How To Create A Free Blog On Blogger - Screenshot Guide

I am not too good with numbers, but I am sure blogging is definitely growing at a very good rate. And which is why a lot of people want to learn how to blog. And the best thing for anyone is to make a free blog and acquire knowledge before pushing in real money into it. In this post I will show you how to make a free bllog on blogger.

How To Start A Free Blog On Blogger

Blogging is luring every one now and we have increase in number of people opting to blog day by day. And this is really a promising start; which will definitely bring more and more content on the web. And Blogger is definitely helping out those newbies out to help them with starting a new blog on its own Bloggin platform called as Blogger. Blogger is free, fast and fantastic. And the best thing is you can also monetize your blogger blog with AdSense and other advertising methods. (which is of course if follow Blogger TOS)

Why AdSense India Payments Late in October 2013?

Google AdSense is known for keeping the things secret until last moment. And anyone would do same when they are dealing with millions of people and billions of dollars every month. I am on the same boat as so many of Indian publishers who are worried as AdSense India payments are late this month.

Do You Guest Post For Free Backlinks Only?

If you ask 10 people who are up for the guest posting; "What is your main aim for writing a guest post?". I am sure at least 7 people will have free backlinks in their mind.  If free backlinks is not set as prime goal; it will at least feature in first three goals. So is guest posting is all about getting free backlinks? If that was so Google must have banned free backlinks building trick long time ago....!

Keyword Planning - The Easiest Way To Do It

If you are reading this post; then you have somewhat interest in blogging and hence you know what a keyword is. The real trick is how do you do it. There are a lot of software available on internet which either offer keyword planning for free; on monthly subscription base or by one time purchase of the software. But the best software in my view is Google Keyword Planner itself. It's free if you have an AdWords account. And even to Register for an AdWords account is free. Once you have your AdWords account you can plan your keywords for any targeted country and any search criteria like minimum CPC and minimum search numbers.

So Let's See The Keyword Planning In Images

Open Google AdWords home page and login with your gmail account you used to make AdWords account. You will see Tools and analysis dropdown menu. Click and select "Keyword Planner."

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This will open the below page. You will have different option like to get traffic estimate; to get ideas for new keyword and ad group. All SEO work is based upon keyword planning depending upon search volume. So we will select 2nd option which is get search volume for a list of keyword.

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Once you click it; you will be sent to the following page:



You shall add all your keywords chosen for keyword planning area  in the white square. In the targeting box you can add the countries for which you need the analysis for. You can run the analysis either on Google alone or Google and search partners (Google Images, Google Shopping, Google Maps and all). Once these data is fed you can click on "Get Search Volume" button. (Negative keyword is for Advertisers who does not want their ads on specific content related site. for ef Nikon advertiser does not want his ads on sites containing Canon Review word.)

For Explanation purpose we will do the search for "SEO Services", "Nikon Camera" and "Proxy Server". This targeting is set for US and UK and on Google only.



This is what we got when we clicked Get Search volume.



 

You can see in the results image that people search Nikon Camera in UK and USA 22,200 times and there is high competition between advertisers for this keyword. It's CPC is somewhere around 0.62$ (my AdWords is based on Indian rupees; I came to this figure after I converted it to USD). Same way proxy server is the keyword which people search 1,35,000 times and it's CPC is almost 2.85$. SEO services has the highest CPC among these 3 keywords and so there must be high competition for ranking this keyword in Google too. The CPC for Proxy Server is almost 19$ and more.

Similar way you can get traffic estimation for the keyword in your country or the targeting country. You can also get the keyword and ad group idea from the similar tabs o the page. You can filter CPC thing here too. But as this is AdWords page; CPC is nowhere mentioned; suggested bid is more or less similar to CPC of AdSense.  Suggested bid could bit higher than the actual CPC for you; as Google has his commission added in bid.

I hope this free Keyword Planning Tool helps you get more and more keyword ideas for your website and blog. There are some more keyword tools too; but why not pick something which is Google's own and a free tool. Let us know your views on the keyword plan explained here; do you think it is worth usable or not? Subscribe for our coming article "Blogging Tip - How 90% Newbie Blogger Use Wrong Keywords."

10 Benefits Of YouTube - Monetization And More

YouTube Monetization is not the only YouTube Beauty

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If you had asked "What is the use of YouTube?"; few years ago; 90% people might have said to watch videos. Some people might have gone a step further and said, "You can share your videos with your family." Then came the concept of YouTube monetization and people started to earn money via uploading their video o YouTube. Till recent years YouTube monetization was the prime goal of people who used to upload their videos on YouTube. But do we have only 2 or 3 benefits of YouTube or we can extract more out of it. In fact there are at least a dozen things which YouTube benefit you from. Let us point out what those benefits are...!

1) YouTube Monetization Of Course:

As everyone is behind it; we will give this number one only. YouTube monetization is associated with AdSense and you can get same CPC as you would have got on your blog or website. And the biggest benefit here is; you don't pay for domain and hosting. You can upload your video in any suitable category listed on YouTube. And the revenue is on for lifetime; as long as your video is not breaking YouTube and/or AdSense policy.

And YouTube monetization is comparatively easy than site or blog AdSense. You can get hosted AdSense account which can later upgraded to full AdSense account. More and more people are now using this monetization method as it is easy compared to getting AdSense for blog or website. How much you can earn and all solely depends upon the popularity and keyword of your video. Funny cat video can't make as much as HOW TO WP video.

2) Business Promotion:

Are you in the business which can benefit the customers in any way. For example you are running an SEO company and you know how to do SEO and all. You can make nice tutorials on YouTube mentioning your company name in it. As well as you can insert your business URL in the video description.

Make sure the video is not spam in nature; it's always give and take relationship. If you make video which offers some help; no one will flag it. And even if your competitor flags it YouTube won't disable it. And they know this when you have YouTube monetization under review.

3) Free Ad of Your Services and Company:

So if your video is good enough; don't you think this is free advertisement of your work. If you could show in tutorial; you are the right person to get SEO done. People will surely get in touch with you; as they want SEO done as well. Moreover this free ad is broadcasted all around the globe; on mobile; tablets and now on TV sets too.

4) Free Backlinks:

Though YouTube backlinks are No Follow in nature; they are coming from the authority site. And you will surely get some views from YouTube. This will happen when people like your video and want to see the link in description. As far as backlinks are concerned elsewhere you have to input hard work and time and some people do it by money too. But with YouTube; you get backlinks and the money via YouTube monetization.

They allow you to have your link in the description; but avoid to spam please. I have seen some people putting their links in video title too. But that does not look too good and CTR for video on YouTube search page is largely affected. Provide good WP tutorials if your domain is about it; and YouTube could be among top 10 site referrers...!

5) 24*7 Action Time:

The best thing with YouTube is; the action never stops. You upload the video; do some ethical promotion and forget it. If your video is having nice content and useful for user; it will surely grow up. And then YouTube is never closed; so you can get round the clock publicity. You sleep with 2000 views and when you wake up it might have crossed 4000 views. So; YouTube is doing passive advertisement for you; and that is round the clock.

6) Best For Stage Actors:

It is hard to get people to your stage performance; and harder to repeat such shows. But YouTube provides a great platform to stage actors and artist.  They can do the recording of their show and upload it on YouTube. Not only they get benefit of YouTube monetization; but their show is on air 24*7; and they get worldwide views. This thing is being used by so many magicians and tricksters on YouTube now; and some of them are making a lot.

7) Live Classes:

YouTube is the best platform for live classes; with it live event feature. It can connect people from the globe and create a virtual classroom like environment. The same tactics are used for live sports streaming. And benefit to the broadcaster is; they get more views from people who are away from TV. And they get YouTube monetization feature on this live event too. Indiatimes' channel does the same for their IPL events. And when there is no live event they simply show highlights.

8) Product Reviews:

Do you want to review your own product; or have bitter experience to share for a brand. YouTube videos are extensively used now-a-days for the same thing. You can make a video portfolio of your own products; letting people know what are goods and the bads of your product. Simply enter your sales page link in the video description. If your product is sound enough; you can surely grab some sales from it. And this is above the YouTube monetization feature; by the way.

9) Family And Friends:

And the most common feature a YouTube video can be used for; upload it to show to your family and friends. And this is actually why YouTube was created for; though used for entirely used for different reasons altogether. You can show your son's first steps to your mom even if she lives miles away from you. How about showing your convocation at Harvard University; to your dad back in India.

There are some examples when people used YouTube for friends and family purpose and then it turned out to be so popular. And these videos made millions out of YouTube monetization.

10) Unlimited Storage:

Well this is least spoken feature of YouTube; but the most useful. How about having unlimited storage space for your videos. You can upload as many videos as you want on YouTube; and each video can be as big as 20 GB. Don't you think this is the biggest benefit from YouTube after YouTube monetization feature. No doubt your video should comply to their policies. But to me this is the biggest storage device in the world. You can use it for your video needs; and if you decide you don't want to show them to anyone; you can simply keep them as unlisted on YouTube. And if you can show them to world; you can of course make money by YouTube monetization.

20 GB per video itself is a huge capacity; even if your video is fully HD it can't be that massive. So start storing your video at YouTube and make money out of this parking too. (you can monetize them if they are your videos or you have monetization permission on them.)

In a nutshell; YouTube is not all about YouTube monetization. There are plenty more things to do with it. Stay tuned for more on YouTube and step by step to its all features. Subscribe the site now so you don't miss out special articles on how to promote YouTube videos on various platforms.....!

How To Avoid Computer Virus And Remove Them

History Of Computer Virus

If you think computer virus was a new thing in 1980s; it is going to be miles away from fact. First reported incident of virus is dating back to 1949 (I was shocked reading this too); when John Von Neumann described self replicating computer programs. The computers were of the size of trucks in so many places; but the virus concept was there. It was in the year of 1983; when world (cyber world) came to know about computer viruses though. This happened when one of the programmer of CORE WARS game described how this game used to self-replicate and saturate the game player's system memory. The basic concept remains the same as that of today's computer viruses. These programmers also developed world's first anti-virus named Reeper; which would delete the copies made by the CORE WARS.

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Things has changed dramatically after 1990 and computers which were confined to Hollywood movies and government and corporate came to personal bedrooms. There was a lot changed; no one used DOS as operating system now; do you? And if the window world changed; it also opened doors for computer virus era development. We have viruses like Trojan Horse virus; ILOVEYOU virus and all. What might have started as simple prank became the biggest nuisance in cyber world now. Hackers and cyber-criminals started to inject viruses and malware to get personal and financial details. There are so many areas from which a virus can enter your system. For example:

1) When you open an already infected program on your PC/Laptop. This can happen when you share programs among friends, families and colleagues. This has been the biggest source of computer virus spread by far.

2) When you open an email attachment which was containing virus in it.

3) When you insert infected CD, DVD, USB or Hard Disk.

4) When you click file download options on certain malicious sites.

5) When an executable file is opened which is having virus in it.

Types of Computer Virus:

There are so many types of computer viruses; some of them abolished as the usage of some programs or devices is stopped. For eg. Boot Sector Virus which was associated with usage of floppy disk to boot the system. No one uses floppy disks now; so this virus also became extinct. Let's see what type of viruses are found in day-to-day computer usage.

a) Browsing Hijacker:

Have you ever experienced this; you try to open something on a webpage and it automates and ends up opening something which you did not want to. This is cheap way to increase page views and advertising revenue. This is the type of computer virus only. This virus can start automatic downloads as well.

b) Direct Action Computer Virus:

These are hidden in the executable file; and only become dormant (for reproduction) when the execution initiates. This form of virus is not so prolific. Vienna virus of 1988 was this type of virus.

 c) Virus Infecting Files:

This is most common type of virus so far; it sits in the executable file. When user starts the file execution process; the virus starts to operate on its coding.

d) Multi-partite Virus:

Rather than sticking to one method of spread this type of computer virus can infect your system through multiple gates. Just like its spread methods this virus can exert different types of action on different system; depending upon the type of operating system and all.

e) Polymorphs:

These type of viruses not only have ability to mutate in un-favoured condition; but they also have power of encrypting themselves to stay lurking.

f) Script Buster Computer Virus:

These type of viruses change and damage the website code/scripts. So the website's performance, security and other parameters are altered.

 

Having seen the kind of viruses; let's see what are the preliminary signs of viruses on your computer:

The most common effect a virus can have on your system is to slow it down. This is mainly because as most of the virus have the capability of reproduction (may be that is why they were termed as viruses); they use your system's space. This in turn affects the system performance in general. So check out when:

• Your computer/laptop is slow without any known reason.


• A specific drive or software is taking long to open and process.


• Your system is taking long to start and shutdown.


• Your external devices like printer and all take long to follow commands. In extreme cases they fail to respond the commands too.


• Your system hang so often.


• When some files or folders seem to be deleted without your knowledge.


• Your web browser becomes erratic; i.e. you might not be able to close the window and all.


• There are unusual sound from the system; as if heavy processes are going on.


• Some programs start or close unexpectedly.

Some of above system could be due to hardware or software malfunctioning too. But it is always to be safe; rather than weeping on huge credit card bill.

How To Avoid Viruses:

Rather than sweeping them afterwards; you should stop few things to make your system NO ENTRY for viruses. For this you should make sure:

• Don't download any file or software from websites which have no security certificate. And if that was inevitable you can check the site for malware and viruses here.


• Always have an antivirus program installed in your system; which is from a genuine company and updated to the latest version.


• When you insert any external device on your system; run a scan for computer virus. If anything is detected; simply remove the device or format it.


• Don't download from torrent sites and they are having a major proportion of malware ad viruses injected in them.


• Porn sites are also a major source of them; stop watching them on your system.


• If you are using chrome you can set up malware and phishing alert. So you can have an advance warning before the site is loaded.

Though all care was taken; viruses sometimes enter your system. You can see below how can you remove the system viruses.

How To Fix Computer Virus:

The best way to fix the virus is to run the antivirus program present in your system. If you don't have any antivirus in your system you can grab the free Microsoft Security Scanner. If you are able to run the scan online you can run online scan at BitDefender.  To see the step-by-step guide on computer virus removal you can see the official MicroSoft guideline here.

Always keep you antivirus software on scheduled scan; preferably run a scan every 10 days. Most of the antivirus software give virus alert when any malicious file is downloaded or such webpage opened. You should simply delete the file; and close the webpage accordingly.

Though computer viruses are hard to eradicate; simple precautions can ban them entering into your system.