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Learn SEO – 4 websites that provide quality SEO knowledge

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Here's a list of websites that offers high quality SEO knowledge:

Learning SEO and website optimization techniques is not a day's job. It's not even a life time task. It's an ongoing thing – there is no one who has learned it all. SEO tips and tricks provided in these websites are just enough to help you kick start your blogging career.

These are the only websites that I found to be in plain English that any newcomer can understand – no unnecessary terminologies. I have used these when I began my blogging career and have used the knowledge that they impart so well. Truly, these websites have the pioneers behind them who are in this field since the beginning.

  1. Search Engine Watch

  2. Search Engine Land

  3. Matt Cutts Blog

  4. Moz.com

1. Search Engine Watch: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics, tools, and news on website crawling, indexing and ranking; link building; algorithm changes; keyword research, and more. This is what SEW provides. It's a nice website that provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing. It was started by Danny Sullivan in 1996 and sold in 1997. Danny worked with SEW until he left in 2006. This website has been a good quality oriented and authoritative on this subject since close to last two decades.

search engine watch

 

2. Search Engine Land:  Search Engine Marketing began in late 90s. That's when Danny Sullivan started his Search Engine Watch too. However, after his resignation, Danny started the Search Engine Land website that is a news website which covers search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Founded in 2006, this being the brain child of Danny, has been equally good and has also attracted good number of loyalists and followers. Danny Sullivan also conducts the SMX – Search Marketing Expo.

search engine land

3. Matt Cutts Blog: Matt Cutts leads the web spam team at Google. Cutts has given advice and made statements on help related to the use of the Google search engine and related issues. He also has provided lots of webmaster videos that will help bloggers and webmasters alike on how to better optimize their websites.

matt cutts blog

 

Related content: Short answers to every Matt Cutts video

4. Moz.com: My personal favorite. Its quality content with deep knowledge on the subject is a match to no other website. I learned so much from Moz.com. No wonder they are leading this arena. Its clean navigation and concise plain English explanations will help you go a long way in the blogging career. They also offer their articles in PDF.

Sample: Understanding the long tail of keyword demand:
It's wonderful to deal with keywords that have 5,000 searches a day, or even 500 searches a day, but in reality, these "popular" search terms actually make up less than 30% of the searches performed on the web. The remaining 70% lie in what's called the "long tail" of search. The long tail contains hundreds of millions of unique searches that might be conducted a few times in any given day, but, when taken together, they comprise the majority of the world's demand for information through search engines.

MOZ search engine optimization techniques

 

Conclusion:

The four websites that I've provided above are genuinely the ones that I love keep following. I am in no way attached to them. These are the places that I look to when I get any question on the practices that I follow in maintaining The Key Ponderer. I actually had a more number of websites in my list earlier, however those sites started adding irrelevant content lately and I do not want to mention them here. These four are the BIG FOUR in my view, in the field of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION FOR WEBSITES.

Please leave your comments and thoughts about this article. Will be glad to expand my knowledge in this area from your view points. Happy SEOing!

Where Are The Body Tags In WordPress Themes

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Where to find the opening body tag and its closing tag in any WordPress theme? Most of the times, the snippets of code that you borrow from websites like Facebook, Google to put your like, share, plus one buttons will ask you to put the code near to either the opening body tag or the closing body tag.



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If you are new to blogging using WordPress, it's quite confusing at first to find out where the body tags are. The reason is that these tags are hidden inside the theme's editor area. Whatever theme you use, if the theme provides 'editing' options, then here is where you find the body tags – both the opening and closing tags are given in different sections – so please read carefully.



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Where to find the opening body tag in any WordPress theme:

The opening body tag is found inside your header.php file. Click on Appearance on the left side > select Editor > select header.php

Here's a screenshot.

TheKeyPonderer Opening Body Tag Header In WordPress

Where to find the closing body tag in any WordPress theme:



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The closing body tag is found inside your footer.php file. Click on Appearance on the left side > select Editor > select footer.php

Here's a screenshot:

TheKeyPonderer Closing Body Tag Footer In WordPress

 



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How To Retrieve Deleted Files From Pen Drive Without Software

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The times have moved on from optical storage (CDs, DVDs) to drive storage. Everyone computer user today owns at least 1 zip/pen drive and / or an external hard disk drive. But what happens if data in it gets deleted or is simply vanished suddenly – could be a virus' job or simply an accident. Some people get frustrated and even formats the disk or drive assuming that all's lost already. But that's not the case always – read on to know how to retrieve your valuable files and folders that you thought were deleted.

It's worth noting here that this post explains how to retrieve such files without installing any software by using the DOS Commands. Here's how:

First, we must know which drive letter has been assigned to the pen drive (E.g. D:\).

Type CMD in Run command and hit enter – this will take us to DOS prompt window.

In the DOS prompt window, type in the drive letter of the pen drive. In this e.g. D:\

Now type: DIR/AD. This will list only the directories in the pen drive. If you need to move in to one of the listed directories, use the CD command.

This clearly lists out all the files that you thought were deleted!

That showed the list of items, now how to retrieve them? It's a set of DOS commands! Type this (there are spaces in between the attributes):-


Attrib -r -s -h /s /d D:*.*

Check your pen drive now – all the files and folders will be restored. This will also show up and virus infected folders that made all your files invisible in the first place. You may now use this chance to copy only the required files and delete the rest.

 

Password unmasking in Google Chrome

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How to find the entered password in Google Chrome?

Here’s a simple way to find out what those characters are behind a typed password in any website.

Sometimes, it so happens that we tend to forget our own passwords. However, thanks to advanced browser settings these days that we can enable ‘remember passwords’ within our own computer’s browsers. At the same time, we can also have a feature called ‘Autofill’ enabled so that the fields are automatically populated without us having to key in every time we visit a website.

Now, if you are in a situation where you have enabled the Autofill feature and have already input the password in some website, but you forgot what the password was – AND you want to know now what that damn password is – you’ve come to the right place to find out how to do just that!!

I will walk you through this procedure assuming that you’re working in Google Chrome. This will work on other browsers too, but the corresponding name given to this feature by other browsers slightly vary. The website that we're going to look at is mail.yahoo.com

Also read: How does my website appear in all browsers – Worldwide?

Here is the crux: let’s say you are now in the login page of the website with the username and password already entered but the submit button is not yet clicked.

Right click on the password field where the asterisks or the dots are shown.

Select ‘Inspect Element’: it will directly highlight the password section of the code behind the webpage in the bottom section of the browser.

Here, change the “type” attribute by replacing “password” with “text”. You will notice that the password is now visible!

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Note: this is a trick to know only if you really need to find the password on your own computer. Please don’t assume that this post encourages stealing passwords nor stalking others’ accounts on others’ computers.

 

More of related articles:

Best Way To Search Fresh Recent Results In Google
Top Reasons on how Google Make So Much Money While Being Free
10 Great Videos To Supercharge Your Blog Or Website
What's That Little Secret Within Google Chrome Omnibox

 

7 Great Ebook Community Sites That Keep Users Engaged Well

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“A man is never alone, if he has a book with him wherever he goes”. How true! As a reader myself, I am always thankful to my father who inculcated this habit of reading books in me. It started with reading comics, then newspapers, novels and self-help books. Today, my hands reach out to books and my eyes fall on every book that I come across that adds value to life. The benefits of reading can only be experienced, and others notice the difference too. Nevertheless, it’s never too late to start this beautiful habit.

Given below are 7 great websites that I have gathered across the web, which will help you get going with the reading habit. These are websites that promote reading, encourage socializing with other like-minded readers, provide you with book suggestions, snippets and reviews, and of course help you find the kind of book you want to read and show the world what you are currently reading. They are not given in any specific order and these are not the exhaustive list, however, I found these to be really great among others. If you know any other websites of similar nature, please let me know by leaving a comment – would love to take a look at them.

 

 

1. Ebookfriendly.com

Ebook Friendly Logo

This ebook friendly website is not just ebook friendly. It’s also user friendly. And Reader friendly. It gives a unique collection of books on various categories and contains a wealth of information for anyone. The best thing that I loved is their listing of 25 sources of  free public domain books. This shows a list of 25 websites that provides free books.

2. Goodreads.com

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Goodreads.com is one of my personal favorites. I can add books to my shelf, rate, review, recommend, get updates on books that I am interested in, know what other books fall under the genre that I would like to read and many other features.

 

3. Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is one such place that never gets missed out if anyone wants to list out their favorites places to hang out online for reading. This is the oldest and largest collection of free books for reading out there. Period. Nothing more need be said.

4. Shelfari.com

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Trust me. I can blindly vouch for Shelfari that you will not regret signing up for this wonderful ebook/book suggestion service. By far the best in my list, in my opinion. I have used this and found it to be really good in terms of having me engaged and feel connected with not only the fellow-readers but also sometimes the publishers and authors alike. The best part is that for some of the books, in face most of the books, I have seen that the author personally writes in thanking the readers for their comments and feedback. Though, this kind of activity is known on other book related websites too, Shelfari is quite a good place to hang out in. Of course, the promise of amazon.com brand comes along, so who doesn’t want to be giving this a try!

 

5. Bookish.com

Bookish logo

Bookish.com is a website that I had found to be of decent and time-worthy website that a book lover would like to subscribe to. A feature that a real book lover will die to check for is their recommendations wing. Check this out for sure:- (you’ll love me for showing this to you) bookishrecommends.com. What this does is that you enter a book title that you’ve read. Click Submit. It takes few seconds and then shows a list of similar titles that you’d want to read. These are similar to the title you’d entered. It’s amazing.

For e.g. I entered in ‘Mastery by Robert Greene’ and it showed me the following recommendations:

bookish recomm

 

 

6. The Reading Room

Reading Room Logo

A website quite similar to the other ones mentioned above. This also has book clubs and communities featuring member reviews. The members in this ‘reading room’ rate and review books read by them thus providing a guidance to newbies who want to pick a title to sink into their reading pleasures.  Worth a visit. They’ve got quite a good number of members in their lot who contribute to the reviewing community organically. They also feature New York Times Reviews and The Guardian Reviews on books under their ‘critical reviews’ section.

Another feature, similar to Bookish.com is the Suggested Reading section where The Reading Room makes suggestions and recommendations providing their picks. They also feature authors and Man Booker Prize long lists that are worth paying a visit.

 

7. Rifflebooks.com

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Rifflebooks.com is not, in any way, the least to be in the last of this list of eBook websites. “Riffle is run by a happy team of obsessive book lovers” – says their website editors. They have a very nice look on their websites with inspiring and ‘deep-thought out’ quotes by Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Seuss and Henry David Thoreau greeting us. Riffle really does help us find great books.

One can also sign up using the Facebook.com profile. It takes us through a trouble-free setup but forces us to follow at least 5 other members. However, we can always un follow them after sign up. I’ve signed up. Please do check out my profile and book suggestions.

Thus, these are the 7 finest and useful websites that cater to our reading needs in their own way. The seventh one in the list is equally a good one as the first one in the list. Thus, these are not in any specific order, as already mentioned.

Do let me know your comments and thoughts below. If you know any other websites, do let me know. Would love to check it out and perhaps even add to my list later.