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HowDoYa, A place to learn how to do the things you like

HowDoYa is a site where users put small guides or tutorials on how to perform certain things, and will serve as an example for others who want to learn. For example, did you ever wonder how to grow a garden, how to plan a wedding, how to buy a swimsuit?

If you have any concerns, perhaps you can resolve them at this site, since the site itself is a kind of search engine that specializes in How-to sites. It incorporates features typical sites such as social categories and labels that facilitate the visualization of content. In general, there are many topics to entertain for a long time and if we have lack of inspiration, in the main site we can find a list with the the HowDoYa Top 10.

CatchVideo, download videos from YouTube

CatchVideo is an application that allows us to download any video that is hosted on YouTube, as well as incorporating a converter that does everything for us, the only thing we need to do is enter the URL of the video that we want to download, and choose the output format ant that is it, we can download the file to our computer, the supported output formats are:

. Mpeg (Windows).
. Mov (Mac OS X).
. 3 Gp (Cellular).
. Mp4 (iPod / PSP / iPhone).
. Flv (Flash).
. Mp3 (audio only video).

The results are decently good, the file size depends on the type of output format, and in general, is a good tool for lowering your favourite videos from YouTube.

Free Antivirus Download

There are lots of free Antivirus for download, most of them have great quality and are necessary tools for maintaining the security and the good functioning of the computer. They are mush better then other applications like Norton that cost a fortune and are useful. In this list we can find and download programs to eliminate virus. Here are some of the best antivirus programs:

• F–Secure
• BitDefender
• Kaspersky
• McAfee
• Symantec
• eTrust
• Avast
• eScan
• Panda
• Norman

Some of them are complete antivirus programs, which have no limitations when it comes to use it, until the developer or the company decided to change the type of license you don’t have to pay anything.

Learn new words every day with LearnItLists

If you want to learn a new language, you will need a good vocabulary to be able to progress. Learning many words and expressions provides some insight into the language you want to learn. LearnItLists is a widget that helps you to learn 10 new words a day, choosing the language you want to learn. This is based on the assumption that 1000 words is more than enough to have a strong level in any language. If you learn 10 words per day in 100 days, you will learn those 1000. Just sign up, give our name, e-mail and select the language you want to learn as well as the interface language. After the basic configuration, we will see a list of words on the left and a space to write on the right. At any time you can reveal the answer to memorize it.

The down side is that it does not include a pronunciation guide, so you have to imagine how it sounds.

LiURL For Big Annoying URL

LiURL is a service that allows us to shorten big URLS, transforming Internet Addresses (URLs) in their shorter equivalents, which allows us to save space when it comes to showing an address in specific, or for example, when using microblogging services like Twitter or Pownce, which limits the number of characters which can be used every time you write an update.
All you have to do is enter the long URL inside the indicated box, and then press the LiURL button. Then, we get the url short version that can be used anywhere we want. For example, I use the URL http://2refresh.blogspot.com/, or its equivalent using LiURL that is http://liurl.com/a3. And that's all, so easy that anyone can use.
The service it’s in Spanish but readable.

How to get a cheaper mortgage

The unstoppable growth in the price of the houses, both new and second-hand, leads to an extra-effort to search for a cheaper mortgage. Probably this will be the most important investment that we will make in all our lives, so we need a mortgage that let us achieve the best possible conditions to aspire a greater tranquillity in the future. However, the concept of cheaper mortgage is somewhat vague, and we should determine what parameters to monitor at the time of taking a mortgage. Then summarize the most important features, so that we can use this list as a guide when negotiating with the bank. Interest rate: probably one of the most important factors, which relate our monthly mortgage and its duration. The interest rate may be fixed or variable, and in the last case we will have to choose a reference rate.

Mortgage duration: the longer the duration of the mortgage the shorter the monthly fee is, but the greater are the interest that we will have to pay to the bank.

Commissions: there are large numbers of committees for different concepts, and we will need to properly analyze them all.

Additional products: in some cases banks force us to hire additional products for better terms. In these cases it will be very important to calculate the actual cost of such a derivative product.

My Personal Advice:

Be aware for the low monthly fees associated with long-term mortgages (40 or 50 years). In these cases, the interest that the bank takes is enormous, depending on the interest rate and duration you can end paying between 2 and 3 times the actual value of the house.

Talk with the Mortgages specialists if you need more help.

Random Header Image (RHI)

This is a simple tutorial but very useful for creating random images. I think it will be extremely useful for the Blogger platform users because that doesn’t allow the use of plugins like WordPress. First you must have several images to act as background. Try Google to search for photos that you like to see in your site.
This should be the CSS code that is on the blog page template:

# Header ( Background: url # 476 ( "Backgroundpicture.jpg") in the bottom left-repeat;
Margin: 0 0 0;
Padding: 0 0 8px;
Color: # FFF;
)

Next this script allow to create a new style in order to replace the "background" property. If the script does not work for any reason, the image defined in the CSS code will appear.

< type="text/javascript">
Var banner = new Array () / / create a vector (array) called banner

/ /, Next we will fill the vector’s positions
Banner [0] = "address of the image"
Banner [1] = "address of the image"
Banner [2] = "address of the image"
Banner [3] = "address of the image"
Banner [4] = "address of the image"

Var random = Math.round (4 * Math.random ()) / / here is created a random number between 0 and 4, which is related to the vector’s position (array)

/ /, Next we will write the code on page
/ / Banner [random] means the vector banner in the random position previously defined

Document.write ( "< style>");
Document.write ( "# (header");
Document.write ( 'background: url ( "' + banner [random] + '') no-repeat left TOP; '); Document.write ( ")");
Document.write ( '< / style> ");
< / Script>

Put this script inside the tag <> < / head> and it should work. To verify if your header is named header, if not you will need to change this in the script.
And now if you done everything correctly, each time the page is loaded a random image should appear. To test it simply press the F5 key 2refresh your blog.

Blogspot Title Optimization

Most of the new templates available on Blogspot already provide proper indexing of their individual pages, however many of the old templates or those messed up by de blogger, have problems to be correctly indexed in the search engines. If you are a Blogspot user and don’t mind to use some tricks to improve your Google search results, here is how you can optimise the titles in each of the entry pages, archives and homepage: copy the code that is presented below, make the appropriate adjustments, and put it in to the row for the title in the html code of the template.

Note that there is a blank space in each of the tags, just after the "<", which will have to eliminate before implementing in the blogger template. Implementation of this code is the responsibility of the author and you should always save a copy before begin making changes. The use of the "" here is just a matter of preference, some people use ":", "-".You don’t need to add more information then the name of the blog or the entry. Personally, I recommend the use of the name in the blog title on all pages and usually after the article title. The exceptions, I reserve them for strong brands or sites that depend on searches related to the mark / entity, where the trade name should come first.

Here’s an example: I used Google to search for some words in a title post of my blog and my post it’s the FIRST (nº 1) out of 1,960,000 results, see it below.

My Origami Fish, Dummie style

I’m learning Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. I’m starting with the basics, at the Origami for Dummies style.

My first project is to make a paper fish (angelfish).
I have to use a square of paper with the same colour on both sides. With a 4" piece of paper I can make a 4" high fish.

Click to enlarge

I’m not going to post my origami fish picture because it’s too ugly (I suck at this), perhaps when I can make one that resembles a fish.

Can you manipulate the Alexa ranking?

Of course! It may be relatively easy to manipulate the ranking and down to a level of around 100000. But the process to improve the ranking became more difficult. Of course, the best method is to have interesting content and receive many visits, but this is not for everyone. Some measures to improve the ranking Alexa.

1. Install and configure the Alexa bar as our homepage.

2. Place the Alexa widget in the footer of your blog.

3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar, particularly users of the Web site, friends, co-workers, etc...

4. Write an article about Alexa ranking. Eventually achieve some visits from users who already use the bar and seek information on how to improve the ranking.

5. Putting the signature in forums or bloggers services linking to our site. The likelihood of receiving visits via the link is great.

6. Write specific content to webmasters, particularly on SEO, profitability of sites, etc...

7. Use auto-surfers with a install bar. This method will only be advisable if the site does not have any advertising as e.g. Adsense. There are even people who sell this type of service in various forums for webmasters.

8. Putting in a subdomain blog some type of content that generates traffic compatible with the ranking. The subdomains will contribute to increase the ranking.

The rankings available for measuring sites have always some flaws, even the more reliable ones. But because it’s used by some services, nothing like taking advantage of that. What really matters is to have real traffic, because this is what really makes the difference in the making profit blog business.

What are the limitations of Alexa ranking?

This ranking is favourable to all kinds of sites related to webmasters and technology. This is because normally the visitors these sites are potentially more likely to have the installed bar than users who never heard of Alexa. Therefore, this method of measurement of traffic in a site is not very precise. It is easy to identify sites with a large disparity of visits in which the least visited has a higher ranking. Just as a reference for ranking lack of liability.

But once more if you want to make some money you better do well in this ranking.

Why the Alexa ranking is important and why do we want to increase it?

Normally the webmasters, advertisers and networks of profitability sites, use this ranking as a traffic estimate to a site, since these statistics are never public. The more traffic a site has the more valuable is to sell any type of advertising, be it a link, a review or a banner. If we want to monetize our site, then we may want to increase this ranking, as it may be closely linked to the price of advertising. There are many systems of advertising that use this ranking to establish a price. The PayPerPost, ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews and even isolated advertisers use this ranking.

So if you whant to make some money you better do well in this ranking.

How to find stolen content in the Internet

Is not always possible to prevent readers from picking our work and present it without assigning any kind of credit to us.Today, there are some sites that help us find content that possibly has been stolen, such as Copyscape, Find Articles or even Google. In the case of images you can always use Google to search for original images related to your site. Through Google alerts you can receive, via email, a notification whenever something containing words defined by you appears. With Google alerts I advise to place between those words things that define you and your site as your name, the name of the site and address of the site so that you are not bombarded with e-mails every day. Something that I advice to do is to always check the "incoming links" or check your trackback. Whenever possible include links to other articles in your site, this way the content thief will put a reference to your site pointing out their presence. Not all references or trackbacks are from content thieves therefore check well before charging them with robbery.

Do you know more methods to search for stolen content?

Does your blog treat the readers as tourists?

Everyone knows cities where two or more similar spaces, separated only by a few hundred metres, but have totally different prices. This usually occurs in places where tourist demand is the highest. You probably recognize the following traps for tourists on your one town: high prices, avoid by locals, localized along the tourists routes. Some blogs and sites do the same with their visitors. Fill the site with ads, forcing those who want some information to unnecessary clicks, devoting almost full attention to search engines and ignore the usual clientele, in the endless quest for more page views. For some this is an acceptable way for most is a way to get rid off new readers and dispose the concerned. And it’s very easy to fall into temptation, write a post about a phenomenon like adsense or about the subject of the moment, the counter start to show big numbers and you don’t want anything else. It’s the opposite error that most bloggers do: don’t know how to use the search engines to generate traffic. It is natural that when they learn they become victims of a small overdose. Traffic may have this addictive effect.

It would be unwise not to enumerate some of the most common errors of who begins the optimisation and let themselves be guide by the counter:

-- Write to Google and ignore the readers. It is possible to reconcile the two but it requires some work and ingenuity, something that not all are willing. For the most, the secret is to work entries that may render money, and ignore the rest.

-- Addressing too many unconnected issues just to get traffic from search engines. In a personal blog is perfectly natural and tolerable that the author sometimes write on subjects that are not the domain of the blog, but when it often uses the traps the readers understand the message.

-- Abuse of internal links. There are increasingly blogs that instead of connecting directly to external sources use links to internal pages to maintain the visitor and optimise the site. It is something that is often seen on media sites, reasons for this: because they can and because they always have been making this. I wonder if sometimes I do not also fall down on temptation.

-- Lack of credit, either for fear of losing the reader or to look more intelligent. Putting the source is always good, and is respected by other bloggers.

-- Ads everywhere, in all shapes and sizes and the more unexpected the better. Some go to the point of forcing readers to mental gymnastics to follow the text. It’s not good for the readers but I bet that the ads convert reasonably.

-- Partial Feed (look, an internal link!) The feed is increasing the point of contact between the blog and its regular readers. What better signal than a partial feed to show regular readers "that if you want more you will have to pay" (expend more time).

Do you remember more errors? I think these are the key ones.

As many companies have learned to reconcile the two groups and serve them differently also the blogs can learn to exploit the benefits of frogs and googles to grow some audience, influence, visits and why not, money.

Tips to increase the number of subscribers to your feed

I am going to give you some tips to increase the number of subscribers to your feed:

- Invite your readers to subscribe: A good way of capturing subscribers is to put a simple notice or invitation to subscribe your feed, so if a visitor find some interesting posts in your blog he can be able to subscribe the feed.

For example, I have installed a few months ago a simple message underneath each post individually, which I invite readers to subscribe to the feed and receive all the latest news with a simple click.

- Make your feed Visible: This point is very important, many people do not know that the “subscribers count button” is a link to subscribe, it is advisable to put a RSS indemnificatory button, the typical orange button that can be seen in many places, it is a standard button that attract attention. Sometimes it might happen that the reader is already immune to the orange RSS button in your blog and a subscriber is lost, that’s why mine its blue.

- Show / Hide count subscribers: Potential subscribers don’t subscribe if the numbers in the subscriber counter are to low. A counter with few subscribers can discourage your visitors to subscribe, so it’s a good idea to put the counter button only when you have some subscribers making it attractive. When visitors see that so many people already signed, they will sign to, this happens for a normal reason "if lots of people signed it’s because the information is good,” so they want to subscribe too.

- Enable subscriptions via email: One option that not many people are using, I didn’t use because I thought that readers didn’t use this method of subscription. If you enabled this service in FeedBuner you will see that with the passing of days, the number of subscribers will begin to rise in a very dramatic way, since subscriptions by mail are also taken in account in the overall number of subscribers.

- Redirect your feed to FeedBurner: This is important if you want to unify your feed, there are many people who subscribe to live feed on your site, not to FeedBurner.

Shareapic Pays You For Hosting Pictures

Pictures and Video always had a great demand on the web. The dispute for the market assumes greater proportions, but it’s the public who wins the most with this dispute, even though the advertising is very aggressive.

Shareapic comes in to the dispute with a well organized service addition of photos, offering you a friendly interface that easy allow you to free upload your pics to construct your album, get an embed code then display the pic on your site of choice, but here comes the difference from the others, every registered Shareapic user gets a cut of any advertising revenues Shareapic makes.
“Primarily this isn’t based on advertising revenue made against each image (although users can add their Adsense code for some revenue via Google), payments are calculated based on image views. Their example:

If in month one Shareapic calculates to distribute $1,000 to our members, we will first tally up the total number of image views for that month. Using these two numbers we can determine the respective payouts for each user. If there were a total of 500,000 image views for the month, image views will equate to $0.002 each (1,000 divided by 500,000), or $2 per 1000 image views. If you’re posting lots of pics in forums, MySpace or eBay, you can see how easy it is to earn quite a bit of money!” Seen in techcrunch.com

Shareapic changes the perspective of current services like ImageShack and Photobucket in which is given to the user a large space to store images and pictures but the income generated by the visits stays with them.

The Sponsored Review Post

The SponsoredReviews is one more paid reviews site that I use to make some money. The SponsoredReviews market seems to be much more competitive then the PayPerPost which makes it much more difficult that get a review. While many of the reviews in PayPerPost are targeted according to the pagerank of blogs, in SponsoredReviews blogs in English language get far more reviews than other blogs.
When you sign in you will have to submit your blog for approval and acceptance although they accept many blogs, in order to avoid saturating the market with the low competitiveness of some blogs, some are rejected. Read the conditions that appear on the page for submitting your blog. When you sign in your blog is suggested a price for your reviews. This value determines the maximum amount you can claim for each review, you can take the suggested price or put an higher price on your reviews, it’s up to you.
In your profile you can choose which categories are the most appropriate to your blog. It is important not to fill the blog with non interest articles to the target audience, and also, think that for the advertiser this cannot be an investment without return. The reviews can have values from $ 5 to $ 1000 dollar, the amount charged by SponsoredReviews it’s only 35% which means that a blogger can earn between 3.25 dollars and 650 dollars per review. Many advertisers raise the limit of their reviews with large values in order to attract more bloggers but generally only accept the minimum price or a little more than that. I do not think that is a site with authority because now I have 12 proposals to review pending, some of them already have more than a month. A common example is an advertiser put the value of its review between $ 10 and $ 50 when you can make a proposal to write a review in your blog for $ 30. There are several factors that may influence the decision of the advertiser but it is very likely to reject the proposal in the hope that someone made an offer of $ 10, meaning that you only get 6.5 dollars for the review. Personally I do not like to make proposals below $ 25 US dollars and that is that few reviews are accepted but it is a matter of integrity. They say payments are made every two weeks, but I only receive the payment for the reviews at the end of each month. Sign in at SponsoredReviews, although probably is not a source of regular income is always another source of income, and you don’t have anything to lose.

PayPerPost makes your day!

PayPerPost works in a very simple way, turning it in a very interesting idea for bloggers.
Just go to PayPerPost and sign in, after registered, you can access a big list of opportunities.
To accept what they call "opportunities" the blog must be in English. The PayPerPost has many opportunities to earn money, at this very moment there are almost 200 opportunities available. But not all blogs have access to all opportunities, those for which your blog is eligible will appear white or grey (although when they are grey mines that they are already "taken"). So you must act fast to get the opportunity. The opportunities for which a blog does qualify depend on several factors; including the Alexa rank and PageRank blog; their geographical location, by themes, and some times blogs from free platforms. The best opportunity at the moment pays $ 235. To accept this opportunity the blog has to have a PR of 6, an Alexa rank of at least 99999, and be located in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia. If you are in these conditions you can earn $ 235 with a text of 50 words. Once you have accepted an opportunity, you have 6 hours to write in accordance with the requirements of the advertiser. If you choose not to do this it will be available for other bloggers. The PayPerPost also has some very good initiatives to earn money. On Tuesday, for example, they give 10 opportunities of $ 50 and a chance for $ 500, available for all blogs, regardless of their ranking or location. At Wednesdays the have a similar initiative, but in this case only for blogs outside the USA.
Once the post is done, PayPerPost takes about 10 days to approve the post and then some 20 days to make the payment via PayPal. An accepted blog in PayPerPost can easily earn $ 100 to $ 300 per month just for blogging, and much more if the blog has good ranking. Who has more than a blog should have two separate accounts to earn more money without additional work. The way that PayPerPost works (in other companies are different), we can only accept the same opportunity once, even if you have more than one blog. My suggestion is to have two accounts, and accept the same opportunity twice. In this case all you have to do is make your home work once and then write the post in another blog with minor changes. With this strategy you can earn $ 18 for accepting an opportunity of $ 9. Resuming; PayPerPost is a good company to start earning some money with your blog, your blog just as to be at least three months old and 20 posts written in English. Have fun!

Submit URL

To start, go to your favourite search engines, and look for the link that says “Submit URL”, or “Add URL”, or “Add Link”, or “To add Address”, or something like that . Sometimes the link can be hidden, and not in the main page; for example, the Google it’s here.This method functions. But it is more efficient and faster if yours blog is linked to other sites already indexed, better if they are popular sites. (This also will increase your PageRank, but this is for a future article). Perhaps it’s better if you already have some sites that you can use for this effect, or can ask for to one or more friends to add one link to its sites or blogs for yours. Other lists exist where you can add your URL, if the blog subject is appropriate. There you can comment other blogs, including one link for yours.
Summarizing: if possible, try to get as many sites as possible to link to yours. But do not make Spam! It’s not only little ethical, but you can be harming your blog, its popularity, and its reputation. The search engines can remove your blog for Spamming. Therefore, don’t try to add to your link to everything that you find.And, above all, you do not walk blog in blog to leave commentaries in the more recent post like “Hello, I adored your blog. Go see mine in http://…”. This is Spamming of worse kind.Beyond search engines, they also exists directories. For the experience that I have, do not wait a great volume of traffic come of them, but some is better then none, right? More links always helps.
Note: all these things take time. Do not expect to submit your blog to the Google today and start having visitors from there tomorrow. Exactly after the search engines having indexed your site, still it will take some time (1-2 weeks) until the indexed pages start to appear in the search results. And normally more recent posts not get indexed in the hour - one more time, it has a delay, and, in general, only the articles with 2 or more weeks receive visitors from the search engines.