Wordpress SEO for Dummies and Pros - TechBum

How to do WordPress SEO like a pro! I decided to write this post on Wordpress SEO after I helped a client on Fiverr setup his WordPress site and taught him how to optimize his website for search engines.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is not really a big deal as tons of tools and web utilities are now available some being free while some are not. Wordpress is now becoming a hot favorite for anyone who wants to start a blog. Though, Wordpress's use is not only limited to only blogs. With new plugins for WordPress, it has been made possible to build a discussion forum or an e-commerce store.

In this post lets focus on the Wordpress SEO plugins. I researched quite a bit about what plugin to use for my client's WP blog. After looking around a few plugins, I finally narrowed down on Wordpress SEO by Yoast.


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As Yoast.com quotes:
"WordPress SEO is a complete WordPress SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview and page analysis functionality that helps you optimize your pages content, images titles, meta descriptions and more to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between."

It provides the following important features for WP:
1. Post titles and meta descriptions
2. XML Sitemaps

Below I have attached the screenshots how exactly you can perform the SEO for your Wordpress blog:

1) Once you install the plugin, a column for SEO will show up beside your posts. Please have a look at the images.




2) As you see in the below picture, there is a snippet preview  where you can see how your website will turn up in the search results provided correct keyword and meta description is used.

Type in the Focus keywords  and it will show you if it is present in the content, page URL, article heading, and meta description.

When you type the focus keywords wait after typing each word and a list will open which shows what focus keywords others have used. So it is better to try your own combination which has not been used before.



3) SEO tick will be shown in different colors:
Green -> Good
Yellow -> OK
Red -> Poor

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Top Strategies to Successful Link Building

If you are only slightly familiar with the ever changing world of Search Engine Optimization, or SEO as we like to call it, then you have also probably heard the term link building. Basically, this is developing links on other sites that point to your site. Why do you want to develop this into your website? Why to attract traffic, of course. Research has shown that link building accounts for about 70% of all of a site’s off-site SEO.

In the past, the process of link building was simple, but Google and other leading search engines have begun to frown upon the traditional methods that are associated with this art and many websites are suddenly feeling the sting of their rejection. Now, with the world of online marketing changing forever, it is up to the new generation of SEO professionals to develop new strategies to build their place in this world. Below is some of the SEO link building strategies that you can take home and use on your site today.

Create Quality Content

The most important goal of any website is to generate quality content. If your content is not good, search engines won’t even pick it up and readers won’t be able to find it in the first place. You may think that this means you need to write about everything that is happening now. However, this could be a mistake. Attracting a ton of traffic now is great, but what about in the future. Will your content still be relevant one year from now? Or, even better, one WEEK from now?

It is best to write the majority of your content on topics that are relevant to your field, no matter when a reader might stumble across them. Try writing a piece that offers advice to readers that they can use at any time. Understandably, you will need to update your content because there are changes made regularly to any field. However, there are also items in any industry that will hold value for the long run.

Building Links

After you have your fabulous, timeless content on your site, it is time to begin link building. This process may take some time, but if you look in the right places, you will be able to build the right type of links for your site and therefore maximize traffic to it. When you are ready to begin this process, be sure to take advantage of the following areas.

Internal Links

Although it may seem a bit redundant to create links to your own content, the value in doing so is invaluable. Imagine a reader strolling through one of your articles without having access to further articles that you have on your site. This could be detrimental! They have found an article, but now have no idea that there is more that you have to offer.

By linking your content together, you are creating a chain of sorts. If you have ever spent much time on YouTube, you are already well aware of this concept. You begin by watching a short video on how to fix your dryer and wind up, three hours later, watching kittens play in the sink. This is exactly what you want your readers to do. Strategically place valuable links to your other content so that they quickly become engulfed with your site. The longer they spend checking out things, the better it is for your website.

Link Trading

Offering a link to another reputable website in exchange for them to link to yours is a fantastic way to build links. There are some things that you should look for, however. For starters, make sure that the site that you are swapping links with actually deserves your attention. Linking to a poorly created site or one with subpar content can reflect poorly on your site.

Next, you want to make sure that the visitors of the site are also relevant to your site and vice versus. Stick with sites that are in your niche. There needs to be a reason for the visitors of either site to visit the other. For example, if your site is related to horses, a site specializing in saddles would be a much better fit than one that specializes in car parts.

Fix Broken Links

If you have ever run across a link that is broken, you probably already know the frustration that a reader feels. Luckily, there is a tool that can fix these issues and lead these readers directly to your site. Once you have identified a broken link on a website, you will need to discover what the link was supposed to pull up.

Next, you can recreate this information on your own website. Essentially, you are pulling readers who are interested in the content of the broken link to your website. This is also a great way to promote your website with the owner of the site that contained the broken link in the first place. They now have a reason to create links for you because you have fixed an error that was leading their readers astray.

There are many other tactics that can be used to build links, but many of these are not supported by search engines. It is important that you stick with approved tactics only, because eventually you may find that you have been removed from the search engine sites. Link building is a great way to build the traffic to your site and the above strategies will help you receive the traffic you need to make your website a success.

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Quora Client - New Quora App for Windows Phone 8/8.1

"Quora Client" for Windows Phone is a Quora app that simplifies the way you use Quora on your WP device. It is a dedicated app for Quora. You ony need to login once and you are ready to go! This app also provides shortcuts to important pages like stats,credits,content,etc.

Please see the screenshot for User Interface of this application. I urge you to download this application and see for yourself. You can always delete the app if you are not satisfied with the functionality it provides. 

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How to add a fixed header like Facebook and Mashable on your website - Part 1

To learn to build a cool website from scratch you can follow this series of blog posts by Subscribing to our blog feed .

You will learn to build a Fixed header like on our website , means even though you scroll the top bar / header remains fixed in the top position . 

Prerequisites - HTML & CSS .

Basic knowledge in both HTML and CSS is required .

For Best Results use Google Chrome .. as experience might differ with different web browsers.

Following is the code you can use :

HTML Code :

<html>
<body>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<div class="fixedheader">
<p class="top">Hello</p>
<div class="nav">
<a href=''>Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href=''>Register</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
</div>
<center>
<div class="main">
</div>
<center>
</body>
</html>

CSS Code:

.fixedheader{
background: black;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
z-index: 999;
top: 0;
height: 50px;
opacity: 1;
}

.top{
font-family: comic sans ms;
color: red;
font-size: 24px ;
float: left;
margin-top: 5px;
padding-left: 20px;
}
.container{
width: 100%;
height:300px;
//background-color: blue;
//background: url(images.jpg) repeat bottom;
}

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.nav{
margin-top: 7px;
width: 400px;
float: right;
text-align: left;
font-size: 24px;
}

a{

color: #ccc;
font-family: "lato",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: bold;

}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
background-color: transparent;
font-family: "lato",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 1em;
color: #575757;
//background: url(images.jpg) repeat bottom;
}

.main{
background-color: black;
border-radius: 30px;
width: 90%;
height: 700px;
padding: 20px;


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Increase blog Traffic by using pay with a tweet or Facebook post for selling digital goods - TechBum™

Transact Socially' is a social payment system, where people can pay for a product with the value of their social network. It requests users to pay for a product by a facebook post or a tweet and by doing so they are sharing the information about the product with all their acquaintances.

And this way of making your product popular sometimes proves to be of a higher value as compared to the money you would get for it.

                             Use  or 

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I am not paid for sharing this with you but I felt like sharing this utility because it has helped me increase my Blog Traffic while I share Digital Goods just by making readers pay with a Tweet or Facebook Post ... Cool , isn't ? 

Check it out yourself ! If you find this Post even a little helpful do +1 it and like my Facebook Page . 

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Best Android Apps of 2013 - Grab'em !

Most popular apps to try in 2013.

This list is taken from lifehack

Utility

SwiftKey 3 Keyboard

SwiftKey 3 is one of the most intuitive keyboards you can download for your Android devices. The predictive text is phenomenal, and there’s even a tablet version which offers a split keyboard for landscape mode.

JuiceDefender Ultimate

JuiceDefender is a must-have app for anyone who wants to get better battery life from their Android device. There are three different versions—one free and two paid—to give you the right amount of adjustments to fit your needs.

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Business Calendarl

Business Calendar is the most feature laden calendar you can get. Between the widgets and easy change from month to week day view and drag-and-drop appointment changing, there isn’t much Business Calendar can’t do.

Splashtop Remote Desktop HD

Sometimes there’s a need to access your computer after you’ve already left the office. Splashtop lets you access your computer from everywhere you can get an internet connection, and it’s the only application out there that shows the entire computer screen vs. a shrunk-down or partial version.

Personalizing

Paperland Pro Live Wallpaper

An extremely customizable live wallpaper that looks like a diorama come to life. Choose the settings for the scene, weather and  time. Each of these tabs have multiple options to change to make a really unique background.

HD Widgets

HD Widgets gives you  A LOT of widget choices. Everything on the widget is customizable, from the fonts and colors to what is displayed. There’s even a huge 6×2 widget that works with larger screens like tablets.

Nova Launcher Prime

One of the newer home screen launchers out there, Nova Launcher Prime, integrates gestures and has some pretty cool plug-ins available. Another cool feature that Nova has is the ability to hide application icons for apps you don’t use.

ZEDGE

ZEDGE  is a phenomenal application for finding backgrounds, ringtones, and notifications. Recently, games and live wallpapers were added to the items available to be downloaded.

Music

Spotify

Spotify lets you listen to just about every song you could ever want to hear. Use the radio to play similar artists to what’s on your playlist,s or similar to a specific song or artist. Free and paid versions are available.

Poweramp

Poweramp is the ultimate music player application for Android: the 10 band EQ and support for most popular music file formats and gap-less playback set Poweramp apart from the others.

iHeartRadio

iHeartRadio was recently redesigned and came out as a spectacular customizable radio app. Not only does it play local live radio stations, you can create customized radio stations based on your musical tastes.

Soundhound

When you hear a song playing and like it, use Soundhound to figure out who the artist is and the name of the song. When Soundhound figures out what song this, you can bookmark it for later and even see the lyrics as you’re listening to as the song plays.

News and Social

Pinterest

One of the most anticipated social media apps of all time, the official Pinterestapp lets you upload your own Pins as well as view your Boards, Like and Repin items. This has great integration with Android devices.

Flipboard

A really great way to get your news, Flipboard pulls in information from your Facebook, Twitter and other social feeds to bring you news you will actually be interested in. News is also shown from feeds like BBC and USA Today.

Tango

A great video and audio calling app with a messaging option, Tango is a great alternative to apps like Skype, and communication between Tango users is free.

Pocket

This is a great app for curating your favorite articles on the web. Save pages in your Pocket account and view videos or webpages from any of your devices, including your computer.

Lifestyle

Ancestry

Tracking down members of your family isn’t always an easy task, especially when they’re spread out over different continents and time periods. TheAncestry app links to your Ancestry.com account and lets you create new additions to your family tree.

Trulia – Real Estate & Homes

Looking for a house to buy or apartment to rent is a lot of work—Trulia is a big help in showing you what is available in the area you are thinking of moving to. Set your criteria, and see what’s out there.

Sleep as Android

Knowing how well you slept is important, and by using an app like Sleep as Android, you will be able to see how long you were in a deep restful sleep vs. light sleep. Also, there’s an alarm to wake you up when you’re not in a deep sleep, thus making you less groggy in the morning.

BeerSmith 2 Lite

Brewing beer can be pretty satisfying in more than one way. The problem is, making a good beer can take lots of trial and error. BeerSmith 2 is your beer cookbook with thousands of different beer recipes ready for you to use.

Games

Granny Smith

This is a great physics-based game where you are a elderly old lady chasing down apple thieves. With fun graphics and spectacular crashes, Granny is hell on wheels as she wreaks all kinds of havoc trying to save her apples.

Nun Attack

Nun Attack is a good way to eliminate some of that pent-up Catholic guilt. Take on the forces of evil by controlling four nuns with guns and special powers—you can even use miracles to your advantage.

PITFALL!

Not the PITFALL! you remember playing on your Atari: the basic combination of running and jumping and using the web is still there, but it’s a lot more graphically-intensive and challenging.

Zen Bound 2

Zen Bound 2 is one of the most unique puzzle games of the year: using a rope, you must try to cover as much of the surface of the 3D wooden sculptures as possible. This seems like an easy task, but takes a bit of strategy and forward-thinking to accomplish the task.

Photography

Instagram

Instagram is the most well-known of the camera apps on the list. Its claim to fame is the way you can filter the image and share your camera art with the Instagram community.

LINE Camera

Add cute little touches and stencils to the pictures you take, and then share your images with over 17 million users all over the world or on your favorite social network with LINE Camera.

Camera360 Ultimate

Camera360 is a super-powerful camera application for Android devices with high-resolution cameras. Camera360 is also front-facing-camera compatible. It’s great for taking self-portraits on phones with higher quality front-cameras.

Pencil Camera

Transforming your image into a drawing can really add a unique look, and Pencil Camera does just that. You can take a picture and immediately see what the pencil-sketched version of the picture will look like in the preview.

Actioncam

With action photography, timing is everything. Using Actioncam lets you take several pictures right in a row to make sure you capture just the right pose, plus it has a variety of frames and filters to enhance the photos further.

Silent Camera

Sometimes, to take the perfect picture, you have to take it as silently as possible. Silent Camera eliminates the shutter noise all great cameras make when you take a picture—with no noise, it’s easy to take continuous pictures without being noticed.

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CloudOn: A Full Microsoft Office Suite on Android

There’s nothing left standing between you, your work and your team. Distance and device no longer matter. CloudOn keeps you productive with the full power of applications like Microsoft Office®, the convenience of cloud storage and more—all in your very own workspace in the cloud.


 CloudOn tries to solve the problem by running Microsoft Office on an actual computer and letting you control it from your phone or tablet. Let’s have a look at what the app has to offer and see if it can really replace a computer to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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Dragon 4.0 For Android to beat Apple’s Siri

Dragon aspires to be an incredibly reliable and intuitive mobile personal assistant, not only responding to commands and providing relevant content, but also anticipating people’s needs in the moment-just like a true personal assistant

When in Driver Mode, the new 4.0 version of Dragon Mobile Assistant switches to voice only and will begin reading incoming texts and messages to you automatically. The app can even be configured to read incoming Facebook notifications while on the road.

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Dragon is given access to much more information and different parts of the operating system. This means it can replace the Google Now search option if the user prefers Dragon over the baked-in Android option. It’s a big goal, trying to overtake Google’s own voice recognition product.
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kat.ph is being replaced with a new domain, KickAss.to - TechBum™

KickassTorrents, known more recently as simply KAT.ph, has become one of the most loved torrent sites on the Internet. In common with The Pirate Bay.

Recently kat.ph went down as it appears that the domain kat.ph has expired . But the good news is that it isn't permanently down or blocked . 

But , it is simply operating with a new domain name KickAss.to 

Whether this switch is a permanent or temporary measure will probably become apparent in the hours to come.

According to a post by KAT staff member Chew the .ph domain has been seized.

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How to Increase your website traffic with Google Webmaster tools : SEO tips - TechBum™

Most of the newbie bloggers always complain about low traffic on their blog and keeping searching for tips and tricks via Google and end up paying for some artificial website traffic generator service. 

This is where SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) plays an important role. There is a lot of stuff on the internet about SEO and the tips and tricks but very few talk about the Google Webmaster Tools ! 

Few complain of low traffic even though they have some really good content on their website . Well , the problem is this 'really good content' has to reach out to the people who are Googling some related content . 

So if you expect that people type something in Google and your website should be visible on the first page of the Google search results , thinking as if your website might appear in the search results like magic ! then your are a fool...

Google is a Search Engine , so what it does is the web crawlers or spiders crawl through various websites picking up keywords and indexing the stuff accordingly and based on its PageRank algorithm it gives the search results . 

Hence, without submitting the Sitemap of your website to Google , you simply cannot expect your website name in the Google search results , no matter how awesome is the quality of your content .

For the people using blogger , can generate a sitemap via this link ; 

http://ctrlq.org/blogger/

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copy the sitemap you have generated and submit the sitemap on Google webmaster tools ;

www.google.com/webmaster/tools

Steps :

1) sign in with you google account on the webmaster tools page.

2) click 'ADD a Site'

3)Cick on the site name once it is added and then click 'Add/Test Sitemap'  and paste the link there .

4) it may take a day or two for your site to get indexed b Google 

5) once you site is indexed you will be able to see all the information like how many times your site has been crawled . 

6) Also it shoes , where your website appeared in the search results (first page , second page , etc. )

7) Thus , Webmaster tools play a significant role in knowing how your website is performing and helps you optimize your content to get organic traffic on your website !

I hope this helps you , though this may not seem to be a very quick method but this is the most efficient and legal way to get Organic traffic to you blog or website . 

According to my experience , after submitting my sitemap to Google i have had a 100% increase in the traffic on my blog. 

Feel free to comment . Cheers :) 

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New Google Maps Are Simply Awesome (Google I/O 2013) - TechBum™

Google introduces the New Google Maps at Google I/O 2013  showing off some really new and awesome features !

Full support for Android , iOS  Mobile Devices and Tablets. 
Google plans to kill the GPS - devices with these new maps .

Boasting a combination of Google Earth and Google Maps. 
Lets see how well they perform .  

Though it is in Beta yet you can REQUEST A INVITE

here's the link : http://maps.google.com/help/maps/helloworld/desktop/preview/


Few awesome videos describing the new features are embedded below . Do watch . Am sure you will be impressed :)

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How to get Google Adsense Approval . Monetize your Blog instantly - TechBum™

Just like a newbie blogger about a year ago when I started blogging , I was very keen on activating Google Adsense for my blog .  I went through various online forums each of them explaining the same old stuff about blogging techniques , building up traffic , SEO etc.

This things were just really very boring to me . But then I had no choice but to come up with some quality content and get some traffic and finally one fine day my blog got approved and I now I am able to put Adsense ads on my blog. So if you are reading this you will find an ad somewhere in this post :P and a few in the sidebar too :) 

Ok , so from my experience i would suggest you like others to follow stuff like Making Quality 

Content , SEO , Building Traffic ... (Probably you wont be interested in this i know )

But here is one trick which will definitely help you add Adsense ads on your blog directly after making an Google Adsense Application procedure .  it is 100% working technique !

Just follow this Simple steps : 

(Make sure you have a blog setup already)

1) Make a YouTube channel .

2) Upload just 1 or 2 videos initially (just about anything !)

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        So the trick here is that YouTube has started offering Partnership to  anyone who has a YouTube       

        channel . (Now anyone can Monetize their YouTube videos . )

How this helps ?

-->To monetize your videos you will be asked to make/associate a Google Adsense Account. 

And all you need to put ads on your blog is an approved / activated Adsense account .

3)So go ahead and create an Adsense account(with same or different ID) and hence you finally have an Approved Google Adsense Account . 

So, what you now have is a monetized YouTube channel and an Approved Google Adsense Account !

4) Wait for a Day or Two and then from your Adsense account you can generate AD Code , which you can add on your BLOG !

(Ads will show up immediately once you add the code . The earnings might take a day or two to show up in your adsense account :)) 

Congratulations ! You now have now Monetized you Blog and you have ads up and running on your blog . I guess after getting your Blog monetized maybe you should start to think about making Quality Content on your blog, if you haven't already  . :P  (Good Content is really very important)

If you have any sort of problem or some part which you have understood please feel free to post in te comments ! I will shortly be uploading a video on this topic . So Hang On ! Subcribe to my YouTube channel . 

Cheers :)

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