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Twitter Search Operators to Get Instant and Relevant Results

2020-05-18T16:18:21Z

Twitter has gained immense popularity during last couple of years. It has become one of the important tools for promotion of any offline or online business. Bloggers also rely on twitter for a good percentage of their blog traffic. However, most people don’t know to use twitter effectively to get the full benefits. One of such under utilized feature is twitter search. I am sure each one of millions of twitter users must have used twitter search to find people and follow. Out of all these users, there are very few who actually use twitter search effectively or to its full potential. In other words, not many may even be aware of all the features or twitter search operators. One can use twitter search in lots of different ways and can get the results fast and much more relevant and targeted. Let me explain about some of such twitter search operators which everyone can use to get benefits much more than one get from a simple search.

Twitter Search Operator (Examples)	Description / Search Results
Obama Osama	This is twitter default search operator. It will throw search results containing both “Obama” and “Osama”. This is the simple search and is the only one used by majority of twitter users.
Obama OR Osama	This is the “OR” operator and it means it will search for either Obama or Osama but not both together.
Obama -Osama	Minus operator forces the search result to exclude the string or phrase after hyphen (-). This will search for Obama but not Osama.
#Obamafollowsporn	This will search specifically for hashtag “Obamafollowsporn”. FYI, hashtags are used to make the word as the search keyword in twitter.
Obama filter:links	It will search for Obama and will bring out the only results which are linking to URLs.
to:barackobama	It will search for tweets sent to person or user mentioned after “to:” operator.
Obama –babestation	Will limit the results to the date specified after “until:”. Search results will contain Osama but will be limited to the date 5th May 2011.
Obama source:twitterfeed	Search results will contain Obama but only the ones entered via twitterfeed source.
near:Delhi within:25mi	Tweets sent within 25 miles of Delhi.

Am sure, above listed search operators will really make you search faster in twitter and you will get the relevant and targeted desired results. Do try them out and see the enormous benefit you can get out of these.

Protect, Optimize and Speed Up your Windows PC with Piriform CCleaner

2020-05-18T16:23:04Z

Before getting to know about CCleaner, let us first see the most common problems all of us do face with regard to windows PC. We often find performance of windows PC going down due to the routine usage. It happens because of all the temporary files and data getting accumulated, temporary internet files generated, problem within registry settings due to installation and un-installation of software etc. Next to performance is the concern for online privacy which often gets invaded due to the generation of history of websites etc. All of these do degrade the performance of PC, invades online privacy and system become quite unstable and un-optimized if we don’t take a corrective action quite on regular basis.

Free Download Piriform CCleaner

CCleaner is a FREE software utility or tool which can be used for system optimization, speed up PC and maintaining privacy. This great FREE tool is a produce of a UK based company called as Piriform. This software has already been used by around 500+ million users world wide and currently also it is being loaded almost 10 times per second all over the world. The software is simple and pretty easy to install and use. It has been seen that with the routine usage of this tool, it keeps system free from any performance problems and helps increasing the speed of PC quite drastically.

You can download the Piriform CCleaner either from here or here.

Ccleaner can be used with most of the versions of Windows OS – both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7. It can also be used with Windows 2000, Windows 2003, 2008. However, it can not be used currently with Mac or Linux. Ccleaner software utility is totally free from spyware, adware or viruses.

Steps to Run Piriform CCleaner – Optimize and Speed Up Windows PC

After downloading and installing, you can run this software at the regular intervals to keep your system optimized always. To use the ccleaner, follow the below steps;

Click the cleaner option on the left.
Click analyze on the right side bottom. It will analyze the system and will inform how much it will be able to clean along with the breakup. It may take few seconds to few minutes to complete the analysis depending upon the amount of data. You have the flexibility to check, uncheck the items under Windows and Applications tab on left based on what you intend to include or exclude from the cleaning process.

Once analysis is complete, click Run Cleaner option on the right hand side bottom to start cleaning and optimizing the system.
After cleaning is complete, you can now proceed to fix any possible errors in registry settings. Click Registry on the left side. Check and uncheck options under Registry cleaner on the left based on what do you want it to scan and fix. Click Scan for Issues on the right side bottom.

It will scan the complete registry and will list down all the problem in the registry settings.
You can select few or all by checking the check box against the listed problem.
Click Fix selected Issues. It will start fixing all the selected registry issues. Before starting the fix, it will first create a backup of the current registry settings and will prompt you to save that backup file wherever you want. This is just to ensure if something goes wrong, then you can revert to earlier stage.
Next, you can go to Tools option on the left. This will allow you to uninstall application which you don’t require or no longer use, remove unwanted items and programs from system Startup so as to make PC starts faster and remains faster throughout the use.

Within Tools option, you can click uninstall on the left side to see and select the applications and programs you want to uninstall. You can uninstall from the same screen without leaving this software screen.
Similarly, from Tools –> Startup, you can exclude the programs and applications from the system start up.
From Tools –> System Restore, you can restore your system to earlier settings (if system restore is enabled for the system). This is in case, something goes wrong with the system then you can make it alright by restoring it to earlier working version.

Do share your feedback and experience in using this Free software utility.

CopyTrans Manager – Best and Free iTunes alternative

2020-05-18T16:22:04Z

If you have been looking for an iTunes alternative but could not find something that is equally good or even better, then CopyTrans Manager brings that good news to you. CopyTrans Manger is the first fully functional freeware iTunes alternative that supports iPad, iPhone and iTouch. Unlike the synchronization limitations by iTunes, it enable you to add music tracks, videos to any iPod, iPad, iTouch on any computer. Further more, it doesn’t require any installation and is quite portable. You can take it anywhere and use to organize your iPhone on the go. It has proven to be an excellent iTunes alternative because of it being fast, very light and ofcourse, Free. Now, with CopyTrans Manager, you can easily add your favorite music tracks and videos to iPod, even edit track tags and artworks, create and manage playlist. It also has an integrated music player that allows you to preview songs and videos.

Features of CopyTrans Manager as an iTunes Alternative

Easy Managed with drag and drop directly from any folder to iPad, iPod and iPhone.
Allows you to add songs, music, videos, audio books, podcasts, movies and TV shows.
Its very light weight, requires only 3 MB, doesn’t require any installation and gets loaded within a second.
Easily create and edit playlists. Edit track information even (artist, album, ratings, genre, etc.).
Allows you to search iPhone tracks by artist, album or any other way.
Available in English, Korean and Russina languages.
Compatible with most of the model of iPad, iPod and iPhone. Can even read Mac formatted iPods.
Requires only 128 MB of RAM and best suited for Windows XP, Vista and Windows7. However, you may require to install specific drivers for it to work.

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Comparison between Google Chromebook and a Normal Computer

2020-05-18T16:22:04Z

After launch of Google Chromebook, many people have started exploring the google chromebook comparison with a normal computer /desktop PC / Laptop /Notebook /Netbook. Their decision to buy or not to buy, this new mobile device chromebook, highly depends on how do they see it as compared to a normal computer. Is it good ? Is it bad? However, that is not an easy and straightforward to make out and will largely depend upon one’s own needs and preferences. What exactly do you want out of your computer and how do you intend to use it? Let’s understand how is google chromebook is different from a normal computer so as to help you understand it better and make informed decision if you should buy it or not.

Google Chromebook Comparison with Normal PC / Laptop/ Notebook/ Notebook

Google Chromebook	Traditional PC/ Desktop Computer /Laptop/ Notebook /Netbook
It boots up in flat 8 seconds.	It takes couple of minutes to boot. It even takes longer depending upon the configuration and the volume of data kept in the computer.
No need to setup or install any software and application to start working.	You need to manually setup and configure everything right from installing OS, office and various other applications.
It is always on web. As soon as it boots up, it get connected through one of your favorite network – 3G or Wi-Fi.	You have the option to have the internet connection or not to have it if you want to work in offline mode only. You have to specifically and separately contact the ISP to get an internet connection working on your PC.
It can not be used in the absence of web connection and practically you can not do anything on GC if connection is not available. Everything is available in the form of web apps only i.e. you will always have to work through your browser even if you are working on documents or any other such thing.	It is fully functional even if there is no internet connection configured or internet connection not available on your PC. You can very well work in offline mode with various software installed on your local PC – office documents, images, videos, music, games etc.
Since everything including OS, web apps and data are kept on cloud servers with Google only, managing them is not easier and you can not move them very easily from one location to another or from one apps to another.	Everything being available locally in the form of folder and files on your PC, you can very easily manage them including moving or copying them from one location to another or moving between different applications and software.
Runs on Google proprietary OS chrome only.	You can install any OS like windows, Linux, Unix. You can even have multiple OS on the same PC and can choose to boot with whatever you like at the startup.
Work with Google’s own chrome browser only.	You can work with any browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. You can even have all of them together on the same PC.
None of the applications and data (documents, games, music, video, photos etc) are stored locally on your chromebook. Everything is available on cloud i.e. stored remotely in Google’s own servers.	Everything – OS, applications, software and data (documents, games, music, videos, images etc) are stored locally in your PC only.
Since everything is stored on cloud servers, you actually don’t need to bother about taking backups and losing anything in case you lose your GC.	Since everything is on your local PC’s hard drive, you are yourself solely responsible for managing everything – taking and restoring backups. In case, your PC is lost or gets damaged, you lose everything and you have to manually restore and configure everything again on a new PC. In case, you have not taken the backup of your PC, there is no way to recover anything and you lose everything with your PC.
Operating System as well as all the software (which is web apps only) gets updated automatically at the boot time. Hence, you automatically have the latest version of everything without doing anything manually.	You have to manually get and install updates and latest version of the OS and the software you are using on your PC. If you don’t do it yourself, then OS and software do tend to get outdated.
With this, you have no choice but to rely on Google only for everything related to your GC – be it data, hardware support, user credentials access and security or any other support	You don’t have to rely on any single vendor for everything. Hardware support is given by PC manufacturer and you have different vendors to give the support for the software part. You still have another vendor responsible for providing you with internet connection.
As claimed by Google, GC comes with multiple layers of security built-in chrome OS and Chrome browser and you don’t need any extra anti-virus or any security software for a GC.	You need to buy anti-software as well as malware protection and other security software separately.
As with any service, even a cloud service can fail. If that happen, that actually mean your device becomes useless until the restoration of the services. However, failure of service can potentially also lead to losing the data as well. GC customer won’t have much choice and option to restore the lost data and will have to rely totally on Google’s mercy on restoration of services.	Since, user or customer himself solely responsible for the data backup, you can easily restore it from the last backup taken without waiting for anything from anyone. However, taking and restoring backup will depend upon an individual’s knowledge, skill and awareness only.
In the absence of Google’s any good past experience on hardware support area, this could be a bottleneck when you face any hardware failure with your device and need a support from Google.	Availability of multiple hardware vendors means, you have plenty of options to choose from in case of any hardware failure with your PC.
Two different models from two vendors currently Samsung and Acer are priced at $429 and $349. Keeping in mind all the above factors, many people find chromebooks to be a bit expensive for such a light client device as compared to fully loaded PC/Laptop/Notebook.	With many vendors already available and with a large number of models to choose from makes the prices of a computer very competitive. Even a low-end notebook or a good Netbook is priced lower than GC today.

Hope, you will find the above much require comparison between Google Chrome book and a normal fully loaded PC quite useful. It will not appropriate on our part to draw the conclusion ourselves on a million dollar question – Should I buy google chromebook or not? For one, it may turn out to be a great and very useful gadget and for another it may not be that worthy. Now, after listing down all the possible comparison above, I have left it to your choice how do you find this gadget. In case, you feel interested in buying this, let me inform you that it is going to be sold online with effect from 15th June 2011 from Amazon. You can buy Google ChromeBook from Amazon. You can even subscribe and get notified when it is open for sale within your area and country.

Do share your feedback on what do you feel about this new mobile device and if you are going to buy it or not?

Top 5 Benefits of Accepting a Guest Post on your Blog

2020-05-18T16:22:04Z

If you are a full time or part time blogger and have been taking blogging quite seriously, chances are high that you must have written guest posts already on some blogs or you may be inviting others to write guest post on your blog. For others, who either don’t know about guest blogging or confused about if they should accept guest blogs on their blogs or not, you may find this post quite useful. First of all, guest post is nothing but writing a post or an article on some one else’ blog. Now, this raises an obvious question why a blog owner should allow others to write on his blog or what are the benefits, if any, in accepting guest post on his/her blog. So, let me explain about all the implicit benefits of accepting guest post on your blog.

Guest Post Gives Free Content to Your Blog

This is the first and most obvious benefit on why a blog owners accept others to submit posts to their blog. It gives you a lot of content and that too Free. We all know content is the most integral part of any blog and we need to constantly create and update content on our blogs to keep it going and survive. Insufficient content has been one of the important reasons why many blogs fail after being in existence for some time. Accepting guest post fulfill the content purpose. In fact, this becomes even more critical when due to whatsoever reasons, you are don’t find time to write regularly on your blog. Guest post fills up that gap and keep your blog alive with more content always.

Guest Post Adds to the Variety of Content

Each one of us has a different writing style in terms of vocabulary, grammar or even otherwise. This helps you to give the much required variety or variations to your readers and draw and hold their attention. If you are the only one who is writing, then there may be a certain segment of people who either don’t like the way you write or may not find it easy to relate with, can easily leave your blog and look for information elsewhere. This is where guest post will pitch in and will help in bringing and holding that extra set of new people to your blog.

Guest Post Brings the Reputation to your Blog

By reputation, I don’t intent to mean that if you are not accepting guest post, then your blog is not a reputed one or not liked by others. What I mean here, is when your visitors find lots of many other people writing for you, they obviously get even more curious and interested because there has to be some good reason for so many different people to submit posts to your blog. That brings the extra positive reputation and good-will to your blog.

Guest Post helps in SEO, Promotion and Traffic

Sometimes even blogs with the lots of content fail to survive for long due to lack of SEO and sufficient promotion. When you create a product, it has to be sold as well otherwise the very purpose of creating the product gets defeated. Guest post helps to a larger extent in SEO and promotion for your blog. Bloggers or people who are submitting content on your blog, obviously do it for some reasons. Whatever could be the ultimate reason, one common factor among all of them would be to tell others about the article or post they have written or what is known as self promotion. So, they will inform their friends, relatives, colleagues and to their social networking circle, email and other groups etc. This in turn will automatically lead to creation of references (back links for your blog) and will help drawing more and more visitors to your own blog.

Guest Post adds to More Revenue Generation

If you are a serious blogger, chances are high that you would be doing this with the purpose of making money ultimately. Your obvious sources of money and revenue would be advertisements, affiliate links or even may be selling your own products or services. Whatever be the case, you need regular traffic and visitors to your blog to make money and in fact, you would need a lots of them. So, obviously due to more and more traffic getting drawn to your site and blog due to above mentioned points, this will automatically lead to more revenue for you.

Hope, you will find above points quite useful in deciding about accepting guest posts on your blog or not. However, as with everything, there are some negative points or down side to this activity of accepting guest blogging as well. Even more critical factor is when is the right time to start accepting the guest posts on your blog, if at all you decide to do that. Since, this post has become quite a long already, I will share that in one of my upcoming post. I may decide to cover that part as a Guest post on some other blog as well.

Do share your feedback.

Commenting on Other Blogs is More than Just Getting a Backlink

2020-05-18T16:22:04Z

Sometimes having an opinion on something pays you quite well. Same holds true in case of blog comments or better known as commenting on other blogs. Most of the bloggers do take up commenting as a regular daily task which helps them getting the traffic from other blogs, creates free back links for their own sites which helps them rank better with the search engines. However, not everyone gets the same results from the commenting task. Only few are able to make most of it while others end up just wasting time and effort. However, if this small task is done with a bit of sincerity and planning, can work wonders. Generally, many bloggers and site owners don’t pay that much required attention and don’t do commenting consistently and efficiently. I am going to explain about few simple things to avoid and things to use to make most out of your commenting task and things;

Commenting for only Backlinks

This is a big mistake many bloggers specially new entrants make. They just concentrate on embedding back links while commenting thinking that will automatically bring them wonderful results. However, this is neither helpful or adds value to any one else nor to his or her own site or blog. Commenting has to be done seriously, at least with the same seriousness as you would write a post for your own blog. This would require you to fully go through and understand the post on which you are going to comment. Only them move to the ‘Post Comment” section to put forward your opinion about what has been said in that post. On the contrary if you write comments for the sake of back links only then either of the following can happen;

You may violate that blog or site’s blog commenting guidelines and your comment may get rejected by the moderator.
Even if your comment is approved, not many people would find it interesting as it doesn’t have any opinion or doesn’t add any value to what has been said in the post. So, even when your back link is there in your comment, people will not see the need to follow this to your site and they may even assume your blog or site to be equally useless and not worthy as your comment. Remember, First Impressions is the Last Impression.

Research and Read before Commenting

Do spend a good amount of time in reading the post on other blogs before you start commenting on this. Find all the good things and bad things in the post. After that spend few more minutes thinking about what you already knew about that subject or topic. Then only, head towards comments section and start posting your comment by first thanking and appreciating the writer for his post. Afterwards only, have your own opinion. Opinion not always has to be in terms of you agreeing or not agreeing to what has been said. Rather, you should add something in your comment which you find missing or ambiguous in the post. That will add quite a value to the already written post. When others who are reading the post, will read through your comment and will find an extra information to what has already been said in the post, obviously they will not only appreciate and thank you but will follow to your site and blog to find out what more you have.

Commenting in the above way will also help you in other ways like gaining more information about the subject which you anyways require to keep your blog going and alive. This may also give you more ideas on your own post topics. So in the long run its not just traffic and back links that you end up gain from the commenting task but it helps you to create content for your own site. Based on number of comments and nature of comments on other blogs, you can determine what more other people are looking for or what topic or subject is more sought after (based on number of comments). Writing more on the such topics on your own blog will definitely bring people to your site.

Use Tools to Track and Manage

You can also use some of the feed readers like FeedDemon and subscribe to most of blogs in your own niche and track them through feed reader. This will help you avoid lots of manual effort to find and visit the blogs or sites to comment. Secondly, it will help you to know about the arrival of new item or post on the blogs you are tracking and have already left comments on the existing posts. So you can, in fact, use many interesting features of the feed reader for better planning and management and tracking of blogs and comments.

Use Tools to Auto Populate Personal Information

You can also use some tool to auto populate personal information for you in the comments section. I am not talking about auto-comments tool here which fills up the comments for you using some standard static and generic text. Rather these are the tools which auto populate only the personal information fields for you viz Name, Email, Website etc. You have to write your opinion yourself anyways. Now a days, there are many such small tools and plug-in or add-ons available with the browsers as well which you can make user. Alternatively, many tool bars like Google Toolbar etc also comes with such features.

So, do think about the above points next time you are going to comment on other blogs. I am sure it will find this as much worthy as writing your own blog post and you will witness the same in the results it will bring afterwards.

Do share your opinion (of course, keeping the above points in mind first).

Free Software to Defrag Registry and Increase System Response Time and Speed

2020-05-18T16:22:05Z

Windows Registry or often called as Registry is an internal centralized database of configuration settings of the operating system (windows) as well as the software and hardware installed on a computer. It contains all the parameters that govern the use of the operating system and software/hardware based on the values and settings defined for these parameters. Whenever you install or uninstall a hardware or a software on your computer, registry settings gets updated automatically. There is a provision to edit these settings manually also, but only if you are technically proficient. Manual update of setting is not recommended for everyone as it may crash your system totally or may even result on loss of data, if done incorrectly. With the repeated installation and un-installation of hardware and software from your computer over a period of time, the registry becomes fragmented which increases the response time of your PC or slows downs the performance. This may also be because of possible corruption happening in the registry database.

Now, here is a software solution to overcome the above problem. Software named Simnet Registry Defrag can help you defragment your registry which in turn compact and optimizes your registry database, prevent corruption and ultimately improve the system performance to a large extent. Best part, this Registry Defrag software is FREE.

Features of Registry Defrag

The main features of this Registry Defrag software are;

This utility software has got very smart and user friendly interface.
Simple Installation with a very low memory and CPU resources consumption.
Creates automatic restore points for safety, in case something goes wrong.
Provides automatic updates to the software.

This helps improving the system’s performance because;

It removes gaps and fragmentation within Registry database.
Removes and fixes any possible structural problems.
Reduces the size of the registry.

The software has got good ratings and various awards – DownloadAtoZ 5 star award, Softpedia 100% clean award, Soft82 100% clean award, Euro Download 5 star award and many more.

The software is very simple and easy to use and it does its work within minutes. You can download Simnet Registry Defrag here. After downloading the installer, run the install to install it on your local computer.

How to Run Registry Defrag

Run the Registry Defrag software and go to setting to update the required settings.

Click Analyze and software will start analyzing the system to check the current state. After couple of minutes, it will inform that (1) How much of Registry database is fragmented (2) How much estimated space saving will be after running this software.

Click Defrag Now to start the cleaning and Registry Defragmentation process. Allow the software to restart the system after completion of process. It may take couple of minutes for the process to complete. In some cases, it may also take quite a lot of time, however, please be patient. After completion of process, it will restart the system and you may check the current status by again running the software and clicking Analyze.

Please ensure you have the backup of your system and Registry before running this software or in general, any such utility and software.

Hope, you would like the above software and will make use of this to defragment your Registry and see improvement in system’s performance. Please do share your opinion on the same .

Recover Deleted Files with Free Software- Pandora Recovery

2020-05-18T16:22:05Z

Just few days back, I was working quite late into night and my internet connection broke down. Though feeling sleepy, I thought of utilizing the time for some house keeping work which has been remaining pending for many days due to lack of time. With broken internet connection, this was the best time to complete that pending house keeping for my computer. I started deleting some unwanted files and images. May be, it was not the right time as I expected. I realized this quite late when I found that I had deleted files which I didn’t want to. Obviously I had no choice but to feel frustrated and helpless. Next whole day I spent searching for suitable way to recover deleted files and looked for many available utilities for this purpose on net. However, I end up feeling more frustrated because most of them were not free and were priced quite high for this purpose. Moreover, the worst part was that I could download their trial versions and but could use it only to scan and search files which are recoverable but could not actually recover deleted files without buying the software package. This wasted a lot of time and effort on my part. It is then that I ended up on Pandora Recovery’s site and I found it really good at the first sight. When I tried to use, I was even more delighted when I was able to actually recover my deleted files, documents and photos without paying a bit.

Pandora Recovery is a nice file recovery utility which can be used to recover deleted files, documents, photos, videos and various other types of files from your computer’s hard drive, memory card, digital cameras, mobiles and other external drives. Files can be recovered to your hard drive, network drive or flash drive.

Software is compatible with WIndows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. It can very well recognize FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and NTFS/EFS.
You can download and install this great free software utility –Pandora Recovery from here.

You can recover deleted files in three different ways – Browse, Search, Surface Scan (deep)

Browse – With this, you can browse the drives for individual deleted files and folders and can select which ones to recover

Search – With this, you can search for files with full or partial names, file size, creation date or access date

Surface Scan (deep) – With this option, it will scan the whole drive for the supported file types and will return the highest number of results. However, it is more time consuming as it scans the complete drive.

You must keep in mind and ensure that recovering deleted files with any utility will work best only if no new files have been added to the drive (from which files need to be recovered) after files were deleted. It is because, the new files will possibly by taking up the same space on the drive which was used by the earlier deleted files and hence overwriting the same which makes the recovery difficult or impossible.

This software utility also comes in premium portable software solution that requires no installation. It is named Pandora Mobile Recovery and it is distributed on 1 GB USB drive and you can run the software directly from the USB drive and can recover files onto same USB drive only.

Hope, you will find this software very useful to recover deleted files and am sure it will save you lots of effort, time and money. Not to mention, it can save you lots of mental stress and frustration which you would otherwise be feeling when unable to recover the deleted files. Do share your opinion for the same and do tell us about any other such free utility you may know of.

Why Lower Google PageRank is Better than Fake Higher One

2020-05-18T16:22:05Z

PageRank™, a patent technology that was invented and launched by Google to check out the importance of a website/web page. Today it is one of the most important parameters (Google calls them signals) out of 200 other parameters which plays a crucial role in the Google’s algo for determining the relevance and hence the rankings. pagerank is generally indicated by a Green bar – the length of green part varies as per the pagerank score of the website. PageRank score varies between 1 to 10 where 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. For example, if you check the page rank for Google.com itself, then it is 10. If you check for some new website, then you will find it to have no PageRank (indicated by 0 value and no green bar) as yet.

Factors Contributing to PageRank

Page Rank itself is calculated based on various factors, out of which, one major factor is the number of backlinks the website has from other sites. Because those backlinks are a measure of votes from other sites for the website in question (for which the Page Rank is being measured). More the votes the better it is. However, Google further clarifies it and their algo is based on that votes from relevant and more important sites are a better than from a non-relevant and not so important. For example, if you have a technology site, then a backlink from the other technology site will hold more importance than from a non-technology one. Similarly, backlink from a high PageRank site will be far better than from the one with no Page Rank as yet or a low PageRank site. That means, if the site with the PageRank 7 or 8 is linking back to you, then that backlink will hold more weightage in the calculation of PageRank for your site rather than the backlink from a PageRank 1 site. Ofcourse, there may be many other parameters being used to calculate the PageRank which Google has never disclosed (for the obvious reasons). However, factors like quality of content, freshness of content can also play a major role in this.

Why Google Uses PageRank

Google uses PageRank as a measure while calculating the relevance of the sites and ranking them. So, you will generally find websites with higher PageRanks are generally ranked better than others with low PageRank.

How to Find PageRank

You can check the PageRank of a website or a web page either directly through Google toolbar or from many other third party websites.

What is Fake or Forged PageRank Scam

Each website owner wish to have a higher PageRank so as the site can ranked better in search engines and hence, can draw more number of visitors. There are many others for whom PageRank is nothing less than a status symbol for their website and they very proudly displays the PageRank widget showing website’s current score. They also hope, probably it may help them to get more traffic and have more sales conversions which unfortunately is not true. However, not many people understands this and generally goes a bit too far in getting and displaying the high PageRank for their sites. Many companies know this and have used this to their advantage and they are very openly providing the service of offering a fake PageRank by charging a hefty amount. Most of the people who are either not that much technically proficient or have some what ignorance of the concept, generally falls into this trap. There are many other who are technical experts and they try to do the same themselves putting their technical knowledge to a worst use.

Disadvantages of Fake PageRank

There are no advantage in getting the fake PageRank and mis-using the clocking technique. However, there are many disadvantages like a complete ban of website from Google. It will also not help in getting a better search engine rankings as this is one biggest misconception due to which people fall in such traps of getting a fake PageRank. In fact, it will totally prevent your site from appearing in Google search because Google assumes the content of the redirected website as your site’s content and will display that instead of yours. Only change for you shall be that Green bar (indicating the PageRank on your webpage) will be longer which in itself doesn’t hold much importance.

High PageRank Backlinks Scam

Many companies themselves make the Fake PageRank to their undue advantage. They get a fake PageRank for themselves with the above methods, then claiming themselves to be a high PageRank site, they start selling backlinks for others at a premium prices. Many people starving to get a high PageRank as well as traffic for themselves falls into this trap and pays them to get a meagre backlink which anyways doesn’t add any value due to that backlink being from totally irrelevant niche.

How to Check if PageRank is Valid or Fake

There are many ways to find out the PageRank of a website. You can find it either directly from the Google’s toolbar or from many third part sites which you can easily find through google search. However, if you have a doubt about the displayed PageRank being valid or fake then you can check that with a simple google command. Just type “info:doamin.com” (without quotation marks) in Google search. Ensure to replace the domain.com with the real domain you are checking for. If there are no results or if the search result displays a different URL which doesn’t match with the original one, then it is fake PageRank. On the other hand, if search result returns only one URL and that matches with the original being searched then it is a valid PageRank. There are few sites also like checkpagerank.net which checks and mentions if the page rank is valid or fake.

So, next time, please take extra care to fall into any such fake PageRank provider’s trap and don’t even try practicing that yourself as well. You might get your site completely banned from Google,if you try to do so.

Please do share your opinion and do tell us if you know of any other technique to find out if the PageRank is fake or not.

Plagiarism Checker and Prevent Content Theft in WordPress

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In this post, I am going to discuss about Plagiarism Checker tools to check the duplicate content and how to prevent the content theft using the great wordpress plagiarism checker plugin.

We all know the importance of a unique content to offer the valuable first hand information to the visitors as well as getting appreciated by search engines. However, in this era of internet, duplicate content and duplicity is one such common issue bothering all the serious and genuine bloggers like us and all of us do witness plagiarism at some point of time in our blogging career. Plagiarism or stolen content impacts the original and genuine bloggers in following ways;

(1) Some one else takes away the credit of your hard work.
(2) Reduction in visitor traffic as well as revenue

Above three are the major losses to any serious and genuine blogger and can be very de-motivating also. Now, many online plagiarism checker tools offer free and paid services of checking the duplicate content all over the web. Some of such sites or plagiarism checker tools are Copyscape, Copygator and Plagiarism.pro wherein you can search of duplicate copy of your blog content all over the web. These plagiarism checker tools search based on either the complete URL or searching a particular text phrases.

Apart from taking help of the above mentioned Plagiarism Checker tools, Google has also taken steps in this direction in getting rid of duplicate content, removing from web search and/or completely deleting the defaulter site/blog. You can report such issues at Google DMCA. You can find more details about the same at Shoutmeloud blog wherein the blog owner has provided enough details on how to report such incidents to Google.

However, we have all heard of the famous phrase – Prevention is better than cure. Same holds true in this case also because plagiarism has also become some sort of deadly disease in cyber world which needs an immediate attention and removal. If you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, then you are the happier lot because there is a ready made plugin available which can prevent the content and the images from getting stolen. One such plugin is named WP-Protect which protects your content from being stolen altogether whereas above sites do help only after the content has already been stolen. This plugin is based on JavaScript coding and helps in protecting the content by disabling the right-click and text selection which are two main methods used to steal the content. All the features can be very well configured through WordPress admin panel. However, there are following limitations of this plugin;

(1) Since it is JavaScript based, it may not work for some people who have disabled the JavaScript
(2) Content can still be copied through View Source screen.

However, if you see the mentality of most of the copy-cat bloggers, then you will find that most of them belong to lot who are either don’t know about these technical aspects or very lazy to do anything other than simple selecting the text and copying or going via right-click method. Obviously, otherwise, they could very well be spending time on writing the content themselves and not going copy-cat route.

Another advantage of using this plugin over any plagiarism checker tools or any other wordpress plagiarism checker plugin is that this plugin prevents the content from being copied upfront. Hence, it helps save you a lot of effort, time and mental agony which happens after your content has been stolen. No doubt, plagiarism checker tool is the best option, if after all precautions, your content has still been stolen.

How to install this wordpress plagiarism checker plugin

(1) Download the WP-Protect Plugin and upload and install or
(2) From the WordPress dashboard, go to Add New Plugin and search for WP-Protect,install and activate it

(3) Go to Settings -> WP-Protect (to change and update settings)

Now, you are very well protected from the theft of your content by the copy-cats.

Please do share your feedback and let us know if you are employing any other technique or method to prevent content theft. Do inform us, if you are using any other plagiarism checker tools or wordpress plagiarism checker plugin apart from mentioned above to check the content theft or duplicate content.