How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Without a doubt, the most frequent post request I’ve had on this site is a post about link building. I rarely take requests, simply because people rarely know what they really want until you give it to them, but this time things are a little different.
First of all, I have been studying SEO day and night since I was 16 (almost 5 years ago) and I’ve ranked on the first page of Google for some of the most competitive keyphrases in the world. Therefore, I like to think I know quite a bit about the topic and can provide some insights in this space.
For those of you who don’t know why links are important, let me just say that if you want to get traffic from the major search engines, they’re crucial. Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about.
A large percentage of my income to affiliate sites is from traffic via Google, and the difference between ranking 2nd and ranking 1st can literally be thousands of dollars extra on my bottom line.
SEO is generally divided into two parts: on-site optimisation and off-site optimisation. On-site is changes you make to the actual code of your website to help with rankings. In my guide on WordPress SEO I gave a lot of tips on this that you can also apply to sites that aren’t running the CMS.
Today we’re going to look at the off-site side of things, which is building links.

ADD READ MORE TAG IN BLOGGER IN ONE STEP

Go to edit post and select HTML code, now add <!--more--> to code where you want add read more and DONE!!

JDBC Introduction

The JDBC API is a Java API that can access any kind of tabular data, especially data stored in a Relational Database.
JDBC helps you to write Java applications that manage these three programming activities:

1. Connect to a data source, like a database
2. Send queries and update statements to the database
3. Retrieve and process the results received from the database in answer to your query

The first iPhone was invented in 1983!

Naturally, this wasn’t anything like the rectangular cell phone we know today. It was a land line phone with, instead of a touch screen, a built in stylus controlled interface. 
It was designed by Apple computer developer Hartmut Esslinger, and foreshadows the touchscreen designs used by the iPad and iPhone today. He had also developed the Apple IIc, the first “portable” computer by Apple. It was never released to the public, but was kept in the Apple archives until the design was released in 1997 after Steve Jobs rejoined the company.
This iPhone isn’t the only prototype of Apple that never saw the light of day. Apple had toyed around with the iPad design for years before its launch. What’s interesting is that the 1983 iPhone device resembles an iPad with a phone, but iPads still lack this conventional phone call technology despite everything else they do. Perhaps the iPad appliance will enter that direction in its next iteration.

State of the Blogosphere 2012: Introduction and Methodology

The Blogosphere is constantly changing and evolving. In 2012 we are seeing bloggers updating their blogs more frequently and spending more time blogging. The type of information influencing blogging has shifted from conversations with friends, which was the primary influence in 2011, to other blogs, which for 68% of bloggers are having more of an influence in 2012.


This year we have chosen to display our results according to five different types of bloggers:

1) Hobbyist: The backbone of the blogosphere, and representing 60% of the respondents to this survey, Hobbyists say that they “blog for fun” and do not report any income. Half of hobbyists prefer to express their “personal musings” when blogging. 60% indicate they spend less than three hours a week blogging, yet half of hobbyists respond individually to comments from readers. Because 72% blog to speak their minds, their main success metric is personal satisfaction (61%).

2-3) Professional Part- and Full-Timers: These bloggers represent 18% of our total group. They are independent bloggers who either use blogging as a way to supplement their income, or consider it their full-time job. Most of these professional bloggers don’t consider blogging their primary source of income. This group primarily blogs about personal musings and technology

4) Corporate: Corporate bloggers make up 8% of the blogosphere. They blog as part of their full-time job or blog full-time for a company or organization they work for. These bloggers primarily talk about technology and business in their blogs. 70% blog to share expertise, 61% to gain professional recognition, and 52% to attract new clients. They have found that blogging has given them greater visibility in their industry (64%) and company (63%). 63% of corporate bloggers use their number of unique visitors to measure success.

5) Entrepreneurs: 13% of the blogosphere is characterized as entrepreneurs, or individuals blogging for a company or organization they own. 84% of these bloggers blog primarily about the industry they work in, with 46% blogging about business and 40% about technology. 76% blog to share expertise; 70% blog to gain professional recognition; and 68% to attract new clients for their business.

Facebook to pay $10 million to settle suit

San Francisco: Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, according to court documents made public over the weekend.


The lawsuit, brought by five Facebook members, alleged the social networking site violated California law by publicizing users' "likes" of certain advertisers on its "Sponsored Stories" feature without paying them or giving them a way to opt out, the documents said.


A "Sponsored Story" is an advertisement that appears on a member's Facebook page and generally consists of another friend's name, profile picture and an assertion that the person "likes" the advertiser.

The settlement was reached last month but made public this weekend. Facebook declined to comment on Saturday.

The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Jose, California, could have included nearly one of every three Americans, with billions of dollars in damages, according to previous court documents.

In the lawsuit, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying that a trusted referral was the "Holy Grail" of advertising.

In addition, the lawsuit cited comments from Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, saying that the value of a "Sponsored Story" advertisement was at least twice and up to three times the value of a standard Facebook.com ad without a friend endorsement.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh said the plaintiffs had shown economic injury could occur through Facebook's use of their names, photographs and likenesses.
"California has long recognized a right to protect one's name and likeness against appropriation by others for their advantage," Koh wrote.
The settlement arrangement is known as a cy-pres settlement, meaning the settlement funds can go to charity.

How to Build High Traffic Websites with Google News Rankings

 Google News is one of the best way to get traffic to your blog or website and the reason for this is very less competition. Here is a useful Question & Answer series which can help you in understanding this and getting started with the same.



Q: How much does it cost to submit your site to Google News for approval?

It does not cost anything. Its completely free because you are helping Google in getting useful content for their news readers.


Q: Does Google review each News article before accepting it after your site is approved?

Google News is very closed lip about their review process, but we have tracked their movement via server logs and found that in some cases they look at one or two articles and in other cases as much as a dozen.


Q: Do you recommend we build lots of these News Sites, or just focus on 1 or 2?

I recommend focusing on one site at a time. Once you are approved, you can begin to work on another site or focus your energy on that one site. It is entirely up to you.


Q: Can we use a Wordpress Plugin to add content automatically to these news sites? Is Google going to approve those auto generated News articles?

I do not recommend using any type of automated plugins or software. A few hours worth of work is well worth the reward.


Q: But if thousands of people are doing these News sites, is it going to be too competitive?

Google News only has 50,000 publishers. Even if another 50,000 publishers came online, it would not even be close to being too competitive. Compare these numbers to tens of millions or more publishers that you compete against in the regular search engines and the number of GN publishers is miniscule. These numbers are not completely correct but is an guesstimate.


Q: Will my news article only be found in the News section of Google, or can these articles be found in a normal web search?

Everything that you publish will also be indexed into the regular search engines and not just Google.


Q: Is it possible for us to promote existing websites with this?

It is possible to promote existing websites, client’s websites, whatever. You need to have a proper plan for updating content on these news based websites to ensure they are having fresh and original content

Q: What ways do you monetize these sites?


There are many ways to monetize. You can go through the list of Make Money Online posts which can give you a detailed idea.


Q: Do you put Adsense on all your sites?

Do I? No, I do not put it on all of the sites. Some news monetizes better with other methods. Sometimes its better to promote CPM Ad networks rather than using contextual ads because the CTR is very low in most cases.


Q: How long can you expect an article to stay on the first page of Google?

There are two first pages to speak of. There is the first page of Google and the first page of Google News. Keep in mind that Google News gets 30 million visitors a day! Articles that make the front page of Google can last from a few hours to a few weeks. Articles on the front page of Google News can be there for thirty days. I have had my news articles last for the full month on that front page many times.


Q: How do we Signup with Google News & Submit our Blog?

You need to click here and then select what would you like to submit from the three options ie – site, mobile site & YouTube video channel. Based on this you need to fill in some data and then wait for the News Team to manually review your blog, editors & content and send you a Approval or Rejection email.
Please also note that Google News only includes sites that publish articles reporting on recent events. We currently do not include informational and how-to articles, classified ads, fictitious content, job postings, event announcements, advice columns, and various other non-news content.