Cuocthiseo – Learn & Earn From This Seo ...

Quite busy these days.

But I spend some time playing with first-in-Vietnam SEO Contest for Vietnamese webmaster/emarketers/SEOers to compete with other for ranking no.1 in Google.com with the keyword CuocThiSEO.

The time is going up. And the game will be over next 36 hours. Right now we can see the top 3 candidates.

CuocThiSEO dot com, the winner of February – hmm, this emarketer (I guess) is too clever to grab this domain when the rules are not strict.

CuocThiSEO dot Hostindexvn dot com – this guy (a truly SEOer I beg) has some other good sites to support. This site is linked from CuocThiSEO dot com however. If everything goes on like what I guess, this site will come first! He just changed his site to wordpress within 1 week.

CuocThiSEO hyphen SEO dot CO dot CC, the first month winner – this guy endlessly earns links from social networking sites. He’s wise enough to choose dofollow sites. This Joomla-based site, just like the candidates above, provides good tips a/b SEO (though by just rewriting or modifying some words for better keyword density and cheating Google).

Sphereteam’s Ced and his French SEO mate have their sites on top 15 too. Ced is better with top 10.

Besides, I realize other truly Vietnamese SEO guys such as the owner of Winnerofcuocthiseo dot Blogspot dot com, who possessing other good sites like Vinabet or Vn-SEO (just my guest) and the guy of CuocThiSEO dot US dot TC. These 2 guys specially like web directories.

Well, so what I LEARN from this SEO Contest?

First, Google updates their algorithms all the time.

Second, Sandbox still works and if you don’t have more control on the web server then your site goes lost somewhere elst. Thats the case of the leading site in January hosted by Dreamhosters.

Third, we can cheat Google in a certain period of time, with spamming, copyscaping but in long term, your sites will drop down in Google SERPs.

Next, the key to win any SEO Contest is…patience and cleverness!

Last, SEO Contests like this are in Google consideration (I guess) and the giant would have some policies or penalties later. Simply sites targeting the nonsense keywords bring less value to users.

And huh, what I EARN from this SEO Contest?

Well, to be honest, besides the 5 lessions above, I really earn more than 2.52 US dollars from Adsense (up to now, this may increase next days) with 10 clicks and 1416 impressions.

Actually there’re some other interesting things a/b this SEO Contest. But I like to keep it secret now…

BTW, thanks guys for supporting me with some links for this CuocThiSEO SEO Contest…

VietSEOGuy!

How to Extract the best of Web Development Service...

Have you ever searched the internet for web development services providers? If you are into online business or you do have a website, then there is 100% possibility you making that effort at your end. Because, no one who eyes on getting a website developed for him/her or dreams of venturing into the thriving world of online business would love to simply resort to a professional web development company without any research on his/her part. As everyone invests his/her money, effort and time for developing a website, he/she would love to avail the best services so that the website gets the best looks and navigability. A professional web development agency can be the best place for a client for getting all web design and development thirsts satiated under his/her budget. Unlike yesteryear’s, web design and development now come at affordable prices – thanks to the mushrooming of web development companies the world over for that.

Whether you want your site to be developed using the basic HTML platform or you just want to make it a dynamic one by opting for Flash web development, a web development agency can offer you complete Web development solutions so that you need not have to compromise on your choice. You just need to name what you want, everything would be offered to you at the most attractive rates. PHP, .Net, SharePoint, Joomla! web development projects are also brilliantly handled by the website development companies as of now.

Those who always dream big out of their investment, they should try to find out the most reliable web site development company no matter how big the effort needs to be put. After all, a reputed firm only would be able to give you the most advanced and innovative web solutions which are really very crucial at the present day business environment where competition is getting cut-throat every passing day. You can consult with web site development consulting firms besides getting tips from your friends and colleagues on how to choose a reliable firm for projects. You can also do online research for that, but the bulk of links may just make you confused if you are not aware of anyone earlier.

How to Make Money from your Blog using AdSense?...

AdSense is a free advertising program run by Google that can be easily integrated into your blog hosted on a reliable server. It would generate fair profits for you with no monetary investment. It’s supported by major blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger etc. However, it cannot make you rich overnight. There are some guidelines that need to be followed by you while you integrate it into your blog.

The key to benefit from it is to drive in web traffic to your blog site. Heavy traffic, increased number of clicks on the ads and great profits rolling into your bank account. The outcome is the dream of an entrepreneur.

Hence, online content can help you monetize your writing skills with the help of Google AdSense. There are some vital nuggets of intellect that you must not miss out on if you really wish to monetize your blog:

1) Quality Content: The index of success of Google AdSense on your blog is quality content. Comprehensive research, well-structured blog with popular keywords and right placement of ads would certainly drive in heavy web traffic to your blog site. As more and more visitors would visit your blog site, the probability of ads getting clicked by them would also increase thereby increasing your AdSense earnings.

2)      Web Traffic: Clear understanding of SEO plays a key role here. Visitors type in their keyword search query and then land up on your website. Then you must format and optimize your blog in such a way that visitors get what they are looking for. So, it’s essential to understand that your AdSense account won’t increase zeroes in your wallet unless you have incoming traffic on your website.

3) Ad Color Tips: There are again some important tenets that must be kept in mind while integrating Google AdSense account into your blog:

a) Keep the background color of Ads same as that of template background: You must take into consideration that the ads have the same background color as your website so that ads blend well with the template. The links should be of the same color as that used for the links placed in the content and also the ad description must be of the same color as the content of your blog.

b) Ads without border perform well: It’s a common observation that borderless ads perform better than ads placed within borders. It has also been seen that big rectangular ads are better since they have higher CTR.

4) Ad Placement: The placement of the ads should be such that they are somewhere around the top of your page or at the prominent places where the visitors are most likely to land up. You can also make use of link units, text units etc. However, avoid their overuse since it poses a setback to earnings per click. Keep playing with the positioning of ads from time to time as this practice contributes in giving a boost to CTR.

5) Monitoring: Keep a regular eye on your AdSense account and finalize targets in respect of CTR and earnings.

6) Web Hosting: Most bloggers choose cheap web hosting for their blogs. This is a common error made by thousands of bloggers. Always use a reliable web host that offers 24 × 7 technical & customer support, backup server, ample bandwidth and disk space etc. Currently, there are many good web hosts operating in the market such as Yahoo!, LimeDomains, FatCow etc.

There are some practices, as listed below, which you must avoid if you want your Google AdSense account to perform well.

1) Never click on the Google ads yourself.

2) Never persuade your friends to click on those Google ads.

3) Never place your Google Ads on adult sites.

4) Never place Google AdSense ads on the same page with identical ads.

5) Never tamper with code of Google AdSense.

With this information, you’re all set to monetize your blog. So what are you waiting for? Integrate Google AdSense into your blog today!

Database Backup ~ Taken From Mambo...

As well all know Joomla 1.0 was originally derived from Mambo. Although it has now advanced to the ever famous Joomla 1.5, however Mambo cannot be denied as not being the back bone of Joomla. Joomla got its earlier features from mambo. The database functionality still reflects the original Mambo database component.

A nice tip I would like to share here with you regarding the database functionality of Joomla is connected to its database. I used to apply this method when I was learning Mambo. One day while using Joomla 1.5 I decided to give it put a try and to my surprise it worked very well.

In order to execute queries we always need to access the admin panel and enter our queries there. However you may not need any PHP MyAdmin panel if you are a pro at SQL queries. You can write down your own query and get the desired results in no time. This used to be the method in Mambo. But however this step of writing your queries has been masked behind the admin panel in Joomla as to reduce code complexity. The backup functionality was also removed from the code completely. The only reason behind doing so was to secure the content without going through the trouble to install anything.

The Joomla people probably were concerned for new web developers. As new people may get confused at times and that would screw up the entire website. It is being largely commented that the database functionality actually belonged to some other person. Here are comments from a blogger pointing out what I just said:

“I can tell you that the reason we lost the Database functionality from Mambo is that this functionality was essentially an external `library` created by another author (who I believe was formerly part of the team that created Mambo) asked for it to be removed from Mambo “

Anonymous

Whatever the reason, this functionality is said to be removed for good. And a bunch of new functionalities have been added which I guess should be enough to compensate for the loss.

Fast Professional Custom Web Design, Web Templates...

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We are the free one stop online self service web shop. We provide free articles, resources, free software and utilities so your business and site can grow on, we promote integrated web solutions, and the web hosting will fit with the web designers, the web design with web development and the SEO. This article features 6 of the best website design templates, these are professional designs installed in as little as 5 minutes to give your site a slick professional upto date look of a top 10,000 site.

TEMPLATES

So many sites are let down by web design, to give your site and your business the best chance, you may want to pay for a template, a template is a skin designed by professional web designers that installs in minutes and allows you to pick a look from a database of 1000 of quality web designs, enabling you to design a website in the same way you would pick a new kitchen.

These off the peg, paid for web templates can start from a little as 50 euro, they are free to customize when you download our free software.

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Custom Web Design

The JOOMLA template is not a website, and it should also not be considered as the complete website design. The template is the basic design. The JOOMLA template is a series of files within the JOOMLA content management system, which controls the presentation of the content. A skin which alters the outward appearance of your entire site. The templates work hand in hand with content stored in databases and modules, integrate a shopping cart using the online CMS interface and you change the nature of your web site template.

We will show you where the best places to look for high quality joomla templates are, and how to use the joomla/mambo control panel and our free software to reach into the guts of your template and brand your site with your company’s identity. Technically this is the low cost, affordable, budget web design option but of the highest professional standard, featured web designs can be seen in our rotating banner.

Keep Hackers From Your WordPress Admin...

Hackers often use brute force attacks to try to gain access to your WordPress administrator. They are trying thousands of combinations of your username and password until they get the right one. WordPress doesn’t allow you to choose the default admin username so they already know half of what they need. You can, however, easily add the extra security you need.

#1: Change the admin username

The first thing to do is change the default admin username. First login to your control panel (often cPanel) and go to your database editor (normally phpMyAdmin), select your WordPress database, browse the wp_users table and edit user id 1, this is the original admin user. Pick a username other than “admin”. This step will already almost eliminate any chance of your login being guessed since most hackers will just use admin for the username.

#2: You need a better password

You will also want to make sure that you have an admin password that can’t be guessed. You’ll want to have at least 8 characters with a mix of lower case letters, upper case letters, numbers and special characters. PCTools provides a great online password generator on their site.

#3: Installation of Login LockDown

Login LockDown allows you to set a threshold for failed login attempts before a user is blocked. From their WordPress plugin directory description:

Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.

The installation process for Login LockDown is like any plugin. From the WordPress plugin site download the .zip file. From the WordPress admin go to Plugins > New > Upload. After you upload the file you’ll want to activate the plugin. At this point you can setup your login rules.

Taking these easy steps will give you a great jumpstart on protecting your Joomla site.. You will also need a secure WordPress hosting company.

Guidelines to Secure Your Website and Server from ...

How to Prevent Your Website from Hackers?

Nowadays, it’s really important to keep your website up-to-date, as everyday countless hackers are targeting websites to steal important information from websites and servers. This is a very serious concern, and now I am sharing few guidelines to secure your websites and web servers from being hacked.

Old scripts

Please remember that old installations are an open invitation for hackers. So, if you have installed Joomla or WordPress that you tried out a couple of months ago; please remove it. You should make sure that any script you install on your servers is of the latest version. It takes 5 seconds to hack an old version of Joomla, upload a shell script and have total control over your account.

Passwords

Never use easy to guess passwords or the same password more than once; if someone finds a password of yours they will try it everywhere else until they reach success. If someone finds your webmail password you’re pretty much guaranteed they’ll try it elsewhere – maybe in cPanel, maybe on your online banking!

Cloak Your Folders

You should keep a blank index.html in all of the folders inside your public_html; this will make sure the contents can’t be easily viewed on the internet. CPanel has this function, check out ‘Index Manager’. It’s always a good idea to keep your files and folders secret.

Password Protect Your Admin Folder

You should password protect the admin folder of any scripts you are using, this provides an extra layer of security and is highly recommended. You can do this in cPanel by clicking the Directory Protection link.

So You Got Hacked?

If you got clicked that something has happened, maybe some spam was sent from your account, or you found you were hosting a phishing site, the first step you need to take is changing your passwords. All of them – cPanel, email, site admin passwords, everything.

Next up, go through your web space and remove all old script installations, remember if you installed plugins in your scripts (modules for Joomla/WordPress etc) they can be hacked too! Make sure they’re up-to-date too.

You can check the Error Logs in cPanel for suspicious requests. Generally, a hacker leaves suspicious files around, so look for such files within your public_html folder. Once the files are found, take the details of those files, such as date and time that the file was uploaded, the file name, folder it was in, and inform your web host so they can check through. Then delete the files.

Being hacked can happen to anyone at all, your security will always depend on its weakest point. If you don’t keep things up-to-date and secure, your site will be hacked and be used for criminal activity in one way or another – however, now is the perfect time to stop this from happening.

More From the Beginner’s Guide to Joomla...

In the last article we began looking at Joomla and, more specifically, the handy “Beginner’s Guide to Joomla” that the makers of this content management system provides at their web site. Hopefully by this time you have taken the time to sit down and really ask yourself what you want out of your own web site, as this is always the first step. Without this foundation, your web site may become a scattered assortment of pages that have no rhyme or reason.

Per the “Beginners Guide to Joomla” recommendations, an extremely helpful thing to do after you have figured out what you want out of your web site is to check out the Joomla v1.5 Quick Start Guide. Much time was spent in creating this helpful 49 page guide, and it is full of guidance, screenshots, and everything you need to get started. Once you install the program, the guide then teaches you how to configure extensions and work with components, modules, and plugins. The guide is an asset to beginning your web site, especially if you have never used Joomla’s system before.

For each component that you wish to configure, there will be both an administrator side of it and a site element. As the Joomla site states, “Components are the major portion of your page because a component is driven by a menu item and every menu item runs a component.” Next, you have your modules. The login component of your web site is a module, as well as the footer. Modules can be integrated into the components of your site, or they can stand alone. Plugins handle the events on your site. “When an event is triggered, plugins that are registered with the application to handle that event execute.”

Site administration is a crucial component to understand, as you will need it when you find it necessary to backup and restore your database. You just never know when these instances will arise, so it is best to know how to handle them prior to even getting your web site going.

One tip that Joomla cautions against is adding anything and everything to your site at the onset of starting out just because it “looks cool.” Here is what Joomla specifically says about this: “It’s best to maximize the use of the core code before you add extensions to your site. With each extension that you install, you complicate your site administration requirements and slow your site down. Upgrades are also more complicated. Extensions are great but make certain you really need them, first.”

This is an important tip because you really do not want to complicate your web site from the beginning. This undue frustration can be eliminated simply by taking some precautions and determining what it is you really need. The extensions are there for you to utilize. However, just like every web site is different, what you will actually need for yours will be different, too. Keep this in mind as you move ahead.

These tips, and many others, can be found at Joomla’s web site. Countless guides are available so you do not have to go through setting up your web site blindly. Simply taking some extra time to learn a bit about this content management program will save you time in the end.

There are Different Benefits From Using Joomla Com...

Joomla is one of the web site tools that could conveniently provide you a wide range of choices when it comes to designing your online business.  You know how demanding internet requirements are nowadays and to give you ease, you need joomla components that will lessen the burden.  They are also oftentimes referred to as the joomla modules.  While they could work best for your online enterprise, they could also be useful for non-profit organizations.  You may wonder what other benefits they could give.  Take a look at the listing of the advantages.

Joomla modules help manage your system.  Joomla components could help you reach your site’s full potentials.  Whatever the purpose of your web site is, they could help your browsers reach you.  For instance, if you are seeking volunteers that will help you run your charitable institution, Joomla is the answer for your prospects to contact you.  For a profitable organization, you may want your products to reach your consumers and Joomla would still be a very good solution.  It addresses every aspect of your web site’s concern.

They could assist in all your development projects.  Joomla modules are your key to attaining the objectives of your project.  As mentioned earlier, the core concept to which this web designing tool is established is to bring ease to all the needs of your web site.  Your organization would not end on a long-term basis unless you develop projects for your patrons.  Every now and then, you have to update your site and have some advertisements that will be favorable for your clients. To help you out, you could always make use of joomla components and their applications.

They provide you a gateway to the interaction of your members.  In conventional businesses, that is, those establishments who open at least 40 hours a week at eight hours a day, interaction is possible through meetings.  All concerns may be raised through conferences, seminars or trainings.  In an online business, communications are made possible by Joomla components.  With the help of this material, your members could speak out their thoughts and give their suggestions through a forum to your site created by Joomla.

Joomla components could help you personalize your own business.  Since they are web site design tools, joomla modules have the capability to make your page fit your own specifications.  You could always discuss your ideas with your chosen service provider and they will take charge on how to filter your requirements in your web page.  This is a favorable thing especially if you want to appear as unique as possible to your clients.  This could also help you establish a name for yourself which matches the real purpose for which your business is existent.

Managing your web site is always made possible by a technical support team which you could contact anytime you need help.  You could always entrust your site through joomla components.  This technique eliminates all the hassles of processing and registration for your company as well as your “online shoppers”.  You need not worry of updating your site since a team of experts from your service provider will do the job for you. Joomla modules definitely provide you with all the basics and complexes for your online enterprise.

There are Different Benefits From Your Joomla Comp...

Joomla is one of the web site tools that could conveniently provide you a wide range of choices when it comes to designing your online business. You know how demanding internet requirements are nowadays and to give you ease, you need a joomla component that will lessen the burden. It is also oftentimes referred to as the joomla module. While it could work best for your online enterprise, it could also be useful for non-profit organizations. You may wonder what other benefits it could give. Take a look at the listing of the advantages.

Joomla module helps manage your system. A joomla component could help you reach your site’s full potentials. Whatever the purpose of your web site is, it could help your browsers reach you. For instance, if you are seeking volunteers that will help you run your charitable institution, Joomla is the answer for your prospects to contact you. For a profitable organization, you may want your products to reach your consumers and Joomla would still be a very good solution. It addresses every aspect of your web site’s concern.

It could assist in all your development projects. A joomla module is your key to attaining the objectives of your project. As mentioned earlier, the core concept to which this web designing tool is established is to bring ease to all the needs of your web site. Your organization would not end on a long-term basis unless you develop projects for your patrons. Every now and then, you have to update your site and have some advertisements that will be favorable for your clients. To help you out, you could always make use of joomla component and its applications.

It provides you a gateway to the interaction of your members. In conventional businesses, that is, those establishments who open at least 40 hours a week at eight hours a day, interaction is possible through meetings. All concerns may be raised through conferences, seminars or trainings. In an online business, communications are made possible by a Joomla component. With the help of this material, your members could speak out their thoughts and give their suggestions through a forum to your site created by a Joomla.

A Joomla component could help you personalize your own business. Since it is a web site design tool, a joomla module has the capability to make your page fit your own specifications. You could always discuss your ideas with your chosen service provider and they will take charge on how to filter your requirements in your web page. This is a favorable thing especially if you want to appear as unique as possible to your clients. This could also help you establish a name for yourself which matches the real purpose for which your business is existent.

Managing your web site is always made possible by a technical support team which you could contact anytime you need help. You could always entrust your site through a joomla component. This technique eliminates all the hassles of processing and registration for your company as well as your “online shoppers”. You need not worry of updating your site since a team of experts from your service provider will do the job for you. A joomla module definitely provides you all the basics and complexes for your online enterprise.

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