Some Frequently Asked Questions About rel="author"

Google Authorship helps authors get their content associated with their name, so people can recognize them. Not only that, it helps them get going with their PageRank, which ultimately effects the search rankings of their content. And besides showing your author profile picture in search results (which has an immediately positive effect on your Click Through Rate), it also makes more posts by the author accessible to the searcher, hence retaining more value from a single searcher. Since it is such an important question, people ask a lot of questions regarding rel="author" and Google Authorship. We'd like to address some of them with the help of Google in this post.

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Publishers can now Monetize Online Games with TrueView and AdSense

Whether you're a casual internet surfer, or someone with a lot of free time on hand, you must have spent some time playing around with some online games to kill time or to have some fun. Game publishers are increasingly working to expand their empires, and to attract a larger audience. And with large audiences come opportunities to make money. To that effect, game publishers have been working with AdSense for distribution, download and in-game advertising. And Google sure has recognized a growing advertiser demand to reach highly engaged games audiences, as it has just announced the launch of the TrueView video ad format across its game monetization platforms.

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5 Useful WordPress Database Queries for Important Tasks

One of the many reasons why we like WordPress is the power and flexibility that the publishing platform provides. It offers so many customizations, and you can do so much more with it. One of the best features about it is, you can use and interact with WordPress Databases to add your own functionality, and extract some extra data that you can't normally do without installing some third party plugins. For those of our readers who're WordPress users, we'd like to share some simple (and some advanced) MySQL database queries you can run to do some advanced and useful actions.

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Mohammad's Exclusive Live Interview on Planet FM 94

This is a quick post to inform all our readers and dedicated contributors that I will be giving an Exclusive Live Interview on behalf of STC Network to Radio Planet FM 94 this Saturday from 1:00 PM onwards till 3:30 PM. The show will be hosted by country wide renown RJ and Pakistan Media Awards 2012 Nominee RJ Haroon. The Interview is a two and a half hours consecutive Nationwide Broadcast on the most searched topic "How to Make Money Online From your Living Room?". The interview will be Live on every smartphone, PC, and Radio connected to FM 94 audio stream. You can hear it Live via any mobile device if you live in Pakistan or you can hear it Live using the Official Pakistan Radio website. Both our National and International readers have a great opportunity to discover the methods and strategies that we have been following for years and which has made a small kid like me into a grown up entrepreneur today with a fully established business recognized by Federal Board of Revenue Pakistan.

Update: LUCKY DRAW! 2 Dinner Vouchers of SUBWAY To Live Callers!

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Watch Live Hangouts of AdSense Experts on Mobile Optimized Sites

If you still haven't learnt about the AdSense 10 Challenge, then you have been missing out on a lot of opportunities to learn and explore new things! Google launched the AdSense 10 Challenge in June as a way to help publishers become AdSense experts, and meet members of the AdSense community online. Since then, loads and loads of people have joined in and caught the action live on their computer screens through various Hangouts on Google+. If you've missed all of the happenings, worry not! There are still two more weeks to go, and you can catch the last few lectures where AdSense Experts will be talking about AdSense for mobile optimized sites.

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SEO Settings for rel=prev and rel=next

Sites often tend to paginate their content into several, smaller logical chunks that make it easier for readers to navigate through and keep track of. You can often see this type of thing in in-depth product reviews, where there are different sections divided into different pages. Similarly, news and other such publishing sites often tend to divide a very long article into several smaller chunks. Discussion forums also often break threads into sequential URLs. People have often asked us about how to handle such type of Pagination from a SEO point of view, because you want search engines to be able to associate all the related 'pages' together. Well, today, we'll tell you about the correct SEO Settings to paginate large content on your site.

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How To Create a Sitemap for Videos?

Yesterday, we talked about how showing Video Previews in search results can boost your click through rate. In getting your Rich Snippet Video Previews into Google Search Results, a necessary step is to create a video sitemap, and then submit it to Google. While there might be some free online tools to do the job for you, they aren't all very convenient to use. And there's no dedicated plugin for this kind of job for free either. That pretty much leaves it upto you to create a sitemap manually, and submit it to Google. in this post, we'll walk you through creating a basic sitemap that will get the job done for you.

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