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Monday, June 27, 2011

Six Reasons Why Your Alexa Rating Is Still Important

Six Reasons Why Your Alexa Rating Is Still Important: "universal, impartial 3rd party measure of traffic we have. And more importantly, it can give your clients yet another reason to trust you enough to buy from your site. Testimonials in the form of reviews on their site, as well as fast access to your contact information from outside"

An overview of the new post editor - Blogger Help

An overview of the new post editor - Blogger Help: "Easily add images from the web. You can also browse through your Picasa Web Albums or through the images you have previously used in your blog to find appropriate images and insert them into the post"

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board: "Can one actually game or manipulate the Alexa Ranking?
I believe that there are methods which will allow you to easily bring an Alexa ranking in the millions down to the 100,000 level. However, bringing it past the 10,000 or 1,000 mark is a considerably more difficult process, b"

How To Improve Alexa Ranking

How To Improve Alexa Ranking: "Alexa Ranking has always been something to cheer about in the world of blogs. As you may know, there is no fixed ranking system on the Web and Alexa does a pretty good job"

Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Personal Pages: Weblogs

Open Directory - Society: Philosophy: Personal Pages: Weblogs: "Paul Nervy Notes - Well organized compilation of jokes, poems, and stories by topic.
Philoscifi - Philosophical science fiction weblog that strives to inspire.
Quantum Fires: The Power of Unbiased Thought - An exploration of the use of bias and division to manipulate manipulate mankind to advance narrow goals that exploit our species and planet.
Quintessence - Chronicles thoughts and reflections on life and culture.
Ravings of an Aspirant and a Wikiphiliac - Devoted to introducing readers to a fresher, newer, lighter aspect of life.
Soul Tending - Exploration of how to tend to the soul of one's self, the environment and the planet. Bringing back soulfulness to every aspect of life: health, relationships, marriage, parenthood, money."

Editors Note: Finding the place for one of my websites, based on its major breakthrough. An overnight jump in its Alexa Tool bar rating of over 10 Million points. I believe that it should take it place amongst the website above.

The Writers' Cafe

The Writers' Cafe: "Editor’s Note: Film is something that was required as part of the photographic process before the current heyday of digital photography. It was sensitive to light, and had to be handled and developed in dark rooms. This is why this era is often called the “dark ages” of photography."

An overview of the new post editor - Blogger Help

An overview of the new post editor - Blogger Help: "mproved Image Handling

When you upload an image to the new post editor it will appear as a thumbnail in the image dialog box. That way, you can upload several images at once, and then add them into your post at your convenience. The thumbnails will be available until you close the post editor."

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board: "What is the Alexa Rank?
Put simply, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system which bases its ranking schema on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.
See Alexa’s definition of the Alexa Traffic Rank:"

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board: "Try Alexa auto-surfs. Do they work? Maybe for brand new sites. I think they are mostly suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads like Adsense. They aren’t also long term solutions to improving your Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution."

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board: "Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites. A prominent and well displayed ad will drive lots of webmaster traffic to your website, which can significantly boost your rank.
Hire forum posters to pimp your website."

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board: "Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed."

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board

Best Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking - Payment Processing Forums & Credit Card Processors Discussion Board: "eavily skewed towards websites which have a large webmaster/tech audience. This is because webmasters or web savvy audiences are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than websites whose visitors are unaware of Alexa.
As such, many have indicated that Alexa is a vastly inaccurate method of measuring a website’s reach, traffic and potential. I don’t disagree.
Alexa is a silly way to measure web traffic but unfortunately, in an imperfect world Alexa is still heavily used by webmasters and ad networks when measuring the value of advertising on your website."

Your Alexa rating - is it really that important? - WAHM.com

Your Alexa rating - is it really that important? - WAHM.com: "his can be helpful when making a decision as to whether to make an online purchase for example. It is also handy for checking out your competitors :-)

Just don't get too hung up on Alexa as a measure of how well your business is doing. The real statistics that you should be watching are actual traffic numbers, conversion rates (ie. how many visitors actually buy something) and overall sales."

Top Five Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers | Netchunks

Top Five Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers | Netchunks: "The potential of Google Chrome Extensions is pretty epic, considering that plenty of users have begun making a switch from Firefox to Google Chrome as their default web browser thanks to the latter browser being faster, safer and easier to use.

While we have provided you with the top five most useful Google Chrome Extensions for web development, the truth is that there are literally hundreds of interesting Google Chrome Extensions which can also help you with debugging and designing websites."

Alexa Site Audit

Alexa Site Audit: "Landing Page Auditor
You want your landing pages to perform their best when it comes to organic search results, and the Landing Page Auditor can help. Just enter the URL of your landing page and a keyword you are interested in auditing"

Banner Exchange, Link Exchange, Traffic Exchange, Website Ranking, Blog Ranking

Banner Exchange, Link Exchange, Traffic Exchange, Website Ranking, Blog Ranking: "8) Exchange links and banners with other relevant sites to that of yours which had good Alexa ranking. A well displayed ad can bring lots of webmaster traffic to your site and boost your rank.

9) Try to get dugg or stumbled. This will bring massive amount of traffic to your site and contributes a lot to your Alexa rank."

Israel, Egypt agree flotilla can unload in Egypt

Israel, Egypt agree flotilla can unload in Egypt: "srael and Egypt have come to an understanding by which ships taking part in an upcoming flotilla to the Gaza Strip will be allowed to unload their cargo of humanitarian goods at the Egyptian port"

TheWritersCafe.org Alexa Tool Bar Jumps 10 Million Points Overnight!

The big interest to Todays Clouds is that almost overnight the websites Alexa rating jumped from about 22 Million to its current 8 Million, which is a good thing!

So first things first in appreciation of this I would like to let people know about two things I have been quietly working on as a webmaster.

However before that I thought why not help others understand the Alexa rating system:

Alexa.com/Toolbar

One of the major changes is that I like to use Google Chrome. It is fast secure, offers a literally 1000's of special features, and has a built in simple to use magnifier. The other thing is that I had one person actually comment on one of my websites that it was getting some very strong Alexa tool bar ratings and he wanted to check it out.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine

The Wayback Archive interesting concept for those who realize with every change also something is lost.


Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

"http://thewriterscafe.org has been crawled 24 times going all the way back to February 25, 2001.
A crawl can be a duplicate of the last one. It happens about 25% of the time across 420,000,000 websites. FAQ"

Interesting to note that my 1st This relationship directly led to the idea I had which uncovered a way to get Alexa and Google to help me get free, unlimited traffic for any keyword related to my site's topic.

The idea was so simple, so cheap, and so profitable that I started to write a book about it, which I finished this past January. Everything was great, I was getting great traffic. Then I woke up one morning and checked my email, and most of my online colleagues were ticked off about something called the Florida update, which caused many small commercial websites to have their listings drop in ranking or disappear altogether.

Of course, I went to check on my site.



The big interest to Todays Clouds is that almost overnight the websites Alexa rating jumped from about 22 Million to its current 8 Million, which is a good thing!

The Alexa rating shows how popular your website is as compared to the billions out there in the world. Naturally there is some cut off after which your Alexa rating is simply "not on the radar" and is given a default value of 0. Naturally an Alexa rating value of 0 seen in an appraisal does not mean that your website is the most popular website in the whole world.

Stephen C. Sanders- SandCloud 6/27/11 9:07am

Top Five Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers | Netchunks

Top Five Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers | Netchunks: "Google Chrome is fast, simple and secure. Google Chrome also comes with plenty of interesting features including the Omnibox, an Incognito Mode and the browser translation option. The one defining feature that has probably put Google Chrome on par with Mozilla’s Firefox is probably the fact that Google Chrome also comes with over two thousand Google Chrome Extensions available for download at the Google Chrome Web Store."

Banner Exchange, Link Exchange, Traffic Exchange, Website Ranking, Blog Ranking

Banner Exchange, Link Exchange, Traffic Exchange, Website Ranking, Blog Ranking: "the better ranked on Alexa, the more business you’ll get. Advertisers are willing to pay more to advertise on websites or blogs on Alexa’s top 50,000 sites."

Friday, June 24, 2011

Winklevoss twins taking Facebook back to court

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Winklevoss twins taking Facebook back to court: "but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up their claims they were instrumental in creating Facebook. In a status report with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts—that’s Harvard country—the Winklevoss twins and former classmate Divya Narendra have indicated they will move for discovery to determine whether Facebook suppressed evidence during the 2008 settlement negotiations."

Successful Facebook Marketing | Rockable Press

Successful Facebook Marketing | Rockable Press: "A rock-solid primer on how to tap into the power of Facebook for your business. This book reveals new and creative ways to build your tribe.
Jonathan Fields - Author of Career Renegade
Nuts and bolts explanations in plain English and clear screenshots walk you through everything you need to know. A must-have for Facebook marketing newbies."

Fun Facts About WestHost

Fun Facts About WestHost: "78% of our employees own at least 1 domain. What would you expect from a hosting company?
Half of our employees are fluent in another language besides English.
13% of our employees have a tattoo. The location was not specified, and we prefer to leave it that way.
85% of our support technicians and server administrators have finished or are enrolled in a computer-related college degree. We told you they were smart!
70% of our employees consider themselves to be 'night owls'. Perhaps we should increase our graveyard shift?"


Editors Note: Interesting that informality has become the "new" corporate culture. My brother recently had explained some of the new corporate culture such as keeping logged onto Facebook, throughout the workday. Also texting before calling, requesting permission to call before calling. etc...

Facts on World Hunger and Poverty - a problem that could readily be solved

Facts on World Hunger and Poverty - a problem that could readily be solved: "Global Poverty Facts

Poverty kills more than 50,000 people every day - 18 million poor people die every year from extreme poverty.
Source: Global Poverty Facts"

“Revealed: The Himalayan Meltdown” | UNDP

“Revealed: The Himalayan Meltdown” | UNDP: "50,000 glaciers are rapidly shrinking in the Himalayan mountain region threatening billions of lives and livelihoods throughout Asia, according to a new documentary that premiered in New York on Tuesday.

“I often lose sleep, scared for my community because a glacial flood would devastate the entire river valley"

The Greatest Accomplishment This Site Could Accomplish: | My Blog

The Greatest Accomplishment This Site Could Accomplish: | My Blog: "It may not be easy to do.
In my perfect world;

1. There is no war
2. People don’t shove their religion into others
3. People actually respect other religion and/or culture
4. There is no poverty nor drought.
5. People live together in peace and harmony.

How would things be in your perfect world?"

The Greatest Accomplishment This Site Could Accomplish: | My Blog

The Greatest Accomplishment This Site Could Accomplish: | My Blog: "It may not be easy to do.
In my perfect world;

1. There is no war
2. People don’t shove their religion into others
3. People actually respect other religion and/or culture
4. There is no poverty nor drought.
5. People live together in peace and harmony.

How would things be in your perfect world?"

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Apple iCloud vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud

Apple iCloud vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud: "hree different services from big players designed to give users cloud-based access to their personal music libraries. With smartphones, tablets or iPads, laptops, and home computers, it’s no wonder that consumers are looking for a better way to store and have access to their often large libraries of digital music. Amazon was the first to announce its Cloud Drive storage service a few months back,"

Sunday, June 19, 2011

10 Reasons Why I Use WordPress | TentBlogger

10 Reasons Why I Use WordPress | TentBlogger: "Easy to get started. Seriously. Sign up in minutes and start blogging via WordPress.com. I love hearing about people who have never blogged find WordPress incredibly easy to use and get started!
Proven success. Ultimately I’ve used it and it’s given me incredible success as a blogger, a businessman, and an entrepreneur. I mean, I make a living thanks to WordPress! I have nothing but gratitude for WordPress and the community at large!
And that’s why I have chosen WordPress to be my blogging platform of choice among hundreds of other options. If you need some other reasons from respected WordPress designers and developers in the community, check out this post here.

Don’t know the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? Check out this post here!"

10 Reasons Why I Use WordPress | TentBlogger

10 Reasons Why I Use WordPress | TentBlogger: "Designer and developer-friendly. In other words, it’s flexible. As a developer and designer I can do anything I want with it and even change it up to not look like a blog at all!
It’s multimedia-ready. I can do anything from just plain text to images to video and more.
The navigation and administration panel is intuitive. Sure, I’ve used it for years but when I help other people decide they come back and tell me how easy it is to get started.
Search Engines loves WordPress. What this means is that WordPress is Search Engine Optimization-friendly and your site will be indexed faster (show up faster on search engines) than other blog platforms. This is a very good thing.
It’s customizable. This is important since I need to be able to customize it to my particular needs, especially the ones that are required of a Full Time Blogger"

WordPress Setup and Blogger to WordPress Migration Package Deal

WordPress Setup and Blogger to WordPress Migration Package Deal: "Redirect your Blogger blog to your new blog (so there’s no duplicate content and visitors who land on your Blogger blog are automatically sent to your new one).
Make sure that incoming links to your posts, including Google searches, are redirected properly to your WP blog.
Update your FeedBurner feed.
Point your domain to your new blog.
What will it cost you?

The least it will cost you is $135 which includes your first month of hosting and the migration from Blogger to WordPress. It might be more, however, depending on what you need and what you choose"

Friday, June 17, 2011

It’s Summertime! How Do Your Social Media Habits Change?

It’s Summertime! How Do Your Social Media Habits Change?: "Summer is upon us that is for sure and as I am sure you all know, our lives change a little, they tend to become a little more hectic during the summer months.

It could be because our kids are home all the time or it could be that it is just too darn nice outside to stay inside and work. Whatever the reason, our online presence shifts and we find it more difficult to work and be online. But we probably notice our kids’ online presence increasing 10 fold."

: "someone wanting to start a business without hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars at their disposal there is nothing that comes close to Multi-Level or Network marketing. As a business model nothing has so much potential with so little start-up costs. Nothing else has so much of the business process taken care of by someone else without any expenditures on their part."

Announcing Tony Tate's New Formula: - Tony Tate - pitchengine.com

Announcing Tony Tate's New Formula: - Tony Tate - pitchengine.com: "robust belief, Tony Tate has built a solid, close-knit team known as “Team Transformers” who are using his Top Rated Formula ”How to Build a Strong Team using Social Media”.

Inside the exclusive and dependable formula “How to Build a Strong Team using Social Media”, the savvy business owner will find the following items:

- 90 day publicity plan to build huge momentum."

Host-Mirror.Com - Changing Web Hosts? Know-How With This Step-By-Step Guide

Host-Mirror.Com - Changing Web Hosts? Know-How With This Step-By-Step Guide: "f you’re moving to a host who has as different control panel, make a manual backup by downloading all your files because different control panels may not be able to restore the backups made by your old host. They also have different directory structures so your file trees will be in a mess. If you need to, make a small note file with notepad with memos for you to remember the old server configurations. This will help you as you make changes on your new host server and save the confusion moving back and forth between hosts. Remember to make the correct transfer type (ASCII or Binary) as you download. If your download is not right chances are you’ll have a tough time getting your site to work on the new host server."

Twitter Blog

Twitter Blog: "We’ve been working on a bunch of features to make Twitter easier to use. Today, we’re releasing something that many of you have been asking for – automatic link shortening on Twitter.com.

How does it work?
Just paste a link of any length into the Tweet box on Twitter.com. After you’ve composed your Tweet and you hit the “Tweet” button, we’ll shorten the link so that it only takes up 19 characters."

Host-Mirror.Com - Changing Web Hosts? Know-How With This Step-By-Step Guide

Host-Mirror.Com - Changing Web Hosts? Know-How With This Step-By-Step Guide: "Every webmaster cringes at the thought of moving hosts. Like moving your home it can be messy and sometimes problems arise. But if you follow these simple steps, your move will be less painful.
Backup Backup Backup

If you’ve been diligent with your backups, you’ve got a lot of insurance to fall back on yet always make the latest backup. If you haven’t, before you do anything else, do a backup now. Backup anything and everything you can and don’t forget your database if your site relies on it. Save at least 2 copies and store them separately. One for you to work with, and the other as an archive. Do not underestimate how easy it is to copy over these files as you make changes or simply mess it up."

A Visalus Business Trainer Tony Tate Discovered the New, Smart Way to Build a Network Marketing Business

A Visalus Business Trainer Tony Tate Discovered the New, Smart Way to Build a Network Marketing Business: " Use “MY FIRST 45” plan to help team members qualify for a free BMW bonus for life in their first 45 days
Use smart technology that Visalus has implemented to share the products and plan immediately from your cell phone
Use proper social media marketing to connect with new customers and turn relationships into distributorships
Use the Body by Vi ChallengeTM to transform your health in 90 days"

Host-Mirror.Com - Home

Host-Mirror.Com - Home: "How to install blog software on your site using cPanel 11?
Tutorials - CPanel
Blogs are becoming very famous now. Almost all website, specially, the top ones are now have popular blog sections to provide information to their visitors. Some sites like Google.com Blogger are also offering free blog sub-domains. But, if you also think like I do, that using free sites will ultimately promote their business and lack the options to customize site. So, better you have a blog on your website rather than having it on free sites. After all by putting unique and updated content on your site section, you are increasing its worth and value in terms of visitors and search engine promotion."

Network Marketing Growth...

: "how can you tell if your Network Marketing Company will always be there for you, for better for worse; thru sickness and health; for richer for poorer; til death due you part? Start by doing your homework and when you do here are 7 things that can tell you if you are in a STABLE RELATIONSHIP with a STABLE “MATE”, or Network Marketing Company:

1.) Growth – Is your team growing AND as well as the company?"

http://www.tonytate.net/

Minimally Invasive Back Surgery for Back Pain Relief

Minimally Invasive Back Surgery for Back Pain Relief: "How can we help you?
North American Spine can help you transform your life with back pain relief.

We believe in treating back pain conservatively. Most back pain resolves over time. But, when conservative means of spinal treatment fail, back surgery becomes an option. Fusions. Minimally invasive spine surgery. Laser spine surgery. There are so many options - patients must educate themselves, and we are here to help. Now you can choose between traditional open back surgery and North American Spine's AccuraScope™ procedure."