Popular social networking script, Kootali comes with blogs and more new features
Chennai, April 30, 2009. Agriya Infoway which is a developer of world class social networking scripts announces the release of their latest version of Kootali 2.0.5, a closed social networking script. The R&D department at Agriya has analyzed Kootali and its competitors’ products, to come up with new features and other issues in Kootali. Based on the analysis, the Kootali team have incorporated new applications and fixed many issues.Here we have summed up the changes in the new version.
1. Implemented a new Application module “Blogs”.
2. Added a new option to enable members to delete their walls/comments.
3. Shows invitations in the Group and Events pages, and requests in the Friends and Photo pages.
4. Implemented the “Not yet replied” feature in the Friends module, to help members to get a list of friends who have not yet replied to their friends’ request.
5. Provided the option for sending message to multiple users in the Share > Send message.
6. Fixed the issue that occurred in the “Message Sent” items when message is sent to multiple users.
7. Fixed the pagination issues in the search results.
8. For webmasters, the Language control for Quick links is implemented.
9. Fixed the wall issues in the network view page.
10. In the old version, when admin deletes or deactivates the logged-in user, an issue is occurred in member end. This error is fixed.
11. Replaced the Swift Email Library with PHP Mailer Library.
12. Applied the privacy control on playlist during creation, and added the “others playlist tab” in the browse section to view friends’ playlists.
13. Listed the playlists and albums under the tags section.
14. Removed the channels and sub channels section from the tags page.
15. Renamed the “Related tags” to “Video tags”.
16. Provided option to get album tags in the create album page.
17. Removed the content type (adult, non adult) in the create playlist page.
18. Calculated the playing time for all video/audio files.
19. The audio/video rating feature has been tweaked.
20. The “Detailed view” and “Quick View” options are included in all the videos/audios listing pages.For further details, visit www.kootali.com.
Comparison of top 5 Web Conferencing software
Web conferencing is a high-tech way to collaborate, present information and demonstrate products online. In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet. It is the most advanced technique used by business people to reach their clients at flexible times, while saving on travel cost and providing a fully capable digital work place.
The perfect web conferencing software should have separate conferences for broad subject categories, threaded discussions within conferences, search and filter tools for readers, access control, host tools and speed.
You can find a number of web conferencing software in the market. We have tried our best to provide a comparison chart of the top 5 web conferencing software based on the availability of basic conferencing tools, to help you choose the right one.
We make use of WebEx to discuss, collaborate and communicate with clients around the world. It’s easy to invite participants, demonstrate products/services and annotate documents. The Video conferencing and Private chat are the most attractive features that we make use of most to gain face-to-face experience with clients and chat with concerned developers during meeting.Before selecting a software, you have to analyze its features, like overall performance, browser support, and administrative capabilities.
Choose a conferencing software according to your business and budget.
Is paid link effective or not for achieving high PR?
Do you think it is worth using paid links to achieve top page rank? Before answering this question please read this, Google is against the paid link during indexing and at the same time it offers Google Adsense through which webmasters can build link for a fixed pay. Why does this controversy exist in Google? Is paid link really fruitful for website optimization? This article will clearly explain the link concept followed by search engines to rank sites, and at the end you will find the answers to these questions.
Most of them know that Google ranks websites under organic and inorganic search ranking. Do you know how it categorizes them? It is simple, if a website is well optimized using SEO techniques like press release, article submission, directories submission, forum, blog etc without using paid links, then Google will place the website under the organic search ranking. If a website is promoted mostly through the paid links, then the corresponding website will be listed under the inorganic search ranking.
Websites covered under the Organic and Inorganic search rankings are displayed at the left and right sides of the Search Engine Result Page (SERP), respectively. Most often, users trust a website, if it is listed in the organic listing.
With this explanation, you may conclude that the paid link is fruitless. But this is not true; Google will accept the links purchased for advertising purpose and it is purely against the links that are purchased for the purpose of getting high PR and that are part of the planned link exchange program.
Obviously, you can use Google Adsense for advertising purposes, and gain top ranking. Not only Google, you can also buy text advertisements from someone else to achieve better results in search engines.
Apart from the paid links, you can also build links by exchanging links with sites offering useful information for your site visitors. If your site has enough useful information, then other similar sites will be ready to place your site link without link exchange.To put it in the nut shell, getting the paid links for advertising purpose will drive targeted traffic and help you achieve high PR.
How to increase page impression?
Nowadays, webmasters and bloggers have started earning money by placing ads on their site. Business people, who are looking for sites to place ads, will look for sites with maximum traffic to get maximum impressions. Impression refers to number of times a page is visited.
If you are running a site or blog, then you can earn quite an amount of money by placing ads. All you have to do is raise your site traffic and sell ad space. Selling can be done easily by placing your message on popular discussion forums like Digital Point. In order to attract more business people, you have to raise site traffic.
Here we have listed simple tips to drive more traffic to your site.
Fresh content:
Regular posting of fresh articles related to a specific niche is the best way to attract more visitors.
Related Post:
Provide lists of related posts at the bottom of article. This will make visitors click on more links on your blog and visit another page which in turn raises the page impression. You can also provide links to old topics that are archived in your site.
Back-links:
Get more backlinks to your site. This can be done by submitting the site URL in bookmarking sites like Delicious, submitting articles with backlink to your site on social sites like Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Mixx etc, participating in discussion forums and exchanging links.
Category:
List out categories in the side bar, to let visitors know there’s a lot in store for them to click on and read. While choosing categories think about your niche and select categories that would entice visitors to click on.
Social Networking:
Participate in popular social networking sites and join groups related to your niche. You can recommend your posts to group members and promote your site.
How to troubleshoot a dropped site?
If your website does not appear in Google or if your site page rank drops, then your site could possibly be penalized. Google may penalize you for various issues like duplicate content, hidden text and hidden links. Most often, it will penalize you by reducing the site page rank. In case of any serious issue, Google will ban your site.
The issues are nothing but the SEO techniques that doesn’t meet Google’s guidelines. It generally refers to Black hat and Grey hat. Whenever Google updates its algorithm, their guidelines may vary.
We have compiled the basic checklist that will help you to get back a dropped site in the SERP.
Check whether your site is indexed in Google. This can be done by providing your site name preceded by the text “site: “, as the search query in the Google search box. If your site is not listed in the result page, it means that your site is not yet indexed.
Google will index a site only when Googlebot accesses the site during any search query. If your site is not yet indexed, then remove the robots.txt from your web server root directory. Even after that if your site is not indexed, check for the following code ‘’ in the home page. This code will not allow Googlebot to index your home page and crawl through the site. If the code exists, remove it from the page.
You can also submit your site to Google. Another effective way to get Google notice your site is link building.
Even after following all these strategies, if your site is not indexed or page rank is reduced, check for the following:
• Over-optimization of your site i.e. more aggressive keyword optimization in meta, title and/or tags or changed link text or structure for optimization.
• Check for hidden text and stuffed keywords in the site pages.
• If you have redirected your site from an old domain to a new one, check whether it is redirected properly.
• Remove any duplicate content.
• Placing unrelated domain links in the footer section of the site pages will be considered as spam. Remove those links.
Do you want to take a break from writing an eBook?
Are you fed up of writing pages of eBooks? Then go for creating a high quality audio product. It is the easiest way to turn your expertise into cash and make a great impression on prospects or customers. In this article let’s take a look at 5 ways to come up with quality audio products to make money.
It is important to choose a topic that you know very well, and at the same time it should have high demand. There are millions of people who are looking for solutions to address their problems. For example, people want to stop smoking, lose weight, or learn how to solve errors in a software program. Choosing a topic that solves peoples’ problems easily is what it’s going to take.
Add value to your audio products by filling them with quality information. You can get more relevant data for your chosen topic by performing an extensive research using online and offline resources. These include looking at competitors’ websites, discussion forums, or even going to the local library. It also provides an excellent idea on writing a complete and informative article for listeners.
When you start recording your audio clip, make sure that you avoid capturing unnecessary background noises. If you are ready to spend extra money, you can rent a recording studio to ensure that your products sound clear and crisp. Use a headset microphone for recording. It gives you the freedom to move your head around without worrying the microphone.
Pay attention to your diction, speed and volume. Keep your products short by eliminating fillers and lengthy introductions. Lastly, make your creations interesting to listen to by using conversational tone throughout your recording.
Once you have completed the recording, listen to it and edit it using audio editing software to ensure that your content flows smoothly.
After making sure that your audio products are of high quality, you have to advertise them online by using marketing tools like pay per click, banner ads, search engine marketing, article marketing, paid listing and link building.
Are HTTP Cookies really dangerous?
HTTP cookies are used by web servers to track clients and retrieve data related to users during navigation. Http cookies were introduced to implement shopping cart for storing items they want to purchase as they navigate a shopping site.
Other than the usage of cookies in e-commerce as a shopping cart, it is used to store information like their name, phone number etc when users fill out a form and offer them the stored details the next time they come to the page.
There were rumors among the internet users that, through cookies, webmasters can collect security information and damage hard drive. This is not true. Generally, cookies are small pieces of text, stored by user’s web browsers that contain user’s setting, shopping content or other data used by systems. The collected data is used to identify visitors and gather information you entered into sites.
Cookies are sent between server and client for normal operation. There is a possibility of stealing cookies particularly on unencrypted public Wi-Fi networks, through packet sniffing, by an unauthorized party. You can secure the communication network by employing transport layer security to encrypt the connection.
Attackers make use of cross-site scripting (XSS) to receive cookies of other users to their servers. One can get rid of the XSS issue by making cookies inaccessible to the client side script using the HttpOnly flag which was introduced by Microsoft and implemented in PHP since version 5.2.0.
If you are still worried about security of cookies, get latest browser versions and turn cookies off. Netscape communicator offers three options to accept all cookies, accept only cookies from the same server or deny all cookies. It also offers additional option to alert you when you are prompted for a cookie so that you can accept or decline it.
How to avoid Over-optimization Penalty (OOP)?
When there is a sudden drop in your site rank even if you have done enough optimization through white hat, it means that Google has penalized you for over optimization. Once your site ranking goes down, you will start analyzing the reason and may conclude that it may be due to spamming. But spamming is different from over optimization. Spamming will get your site banned, whereas over-optimization will lower search engine rankings.If you lose your site rankings immediately after making any changes, it would be a good idea to undo them. Here we have listed some of the techniques that are practiced in real-time to boost your site ranking without knowing that it was over-optimization.
• Including keywords in page links. For example, changing the site navigation so that all the home page links says “KW1 KW2 home” instead of “home”.
• Repetition of anchor text.
• Adding backlinks with site name.
• Repeating same set of keywords in Title, Meta tags, Hx
• Using the same keywords used in anchor text, again in Title, Meta tags, HxDon’t indulge in the above mentioned optimization techniques to avoid Over-optimized penalty. Also avoid keyword stuffing in image link Alt tags. Having good incoming links is the best way to get a good page rank.
What are Google Sitelinks? How can you customize them?
Sitelinks are extra links that are shown below Google search results and which lead to specific pages deeper within a site. Until now, Google offered sitelinks only on the first search results. They extended this feature to all search results. Up to four sitelinks will be shown in a single row above the page URL.Google implements a completely automated process to select pages to appear as sitelinks. The process considers several factors, and analyzes the structure and content of sites to select pages that offer relevant information for the user’s query. Since sitelinks are assigned based on several factors, not all websites in search results have them.
Sitelinks give users an overview of a website’s content and help them jump directly to desired page of the website. This is often useful for large, complex websites.
Here are simple tips that will help you to have sitelinks for your site.
• Provide a sitemap with clear navigation hierarchy for your site.
• Provide relevant titles and Meta descriptions to each site page.
• Offer useful outbound links.
• Build SEO friendly links i.e. inbound links for every page and links back to previous page.Google analyzes the link structure of your site and offers sitelinks only when they think that links will be useful for users’ queries. Webmasters can see sitelinks that are created for their site, and control the display of sitelinks in search results.
In order to block a sitelink, open the Webmaster tools dashboard and click the site in which you want to block sitelink. Under the Links, select the Sitelinks. If the selected site has sitelinks information, the sitelinks will be displayed. To remove a sitelink, click the Block next to the sitelink and provide the reason for removing it.
You can also unblock the blocked content. If you block or unblock a sitelink, it will take some time to come into effect. The blocked sitelink won’t appear in the Google search results for 90 days. You can extend this period every time you visit the sitelinks page on the Webmaster Tools.
How can you drive traffic to your site using Digg, Stumble Upon and Yahoo Buzz?
Social networking sites have become the easiest path for internet marketers to drive massive amounts of traffic to their sites at zero cost. This article will teach fresh marketers how to use popular social networking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon and Yahoo Buzz to drive traffic.
There is no separate procedure for each site. You can achieve your goal of driving an impressive amount of targeted traffic to your site through any social networking site in just four steps.
Step 1: Signup
Select social networking sites that could offer highest referrers and drive quality traffic. You can select more than one social networking site, depending on how much time you can spend for promoting sites on networks.
Step 2: Profile
Face is the index of the mind. In social networking sites, your profile acts as a face by which visitors see and judge you. So make sure your profile is impressive, and reflects your business well. You can create a profile for yourself or for your brand.
Step 3: Submit content
Provide any content related to your business with a link to your site, under appropriate categories. Keep in mind, that only if people find the content useful, you will get massive amounts of traffic to your site. If it is really interesting, people will review and bookmark your site, and refer it to their friends.
Step 4: Promote site
Actively participate in the social networking site by commenting on and voting for other’s content. Don’t forget to add them to your friends list. If someone comments or votes for your post, add them to your friend list with a note thanking them for it. People generally judge you through friends list, so add as many friends as you can. With the perfect content and an impressive friends list, you can reach the home page of networking sites easily.
As you reach the homepage, the probability of getting traffic is doubled.
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