Monday, June 29, 2015

8 Creative Ways To Show Email Subscription Form in Blogger

Do you know what a Email subscribe box or Subscription Form is? A box which brings high traffic to your blog. People just put their email address in an ordinary box and then click on the "Subscribe" button and then, they would get all your blog's new material right on their email's Inbox and if you have feedburner's summary feature enabled, they will come to your blog by reading an interesting heading on the reached email.


So today, I am going to tell you 8 ways to show a subscribe box on a blogger blog. These different eight ways will force your blog's visitor to put their email on that ordinary box. Let's see what are the 8 ways!: 

8 ways to show a subscribe box:

  1. Subscribe box from a hyperlinked text.
  2. Subscribe box from a hyperlinked and floating image.
  3. Subscribe box on a pop-up box after few second a visitor reach at the page.
  4. Subscribe box when a visitors goes to exit from a page (Lightbox Popup).
  5. Subscribe box on sidebar as a widget.
  6. Subscribe box below every post.
  7. Subscribe box on a floating hidden frame.
  8. Subscribe box when a visitor reach at the end of the page.
Let?s describe these 8 ways and also, how to add them in your blogger blog one by one!

#1. Subscribe box from a hyperlinked text

Its like hyperlinking a text but instead of a url, we'll put a subscribe box's link on it that will show a nice subscribe box when clicked. When your blog's visitors will click the hyperlinked text, a small beautiful and light weight subscribe box will appear with a subscription teaser and of course! with a subscribe box and a subscribe button. You can use this on your blog's header and hyperlink a text like 'Subscribe Us' so that, when a blog's visitor click the 'Subscribe Us' text, a small box will appear and ask the email of the visitor.

DEMO: See live demo here.
Let?s know, how to add it on your blogger blog:
  • Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML
Now, you have to add some CSS (Cascade Styling Script) to make the subscribe box beautiful.
  • Search for ']]></b:skin>' on your template.
  • Paste the following CSS above ']]></b:skin>':
.newsletter-sm {
background:#fff;
width: 100%;height: 253px;
margin: 0;
padding: 20px;
}
.newsletter-sm form {
padding: 10px;
margin-top: -37px;
}
.newsletter-sm h3 {
color: #FFF;
font-family: algerian;
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: normal;
text-align: center;
padding: 10px;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000;
margin-top: -18px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px 2px #000;
margin-right: -20px;
position: static;
margin-left: -20px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
background: #009EFF;
}
.text {
  font-size: 14px;
  color: #FFF;
  margin-left: -20px;
  padding-bottom: 28px;
  margin-right: -20px;
  background: #009EFF;
  font-family: cursive;
  line-height: 20px;
}
.newsletter-sm .fa {
  float: left;
  padding-left: 16px;
  padding-right: 16px;
  padding-bottom: 16px;
  padding-top: 7px;
  font-size: 140px;
}
.newsletter-sm .newsletter-input-sm {border: 0;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  width: 69%;
  float: left;
  height: 40px;
  font-family: oswald;
  color: #555;border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px;}
.newsletter-sm .newsletter-sm-bot{  background: #009EFF url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfSgWNKI2vbKf8LCLg0oeCCSk15zkqYoD3Pwn37jARowXc8Io4bBQLQKemOjJBHNP7f7cqxGSPFyVNziCAJ7b7r-FPjFTjUaqZ7U7ARRqXo_54EXcccVovfFSNNG4Bs3rtc-vzzLDrvqU/s1600/bg.png) no-repeat;
  margin: 27px -30px 0px;
  height: 64px;
  padding-left: 16px;
  padding-top: 16px;
}
.newsletter-sm .newsletter-button-sm {
  float: right;
  height: 50px;width:23%
  display: inline-block;
  text-shadow: 2px 2px 1px #000;
  font-size: 16px;
  font-family: oswald;
  padding: 10px 22px;
  position: relative;
  color: #fff;
  text-align: center;
  margin-right: 16px;
  background: #009EFF;
  border: 1px solid #fff;
  cursor: pointer;
  border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
}
.modalDialog {
position: fixed;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
top: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
z-index: 99999;
opacity:0;
-webkit-transition: opacity 200ms ease-in;
-moz-transition: opacity 200ms ease-in;
transition: opacity 200ms ease-in;
pointer-events: none;
}
.modalDialog:target {
opacity:1;
pointer-events: auto;
}
.modalDialog:target > div {
margin: 8% auto;
}
.modalDialog > div {
-webkit-transition: all 100ms ease-in;
-moz-transition: all 100ms ease-in;
transition: all 100ms ease-in;
width: 500px;
position: relative;
margin: 5% auto;
background: #fff;
min-height: 200px;
}
h2.signup {
background:#00aa9f;
border-bottom: 1px solid #008d84;
font-weight: normal;
text-align:center;
padding: 10px;
color:#fff;
font-size: 18px;
}
.close {
color: #888!important;
position: absolute;
top: 1px;
right: -40px;
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 16px;
}
.close:hover { text-decoration:none; }
.close:hover { color:#555; }
Now, this is the time to add the main html that is required for this subscribe box.
  • Search for '</body>' and above it, paste following code:
<div class="modalDialog" id="signup">
<div>
<a class="close" href="#close" title="Close"><i class="fa fa-times"></i></a>
<div class="signup-container">
<div class="newsletter-sm">
<h3>Subscribe to Newsletter</h3>
<div class="text"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i><br><div class="texts">Subscribe us to get all our juicy article fastly. You know how and where? Directly on your inbox! Just enter your nice and good looking email id below and click on subscribe button! After that, verify it through the verification email and start learning more!</div></div>
<form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=tntbystc', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" target="popupwindow">
<div class="newsletter-sm-bot">
<input class="newsletter-input-sm" name="email" placeholder="Enter Your Email" type="text">
<button class="newsletter-button-sm" type="submit">Subscribe</button>
</div>
<input name="uri" type="hidden" value="tntbystc">
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
  • Now, save your template.

Customization:

  • Replace tntbystc with your feedburner username.
  • You can replace text by editing the highlighted code.

How to hyperlink a text to show the subscribe box?

Now, almost everything is done. Whenever you wish to hyperlink a text, so that, the text will show a subscribe box when clicked, you have to use following piece of code:
<a href='#sign-up'>YOUR TEXT HERE</a>
Do you know? You can use this to hyperlink on an image too! Just use below piece of code:
<a href='#signup'><img src='IMAGE URL GOES HERE' alt='IMAGE DESCRIPTION' title='IMAGE DESCRIPTION'/></a>
Done! You can check it by going on your blog and clicking the text or image for which you have used the above code.

Note: This hyperlink can be added multiple times on texts on same page.

#2. Subscribe box from a hyperlinked and floating image

Instead of hyperlinking a text, why not we hyperlink a floating image? This will attract your visitor's eyes too! This time, an floating image will appear at the left-bottom or right-bottom or left-top or right-top of the page. When a visitor click on that image, a nice subscribe box will appear teasing them to put their email in the box!

DEMO: See Live Demo

Let?s know how to add it on your blogger blog:
  • Same, Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML
  • To make this subscribe box good looking, you have to add some CSS codes. Search for "]]></b:skin>"
  • Paste the following code above "]]></b:skin>"
#subscribe-button {
    float: left;
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 5%;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 999;
}

#subscribe-widget {
    display: none;
}
    /* Overlay */
#mbt-overlay {
    background-color: #000;
}
    /* Container */
#mbt-container {
    height: 350px!important;
    width: 63%!important;
    min-height: 350px;
    min-width: 500px;
    color: #222;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 4px solid #ddd;
}

#mbt-container .mbt-data {
    padding: 8px;
}

#mbt-container a.mbtCloseImg {
    background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP5UYa6OHsEU1AHAFTYJVRlRCbKfYizZ7_YdH25UEVUXyiXM_eXDnljJ4CSynZG8-qumoAfvgD0Y33LJLM572HyKkplEqT2bn31i9c1qHHMDZQQmSqO0mIp_Px60FD96qhSAeQ68RcwT8x/s1600/mbt-close-button.png) no-repeat;
    width: 25px;
    height: 29px;
    display: inline;
    z-index: 3200;
    position: absolute;
    top: -15px;
    right: -16px;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.subscribeheader {
  padding: 5px;
  padding-left: 21px;
  text-shadow: -3px -2px 5px #000;
  box-shadow: 2px 2px 11px 1px #000000;
  background: #FF8100;
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);
  padding-top: 11px;
  border-radius: 11px;
  text-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, .2) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, .2) 50%, rgba(255, 255, 255, .2) 75%, transparent 75%, transparent);
  margin-bottom: 30px;
  letter-spacing: 4px;
  text-align: center;
  font-family: monotype corsiva;
  border: 2px dashed #FFF;
  font-size: 50px;
}
#description {
  color: #AAAAAA;
  font-family: times New Roman;
  font-size: 25px;
  font-style: italic;
  float:left;
  line-height: 34px;
}

#description img {
    float: right;
    height: 100px;
    padding: 0 25px 0 10px;
    width: 100px;
}

#mbtfollowForm {
    padding: 15px;
}

#mbtfollowForm p {
    margin: 0 0 10px;
}
input[type="submit"] {
  background: #FA9227;
  box-shadow: 2px 2px 1px 1px #838383!important;
  width: 25%!important;
  padding-left: 0px!important;
  margin-left: 17px;
}
#mbtfollowForm input:not([type=&quot;checkbox&quot;]) {
  width: 67%;
    margin-top: 20px;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    font-family:oswald;
    height:33px;
    float:left;
    padding: 10px 5px 10px 25px;
    border: 1px solid rgb(178, 178, 178);
    -webkit-appearance: textfield;
    -webkit-box-sizing: content-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: content-box;
    box-sizing: content-box;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 4px 0px rgba(168, 168, 168, 0.6) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 4px 0px rgba(168, 168, 168, 0.6) inset;
    box-shadow: 0px 1px 4px 0px rgba(168, 168, 168, 0.6) inset;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear;
    -moz-transition: all 0.2s linear;
    -o-transition: all 0.2s linear;
    transition: all 0.2s linear;
}

#mbtfollowForm input:not([type=&quot;checkbox&quot;]):active, #mbtfollowForm input:not([type=&quot;checkbox&quot;]):focus {
    border: 1px solid rgba(91, 90, 90, 0.7);
    background: rgba(238, 236, 240, 0.2);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 4px 0px rgba(168, 168, 168, 0.9) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 4px 0px rgba(168, 168, 168, 0.9) inset;
    box-shadow: 0px 1px 4px 0px rgba(168, 168, 168, 0.9) inset;
}
    <!--[if lt IE 7]> #mbt-container a.mbtCloseImg {
    background: none;
    right: -14px;
    width: 22px;
    height: 26px;
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP5UYa6OHsEU1AHAFTYJVRlRCbKfYizZ7_YdH25UEVUXyiXM_eXDnljJ4CSynZG8-qumoAfvgD0Y33LJLM572HyKkplEqT2bn31i9c1qHHMDZQQmSqO0mIp_Px60FD96qhSAeQ68RcwT8x/s1600/hb-close-button.png', sizingMethod='scale');
}

#mbtfollowForm input {
    padding: 10px 5px 10px 32px;
    width: 93%;
}

#mbtfollowForm input[type=checkbox] {
    width: 10px;
    padding: 0;
}
    <![endif]-->
  • Now, to make the floating image appear, search for ?</body>?
  • Paste the following chunk of code above ?</body>?
<div id="subscribe-button">
    <a class="subscribe" href="#"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZlY8Xc_l6s5Nq9_0aCliyUJCeMCMTp0z6eb-j0Hwo3ee1ssZnAucmnjk93VZ0BZ04Pz9pluRYGNn06AgtB4FKZkMrDJqhzUd4DyuRgrOLQQ1Mfvb_hWDH2uNeq2UKJK_z4X4WGyiUEuxk/s1600/hb-email-icon.png" alt="subscribe" /></a>
</div>
<div id="subscribe-widget">
    <div id="mbtfollowForm">
<div class="subscribeheader">Subscribe Us</div>
<div id="description">
<img alt="email" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaXzhfelyhVuIgWT3eoxYFy2owxzKJGxCu4DIUmKvhyDBxv7Y1LA8uZOlFvoSOfQeLMN3lXNVnrz-Vr6aghQmxifiUUjVjZmSuEC5yQwf-Vy43O8OPR02zk3t97DYcWMUYRT6NwsvoGOh/s1600/hb-email-icon1.PNG">Subscribe to our mailing list to get the updates to your email inbox... We can't wait more to have your email in our subscribers email list. Just put your nice email in below box:</div>
        <form
        action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=tntbystc', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true"
        target="popupwindow">
            <input name="email" placeholder="Enter Your Email..." required="required"
            type="text" />
            <input name="uri" type="hidden" value="tntbystc" />
            <input name="loc" type="hidden" value="en_US" />
            <div class="button">
                <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
            </div>
            </form>
    </div>
</div>
<script src="https://googledrive.com/host/0B8acxOz46qBZckxsanR6Rm1KTms" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(function (a) {
        a("#subscribe-button .subscribe").click(function (b) {
            a("#subscribe-widget").modal();
            return false
        })
    })
</script>
  • Save your template and you?re done!

Customization:

Yeah! Customization on the above code as following:
  • If you want that image to be displayed in left, then change right to left in above code.
  • If you want that image to be displayed in the top of the page, then change bottomwith top.
  • If you want to change the text or subscription teaser, then just replace the highlightedcode.
Important Customization:
  • Change tntbystc with your feedburner username in above code.

Friday, December 12, 2014

How to Reduce the Size of MySql Databases

MySql is one of the most popular choices in databases, used by many online websites to store user details. When a database is being used online however, one of the most important factors is that it shouldn’t take up too much space on the web server. Unnecessarily allowing your MySql database to take up more room than it needs means that there is less storage space for web files that make up the websites. When web storage costs money to purchase, it is pointless to allow space to be taken up by blank areas of database, especially when there is something that you can do about this.


In order to shrink the size of a MySql database, it is important to optimize the database. This can potentially reduce the size of the database to just a fraction of its current size. It is a fast operation to complete, which should form part of your regular website maintenance.

Will I lose any data?

You wont lose any data when you optimize a database. Optimization performs a check on your current database for any empty space and reorganizes the way that the data is stored. Existing data is moved to the empty space so that the database is only being used by actual information. Technically, the empty space is deleted so that the rows in the database that were being taken up by blank cells are no longer there.

How can I tell if my database needs to be optimized?

Running optimization is not always necessary. You should check the size of the overhead in your database to see if it needs to be reduced. The overhead indicates just how much space is being taken up by empty cells.

You can find out the size of the overhead by opening your MySql database from the hosting panel in your web server control panel. Beside each of the tables in your database is an ‘overhead’ column which tells you the size of the free space.

How do I perform the optimization?

The first thing that you need to do is backup your database. This is good practice for any procedure, but because the optimization process moves and deletes parts of your database, there is a risk that something could go wrong.

To run the optimization, open your MySql application with the database open that you wish to optimize. Choose the tables that you wish to run the operation on by checking the boxes beside the tables that you wish to optimize and then click on the “with selected” drop down menu. Choose the “Optimize Table” option and allow it to run.

These are the only steps that you need to take, so if you see that your MySql database size is growing, you should back up and optimize your tables so that you can make the most of the space that you have. By performing a MySql database optimization frequently, the process will be quick and efficient. The more free space there is to clean up, the longer the process will take.

How To Start a Blog and Make Money Online – in 5 Easy Steps

Here are 5 EASY steps we’ll take together to help you start a blog and make money online.


Are you curious about how to make money online? Think that starting a blog is the way to go?

Great! Starting a blog can be a solid way to make long-term income – just for doing some writing on stuff you actually like and care about. But there’s a little more to it than that AND it may not be for everyone. This is not a get rich quick or plug and play business. If that’s what you’re looking for, this is not the place for you.


Yes, you can make a lot of money online but, like other traditional businesses, it’s not guaranteed. Anyone who tells you otherwise, is not being truthful.

Our goal is to help people who are really serious about building a real online business – because you can make a little, or a lot of money. That all depends on you…

Here’s the big difference between making money online and going to a job every day. If you do it right, the work you do today, this week, and this year – will continue making money for years to come. It’s an investment rather than trading your time for money.

So how does this work? Search engines find and cache the articles that you write, and over time each post is “worth more” to the search engines. That means you’ll get more web site traffic with every passing month as your site gains credibility. This does not happen overnight. It takes persistence and even some hard work – but you can do it if you’re serious and committed…

We did it (Dan and I both walked away from our corporate jobs and now do this full time), and so can you. The good news is that you get to take advantage of what we’ve learned over the last several years and avoid the sand traps that we had to dig our way out of.

So let’s get started – RIGHT NOW!

How to Write a Successful LinkedIn Recommendation

In LinkedIn, recommendations are nothing but the testimonials or reviews written by other people describing how efficient you are in a particular professional field, how you work and what are the reasons behind their recommendation. Recommendations are really powerful when it comes to increasing one’s professional reputation as well as boosting and adding extra value to his/her LinkedIn profile.


In this article, I am going to focus on various factors that must be taken into consideration while writing a LinkedIn recommendation and also I am going to provide many LinkedIn recommendation examples.

Factors to remember while writing a LinkedIn recommendation:

    Always start the recommendation with a background of the person and you may include here how you get acquainted with him/her.
    Make sure to mention all the qualities that are possessed by the person. In recommendations, employers usually look for qualities possessed by a person. If you are not well aware of the future reference for which it is going to be used, then simply write about his/her professional behaviors. Few of such common qualities are reliability, honesty, integrity, dedication, attention to details, goal-orientation, efficiency, leadership, cooperation etc. For example: “Matt is a dedicated team player and he pays high attention to the details and carefully follows the information which are provided by his clients.”
    Narrate a short success story. It will help people to remember the recommendation for a long period of time. Do not mention your personal relationship with that person in it but try to write in such a way that it shows the person’s excellence in work. For example: “It’s unforgettable that he saved the reputation of the whole company in front of the eyes of the shareholders on a particular occasion and ………”
    Always end the recommendation with a strong note of resolution. You must not leave the reader in curiosity whether that person can be reliable for work or not. For example: “I highly recommend John to everyone who wants to get their website designed in a very excellent way and in a very limited amount of time.”

LinkedIn recommendation examples:

LinkedIn recommendation example for Contractor:
John worked for me to design my company website six months ago. He is a reliable and hardworking guy who pays high attention to every single detail and it helps him to stand out from most other web designers in the internet industry. Also, he grabs the instructions within a fraction of seconds and implements them to come up with the expected output. He is great in graphic designing as well and made my company logo. I highly recommend him to anyone. He can be a great asset to any company.

LinkedIn recommendation example for Employer:

I worked with Joe one year ago in an Advertising campaign for his company. He is a great client and he possesses exceptional leadership qualities. He knows how to provide crystal clear instructions to his employees. Also, he has a good sense of humor that makes him loved by all of his employees and he treats his employees like his friends so that he can get his work done in time and also make sure that his employees enjoy their time while working with him. I recommend him to every employee who wants to work with a friendly and skilled employer.

Conclusion:

Providing a good recommendation will help your contractor/employer to stand out brilliantly in the industry. If he/she likes your recommendation, then certainly he will also send you a recommendation in return which will be a valuable addition to your profile.

How To Write Your First Blog Post

You’ve got your niche, then what? It’s time to write your first blog post, but how do you choose a topic? With so much to choose from, it gets confusing, but we are here to help you sort it all out.



Congratulations! You’ve made it this far. You’ve got your niche, figured out what you want to talk about, who the other players in the niche are, decided what you like about them, what you don’t like about them, and you’ve started interacting with their readers on their blog and you have begun to build up your presence. Now what?

Write Your First Blog Post

Oh, how this strikes fear in the hearts of many a blogger… “What will I write about?” They ask “How will I come up with a topic.” Writer’s block sets in at this point and for many, but really, it’s not a problem if you’re writing about something that you are passionate about.
Not satisfied? Fine. We’ll give you a sure-fire way to come up with your first subject.

Lock yourself in a room. Literally. No cell phone, no significant other, no T.V., nothing. Sit down in front of a pen and paper and write down every idea that you can think of. Don’t stop until you have a least 50-100. Then pick one. How do you pick you? You pick the one that speaks to you. How will you know which one speaks to you? It just does. Try not to over think this. Your first blog post is important, but the fate of the world doesn’t depend on it. Just your world. Kidding! Just relax, and pick one. You’ve got like a 100 to choose from, right? See, it wasn’t that hard. You’ve done it! You’ve chosen a topic. And now you have your first blog topic ready to write about to your heart’s content.
Here’s something to get your juices going: What keeps your audience up at night?

What are their hopes, dreams, problems, etc? Now pick one of these and write about it. Now we come to blog length. How long should it be? As long as a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the goods, but short to keep it interesting. Spell check it, and be sure to test any links in it you might have to say, your twitter account or a product page.

When To Publish Your Blog Posts

This is a bigger question than you think. The name of the game with posting is consistency. Do you post every hour or every day or every week? You have to set a schedule and stick to it. If you’re going to make money at this, you need to have people consistently coming to your site to check out your content. It has to be new, constantly updating content. They aren’t going to be checking out your greatest hits, either. They want new, fresh content. It’s not going to help if you post ten times a day for a week and then don’t post again for another month. If you do that, you’ll come off as flakey to your readers and that’s just death to bloggers. You won’t get those readers back, and you won’t be generating any traffic or making any money, either.

But it’s not just readers that hate inconsistency and flakiness. Search engines hate it too. You want to be on their good side, and you’ll need to be posting regularly. We’re talking at least once a week, and there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to manage that. The more posts the better, but don’t commit yourself to something you can’t deliver and end up flaking out. There’s plenty of scheduling software’s out there that can help you make sure you never miss a posting. WordPress even allows you to schedule a post to go live at a certain date and time. So there’s no excuse to not be posting regularly!

Infographic How To Get A Better Alexa Ranking

Today, any online business needs to find a way to reach the top rankings on the search results by the major search engines. There are many methods in order to boost the ranking as well as gaining more traffic. One way is to make the most out of your Alexa ranking.



If you want to achieve a better Alexa ranking, there are certain steps to follow in order to achieve success in no time. Finding a way to drive adequate traffic to your website in order to get it ranked under 100,000 can be achieved. Alexa basically measures the traffic that it can see. It acquires sample data from Internet users who installed the toolbar and determines the figures. Take note that it is not reliable on websites that do not have any traffic yet. Additionally, it also gathers data from websites that have the ranking JavaScript added. If you want to acquire more mileage from Alexa, there are ways that you should be familiar with. First, you have to invite your readers to leave reviews on the Alexa website, create a customized version of the Alexa toolbar for your readers and do not game the system.

There are certain steps involved if you want to attain better rankings. The first step is to research and claim. All you have to do is to claim your website and update all the important details. You also have to find your domain in Alexa and check the tour – www.alexa.com/tour to familiar yourself on what is Alexa all about. The second step is to add the JavaScript to your website and install the toolbar. The third step is to acquire all the traffic and build the relevant traffic through directory listings, guest blogging, article marketing, and press releases, encourage visitors to share your site, blog consistently, maintain an active social networking and comment on blogs. Check out the following infographic and follow the instructions step by step. Hope it will help you increase the Alexa ranking of your site quickly. The infographic can be found here: http://michelleshaeffer.com/how-to-get-a-better-alexa-ranking-infographic/2012/07/08/

The #1 Tip To Start A Successful Blog

There are a lot of “tips” and “tricks” available that you can use to initially drive traffic when you start a blog, but after a while, the search engines start figuring out that you’re not really offering your viewers anything once they get to your site – so they stop sending traffic there at all.


This article is very short, but read it and take note. It contains the biggest ‘secret’ to help you start a successful blog.
#1 Tip To Start A Successful Blog

    Publish high quality content on a regular basis

You may have the best SEO keywords on your blog, but without quality content, the search engines are going to start overlooking you. You may get an influx of site traffic for a while, but it will quickly cease as the search engines realize that people aren’t staying on your website very long.

The key to starting a successful blog is to produce quality content that people want to read on a regular basis. If there’s good stuff on there that people are interested in and searching for, the search engines will start sending them to you. It’s as simple as that.
Search engines, especially Google, spend millions of dollars every year on technology that allows them to filter through websites that publish what is known as Internet “crap.”

Perhaps you’ve heard the term “link bait”? These are poorly written articles stuffed with keywords and no real content.

You can only fool search engines with SEO tricks and keywords for so long, if at all these days. If you don’t produce quality content on a regular basis, search engines are going to figure it out and fast.

The Top 5 Ways to Accept Online Payments

If you want to do business online, you need to find an easy and straightforward way of processing credit cards and other types of payment so that people can actually pay for the products or services they want to buy from you. Here are the best ways to do that.



1. Merchant Accounts
Set up a merchant account with your bank (or the bank that will offer you the best rates). This, unfortunately, can be a time-consuming process. There are credit and background checks involved; you need to tell your bank what you’re selling and how much of it you think you will sell.

On the other hand, once the fees have been deducted, the money you make from your sales will be deposited directly into your account. You don’t have to wait for a third party to process it.

2. PayPal
PayPal is probably the easiest online payment merchant to work with. It is definitely the most popular, and that means that it is one of the most trusted. The great thing about PayPal is that you can take payments from anybody. You don’t have to go through any sort of background or credit checks. You can start accepting payments within minutes of setting up the account.

PayPal also offers a debit card that is linked directly to your account so that you can use the money you earn as soon as it is paid to you. You don’t have to wait for it to be transferred to your bank (unless you want to).

3. Sell Through a Third Party
This is a fancy way of saying that you should sell your products through a service like Amazon. The store takes on the responsibility of processing the payments. You just wait for the money to be sent to you.

This is a good choice because when you sell through a third party, you get to have that third party’s reputation backing up your products. You’ll also benefit from whatever traffic they bring in for products that relate to yours so you stand to sell more of your own stuff. At the same time, actually getting your money can take a while, and they don’t accept all products into their ranks.

4. ACH Payment Processing (eCheck)
ACH Payment processing allows you to accept money directly from someone’s bank account without requiring a credit card. You simply need the information on the check that they would have written to you. The process is overseen by the National Automated Clearing House Association, and they will allow you to use the money you bring in for a variety of purposes (including direct deposits into your bank account).

The easiest way to take these kinds of payments is to set up the account with your own bank—it saves the time of having to be approved for and open an account somewhere else.

5. Mobile Payment Processors
Even if your business isn’t web-based, you can accept payments online thanks to mobile payment merchants. The best example of this is Square, which has become incredibly popular over the last couple of years. You register for an account with a mobile payment processor, get the card reader and plug it in to your smart phone or computer, and viola! You can accept payments.

The best thing about accepting payments this way is that many of the different mobile payment processors will also allow you to accept checks—you just scan in the check and you’re done! Some will even have code in place that will allow you to track cash transactions.

These are the five best ways to accept payments online. The method you choose is going to depend upon what kind of business you are running and where you are running it. Good luck!

What Are Hyperlinks and Why Are They Important for SEO

Hyperlinks are connections established between a word/phrase/image and a website/file. The World Wide Web is based on hyperlinks. Most often we access websites by clicking hyperlinks.



SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization which defines the optimization of how a website can be reached through search engines. This process also involves hyperlinking. Actually effective hyperlinking between different pages can help a website secure a good position in the search engine result pages as well.

What is hyperlink?
Hyperlink is a type of link that connect two separate files/websites/articles/images etc. Hyperlink can be placed on webpages, in spreadsheet file, in database infrastructure etc. Their main function is to link some data with others so that users can get the related data at convenience. Hyperlinks are sometimes used to elaborate few topics or points.

It is used in internet as a major element of internet connectivity. Webpage is attached to webpage and further webpages; these are all possible because of hyperlinks. Hyperlinks can also be explained as the path for movement from one webpage to another or from one file to another.

No Hyperlink No Internet
The entire World Wide Web is linked up by hyperlinks. Suppose there was no hyperlink on websites, then users would have to get hold of the URL of websites. Users would require to directly enter the full URL to get to any webpage. However, when you type an IP or domain address on the address bar of your browser in order to view a webpage, the old hyperlinking process actually comes into action. Search engines mainly displays the URLs of websites through hyperlink. If there were no hyperlinks, how would search engines display results. Pages of a website are also connected with each other using hyperlinks.

Webpages provide you information from their database which is again due to hyperlinking process. Without hyperlinks there will be no use of mouse click on  a webpage or image. Everything would work like character based user interface.

Why hyperlinks important for SEO
Internet users seek help from search engines in order to find out desired information and related websites. It is the responsibility of search engines to display various relevant sites which can provide them with the information they are looking for. If websites were not linked with search engines through hyperlink, then search engine would have no value of its own.

Search engines also give priority to the sites that have good number of inbound links (hyperlinks) and rank them well. Google has introduced PR rating system only to sort out the sites that have good inbound links and high quality contents. So there is no doubt that hyperlinks play an important role when it comes to SEO.

Management of hyperlink
Few things must be to be kept in mind and maintained properly in order to establish a good connection of hyperlink with SEO optimization:

    Do not place spammy/inappropriate links in your website content.
    You should always make sure that your links are working.
    Images must be hyperlinked with their full size versions.
    Related contents should be hyperlinked with each other.
    Hyperlinks which are not required must be removed as they may slow down the speed or accessibility of your website and result in poor user experience.
    Do not place hyperlinks on a webpage haphazardly. Make sure that your hyperlinks serve a purpose and add value to your site.

When To Change Your Blog Theme…


A Word Of Caution About Changing Your Blog Theme When You Start A New Blog…
This is the single biggest place where new bloggers get stuck. I strongly recommend that you focus your energy on writing good content first and foremost.



There is more to changing your theme than simply clicking a button. You will need to understand menus and widgets as well as have some published content before changing your theme. We’ll cover ALL of these in future lessons and it’s highly recommended that you wait until you’ve finished the first 2 training modules before attempting to change your blog theme.
Recommended…
Start with the default theme, add at least 10 posts and 1 static page, set up your categories and menus, and only then consider changing your theme.
Why You Should Wait To Change Your Blog Theme
1. The search engines do not care what your blog looks like.
They care about content, so the faster you can publish a lot of good content, the faster your blog will get listed in the search engines. If you spend weeks (or even months as some do) trying to make your blog look perfect, you’ve wasted that valuable time that could have been spent publishing content.
2. Your theme will look much better when there is content on your blog.
It’s really hard to preview a new theme on an empty blog – they all look bad when there’s no content, menus, or navigation.
Many themes offer a customizable home page, but with no content, what do you feature on the home page?
ake the time to set up your categories and publish at least 2-3 posts under each category so that you can see what a blog listing page will actually look like.
Take the time to at least write your About page so that you can see what a static page looks like.
The more content you have on your blog, the easier it will be to preview a new theme and see what it’s really going to look like.
If you absolutely, must change your blog theme now, here are step-by-step instructions for how to do it.

Which CMS Joomla, Drupal or WordPress

In order to build a high end website, open source CMS platforms are becoming greatly popular these days. Since there are a number CMS software programs available on the web, many web publishers find it quite difficult to decide which CMS will best serve their purpose – Joomla, Drupal or WordPress? All three of them have their very own pros and cons, similarities and dissimilarities with one another.

The similarities of Joomla, Drupal and WordPress:
    PHP based web development platforms.
    Licensed under the free GNU General Public License.
    Content management system uses MySQL database.
Drupal:
    Drupal is ideal for building complex, advanced and versatile sites and requires high level of expertise and experience for maintenance.
    It is for coding freaks. If you like to use more plugins and less personally generated codes, then Drupal is not ideal for you.
    Modules – plug-in catcher in Drupal has many popular and amazing enhancements and you can craft some really cool stuff that will increase your website’s functionality, performance and scalability.
Joomla:
    Joomla is a mostly a developer-oriented, extensive but user-friendly CMS. It contains much complex options regarding site development.
    Joomla requires moderately uncomplicated installation and set up processes. The terminology and structure of this tool is meant for moderately complex sites.
    It has a huge community of programmers, developers, and designers. So getting help and assistance from expert Joomla developers is easy.
    The designers, developers and administrators often find it amusing to work with.
    Joomla is becoming more user friendly with each new upgrade.
    Extensions – Joomla 1.5 search framework is used to cache pages making it real fast in downloading each page with customizable options. It also supports the System Cache Plug-in. There are many other cool extensions while using Joomla as a CMS.
WordPress:
    This is an easy-to-use platform for both developers and end users. With time, WordPress has introduced thousands of new themes, plugins and widgets that smooth the progress of WordPress as the most popular CMS ever.
    Ideal for web developers who build websites for non-technical users, because once the site is built, the client can take over the site and maintain it of his/her own that requires minimum effort and technical knowledge.
    Plug-ins – WordPress has the richest collection of plug-ins that can increase the functionality of a WordPress to a great extent. They are really easy to install. No coding knowledge is required. But if you have sufficient knowledge, you can customize a WordPress plug-in or create a plug-in from the scratch.
Other major factors for choosing the best CMS among the three:
    Backend:
    – Drupal has a master control bar which adapts the page you visit.
    – Joomla has different segregated pages for each administrative tool.
    – WordPress backend is the easiest of the three to manage and navigate through different options.
    Security – WordPress has a number of loopholes and security vulnerability for its plain construction, the plugins might also be hacked or exploited. Drupal is the best in terms of security, and Joomla is reasonably good.
    Extensions – WordPress beats the others. WP is connected with many third party commercial market places for themes and plug-ins.
    Forums and supports – WordPress and Joomla have many unofficial forums, blogs and websites for support, apart from the official ones. Drupal has a thin line of unofficial support. However, all three have great user community.


Thursday, December 4, 2014

How To Start a Blog and Make Money Online

Here are 5 EASY steps we’ll take together to help you start a blog and make money online.



Are you curious about how to make money online? Think that starting a blog is the way to go?


Great! Starting a blog can be a solid way to make long-term income – just for doing some writing on stuff you actually like and care about. But there’s a little more to it than that AND it may not be for everyone. This is not a get rich quick or plug and play business. If that’s what you’re looking for, this is not the place for you.

Yes, you can make a lot of money online but, like other traditional businesses, it’s not guaranteed. Anyone who tells you otherwise, is not being truthful.

Our goal is to help people who are really serious about building a real online business – because you can make a little, or a lot of money. That all depends on you…

Here’s the big difference between making money online and going to a job every day. If you do it right, the work you do today, this week, and this year – will continue making money for years to come. It’s an investment rather than trading your time for money.

So how does this work? Search engines find and cache the articles that you write, and over time each post is “worth more” to the search engines. That means you’ll get more web site traffic with every passing month as your site gains credibility. This does not happen overnight. It takes persistence and even some hard work – but you can do it if you’re serious and committed…

We did it (Dan and I both walked away from our corporate jobs and now do this full time), and so can you. The good news is that you get to take advantage of what we’ve learned over the last several years and avoid the sand traps that we had to dig our way out of.


So let’s get started – RIGHT NOW!

Reduce the Size of MySql Databases

MySql is one of the most popular choices in databases, used by many online websites to store user details. When a database is being used online however, one of the most important factors is that it shouldn’t take up too much space on the web server. Unnecessarily allowing your MySql database to take up more room than it needs means that there is less storage space for web files that make up the websites. When web storage costs money to purchase, it is pointless to allow space to be taken up by blank areas of database, especially when there is something that you can do about this.

In order to shrink the size of a MySql database, it is important to optimize the database. This can potentially reduce the size of the database to just a fraction of its current size. It is a fast operation to complete, which should form part of your regular website maintenance.

Will I lose any data?

You wont lose any data when you optimize a database. Optimization performs a check on your current database for any empty space and reorganizes the way that the data is stored. Existing data is moved to the empty space so that the database is only being used by actual information. Technically, the empty space is deleted so that the rows in the database that were being taken up by blank cells are no longer there.

How can I tell if my database needs to be optimized?


Running optimization is not always necessary. You should check the size of the overhead in your database to see if it needs to be reduced. The overhead indicates just how much space is being taken up by empty cells.

You can find out the size of the overhead by opening your MySql database from the hosting panel in your web server control panel. Beside each of the tables in your database is an ‘overhead’ column which tells you the size of the free space.

How do I perform the optimization?

The first thing that you need to do is backup your database. This is good practice for any procedure, but because the optimization process moves and deletes parts of your database, there is a risk that something could go wrong.

To run the optimization, open your MySql application with the database open that you wish to optimize. Choose the tables that you wish to run the operation on by checking the boxes beside the tables that you wish to optimize and then click on the “with selected” drop down menu. Choose the “Optimize Table” option and allow it to run.

These are the only steps that you need to take, so if you see that your MySql database size is growing, you should back up and optimize your tables so that you can make the most of the space that you have. By performing a MySql database optimization frequently, the process will be quick and efficient. The more free space there is to clean up, the longer the process will take.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Make Money with Google Adsense

A program run by Google for the advertisement of websites by displaying related and targeted Google ads is known as Google Adsense. Google started this advertisement program eight years ago and from that time to the present time, millions of website owners got benefit and earned money through it.
Google Adsense advertisement program is for the website owners who want to make money by displaying the ads on their websites. It is an inexpensive form of marketing and an easiest way for the website owners to earn money online. The website owner just has to host an ad on his website and he earns money on every click (pay per click).
Getting the ads is very easy; the ads are displayed on the websites which has activated Google Adsense. Google sets up an account for the website owner and give him a code which is required for the displaying of adverts. By just entering the code in the content pages, the owner can start showing the ads. These ads can be in form of text, images or videos. A website owner can select or specify the place where he wants the ad to be shown. A website owner can place ad units, these are full ads and he can also place link units, these are just a strip of text link.
On the other hand, the Google Adsense allows the businesses to do the advertisement on the other websites and when any person using internet or searching something clicks on that ad then the business pays to Google on each click.
For making money with Google Adsense, a website owner needs high traffic on his website and it can only be done with search engine optimization (SEO). SEO contains link building, article submission, forum and comment posting with the URL of website or web pages. There is targeted traffic as well as non-targeted traffic available on internet. The advertiser always want the targeted traffic so, when the people (targeted traffic) looking for the services an advertiser is offering, they click on it and action takes place.
The most important thing for earning money is that the ad must be relevant to the theme and content of the website on which it is advertised. Google pays some percentage of money that it has earned, to the owner of the website that is hosting an ad on his website. The keywords also play an important role; related keywords should be used in the content of website that will attract related ads.
For getting started, first of all select a good topic that is interesting. Write useful articles on that topic and then post it on the website. Then start building links to those articles and one thing should be kept in mind, select good keywords. Keywords are responsible of attracting traffic on a website or a web page. A great way of increasing the profits is to place the ad exactly beneath the title of the page; by this a website owner will surely get the clicks.

Find The Perfect Niche For Your Blog

Starting a blog can be challenging, even if you’re a super hardcore techie who can design professional looking blogs. Once you get the site up, what do you write about? What is your blog even going to be about? Here’s how to find out what niche is the best fit for you.



What Is A Niche?
Your niche is basically what your blog is about. It’s the type of information you offer to your audience, and what topics you cover. You can have a broad niche or a very tight one – there’s no “wrong” niche. You want to find what best fits with you, your personality and your passions.
Examples Of Niches
    Blogging
    Spirituality
    Health And Fitness
    Gossip
    Cooking
    Sports
    Interior Decor
You can even go further into these niches if you like – for example, you may only want to blog about football instead of sports in general. Perhaps you only want to blog about a certain team, or even a certain player. If you want to tighten down the cooking niche, you may want to blog only about meatless recipes if you’re a vegetarian. Or organic recipes, or even just juicing recipes. Your blog can be as loosely or as tightly niched as you want to make it.
So, how do you find what niche is right for you?
What Is Your Passion?
Everyone has things that they love. It may be collecting Wizard Of Oz memorabilia. It may be gardening. It might be painting, or finding the best deals on discount furniture, or couponing. The list could go on. What do you love? What are you passionate about? Make a list of the things you really enjoy. Not the things you think you should enjoy, or the things you want to do at some point. What are the things that make you giddy? Do you love to craft? Do you love to make witty jokes about celebrities? Be creative. Dig deep.
Do You Have A Special Field Of Expertise?
Some people already have a field of expertise, such as being a doctor, a lawyer or just being really, really good at cooking Mexican dishes. What are the things you are good at, or the things you have certifications in? Is there anything that you are particularly knowledgeable about? Write down the things that you do well, even if you don’t particularly love them. This will give you a true scope of the possibilities for your blog, but chances are, you’re not going to choose something you have a lot of expertise in if you don’t love it too.
What Could You Write About Essentially Forever?
So you have a list of things you love to do, things you enjoy, things you’re good at, etc. It could be a big list, it could be a very small list.  To determine practical niches for your blog, think about the topics on your sheet of paper and consider which ones you could theoretically write about forever. Can you see yourself writing article after article on puppy training? If the answer is no, then scrap it. What about cooking? Do you already have tons of ideas for recipe posts swirling about in your head? If the answer is yes, then consider that to be one of the final possibilities for your blog’s niche.
Blogs are about content. Even if you love something, if you can’t write about it day after day, your blog isn’t going to go anywhere. Choosing a topic that you have lots of ideas for or can write about again and again and again without getting bored makes sure that one, two or even five years down the road from now, you can still create fresh content for your blog. However, chances are if you love something, you’re going to find it easy to write about anyways.
Look At Your Final List
By now, you should have it pared down to a few ideas. Maybe you only have one idea, or maybe you have five. That’s okay. Look at your list. Put it up. Sleep on it. Take it back out. Put it up again. Wait a week. Look at it again. Sleep with it. Shower with it. Okay, not really. But you get the idea. Meditating on the possible niches for your blog without making a hasty decision will reveal the one you truly want.
When you envision the possible niches for your blog over time, you will keep going back to one again and again. You might think about other niches and envision the possibilities for those, only to find your mind drifting back to the one topic. This is what will reveal to you the blog niche that is truly in your heart.
Be Confident And Go For It!
Once you find the niche, throw away your list. Right away! Don’t second guess yourself, don’t go back and consider the other niches again. Be confident and start a blog in that niche. Write your first post! Who cares if it doesn’t look pretty to begin with. Start writing. And write a post tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day.
If it’s a niche that you truly enjoy, you will find it easy to write posts about things related to your niche. Sure, you may still get writer’s block from time to time, but it will be nothing compared to trying to blog about a niche that you really couldn’t care less about. So get going! Take the plunge and when you come up on the other side, you’ll look back and be glad that you finally did it.

Check DoFollow and NoFollow Links

When a person uses any anchor link in their writing, search engines may follow it and consider it as a backlink or a vote for the linked website. However, there are plenty of spammers out there who make bad use of this system. Especially the comment spammers post irrelevant comments in different niche websites and hamper the regular flow of conversation there.



There are also some other reasons (e.g. to prevent link juice flowing to the pages that are not very important from SEO perspective) why sometimes we may need to tell the search engine not to follow some of the links that can be found in a particular web page. So in plain words, we can say that links that are followed and recognized by different search engines are called DoFollow links. On the other hand, links that are not followed or recognized by the search engines are called NoFollow links.
How to check DoFollow and NoFollow backlinks?
We have discussed about what dofollow is and what nofollow is and what they do. But how to check whether the links found in a particular website are DoFollow or NoFollow links?
Actually, there are multiple tools that you can use to determine whether a link is DoFollow or NoFollow. In order to determine if a blog or website allows DoFollow links, you need to check some of the links of that website using some online DoFollow link checker tools. You go to the website for which you want to check the blog contents being dofollow or nofollow. There you will see the names of all the approved bloggers, right click on the name of that bloggers, you will see a pop-up menu coming with lots of option for check, click on “Inspect Element”. The screen will get divided and a separate screen showing the selection source will come. See the highlighted lines, there, you will be able to see whether the blog post is dofollow or nofollow.
DoFollow backlinks are very important for any website to become famous and get highly ranked in search engines.

How To Be Successful (Including Blogging)

The definition of success varies from person to person, but the way to get there doesn’t. Even if your idea of what success is differs from what someone else’s idea of what success is, your basic mentality must be the same if you are both going to actually be successful. Here are tactics to use no matter what you want to achieve.
Be Successful By Doing What You Love
The first step to being successful is to make sure you’re aiming to do what you love. If you don’t love it, you’ll never truly be good at it! If you’re trying to climb the corporate ladder at a company you hate, or are blogging about topics that bore you just to try to make money or get more traffic, you’re not going to be able to keep it up for very long. You may be able to do it for a little while, but eventually you’re going to get sick of it. You’ll either find something new you’d rather be doing, or keep going until you have a mental breakdown.
Success needs to be long term, and if you’re not absolutely passionate about what you’re doing, you’re not going to be able to do it long term. Make sure you’re doing what you love and you love what you’re doing. Find your passion and go with it!
Allow Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes, and they make them on a regular basis. Making mistakes isn’t something you can prevent from happening. Even if you do your best, you’re still going to make a mistake every now and again. Realize that your mistakes are something natural and human. Take the opportunity to learn from them – figure out what you did wrong, and learn how not to repeat that same mistake. If you learn from your mishaps, you can move forward and continue to grow. You will be successful, no matter what your personal definition of “success” is.
If you never allow mistakes, you never give yourself the chance to learn from them and grow. You’ll still make mistakes for sure, but you’ll be so busy criticizing yourself for making the mistake in the first place that you’ll never learn what you need to learn from the situation. Instead, allow yourself to make mistakes and to use them to learn what not to do, and what to do instead.
Keep Going
Perseverance is key f you want to be successful. You’re going to come across obstacles and setbacks no matter what you’re doing or where you’re going. If you let obstacles and setbacks drag you down, you’ll never really be able to move forward. You’ll get stuck in a rut and never be able to get out.
Instead, keep going when something bad happens or you run into an obstacle. Focus on figuring out how to overcome whatever it is that is holding you back and then do it. Don’t lament about what happened, or dwell on the bad. Come up with a solution and enact it. Keep going, even when you don’t feel like it. Keep going when you’d rather quit. Pretty soon, you’ll come up on the other side and be glad you didn’t give up.
Brainstorm
If you want to be successful, you’re going to continually have to come up with new ideas and new ways of doing things. Nobody ever got successful by doing the same thing over and over again. If you’re blogging, figure out new ways to do things more efficiently, or more quickly. Find new tools to use that automate things that suck up a lot of time. Learn to work smarter, not harder! Even if you’re not blogging, always striving to do things better and coming up with new ideas is what keeps you moving forward.
Don’t assume that just because you’ve found a good method of doing something, or you’ve found something that works, that there isn’t a better way. Don’t assume that just because you’ve come up with a good idea, that there aren’t even better ideas out there. Don’t allow yourself to get complacent, or to rest on your laurels. Always be brainstorming and thinking of different things to do, or what could potentially save you time and money.
No matter what you want to be successful at, these are techniques and tactics that you can use to help you get there. Take your individual definition of success and go for it! Strive to get there and never, ever give up.

How People Spend Their Time Online

The “How People Spend Their Time Online” infographic by GO-Gulf.com, a Dubai web design company, it illustrates the activities that Internet users do online. It is estimated that over two billion of the global population are online which is equal to approximately 30% of the world’s population. About 3-4 million years is the global time spent online on a monthly basis.
The average time per month that is spent by a global Internet user  is equal to 16 hours while the U.S Internet user devotes 32 hours every month. The chart that indicates the online population all over the world, with 78% in North America, 64% in Europe, and 58% is Oceania, 37% in Latin America, 22% in Asia and only 11% in Africa. The top countries with the highest online population include United Kingdom with 85%, followed by Germany, France, Japan, United States, Russia, Brazil, China, Nigeria and India.
There are various ways on how people spend their time online. About 22% on social networking sites, 21% spend time on searches, 20% on reading content, 19% on emails and communication, 13% on multimedia websites, and 5% on online shopping. Of course, the popular activities online include emails, using search engines, checking for health or medical information, hobbies, search for directions, checking the weather, information search on buying products, entertainment and buying products.
The top ten most visited websites include Google with over a 153 million of unique visitors every month. Facebook follows with about 137 million unique visitors each month. Other visited websites include YouTube, Microsoft, AOL, Apple and MSN.
There are also interesting facts that you need to take note of. More than 56% of social networking users utilized the social networking sites as a way to spy on their partners. Brazilians are considered to have the highest online friends that range from 481 friends for each user, while the Japanese have an average of only 29 friends.  In China, users typically spend the maximum of 5 hours every week shopping online. Google has over a billion search queries each day. With YouTube, there are over four billion views on a daily basis while content of more than 60 hours are uploaded each minute. For the social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, there are over 250 million tweets each day and 800 million updates on Facebook each day.
The highest trends online include location based services, time shifted TV and internet banking etc. Obviously, the least favored trends include professionally created videos, live online videos and user created videos.