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Sunday, November 3, 2013

5 Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics tools

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#Hashtags, #Hashtags everywhere! The world went berserk since Twitter’s Hashtags were introduced back in 2009. The world was so serious about it to the extent that Hashtag was the ‘Word of the year‘, even Facebook announced Hashtags recently in June 2013 and also there was a baby named ‘Hashtag’!

You can go on and say a lot against Hashtags and their importance, but their value is unquestionable in this world that is insanely connected. The internet is made up of long and short messages delivered online and Hashtags provide with a way of grouping such messages, where one can search for a hashtag and get the set of messages that contain in it.

Quoting Wikipedia:

The first use of the term “hash tag” was in a blog post by Stowe Boyd, “Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings,” on 26 August 2007, according to lexicographer Ben Zimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society’s New Words Committee.

Hashtags are not much different to the ‘keywords for finding information’. The way that hashtags makes communications filterable and organized could be put to great use for getting feedback and suggestions. All that can be said is that hashtags are way beyond powerful and to manage them, you need tools. Tools are power in your hands and there are many powerful tools to effectively manage hashtags and make the most of them.

Below are 5 of the best Twitter hashtag tracking and analytics tools that will help you to get the most out of Twitter.

Hashtagify.me

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hashtagify seo 5 Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics tools

Hashtagify is one of the best and recommended tool to start off searching hashtags. It only helps you to find hashtags and tweets around them, but also draw out hashtags related to the one you have searched for. Hashtagify also helps you to find top influencers for each hashtag.

The revenue model is based on a Freemium model and you have to pay for access to more of their services. You can see above a search for the hashtag – ‘SEO’ and it comes up with top recent tweets and also suggestions related to the searched hashtag.

Twubs

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twubs 5 Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics tools

Twubs is another one of those best Twitter Hashtag tools out there. Twubs also features an auto-complete in their search toolbar that gives you more suggestions on the go as you type in. There is also an option to register your own hashtag with Twubs and have a personal landing page for the same. You could also host chat sessions with your audience from there.

Apart from giving information about a hashtag, Twubs also acts as a Hashtag directory and Registry.

Tagboard

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Tagboard SEO 5 Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics tools

Tagboard is more like ‘The Pinterest of Hashtags’. After you search for a hashtag, you are welcomed with a beautiful board, much like pinterest, with updates from a wide range of networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, App.net and Vine.

You can not only track popular hashtags about the current happening across these platforms, but also create your own hashtag to monitor.  You can filter out conversations from networks that you’re not interested in. Tagboard offers a great way for discussions on a wide range of networks.

In short, Tagboard offers you an easy-on-the-eye yet powerful system to track what’s most important to you.

Topsy

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Topsy SEO 5 Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics tools

If deep, contextual and comprehensive is your bill, Topsy would be right at the top of your list. What Topsy does is it analyses  billions of Tweets and web pages gathered from unique websites, blogs and social media services.

Topsy not only analyses this content, but also ranks them to find out exactly what is it that’s trending. Topsy, in short, enables users to discover, quantify, predict and make decisions using the world’s most powerful social analytics products.

Topsy is the most informative Hashtag tool out there on the web.

TweetBinder

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Tweetbinder is an amazing tool to help you analyse a twitter hashtag and see who all are engaged in the conversation, who is the most influential, what links where shared, etc. Similar to the word Hashtag itself, binder is meant to grouping similar things and conversations.

Tweetbinder also shows the people in the that were the most active for a hashtag and who’s tweets got the most reach. You can also filter out the conversations to learn more about links shared, retweets and images.

Then finally there is an overall analytics tool, which shows you the total tweets related to a conversation over a period of time, the retweets, the links etc.

What do you think about these Twitter hashtag tracking and managing  tools? Are you leveraging hashtags to get the most out of it? Have your say in the comments section below.

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My Year Long Experience Of Siteground Webhost

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It has become a daunting task for people to choose the right webhost and get their things online. We as bloggers, developers, and no matter what profession we might be in at one time stumble over the right hosting provider. Other than if you might be using free services for hosting,  like the WordPress.com service, you’ll need a good and reliable hosting provider to get your site up and running. I have managed to find mine for the time being – Siteground Webhost.

It had become infinitesimally difficult to find a good and perfect review of your potential webhost. The Web nowadays is inundated with a big load of misdirected reviews. The reviews of Web hosting services these days basically fall into these two categories : 1) anecdotal experiences and 2) spammers working their way to get a bigger paycheck by tricking innocent people to pay for lousy services.

Enough about the present state of conditions and let’s get to the point. This article is primarily supposed to be my experience with Siteground Webhost for over an year. This comes after Infworm(My publishing website), being online since two years. It has been over a year since I started using their services for my website and I admit that I am more than satisfied.

You might hit on me now saying that how come this cannot be an anecdotal experience? Let me get to that point., now that you’ve gotten a basic idea about what this is all about, it’s time that I back my statements with valid and useful statistics and events.

Siteground hosting review My Year Long Experience Of Siteground Webhost

I used to run on a different webhost prior to shifting base to siteground, but that’s an altogether different issue I wouldn’t like to get into. However I would like to clarify that the previous webhost was fair, only that we couldn’t fall in place with the terms. You must note that I am in no way a Siteground employee/ Promoter/ Affiliate and all this is me sharing my experience with the webhost for your better.

Let’s get started with the plans and pricing. Just as many other webhosts, Siteground too offers a myriad of options to get you the best that suits you as per your budget.

Siteground pricing review My Year Long Experience Of Siteground Webhost

Shared

Siteground offers a great shared hosting service. Siteground offers three categories for your choice under shared webhosting. Don’t be amused by the plans’ names,Siteground assigns those so they look less dreadful.

StartUp

This plan has everything that should basically get you started. I haven’t had much hands-on experience with this plan by Siteground, but I bet it would handle a decent new website/blog or e-commerce site. This plan should accommodate a “getting started” website or an average-size blog, or business website. More than 10,000 unique visits per month on a regular basis and you would outgrow this plan.

Price: $3.95/mo.60% OFF the regular $9.95/mo. (Only the first billing on a three month cycle would be charged $3.95/mo, the next time onwards its regular $9.95/mo)

GrowBig

This plan is crafted for Growing websites. Monthly visits of more than 25,000 should see you outgrow this plan. According to Siteground, this plan is basically designed to accommodate either a single more heavily-trafficked website or multiple average-sized websites.

Price: $7.95/mo.60% OFF the regular $14.95/mo. (Only the first billing on a three month cycle would be charged $7.95/mo, the next time onwards its regular $14.95/mo)

GoGeek

This is by far the best Shared hosting plan from Siteground and the one I started with them, and outgrew later moving on to cloud hosting. For a really heavily-visited or resource-intensive website  the GoGeek plan would be your best option. GoGeek plan is also good for average-sized E-commerce websites as i handles a decent product line. You will most probably outgrow this plan if you start attracting more than 100,000 unique visits per month on a regular basis.

Price: $14.95/mo.60% OFF the regular $29.95/mo. (Only the first billing on a three month cycle would be charged $14.95/mo, the next time onwards its regular $29.95/mo)

Dedicated

Siteground manages its dedicated hosting with servers in USA (Chicago), Europe (Amsterdam) and Asia-Pacific (Singapore). Siteground also provides with the option of performance boosters for scripts like Joomla, WordPress, Magneto and a general booster for a price of additional $50/mo.

Entry Server

This is an entry level dedicated hosting service. I haven’t had much experience with this plan, so I better remain silent here. The information could be found below.

Price: $229.00/mo

For your Information:

Intel i3-540 3.06GHz CPU3.06Ghz CPU Clock SpeedDual-core (2) CPU Cores4MB CPU Cache4GB DDR3 RAM500GB SATA II HDD HDD5TB Bandwidth

Power Server

The same goes with Power server dedicated hosting. I haven’t yet got my hands on this plan. You could tell the difference in the specsheet.

Price: $329.00/mo

Intel Xeon E3-1230 CPU3.20Ghz CPU Clock SpeedQuad-core (4) CPU Cores8MB CPU Cache12GB DDR3 RAM1TB SATA II HDD5TB Bandwidth

Enterprise Server

The Enterprise server is by far the best that Siteground could possibly provide you for your site. The jaw-dropping specs of the servers you can see below would almost manage any of the high traffic websites out there.

Price: $429.00/mo

Intel Xeon E5-2620 CPU2.00Ghz CPU Clock SpeedHexa-core (6) CPU Cores15MB CPU Cache16GB DDR3 RAM4x500GB SATA II / RAID 10 HDD5TB Bandwidth

Cloud

I have outgrown my shared hosting with them and so I went for their Cloud hosting. Siteground offers 4 Cloud hosting options, all of them just differing in a little specs that go a long way. Apart from that, the basic configurations of the cloud hosting are:

Operating System: CentOSApache Web ServerExim Mail ServerDNS Server SetupIP Tables Firewall Setup7 PHP Versions: v5.5, v5.4, v.5.3, etc.Database MySQL5 & PostgreSQLCloud 1

2x 2.0GHz CPU1024MB DDR3 RAM40GB Disk Space1 TB Bandwidth

Price: $68.95/mo. Regular Price $78.95/mo.

Cloud 2

2x 2.0GHz CPU1512MB DDR3 RAM60GB Disk Space2 TB Bandwidth

Price: $88.95/mo. Regular Price $98.95/mo

Cloud 3

4x 2.0GHz CPU2048MB DDR3 RAM80GB Disk Space4 TB Bandwidth

Price: $108.95/mo. Regular Price $118.95/mo

Cloud 4

4x 2.0GHz CPU4096MB DDR3 RAM150GB Disk Space5TB BandwidthPrice: $138.95/mo. Regular Price $148.95/mo

I wouldn’t say this is the best of all webhosting providers, but I can definitely say that this is the best I have laid my hands on. The site has been uptime and accessible always and it has never went down, as far as I remember. The only problem I have once faced was for a nightly update of their servers and there was a downtime for a mere few minutes.

The servers are always live and you could choose your server locations for all the plans as per the requirements of your website demand. You could choose them to be at Chicago for more West users, Amsterdam for more Europe users and Singapore for a more Asia based traffic.

The good accessibility and uptime feature is backed up with a very strong technical team that has your back covered for the worst-case scenario.

Technical support

Your only good bet of backup while facing some technical problems with your is your hosting provider. Siteground provides with a Live Chat categorized into Pre-sales, Technical and Billing issues. I have spent hours with the technical support guys [and gals icon smile My Year Long Experience Of Siteground Webhost ] at Siteground Live chat, and what I can assure you, you’ll definitely come out of your technical problems after a chat with them.

The technical area is too deep and there’s always something new to learn and these technical support people have helped me numerous times for my technical doubts. Although I consider myself as technically sound, and don’t prefer technical assistance, I just check them out too during issues for some unexpected easier solution.

Is Siteground Worth your money?

I have tried to be fair and true with this review. And if all of this still sound like I’m promoting my heart out that’s just because of the love I have for Siteround people who work and keep my site live. The technical support is arguably one of the best things Siteground has to offer, and that makes everything easier from pre-sales to resolving technical issues.. I am a satisfied and happy Siteground customer and would like you to check them out if you ever plan on starting up or shifting base.

Are you an existing Siteground user like me? I would love to know your review and feedback about their hosting quality. If you find this Siteground review useful, do consider sharing it on Facebook and Google plus.

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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Monitor BackLinks: Get Email Notifications For New BackLinks

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As a webmaster, we all know importance of backlinks, and there are many online tools like ahrefs to monitor backlinks. Using already available online tools, you can easily find in-depth analysis of all the backlinks pointing to your site, but how about getting Email notifications for new backlinks, and at the same time you can get Email notifications for backlink coming to your competitor website. Specially in this cut-throat online eco-system, it’s important to keep an eye on what your competitors are doing, and you can always create a better SEO campaign to outsmart your competitor website SEO.

Monitor Backlinks could be seen as any other SEO tool, but it solves few major challenges to SEO world. I will explain them in the form of features below:

It notifies you for new Backlinks to your Website.It notified you for new backlinks to your competitor website.You can see the quality of backlinks (Good or bad), if bad, you can always use Google Disavow link tool to get rid of it.

Before I share the complete guide to get started with Backlink monitor, here is a video intro which will give you an overview about this backlink watch tool:

Monitor backlink is a premium tool, but to get started with it, they offer 30 days complete free trial ( Without credit card), and you can start monitoring your domain backlinks. During trial period, you will be able to monitor 2 domains along with 2 competitor for each domain. So, let me guide you on how you can get started.

Head over to monitor Backlinks homepage, and click on Get started.You can select the plan, depending upon how many domains you want to monitor.

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On the next page, enter the simple registration form.Click on Email activation link, and you can start adding domain by linking to your Google analytics account.

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Select Google Analytic profile Monitor BackLinks: Get Email Notifications For New BackLinks

On the next page, you can add up to 2 competitors. For bloggers, I recommend you to add competitor link as domain which is related to your niche, and is almost at your stage, but growing fast. This way, you can see what methods that blog is doing for link building, and you can align your link building campaign accordingly.

Add domain competition Monitor BackLinks: Get Email Notifications For New BackLinks

That’s it, and now within 24 hours Monitor backlink service will start sending you Email notifications for following stuff:

When ever a new backlink will point to your domain.When an existing link back will be removed, which is pointing at your domain.When your competitor site will get new backlinks.

Do remember, when you add your blog for the first time, it will find all the old backlinks and will show in your dashboard. This will also help you to track all existing backlinks to your site. If you are on a free plan, you can add up to 2 domains. Here is how dashboard looks like once it starts showing old and all new backlinks. Do remember, you will also receive an Email notification for every new link to your domain:

monitor backlink dashboard Monitor BackLinks: Get Email Notifications For New BackLinks

I have created this video tutorial, which will teach you on how you can use this tool, and how you can add new domain and competitors website. In this video, I have added one of my WordPress niche domain, and added two similar competitors.

Over all, the idea of Monitor back link is good, as you need to keep an eye on good and bad quality links pointing to your domain, and this tool will do just that. More over, with a simple to use dashboard, you can get everything done in no-time.

Monitor Backlink free trial Monitor BackLinks: Get Email Notifications For New BackLinks

Do let me know how did you like the idea of this Backlink monitoring tool? Also, which web tool you are using now for keeping an eye on your domain backlinks?

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This Video Made Me Hate My Phone

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How many times you are out with your friends, and felt alone?? I have started finding it so common these days that people are more busy with their mobile phones over connecting with people in real-world. Be it Metro, or even walking on the street, it’s not so uncommon to see people are so engrossed on their mobile screen, that they don’t even notice things around.

I hate Phone This Video Made Me Hate My Phone

In many of bloggers event I been to, most of us (Yah including me) are always so busy updating Social-network that we miss enjoy essence of the moment. I have already talked about changing shift of society on my earlier article on Why people are so crazy stupid about buying an iPhone, and this is another great video, which will not only make you keep your phone away, but it will make you realize; that you are a part of this system too.

Do let me know your thoughts about the video, and next time you are at a public place or with someone, try to live the moment without your phone. Do share this video with your friends on Facebook and Google plus, and let them also know, how we are changing and why it’s right time to accept our mistake, and connect with everyone in real-life.

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How Much Money One Can Earn From Google AdSense

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Making money from a blog is a lucrative proposition, and AdSense is one of the top choice for bloggers to monetize their blog. Even though Affiliate marketing or CPA marketing pays more than AdSense, but Adsense ads gives a sense of peace of mind, and more over adds into recurring income. If I have to put it in a simple way, AdSense works as a saving account where you will be paid mostly on a fixed interest rate, and affiliate marketing works as a mutual fund investment, where income can fluctuate but always higher than AdSense.

Anyways, this post is not about which one is better, but here I’m answering one of the most asked question to me regarding AdSense. Recently I was giving a Workshop at Hosting summit, and after summit someone asked me about how much money she can make from her image based website or other lucrative and easy to use niche for AdSense. And couple of days back, one of the Shouter Shubhan asked how much money he can earn from AdSense on his blog. Here is the Email from Shubhan:

Earn from Adsense How Much Money One Can Earn From Google AdSense

Let me start with Answering Shubhan first question:

Shubhan your blog is professionally designed, and it looks great. Your content are original and adds value. You are using BlogSpot platform, but that should not be a problem. Since you are using a custom domain, I recommend you to get Custom domain Email address using Outlook, and apply using it.  Check out his blog design, which is on BlogSpot and looks so professional.

Android AdSense blog How Much Money One Can Earn From Google AdSense

Coming back to second question ” How much I will earn from AdSense”, which is one of the most frequently asked question by other Shouters. When I was new to AdSense, even I had the same question. I heard so many stories about people making $50/click or making thousands of $ via AdSense every month, I always wondered if I can make the same money from AdSense. To be honest, I never made that amount of money like other AdSense ninjas, and I will explain the reason below.

To disappoint you, there is no easy or sure-shot way to calculate your future AdSense earning, as you can’t predict how much money you will make per click. AdSense income depends on various factors, and here are some of the most common factors which adds into more AdSense earning.

Topic of your Blog: 

Lets start with the basics of AdSense. Google AdSense works on the basis of AdWords, where Advertisers bids on Keywords, and thus Ads are displayed on 3rd party Websites like yours and mine using AdSense. Now, with time Advertisers are becoming smarter, and they bid more on long-tail Keywords, as this converts better. Along with this, there is a concept of high-paying and low-paying niches.

For ex: Niche like health, Loan, Attorney have high CPC (Cost per click), and other niche like (Movies, posters) are considered as low paying niche. Technology niche on other hand is quite moderate AdSense niche, and income per click depends on various factors, which I have mentioned below.

Your traffic demographic:

AdSense income also depends upon the country which is sending you more traffic. For example, if your blog is getting more traffic from countries like U.S.A., you are more likely to earn more from per click on your AdSense ads. Where as if you are getting more traffic from developing nation like India, Nepal, you are likely to earn less/click (Mostly in pennies), and this difference is due to difference in average purchasing power of these nations.

Other common factors:

Above two are the most influential factor for AdSense earning. After this other factors like your Ad placement, ad blending, type of Ads (Image or Text or both), also adds a lot into it. These factors can easily be optimized by strategically implementing AdSense ads on your blog (Above the fold, and blend it smartly), and for other factors, you need to work on before you launch your blog.

Well, many of us create Blog just to earn from AdSense (Nothing wrong with it), but people usually give up on it soon, as this doesn’t keep them glued for long. More over, without complete domain knowledge, quality of site goes down with time, and it doesn’t work on long run. In my recent guide on How I created AdSense blog with less effort, I explained how to create quality AdSense blog. (A strategy that you can easily copy).

So next time if you have doubt related to how much you can earn from AdSense ads, ask yourself what niche and what kind of traffic you are going to get on your blog. None the less, check out this guide on finding high CPC AdSense keyword in most convenient way.

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3 Best Websites To Check If A WebSite Is Down Or Not

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Massive social media migrations occur at times when popular services go down. Say for instance, Facebook is down, so everyone goes flocking to Twitter to post updates such as “Is Facebook down for me?”, “Anyone else having troubles with Facebook?”, etc. This causes a massive traffic spike in other networks. Although it won’t definitely be the same if Twitter went down.

What if you need a simple answer to: “Is this site down for me or everyone?”. You need not pounce on different social media sites for getting your answer. Thankfully, there happen to be a few great services on the web that are present just to provide with the exact answer to your query. These websites are the no nonsense types and just do what they are meant for, nothing more, nothing less. The beauty of these services is that they care about their purpose instead of cramming up more and more features.

Below is a list of the 3 best websites to check if a website is down or not.

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Down for everyone or just me, oh and by the way you don’t have to type in the entire domain name every time, actually you could also use their short URL at IsUp.me. This is a text-based website that will simply tell you if a website is down or not.

All you are required to is to enter the domain name in the text-box, click the hyper-linked “or just me“ part and then it will answer the question for you in a very easy-to-use format. I’m not quite sure about the funding of this website but it sure does make use of a small advert in its own box and the best thing it is even hard to notice, leave alone disturbing. The site is minimal and takes a minimum of the screen space and yet does your work with grace.

DownRightNow

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Down Right Now makes use of user-submitted reports that acts as a catalyst in its effort to find out if the Internet’s top sites are down. Down Right Now is one of those very effective crowd-sourced website. The only thing that this site lacks is an option for entering your own website and check if its down or not. It only checks and makes note of the top social media services if they are up or not.

Down Right Now includes a status history of the service as a graph of its server being uptime or not over a period throughout the day. This site provides with a pretty good information about the services and also the last time they were down in a similar fashion. This lets you get a simple idea of how long more it would be so. A good site if you would like to check out the top dogs of social media if they are down or not, not for personal use.

Is it down right now

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aweber down 3 Best Websites To Check If A WebSite Is Down Or Not

Is it down right now, again a similar service that would make you grow weary the more you type it, happens to have a short URL at iidrn.com. The above seen image is a screenshot of Awebber’s service being down for everyone over 3 hours back in August 2012. The screenshot alone speaks for itself, showing how effective its service is. On its homepage you are shown a host of top websites and their status. It also provides a personal search for entering your own websites.

It provides you with useful information like response time(how fast your server responds to the query), when the last time it was down, and a graph of its day-by-day response times.

isDown for Android 3 Best Websites To Check If A WebSite Is Down Or Not

For all those Android browsers who want to remotely check if a website is down, there’s an app for that! IsDown is an Android app that allows you to make a quick check if a Website is down from your Android device.

To use isDown is as simple as it can be, all you have to do is type in the URL of the Website and then tap the light blue “isDown?” button. The white status box will tell you whether or not the site is down. The app also includes the ability to expand shortened URLs, if you want to check the validity of a shortened URL.

What do you do when your favorite service is down? Where do you go to? Share your alternatives as comments below.

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21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should Know

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Earlier I have shared some interesting Youtube facts and numbers, and extending the series today I will be sharing some mind-blowing facts and numbers about Facebook. Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most popular Website at this moment, and despite of the fact that it usually is very unproductive for me in terms of time-killing, I still love it.  If you have seen the popular movie “The social network”, you must be aware of how Facebook was evolved from a simple site to world’s most popular Social-networking site, and what all Mark Zuckerberg has gone through to reach where his company is at this moment.

Do you know the most popular social networking website “Facebook” derived its name from the informal name for the book given by some American universities to the students at the start of academic session every year? The purpose is same; to help users to know each other and in turn build a network. There are lot of things we know about Facebook yet there are many hidden interesting facts which you would love to know. Here I’m sharing some of those Facebook facts that you would love to share with your Facebook friends.

1. Predecessor of Facebook

“Facemash” developed by Mark Zuckerberg is considered as the predecessor of Facebook. This site was comparable to “Hot or not” and was able to grab 450 visitors.

2. Mastermind behind Facebook

mark zuckerberg facebook 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should Know

Of course most of you know about Mark Zuckerberg, he was just in high school when AOL and Microsoft offered him job. He is a Harvard dropout but still mentions himself as a Harvard’s graduate. He was just 19 when he started Facebook and at 29 he is the youngest billionaire who owns the fastest growing company.

3. Original home page

Alpacino Facebook Homepage 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should Know

The original home page before the total revamping in 2007 has a manipulated photo of Al Pacino. It was created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.

4. File sharing feature

In its early years Facebook has this peer to peer (between friends) file sharing feature called “Wirehog”. Through “Wirehog” any type of file could be shared between friends on Facebook. It was there till 2005 but in 2006 it was removed from Facebook due to piracy issues and only its photo sharing feature remained with Facebook.

5. Early collaborations

Initially Facebook membership was offered only to Harvard students then offered to other colleges students. But in 2006 the first corporate collaborations happened with Apple and Microsoft followed by Intel, EA and amazon. And by September of the same year anyone with age of plus 13 was welcomed.

6. Easter eggs

Facebook easter egg 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should Know

Yes you read it right, Easter eggs are hidden there in Facebook. Sometimes the code lies in footer and sometimes a special word in the chat window can bring wonders on your screen. Here is an easy one which you can try right now. Login to your Facebook profile, and change your language to English Upside down, and you will be seeing an interesting version of Facebook.

7. What Poking is?

poke me facebook 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should KnowIts actual meaning is not known and even Zuckerberg kept it as a mystery. He says, they thought it would be fun to introduce a feature with no specific purpose. People can mess around with it the way they like it.

8. Café Menu on Facebook

On Facebook there is a café menu which is used by its employees to see what they have for the day at office.

9. State users

California tops the list of users of Facebook in U.S. followed by Texas and New York.

10. Love for Facebook stuff

Facebook hoodie 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should Know

A Facebook Hoodie (XL) was sold for whooping $4,050 over internet through eBay in 2010.

11. Tagging in status update

This is one of the most widely known Facebook feature, but unfortunately many people don’t know about this one. You can tag anyone in the status message by mentioning their Facebook name with “@” (@Mark Zuckerberg). This also works when you are writing comments.

12. Open Source

Facebook was developed from the ground up using open source software. We also release large pieces of our own software infrastructure as open source.

13. Mind-Blowing Facebook Stats & Figures

There were 819 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products as of June 30, 2013.There were 699 million daily active users on average in June 2013.There were 1.15 billion monthly active users on June 2013.

14. Friends

facebook friends 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should Know

On average, users make 7 new Facebook friends per month; they initiate 3 requests and accept 4. 80% of Facebook friend requests are accepted.

15. Average time spent

20 billion minutes are spent daily on average

16. Time spend on Facebook

On any given day, 50% of active users login to Facebook. In US alone there are 128 million active users who login daily. Average Facebook user spends 405 minutes per month i.e. 13.5 minutes per day.

17. Facebook Pages

Total number of pages has reached 50 million. Facebook’s population is 3 times that of US total population.

18. Apps

There are 10 million apps available for Facebook.

19. Likes

Since its launch total number of likes has reached 1.13 trillion and is continuously increasing.

20. Top User countries

facebook couuntry top 21 OMG Facts About Facebook That You Should KnowDo you know Facebook Top user country is US with 155 million users followed by India with 45 million and Brazil 43 million users. There was a time when orkut used to rule India and Brazil, and now Facebook is leading the Social-networking world in these countries.

21. Gender Strength

If you consider Facebook user by gender then 56% of users are females and remaining 44% are males.

It’s always fun to know some less-known facts about your popular Social-networking site. If you know of more such facts, feel free to add it via comments. Also don’t forget to share these interesting facts with your friends on Facebook. You can also subscribe to me on Facebook @denharsh.

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Friday, November 1, 2013

How To Get CommentLuv Premium Plugin For Free

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By looking at the post title” Get CommentLuv Premium For Free” I am sure you must be thinking that I will be giving you nulled version of Commentluv or sharing Premium version of CommentLuv Plugin with all of you. But you are wrong folks, actually I am going to share a cool trick with all of you by which you can enjoy the features of CommentLuv Premium For Free on your blog. But before sharing the trick let me tell you in brief about CommentLuv and how it works.

CommentLuv is a popular WordPress plugin which is invented by Andy Bailey. The main idea behind CommentLuv is to reward your blog commentators and readers by linking to their blog post. Actually there are two versions of CommentLuv i.e. Free Version and Premium Version. Both are awesome but the main difference between the two versions is the Incentives.

Do Check: How you Should Comment on Other Blogs?

Commentluv Premium is a collection of 8 plugins in one .It is made in such a way that it will help you in bringing more traffic and comments to your blog.It also gives you the ability to fight against spam (GASP), integrate twitter link, G+ shares,FB likes, add keywords and you can even show top commentators widget on your blog. Premium version also has ReplyMe plugin, whenever Author replies any comments, he gets notified by Email.

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For More Inforamtion Please Check CommentLuv Premium Official Website.

As name suggests, Comment luv premium is a paid plugin, and it’s priced at $67 for single site, and $97 for multi-site license. Well, it’s actually a good idea for a newbie blogger to use this plugin to get more comments, and social share. But, not all can afford this price for a plugin. As a result they have no choice but to use free version of CommentLuv or use any other commenting Plugin on their blog. I am even using free version of CommentLuv on my blog.

Those who have money can buy the CommentLuv Premium and those who can’t afford to buy the premium version (like me) can follow the steps given below!!

That’s it you have installed main plugins which are included in CommentLuv Premium. Now you can enjoy the features of CommentLuv Premium For Free!!

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By the end, using the combination of all the plugins above, you can get the power of commentluv premium on your blog for free.If you like this trick then please do leave your valuable comments here and don’t forget to share this with your friends!! Cheers!!

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Comic Book Colorist Wanted

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Title: Comic Book Colorist WantedColorist wanted for a single issue comic book; sci-fi/fantasy genre (think Heavy Metal Magazine). We're offering $50.00 - $75.00 per page, depending on skill and experience.

Please email a link to your gallery or samples of your work to the address below.

keywords: colorist, comic book colorist
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Contact information: nathan.sage@gmail.com

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Ruby on Rails Developer

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Winthrop Intelligence has a simple mission: College Athletics leaders help make the best decisions with the best data. Publish original research on college sports business and we offer our SaaS solution to athletic departments to help them use their limited resources to good use. We design and build products by listening to our customers and shipping as often as possible using "non-blocking development. For our customers this means, we are fast, responsive and always deliver increased value. Since we walked, we returned $ million in D - I and sport College D - II programs.

Why work with us?

* You want to work remotely. We are a small distributed team dispersed throughout the Midwest and the East Coast.
* You want to work for a startup that is successful on the market
* You want to work in a friendly environment that focuses on sending code
* You want to work on a product where customers love and just want more
* If you like sports, it is a rare opportunity

Requirements:

* Intelligent, friendly, gets things done.
* Proactive and hardworking.
* Competent Ruby on Rails coder
* Ready to dive and to learn by doing.

On a daily basis:

* Collaborate with the owner of the product on the models and transform these featured well executed, useful
* Spend the majority of your time on rails back end code, but also work on the front-end code to all features
* Diagnose and fix bottlenecks, refactor the code needed, write tests to help secure the system while the team moves quickly

Compensation for benefits &:

* Salary is commensurate with experience
* 401K with contribution & correspondent
* Health benefits
* Paid holidays and leave

How to apply:

Send a CV, portfolio or links to the email address below.

Keywords: jobs of rails, rails, rails, ror, ruby on rails developer developer
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Développeur (lourd JavaScript avec Rails)

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Heavy JavaScript with Rails - lead Mobile

Are you passionate about writing clean code, lean construction products and technical problems difficult? You like how rewarding it feels when your product is tested, very appreciated by more than 50,000 users who post compliments in the community you have built?

As mobile lead, you will own a significant portion of the Weddingful code base. We use titanium's Appcellerator platform to build our mobile infrastructure for Android and iOS. As a first step, you will build on your experience to create a mobile-ready version of the existing Ruby on Rails site.

Requirements & skills

Responsibilities:

* Work with the team to integrate the existing site in a mobile version of ready
* Lead the development of the mobile framework code
* Make the mobile experience of Weddingful fast and solid with a variety of initiatives

Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
* 2 + years of development experience relevant
* Platform mobile Appcellerator titanium & alloy framework
* IOS and Android applications deployment
* HTML5/CSS3 for mobile applications
* Strong knowledge in JavaScript with the column spine and jQuery/Mobile
* Experience with Ruby on Rails
* Source control with GIT (experience with SourceTree bonus)
* Passion for programming and learning new technologies
* Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills

Bonus:

* Experience with CoffeeScript
* Experience with frameworks such as Jasmine and rSpec BDD/TDD
* In depth, SQL experience with knowledge of advanced joins

On Weddingful

We are a team of passionate entrepreneurs and super smart, run a startup hyper growth in Yaletown, Vancouver. We are well funded by investors elites as Boris Wertz and many others - all with huge outputs of Amazon and Whitepages, etc, offering advice and resources to encourage us as the next $ 100 million company.

IMPORTANT!
Apply via this link only:
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Executive Director VDC

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The Executive Director is the chief administrator of the Vermont Cheese Council (VCC) (http://vtcheese.com/) and is responsible for providing strategic leadership, long-term direction, and achieving financial goals set by the Board of Directors. In addition, the Executive Director has the overall managerial and administrative responsibility for the VCC within Vermont. The primary function of the Executive Director is to guide and direct the VCC in accordance with the mission of the VCC set by the Executive Committee. The Executive Director has responsibility for fostering a positive culture and work environment.

VCC Executive Director Job Description Reports to: Vermont Cheese Council Executive Committee Position: Full time To Apply: Send Resume and 3 References to vcced.search@gmail.com Deadline: October 31st, 2013 _____________________ DESCRIPTION The Executive Director is the chief administrator of the Vermont Cheese Council (VCC) and is responsible for providing strategic leadership, long-term direction, and achieving financial goals set by the Board of Directors. In addition, the Executive Director has the overall managerial and administrative responsibility for the VCC within Vermont. The primary function of the Executive Director is to guide and direct the VCC in accordance with the mission of the VCC set by the Executive Committee. The Executive Director has responsibility for fostering a positive culture and work environment. VCC CULTURE The Vermont cheese making community is made up of a diverse group of companies. Our cheese making community is composed of businesses ranging from very small independent producers to large cooperative ventures. While there are many distinctions to be made between our production methods and our cheeses, we all benefit from the high value of the 'Vermont' brand. Given the value of this branding to the common interest of the whole community it is essential that the Cheese council members and employees embrace a culture of sharing for the common good. In keeping with the spirit of our bylaws VCC culture must strive to support and 'advance the production and image of premier cheese from Vermont through public and industry education activities'. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Relationship with VCC members, VT agricultural groups and national cheese industry Develop and maintain strong relationships with VCC members and larger agricultural and cheese community, to ensure that the VCC plays a leadership role in the continued growth of the artisan cheese movement. Maintaining contact with VCC cheesemakers, and understanding their needs and capabilities, is an essential function. The Executive Director will represent the Vermont cheese community at various functions and meetings in state and out.

Relationship with the Executive Committee * Responsible for development and implementation of annual planning in collaboration with the Executive Committee, and other staff if necessary * Serve in an ex-officio capacity on some sub-committees and attend all Executive Committee meetings * Recommend and advise the Executive Committee on any relevant issues * Carry out the directions of the Executive Committee * Report to the Executive Committee on VCC accomplishments and challenges * Present an annual report to the membership at the Annual Meeting, and keep abreast of monthly financial statements in conjunction with the Treasurer and bookkeeper * Work with the President (or other members) to develop meeting agendas to ensure needed topics are discussed * Communicate clearly and professionally with Council members, Executive committee & Finance committee, and other staff Management Functions * Responsible for the general management of the VCC, including all communications, website and other media upkeep, member relations and management, educational workshops and programs, administration, finance, public relations, etc., within the framework of the VCC By-Laws * Complete all reports and filings required by laws governing a not for profit corporation and its operation * Ensure there is an appropriate and adequate system for the dissemination of information across the VCC membership * Develop relationships with organizations in the state with complimentary agricultural missions * Execute work and commitments as authorized by the Executive Committee Communications and Public Relations * Communicate with the public and media on behalf of all members * Oversee the promotional plans and dissemination of materials to promote the VCC * Respond to all VCC inquiries (phone and e-mail) * Work with web master and designers to create and update maps, brochures, monthly enewsletter, website, and other informational resources * Manage media (VCC photos, slideshow, video) Membership * Solicit annual Cheesemaker, Associate, and Friend membership dues* Maintain up-to-date mailing list (e-newsletter, cheesemaker listserve, Associate member listserv, and cheesemaker contacts) * Communicate with members re: events, donation requests, intern and employment opportunities, general inquiries * Maintain up-to-date member website information, including content material and graphics * Assist in the organization and coordination of VCC member classes * Manage and record educational scholarship monies Leadership of Staff * Recruit, hire, supervise, train and evaluate VCC staff as needed * Delegate appropriate authority to staff * Communicate staffing needs to the Executive Committee Fiscal Management * Prepare the annual budget for the VCC in collaboration with the Finance Committee * Ensure the annual budget is implemented to meet VCC financial objectives * Provide accountability for necessary VCC income, including membership dues, VT Cheesemaker Festival income, and grants/fundraising as needed * Provide leadership and/or assistance in soliciting sponsorships for Festival revenue * Ensure there are adequate fiscal controls at all organizational levels * Ensure an annual audit is conducted * Assist the Treasurer in providing financial reports and updates to the Executive Committee SUPERVISION RECEIVED * The Executive Committee and Board of Directors supervise the performance of the Executive Director and conduct annual performance evaluations. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Professional degree in Non-Profit/Business Management, or related field * Experience in a managerial or leadership role for a non-profit or food-based organization * Excellent verbal, written, and inter-personal communication skills * Experience and competency in public relations, member services, Board communication * Strong analytical and quantitative skills for program design, budget planning, and monitoring of program results * Experience managing budgets * High level proficiency in MS Office applications, QuickBooks knowledge * Some graphic design and web management capability * Demonstrated writing ability and previous successful fund raising / grant development experience * Availability for short-term travel for regional and national food industry events and conferencesPHYSICAL, MENTAL AND VISUAL REQUIREMENTS Excellent verbal communications skills are required for the amount of time spent talking with Cheese Council members, Committee members and various media requests. Exceptional interpersonal skills are necessary for building and maintaining collaborative relationships that are essential to success. Good vision is required for the time reading a variety of documents and for computer work. Work requires travel by automobile to communities throughout VT for meetings and program operations. Employees must maintain a valid VT driver's license and manage travel arrangements, including overnight accommodations. Employees are responsible for loading and moving program materials, assorted promotional goods and/or tools into personal vehicles or other vehicles as needed to meet schedule deadlines. Work schedules fluctuate as needed to meet program management goals and planned schedules. Some lifting of program and event materials required, generally up to 40 lbs. U.S. citizenship or a valid U.S. work permit is an absolute requirement. SAFETY Work is performed in and at various venues for meetings and events during the year. Travel by automobile requires attention to safe driving practices, including the wearing of seat belts. VCC employees are expected to follow motor vehicle laws of each state in which they drive for business purposes, including laws prohibiting the use of cell phones while vehicle is being driven. The employee must be able to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position without posing a direct threat to his or her health and safety or the health and safety of other individuals in the workplace.

How to Apply:

Applications should be made by email to the address below and include 3 references.

Application deadline: November 15, 2013
Education requirements: 4-year degree, Professional degree in Non-Profit/Business Management or related field
Employment type: Full time
Professional level: None specified

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Program Manager

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Program Manager (social worker)

Join a dynamic organization and in full growth, with a deep commitment to help families fight against cancer. Brought family seeks a full-time social worker to join its growing team and help to contribute to the mission to join the family. We offer a supportive team environment, a competitive salary and flexible hours, work from home with a few hours of work past in the Office of the family reach.

The program manager will assist with various responsibilities related to the mission to join the family assistance financial and sincere support to the families, fight against cancer. It is:

* Manages the daily communications and relations with the social workers of the hospital and support
* Screening and processing incoming applications grants social workers of the hospital and the provision of financial assistance
* Screening and handle communications with the families who contact the family reach directly for assistance
* Working closely with the Coordinator of the family and personal development to support various initiatives and events involving partners hospitals.
* Assist the Coordinator of the family in the identification and coordination of the families of comments for special events and other development initiatives
* Coordination and execution of the event on a small scale on crafts and games for families to partner hospitals
* Search for community resources and advocacy and other services of navigation to families
* Assistance to the research, compilation and organization of information on community resources
* Assistance with special projects as needed.

Job requirements: MSW strongly preferred. Candidates should have the sensitivity to children and adults with cancer and their families, excellent oral and written communication and initiation skills computer with a working knowledge of Word and Excel. It is preferable to one to two years of social work experience. Medical social work experience a plus. Young graduates welcome also apply.

How to apply:

Send cover letter and CV to Rosemary Pfreundschuh, Senior Program Manager at the email address below.

Foundation to join the family is an equal opportunities employer.

The education requirements: master's degree, MSW
Job type: full time
Professional level: professional

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Trainee / Jr. Perl Developer / Sr. Perl Developer / Team Lead

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Title: Trainee / Jr. Perl Developer / Sr. Perl Developer / Team Lead** This is a partial telecommute job **

"BrainToSoul Knowledge Consulting" specializes in programming for the Web and we stick to the areas we excel at.
BrainToSoul offer our customers to solve short-term/long-term needs and consulting engineers with specific domain expertise.
As a Perl consulting Company, we can cover areas such as implementation, system architecture, testing, specification and documentation depending on customer needs.
Our services focus on application oriented internet programming to cover the needs of even the most demanding customers, ranging from small businesses to corporate
organisations.

We are looking for couple of Perl Developers (with a ranging experience - Trainee/ Jr. Perl Developer/ Sr. Perl Developer/ Team Lead, hence salary range ) to
join our team to work on the development, maintenance and support the Perl Application.

Required skills:

The successful candidate for this position :
* A good Perl developer
* Good in OO Perl
* Web Automation and Command Line Automation
* Optimization and maintenance of existing applications
* Modern Perl - DBIx::Class, Moose, Catalyst or any other MVC web-framework
* HTML5, javascript, Ajax, jQuery,
* Testing frameworks
* Shell Scripting would be ideal
* An intermediate user level of Linux and Apache
* A very good knowledge of MySQL, SybaseIQ, Sybase
* Payment Gateway Integration using Perl

Desired skills:

** Web application development skills
** mod_perl experience is an asset
** Selenium Script
** Reverse Engineering Experience

Pay rate: As per IT standard

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Looking for a Programmer

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Muzzy Lane Software is looking for a programmer to build and maintain our python back-end web services that integrate game websites with our browser-based 3D games.

Requirements

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
* An understanding of HTTP and SSL at the protocol level
* Must have Linux experience (we exclusively use Ubuntu on our servers!)
* Experience with Python web frameworks (such as Django or Tornado)
* Experience with SQL databases (such as PostgreSQL)
* Good understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

About the company

Muzzy Lane creates and deploys multiplayer 3D games for Education, Corporate Training, and Healthcare. We partner with publishers to deliver highly immersive experiences to their customers that are mapped to their goals, whether that be learning, training, or patient education.

What Python is used for: Our service is written completely in python. We expect the job to be 90-95% python coding.

keywords: python, python programmer, python jobs
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Company: Muzzy Lane Software Inc.

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Artist for Audio Show

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Looking for an artist for my audio show: Hermie and Poppenfresh

Greetings and salutations,

I have been working on my own original audio show known as The Fucked Up Escapades of Hermie and Poppenfresh. I have finished episode one of the show, and episode two is currently a work in progress. However, I have been searching for an artist for the video versions of this audio broadcast on sites such as Youtube. That way, it can make the audio video seem that much more entertaining that just staring at white text on a black screen.

The kind of art style that I'm looking for is something in the same vein of a exaggerated yet sexy and expressive cartoon style such as Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, etc.

Before anyone says that they're interested, I highly recommend that you click the link here to listen to the first episode of Hermie and Poppenfresh: www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/554160

If you feel that your art style, with what I require, would be a great fit, feel free to e-mail me at the address below.

When you leave a message, please show an example of your work (single or portfolio) and what you're charging in terms of commissions.

I look forward to hearing back from some potential artists.

Thank you kindly for your time.

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Rails Junior programmer

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FlexJobs is the first service for jobs that offer the flexibility of work. Our goal is to make it easier, faster and safer for people to find a job professional calendar remote, part-time, freelance, flexible or alternative. We believe that the experience of looking for work is generally pretty terrible and there are great opportunities to improve the process, especially with these very desired and hard to find types of jobs. We provide a clean and valuable experience for our customers looking for employment with an inexpensive subscription model.

We are looking to recruit a talented Ruby developer to join our fantastic - and completely virtual - company.

Required skills:

Ruby, Rails, HTML 5, XML, jQuery, git, remote development

Specifically, our ideal candidates will be:

* Have 2 years and more v3 / v4 of Ruby on Rails experience production development
* Experience with XML streams and data
* Be comfortable working independently and in small teams
* Experience with Twitter Bootstrap and delicate design
* Experience with automated test suites

Required traits:

* Have a have a sense of pride in your work and your passion for coding
* Have a streak of perfectionism when it comes to details
* Be highly organized, responsible and ethical
* Be proactive when it comes to ask questions, brainstorming and working with colleagues
* Be willing to (and hopefully enjoy) works with clients of the employer on the occasion

We are looking for a part-time independent role between 20-25 hours per week, with the potential for growth in a roll full time.

How to apply:

Send an email highlighting the 3 projects that you have worked on that you are more enthusiastic and attach a current resume in .doc, .docx, .pdf, markdown, or .txt format.

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Music Journalists / Contributors

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Startup needs junior and senior contributors looking to contribute features, blog posts and other contents to a new music website, TheDirtyCrash.com The site is dedicated to rock music. Writers should have experience and a passion for the subject matter. A few more details on the site:

- We're not going to be a simple link-farm/aggregator. We're going to create original, high-quality content (e.g. music journalism), mixing quick-hits with long-form features.
- We're not going to focus on record or concert reviews. Too many sites already do that, and do it well.
- We're not going to be (too) focused on the past. We want to feature new bands that carry out the rock tradition (primitive, bass/guitar/drum, blues-based, loud, etc.). At the same time, people love their rock gods and, as they say in rock 'n' roll, give the people what they want.

We need contributors and content, and are willing to offer rev share or equity to early contributors who can commit to contributing on a regular basis.

Job requirements:
- Commit to writing on regular intervals (e.g. twice-weekly, weekly, twice-monthly, monthly). It's imperative content is fresh.
- Commit to promoting your own and all other TDC content via your social networks. The more total traffic driven to all of the content on the site the better we all fare.
Experience:

We're looking for:
- A passion for rock music of all stripes, sub-genres and eras. Having a speciality in one particular is OK.
- Experience writing about rock music. Provide links, clips, blogs, etc., that prove it.
- Degree in journalism, English or the like, or enough real-world experience and clear writing chops to overcome any lack of formal training.
- Have you been in a rock band, or are currently in one? Bonus, as long as your writing is not self-promoting.
How To Apply:

We're also looking for contributing editors who can curate various sections of the site, generate traffic through the creation of viral content, feed the social media beast, etc.

Interested? Please send a note along with samples to the e-mail address below. We'll reciprocate by sending a more detailed overview of the site and the kind of content we're looking for.

TheDirtyCrash.com
It's about the Rock.

Deadline To Apply: Feb. 21, 2014

http://thedirtycrash.com/

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Remote editor / reviewer

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One of our remote talented editors, you will have the opportunity to work from home while choosing the types of missions that interest you. You can interact with internal and other remote staff through forums online and newsletters and company memos, and you will also receive free training and incentives that are redeemable at online retailers. You won't have any of the hassles of the call for tenders or pitching to clients, but you will have job security and be paid forthwith.

Working with Scribendi.com requires a moderate knowledge of the Internet and computer level. You must be comfortable downloading and transferring files, attach files to e-mail messages, save and search for files on your computer, file transfers, renaming files, via a Web interface and using an instant messaging service. You should have a good working knowledge of the major document file formats and their associated software. We will also get documents that misbehave, an ability to solve technical problems is useful.

Standard qualifications:

* A university degree in a relevant field
* At least three years of experience in editing, writing, production of documents and language teaching
* French must be your mother tongue
* Excellent reading comprehension skills and the ability to follow written instructions and work independently
* Be absolutely fanatical on the adherence to deadlines
* Average editing/correction of 1 000-1 500 words per hour speed
* Microsoft Word 2010 on a secure PC (not Mac)
* Access broadband / high speed Internet
* The ability to accept payments for your account in U.S. dollars using PayPal.com. Please consult the international payment system PayPal (http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-approved-signup-countries-outside) for more details

Preferred skills:

* A graduate diploma in a relevant field
* Access to the extra text processing/document production software (e.g. Star/Open Office, Word Perfect, Open Office, LaTeX, Acrobat, iWorks, Publisher, PageMaker, etc.)
* Knowledge of one or several style guides (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style, Turabian, APA, etc.).

Please note that applications for this position are not accepted by e-mail. Only candidates selected for the assessment will be contacted.

If you have any questions regarding telecommuting positions, please visit our frequently asked questions on employment (http://www.scribendi.com/faq/employment.en.html).

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Strategies for fixed vs. CPM based pricing for publishers

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Two of the most important decisions a publisher makes is their ad set up and pricing. For general information, our How to Price and Place Your Ads guide provides in-depth help with pricing and placement. If you want to delve deeper into your strategy, you’ll want to put some consideration into the 2 primary direct sale pricing models: fixed rate and CPM, which we’re about to discuss.

Fixed-Rate (or sponsorship/tenancy) is a simple time-based way to sell advertising; you offer up a set number of slots in one ad zone, for a fixed rate, and the ads are displayed over a 30-day period. A zone can display just one ad, or you can rotate a pre-determined number of advertisers in the same space.

The CPM model consists of setting a price for 1000 impressions, and letting the advertiser choose how many impressions they want to purchase.

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It’s flexible. Allows advertiser to choose how much inventory to purchase, and they can decide to purchase more impressions at any time.Uniformity. Many ad networks use “per 1000” metrics; keeping a uniform rate helps you and your advertisers compare results to other networks.Good for large volume sites because the minimum budget required is lower.Can easily integrate with other ad networks (like setting a “backfill,” or default ad partner, so we display another network’s ads whenever we haven’t made a sale).Can typically make more money per 1000 impressions compared to flat rate, because people are buying impressions a la carte.Great for 728×90, 300×250, and 160×600 units.Screen Shot 2013-07-09 at 4.28.51 PMProvides an advertiser with a greater percentage of impressions on the site.Helps advertisers get value out of small sites or ones with unpredictable traffic.Appeals to advertisers with set budgets.Easy concept for inexperienced advertisers to grasp.Commonly used for 125×125 units and non-IAB standard sizes.

Each website requires a different setup; there isn’t a one size fits all option that dictates success. You’ll want to look at similar sites in your category, then the best sites in the category, to understand the marketplace value of your inventory. This can help inform your choice and highlight trends, like the high level of Fixed-Rate units that are sold by Design & Development sites in the Icon Intensity bundle. Question why someone would want to buy advertising. Investigate how advertisers currently buy ads on similar sites. Experiment. The hard work will pay off. We are a tool that can help you succeed.

If you are already a BuySellAds Publisher, be sure to put yourself into the mindset of the advertiser and be creative. Contact us if you need recommendations with pricing and strategy. We know the marketplace and want to help you grow. We’ll help you find the solution that is best for you.

If your site isn’t currently with BSA, let’s talk.

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New BSA Pro feature: planned sponsorship

BuySellAds Pro users will be happy to hear that we create the possibility of a new kind of ad zone, which we call ' planned sponsorships' added. Instead of selling could inventory for CPM or 30 days, what happens when you make your inventory available for purchase in smaller blocks? Say you in 7-day blocks or blocks of 2 weeks? If you want different charges for weekdays and weekends?

I'm sure you've seen all show sites like Daring Fireball, syndicate and ad inventory sell their the loop, per, rather than with the traditional CPM or 30-day models. Well, you can now replicate exactly what these sites, with the additional power of BuySellAds Pro and BuySellAds market help you do the inventory to fill.

Scheduled Sponsorships

BSA-Pro users will find the new planned sponsorship option when you create or edit ad zones in BuySellAds Pro. Simply select from the public course type drop-down menu "Planned sponsorship" and follow the onscreen instructions. You can add just a few blocks from predefined date, but we added a "clone" - feature, which replicated a block of the date to a date of your choice - very useful if you your inventory for, say, would make available the next year. And you can then easily modify date blocks individually, which is also very useful if you set higher/lower prices for certain date blocks.

Clone Date Blocks

Would you like more information? We have a complete tutorial in our support area!

This is one of the benefits of the planned sponsorships you can inventory the BuySellAds market, very increasing threat by advertisers list (and the whole process is automated).

Scheduled Sponsorships - BSA Marketplace

Advertisers can choose some you your predefined date blocks or simply enter a date range. It's so easy.

Planned sponsorship are also book campaign page in BSA Pro's own creation. Select one or multiple predefined date, type blocks or a range of dates and take your campaign live in seconds!

Scheduled Sponsorships - Campaign Creation

It is cool enough to create planned sponsorship, but we have the whole idea a step further and create an integrated booking widget to help you even more sales drive. BSA Pro users find to visit a link to this widget through a newly created scheduled sponsorship area and meet the 'sponsorship 'widget-button in the top right of the page.

Sponsorship Widget

BuySellAds Pro is open for public registration and we add new and exciting features. If you're not BSA per user, a good time was now to join!

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Targeted advertising made easy

If a provider looking to promote industry-leading sites you are for a niche, you have hit the right spot!

We make it easy to buy about a dozen or more independent publishers. No e-Mail dozens of contacts, 1 billion contracts must be signed and campaign to negotiate dealing with each specific Web page... You can simply everything in your shopping cart with one click Upload and add to purchase. We take over everything else.

BuySellAds Bundles

Bundle was a group of high quality niche sites targeting has always been an easy way for advertisers, and we gave them only a huge boost. You will now notice that our pages single bundle now slicker than ever before! We are still adding a few new features, and wanted you all give a short insight into how we've improved them so far.

If you are an advertiser and you a particular niche a bundle for would like to see, let us an email to sales@buysellads.com.


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Connect your Adzerk account to the BuySellAds Marketplace – BuySellAds and Adzerk integration

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AdZerk and BuySellAds

Go figure, BuySellAds and Adzerk are related, literally (pictured left, Adzerk’er Eric & BSA’er Rachel, siblings). Now our services are related too! We just rolled out an API integration to connect BuySellAds ad units with Adzerk’s ad management system. It’s seamless, it’s easy, and it’s awesome.

For Adzerk users:
If you are not already listing your inventory for sale in the BuySellAds Marketplace, you’re missing out on potential advertisers. This integration will help bring more direct ad sales your way.

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The API integration allows you to keep the BuySellAds marketplace updated with exactly what you want to sell while automatically scheduling ad campaigns for you. There’s no need to copy and paste ad code from one platform to another. The API integration handles everything.

All you have to do is take the time to complete the initial setup. We’ve got you covered on that side of things too. We have a step-by-step integration tutorial with screenshots to guide you through the process:

The connectivity is there. Now it’s time to take advantage of BuySellAds as a revenue source and develop your advertising chain. Our goal is to give you all the tools you need to make your website as successful as possible. Even if you love our tutorial and you still want a human touch, don’t hesitate to email us. We’ll get you setup.

For BuySellAds users:
If you’re in need of an ad server definitely check out Adzerk for an all-in-one management platform. They’ve got easy campaign management, super configurable flight delivery, forecasting reporting, and robust targeting.

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Our DFP integration have imagination

If you use DoubleClick for publishers and BSA work, you are probably already familiar with our DFP integration, the portion makes BSA ads a breeze.

Well, we went ahead and made it even better. Since this morning all our publishers who have connected their BuySellAds account DFP will notice account a few improvements in their DFP. For example:

Now, there is a DFP line item for each ad-serving-via BuySellAds, so we perfectly handle even the smallest orders.We support now geo-targeting!Better reporting in the DFP; Every aspect of the campaign management will be much clearer in your DFP account.Greater flexibility, if you now order name in your current system fit can adapt.

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There are a few things, but watch out. When we made the change, each BuySellAds.com zone # position held and it creates now a new line item for each new ad here sent by is out.

Never asking un-pause the positions held on because they are no longer used.

When a new ad is accepted, you will see a line for this item are displayed. Please do not hold in the order, because as a result the adserving is interrupted.

If you have any questions, let us know! If new DFP integration your opinion about your joining us changes our imagination, you can apply here:

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Updates to result & transaction views, new ad approval emails, and more

We have over 1.783 changes to the BuySellAds app in the last 6 months, and we do not keep. Here are a few recent highlights:

We optimized to make the labels, easy-to-see, a comprehensive overview of your earnings. If you use our full program, we show your aggregate income from the marketplace and unreserved (and pass back) now, if you use them, with a detailed view that breaks down the difference between the two.

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The transaction page you show that any transaction that hit your account added to we a diagram. If you see the mouse pointer over the image that you specific transactions.

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AD revised approval emails, and you can now approve or reject advertising directly from the email. Simply click on the green or red button, and're good to go.

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Discounts that are made public will now be presented on our website. The website preview and new discounts give additional exposure and sales to give a nudge. You publicize your discounts by you to your dashboard BuySellAds.com and click on the tab "Discount codes" to edit your current codes, or a new build, and make sure that the "this discount list publicly on the BuySellAds market?" is enabled.

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Don't worry, we do not keep! Let us know if you have anything you would like to find under changed, and if your site not up-to-date with BSA, let's talk!

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