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....!

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.....!

Tips to identify fake Facebook Profile

Why do I hate a fake Facebook profile

As long as they stay away and don't make nuisance to you, it's just fine. But people behind fake Facebook profile mostly become nuisance. They not only leave filthy comments on your status and photos (if you did not take care of restricting to that for Friend's only... :) ), but also they could be possible spammers. Or people who spread malware and other lurking things on the web. You don't have to be Einstein to find them, as they leave some clues which speak about the identity. Let's see 10 things which indicate it's fake Facebook profile.

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1) Gender is the first sign.

So, you don't know that sexy chick who added you on FB, don't wait a second and reject it. Because 97% of fake profiles have female gender. So chances are there that sexy blonde is either your friend having a prank on you, or a spammer with specific Geo-targeting.

2) Hundreds or may be thousands of friends.

It has been estimated that a fake Facebook profile has 5.5 more friends that a real profile. On an average a legitimate user have about 130 friends, while the same number for a faker goes beyond 700. So, don't get fooled by having a look at the size of her or his friend list.

3) Celebrity, Politician or Sportsman.

Fake Profiles mostly don't have a general and legitimate looking profile picture; and they hide behind George Bush, Salman Khan or Aishwarya Rai. The catch is that they are also able to attract more and more people by doing so.

4) Modus Operandi

Is your dirtiest and most stupid is also liked by some XYZ and sometimes accompanied with a GREAT, GOOD or blah blah comment. This is how most of the fakers do. They get your trust by liking you and then attacking you. It's always a good idea to make your post visible to only your friend's. Facebook by default makes is visible to all Facebook users, which you should change...!

5) Either you don't have a cellphone camera, or another pair of clothes.

The fake Facebook profile's picture is same throughout a longer duration of period. It might changed if they have put a celebrity or sports person picture; but if it is general photo the next change will either a rose, a teddy bear or damn I LOVE YOU symbol.

6) They have some 34 tags in each of their photo upload.

If you upload a picture on FB, how many people would you tag. 2-3 or 5, in fact Facebook policy states that you should only tag one if he/she is there in the picture. But if you see the faker account they have each and every corner given a tag. On an average a fake Facebook profile have some 34 tags in each photo they uploads. And the simple reason is, more people tagged spreads them more and more. Because who ever is tagged on that photo; the post will be on their wall/timeline.

7) The most welcoming people on the earth :)

The fake accounts are always public and their security and privacy settings are default only. They want to be seen more and more; as simple as that.

8) They might paste links all the day but no real status updates.

This bunch of people are least active when it comes to real social networking. When you see their profile they either have posts of tagging or being tagged, link with tailor-made text and nothing else. Also you would see that they are making some 100 new friends on daily basis. The real status thing is mostly missing on their profile.

9) Lots of HI and WHO ARE YOU...? on their wall/timeline.

As these fake Facebook profile guys add so many friends on daily basis you will quiet possibly see a lot of HI on their wall. If you are lucky enough you might able to see, DO I KNOW YOU or WHO ARE YOU from their new friends.

10) They want to drive you somewhere or click something.

These fakers add a lots of links on their public profile and want you to drive to a particular site or sites. Well, the same tactics are being used by legitimate webmasters but they do it on Facebook Pages and not on profile. Often these guys also want you to click open a zip file or exe file on a link, beware as that could be a malware or tracking cookie....!!!

Hope these markers can help you in identifying these fakers. The best thing when you see any fake Facebook profile is to report them to Facebook and un-friend them from your list. Also advice your friends about this if they were on their list.

How to Write Good Articles?

Why Good article?

If you have a look at Mid February 2011 data, there were whooping 156 million blogs in the existence. And the bloggers have the blog posts or the articles on an average every week. But let's take in consideration every one published every month. So we will have monthly 156 million new articles every month which comes to 5.2 million new articles everyday. Now, let's remove the only picture posts as well as only embed posts. If you take out 65% (which is very high percentage for calculation), still you have 1.82 new articles being published on daily basis. Do you still need any justification why your article should be a good one to swim in the search engines ocean on top and should get good reviews and comments. If your bread and butter is entirely focused on blog or website, it becomes really important for you to deliver good article (or no article). Because you can create you readers base which is good for great income. So, let's see how you can write an article which can really be called a good article.

1) Content was king, now SEO content is the new king:

If you are in blogging you must have come across a saying that CONTENT IS KING. And that is really true, search engines prefer the blog and sites which are publishing more often. So, a site publishing every month will be less important for Google compared to daily updated blog. But, there are millions of sites which are daily updated...!!! So, you will have to get ahead that race in the race as well.

Try to post on regular interval like at least one article every week. And make sure you have proper SEO aspects taken care in that article. Good article has a specified keyword and it's content is based upon it. Have ideal keyword density (1-2%), have keyword in your meta description, SEO title, URL. Also have your keyword in first para of the post. Get a back-link from a genuine source (Remember Google hates paid back-links).
Few people take content as part of the SEO, but content was well there before the SEO was introduced. And also if you keep on posting 10 posts a day with no meaningful words it is not going to make any sense. That is also content, non-meaningful though.

 

2) Simplicity is the best publicity:

Try to be as simple as possible when you write your articles. You might have enough knowledge to have a 10 hour seminar on that subject. But, please keep in mind that you have some basic users and intermediate users too. If everyone dealing with blogging was a computer engineer, we might not have seen the concept of blogging. People visit your site as they are there to learn something, so write your article in a way that it start from basic concept and have detailed information in it.
Same way try to have that simplicity in formatting of your article as well. Keep the fonts and other things in a way that it is not distracting your visitor. It has been found that most successful blogs have plain white background and the posts there are easy and written in basic English. Google and other search engines also take into consideration the easiness of your content when they rank them.

 

3) Nobody is interested why you went to Switzerland, unless you are a celebrity

Please don't make your blog too much personalized, unless it is a personal or family blog and intended for that purpose only. People hate when they saw posts like "How I made 2000$ in three days". Same topic could have been used as "Making 50$ per day on Adsense is Easy".
Also, never add any false info in your blog. Some people are writing articles on how they made so and so much money in only a week or month. Their sole intention is to promote the affiliate links within those article. But a good article is all about fact. If you have given false info and if that is found by visitor; he will might well stop trusting your words.

 

4) Good article is free of typo and grammar errors

Always have a thorough checks for typos and grammar errors in your article. These errors lead to doubt creation in reader's mind about your credibility. Good article, as we said, is simple English and simple formatting. If you follow that step you will prone to have less errors.
Some people have habit of using hard vocabulary in the article. But, no one likes to check the meaning of words when they are reading something. So, stay easy and you will have less mistakes. If you want you can use free tool like this to check your grammar before publishing it on your blog.

 

5) Write for money but not only money

We all write for money, or money is someway associated in our articles. But please don't make your articles look like they are literally begging for the affiliated links to be clicked or affiliated jungle with so many links in all the articles. Instead write a good article on the same niche as that of your affiliated product.  Your CTR can be much higher if your article is informative. Informative does not mean telling good and hiding the bad things. Give all the pros and cons which you might feel can affect your visitor. If the article is not bias and if the visitor feels the pros are outweighing the cons, you will surely get clicked on.
These were 5 essential things to consider for good article writing. There are so many other things as well which are to be considered while you write an article. But out of all the factors these 5 are the most basic and essential things which one can look for while writing....Happy Blogging.