SugarSync for Online Data Storage

here are online services that let you store your stuff online.  These services have certain benefits like, it enables you to store your data in a manner that it can be retrieved from anywhere (you don’t need to schlep your laptop everywhere you go just because all your data is stored in it.), you can get your system configured at any point of time, as the files get synchronised automatically and you can use your laptop anywhere without fear of losing your data, due to any mishap. One such online service is SugarSync and has been discussed below.

SugarSync 5GB free

As the name suggests SugarSync online service provides the user with 5GB storage free of cost. An outstanding feature of the service is that it enables the user to synchronize the data between the various systems that the user owns, thus enabling the user to access the data from any given location.

In case you are not carrying your laptop along with you, you can still have access to the data from your Blackberry or iPhone. Convenient isn’t it? You can increase your free storage space to 10 GB. All you need to do is, refer your friends and relatives to this site and each time you refer a person, both you and the person who you refer gets 500 MB free space on SugarSync.

Go to SugarSync.

10 Ways to Use Twitter More Efficiently

Social networking sites are a great way to be in touch with your family and friends and that’s something that everyone knows but most of us are unable to make full use of these social networking sites because we are not well acquainted with the way they are to be used. It would surely be a nice to know the exact functioning of the sites and the options that are present on these sites. We had previously published an article that was dedicated to Facebook, so that you can get to know how to use the various options available.

So how can Twitter be far behind? This post will tell how to use Twitter in a more efficient way and you can be the cause of envy among your friends because you are one step ahead when it comes to using the site.

• Add tweets to the fan page of your Facebook profile

The Twitter tab on Facebook enables you to add the Update tab on Facebook, upon using this people will be able to access your albums, tweets etc. You can also go for the Tweetpad application that has a special feature that will update you with what is presently happening on your Twitter profile. You can also use Invover to link your Twitter account to your Facebook fan page.

•  Share Files on Twitter

In case you wish to share more than just 140 characters’ thought with friends on Twitter then you can do this by simply using Filesocial.com, a service that lets you share files on Twitter.

• Back up your Twitter account

In case you are worried about losing data on Twitter account in case something happens to the site then you can create a back-up of your account with the help of Tweetbackup.

• Know when a Twitter follower quits following you

If you want to know which of your friends has stopped following you on Twitter, then you can do so with the help of Twunfollow, which is a utility that shows you, who has stopped following you.

• Translate Tweets into 40 languages

In case you are looking for some via your Twitter account, then you must try the Twitter Translate application that will translate your tweets in 40 languages.

• Link Twitter to your WordPress blog

Tweeting is a craze these days and in case you are one of those people who have a WordPress blog then you will be happy to know that you can link your Twitter account to your blog, so that your followers on Twitter can read your blogs as well.

• Keep a track of your followers and non-followers.

Twitter Followers Monitor is a very simple tool that is available free of cost and will let you keep a tab on your followers and non-followers.

How to generate traffic to your site

At the end of this article you will not find me suggesting you to buy any CD or tutorial, The reason for the assurance is because in most of the cases we face the same situation. I just wanted to share some simple techniques which you can actually do YOURSELF without spending much money, to generate traffic to your own site effectively..

As you might understand that generating traffic to your site has probably become more important than even launching a very unique idea through it. Until there is nobody to appreciate, neither you get the worth of your investment nor do you generate business. it’s interesting to observe that how well designed and more informative portals lose out to their competitors just because people don’t know about them. No matter whether you have a business portal or a private blog; the secret of success is only in reaching more and more web audience. This may be the reason many marketers are coming up with higher e-campaign budget and getting interested in hiring professional service providers for higher visibility in the web.Starting from partnering with Google Adsense or using Adwords to advertising to blog sites and other popular portals there are many ways the repute of website can increase. The cost incurred depends on the approach you are going to take and the method that you are going to follow.

Allow me discuss a few of them here which you can actually implement without much ado, and more importantly, by yourself

1. The search engine - Search engine transfers maximum traffic to a lesser known websites. people search keywords in search engines and the engine shows the list of related websites. The sites which are more optimized to the keyword will come first. There is a steep contest between sites to reach the first page of a search engine on any particular keyword search. And the process of helping the sites doing it is called Search Engine Optimization. Some trickey activities are involved in that, but it’s worth learning about SEO to have a really heavy traffic onto your portal.

2. Social networking sites - Use the social networking sites like facebook , twitter, linkedIn, Orkut, MySpace, Digg and all others which are there. these sites are blessed with visitors who are more active than anything. variety of users with wide range of interest. if you have a strong message to convey or an interesting campaign to make, come here and share with people your business interests by publicizing your site.

3. Participate in forums - After you are sure about your business interest or the message you want to share through your websites to your target customer base; join relevant forums. forum traffic is volatile, may be after a quick 1st hit, many will not return to your site, but may be that is not a case for all your your site has enough content to bring them back again.

4. Write press release - Press release sites are purposely made especially for self-promoting. Just write press release campaigns promoting your site there. though some of them charge money to upload your content but there are huge number of reputed sites who will give you free access to post press release. Writing up a great press release can overall entice new readers and create new hype or publicity for your overall web business if it sparks readers’ attention. In all aspects of advertising or self promoting, if you entice the average visitor, you are sure to receive more web traffic than you have originally planned.

5. Write Articles - Show your prowess over the language or mastery over the subject matter (if you have it) and write articles to article directory sites to reach a wide reader base. this is may be the best idea to popularize your blog and earn the due attention which you needed for long. A loyal reader base and subscribers can start following you once they find your article interesting, which you posted in the article directories.

6. Write guest posts - Writing guest post to other blogs and forums might be a great idea if really have some good knowledge over the subject matter of your domain or clarity about your sites business interest. Ofcourse your profile interests people more in giving your point of view some repute, but even if you are not blessed with a great professional profile you can always complement that with your writing ability.

7. Start Video Social Networking – In edition to regular social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace, video social networking is a powerful way to showcase a new brand overall. Simply because generally YouTube videos that are fun and edgy, find their selves in more hype and in the “thousands viewers” zone. This new found way to generate more web traffic to your website, is a must to go along your list of ways to promote your business. If you haven’t noticed, almost everyone uses YouTube and by incorporating video creation in your tool belt of methods to promoting your business, you can attract a more wider range of potential buyers. And not to say, start even a community of your own.

8. Start a Network of Related Bloggers – If you are seriously into blogging, creating your very own blog network is an excellent idea to showcase blog publishing from a wide range of quality bloggers that cover the same topic. Not only is this idea of starting your very own network of related bloggers, is a great way for readers to find more relevant and resourceful information on a certain topic, it allows you to create new found relationships as well as increase exposure for each blog associated in the network. The more your network grows, the more visibility you get. Because as you may know, it is a network and the blog shares visitors by openly displaying links to other blogs in the total network and so on.

There are companies who are actually into this business of providing clients with similar services. they have package deals to offer as well as time span regulated service, some are costly some are reasonable. But, they too follow the more less the above tasks which we discussed under flowery names.Strong workforce helps them to aggressively circulate the information via those techniques, that a new star has born or a sleeping giant is waking up.

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization

In simple terms SEO is the set of processes by which a website can be put into the top search results of any search engine. If a site comes in one of the top search results, the probability is that, higher number of users will enter into the site to find relevant information. This is quite understandable, You search for something in Google, say, “the costliest pen on earth”. Google will show you

”Results 1 – 10 of about 13,900 for the costliest pen on earth”

and you will find a number of site links discussing the same (or similar) topic. You will scroll at most though the Google 1^st two pages of search results and will click on the link which you think will share the best information. Would you really bother what the 3000^th search result or even the 50^th ?? maybe not. Here lies the utmost importance to optimize a site for the search result, because more than 70% traffic is diverted to different websites via the search engine’s search results.

Bottom line is whatever content you put into your website, if it does not come in one of the top search results; then your site is nothing but a failure. Nobody will ever find it.

The Keyword Concept

The text that you type in the search bar of any search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing is your keyword. You may type a single word like “soccer”, a phrase like “latest song download” or a sentence like “List of Red Cross office locations in Iraq”. A search engine will match your typed text with different websites which are already indexed with relevant content. Indexing is nothing but the listing of keywords available in a website,found and accessed by a search engine crawler.

How does a search engine work?

First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. A piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google) does this. Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way. It is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has appeared or if an existing page has been modified, please remember that there are more than 20 billion web pages. Sometimes crawlers will not visit your site for a month or two. Another thing you must remember that the crawler will not read images, Flash movies, JavaScript, frames, password-protected pages and directories in your website.

After a page is crawled, indexing of the content happens next. It is basically the listing of visible keywords using search engine specific algorithm. The indexed page is then stored in a large database, from where it can later be retrieved. Essentially, the process of indexing is identifying the word s and expressions that best describe the page and assigning the page to particular keywords. When a search request comes, since it is likely that more than one pages (practically it is millions of pages) contains the search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the pages in its index to the search string by several logics and algorithms to calculate relevancy. All major search engines, like Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc. periodically change their algorithms and if you want to keep at the top, you also need to adapt your pages to the latest changes.

The last step is the display of the search result which is simply putting your website’s link in the search result list, So that people finds it easily.

SEO service companies do exactly these things for you by using some necessary SEO tools and techniques. They optimize your site on the basis of some specific keywords so that your site comes in one of the top results when a user searches with the keyword. At the end of the day SEO helps to ensure that your site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine and naturally will generate more traffic or help you reaching your target customers.

SEO techniques, what SEO service providers exactly do?

Now, if you want to optimize your site in a search engine and hire a SEO service provider company for doing the same; what exactly it will do?

Briefly, they will first analyse your site content for relevancy, they will suggest what keywords you should have and to have those keyword optimized what modifications you need to do in your site. Next they will use some particular methods like

• SEO strategy building
• Site Analysis
• SEO copywriting
• Metatag copywriting
• Directory posting
• Article submission
• Social book marking
• Create anchor text links
• Forum posting
• Link building and exchange
• Keyword ranking and Auditing

And many more…

In my next post, I would certainly take up these activities individually and discuss in detail.

Google PageRank Update June 2011

Google is coming up with new and latest PageRank update for June 2011. The last time there was a PageRank update was in January 2011 and this is actually very soon that Google has brought out another PageRank update.

PageRank is the rank that Google gives to websites and this is used to optimize conetent when you search things on Google search. Note that Google is most widely used search engine and I don’t need to tell you that almost ecerybody uses Google for internet search. The higher the PageRank of a website, the more is the possibility of the content on the website to be displayed on the first page. Also note that different articles on the same website also have different PageRank. Isn’t this something interesting?

The new PageRank update has been in talks for a quite long time and now the news is out. There have been widespread speculations regarding the new PageRank update because the last time Google introduced its new PageRank update in January this year, many websites were highly penalized for their content on the internet and many websites that had very good standing were thrown out of the game. In the meanwhile, some websites that were not worthy enough were displayed on the Google search’s first page. This was caused due to a fault in the Google algorithm according to which ranks articles and web pages.

Many critics and web masters are positive regarding the new PageRank update as they see some possibility of improvement this time in the Google PageRank algorithm. However, it is said that if you had made some mistakes earlier and had suffered losses due to that, then you should learn from those mistakes and try not to repeat them.

Anyone who owns a website should check his websites PageRank right away.

Google Gets Approval for Self Driven Nevada Cars

Google has been experimenting with the self driven cars for a long time now. Google was experimenting with its cars and now it has got approval for its self driven cars. The technology will be currently approved only in the State of Nevada and all other cities will have to wait for the law to come to their state. The State of Nevada has formulated some special laws that will allow such autonomous cars to ply in their cities.

However, it doesn’t mean that the cars will be street ready and need further refinement. The law will take effect on March 1, 2012. Google has already tested the autonomous cars very thoroughly and the engineers responsible for testing these vehicles have gone as far as 140, 000 kilometers. Now that much distance to be travelled by autonomous cars isn’t a joke at all.

The self driven cars are the future of car technology. Self driven cars aren’t being developed by Google alone as Volkswagen is also testing its driverless cars and has plans to get approvals for the launch on the roads

Google Street View

Google recently grounded all its street view cars globally. Why? The main reason behind this is: The Company was capturing WiFi data whilst driving about the globe.

Now Google will see to it that the WiFi scanning equipment is removed from cars as well as the software used to capture the data. Data captured by the cars includes Photos and 3D building imagery.

Google have approved a protocol to ensure any WiFi-related software is also removed from the cars before they start driving again.

The company is now about to re-send out cars in various countries. The roll out of Google Street View cars will start in Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. These countries will be followed by other countries in the weeks to come.