Social Media for Non-Techies

Social media basics for Non-Techies and all who are in need or just would like to know more about:

• what is social media?
• how to use social media applications?
• how to stay safe on-line?
• how to get in touch on-linefamily or re-connect with old friends?
• how to find information on-line(newspapers, magazines, vacation tips, health tips, hobbies)?
• how to discover or explore new interests on-line?

You have been working all your life, you’ve been busy and didn’t have time to learn and use social media that much. Now (finally) you have more time for yourself and others. It’s time to re-connect with old friends and get in touch with your family, but you know that email is not enough.

First of all – no worries. Don’t be afraid to use your computer, it’s just another tool, like remote control or a coffee-maker. You don’t need to know everything about it – and still be able to use it. Same thing with social media applications: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Flickr, Google+, Blogger, etc. you can use it, have fun and remember about privacy settings.

Here you can check an interesting youtube video about “Social Media Revolution 2011″

If you would like to know more about Baby Boomers on-line in 2012. Get some numbers and see how on-line world is popular among Baby Boomers, please watch this video from AARP:

Have fun and stay safe on-line.

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Top 5 Tips To Increase Traffic For Your Blog From Search Engines

The biggest desire of the bloggers is to attract the maximum traffic to their blog and to get a higher rank in the search engine. Most of the blogs have very good architecture for optimization. Every page in the blog is linked back to the other pages in the blog. They also have the inherent potential to be well-linked. If you are a blogger you must have already submitted your links to the submission directories. If you have not done it till now, then you are missing the most important thing regarding the search engine optimization. For the people who have still not submitted their links to the directories following points may be very helpful. As they will describe the selection of the keywords and help you to get the best linking and better ranking in the search engine.

Following are defined as the top five tips that can help you to increase traffic to your blog from search engines.

1. Selection of the keywords

You have two choices for the selection of the keywords either to choose the keywords that have directed highly traffic or to choose the keywords that are associated with the moderate traffic. In the first case, it will become much difficult for you to make yourself prominent and get the higher traffic to your blog but in the second case there is a large chance of directing much traffic to your blog.

A recent article in Information Week stated that the highest conversion rate from search engine traffic comes from people who do four word queries. It is best for you to set the query of your blog in the four words. Your blog should be capable of showing results for query of variable lengths.

2. Position of Keywords

You should use the keywords in your URL, title of the post and also in the body of the post. Try to use the primary keyword in the title of the post and use secondary keywords in the body of the post. Also, use the keywords in the links of your posts. Use the keywords again and again in the body of your blog post. But be careful that using of the keyword again and again should not make your post look funny or odd.

3. Frequently updating of the blog

Search engines are always attracted to the blogs which are rich in content. You should try to update your blog frequently. Place the fresh contents on your blog. If your blog is about Medifast and Nutrisystem coupons, keep on adding new coupons as soon as them become available. Spider turns the more frequent use of contents.

4. Getting links

You should use feedburner to promote your blog. There are many basic points available online to guide the bloggers about getting the links for the blog and to make their blog favorite for the search engine.

5. Posting at the appropriate time

It is important to post on your blog at the right time. Check your website statistics and if you’re getting spidered every two weeks or even monthly, you can increase your number of spider visits.

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Backup Blogger Images From Picasa Web Albums

No doubt that blogger is the top blogging platform and famous among the professional bloggers. There is a myth that Wordpress is more SEO friendly than blogger but this is not fully true. Blogger is a product of Google itself and is growing rapidly between the bloggers. You canoptimize it to make SEO friendly blog and is totally free. You have no need to pay a single buck to create a blog on blogger. Also there is no need to pay additional hosting fees. All of your files and posts are safely host on Google’s server. You can download them at any time to take a backup. You can easily download your blog template, can backup your complete blog data i.e posts of your blog. But there is no option to backup image files which you used in your blog posts. So, today I decided to aware all of you with a trick by which you can also backup your post’s images. Let’s play the game.

Backup Blogger Images

Images which you used for your blog posts are not hosted by blogger itself, they all are hosted on Picasa Web Albums for free which is also own by Google. But we neither can backup them from blogger nor Picasa Web Albums. We can only download them from Picasa Web Albums one by one. And I don’t think that you are interested to backup them by this process and not even me. We all want to backup them instantly to preserve our precious time and to make things easy. That’s why I bring a tutorial for you by which you will be able to backup all images with a single click. Let’s start the tutorial.

1. Go to Google Takeout.
2. Click on Choose Services.

3. Now from the list of various services, choose Picasa Web Albums.



4. Click on Create Archive button to make a backup.

5. It’s time for a little bit processing which run to create backup all of your image files. Once the process is complete you will be able to download your files by simply pressing Download button.
6. You are done!

Congratulation! Now you have learned that how to take easy backup of blogger images.

Your Turn!

This was all about taking backup of image files which we use in our blogger blog posts. I have shared my knowledge with you. Now it’s your turn to take advantage of this tutorial and start taking backup all your image files to keep a save copy of them which can be used if something misshapen with your blog. It’s advisable to always keep up to date backup of your files to make your blogging happy and safe. Please leave comment below if you have any doubt or query and please give your valuable feedback to me. Thanks!

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How to Add Google Analytics in Blogger?

Once you setup your blog and start publish quality content, its time to track the traffic statistics to know more about the visitors that who are visiting your blog, from where they are, how much time they spend on your blog etc. Google Analytics is the best tool provided by Google to easily track and check real and accurate stats of our blog traffic. Except this you can also check your blog's bounce rate, unique visitors, page views and visits by adding Google Analytics to your blog. Tracking the traffic statistics of blog is very important if you want to know that what's going on your blog and the behavior of your visitors. Now you are aware with the benefits of installing GA in blog so let's see how to install it.

Create Google Analytics Account

Before adding GA tracking code to your blog you need a GA account. Follow below steps:

1. Go to Google Analytics.
2. Now sign in with your Google or Gmail account.
3. Click on "Sign Up" button on the next page.





4. Once you click the sign up button you will redirect to next page there you have to fill a simple form by entering your Blog Title, URL, your Country, Blog Category and Account name. You can enter your blog title as your account name or can choose anything else which helps you to recognize your blog. See below screenshot for complete process.




5. Once you fill all the details click on "Get Tracking ID" button.
6. Now click on "I Accept" on "GOOGLE ANALYTICS TERMS OF SERVICE" pop up page.
7. If everything is fine then you will get a Tracking ID like "UA-39654221-1" at the top left corner and a Tracking code in a box. Now let's go to the next step.

Add Google Analytics to Blogger

To add GA in your blog you have to perform 2 steps. First you have to add your Tracking ID in blogger settings and then put the tracking code in your template.

Adding Google Analytic ID to Blogger 

1. Go to Blogger >> Settings >> Other
2. Now under the "Analytics Web Property ID" enter your Tracking ID in the text field.





3. Click on "Save Settings" button.

Adding Tracking Code 

1. Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML
2. Backup your blog template. 
3. Now search for </body>
4. And paste your Tracking Code just above it.
5. Save the template.
6. You are done!

Now you have completed all the process of installing and adding Google Analytics in blogger. It will take approx 24 hours to show your traffic report in Google Analytics. Happy Blogging!

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SEO Guidelines For New Website/Blogger

SEO Guidelines For New Website/Blogger

Today I am going to tell you some best ways how to improve your blog ranking on Search engine, Alexa-Rank and Google Page Rank. this is basic information about SEO next time we lunch complete course about SEO pack for blog so please subscribe our blog and join our community for learn best things about blogging .

1. How to improve search engine Visibility?
Improving search engine Visibility is that the #1 target of each websites to make it on the highest of each Search Engines results page and it isn't only depending on 1 criteria, rather it is a combination of Back-links Page-rank web traffic/impressions, uniqueness, and content quality of a website.

Here are some ways we can increase search engine visibility.
Use SEO Optimized Blogger Templates
Submit your Websites to Search Engines
Submit Website Sitemap To Webmaster Tools
Display Author image in Google Search Results
Use robots.txt
Complete How to Increase Search Engine Visibility?
2. What is Alexa and how to improve it?
Alexa shows your site's current estimated position and rank on the internet. to improve your Alexa, you need to have many Back-links high Page-rank and thousands of internet traffic/impressions. Alexa doesn't update in real time and usually takes three months to detect your true rank.

Here are some ways we can increase Alexa page rank.
Claim your site on Alexa
Install Alexa Widget on your site
Write a review about Alexa on your blog
Install Alexa Toolbar on your browser
Build quality back links
Ask users to write a review on Alexa
3. What is Page Rank and how to improve it?
Unlike Alexa, Page-rank only shows your site's current estimated position on the web. to improve it, you need to have a lot of Back-links and articles. Like Alexa, Page-rank does not update in real time.

Here are some ways we can increase Google Page Rank.
Write high quality content
Submit Your Site to web and article Directories
Use Link Exchange Program to increase back links.
Keep updating your site/blog everyday
Use Social Bookmarking button to share you site on social sites
Website Advertising
Commenting On Other Blogs and Websites

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Floating Google +1, Facebook, Twitter Buttons For Blogger

Floating Google +1, Facebook, Twitter Buttons For Blogger

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to add the floating google +1 , facebook , twitter buttons in blogger blog. This is a container having 3 sharing buttons like facebook , google + , twitter. Its so much important for all the bloggers because whenever your reader reades the post and if your reader want to share your post and its easy for them to share your post in facebook , google + and twitter. 

DEMO
Just follow the simple steps to add the floating google +1 , facebook , twitter buttons. 

 

1. Login into your blogger blog 
2.And select Layout 
3.Now click on “add gadget” and select “HTML/Javascript” and paste the bellow code.

<style>
#pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:15%; left:105px; float:left; border: 1px solid white; border-radius:2px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0 0 2px;z-index:10;}
#pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;}
.fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;}
.fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;}
 </style>
<div id='pageshare' title="Share This With Your Friends">
<div class='sbutton' id='rt'><a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" >Tweet</a><script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' type="text/javascript"></script></div>
<div class='sbutton' id='fb'><a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script></div>
<div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'><script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script><g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone></div><br/><div style="clear: both;font-size: 12px;text-align:center;"><a href="http://techlosoft.blogspot.in/" target="blank"><font color="silver">Widgets<font></font></font></a></div></div>

 4.Now just save the widget and you have done ! 

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Submit Website Sitemap To Webmaster Tools

How to Add Blogger Blog and Website to Google Webmasters Tools

Submit Website Sitemap to Google Webmaster tools is a must for anyone that want to be successful. Once you get verified your site to webmaster tools, then automatically get indexed your site to Google search engine. When your site come to search engine then you will get a lot of traffic.

Follow the easy steps to add Website to Webmaster Tools.

If you create blogs using Blogger, you can automatically add and verify sites by enabling Webmaster Tools directly from the Blogger dashboard.

1. Log in to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ with your Google account.
2. Click "Add a site...", enter the base URL of your Google Site in the box that pops up, then click "Continue.".
3. You will be given with many verification methods. select the Alternate methods tab.
4. Select the option: Add a meta tag to your site's home page
5. Copy the meta tag (for example, <meta name="google-site-verification" content="z7mJLjVGtEe2qzCzfE1pamxI4H72u18n4XdxEzgl2AJ" />) from the Instructions box.
6. Leave the verification page open and go to your site dashboard (in a new tab/window).
7. Paste the meta tag that you copied on the Google Webmasters Tools after <head> tag in your website. ( "Blogger" go to site Deshbord click Templates > Edit HTML > Ctrl + F and find <head> tag after past  meta tag that you copied on the Google Webmasters Tools.
8. Click on Save Changes.
9. Go back to the verification page and click Verify.

Submit Blogger Blog Sitemap To Webmasters Tools

An XML sitemap is a fairly simple XML file that contains info about one or additional URLs on your web site. it's updated whenever you post an article and used by Search engines to crawl blog information. Not only Google but also use by different search engines like Yahoo, Bing,etc. if you can create blog on blogger.com then you do not need to create site map and if you can use hosting & other site or manuly create site map use sitemap create tools, I'm using this tool http://www.xml-sitemaps.com.

Follow the easy steps  to submit Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

1. Sign in to you Google Webmaster Tools account.
2. Click on the blog.
3. Navigate to Traffic > Optimization > Sitemaps and click ADD/TEST SITEMAP button and add the following code inside the box :

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

If you have more than 200 posts then replace value 100 by something bigger number like 500.

You have successfully added Blogspot blog sitemap to Google Webmasters Tools.

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Samsung Q1 profits beat expectations

Analysts predicted that Samsung's earnings would hit a new high in the current quarter when its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, hits the market.

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Samsung largest smartphone

Samsung unveils largest smartphone yet: Galaxy Mega

Samsung claims the device will have an HD screen that allows two applications to run side-by-side, including video, but no details have been released about whether this will mean 720p or 1080p.

The company launched its 5.3" Galaxy Note in 2011, creating the "phablet" market of mobile phones that have such large screens that they could almost claim to be tablet devices. But the Galaxy Mega is Samsung's largest mobile phone yet (confusingly, the upcoming Galaxy Note 8.0, although it has an 8" screen, is marketed as a tablet with the ability to make phone calls).

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