How To Get Backlinks From Authoritative Websites?

If you are having a blog or a website and already started seeing some visitors you'll most likely get excited by all the great opportunities that arise: suddenly people give you feedback via blog comments acknowledging (finally) the hours you've put into developing your individual articles. But after a while you'll ask yourself if that's it or if there is still more potential to rank higher for some of the more competitive terms you might be targeting with your blog.

How to Highlight External Links & Make Them Open In New Windows

You can highlight external links on your blog or website fairly easily. All you need is a small jQuery script and an even smaller CSS code snippet. And you don't even have to go back and edit your existing posts/pages for it to work.

You can also force those links to open in new windows or tabs if you want to.

Here's how:

What If Your WordPress Blog Gets Hacked? [Infographic]

WordPress platform has experienced some wide-spread hacker attacks recently. They have been targeting mainly blogs and websites with default "admin" login name.
Wordpress can be very easily used, thus people tend to forget about the security issues. Most people have no idea about hacks and why they're dangerous. In fact, WordPress has many different loopholes that attract different hackers who are ready to take down your blog at any time.

SEO Blog Tips - How to Get the Most From Your Blog Posts

One thing that seems confusing for a lot of bloggers is search engine optimization (SEO). Everybody talks about it but nobody really explains what you need to do to optimize your blog posts. SEO and blogging is not that difficult. Below are six essential SEO blog tips that you need to keep in mind.

SEO Blog Tip 1 - Title

Make sure that your keyword phrase is in your title. You should be using the Google Keyword Tool to find keyword phrases that people are actually searching for. It is also preferable that the keyword phrase be as close to the front of the title as possible.

Making Your Blog ROI Driven

Over the past few years, more and more internet marketing experts are trying to get top rankings of their websites through their SEO and SEM efforts, and fortunately they are achieving what they want. They are adopting exciting techniques and tools to improve customer engagement and reap more profits. They are also busy in brand marketing and improving public relations in a professional way. Newer tools and tactics are helping them to reach out their target audiences easily.

5 Proven Strategies That Will Drive Traffic to Your Blog

For all of my fellow bloggers out there in the blogosphere and the wee ones who are just getting started (I'm just a wee toddler at this but growing faster than ever), how would you like to drive traffic to your blog like the experts? If so, then this article is for you.

I'm sure all of you have dreamed of attracting a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, even up to one hundred thousand visitors to your blog each month. I know I have. Imagine what that would mean for your bottom line to drive traffic to your blog in those numbers.

Blog Management - Spring Cleaning Your Blog

A regular clean up of your site is an important part of ongoing blog management. Like most things in life, the cleaner your blog is the better it will work. Consider the golden rule about "attention span" - for your readers it is limited. You don't want them to be distracted by unnecessary and irrelevant information on your web pages. It's a common mistake, but many web bloggers and web developers forget to remove unnecessary content from their sidebars and posts. Today we look at some examples of content you should consider "spring cleaning" from your site.

5 Little Known Factors That Affect Your Search Engine Ranking

When creating their website or blog, people tend to think about what they're going to post on it, thus ignoring the search engine ranking aspect of it. And even if some people realize the importance of quality SEO, because of the huge number of webpages on the internet and due to the different obstacles which may arise at anytime, getting on the front page of search engines may prove to be quite challenging.

Each search engine uses a predefined formula in order to rank its content, and even though these formulas differed from website to website, all search engines took some common factors into account when ranking the website. Many people wish to get to the very top, but few of them truly manage to. Next, we'll discuss 5 of the less known factors which can affect your search engine ranking:

How To Create A Successful Blog

There is a lot of interest on the web on the best ways to make money blogging. Because blogging has been a popular way to make money since the internet started.

Blogging is the best method to earn money on the internet to date. There have been a bunch of fads and gimmicks that have actually made some individuals money, they work for a few weeks exploiting a loophole then they get closed down, however blogging has actually been going strong since the start of the internet. It is one of the most ethical, and best ways to build a business on the internet.

Microsoft To Reverse Xbox One Policies After Fan Revolt

In a stunning reversal of the announced capabilities and restrictions of the Xbox One,Microsoft has just made the next generation console racemuch more interesting.


Confirming a report from Giant Bomb earlier today, Microsoft has announced today that they’ve listened to player feedback, and are lifting two of the most important restrictions of the console. Here they are, pulled straight from Microsoft’s blog. The link may be not working, but rest assured the post was live at one point.

Facebook iOS 6.2 Lets You Easily Change Who You Just Shared That Racy Pic With

It happened to me. Yes, I once uploaded a pic of my friend to Facebook from my phone, forgot to change the setting from “Public” to “Friends” and had the friend get told that day by a random person: “Hey I just saw a picture of you on Alexia from TechCrunch’s wall!” So now I’m circumspect.

15 Tips for Creating A Blog

Blogging is a great avenue for making money online if you know how. It's simple and quick to set up a blog but there are a couple of things you should know before you get started. Below are some tips for creating a blog that will generate revenue for you.

5 Google Adsense Tips for better Click Through Rate (CTR) Optimization

I was doing some testing with Adsense Ad placement not to long ago because my click through rate (CTR) was quite low. I run a website with both a WordPress blog and a phpBB forum installed. After doing a couple of days research on the topic I found out some basic optimizing techniques that would result in a much higher CTR. Not only does it improve the CTR but it also makes the website look much nicer. All the optimization I used is based around layout and styling. So here are 5 tips that should increase your CTR:

The difference between root, S-OFF/S-ON, and locked/unlocked bootloaders in the HTC EVO series

Since the introduction of the HTC EVO 4G LTE, and the EVO 3D, and original EVO 4G before that, there have been continued complaints that the EVO is useless or damaged because it ships with a locked bootloader, or because you can’t get S-OFF if you updated the firmware, or because you can’t flash custom kernels or ROMs due to these reasons.

How to set Proxy server settings in Android

If your facility uses a proxy server you may need to configure your Android tablet with manual proxy settings in order to connect to the Internet. These settings are available in Android 4.0 (ICS) and above.

Go to Settings/Wi-Fi
Tap the name of your wireless network
Fill in your Wi-Fi password and check the box "Show advanced options"
You'll now see a settings area for "Proxy settings". Choose "manual" , then scroll down and fill in the necessary info.

Later, if you need to modify the proxy settings (or to add proxy settings to an existing connection):
Go to Settings/Wi-FI and long press on the name of your network, then choose modify
Scroll down to reveal the "show advanced options" checbox, then proceed as above

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