4 Must Know Tips for Social Networking Web Development
You must have heard phrases like Dont do this, Dont do that or follow these tips regarding social networking web development. Though there are many dos and donts for the success in social networking web development, not all of them are equally important. With almost a year of hands on experience with the popular social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook, we have gathered 4 must know tips for the success in social networking web development. Read more
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Top 3 Social Networking Web Design Tips
We have seen many social networking sites to gain quick popularity while a very few didnt make it up to the mark. With almost one year now, through which the social networking websites gained ultimate popularity, now is the ideal time to look into the successful social networks for some unique social networking web design tips. Here are 5 main points that has to be noted for a successful social networking website design. Read more
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3 Important Aspects of Social Networking Web Design
Creating social networking websites is getting easier each day. However, designing successful social networking websites has three major requirements:
1. Uniqueness
2. Lots of creativity
3. Lots of patience (time)
If a social networking website is designed based on these three aspects there is no doubt that the project will be a grand success. Here, in this article, you will find the necessity of the three main factors of social networking web design.
The need of Uniqueness
Everyone using the Internet will be aware of the fact that the Social Networking arena is overcrowded. Hence uniqueness of the social networking websites is very much essential to stand out from the crowd. To make your social networking website design unique, you will have to spend lots of time in analyzing the aspects of other popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace and Orkut. You have to offer the users of your social networking website with something different and useful that most of the other popular social networking websites do not offer. One of the reasons behind the popularity of facebook is the handful of useful applications. There is a cool application called Compare me which allows users to compare themselves with the peers. Providing such cool, interactive social networking applications in your own website will attract more people.
The need of Creativity
Creativity is very much essential for designing social networking websites. The above said uniqueness in social networking web design can be achieved only by vivid creativity. So where does the creativity come from? Creativity comes as a result of extensive research. With lots of social networking websites out there, learning what to do with your social networking website is very easy.
The need of time
Both the above said aspects involved in designing social networking websites depend upon time. The more the time you spend in designing your social networking website, the more will be the success of the same. Researching what the competitor social networking websites are offering and coming up with creative ideas to make your social networking website look unique will eat up much of your time.
Bottom line
If you lack anyone of these there aspects of social networking website design, its better to get some professional help rather than do it by yourself. There are many professional social networking web designers with hands on experience in the same. All you have to do is to express you requirement and they will take care of everything- from planning to effective social networking web designing. There are some unique social networking web design companies who offer promotion of your website along with designing. These Social networking web design services offered by the experts with strategic thinking will guide you to the path of success.
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5 Blogging Plugins You Must Use
Plugins for the Wordpress platform are tons of fun and incredibly useful. You’ll find everything you need to turn your blog into something amazing that is every bit as great as you would have imagined. While there are many plugins out there that are worth your while, the five that follow are the cream of the crop.
Akismet
This plugin actually comes standard with your Wordpress installation. You will have to get a Wordpress.com API key to make it work, but after you do it’s pure bliss. This will help keep spam comments away automatically! Akismet is smart enough to put suspected spam into a separate folder, and it even learns from you as you go. You should always activate this plugin for the best results with your blog. It saves you a ton of time too!
Related Posts
Linking to different pages in your blog from every page is a great search engine optimization tactic. The problem with blogs is that it can be so hard to dig through old posts that are related and manually link them in your new post. Related posts solves that problem! This will automatically insert some relevant posts for your blog. It’s very hands-off and very effective. Both visitors and search engines love this plugin.
All in One SEO Pack
Once again, optimizing your site for the search engines is going to be one of the best ways you can make money with your blog. The higher you rank, the more traffic you recieve. The more traffic you receive, the more money you make! The All In One SEO pack makes your life easier because it allows you to specify the title, description (that will show up in the search engines), and keywords.
Wordpress Database Backup
Backing up your blog is crucial if you value your business. You never know what could happen to your server, and it would be awfully devastating to lose everything. You can easily back everything up by pressing a few simple buttons with this effective and very useful plugin.
Top Commentators
This plugin is greatly effective and it encourages a lot of interaction on your blog. It lists the people who have the most comments within your blog. They love this because they get the extra exposure. You love it because people really get into posting to try and be at the top. It also gives social proof. When people visit a blog for the first time they are more likely to stick around if there are clearly other people there who value your content. The fact that they can see others participating is a great thing.
There are an incredible number of different plugins out there that are ready for you to use. Install these essentials and you’ll be well-prepared to become the great blogger you’re going to become.
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Social Networking for Network Marketers: the New Era
Can you guess what the big buzz is lately for network marketers? Social Networking! I will explain why but let’s take a quick look at how it started. At first there was MySpace and Facebook, two huge social networking giants. Network Marketers have joined them in order to market their opportunities through these sites. It is a great way for that extra free exposure even though the members of the networks aren’t entirely targeted. Read more
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3 Different Ways To Monetize Your Blog
Choosing how to monetize your blog is a huge decision! There are many different options and it can be difficult to judge which type your readers will respond to most. Take a look at these different options, and make your choice with your readers and the market overall in mind.
Option 1: Adsense
Adsense is probably the easiest way to monetize — and the most difficult! It’s easy because it’s just a simple code that Google gives you (they even automatically match up the ads for you!). You make money as soon as someone clicks on your ads, whether they actually go on to make a purchase or not. Adsense can also be incredibly difficult. You usually get paid a few cents per click and it can take a lot of traffic for it to add up to something that is even remotely worth your while. Read more
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Automated Google Sitemaps Generators
What is a Google Sitemap?
Google Sitemaps help Google’s search engine spider discover and index pages on your website. In its basic form, a Google Sitemap is a list of all the webpages on your website. When Google’s search engine spider reads this list, it then knows about all those webpages that are specified in the sitemap. Google Sitemaps come in two formats: xml sitemaps and text sitemaps. Both formats contain the addresses of all the webpages on your website. The XML version contains additional information about each webpage such as its last modification date and roughly how often it is updated. Read more
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The Top 5 Social Networking Websites of 2008 – the Reigning Champions
We are almost at the end of the glorious year, 2008. Everyone using the Internet would be aware of the fact that the social networking websites have gained huge popularity through this whole year. And its now the ideal time to make a review on the 5 best social networking sites of the year 2008. There were no much changes from the start of this year and the reigning champions are:
1. Myspace
2. Facebook Read more
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4 Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
Traffic Tip #1: Do Your Keyword Research
Many bloggers make the mistake of thinking they can just throw some posts up there and expect to get traffic. There is a lot more to it than that! You need to make sure you are looking at the keyword data to find terms that are getting a lot of searches. Ideally, you want these terms to have low competition so it’s easier for you to rank. Once you start basing your posts around these kinds of keywords you should find that you’re getting a lot more traffic. Read more
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Tips to Submit Sitemap/site to Google, Yahoo and Msn
Submitting sitemap to major search engines is an important and effective way to get indexed all of web pages quickly. Often webmaster has two types of sitemaps- HTML sitemap and XML sitemap.
HTML Sitemap is for user benefit and not for to submit it to search engines. Having an html sitemap on a site makes it easy to access to its users as if a user looking for any page of your website then he can click on sitemap to get all links for internal web pages.
XML sitemap is for Search engines it helps search engine spider to crawl all the URLs more frequently at the same place because it provides more information to search engine spider. An XML sitemap includes list of all URLs of a site with information like when it was updated, how much time it usually takes to have some change, what is the importance of a particular page in comparison to others.
Creating an XML Sitemap:
Creating an error free sitemap is also so important because if you have even a little error it may cause of indexing problems. So if your hosting providers provide utilities to create your sitemap then its good and if not then also no need to worry as some free or paid tools are also available on the web.
For creating XML sitemap you can use xml-sitemaps.com. It is really a better option to create XML sitemap to a website. It is so easy to just go to site and enter your site URL into the generator box you also have options to change frequency, last modification date and priority and then click on start. In a few minutes, XML sitemap will generate. Just copy-and-paste the resulting sitemap into notepad, save it and upload to your site with the file name: sitemap.xml
If you want to validate the XML prior uploading to the search engines look at the XML validator where you can put in the URL of your sitemap and check it according to the standard.
Submitting sitemap to Google:
Google originally developed the XML schema which defines the structure of an XML document for sitemaps. You can submit your XML sitemap to Google through Google webmaster tools at by creating an account at-
www.google.com/webmasters/tools
To submit a sitemap to Google you also have to prove that you are the owner of the particular website. The verification is achieved by adding a meta tag between the head tags on your site homepage.
Submitting site/sitemap to Yahoo:
Submitting sitemap to Yahoo is not very different from submitting a sitemap to Google. Yahoo! Site Explorer is a dedicated service for webmasters from Yahoo. First you need to create a yahoo account to submit a site/sitemap to yahoo then go to-
siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
and submit your website URL and click to “add my site” button. After that click on verification button then you get an option to download a verification key html file which you will need to upload to root directory of your web server.
You can then download a verification key html file - which you will need to upload to the root directory of your web server. After uploading verification key, come back to Site Explorer and click to start authentication. Verification process may take up to 24 hours. Here you can also add your sitemap by clicking on the manage button and then adding the sitemap as a feed.
Submit site to MSN:
Like yahoo you need not to have an msn account to submit your site you can submit your site URL to MSN just by going to-
http://search.msn.com.my/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSUT
MSN do not support direct submission of sitemap, they do suggest on their blog that you add a reference to your Sitemap into your robots.txt file.
For example:
User-agent: * Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
This would tell MSN and also to other search engines to crawl your sitemap file but not to crawl your cgi-bin directory.
Above information will sure help you in creating and submitting your sitemap to major search engines. If you have any comments or queries feel free to send it to me.
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