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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