Live Hack

How to Publish Blog Posts to Facebook Account

2010-03-10T02:31:00.000-08:00

Live hack. There are a lot of web sites and plug-ins that auto submit blog posts to your Twitter account. But what about Facebook?

In Facebook, the one and only application that seems to do it right is Social RSS (formerly RSS-Connect). In the settings, add your blog name and RSS feed, set your "Display Options" and in Newsfeed just grant access and set the feed to "Yes".

If you wish to do it through your Wordpress blog, test theWordbook plugin.

Wordbook plug-in allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. So Facebook “Boxes” tab will display your latest blog posts.

If you’re searching a plugin that does the opposite, taking facebook updates to our blog, consider the Facebook Posted Items plugin.

New Ideas Generation

2010-02-27T10:18:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Sometimes finding new ideas is difficult. When you can not create an article to write or the next chapter of your book. Thats called mind block. You have to help you mind twist. Here are 5 ways to keep you innovating.

1. Blogs

Check out blogs similar to the content you offer. Have a look at the RSS feeds of your favourite blogs. Maybe get a new blog in a totally another field.

2. Magazines/Newspapers

Get a few newspapers and magazines. Surf everything including ads and classifieds. Read the articles that are actually interesting.

3. Music

Music is motivational and inspirational. If you do not think about something while you are listening to music, you may learn something within the lyrics.

4. Call a friend

Call someone you know very well. Ask them about troubles they've been facing, ask whtat's new near them.

5. Have a walk

Fresh air is a powerful thing. Breathe deeply outdoor. Nature will always give you way out.

Twitter Trends This Week

2010-02-15T09:47:00.000-08:00

Live hack. What was Twitter discussing this week? While Apple’s iPad and Haiti relief were still top conversation themes, we also saw young singer Justin Bieber in the big top 10. So lets check out full list

#1 Super Bowl
#2 Google Buzz
#3 Follow Friday
#4 Valentine’s Day
#5 Justin Bieber
#6 Apple iPad
#7 Haiti
#8 Dear John
#9 MNIK
#10 Alexander McQueen

So what do you think about next week's trends?

Adsense Section Targeting

2010-02-14T07:38:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Probably the best way to ensure the search engines robots scan desired keywords of your blog is to use Section placing. This is a wonderful method. By only inserting a few lines of HTML code into your page, you'll be able to tell the crawler which regions of your web site are the most significant and ensure that you get ads crucial to content. Section Targeting lines are:

The rest of the page will not be neglected, but those peculiar lines will get a bigger weight. If you prefer to tell the crawlers to discount exceptional parts, you can use:

You can high spot (and de-emphasize) as many or as few parts as you want, but what you can’t do is practice these instructions entirely to highlight your keywords. So you can’t place them close to peculiar single words or phrases on your blog. In point of fact, Google recommends that you highlight a respectable percentage of text — as much as twenty percent — for the directing to be most effective. The effect of pointing small amounts of text could be irrelevant ads, public service ads... or even a banning if you purposely tried to bring up ads that have nothing in common with your blog.

Section Targeting is likely most useful if your blog covers lots of different themes. So if you had got a blog about Movie players but had published an article about comedies for instance, you could use Section Targeting to ensure that you did not miss ads about the movie players to ads about comedy movies. Or you can tell the crawlers to disregard your readers’ comments and concentrate on your own entries. And presumably, there’s nothing wrong with stuffing a paragraph with keywords associated to your subject and telling the robots to concentrate on that section to ensure that your ads stay aimed. It’s unquestionably something that you would like to play with. If there is one trouble with Section Targeting though, it’s that it can take up to fortnight before you see the effects — the time it can take for the
crawler to re-visit your blog. So it’s not a quick procedure. But it worth trying.

Live Hack!

Dropbox — Hosting for Your Little Site

2010-02-08T02:44:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Dropbox is nice product for synchronization of your files. Its easy to publish file dropping it in folder Dropbox/Public and then just copy public link. But Dropbox offers much more opportunities. You can host your site on Dropbox.

Recipe

1. Create in folder Dropbox/Public new folder, for example, Site.
2. Create in new folder files of your site, for example index.html and style.css — yes-yes, Dropbox will send these files correctly to browser. You can use html + css (+ of course, javascript) + your data (pics, xml...). The most important — its enough to use relative addressing, that is, for example, connect css-styles "link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css". Access right to file must be drwxr-xr-x.
3. Copy public link on your main html, for example, index.html. The link will look like dl.dropbox.com/u/1234567/Site/index.html, where 1234567 — your account id.
And here we are. Your site is in internet!

Moreover Dropbox hosting solution works for all the operation systems. Go ahead!

Time for Mailing List?

2010-02-04T12:16:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Creating mailing list is one of the best investment in your internet business. To help you get started, ill advise some important steps to build sucessful mailing list. So lets start!

Freebies
Magic word "FREE". People cant stand when see smth for free. Give visitors something for free and capture their email addresses.

Lead capture page
You have to capture visitor's attention. Potential customer has to get interested in your page. Provide the reasons it is a great idea for them to sign up for newsletter.

Newsletter
Sign up for an autoresponder, it will make your life easier. From time to time offer free resources, videos and other useful things. This will encourage customers to stay on your email list.

Marketing
Marketing is vital once you have done previous steps. If people don't know about your page, how can they sign up? So promote your page, build backlinks. Do marketing every day.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your dreams and promote your webpage. Live hack!

6 SEO Mistakes to Avoid

2010-02-03T11:09:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Nowadays SEO is very important for your blog promotion. So lets see what 6 SEO mistakes you must avoid:

Flash:
Maybe id agree that flash apps look great and can raise the number of hits. But SEO gurus know that flash makes it hard to get ranked. Search engines cant read your flash apps. So dont waste your time optimizing text and tags in flash app.

Frames:
Remember when i started to learn html several years ago. Frames were God of site building for me. But they deceived me :( Frames tend to confuse search engine robots and can therefore affect the optimization of your site.

Graphics as Page Headers:
I can tell you for sure, graphic headers are both a waste of space and time. Use text as page headers and use strategic keywords in the header, after or below the header.

Overloaded Title Tags:
I advise that you restrict title to 70 characters, with commas between phrases in every title tag.

Not Link Building:
Make it your everyday task to hunt for dofollow blogs and post backlinks to your site. It will increase trustworthy of your site.

Overwhelm Pages with Keywords:
Avoid mistake of too much keywords repetition. Mentioning keywords several times in the page helps, but too high keyword frequency will ruin your page rank.

Do you know some other interesting SEO tips? Please share them with us.

Download Video From Youtube

2010-02-01T03:33:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Watch your favourite videos on youtube over and over again? Maybe it’s time to save whatever videos you like on your hard drive? I have chosen 2 super easy methods for downloading video from youtube. Check them out!

FIRST
1. Open in browser your favourite video from youtube
2. In URL address bar change "Y" (in word "youtube") for 3 and hit Enter
(example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD7q2BUGPEs to
www.3outube.com/watch?v=oD7q2BUGPEs )
3. Choose format you want to download in and smile :)

SECOND
1. Open in browser your favourite video from youtube
2. Add before url address "ss" hit Enter
(example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD7q2BUGPEs to
www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=oD7q2BUGPEs )
3. Choose format you want to download in and smile again :)

Do you know any other easy ways to download video from youtube? Let us know in the comments.

Twitter Monetizing Tips. Sponsored Tweets

2010-01-29T07:51:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Sponsored Tweets is one of service that helps monetize your twitter. Today i want to give you several tips how to increase your chances of getting a sponsored tweet from advertisers.

Before you apply to Sponsored Tweets assure that your Twitter account is at least 120 days old. Most advertisers simply will not buy tweets from any young accounts. The account age is valuable to filter out spammers and low value Tweeters.

Obviously advertisers like to know who they’re advertising with. Don’t expect orders, if your twitter profile is incomplete and has the default background. Make sure all your information is filled out.

ClickWatch is a program designed to provide a level of protection for advertisers. The system checks the click performance of posted tweet after 48 hours. If the cost per click (CPC) for that tweet is higher than $1.50 the system will automatically schedule next tweet. Advertisers are likely to order tweets from a Tweeter who has ClickWatch on rather than someone who turned it off. You can enable ClickWatch in Sponsored Tweets control panel.

Ratio of your twitter account shows the number of people you are following against the amount of people following you. A Ratio of 1 means that numbers of "following" and "followers are the same. It can sometimes mean you are using autofollower to inflate your follower count. The higher the Ratio number - the better.

Another stat Sponsored Tweets advertisers see is your Klout score. The Klout Score is a numerical representation of the size and strength of a person's sphere of influence on Twitter. The scores range from 1-100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. The size of this sphere is calculated by measuring true reach (engaged followers and friends vs. spam bots, dead accounts, etc.). Strength of influence is calculated by tracking interactions across your social graph to determine the likelihood of someone listening to or acting upon any specific message. Here’s the key. Unless you sign up for a Klout account, your score shows up as zero in the Sponsored Tweets page.

When advertisers search for tweeters to advertise with, Sponsored Tweets list the stars and web celebrities first. It goes without saying that being listed on the first page will give you a lot more exposure and therefore a lot more offers.

Sponsored Tweets monitors new Tweeters as they sign up. If it recognizes your name they will automatically upgrade you to Web Celebrity. If not you will need to fill out a form. Pass along things like your Blog, YouTube Channel or other relevant sites. Having great amount of followers on Twitter doesn't automatically make you a Web Celebrity. If you can’t get celebrity status, you can ask to be a “staff pick” as they’re listed after web celebrities.

Make Money with Amazon

2010-01-21T01:53:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Interested in making extra money? Amazon offers great money making opportunity. You can work from home and set your own hours and pay scale.

Visit mturk.com and sign up as a worker. Browse for assignments before you complete a profile. There is a lot of interesting tasks named as HIT (Human Intelligence Task). Your account will be automatically created, if you already have your Amazon account.

After registration you can start surfing through HITs. There are about 140k HITs available every minute. So you will have what to do :) Earned money you can transfer to your bank account or Amazon gift certificate.

Have luck! Live Hack!

Good Keyword Density

2010-01-16T03:14:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Keyword density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage. Good keyword density reflects on accuracy of web-search results. Id recommend to narrow down keyword search by using the correct keyword density. Thus your blog will get relevant traffic.

Ideal keyword density is something which can never be gained. The most accurate keyword density has always been debatable. But it doesnt mean you have to do nothing. You must strive hard to better keyword density accuracy.

So id not recommend to fix your keyword density. It always should not be too low which may not generate the relevant gain and should not be too high which might be considered as spam. Its better to measure keyword density in percentage. It must be as close to maximum value to achieve good keyword density.

Get More Twitter Friends

2010-01-10T12:24:00.000-08:00

Live hack. I remember when I joined twitter. I was alone in twitter network. My statistics with 0 friends was not too encouraging :) So i started step by step building relationships.

But I faced hard reality. Quantity of friends does matter. So how to get more twitter friends? I would like to share service that helped me a lot in growing my network.

Topfollowed helps grow a larger and more diverse network on Twitter. It grows your Twitter network through reciprocal following. Whats very important, it is totally automated and fair to all participants: no pyramid schemes and no spamming. Everyone who signs up for TopFollowed automatically follows (and is followed by) other TopFollowed members. There are free and paid accounts on Topfollowed. Free members connect only with paid members and paid participants connect with everyone. Not bad :)

So what are you waiting for? Get more twitter friends today!

Google Analytics Annotations

2010-01-05T09:41:00.001-08:00

Live hack. I have been using Google Analytics for years. And Google recently added new interesting feature. Check it out:

People Finder Search

2009-12-31T12:58:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Every time i meet new person on my life way, i always search for him(her) in internet. Just want to know who i deal with, what to expect from him(her), interested in what person likes or dislikes. It helps build better relationship.

Everyday search engines (Bing, Google, Baidu etc) arent created as people finder search. They are universal search engines. Certainly specific search engines for people work better than universal search engines.

You can search via name, email, username, phone number, location, interests very deeply in internet, including a lot of social networks. You will be amazed at the accuracy in returning relevant results for your search query. If you think having pseudonyms as usernames protects real identity, it can be an eye-opener!

So check out!
PeekYou
123People
Wink
Yoname
Pipl

Search Marketing Terminology

2009-12-14T14:20:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Okay dear proactive internet users. Lets make clear in commonly-used terminology that every search marketer should know.

what is contextual advertising
Contextual advertising is advertising that is shown on a web page based on the page's keywords, content etc.

what is anchor text
Anchor text is clickable text part of hyperlink. The text gives information about page it links to. For example, free samples without surveys. free samples without surveys - anchor text here.

what is CTR
CTR=click through rate. Expressed in a percentage rate at which visitors click on the ad. Its calculated by dividing the total number of clicks by the number of ad impressions.

what is CPA
CPA=cost per action. Publisher gets payed depending on some action that a visitor performs as a result of the ad.Such actions can be signing up on site, goods purchase etc. Publisher gets set fee based on the quantity of actions taken by users.

what is CPC
CPC=cost per click. Another name PPC (pay per click). Publisher gets payed for every unique click on the ad.

what is CPM
CPM=cost per thousand. Publisher gets set fee. This fee is based on every 1000 ad impressions. So publisher gets payed whether visitor clicks on the ad or not.

what is ROI
ROI=return on investment. Amount of money advertiser earns from ads compared to sum of money he(she) spends on ads.

Internet Marketing - My Calling

2009-12-14T10:24:00.000-08:00

Live hack. Last time we considered Craigslist as enormous traffic-driver to your blog. And I received a lot of questions to my email about Craigslist and made some conclusions.

Marketing...Its like running ahead and there is no stop point...infinity. Some of you just start out as SES experts, some of you already open new horizonts. Each of you might be at a different distance from starting point in your online marketing career. Its my advice to find marketer who runs a lil bit ahead of you so you will have source for gaining new knowledge. Always try to find someone stronger than you. But you must always be critical and analyze data. So id like to give you some advices.

Always learn something new
Learn, learn and learn again. The most important thing in making progress is to always keep learning. Remember: "The more you know, the more you dont know". If you learn something new, new unknown horizonts open for you. So this is fantastic knowledge trip through whole life.

Dont hesitate to ask for help
Sometimes you get stuck. Dont hesitate to ask more experienced marketers. There are a lot of forums, blogs, where you can be one of active user. You have to absorb every word and broaden its methods of application.

Just do it!
The best thing you can do for yourself is to learn by doing. You can learn a lot readng, listening, and then doing. Dont be afraid to fail. You will never win if you never tried.

You are the best! Just break the line. Learn, do, go ahead! And one day you will be the king of this fantastic world!

How to Create Multiple Free Gmail Accounts for Craigslist

2009-12-05T07:21:00.000-08:00

Live hack.Hi. Today i decided to write about Craigslist. My lovely Craigslist. So many not-slept nights with you. Craigslist is very capricious. It is totally unpredictable. But yes..Craigslist is my super traffic-driver.

If you have had experience with Craigslist, you know about process of account creation and verification. When you create your Craigslist you have to provide mail address. If you make multiple posts on Craigslist you need to have multiple Craigslist accounts. And it became tradition to use free Gmail service for mail account. It provides good anonimity features (for example, not expose your IP) and multiple very useful tools such as Labels, Resend, Filters... But Google allows to create limited gmail accounts from one IP-address. Otherwise you have to verify gmail account with phone number. Yes. You say: "But what about TOR and proxies?". Xoxo. This variant doesnt work. All public proxies (even private ones) and TOR have used IPs that are long time ago in Gmail's black lists. So dont waste your time. Let me be the one loser who killed his time playing with proxies and TOR.

So. What you can do? There are very interesting tips about Gmail. Im gonna tell you about magnificent tool. You will be able to create unlimited free gmail accounts for whatever reason you need, especially Craigslist. So lets go!

Lets pretend we created gmail account Tom Speed. such one tomspeed@gmail.com.
So what the trick? Gmail doesnt recognize specific symbols.
Okay. You created Craigslist account with tom.speed@gmail.com. And after you posted on Craigslist you will have to get responses to gmail. but question? where responses will go to? Here is the thing. Gmail doesnt recognize the "dot". You can pretend "dot" doesnt exist. So any email that go to tom.speed@gmail.com will automaticall go to tomspeed@gmail.com. So you can create Craigslist accounts with gmail accounts like t.omspeed@gmail.com or to.mspeed@gmail.com or toms.peed@gmail.com... all the emails wil be automatically forwarded to tomspeed@gmail.com. Excellent!

But there is another cool tip.
tomspeed+hiworld1@gmail.com
tomspeed+omgthisworks@gmail.com
tomspeed+iamgenious@gmail.com
...

Guess? Gmail doesnt recognize anything between "+" sign and "@" sign.
And al the emails will go to tomspeed@gmail.com

It seems too good to be true but it works!

Discover 3 Google Additions

2009-11-26T05:51:00.000-08:00

Google still develop new and new additons. And it becomes harder and harder to keep pace with all new additions. You can really miss something interested. So what is worth your attention?
Google Listen
Google Listen helps you aggregate and stream personalized audio-magazine. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream.
Similar Images
Similar Images lets you search for images using other pictures rather than words. Remember tineye.com?
City Tours
City Tours allows you to discover itineraries and attractions for touring major cities. Just enter a starting address for your tour
Enjoy!

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

2009-11-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

Hey there, Firefox user! Still use your poor mouse all day while surfing in internet? Let your mouse have a rest. Keyboard is ready to help your in navigation. Firefox keyboard shortcuts reduce your trips to the mouse and help you in
mouse-less moments. Or maybe you hate moving hand over to the mouse and jumping over to the mouse every time you want to follow a link. Lets check out Firefox keyboard shortcuts. Some of them are well-known. I think they will make your web surfing easier and funnier.

Toolbar and Navigation

Select search bar: Ctrl/Cmd+K

Select location bar: Ctrl/Cmd+L or Alt+D

Back: Backspace or Alt/Cmd+Left

Forward: Alt/Option+Right or Shift+Backspace

Change search engine: Ctrl/Cmd+Down (Next) +Up (Previous)

Page Searching

Find text: /

Find link: '

Regular old find: Ctrl/Cmd+F

Page Opening

Open link in new window: Shift+Enter

Open link in new tab: Ctrl/Cmd+Enter

Open address/search in new tab: Alt/Option+Enter

Useful Tab Shortcuts

Refresh (override cache): Ctrl/Cmd+F5 or Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+R

Switch tabs: Ctrl/Cmd+Tab

Select tab (1-9): Ctrl/Cmd+[1-9]

If you aren't satisfied with provided shortcuts, you can install the Keyconfig extension. Keyconfig allows to define your own Firefox shortcuts. Have fun!

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What Google Knows About You?

2009-11-10T05:32:00.000-08:00

Nowadays privacy is very important. Its becoming harder and harder to save your privacy. Facebook, twitter, plurk... All these so friendly sites collect data about every user. Lets say about internet giant Google. It provides a lot of useful products. The more Google services you use, the more data it collects about everything you do: search history, email data, your blogs, videos you watch on YouTube, your calendar appointments and even shopping lists. Besides yesterday Google bought Gizmo5. So your privacy is gonna be killed!

But there is nice place where you can check out what Google knows about you. Its called Google Dashboard. The Dashboard is only for Google products where your Google account is used. So Dashboard lists data associated with your Google account. But cookie-based data that Google collects through ads is not included in Dashboard. If you want to be private with it go to the Ad Preferences Manager and disable google.com/ads/preferences.

Dashboard give you more transparency and control. You can delete your data and change settings. For some of products, you need to explicitly grant Google permission to keep track of your data. So every time you sign up with new service read attentively terms and conditions. Remember gold rule: "Being private you can always become public. But never vice versa"

Remote Desktop Control with Twitter

2009-11-02T03:22:00.000-08:00

Do you want to control your PC remotely? You can run your desktop using your Twitter account. Isn't it awesome?

You can forget about sms, command messages, expensive softwares. Using twitter network you can remotely control pc for free. All you need is to install small application and give it the credentials of your Twitter account. But its strongly advisable to protect your tweets, since TweetMyPC can be misused by someone else. For instance, anytime you type the following commands: Restart, Shutdown or Lock, then application TweetMyPC performs the following command on your computer. Lots of other cool features are provided for your pc controlling. You can also get to know your pc’s ip from anywhere in the world. You can find out what programs are running on your pc. Moreover, you can close a program using this fantastic twitter application.

TweetMyPC is freeware, Windows only and requires .NET 3.5 or higher.

So what are you waiting for? Get free remote access to your PC with Twitter account. Get TweetMyPC

Watch TV Online

2009-10-20T10:15:00.000-07:00

I have spotted recently fantastic add-on to my firefox browser. So if you are mozilla fan as am i than read on. If you use another browser than you have another reason to rethink your browser sympathy.

-Yeah. TV sucks. - thats what my friends say. -You become zombie and stupid with that evil box. I agree. Watching TV set around the clock will explode your brains. But you have variety of tv channels. You have the right to choose what and when to watch.

Okay. Sometimes we stand out of our pc and sit down in front of tv set for interesting tv show. But wait. Would you like to watch tv for free via your pc? Thats gret idea! You can watch tv channels from around the world. Want to learn ukrainian? ))) can you ask something harder? So. To all the firefox users new feature is devoted. Camera! Lights! Action!

TV Add-on for Firefox. More than 2780 Live TV Channels sorted by country and category. TV-FOX allow you to watch thousands of TV channels freely.

So what are you waiting for? Install this fantastic add-on and indulge yourself. Get TV to my firefox

Add ReTweet Button

2009-10-18T05:35:00.000-07:00

More and more publishers use special buttons on blogs that help share posts on twitter. This fantastic button helps increase traffic to your blog. Moreover button shows a live count of retweets. So how you add this Retwit Button?

Quantity of Twitter's monthly unique visitors are more than 23 million. You can check this data here. So as you understand it is fantastic source of traffic. You can get more visitors to your blog.

There are two types of button.

You can install retweet button easily using javascript code.
Team Tweetmeme provides javascripts for ReTweet Buttons.
So what are you waiting for? Get your buttons!

Shorten Your URL!

2009-09-03T08:42:00.000-07:00

Have your ever had boring moments typing snake-size url addresses? Leave it in the past! There are super online services that will help you shorten your long url!

doiop.com
shorturl.com
bit.ly
j.mp
tinyurl.com
3me.org
ow.ly
cli.gs
su.pr
urlbrief.com
ls.gd
br.st

You can even track location, refferers and number of your clicks on shortened url.
For example, adding "+" to the end of your bit.ly url, you will have opportunity to check all the clicks statistics. And its really cool! Enjoy!

Privacy Policy

2009-08-02T01:24:00.000-07:00

We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit our site, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We also use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.