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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How To Show Rich Snippet Video Previews in Search Results?

You've seen Rich Snippet Video Previews before. When you search for something in Google Search, you can sometimes see a couple relevant video results from YouTube (and occasionally some other video hosting sites), with small Video Previews right there on the results page. These Video previews draw the users' eye, and can increase the CTR (Click-Through Rate). But that is as far as Video hosting websites like YouTube go. How do you go about showing Video Previews for your own site? They could help you get more hits. Today, we'll talk about how to show these Rich Snippet Video Previews in Search Results.

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How To Delete Your Entire Facebook Search History

Ever searched Facebook to look up that someone special (or not so special for that matter)? Perhaps you just wanted to know when that person's birthday is, or maybe you're looking for an old, embarrassing photo of them. In any case, most people stalk others at one point or another, whether it's just a friend, or a long-time crush. You probably don't remember it (or won't admit it :P), but Facebook does. It keeps a record of your entire creepy search history. And although that history is safely hidden in your account with its privacy set to "Only me", you still never know when your friends might get into your account, which is something you definitely don't want! Here's how you can delete your entire Facebook search history to prevent yourself from embarrassment.

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How to Make Smartphone Sites Load Fast?

According to the latest researches, it is estimated that around 15% of all internet users are mobile users who typically use smartphones or tablets to browse the internet. And a large majority of those mobile users need to find instant results. Indeed, the whole point of using internet on a smartphone is it's quick mobility and its convenience. Hence, site load speed makes all the difference in the mobile web. The average mobile page takes around 7 seconds to loads. But wouldn't it be great if you could greatly reduce that time to under 1 second for a decreased bounce rate? Today, we'll talk about how Google is helping webmasters optimize their website for mobile, and decrease their load time.

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Eid-ul-Fitr 2013 Mubarak To Everyone!

So, the Holy Month of Ramadan came and went by once again, and even as I write this, I wait for the final Iftaar (braking fast) of the month. The time of spiritual contemplation and reflection ends with this Iftaar, and the festivities begin! And this is what Eid-ul-Fitr is all about! Enjoying the successful passing of another Blessed month whereby the human spirit gets rejuvenated, and heads off with a fresh start. We would therefore like to include all of our beloved readers in the festivity, and we'd like to wish you all a very happy Eid Mubarak on behalf of me and the rest of the STCNetwork team! And to further this gesture, Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai of the STC Network is also appearing tonight on national Radio (FM Planet 94) to wish everyone a happy Eid, and to share his views regarding the youth, and the importance of entrepreneurship today.

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Helpful documents to Read Before Asking Google a Question

Whenever faced with a problems, many users are often quick to turn to Google for help. Some use Google Search while others, especially webmasters and website owners, contact Google on one of the various platforms available, from the Google Webmaster Tools forum to contact forms such as the one for reconsideration requests. A lot of the users' questions require in-depth answers, something which cannot be answered in a forum or in an email. Therefore, Google is rolling out a new feature that will help users find in-depth articles for their queries. For webmasters, we'll share some useful articles and documents from Google that they should read before directly contacting Google.

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Google will Penalize all sites Sharing widgets, Plugins and Templates

Google keeps on changing its algorithms and policies regarding link building and link exchange. This time around, in their updated link schemes document under the Webmaster guidelines, Google has included large-scale guest posting, advertorials, and links in distributed articles/press releases/products to be in violation of their policies. This new development is among the stream of other changes Google has made so far this year, and seems to be an alarming one. Because not only will it apply to large scale guest posting and press releases, it will also apply to sites sharing free widgets, plugins, and templates, and then linking to themselves in those products.

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10 Best Desktop SEO Software to Optimize Your Site

Whoever said you need to go to online services each time you want to look over at the Search Engine Optimization of your website? SEO is not a one-time process. Rather, it's an on-going one, which might make going repeatedly online to different sites a drudging work. To make it easier, there are certain desktop SEO software that you can install right to your computer, and they will work in the background when you're not interacting with them, hence making ordinary tasks SEO tasks easier for you. Here are the 10 best desktop SEO software to optimize your website.

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Find and Remove Unnatural Links in Blogger

You might have accumulated some links for your site over the course of its lifespan. But while backlinks remains an important factor in search rankings, search algorithms have come a long way in detecting bad links, and penalizing websites for them. Which is why it might be time for you to do a link audit for your site, and remove any unnatural links that might be holding you back in search result pages. Continue reading this post to find out how to find, and clean up your bad links efficiently.

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How To Embed Facebook Posts in Blogger?

Social media has taken the web by storm, and is now increasingly being integrated with various services. Social recommendations have now become a lot more important then they were a few years ago as compared to organic search, which goes on to show that the way the average internet surfs is changing. And it's no wonder that every social network wants you to share its content all over the web. For that effect, Facebook, following into the footsteps of YouTube and Twitter, has launched embeddable posts, which will enable blogs and websites to share status updates, pictures and videos that are on Facebook.

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Hire Google Analytics Experts for Free!

For any business venture, providing quality to your users can only get you so far. Business intelligence is one of the most crucial areas, your effort in which will decide how successful your business is going to be. Similarly, for a website, just knowing your performance and looking at the stats isn't enough. Understanding your site's performance can help you identify opportunities to improve results and meet your goals. To that effect, the Google Analytics team is now working on a new help feature, whereby you can get the best advice from the top Google Analytics Experts on your site's performance.

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5 Great sites To Promote your Music Online

Music/audio is another content vertical like images and videos. People have been going online for years and years looking for music audio and music videos. And today, it still remains one of the most popular niches on the internet. If you work around music, or like sharing music videos or mp3s, you need some serious promotion to make your contributions popular. Social media networks like Facebook can only get you so far. You'll need some more powerful sharing tools working at the back-end to make your music successful. Here are 5 great sites to promote your music online.

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3 Free Tools to Help Improve Your Google AuthorRank

Google AuthorRank is among the most trending SEO topics today, and is the subject of conversation on many blogs and forums. Chances are, in the near future, it could change search rankings as we know them. A while back, we discussed at length about what AuthorRank is, and how it's different from PageRank. Google obviously is trying to get more and more people to use Google+, so that authors can be socially recognized, and then associated with a website's content. But while Google is at it, AuthorRank won't start working out of the box. You will have to make adjustments to your site too, and incorporate Authorship. That said, let's take a look at some tools that will help you get started, and improve your AuthorRank for, and when, it really starts influencing search results.

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Pinterest launches Mobile Apps, Bookmarks, and more for Pinning on the go!

Pinterest is the social network that connects people through images. To make it easier for people to pin photos, and find others' pins, Pinterest has now launched separate mobile apps for Android and iOS smartphones. What with the many other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter bringing new updates, Pinterest has followed suit; and along with many other updates such as bookmarks (and bookmarklets), buttons and widgets, Pinterest seems to finally have the right toolkit for providing their users with the flexibility, functionality, and mobility that they need.

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How To add a "Click to Tweet" link to Quotes within your posts?

Tweet buttons on a website allows users to tweet the link to a post or page, along with its entire meta title. But the title isn't always what you want users to tweet, since it is designed with SEO in mind, and could look unseemly and out of place on Twitter. Instead, you might want users to tweet about an interesting fact, a quote or an opinion. Wouldn't it be cool if users could simply tweet that specific quote or fact by just clicking on a link or button? Check out how to create "Click to Tweet" links for quotes within your posts or pages.

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5 Alternative to Google AdWords for Effective Keyword Research

Most people use data from Google AdWords for their keyword research. But what many don't realize is, there are a bunch of other tools out there that can be a valuable source of information as well. The more keyword research you do for your content, the likelier it is to catch up on search results. But more isn't always better. The trick is to do different types of research. For example, you might want to find out what smartphone and tablet users are searching for, because mobile search accounts for almost 15% of all global searches. Here are different alternatives to Google AdWords for effective keyword research.

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5 Ways to SEO Optimize Your Site with Screaming Frog

Screaming frog is a a useful SEO spider tool that can be used to crawl your website's links, images, CSS, scripts, and apps from the SEO perspective. If you didn't know about it already, then where have you been? :). It is a small desktop software that will let you crawl an entire site on demand, and will help resolve common SEO issues with your website. But crawling isn't all it's good for. It can do much, much more. In this post, we'll show you some of the most important uses of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool.

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Create a Sticky Floating bar in Genesis Framework

If you are a CopyBlogger StudioPress Customer and uses Genesis as your Wordpress theme Framework, then you may know that playing with core genesis theme functions ain't that easy unless you know a better shortcut. In this tutorial you will learn an extremely easy way to create a sticky floating bar to show Random Headlines in your Wordpress blogs powered by Genesis. We won't be using PHP but would use JavaScript for our front-end scripting. Just like HelloBar and several other attention grabber bars, you can create a custom one for free. This long horizontal Stickybar can be added at Blog Footer or Header and is fully responsive in design. It will display rotating Links of your most recent posts in random order on each page refresh. A New headline will appear on every next pageview, thus giving you an extra advantage of increased Pageviews. It also contains a light toggle button to hide or show the sticky bar. I have created both Static and Dynamic versions of this bar for your convenience. Lets add this cute, light-weight stickyBar Plugin to your wordpress blogs!

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Find out how we made over 10,000 Views on SlideShare!

Have you ever considered how much slideshows can do to spice up your content? After all, they are a content vertical, just like images and videos. And as it turns out, they can bring in a lot of traffic too! In this post, we'll talk about how we generated over 10,000 views for our SlideShares. In yesterday's post, we talked at some length about driving traffic to your blog via slideshows. But today, we'll be more specific, and will focus on the slides themselves. And we'll show you by example how to create a successful slideshow.

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Show Random Headlines Inside Sticky Floating Bar

Ever wondered to create a Sticky Floating Bar to show Random headlines on your blog? We recently developed a small plugin in wordpress which we have implemented on our third blog hosted on wordpress and also on BlogSpot blogs of our existing clients. We introduced several versions of sticky bars for blogger blogs in 2012 but this one adds an extra functionality. It will show a random post on each page refresh! It uses Feedburner JavaScript snippet to fetch recent headlines from your Feeds and then displays a title randomly when user refreshes the webpage or navigates between pages. Also contains a toggle button to show and hide the headlines. You can customize it easily and change its location to top of page or at footer. Works best with fluid and responsive designs. The analytics for our newly launched blog has shown an amazing 30% increase in Pageviews just after we installed this plugin. I have developed both static and dynamic versions of it for both Blogger and Wordpress Genesis Framework.

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How To Use SlideShare to generate traffic

Slideshows are some of the most underestimated and under-used content verticals used on the web. By now, everyone knows the importance of images and videos along with textual content on their website/blog. But slideshows are still taking the back seat to other forms of content. However, there are some great slide sharing websites, such as SlideShare that you can make use of to drive some traffic to your blog. Who says you can get search traffic by just optimizing your own blog? If you're smart enough, you can use well optimized sites like SlideShare to get your slides into search results, and hence drive some secondary traffic to your own website!

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How To Gather Thousands of Traffic Catchy Ideas for your Content?

The secret to becoming a great content writer is to produce great content. Pretty straightforward, yes? What determines the traffic hits for your content is the topic. This 'topic' part is the most important one and also the first and foremost thing to decide before the actual writing. A content writer would always wish to acquire a constant source of unique and interesting topics for him to write on, but such a source is naturally not available. This is why generating ideas that can grab you an ample amount of traffic is the hardest step in online content writing. But there are solutions to every issue right? Let’s take a look at a few tips that can help you in generating traffic catchy ideas for your content.

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RebelMouse: Bloggers Can now build their Social Website!

“RebelMouse” is the new web service launched by Huffington Post CTO “Paul Berry”. It’s a free service that organizes your online presence into a sleek, beautiful, and dynamic social site. Currently the “RebelMouse” service is in beta, and new features are constantly being added. People make personal websites, but these personal pages are often neglected and are a source of constant embarrassment. Well, worry not. RebelMouse is there for you.

RebelMouse links your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more of your social sites to your RebelMouse page and publishes the content that you shared on these social network sites. You can then add content (Posts, Videos, and Images etc.) directly to your page, plus you can customize and rearrange your posts. The resultant is a sleek, good looking, social page that updates dynamically with your social network. In short, RebelMouse can be used to automatically generate a personal page with content that it pulls from your social networks.

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5 Tips to Increase Pageviews Using Images on your blog

A picture is worth a thousand words. Especially for a website, the importance of images is evident
from the enormous difference in the impacts a text-only versus an image-only website has on your minds. And in the current scenario when internet marketing
is one prime marketing channel, you need to make sure everything’s proper. As
for images, they not only contribute towards the beauty of your site but can
also be used as a marketing tactic to boost up your site’s conversion rate (how
many among the viewers convert to customers) provided you use them well. Let’s
take a look at a few tips and tricks about using images to boost up your site’s
conversion rate.

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50 Handpicked Blogger Plugins and Widgets!

Blogger is emerging as a powerful opponent to rest of the CMS platforms like wordpress and all. MBT has always created and promoted widgets and plugins for sites on blogger. So as a regular MBT reader myself, I have selected some of the best widgets developed so far for BlogSpot blogs, which I believe every blog must have. We are presenting a collection of 50 handpicked most trending plugins and widgets exclusively for blogger. I bet You can't afford to miss this post! ;)

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15 Content Writing Secrets of Professional Bloggers

Are you a writer? Do you try really hard to write an article
but still not get enough user response and feedback? You research for hours and
utilize your brain to its fullest and are still not able to produce an
effective piece of writing? What if I told you...you are not focusing on the
things that need to be focused on? Without knowing what qualitatively affects
your written content, how can you produce an effective one? Let me tell you a
few of the most important content writing tips you, as a content writer, should
know. These are also the various writing etiquettes and techniques used by the
professional bloggers which make their writing effective. So, instead of
blaming and underestimating yourself, focus on these 15 secrets to improve your
writing substantially:

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Ramadan Kareem Mubarak With our 1000th Post!

Let us wish our beloved readers a Happy Ramadan Kareem 2013, a month full of blessings, peace, tranquility and refrainment from all self desires (The Nafs). It is 11th July today, a time in lunar calendar when Saudi Arab is holding their Second Fast today and people in Pakistan and India are holding their first Fast. This is our 5th successful year of celebrating Ramadan with Blogosphere since 2009 and amazingly today's post marks the 1000th Blog Post on this small community blog! I was a teenager when I started serving Google blogger back in late 2008 and today running STC Network thanks to continuous love and support from all of you. Ramadan is the only month when we stop accepting New Service orders from Clients and we dedicate our full time to worship and also in serving visitors with interesting tutorials and widgets to glitter their online journals. Do you know why 2 Billion Muslims across the globe hold fasting in the month of Ramadan?

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30 Recommended SEO Settings for Blogger

Learning SEO is important for every webmaster and blogger. Why? Because no matter how great the content on your site is, you're not getting any of it into search results if you don't apply SEO tactics. SEO makes your content visible to the outside world. Therefore, for your content to actually bring in any traffic, you need SEO. We have previously shared various posts on search engine optimization, but today, I'd like to share some SEO settings that every blogger should apply on their blog. These are specific to Blogger, but that doesn't mean you can't apply some of them to other platforms.

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3 Secret SEO Techniques to Turn Images Into Backlinks

Here at MBT, we have talked a lot about how important backlinks are, and how to score great ones. But while we have discussed text-based links at a great length, we haven't really gotten around to talk about images, except from a search engine performance aspect. Yes, images are great for landing organic visitors, but you can get images to do a lot more for you, such as scoring you backlinks! Here are some of the ways you can use images to get great backlinks for your blog!

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Find Out When Someone Mentions You Without a Backlink!

Legitimate backlink building is one of the most important parts of building the reputation of a website or online business, Getting previous little backlinks from other sites is hard enough, and it really shows a great gesture when someone mentions you and links to you in their content. But often over the course of your name or brand's online lifespan, you will come across situations where your name or brand was mentioned, but you weren't linked. This is because some people just might not be willing to give out a link as easily, or they might just have overlooked it. In that case, you have to contact them personally and ask them for the favour. Today, we'll show you how you can find out when someone mentions you, but doesn't link to you.

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10 LINK BUILDING TECHNIQUES Google Penguin wont Mind!

Link building has now suddenly came into focus once again, as Google is repeatedly trying to stamp out black-hat SEO practices. So the trend now is on building legitimate backlinks rather than buying them off a cheap package. Even so, Google Penguin is still pretty touchy, and you need to build links with care. We earlier shared some great ways to earn trusted backlinks, and ways to score relationship-based links. We'll continue on with that thread, and share some more tips, this time on building links the Penguin-friendly way!

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5 Tips for RELATIONSHIP-BASED LINK BUILDING

Did you know, relationship-based backlinking is becoming popular again? What with Google rolling out updates to its Penguins, a lot of common (and often shady) SEO practices are being stamped out. And good old legit backlinking is now coming back, which is somewhat of a relief. We recently shared some great tips on getting high quality backlinks, so today, we decided to share some tips on relationship-based backlinking. A relationship-based backlink is a high quality backlink from a related authority site, or a niche influencer in other words. So suppose you have a site about SEO. What better backlink can there be than one from a reputed site such as SearchEngineLand or SEOMoz Blog? Here are 5 great tips for scoring relationship-based backlinks.

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Google Payment Banned in Pakistan by Western Union

We just discovered that On 29th June 2013, Western Union issued a notice to all its franchises in Pakistan to stop payments and transactions made by Google Inc. Whether you are a Google employee or AdSense Publisher, unfortunately you can no longer receive payments from Google through Western Union Quick Cash. We discovered this news today when I was shown the official notice which stated that due to several fraud cases being reported, Western Union has decided to cut down all transactions made by Google in Pakistan. Neither can a customer send money to Google as Sender nor receive a payment as the receiving party. So far Publishers living in Pakistan especially in cities like Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad are not yet informed through any communication medium. Neither have we heard anything from Badar Khushnood, the Country Google consultant. The information is undisclosed and both parties are trying to keep things confidential. We have not heard any print or electronic media reports on this so far.

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Update: Luckily the ban by western union on Google has been lifted. Bloggers can now withdraw their AdSense payment from any WU Franchise in Pakistan. The ban was lifted on 12th-13th July 2013. Then ban was put when WU found fake use of NIC cards and some hacking attempts but now things are all sort out and you can happily withdraw your hard earned money. Make sure you take Original NIC with you this time, duplicate copy wont be accepted as they have imposed strict rules now. We just withdraw it on 15th July! :)

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5 Smart Techniques to get .EDU AND .GOV BACKLINKS for your Blog?

Most people don't know how beneficial .GOV and .EDU backlinks can be, or whether they're useful at all for a website. It is easy to confuse their importance with that of other TLDs (Top Level Domains) such as .COM, .NET etc, and you'd figure that since .COMs are the most popular and the most expensive, ergo they're the most important. We'll, you'd be wrong to think that. A website's trust rating is far more important that what it cost to set it up. And as you can imagine, .GOV and .EDU top level domains enjoy a special level of trust which is regarded very highly by search providers such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. And backlinks from such domains can take your website's rank to another level. Here are some best techniques to get .GOV and .EDU backlinks for your site.

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Add Twitter Cards to Blogger Correctly

Most of you asked how do we add a "View/Hide Summary" link below our tweets. If you click the summary link it will expand and show the post description snippet, along with a thumbnail image, Page title and twitter account attribution. We achieved it by integrating "Twitter Summary Cards" with Blogger. Twitter card is not a new name because they were introduced last year and the reason we never talked about it was due to unavailability of custom XML tags in blogger code library. The image thumbnail tag provided by blogger is of small resolution i.e. 72 x 72 pixels and unfortunately Twitter still has problems fetching the thumbnail correctly. This made it difficult to implement twitter cards for blogger.

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6 SEO Reasons Why you Should Stop Using Zemanta

Recently in Feb 2013 Blogger integrated Zemanta with Blogspot blogs. Zemanta is indeed a great editorial plugin that helps you to write blog posts easily but unfortunately all such automated blogging tools does not help you to write well Optimized Blog posts that could protect you from the latest Google Penguin 2.0 Penalty! Penguin 2.0 is written especially to kill spam and unnatural links. Zemanta blogging Plugin as you will discover later in this post could badly impact the inbound and outbound link balance of your entire blog, if you are not well versed with SEO link attributes.

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Launching our 3rd Successful Blog!

Its 25th of June and the right time to unveil a new hatched egg in front of you all. The third successful blog of STC Network . We named it Rich Income Ways! Thanks to God and your consistent support, feedback and needed motivation, we are able to launch our third Major Blog project which would aim at introducing new faces in Blogosphere, Freelancing communities and Online Business Industry. This blog is indifferent in niche to our second blog Smart Earning Methods. The major difference is that we could not openly share luxury, lifestyle and success stories of existing entrepreneur and Internet Marketing giants on our Second Sister blog (which is under maintenance) and to fill up this gap we needed a more broader and fresher Domain where we could openly talk on these trending stories. Visit Now!

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Google Answers most common Reconsideration Request and Backlinks questions

As Google continually tries to rid the web of spam and improve a user's search experience, many webmasters ultimately feel the brunt of the changes being made, and a lot of backlink-related issues arise at that point. Many people then rush off to submitting their reconsideration requests because they assume they've been penalized for no reason at all. To help webmasters save their time and avoid any inconveniences, Google has answered some FAQs regarding some of the most common backlink and reconsideration request-related problems problems faced by webmasters.

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HostGator 's Biggest June Discount - 30% OFF!

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HostGator is now amazingly serving over 9 Million domains to this date. Whether it be internet marketers, celeb Bloggers or Corporate Ecommerce companies, hostGator is the only name you will see in their Whois Data. Each Month we receive coupons from this Giant blue Alligator and we share it with our readers to help them save few bucks and start their online business with this world's largest web hosting company. Just this month we purchased three more domains and expanded our network further. But wait! Before you make any purchases please first read this post carefully to know everything about webhosting and the correct plans which you must register for.

UPDATE 1: I was just notified that HostGator has thrown even a bigger discount of 35%! I have added that second coupon also for your convenience.

UPDATE 2: Time out! Congratulation to all those who utilized this great opportunity.

NOTE: Readers must keep track of time from the Top Black Sticky bar on our blog. Starting from today you have around 8 days to make use of this great opportunity and live your online dreams.

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AdSense Publisher Scorecard: Best Tips & Practices

After an interesting Hangout with AdSense Folks on 18th June at Google+, Susan Wojcicki announced about an interesting new feature called Publisher Scorecard that has been added to all AdSense accounts and the scorecard summary chart can be seen under the Home Tab. Scorecard is a tool that gives greater insights to Publishers to compare how well their Ad settings, Website load time and content is performing compared to other Publishers using AdSense as the contextual Ad network. It displays a summary of three important categories which includes Revenue Optimization, Site Health and Google+ button Integration. Each category is scored on a scale of 1-5 blue dots that indicate your performance rank or level. In today's tutorial we will learn every basic detail of this great scoring tool and will learn how to optimize our websites and blogs to increase the overall AdSense earning. Lets jump straight to this fun ride and make better money with AdSense!

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Top 10 Popular Bloggers from Nigeria – 2013

Blogging is popular business in Nigeria, especially now that a lot of people have come to realize the great potential it holds for them. Bloggers now take the business of blogging as a fulltime business, and they are making a lot of money just like their counterparts in the rest parts of the world. With an estimated population size of 160 Million people and over 60 million internet users, you can rest assured that bloggers in Nigeria enjoy good traffic to their sites.

In this post, we shall be looking at the top 10 popular bloggers in Nigeria – 2013, and see what makes them thick. With bloggers in virtually every field you can imagine – blogging, marketing, small business, health, sports, celebrity, photography, relations, SEO, etc. Nigeria, for sure, is a competitive market and only the best get recognized both locally and internationally.

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Use Google Analytics To Check out Your Important Backlinks

The number and nature of the backlinks to a website is one of the most important ranking factors, that is still being used in today's user-oriented organic search results. It helps determining the popularity of a website. Rank metrics, such as Google PageRank and Moz Domain/Rank Authority use it for ranking websites. So the more backlinks you have (quality ones, not cheap and spammy ones that people often purchase), the better your site tends to perform in search results. Knowing what your backlinks are, and where they're coming from can provide you with useful insights, and can help you filter out the cheap links in favour of quality ones. Let's take a look at how you can look at your website's backlinks in Google Analytics.

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Create a Responsive Drop down Menu in Blogger

The task of Designing a responsive blogger template starts with the Header and the most important part of Header is the top navigation menu that provides useful links to your inner pages. Responsive drop down menus are viral now and can be seen widely implemented on all wordpress blogs and even mashable.com. Today we are releasing the first ever tutorial on designing a flexible Drop down navigation menu for BlogSpot blogs without using a single script or image! The best part is that it is not just a flat menu but with a drop down list. This makes our tutorial distinguished from those several codes and plugins proposed by some Geeky friends at Github. Using simply HTML5 <nav> tags and CSS3 :checked selectors, we managed to design a menu that we hope would be useful to the blogger community because it is really an efficient menu that is compatible with all major browsers and uses no Jquery at all!

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Connect Twitter To Feedburner Directly without using App!

A few years ago, Google FeedBurner had a Socialize option that let people share their blog posts (RSS) directly on Twitter. But this service was depreciated, and people started using third-party apps such as twitterfeed instead. While these apps work fine, they leave you somewhat dependant upon them. Now though, it seems Google is throwing a new line out for Bloggers who'd like to share their RSS feeds to Twitter directly, because the Socialize option is coming back! This indeed marks another step forward for Google/Twitter Integration. Now, you can share your blog posts (RSS feeds) to Twitter without any third-party apps!

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