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.

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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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Google Highlights Common Smart Phone SEO Mistakes

The Mobile web is growing at a pretty rapid pace, and is becoming more and more significant, especially in terms of search traffic, because more and more people are now using their smartphones to Google things up. Since smartphones have become so powerful these days, there's no reason why they shouldn't experience the full richness of the web. Engaging smartphone users by doing mobile SEO is one way to increase your traffic. And in the near future, Google intends to penalize sites in search results that are misconfigured for mobile. Here are some of the mistakes people make in mobile SEO, and how to avoid them.

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Common Link Disavow Mistakes You need to Avoid

In a blog post a while ago about removing bad links to your site, we discussed about the impact that low quality backlinks can have on your website, and how you should remove them to avoid Penguin penalties. But these links aren't always in your control, which is why Google came up with the Link Disavow tool. It is a great tool that can be used to inform Google to disregard some inbound links completely. But a lot of people keep on making mistakes with the Disavow tool. Here are some of the most common ones, and ways to avoid them.

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What's the Difference Between Moz Page Authority and Domain Authority?

Ever since the Yahoo Site Explorer shut down in 2011, internet marketers have been looking for a backlink analysis tool, which they found in the Moz Open Site Explorer. We've already seen how the trend is already sifting more towards Moz Domain Authority from Google's PageRank. Indeed, most SEO experts now also report on statistics from the Open Site Explorer (OSE), such as Domain Authority, Page Authority etc. So what are these metrics anyway, and what do they signify? More importantly, why should you start using OSE if you don't use it already? Let's take a closer look.

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Difference between Google PageRank and SEOMOZ Domain Authority

Over the past few months, Google is continually being criticised for its frequent and infamous Pandas and Penguins. Surprisingly, people are increasingly ditching PageRank in favour of Moz (formerly SEEOMoz) Domain Authority, and the trend has been on the rise for quite some time now. So does that mean that PageRank's authority is being undermined? And what exactly is Domain Authority? More importantly, how do the two stack up against each other? In this post, we attempt to answer some of these questions.

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Google Tips to Optimize International Websites

Have you ever considered delivering your content for multiple regions and in multiple languages? More and more websites are going international (being made available in multiple languages) these days, and you can easily see why. The broader the audience, the better. And unless you have a region specific website, there's no reason why you should not go international. However, there's a lot more to it than just translation, as emphasised by these quick tips from Google for internationalization.

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Make your Sites Google Friendly using Structured Data!

Have you ever wondered why or how the search results from sites like CNET or Google Play/iTunes look so different from search results for your own website? That happens because Google 'understands' these sites better than yours. This is not to say that your site doesn't meet the 'quality criteria', so to speak. Rather, it merely means that Google can identify and understand the structure of such sites, and can provide a precise yet comprehensive and accurate overview for them. You can do that too by structuring the data/content on your website, so that search engines know exactly what your site is about. Based on your structured data, Google can show appropriate information on Google Now or Knowledge Graph.

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How To show your Organization Logo On Google Search Results?

To any company, organization, or corporation, a logo is a basic building block without which the building cannot hold. It helps with the instant public recognition of a brand, which is why a new start-up company isn't considered complete unless it has an official logo. The use of logos dates as far back as 2300 B.C, and the practice still remains with most businesses today. Make that "all businesses", because I can't think of any brand that does not have a logo. Companies need people to recognize them. Have you ever thought of associating an official logo with your brand? You might already have a logo, but how do you officially associate a logo with your official website, so that even search engines know what your logo is? Fortunately, schema.org markup for organizational logos allows you to do just that, and Google has very recently released support for it!

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Fancy Blogger Threaded Comments with Comment Counter!

Blogger threaded comments are everywhere now and its time you redesign the style and format of your comments. A good blog commenting system helps to build a strong readership and help readers to engage more into discussion. Since 2009 we have been introducing various ways of customizing comment forms on blogger blogs. We introduced Facebook Comments Plugin, Customized BlogSpot comment Forms, then Blogger nested comments, Google+ comments and now finally a more appealing and advance version of BlogSpot threaded comments to make your blog stand out. You can see a practical demo of this feature on our blog. You will find a beautiful header with comment policy, total comment count and anchor link to comment form. The nested comments and parent comments are both styled differently. Author comments are styled using a ribbon that hangs on top-right corner.

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Create Accordion Widget in Blogger

Update: The Script has been updated and it will work just perfect!

It is really important to organize your content and make certain sections of your blog to appear only when the visitor is interested in it. We are using an Accordion Widget that you can find at the footer of our blog in order to display a list of Popular Series. Its an effective way for us to display long list of links in a neat and clean way. I created this widget using JQuery and the Easing Plugin. This Accordion widget is a modified version of the Fresh content Accordion released by Martin Angelov in 2009. We customized its stylesheet and edit some parts of the scripts to make it compatible with blogger blogs. It has a great Expand/Collapse Feature. This widget collapses and hides all content inside it by default but when user clicks it, the content is displayed by expanding that tab section. I am sure you would love to add this Fancy Accordion widget to your BlogSpot blogs.

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