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With over 45 days left for welcoming the new year, I've already started planning my White Hat SEO Strategy for 2015 to stay ahead of my competition. Running a blog which doesn't have traffic and a loyal base of readers defeats it's very purpose of existence. In the coming year, I plan to push my blog further up the search results page for certain niche keywords and focus on higher conversions rather than large amounts of traffic which don't convert. Of course large amounts of  free traffic via White Hat SEO  is always good for your blog; there's no denying that. So, here are the main areas I'm going to focus on for the year 2015 1. Target Long Tail Keywords Long tail keywords often have less competition in the SEO race. Many bloggers and webmasters are becoming aware of it, but it's not too late for you to start targeting them instead of common short keywords which have high competition. As usual, I'll be using Google AdWords' Keyword...

Microsoft officially launched Windows 10  ( Yes, MS skipped a number) to a small group of 50 people. The company says the new OS can cover a wide range of devices and bring them under one platform and is the start of a whole new era. Introducing the Windows 10 beta, Microsoft's Joe Belford said the new OS is going to be a hybrid of Windows 7 and Windows 8 , combining the efficiency and functionality of both. Joe Belford introducing Windows 10 Live Tiles are found to be on the right side in the Start menu along with frequently used apps pinned to the left side like in Windows 7 . As usual, the search bar can be found at the bottom. Other changes can be seen in the command prompt with improved user interface and support for keyboard shortcuts. One useful new feature incorporated is that you can now pin the Recycle Bin to the Task Bar. This shows that Microsoft are taking the suggestions and feedback of its customers seriously and implementing them. Windows 10 Start Menu...

Dell's Alienware chain of Gaming PC s have come up with a truly extra-terrestrial looking gaming monster - The Area 51 . You can choose either 6 core or 8 core Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme processors which come overclocked from the factory itself. You can go upto 32GB on DDR4 memory. Immerse yourself in superior HD gaming  using triple Ultra HD 4K monitors boasting a resolution of 11520x2160. The Alienware Area 51 supports up to 5 hard drives. Alienware Area 51  The design has very good ergonomics and helps in efficient cooling. Fans pull in air from the front-bottom of the machine and jet up and out the rear-top. Area 51 is truly a beast with more than enough computing power for any hard-core gaming experience . Here's the official promo video-

Content Marketing is well known today, all the efforts of marketers have already been tested. And guess what? Content Marketing is awfully valuable! 1. Positive ROI: 82 percent of marketers who blog, seeing a positive ROI for their marketing efforts back. 2. Cheaper: It costs 62 percent less than traditional word-of-mouth marketing and generates three times as many leads. 3. Higher conversion rate: The conversion rate of websites with a content marketing approach is almost six times higher than websites without content marketing (2.9% versus 0.5%). 4. Good for the customer relationship: It makes consumers happy. 90 percent of consumers find custom content useful and 78 percent is convinced that companies with custom content want to build a good relationship with them. 5. more indexed pages and links: Weblogs give websites 434 percent more indexed pages and 97 percent more indexed left. 6. Higher lead generation: Business2Business companies with blogs g...

Now to Apple has agreed with Microsoft's and Google's to insert functions in their mobile phone operating systems which can make mobile phone thefts pointless. Leading public prosecutors of New York and San Francisco explained on Thursday, the enterprises would integrate in future so-called doing in Switches into Windows Phone and Android. The new software should enable to make stolen Smartphones from a distance useless. The commercial basis would be taken away from thieves' stolen goods would be at best still usable as a door stopper. Apple had already inserted with the iOS 7 published in 2013 an activation barrier in their iPhones and iPads. It blocks the use of a stolen device so long to whose owner announces itself on it with his Apple account and Apple password. The fact that the method functions, the figures which were published in the first annual report of the US initiative Secure our Smartphones (SOS) (PDF) book. Therefore, the number of the iPhone thefts dec...

San José - Samsung must pay to his rival Apple because of patent infringements 119.6 million dollars - converted 86.2 million euros. Some devices of the South Korea niches of electronics group infringed two Apple patents, the jury of a court judged in the Californian San José. Apple had accused the Smartphone market leader Samsung of the infringement of five patents and had demanded compensation at the rate of 2.2 milliard dollars. Samsung rejected the accusations. The South Koreans demanded for their part a good six million dollars of Apple for infringement  of two patents. However, awarded Samsung on Friday got only 158,400 dollars for the  of a camera patent. It is the second patent process of both enterprises in California. In the first one the sworn Apple had awarded about one milliard dollars of compensation in August, 2012. At that time, however, one lasting sales ban aimed by Apple on Samsung mobile phones was not covered. The appeal proceedings are still pend...

The success of your website depends on its contents. It's not for nothing do we have in a popular English proverb 'content is king', emphasizing the importance of good content. Want to get higher ranks in the search engines , then it is necessary to focus on good content of your website. Content is King! If the content is poor, it does not meet the readers' requirements and you will never rank highly in the search engines, which will result in a few visitors. Good content on the other hand guarantees you a high position in the search engines, which has been proven over the years time and time again. The content of your website should make clear the purpose and the target audience at a glance. If the content does not reflect this then you will not be able to achieve its relevant visitors and you will go wrong. There are several factors that determine the success of your website, which is mainly related to the topic of the website. However, there are also independe...

Video Link Building is the future of link building . Many people are very fixated on traditional link building through social networks, as well as trading back links to websites or using third-party software to generate. massive amounts of links to a website . Traditional link building Recently with link building and search engine algorithm changes, it is much harder to build links has using the traditional methods. This is why many link building experts are turning to video mediums to professionally link building. YouTube YouTube has millions of videos are uploaded every day, and as a result many YouTube videos are also recorded in real-world search rankings with the other active results. Because there are many more web pages created every day versus daily videos made, there is much less competition in the video marketing, as well as link building in search engine optimization. Because of this, creating engaging videos offers a unique advertising opportunit...

White hat SEO or black hat SEO? That's the question. From the moment that there was talk about optimizing a website for search engines, it's not clear whether black hat SEO is or is not a convenient way to achieve better results. We can indeed see black hat techniques as applying optimization techniques in a way that it really should not. In this article I will explain exactly what is the difference between the two forms of and especially whether or not it is wise to go to the "Dark" side. There have been several discussions about whether or not to follow black hat in recent years all over the world. Basically, it's is nothing more and nothing less than a collection of tricks that make it possible to mislead Search Engines so that they still get a better position in the search engine results page also known as SERPs. A familiar example is in the placement of keywords in a specific location in your page as the same color as the page background. Visitors...

1 - Restore the Start menu Windows 8 has no Start menu. There are two different solutions to recover. - Start8 Stardock is clearly the best solution on the market. But beware, it is now paid (less than € 5). This tool allows you to find the traditional Start menu with an additional option to recall the touch home screen. It also allows the PC to boot directly to the desktop. -  StartMenu8 of IOBit is free. However, it is still in beta. It can also force Windows 8 to boot directly to the desktop rather than the home screen. 2 - Simplify access to the control panel The Control panel and its functions are essential everyday for many users. This is one of the menu options in Start the most clicked on Windows 7. Except on Windows 8, there is more Start menu. There are two ways to approach the problem. The first is to remember that all panel functions are indexed and therefore accessible by search. Use the combination [Windows] [W] . Practical option to find lost as ...

Samsung has just announced the Galaxy S5 smartphone . The new Samsung Galaxy S5 delivers a new refined user experience with a few new touch ups. The South Korean electronics giant has decided to go back to the basics. The design is largely based on its predecessors, but there are some subtle changes. Samsung has the S5 mainly deployed on a new camera and fitness applications . The Galaxy S5 sports a 16 megapixel camera along with a completely redesigned interface. This should make shooting photos, editing them easier. Photos are quickly shot, thanks to the redesigned autofocus within 0.3 seconds. Thanks to the Selective Focus, you can even zoom in on a subject afterwards. The smartphone works on 4G networks (Cat. 4) and to emphasize, Samsung has devised a new way of downloading. Thanks to a special app called Download Booster you can simultaneously retrieve files quickly through both the Wi-Fi network or via the 4G network. Along with the S5 Samsung announces v...

Kick-Ass blogger Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com Do you also have your own blog just like mine , but you do not know how to get more readers? Is your blog ignored on social media? Then read this article that shows how you too can become a kick-ass blogger in no time* . *Fair warning: It does take a lot of dedication and perseverance and most of all, discipline. If you have none of these, I suggest you cultivate these habits or else, blogging is not for you. This article is basically for beginners. If your already a well accomplished and experienced blogger, I suggest you read this article instead. 1. Write kick-ass articles This is the first and foremost thing to follow. As a blogger, it's your duty to give quality articles to your visitors. If you don't, they are never coming back to your site. Make sure you deliver something of value to them, something which solves a problem or something which makes them laugh. 2. Title is everything The title of your blog ...

Source: kimoftheworld.com Do you own a Wordpress website? Then the security of your wordpress website can be something that is of great concern to you. You just cannot imagine what hackers can do to your website. You may be selling certain products online using your website where you have gained a lot of customers hence making great profits. Related:  Top 10 Wordpress Plugins . Hackers can be your competitors who can end up posting comments that will lead to destroying your business. This makes it necessary for you to try as much as possible to ensure your worpress website is secure where no hackers will be able to access it. The following is a guide to securing a wordpress website . Select a hosting company that has high level of security. The first step for you to archive in having high level of security in your website is to select a hosting company that offers a high level of security. Remember to stay away from hosting your website using hosting companies that...

The hardware hacker , often called with a touch of romanticism "hacker" is in collective imagination, a pimply and sickly being who maintains an almost symbiotic relationship with his computer and leads onto the canvas a lawless existence. Although it is probably possible to find specimens that corroborate the stereotype, the world of hacking is complex, it has its own codes and contains within it a variety of trends and behaviors. However, what all hackers have in common is their love of tinkering and it is not limited to playing with lines of code. Unknown to the general public, hardware hacking is to divert it from its primary function of electronic equipment. The hardware is the physical electronic medium, which allows to operate the software. Practicing hardware hacking thus requires a screwdriver and soldering irons as much as a computer keyboard. It is important to understand that the "hacking part" is simply to divert the subject to use any other way o...

How to get your website "slapped by Google"? It's pretty simple. Try to bend the rules of SEO even slightly and all your hard work in gaining backlinks and authority for your website goes to waste. There is a catchy term webmasters use for this - Black Hat SEO . Search engine marketing is an important part of  internet marketing . Ideally you want as many visitors angling towards your website as soon as possible for maximum profit. To accelerate that process, website owners do some crazy things that makes the the big brother G unhappy. Here are 5 tips which you should implement if you want your site or blog to get slapped by Google and get little to literally no search engine traffic at all. Tip 1: Keyword Stuffing: Use excessive keywords in your text. In the SEO training, I explain that it is important to use your target keywords to an optimum level of about 2-3% in your text . If you insert a keyword many times in your website, Google will treat it as spam an...

Internet Download Manager or IDM for short is not available for Linux based OS. But there are alternatives which you can use which give the same performance as Internet Download Manager. I will be describing the Top 3 alternatives for IDM in this post. 3. Aria 2 For advanced users who prefer to use the terminal, Aria 2 is a download manager command line like wget. But, it has many more advanced features as it can support multiple protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, BitTorrent and many more. To install on Ubuntu or Debian type sudo apt-get install aria2 in the terminal.

Internet trends are ever changing. One day Myspace rules the social media and the next day, it's next to nothing. Recent studies have also shown that Facebook is loosing a lot of users- mostly teenagers. Who would have thought this would happen? So, you see, it's very hard to predict what the Internet might hold for us in future. Here are some of the popular Internet trends which have already just recently begun. You can capitalize on them for the foreseeable future. 1: Mobile Websites More and more people visit your website using mobile devices like their smartphone or tablet. If you still have no mobile website, then undertake the appropriate steps as 20% of total Internet traffic is said to come from mobile devices. This can cost you customers. Also, this mobile site is known as RWD (Responsive Web Design) where each page basically desktop, tablet and smartphone can be viewed. 2: Flat design Websites also are sensitive to fashion trends. Therefore it is good t...

So, you want to root your Android HTC smartphone ? Just follow these steps and enjoy the benefits of your rooted Android HTC smartphone. There are few pre-requisites before you get started : Please be careful in following the steps given below. Make sure that ClockworkMod Recovery is available for your device. 1) Java JDK : This is required to prepare the SDK. You can download it here . 2) Android SDK : Click here to download Andoid SDK. 3) HTC USB Drivers : Download HTC Sync from  here . HTC Sync has all the USB drivers. 4) USB Debugging : Enable USB Debugging by going to Settings ->Applications ->Development. 5) Do a Backup : It is necessary to make a backup of all your applications on a medium other than the internal memory (SD card or synchronization account in the cloud like Google Drive, Dropbox, SugarSync etc) with the app "App Backup and Restore". It is also advisable to set up automatic synchronization of your or all of your Google accounts.  6)...

Having dived into free and open source software (FOSS)  and realized it's importance and freedom given,  I recommend you to use LibreOffice instead of the  Microsoft Office  Suite for viewing and creating all your documents and presentations.  I'm not saying this just because I support FOSS. I will provide solid reasons why you should migrate from Microsoft Office which is a proprietary software to LibreOffice which is totally free. LibreOffice was a part of Apache OpenOffice until 2010. Whether you have a windows machine or a Mac, LibreOffice can be installed on both. Microsoft Office It is a very good document viewing and editing software which will cater to all your needs with very few bugs and is easy to use. The price may be seen as a bit too high given that today the fight between computers and tablets is very competitive and that Windows 8 is not much used many people. One of the major advantages of MS Office is that it can handle enormous a...

This article will provide you the steps using which you can host your website on Dropbox for free. For those who do not know, Dropbox is an online service that allows you to store, sync and share content like photos documents and videos online. Dropbox offers free 2GB storage space. Additional storage if required can be purchased or earned by referring others to download it. Follow the steps below to host your mini website on Dropbox .  The 'Public' folder provides a direct link to the file placed in this folder and you can easily share this link with anyone via social media like Facebook, Twitter and so on. This folder is convenient for large files. We will be using this folder to host your mini website. Because Dropbox is free and allows you to upload files easily (without knowledge of FTP). When I say small site I am talking of a website designed with iWeb which comes with all Macs but the hosting solution that is presented by Apple MobileMe, which costs € 79 / ...