5$	Media.Net is targeting mostly US/UK Traffic so their CPM rate may also be good for US/UK depending upon site niche. For Asian Counties They will give 0.6 to 1$ CPM Ad bid which comparatively higher then other Ad network but can't beat Google Adsense.

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Conclusion on Media.Net Review
Media.Net is a second trusted and highest paying Publisher Ad Network in the Industries. For Adsense Alternatives, I will put Media.Net on 1^st number because of their dedicated service, Targeted Ads Inventories and good CPC and CPM ads. Share your experience with Media.Net through comments. Hope you get enough information about Media.Net Reviw.

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Increase Alexa Rank in a Week

Alexa is one of the leading website which gives ranks to the whole websites based on the traffic they receives. Alexa is a subsidiary of popular website amazon.com. Basically Alexa serves rank based on the amount of visitors visits a website who had installed their toolbar. However this is not the exact algorithm with which they provides the rank.
This traffic is calculated based on several parameters like page views and reach. The reach means the visitors who visited a particular website. However this value is unique. Page views means the number of times a page is viewed. This is not unique. If a person visited a website and surfed 5 pages, then the reach is 1 and page views is 5. Alexa Algorithm keep track of this reach and page views and ranks a website with the average value of three months.

Advantages of Increase Alexa rank of your website

Thinking deeply, there is nothing more in increase alexa rank of any website. By Increasing Alexa rank, you would not get any benefit of Search Engine Ranking position or Page Ranks. As Google not associated with Alexa, they won’t care about it. High Alexa rank is only for a show. However, there are many advantages for this robotic ranking facility.

• Two or more website can be easily classified based on the amount of visitors they receives. If you have a competitor, you can easily figure out which of the website gets more traffic and page views.
• If your website ranked well in alexa, your website get more advertising opportunity. If you have focused on a theme and maintained good rank, you may receive many sponsorship and huge paying advertisements.
• You can focus on Search engine Optimization by comparing your Alexa Rank.

Increase Alexa rank by this natural methods

1: Registering on Alexa

If you are a beginner, you must register on alexa.com for fastest indexing of your blog. If you got some rank, you can easily maintain it by receiving traffic. If you remain unregistered, Alexa bot won’t get index you and you may not receive ranking quickly. If you have a little bit of traffic and unranked on alexa, registering result in a quick ranking with in 2 or 3 days.
2. Install Alexa rank widget
This plays an important role in Alexa rank. Every time your website loads up, this widget also loads up. There would be a significant communication between the widget scripts to the ranking algorithm. If you have no widget, it would be difficult for alexa bot to extract visitor details easily. So try this fast if you are curious to get ranking.
3. Installing Alexa Toolbar
People browsing a website by enabling Alexa toolbar on the browser get easily notified by alexa. Such surfing website normally earns some ranks quickly. They introduced such a toolbar for the fastest ranking of website with good traffic. The toolbar sends the data about which website get surfed more.
4. Applying Search Engine Optimization methods
By doing SEO activities, you will earn huge amount of organic traffic towards your website. This will continues until you lose the SERP. So SEO is the best way to increase Alexa Rank. Talking about SEO is not a simple task. It is a huge area. However you can try the common SEO techniques like title and meta tag optimization and link building.

Jingling The quickest Alexa rank increasing tool

Jingling is the simple and lightweight tool that drives unlimited traffic towards any website. Internet world considers Jingling as a Chinese shit which is documented in Chinese language. You can add 5 websites on Jingling and run them simultaneously. With in seconds this software drives traffic from all over the world. Most of them are from US. This software uses the proxy server feature to send traffic towards any site.

• Download and Install Jingling from here.
• Now add your website to this software for execution.
• View your website stats after 1 or 2 minutes. You can watch the dramatic increase in stats.
• Here is the documentation of Jingling in English. so that you can easily navigate through it.

NB: Using jingling for increasing alexa rank on a website running Cost per Impression programs like Google Adsense, Buysellads are strictly against their Terms and Conditions. So better to remove those programs before testing Jingling. Nobody undertakes the responsibility of those accounts one you lost it.

Conclusion

It is very easy to increase alexa rank of any website. Unlike Google Page rank, it is not based on several factors. Alexa is only based on the direct traffic a website receives. Thus by increasing the amount of visitors to a website, alexa rank dramatically increases. The natural ways like SEO, referring etc can influence on a websites Alexa rank. The software jingling can provide fake traffic to your website. Thus by applying it, you can quickly increase your websites alexa rank.

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Important Factors Determining Online Reputation Management

Reputation has taken on a whole new meaning because of the Internet. Nowadays, it's effortless to know a person and form impressions of them based on how you see them online, through social media sites. It's so easy to tell how a person might be like based on status updates, shared photos, and their online interaction with other social media users. If you can know so much about a person through social media, what more if it's a business establishment?

Online reputation management means that one pays close attention as to how a person, establishment, or organization appears online. It involves keeping a close watch on what is said about them on the Internet and responding to these reactions in a professional and positive manner. A lot of major brands now use the Internet as a way for them to reach out to their patrons. It's not just about having an official Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram account, but more of keeping these accounts alive and interacting constantly with their followers.


There are many important factors concerning online reputation management. Here are some of the basics that falls under such kind of online management system:

1. Social media platforms

You've probably seen these words with some familiar brand names:

• "Like us on Facebook"
• "Follow us on Twitter"
• "Follow our Instagram page"

These phrases are a way for brands to reach out to their customers and maintain their following, all while doing their best to hook in new patrons as well. Social media websites have become more popular than ever, because it's free to sign up, and it's the best way to interact with people who closely follow the brand. Using social media to manage online reputation can rake in big benefits. It's not just about being present on Facebook or Twitter, but making sure that those who manage social media accounts maintain an active interaction and response to customer feedback. Study how other major brands manage and maintain their social media interaction, and find ways on what works for your own brand.

2. Search Engine Results Page (SERP)

Search Engine Results Page refers to the first results that crop up after doing a Google search on a product, service, or brand. One who does online management reputation must know how to utilize related brand keywords wisely so that the related pages instantly appear after doing a search for a brand name. Major social media networks prove to be authority sites in search engine results page, and therefore, knowing how to manage these social media accounts is a must.

3. Negativity

Not everything said online about a brand is positive. It happens most of the time that some negative reviews will pop up after doing a Google search about a product or service. This can't be helped, but what can be controlled is how the social media specialist responds to these negativity being said about their products and services. There are really some people out to say bad things about something, but do keep in mind that real complaints and issues must be addressed promptly. Your patrons must be assured that the management is doing their best to address their issues. A proactive way of responding to online negativity is a good thing.

4. Customer Involvement

Don't just let your customers shy away from your social media page. One way to keep them from visiting is to encourage customer involvement, like posting pictures or videos of using a brand's products and services and sharing them on the official page. Contests are also a good idea, as this means that a brand values customer loyalty and encourages new patrons as well.

5. PR Strategy

Come up with an active strategy that involves not just releasing news about your brand. Think out of the box when it comes to a specific and effective PR campaign for your brand, like keeping track with your partners and finding active sponsors to get the word out.

What people say about your brand cannot be totally controlled. But social media practitioners can control their brand image and make sure that they always appear to be positive and relevant for their patrons. All it takes is to manage their online presence and reputation in a wise, active, and constant manner.

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Fetch as Google Adds Page Rendering

Google has announced an addition to the Fetch as Google tool in Webmaster Tools, allowing webmasters to render their webpage as Googlebot sees it and address any issues.

When selecting the Fetch and Render option, you have the option to have Googlebot fetch as Desktop, Mobile: Smartphone, Mobile: XHTML/WML or Mobile: cHTML. This option will help webmasters determine if there are any issues with the mobile version versus the desktop version of the site, as well as identify rendering issues.
The new Fetch and Render option takes longer than the usual Fetch option, which checks the crawlability of your site and then lets you submit pages to Google's index.

To access the Fetch as Google tool, simply log into your Webmaster Tools account, click on Crawl > Fetch as Google. It will default to the homepage of the site you have selected, or you can specify a page on the site, then select the Render option.
Be aware that when you Fetch as Google, Googlebot will honor any robots.txt or meta-tags that prohibits Google from crawling correctly. So if your site is in development, you’ll need to temporarily allow Googlebot if you want to check for issues prior to launching.
Fetch as Google with rendering is now live on all Google Webmaster Central accounts.

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Five Social Media Mistakes You Make

Social media has exploded. It has even overtaken porn as the No. 1 activity on the Web.
Twitter has found a new home in Smartphones with its 140 character-limit. Google + is catching up on Facebook because it’s tied in tightly with Google accounts, and you even see a Google+ icon inside Gmail now.
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social media platforms on earth.
Yes, social media is hot property and, if done right, you can reap huge results with almost little or no investment to start with.
But it also comes with a neon-warning sign if you’re just following the herd and have no idea how to work magic on social media.
The most common attributes of this group are being inexperienced and lazy with social media. Either they don’t know what they are doing, or they simply don’t care too much to do what they should be doing.
Here are five common social media mistakes a lot of businesses make. Could you be making these mistakes too?

1. Measuring the Wrong Things
You’ve got exactly 2,897 followers on Twitter, 6,091 followers on Pinterest and a whopping 10k on Facebook. Great right?
Not necessarily.
For the amateur marketer, it’s a benchmark to reach their first 1,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook. What they forget to consider is the purpose of these likes and how it impacts the business (if at all).
There’s hardly any point behind buying ‘likes’ (yes, people do that) or bribing them into liking your page, never to return again.
Don’t get me wrong — I think giveaways are a great strategy, but what you do after you’ve gained a fan matters the most.
So don’t just measure the number of followers or fans, measure how engaged they are with your brand. Watch metrics like number of shares, tweets or retweets, comments on a post you made, photo views, and even negative feedback such as people “reporting” your page as spam, hiding your stories etc.

2. Being Unclear on Your Goals
Because it’s so easy and free to do so, many businesses open up a social media account and start pushing content in the hopes of gaining exposure and business.
What they forget is the purpose behind their page in the first place. Since there is no clear defined goal for the account, soon they abandon the page because it is not yielding any leads or business.
Beware what you do on the Internet because there’s someone always reading about or watching you. An abandoned social media page that was updated three months ago? Not a great way to build connection with a prospect.
If you’re stuck and unsure what to do with your social media, take a break and come up with the answer to this: Why am I creating this page?
Know exactly what you want from your social media efforts. Is it to connect with new prospects? To answer customer queries and blow them away with your awesome customer service? Build brand awareness?
What’s it going to be for you?
Once you’ve identified a clear “why,” the “how” will follow.

3. Not Going Visual
Smart marketers are shifting focus from social to visual-social and for good reason.
The human brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than pure text. In the online world, you have only got as low as three seconds.
Try remembering a 12-digit string of numerals and alphabets. Hard to do, isn’t it? Now grab it as a picture in your mind and try again. You’ll notice that visualizing it as an image makes the process of memorizing quicker.
So the faster they can process your information, the more the chances they will stick to your page longer. Your goal is to create “sticky” pages online.

Visitors will skim through your page before making a decision whether they have come to the right place. If not, they will quickly leave.
Photo posts on Facebook get 39 percent more interaction. Interaction could mean likes, comments or click-throughs. On Twitter, image links get two times the engagement rate as compared to those without one.
YouTube just passed four billion video views. At the time of writing this, Pinterest is the second largest traffic-generating website in the world with 70 million users.
Eighty percent of the pins on Pinterest are “repins” or shared content — so if you create your own original content, you are among the few 20 percent whose content gets shared.
And you don’t have to spend a fortune on creating your own visual content either — tools such as Visme, Canva and PicMonkey let you do it for free.
Share “snackable” visual elements like videos, infographics, visual calls-to-actions that people love sharing. Get creative and add your logo to your images.

4. Too Many Social Media Accounts
There’s a plethora of social media platforms out there – Facebook, Google +, Vine, Instagram, Pinterest, Ning, Tumblr, Twitter and so on.
If you’re on every other social platform, I have one question for you: Why?
Different platforms suit different business. I once had a client who was using rigorous Facebook marketing to drive traffic to their website. They were getting some momentum but nothing mind-blowing.
After a little probing, we found their ideal prospects were in the age group of 55-64, which happens to be the fastest growing demographic on Twitter. We set up a Twitter account for them, created an editorial calendar for Twitter and boom. The progress on Twitter was much faster than on Facebook.
So you see, you don’t have to be there everywhere. Pick one ideal platform and rock at it. You can breathe now.

5. Me, me, me!

If there’s a shortcut to social media FAIL, this is it. Your social media is all about you. It’s your brand, your cool product, your slick new feature.
People are looking for interesting conversations, helpful discussions and meaningful connections that are about them, not you.
It’s a classic formula that probably makes super-hero films successful. A moviegoer imagines himself as the super-hero. That’s when he can relate with the hero in the movie.
Think about someone you know who just likes to talk about himself. Do you enjoy his company? Chances are you don’t and you want to run for the hills every time he invites you over dinner.
Now contrast this with someone who loves to hear about your day, your new pet project, and your life. Sure, you’d love that!
Remember, advertising is not social media. You cannot only keep posting blurbs about your new thing, offer discounts, and push coupons on social media. If that’s what you’ve been doing, it’s time to stop and devise a new strategy. Advertising is not a social media strategy.
Naturally, everyone is looking for some business out of social media marketing. But it’s a big mistake to put sales before building connections. People will eventually buy from you, but before that, you need to make a connection and build trust.
Try doing that by replying to their retweets and mentions on Twitter and comments on Facebook. Keep a tab of which “lists” you’re added on in Twitter. This gives you a great idea of how followers and fans perceive you.

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