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“Pay with a Tweet – A social payment system.” These aren’t my words. Instead, it is the name of a new payment concept developed by an interactive advertising agency called Innovative Thunder. Given the work we’ve been doing on social payments here at Glenbrook, we had to investigate this one.

Here’s how it works. A seller registers a URL with Pay with a Tweet that points to some digital content they want to sell, and attaches a tweet to the URL. When a potential buyer comes along, they just click on the “Pay with a Tweet” button which tweets the seller’s message from the buyer and then provides the buyer with access to the underlying digital goods.

Test ‘Pay with a Tweet’:
Download our book for free, if you pay with a Tweet:

via Pay With A Tweet – A Social Payment System

via Linkbucks.com - Make money when people leave your website!.

The place for people to share things they’re

willing to do for $5

Buy. Sell. Have fun.

via Fiverr – The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5.

A clean & perfect way to start your Groupon like site,deal a day

• Different account views

  User View ,Partner View and Admin View

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  Info Broadcasting

  Users can Share ,Subscribe, Get Rebates and check deals

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  Secure Remote Admin Login,multi admin, with rights,manage coupon ,deals,bonus,Paypal

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1. Linking to sites with bad reputations. Linking to sites with bad reputations isn’t a costly link building mistake – it is a deadly one! Since linking to a site is considered a form of “voting” for it, when you link to all kinds of illegal sites, this means you support them and search engines certainly won’t love it.

[Note: There may not be much concrete evidence that linking to bad sites is bad, but common wisdom still says not to.]

2. Buying and selling links. Paying for links is another deadly sin and it can get you banned from search engines. There are many paid link sites and if you are tempted to buy links there, this can have an adverse effect.

3. Getting nofollow links. It is true that it is hard to get free quality one-way dofollow backlinks, but unfortunately nofollow links aren’t good.

4. Wasting your time with many low PageRank (PR) sites. Similar to nofollow links, links from low PageRank sites aren’t your best bet. Links from low PR sites aren’t totally useless but it is much better to get a few higher PR backlinks than a ton of low quality ones.

5. Getting backlinks from irrelevant sites. A quality backlink is a dofollow link from a high PR site within your niche.

6. Getting links without your keywords as anchor text. The anchor text of the backlink is also very important. The best case is when the backlink has your keywords as anchor text. This isn’t always possible to achieve but when you are negotiating link exchanges, for example, you can say what anchor text to use, so pick a good keyword and use it as anchor text. Anchor texts, such as “click here,” “check this,” and the like lower the value of your link a lot and you should avoid them.

7. Backlink spamming. Backlink spamming is also another practice, which might not you get banned from search engines but in any case it is an inefficient use of your time and money.

via 7 Costly Link Building Mistakes | The Netsetter.

1. Title tag

Title tag or the article title is one of the most important SEO parameters. That is what appears as the title of the post in search engine result pages (SERPs) and hence you should make sure that it’s relevant, has keywords, is neither too long nor too short, and accurately conveys what the content is all about.

2. Meta description

The meta description for your blog or a blog post is a short description that appears below the content title in SERPs. If the description is precise and informative, a user is more likely to click on the post title and hence end up on your site.

3. Content

Content, obviously, is the heart and soul of SEO. Great content can attract attention and links, and hence search engines would prefer showcasing it too. Plus, it is what your readers would like to read, isn’t it?

4. Keywords

Having a general understanding of keywords (words, sentences, or phrases) relevant to the content on your site and how to use them properly always helps.

5. Web host

The web host is what your site calls home and where the Googlebot comes knocking on the door whenever you publish articles. Hence, be careful while choosing a host for your site.

6. Site loading speed

Site loading speed is something bloggers recently started focusing on when Google announced that it would be treated as one of the ranking factors. The faster your site loads, the better.

7. Robots.txt

Robots.txt is a text file on your server that tells search engine bots what to index and what to skip. It’s better to create one and place it in your root directory. Here’s a guide to create a simple robots.txt file.

8. Sitemaps

A sitemap is basically a list of pages or URLs that the search engine’s crawler can access. Ideally, you should have both XML and HTML sitemaps on your site. WordPress users can use Google XML Sitemaps plugin to create an XML one.

9. Permalinks

The default permalink structure in WordPress isn’t that good. You can customize permalinks according to your preferences and for better search engine optimization.

10. Headings and Post Slugs

Headings and sub-headings in an article are important for readers as well as for search engines. Use them wisely. Regarding post slugs, you should make them short and keyword-rich (don’t overdo it though).

SEO Tools

1. Plugins

WordPress bloggers have this advantage when it comes to SEO. They can select from a wide range of SEO plugins that are built for WordPress. Some of the popular ones are All in one SEO, Platinum SEO, and Robots Meta. There are many more.

2. Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools let you know if Google is able to successfully crawl your blog, and about other issues it might encounter with your site. Upload your sitemap in the webmaster dashboard to get started. It is recommended though that you do it only after your site has some content.

3. Browser Extensions

There are a lot of browser extensions that help you to analyze your WordPress blog and optimize it better for search engines. SEO Site tools for Chrome and SeoQuake for Firefox are two of them that I use myself.

4. Google Adwords Keywords Tool

The Google Adwords Keywords Tool can show you the keywords relevant to your article along with the number of times they are searched for every month.

5. Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a must-use tool for WordPress bloggers. Apart from showing general traffic stats, it’ll tell you what search engine keywords are driving traffic to your site, which you could further capitalize on.

Other SEO Tips

1. Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs refer to a chain of links that directs a visitor back to the main page. You could install Yoast Breadcrumbs for WordPress to get them on your blog.

2. 404 pages

404 or “Not Found” pages shouldn’t be ignored. Use them to lead the visitor to other parts of your blog. Here’s a guide to creating great 404 pages for WordPress.

3. Images

When it comes to images, you need to keep in mind mainly the alt and title tags (apart from relevancy of course). Descriptive alt tags are recommended by Google.

4. Linking

Linking to your own blog posts as well to other blogs not only provides more information to your readers, but is a good SEO step too. Do it as often as possible.

5. Anchor text

Anchor text refers to the text on the page which is being linked to a different page. The more connected the text is to the link, the better it is for your blog and the other page.

How Much Should You Focus on Search Engine Optimizing?

If you are newbie when it comes to WordPress and SEO, you might find all this a bit overwhelming. Well, SEO is a time-consuming process so I won’t say that you could get it done quickly. But here’s the thing: Don’t consume your days tweaking your site just for the search engines. You should instead focus on producing great content and building relationships.

While SEO is important, it depends on the content and not vice-versa. If the content is good and you can promote it well, it will attract links automatically.

Hope you found the above on-site optimization tips for WordPress useful. Do share your SEO tips in the comments.

via How to Search Engine Optimize Wordpress | The Netsetter.

Not all links are “follow”. Some links will permanently remain rel=”nofollow”, including:

• Links found within comments
• Our automatically generated links to “similar content on the web”.
• Brand new pages and recently-added authors are liable to remain “nofollow” for a period of time.

Beyond that, the rules determining which links and pages use “follow” vs “nofollow” will change over time as we adjust our policies to find the right balance for users and search engines

Example

For those of you who are technically inclined, here is an example. Visit this high quality sample knol on Backpacking, and select “View Source” in your browser. Search for where “follow” and “nofollow” appears on the page. You should see that the page itself gets a global “follow” directive, but certain individual links get rel=”nofollow” directives.

FAQs

• Follow our Content Policy
• Follow our Best Practices
• Beware of performing behavior that is “spammy”. Produce knols that serve the public and not a narrow commercial interest. Avoid bulk uploading of non-unique content.
• Be patient, as our signals do fluctuate over time, and it may take a while for a new user to accrue some trustworthiness.
• If you know that you satisfy all of the above, you can contact us at knolhelp@google.com and report it as a possible bug.

source: http://knol.google.com/k/follow-vs-nofollow-links-in-knol#

other: Nofollow vs. Dofollow: The Verdict is In.

1. Explicit Phrase:

Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.

Example: “internet marketing”

2. Exclude Words:

Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-” sign in front of the word you want to exclude.

Example Search: internet marketing -advertising

3. Site Specific Search:

Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:somesite.com” modifier.

Example: “internet marketing” site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

4. Similar Words and Synonyms:

Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word.

Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

5. Specific Document Types:

If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.

Example: “internet marketing” filetype:ppt

6. This OR That:

By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized).

Example: internet marketing OR advertising

7. Phone Listing:

Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.

Example: phonebook:617-555-1212 (note: the provided number does not work – you’ll have to use a real number to get any results).

8. Area Code Lookup:

If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.

Example: 617

9. Numeric Ranges:

This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let’s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what’s between the X and Y are two periods. This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers.

Example: president 1940..1950

10. Stock (Ticker Symbol):

Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock.

Example: GOOG

11. Calculator:

The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.

Example: 48512 * 1.02

12. Word Definitions:

If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.

Example: define:plethora

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