- Bash Script: Get the Information about the caller of the function (backtrace)

Caller Returns the context of any active subroutine call (a shell function or a script executed with the . or source builtins). caller displays the line number and source filename of the current subroutine call. If a non-negative integer is supplied as expr, caller displays the line number, subroutine name, and source file corresponding to that position in the current execution call stack. This extra information may be used, for example, to print a stack trace.

Below is simple bash script which demonstrate the usage of caller ...
feel free to copy and use this code

Source: cat caller.sh
#!/bin/bash

foo() {
        caller 0
        echo "In function: foo"
}

echo "Outside of the function"

goo() {
        echo "In function: goo"
        foo
}

goo

Output: ./caller.sh
Outside of the function
In function: goo
13 goo ./caller.sh
In function: foo

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/13578167758569.html

- Bash Script: Convert File from DOS to UNIX format

Common problem! If you need to exchange text files between DOS/Windows and Linux, be aware of the "end of line" problem. Under DOS, each line of text ends with CR/LF (Carriage return/Line feed), with LF under Linux. If you edit a DOS text file under Linux, each line will likely end with a strange--looking `M' character;

Below is simple shell script which converts the files in DOS format to Unix format
Feel free to copy and use this code

Source: cat dos_unix.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
        echo "Please provide the path of a valid DOS file"
        exit
fi

if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
        echo "Cannot access file: $1"
        echo "Don't play, provide the vaild file."
        exit
fi

DOSFILE=$1
UNIXFILE=output.unix
CR='\015'

tr -d $CR < $DOSFILE > $UNIXFILE

echo "Done with the conversion"
echo "New output file is: $UNIXFILE"
exit

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/135781677519550.html

facebook status - What is a WEB SITE and how to Design a Free WEB STE

A website is a collection of web pages (documents that are accessed through the Internet), such as the one you're looking at now. A web page is what you see on the screen when you type in a web address, click on a link, or put a query in a search engine. A web page can contain any type of information, and can include text, color, graphics, animation and sound.

When someone gives you their web address, it generally takes you to their website's home page, which should introduce you to what that site offers in terms of information or other services. From the home page, you can click on links to reach other sections of the site. A website can consist of one page, or of tens of thousands of pages, depending on what the site owner is trying to accomplish.

Why Do People Visit Websites?

Generally, people look at websites for two primary reasons:

1. To find information they need. This could be anything from a student looking for pictures of frogs for a school project, to finding the latest stock quotes, to getting the address of the nearest Thai restaurant.

2. To complete a task. Visitors may want to buy the latest best-seller, download a software program, or participate in an online discussion about a favorite hobby.

The main thing to remember in creating a website is that you're not creating the website for you; you already know about the information or service you have to offer. You're creating the site for your visitors, so it should contain the content they want, and be organized in a way that makes sense, even to an outsider.

We'll tell you how to create and improve your website in further articles, but the main thing to remember is this: A website is a means of communication, and it is only successful when its message is received by the intended user.

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source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/135786650610367.html

facebook status - 7 Top tools to monitor your competitors’ traffic

Today we’re going to examine a number of tools and resources for getting insights into competitors’ traffic data. We’ll assess their strengths and weaknesses as well as the validity and usefulness of the data provided.
We’ve had clients asking us for a better view of overall market size and what kind of traffic their competitors are getting, since it can be tricky to find meaningful predictive data even when you know who your competitors are or should be.
It is worth pointing out that a number of these services suggest they can provide better data if you claim the sites by entering your ownership credentials. I can’t testify to the accuracy of this, and our analysis is based upon the free version of the tools as we did not have paid access to any of the tools.
We tested 25 sites for which we had reliable internal data, giving us insight into just how accurate these tools really are — or aren’t.

Alexa: Too often, dubious numbers
1Strengths: Alexa is good for comparing different sites traffic and for monitoring general traffic trends. It can be quite useful for comparing one site to a competitor site (up to five sites at a time). The index is massive and contains some data about all of the 25 sites we tested.
Weaknesses: Not so great for the smaller sites. As you can see below, you won’t get any of the traffic charts for sites ranked outside of the top 100,000, which means if Alexa thinks you are getting fewer than 10,000 visits per month you’re unlikely to glean any great information. Accuracy is a serious concern. This does call into question the usefulness of the tool in general. The numbers reported are not helpful for predicting traffic on their own.
Accuracy: We want to keep this all anonymous but let’s just say one site that we know gets 10-20,000 visits per month had an Alexa rank that was more than five times better than a site that we know gets 75,000+ visitors per month. And this was not just a one-off event. So I have to seriously question the reliability of this tool. It didn’t seem to be too bad at predicting the trends for a single site but the charts are extremely difficult to make any real use of. Interestingly it seems to be skewed in favor of sites within the search marketing space. Sites in the search marketing space that we looked at regularly outranked sites receiving more than 10 times as much traffic on a monthly basis.
How to best use Alexa: The tool is interesting for comparing similar sites or sites within an industry, but be very cautious about using this to make any meaningful suggestions or estimates on traffic data. The most accurate data seemed to be the data from the visitors by country — the percentages we looked at were not too far off.
Cost: Free. Options for site audits for $199.

Compete: Good UI, questionable data
2Strengths: Compete has a useful interface, speaks the right language (unique visitors, visits, etc.), offers the ability to compare multiple sites, and its data is easy to understand and well presented.
Weaknesses: Accuracy, somewhat limited number of sites – many sites that it classifies as “low sample sites,” and the cost of the Pro option.
Accuracy: Again, accuracy is a serious concern here. The data was off in some cases by as much as 2,000% for monthly visits. The accuracy seemed to be a bit better for the peaks in traffic and some of the general trends we looked at but was certainly not reliable enough for us to suggest reporting competitor traffic based upon this information.
How to best use Compete: It should come as no surprise that Compete is best used for comparing competitors. The scale of the data is way off but some of the trends seemed to be fairly reliable. I wouldn’t advise reporting any numbers from this data as they do not seem close/reliable at all – often off by a factor of 200% or more — however the trends are reliable. The information could be meaningfully used to look into seasonal trends between competitors.
Cost: Free. The Pro membership is $499 per month.

Google Ad Planner: Some unique twists
3Strengths: Google Ad Planner has a few things going for it: Its “sites also visited” data is good, the keywords searched for can be quite valuable, and the “audience interests” data is interesting.
Weaknesses:: Accuracy, lack of data for small sites.
Accuracy: The accuracy was really mixed. For many of the sites AdPlanner provided much better data than some of the others. However, they were still off by miles for some sites – off by as much as 1000%. Given the occasional “big miss,” I would not be comfortable using this data to make traffic predictions for a client.
How to best use Google Ad Planner: The data about other sites visited as well as keywords searched for (with affinity) could be extremely valuable as well as some of the other metrics reported on and audience interests. However, the traffic data is not particularly meaningful and can’t be relied upon.
Cost: Free.

Google Insights: Numbers normalized for search
4Strengths: Google Insights offers generalized trends around key phrases and key phrase groups and regional information. Trusted source.
Weaknesses: It was difficult to read the data. There were no hard numbers about traffic. It was hard to compare entire sites to one another.
Accuracy: You can bet that the accuracy of this data is going to be pretty good given that the data provider has access to more data than anyone else on the Internet. However, the fact that the numbers are normalized and more designed for key phrases and search terms and trends than for traffic data means that the search volume will correspond perfectly with the traffic to a site.
How to best use Google Insights: The tool could be quite helpful for finding the most valuable pockets of key phrases and key phrase groups. This could be particularly valuable when looking at a competitor site and trying to figure out which of their key phrases are driving the most traffic. It could help you see which of the key phrases within a key phrase group might be the most valuable.
Cost: Free.

Google Trends: For broad information gathering
5Strengths: Google Trends for Websites is good for illustrating magnitudes of difference between sites. It allows comparison of multiple websites, and it includes regional information.
Weaknesses: It’s not good for comparing sites fairly similar in size. It does not provide information for smaller sites when logged in, it’s accuracy is uneven and it provides no numbers.
Accuracy: The data seem to be more accurate when only trying to compare traffic from search; it does not seem to do as well in assessing overall traffic. When comparing websites with drastically different traffic numbers, the rough visual estimation appears to correspond quite well with the observed analytics data as well. When visiting the site and logged in, Trends it does provide numbers and ranges, though the data looks to be off on a few of the sites I have checked. It is not as far off as the data for the same sites using AdPlanner, but still considerably far off — e.g., reporting 140,000 visits for a site that receives about 320,000 unique visits daily.
How to best use Google Trends for Websites: Trends is great for broad information gathering. It gives some insight into similar searches when comparing sites, and in general it is unlikely that you will find better comparative data out there without direct access to your competitor’s analytics account. However, Trends does not provide numbers and thus can only be used to venture a guess at what sorts of numbers competitors are pulling in.
Cost: Free.

Quantcast: Nifty Media Planner Tool
6Strengths: Quantcast provides traffic numbers that are easy to follow, displays information nicely, offers some demographic information and has an interesting Media Planner Tool.
Weaknesses: Unreliable and often inaccurate, lacks data for small and medium trafficked sites. Inability to compare sites.
Accuracy: The biggest shortcoming of the Quantcast data is accuracy. As with some of the other services, the traffic data is estimated and is nowhere near accurate on the sites for which Quantcast had any data. Data was off by as much as 10 times the actual analytics data for some of the sites.
How to best use Quantcast: Although the data is not particularly reliable for the traffic data, some of the other tools the site has to offer seem quite interesting and worth further investigation. The demographics information provides a reference as to how the data compare against Internet averages.
Cost: Free.

SEMrush: Most accurate of the bunch
7Strengths: SEMrush‘s data includes sites of all sizes, a list of key phrases and rankings for those terms — and provided the most accurate data of all the tools we examined.
Weaknesses: The data were still imperfect. Customers must pay to get full data lists. And the data is only for Google traffic.
Accuracy: The data were not perfectly accurate, though generally speaking SEMrush did not miss the mark for any of the sites we tested the way a number of the other tools did. In the end, the data were surprisingly accurate. As with some of the Google data, the information reported is just the Google search engine traffic, but this is our main area of focus and was quite accurate when drilling down into that specific area of traffic within analytics.
How to best use SEMrush: Although imperfect, this tool came the closest to providing accurate data that I would, at least with a word of warning, be willing to share with a client about potential expectations or about where their competitors’ traffic may be. Most importantly, the add-on options and ability to see the keyword lists and how the competitor ranks for these terms is extraordinarily appealing.
Cost: Free to $499 per month. We used the free version.

A look at two final sites that estimate Web traffic

comScore

Unfortunately, we struggled with comScore. We were unable to get a log-in or sneak a peek at any of the data.
How to best use comScore: comScore offers a number of reports and insights into markets, including reports on local market size as well as information about valuable/important keywords in an industry. It would be very interesting to find out where this data was coming from and how good it was, but we were not able to achieve this in time to publish this information.
Cost: Not disclosed.

HitWise

Unfortunately, we were not able to get data from HitWise in time for publication.
How to best use HitWise: HitWise, similarly to comScore, works on a reporting basis insofar as you speak to them about the types of market reports you would like, or you can create custom reports. While we cannot comment on the accuracy of the data, the services offered look to be better tailored to an SEO‘s needs than do the reports offered by comScore. However, generally speaking HitWise will not work with agencies, which will be a bit of a bummer for some of you.
Cost: Free to $695+ per report

Conclusion

I hope that the findings from all this research will be valuable to you. Ultimately, it’s an incomplete study. For the time being I would rely most heavily on SEMrush for predicting traffic and estimating how well a competitor is doing, but all of these tools add something to the ever-growing traffic toolbelt even if it may be for a purpose other than that which I was hoping they would achieve.

source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/135786650614459.html

- Bash Script: Transfer files through FTP from within script

Below shell script demonstrate the usage of FTP operation from within the bash script, feel free to copy and use this script:

Source: cat autoftp.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Please provide the file path for ftp operation."
exit
fi

USERNAME=linuxpoison
PASSWORD=password
FILENAME="$1"
FTP_SERVER=ftp.foo.com
echo "Starting the ftp operation ...."

ftp -n $FTP_SERVER <<Done-ftp
user $USERNAME $PASSWORD
binary
put "$FILENAME"
bye
Done-ftp

echo "Done with the transfer of file: $FILENAME"
exit

Output: ./autoftp.sh log.tar.gz
Starting the ftp operation ....
Done with the transfer of file: log.tar.gz

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/135781677511456.html

- Free White Paper - The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data Centers

"The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP® Data Centers"

Linux has arrived in large SAP data centers, and the SAP customer base shows significant momentum in migrating from UNIX to Linux. To explain this development, the following white paper will provide information about which customers are migrating from UNIX to Linux, in terms of size and industrial sector, and why they are migrating.

The paper will provide statistical information on the market shares of originating UNIX flavors, and information on the distribution of source and target databases. It will present a model that compares the cost of UNIX implementations with that of Linux implementations, and it will demonstrate that Linux is ready for business-critical SAP implementations. It will also show that significant savings can be realized by migrating SAP system landscapes from UNIX to Linux.

Download your free copy of White paper (The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP® Data Centers) - here

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/135781677515646.html

facebook status - The Big Reasons to Join LinkedIn if You are not Yet Joined

All most all the webmasters/professionals must know about the LinkedIn social network since it provides a way to success in your online business. That is because it is the most popular social network among professionals as Facebook among general population. Since LinkedIn is the most popular social network among the professionals it has the ability to connect people, partners and friends to your online business.

The entrance or the door opens in to business world, with the creation of a perfect profile on LinkedIn. With the technological revolution and latest inventions of different online applications, employers tend to find the high quality employees without wasting their time on interviews and etc. Instead of that they tend to locate people through internet and make online interviews. This saves their time and money both. Because of this, the traditional paper work has already left the ground.

Following reasons will stress you why a LinkedIn profile is a must for you;

1. To search for your potential on Google

As we all know Google is the biggest search engine that all most all people are used to search online content. If somebody wants to hire you, they will search your skills on Google to see whether you have any profile with all the skills you have. If you have a LinkedIn profile with complete data, it is easy for them to get some impression about your capacities. Other important aspect of LinkedIn profile is, it comes to the #1 position of SERP while somebody is searching for your qualifications. This will help you to approve for online jobs easily.

2. To make positive about your potential and not about you

The profile should be completed more with your prospects and not about yourself. People are looking not for you, but for the abilities you have. I have seen most of the peoples are filling their profiles with unnecessary data. No one is looking for bull shit. All are looking for the qualities and the capacities you have. So fill it with the data that related to your education, skills and professional carriers.

3. Show the others that you are a professional

Here comes the data presentation part. Even though you filled your profile with valuable data it will not play a vital role until you arrange them in a correct order. Your way of presentation plays a huge role in deciding whether you are qualified or not.

4. As a way to optimize your blog/website

Making high quality backlinks is considering as an off page SEO strategy to build more traffic by getting your website in to the first place of SERP. Targeted keywords on LinkedIn may improve the search engine visibility of yourblog/website to appear it in the #1 position of SERP. This indirectly means you are going to receive huge traffic and more sales.

5. To enhance and share your knowledge

No one is to discuss an important issue with nobody. They like to share their thoughts with somebody rather than a no body. So always fill your profile to feel you as somebody to others.

As long as the technological development, the people will use more online business strategies rather than adhering to traditional paper works. So it is a must to make your LinkedIn profile with high quality data today itself.

source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/13578665068981.html

facebook status - 20 offline advertising methods to promote your business/blog

Advertising and advertising methods are a must know topic for each and every businessman. All the sales of a business is depend on the quality of advertising methods that they use. If you can implement some adverting methods to attract more visitors, then you will get higher sales than your competitor. The conversion rate in other words the amount of the people who purchase items out of the number of visitors who comes through your ads is depend on the quality of the ads and the marketing ability of your company though highly effective advertising methods.

Today we are here to discuss a bit about the advertising methods you can use to promote your business. Actually there are different advertising methods. But with the development of internet technology we can devide those advertising methods broadly in to two categories. They are;

1. Online Advertising Methods

2. Offline Advertising methods

Most of the online advertising methods is a part of ongoing link building. And most of the advertising methods to promote a blog or a website also will apply to the online businesses as well. Every time when I had a chance I wrote them to this blog. You can find them under the category of Web Traffic Building. So in this post I am going to show you few great advertising methods. Before that we need to know some basics of offline advertising methods;

What is Advertising:

I don’t think I want to drag this further with unnecessary details since almost all know what it meant. Advertising is a method that use to promote a product to their potential customers. There may be some complex definitions for this, but this is more than enough to learn on advertising.

What is Offline advertising:

Offline advertising is a method that is used by the product or service providers to promote their products or services without using internet or internet based methods such as email marketing, social networking, etc. Simply offline advertising methods are implemented without using a internet.

What are the offline advertising methods

There are hundreds of advertising methods which can be used effectively on offline. Most of those advertising methods are innovative new methods.

Well, here is the big 20 ways of offline advertising methods, here we go;

#1. Distribution of hand bills

Hand bills/small leaflets are a good media for distribution of your company/website name. It is cost effective as well. After printing some leaflets you can distribute them among your friends, family members and collage students. This is a good advertising method to notify the people about your business.

#2. Posters and banners

You can print some posters and put them on walls. But don’t stick posters on walls where it is prohibited to stick posters, you will end up in jail

Or else you can print some banners and place it in a place where most of the people hanging near by. As examples in at a bus stop, railway station, private institutions, clubs and etc.

#3. Bookmarks

Every person is reading books regardless of their age or sex. If you can print few bookmarks and distribute it among the people, your website will be notice to people again and again at every time they are reading books.

#4. Use animals to advertise

One of the advertising methods I hate a lot. It is not a good idea even though I mentioned it as an advertising method. That is because harming those innocent animals can’t be considered as a good practice.

Look at the above picture to check how animals are used to take as models for your business.

#5. Printing your brand name on Mugs

This is one of the very popular advertising methods. I also using a mug which is printed by Unileavers, a multinational company. Every time I take that mug in to my hands I notice the brand name of the company. This is one of the very effective offline advertising methods. But it is bit expensive to do.

#6. Add your products/service to collage news papers

Someone will ask why specially for collage news papers. That is because almost all the collage students will go online at least once in two days. So it is easy to get visitors to your website by advertising on collage newspapers. One of my friend in C Halkidiki, Greece has did this trick and got hundreds of sales for his site.

#7. Send Post cards

This is an easy and less expensive advertising method for every businessman. It only cost a few dollars to send a bulk of post cards to the people. Then the word spread among the people and they will look in to your products.

#8. Put leaflets inside popular newspapers

Another popular offline advertising method for new businessman. Cheap and easy way to spread the brand name of your company. What you want to do is just be friendlier with the sales person of a newspaper shop and add your leaflet inside all the papers. It is one of the simplest advertising methods too.

#9. Use Business cards with contact information

Every time you got a chance, use your business card to provide contact details. On the back side of your business card print your product details briefly. One of the most commonest advertising method out of all methods.

#10. Send Few leaflets or testing products with flyers

Providing some testing products to flyers who are visiting regularly will hep you to promote your products internationally. If you have some good network in community, it is not that difficult to use this advertising method.

#11. Print on T-Shirts

Again one of the commonest out of all advertising methods. Print a T-shirt which displays your product or brand name and distribute it as a gift.

#12. Use business journals to promote your products

Business journals are very popular among the business crowd. It helps your to spread your company name.

#13. Add on newspaper classified

Newspaper classifieds are getting more and more popular. If you want to sell a product newspaper classified is one of the best place to advertise it.

#14. Stick as a sticker on your car

Make a sticker of your brand name and stick it on your car, distribute it among your friend who are having a vehicle. Then thousands eyeball will looks at your car once it going on a street. They will surely read the content of your sticker.

#15. Print your website address on your luggage or your travelling bag

I think I don’t want to discuss this. This is similar as the sticker on your car. More exposure will helps to get more sales.

#16. Place product details on common notice boards

Notice boards are one of the highest exposed places. Almost hundreds of eyeballs read the content of a notice board. So try it up.

#17. Use automated mobile messages

This method cost you a lot. But most people will notice your message. Some neglect it as a spam.

#18. Advertise on radio and television

Use some popular film actress to promote your stuff. Ask her to say that she also using that product. Then your product sales will go up as a rocket. That is because people like to imitate popular characters and they would like to say “that actress is also using this product” to the others. This is a very effective method of offline advertising methods, but it is highly expensive.

#19. Hire vehicles to print your ads

If you have millions of money, then you can do this advertising method. This is very effective since every time vehicle travels your ad will be noticed by the community. But this advertising method can be considered as a highly expensive out of the all advertising methods.

#20. Use digital boards and lights to advertise

Another common way of offline advertising. I have seen a lot of companies are advertising on digital screens. But it is bit expensive and initial cost is high.

But the boards with lights is not high as digital boards, but there are advertising methods with neon lights which may be bit expensive for a new businessman.

I wrote this post for the people those who asked me what are the offline advertising methods? How to implement offline adverting methods? Is offline advertising methods are effective?. I thinks the above article has helped the people those who had quarries on offline adverting methods.

All the above advertising methods can be used to promote a website too. And also anyone can use these advertising methods to promote any business offline. But need to mention that advertising methods are changing over the time. The best advertising methods of yesterday may not be the best advertising methods of today. So it is required to change the advertising strategy according to the changing of best adverting methods. New innovative advertising methods always will win the race.

If you have any different offline advertising methods, please feel free to share them with us as a comment below. We always respect your ideas on offline advertising methods.

source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/135786650617815.html

- Bash Script: Script to check internet connection

Below is simple bash script to test the Internet connection using wget utility.
Feel free to copy and use this script

Source: cat internet_connection.sh
#!/bin/bash

HOST=$1
WGET="/usr/bin/wget"

$WGET -q --tries=10 --timeout=5 $HOST
RESULT=$?

if [[ $RESULT -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Connection made successfully to $HOST"
else
echo "Fail to make connection to $HOST"
fi

Output:
./internet_connection.sh http://yahoo.com
Connection made successfully to http://yahoo.com

./internet_connection.sh http://yahosssss.com
Fail to make connection to http://yahosssss.com

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/135781677519016.html

- Bash Script: Commenting out the block of code using here document

Many times it required to comment out the huge block of code for debugging purpose and it is very annoying to put the "#" tag before each and every line of this code

Below shell script shows how to comment out the block of code using here document (: <<'COMMENT')

Source: cat comment_block.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "statement before comment."
: <<'COMMENT'
echo "This is inside the comment block and will not get printed"
a=0
b=20
echo $((b/a))
echo "No error"
COMMENT

echo "This is after the comment block."
exit

Output: ./comment_block.sh
statement before comment.
This is after the comment block.

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/135781677514041.html

facebook status - My Ongoing Link Building Strategy for SEO

making-connections and my online link building strategy

Most of the newbies are asking me how I made backlinks for my blog and what is my link building strategy. And some other people are asking me, how to SEO (Search engine optimization) their blogs with backlinks. At the same time they are asking me how I allocate time to do link building within my blog. So I decided to add a new post on “My ongoing link building strategy”.

First we should know why link building is so important. That is because you are looking for a good search engine ranking. Your search engine ranking will be improved with the increased number of backlinks you have. The other thing is that you can increase the number of direct visitors by building backlinks. That is why you need a link building strategy for your blog. This link building technique has been proved as best methods to get a better page ranking in SEO for years.

Let me explain what I did so far with my link building strategy to make backlinks;

To be frank, continuous and sustainable link building is quite challenging. It takes time and effort. But you must do link building for your website SEO. Allocating time for link building is bit challenging for a part time blogger. But you must make a time table to allocate the time for link building. That’s why most of the experience bloggers say that the time management is very essential when blogging.

Let me move in to the real link building strategy I did to buildlinks to my blog;

1. Continuous commenting on other blogs for link building

From the day I made my blog up to now I made comments on other blogs. It is a great chance to get high quality backlinks to a blog. It takes some time to make a good comment. But it is very effective way of link building to a blog. I can highly recommend this link building method to anyone who is interested on blogging.

2. Regular guest posting on high PR blogs for link building

One of my earlier posts discussed the importance of guest posting. So I am not going to make a discussion on guest posting even though it is related to link building. But I’ll give some short description here. By guest posting you will be able to make high quality backlinks to your site as you did in blog commenting. Make original articles, post them on other blogs and ask the owners of those sites to add two backlinks to your blog. It is bit time consuming, but a very effective method of link building.

3. Link Building by article submission to top directories

The article submission in to top directories is still working for SEO. But with the time it is becoming less effective. But it is also a good method for link building to your blog since it provide high PR backlinks. Anyway don’t worry, play your part correctly then the Google will do the rest for you.

4. Press release submission and link building

Press release is a very good method to bring instant web traffic to your blog. At the same time it is a good method of link building. You can make some announcement about your blog; video marketing or any other thing that you think it is special to the community. I used this method to announce my special events. Recently I announced about my new e-book which is scheduled to be publishedon 12th Monday 2012.

5. Submission of my blog to blog directories for backlinks

This is not a very good strategy to get direct traffic, but it is still a good method to get backlinks. So I used it as a part of my link building strategy. Submit your blog into each and every directory you are coming across. That’s how it works.

6. On going social media marketing for backlinks

Social bookmarking is one of the easiest and best methods of link building to your blog. It is a very effective method to drive direct visitors too. It also makes high quality backlinks to your blog which helps in climb in on SERP.

At the end what I want to say is link building is not a one time SEO strategy, this is a continuous or ongoing SEO strategy to bring your blog in to the first page of SERP. So if you want to enjoy better result, you should have sustained motivation on link building for your blog.

I explained the all the methods that I have done through by link building strategy. So this is your turn to start a new link building strategy for your blog too.

Sometimes you may have some different link building strategy that is more effective than mine. Is so share your link building strategy with all the blogging community as a comment below.

We always respect your opinion on my Link building strategy and I take it as an opportunity to improve my link building strategy to a higher level than this

source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/135786650619891.html

facebook status - Key Issues in Managing Online Reputation When Working Across Different Languages

work with different languages and keeping your reputation

If your blog is attracting global traffic and managing online reputation with foreign languages, the readers are going to become a key part of your strategy. You want to be sure the message they are sharing about you is a positive one, no matter what language it’s in.

Managing Online Reputation Begins with Being Alert

You can’t manage what has said if you don’t know what it is. Use similar strategies to stay informed of what’s being written about you in foreign languages as you do for English-language discussions. This will almost certainly include setting Google or Yahoo! Alerts so that you receive emails when your specified search terms are mentioned in online content. When keeping tabs on foreign language discussion of your blog or hot topics, consider whether you need to translate search terms before entering them into the alert services.

Be Proactive about Managing Online Reputation

You will forever be playing catch-up if you only worry about your reputation with overseas readers when you come across negative feedback. If you promote a positive reputation the occasional piece of bad press won’t do you nearly as much damage. Begin by translating key content so that your non-English speaking readers are not relying on others to tell them what you are saying. Consider also interacting on social networks popular in other countries.

Managing OnlineReputation is an Interactive Process

If you areinteracting with English-speaking readers via your blog, be sure not to neglectyour foreign readers. Take every opportunity to acknowledge and respond tooverseas visitors and reply politely in the reader’s own language, if possible,to negative feedback. Not only will your efforts to communicate in non-Englishlanguages be appreciated but it also helps you to stay in control of yourmessage when managing online reputation with speakers of other languages.

Summary;

Blogging is an effective way to spread your ideas, to build up an online reputation. SEO helps you get visible to your target, but when you start reaching international audiences, your blogging strategy, both content and optimization, needs some changes.

source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/13578665066317.html

- An indispensable ebook for every Linux administrator

"Linux® Quick Fix Notebook- Free 696 Page eBook"

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If you're responsible for delivering results with Linux, Linux® Quick Fix Notebook brings together all the step-by-step instructions, precise configuration commands, and real-world guidance you need. This distilled, focused, task-centered guide was written for sysadmins, netadmins, consultants, power users...everyone whose livelihood depends on making Linux work, and keeping it working.

This book's handy Q&A format gives you instant access to specific answers, without ever forcing you to wade through theory or jargon. Peter Harrison addresses virtually every aspect of Linux administration, from software installation to security, user management to Internet services--even advanced topics such as software RAID and centralized LDAP authentication. Harrison's proven command-line examples work quickly and efficiently, no matter what Linux distribution you're using. Here's just some of what you'll learn how to do:

* Build Linux file/print servers and networks from scratch
* Troubleshoot Linux and interpret system error messages
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source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/135781677516019.html

- Perl Script: Convert any given string To-Lower or To-Upper case

Below is simple perl script which converts any given string to Upper or to-Lower case ...
Here, we have used the perl Escape Sequence ( \U \L \E)

\U -- Convert all following letters to Uppercase
\L -- Convert all following letters to Lowercase
\E -- Ends the effect of \L, \U or \Q

Feel free to copy and use this code ...

Source: cat case-conversion.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Enter the string: ";
$var = <STDIN>;

print "To uppercase: \U${var}\E \n";
print "To lowercase: \L${var}\E \n";

Output: perl case-conversion.pl
Enter the string: LinuxPoison
To uppercase: LINUXPOISON
To lowercase: linuxpoison

source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2012/09/13578167751058.html

facebook status - List of Blog pinging services that I used most

best 5 pinging services to ping your blog

Blog pinging is one of the commonly used methods in blog promotion. What is blog pinging? Blog pinging is a process of notifying search engines and directories that your blog is recently updated. What you have to do is just submit your blog URL or your feed URL via a pinging service. But be careful not to over submit the same blog again and again. If you do so search engine consider your blog as a spam. It will course permanent banning of your blog/website.

The importance of blog pinging is to bring your blog higher and higher on SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Following is a list of pinging services that I used to ping my blog so far (click the service to visit it);

Pinging Service

1. Pingomatic

2. FeedShark

3. Pingoat

4. Blo.gs

5. Ping Feed burner

The services Ilisted above worked very well for me. But I never tried too much on these pinging services since I don’t want to detect my blog as a spam to Google. After making a new post I used to do it once with using only two or three services listed above. I never used all five services at once.

So this is just a short post to stress you the most important pinging services. Just ping your blog address just after making a new post is the key in success of blog pinging. Do it and enjoy.

source:http://trafficneed.blogspot.com/2012/06/135786650616298.html

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