How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engine Position?
Bing have just released a very interesting article on their blog detailing the items that can help your search engines position and what can be detrimental. even though it is bing that has released this info it should also be applicable to Google and the other search engines as well.
How Can I Improve My Websites Search Engines Position?
Items that can help improve your sites position;
Title tags
Meta Descriptions
Clean URL
Images and Alt descriptions (also called alt tags)
H1 tags
Rel=Canonical
Robots.txt
Sitemaps
Social sharing options
Unique content
Depth of content
Matching content type to visitor expectations (text, images, video, etc.)
Usability Page load times (to a certain point – faster is great, but not at the expense of usability andusefulness)
Crawlability (AKA discoverability, so can we actually get to all your content)
News – if you are actually a new site, submit for inclusion
Items that you should avoid or that will have little effect;
Meta Keywords (fill them in if you like, keep it short and relevant, but not a big ranking factor)
Duplicate URLs
Overly long URLs (no set number, but you’ve all seen these)
Cloaking (comes down to your intent, but risky business for sure)
Link buying
Selling links
Link and like farms
Three way links
Content duplication content
Auto following in social media
This is not a definitive list and not all items will apply to your site, also just having H1 tag on your page will not necessary improve your site unless the tag is used correctly.
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People often in today’s modern world run their entire lives and and businesses via email, so what would happen if you suddenly lost access to your account? what would happen if you no longer had all your receipts or business contacts? It would not be good…. So we are often asked how can I get a backup just in case it gets corrupted or I lose access to my account for some reason. Below are a few of the easiest methods we have found to quickly and securely create a backup of your email.
How Can I Backup My Gmail Account?
Methods.
Gmail Backup – A great free standalone program for windows and mac that will automaticly download and store all your emails in standard EML files meaning you can open them in any email client e.g. outlook or thunderbird. it also stores any attachments.
Download it from http://www.gmail-backup.com/download – It is also open source so you can do mods or integrate it into your own applications if you so wish.
If the download link is down on their main site (as it was for me the other day) you can grab it from here
Mailstore – Another great program that free for personal use, it will down load emails from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Any POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, Microsoft Outlook XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail , Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 mailboxes, Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online)
Google’s Gmail email system system prevents all executable file types and some system files from being sent via its servers as a virus protection measure. This is good but also very annoying if like us you often have to send these types of files to customers and other people with in the company. If you try to send an file type that Google does not like Gmail will give you an error message along the lines of “FILE is an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file”.
Luckily there is a couple of fairly easy ways to get round it.
How Can I Send an EXE via Gmail?
Methods.
Use a free facility such as dropbox to upload your file and then email the direct link to the file so that your friend \ colleague \ customer can easily download it to their device. Another advantage to this is that you are not limited to the size of the file.
Rename the file without an exe extension, Compress it with any compression utility and then attach it. Now it will get attached, and uploaded successfully.The receiver of the email should uncompress the attachment and rename it again with exe extension.
There are many options for streaming music for free to your PC, MAC, Tablet or mobile\cell phone. Below are our favourite sites that offer the largest music catalogues and are easy to use on all your devices.
There is no limit to the number of sites that you can use \ sign up for so give them all a try until you find the one that suits your needs the best.
How Can I Play Music for Free Online?
Spotify
Stream unlimited music to your device for free, note the free service is add supported you can subscribe to remove the adds.
Spotify is probably the biggest player in the online music world, the you can run it as a dedicated application on your machine or stream it to your web browsers.
Around the world it has over 20 millions users and 20 million plus music tracks.
You can sign in and link Spotify to your facebook and twitter account to share your music with your friends.
Stream unlimited music to your device for free, note the free service is add supported you can subscribe to remove the adds.
When you play music LastFM will create a playlist for you when you search for a song. It also connect to your itunes account and will recommend other bands based on your purchases and will also introduce to other uses with similar tastes.
Last FMwill Apps and programs for your Xbox, smart phone or tablet, they also have downloadable programs for your pc and mac and stream direct from your web browser.
Jango was launched in 200y and in its operation is quite similar to Last FM, but unlike all the other sites you don’t have to register or create an account to play music, just enter the name of an artist and Jango will create a station straight away playing songs similar to your choice.
Siluar to other other site you can link it to your social network accounts to show and see what your friends are listening to.
But unlike all the other sites there is no paid option to have a add free version of their site.
How Can I Create A Disposable Email Account in Gmail?
By using this simple method you can create a unique and easily disposable email address for every website and company you sign up for. This method can be used for any Google Mail \ Gmail or Google Apps email account.
How Can I Create A Disposable Email Account in Gmail?
How To Create your Disposable Email Account
To create a disposable email address is very simple, just add a + symbol and some
By creating a custom email address for every business you sign up for then if they ever start spamming you or giving out your email to other businesses you can easily block them.
How to Block your disposable Email Account
It is very easy to block your new disposable email account, just follow the instructions below to set up a filter.
Select the email by clicking on it, select more.
Click “Filter messages like these”, a window will appear.
Enter the custom email in the “To” line.
Click “Create filter with this search”.
You can now choose what you want to happen to thease emails.
If you want them to end up in the bin\ trash just select “delete it” and then click “create filter”.
How Do I add an VC-1 license key to my Raspberry PI?
Before purchasing your License from the raspberry pi shop you will need your Pi’s serial number. This is quite simple to do.
Get Your Raspberry PI Serial Number
Boot UP your PI.
Goto system > system info > network.
Note your serial number – should be something like 000000000ffae29e.
Once you have your Serial number go to http://www.raspberrypi.com/vc-1-license-key/ fill in the form and pay your money. 2-3 days later you will get an email with your new License code.
How Do I add an VC-1 license key to my Raspberry PI?
In the email you will find a line similar to decode_WVC1=0x7654321 the “0x7654321” is your License.
Add your License to your OpenElec / XMBC Installation
Insert your SD card in to your PC or MAC etc.
Open up your SD card in your file viewer of choice.
Open config.txt.
Scroll down until you find # decode_WVC1=0x00000000.
Delete the #.
Change the 0x00000000 to your new license.
Click save.
POP the SD card back in your PI and reboot.
Note – Some versions of XMBC have a field in their settings tab to allow you to input your license directly via the interface.
That’s it your job is done.
If you use multiple OS versions on multiple SD cards you will need to add the License to each.
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Below are some easy and straight forward instructions to clone your SCSI Hard disk.
The below instructions assume you are using a windows based machine and use a great little utility called HDD-Raw-
image courtesy of WD
Copy-Tool this can be used to create an exact low-level, sector-by-sector device duplication you can clone SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI, SSD drives, USB sticks, SD, MMC and CompactFlash cards to an img file or to another device..
We would recommend you get the standalone version as this means you don’t need to install the program and will run straight from the download.
Pop your SD card into your PC or laptop.
Start up the program.
Highlight your SCSI Hard disk and click continue.
Highlight the device you want to copy to, or select if you want to write to an image file.
If you want to write to an image file to copy to a SCSI Hard disk at a later date – Double click on the FILE option and choose the location and name for your image file.
Click Continue.
You will now get a display showing your previous choices, check them and then double check them – If you write to the wrong drive e.g. Your main hard disk your computer will be very poorly!!
Click start.
The program will now clone your SCSI Hard disk.
That is it, you now have a clone or an img file of your SCSI Hard disk. If you created an image file this can now be used to make multiple clones.
To go the opposite way e.g. Burn an image to SCSI Hard disk, choose an image file in the first window and then an SCSI Hard disk in the second.
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Below are some easy and straight forward instructions to clone your MMC card.
MMC cards
The below instructions assume you are using a windows based machine and use a great little utility called HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool this can be used to create an exact low-level, sector-by-sector device duplication you can clone SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI, SSD drives, USB sticks, SD, MMC and CompactFlash cards to an img file or to another device..
We would recommend you get the standalone version as this means you don’t need to install the program and will run straight from the download.
Pop your MMC card into your PC or laptop.
Start up the program.
Highlight your MMC card and click continue (the card you want to copy).
Highlight the device you want to copy to, or select if you want to write to an image file.
If you want to write to an image file to copy to a MMC card at a later date – Double click on the FILE option and choose the location and name for your image file.
Click Continue.
You will now get a display showing your previous choices, check them and then double check them – If you write to the wrong drive e.g. Your main hard disk your computer will be very poorly!!
Click start.
The program will now clone your MMC card.
That is it, you now have a clone or an img file of your MMC card. If you created an image file this can now be used to make multiple clones.
To go the opposite way e.g. Burn an image to MMC , choose an image file in the first window and then an MMC card in the second.
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