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Ok, do you social? oh, no I should ask are you social? Ok, so you want to be social? Social isn't making friends, it's just hanging on social websites and clicking don't believe so what's millions of people are every day making?
Never mind about what I say, but social websites, are the hit of nowadays, this is the thing that may replace, even search engines (horray, Google defeated)!
Why I say so?
Because I noticed that I don't use search engines, no more. here are some examples!


First do you know reddit? If you don't so join it now. It's like digg, but little bit different. Reddit is better for Open discussions.I'll give you here an example why I don't use Google on such searches.
For example I'm searching for a JavaScript editor. If I'm going to use Google so what do you think I'll find? I'll need so much time, Google results aren't precise, the simple reason, that I can write something which is irrelevant and get the first or the second position in Google! Can't I?
But what do you think of this reddit? Check it, every body is giving an editor that he tried :) isn't it better?
Ok this is the first point.
Let's check another point, for example you are searching for information on the web about something, let say, computers and the history of computers.
Google is good, but Wikipedia is 100 time better! Wikipedia is an Open Encyclopedia, however Google is a search engine. If you are searching for something general, a documentation for school for example, then Wikipedia is the best choice. It gives you the relevant information with no need to search.
But Google already knows that Wikipedia is dangerous and will take all people searching for general information, yes and Google launched Knol. But knol, oh no, that won't succeed, do you know why? Because Wikipedia is better controlled, however you can find incorrect information and bad formed articles in Knol. (I don't mean you won't find in Wikipedia, but in Wikipedia you won't find duplicate!). Yes, duplicates and so much duplicates :( in Knol.
Good this is the next point.
The last thing, or the worst thing for Google is Face book! I was watching Face book and Orkut traffic in Alexa, Face Book is increasing observantly, however Orkut traffic dropped badly. (I think it's the reason why Google launched Lively!). Why Facebook, succeed, because you can create apps their and start earning money while playing with your mates. Don't know that?
Face book is getting more popular and attractive, I'm no longer active on Google groups, but on Facebook group. Facebook seems to me like a small OS, where I connect with mates!

Solution for Google?
Starting a huge connected social network, never seen!

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• First of all subscribe to my RSS feeds by email.
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You love Google? Yeah, here's another version of Google search, but Opened! Open Search, is a an Open Search engine. But what does we mean with Open? Simply, we are very transparent, we do not hide our search queries, we do not hide the number of keywords and the time they was searched: We are Open!

1. Why use Open Search
   Our search results are Google search results, so it's like you are using Google!
   Plus our search mix many features into one:
   Search at the same time the web, blogs, local and videos. More over, our search engine is Ajax Based so you don't have to reload the page each time you search :)
   
   
2. What are the benefits?
   Faster, easier and better, but why we are different?
   Once reaching 10,000 search query we'll give you not the top 10 searched keywords nor the top 1,000 but the whole searched keywords. We are completely transparent, so help spreading us!
   
   
3. Search now!
   Yes, search now and spread Open Search!

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What browser are you using? I use Google Analytics to know what browser my visitor uses. %60 uses Firefox, %30 Internet Explorer and %10 other types of browsers.
So people like Firefox, ok no matter on this. Here's another web browser, made for Bloggers! It'll change the way you work and help you with its' advanced tools. Still love Firefox? Stick to it more with Flock.

1. Why stick to Firefox when use Flock?
   Simply because Flock is Firefox browser, you may don't understand, ok here's the explanation: Firefox is Open Source and Flock is another version of Firefox; with extra plug-ins and tools.
2. So why choose flock?
   Stay Connected with your friends, Flock is a powerful browser for social websites. You can manage your digg, face book, flickr and more directly from flock.
   Blogger Tools Are you fed up with the current blogger tools? You'll say yes, Ok flock have other bloggers tools to manage your blog. Very flexible and easy to use! But Flock let me inspire why not create my own more advanced tools also?
   Fast and easy Yes faster than Firefox! 10 times faster
3. Download it now
   Yes download and start using Flock!
   

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By the time, you understand what makes traffic for your website. Search Engines, Like Google, are good for traffics, but not all keywords and topics attract people to your website.

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Every new subscriber to Google Adsense asks this question 'How much can I earn per click?". Ok, there's a cause to ask and also you need a clear response. Every one wants to know how much adsense pay per click. The Google Adsense team answer is very clear. Google will try to show the most relevant ads on your website with the highest pay per click. Yes, Google optimize the most to show best ads, so why your pay per click and earnings are so low?
There's a little number of factors that you must know, and we are going to deal with them.

1. Google Adsense choose the highest paying ads
   
   You don't need to have confidence that Google display the highest paying ads on your site. Here's what Google says:
   

   The Google ads you are able to display on your content pages can be either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-1000-impressions (CPM) ads, while AdSense for search results pages show exclusively CPC ads. This means that advertisers pay either when users click on ads, or when the advertiser's ad is shown on your site. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for either activity on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks.

   Ok first thing to notice that Google isn't only a Pay Per Click program, so you can have 10 impression and a click and earn $1 (It's a CPC ad) and have 20 impression and 5 clicks and earn $0.2 (It's a CPM ad) those are just examples. For Adsense for search, only CPC ads will be show, that's normal because the rate of click in search is very very high.
   The next thing, Google won't tell you which ads made you earn and how much, who click etc... and you don't have to know(we'll see that later).
   Finally Google Adsense, claim that they try to help advertiser making money 'as much or more than they could' That's true! Because if you earn more, Google will earn more also!
   
2. Why you don't have the highest 'pay per click' ads
   
   Google try to choose the best ads, that's sure. But Google don't display all the ads in your blog. In other meaning, there's publishers bidding more money on ads, but you can't get them. If you have tried Adword you'll know why: Publishers can choose the site where to advertise, and as high they bid, as they choose a famous website.
   Here are the factors that change the pay per click value
   
   -> Where visitors come from: It's very important, if your visitors come from USA, then you pay per click is HIGH, if they come from I donnaknow where, then you pay per click will change terribly. If your visitors come from your country (that its' pay per click is terrible!) then you'll need to move to another local advertiser; I'm from Tunisia, and for my tunisia related sites, Google give local ads (related to our hotels, companies... in Tunisia) So why do I have to change? But if not, then move!
   
   -> CPC or CPM? If you have as low as 1000 impression a day, then your earnings will be quite low, because of CPM, you can have a CPM ads displayed, clicks then on CPM ads will be very low or even no earnings. So CPM isn't quite good.
   
   -> Keywords? Yeah, keywords are important, you can read this article about 'Adsense Keyword optimization' I wrote myself, I explain how I get highest paying keywords for Adsense, and that works, not very well but improve.
   
3. How to improve your Pay Per Click?
   
   As you are a small advertiser, that have as low as 1000 impressions or 2000 impressions a day, then you can't contact the Adsense team and have special Adsense for content for your website. Special Adsense, or customized Adsense is just for giant websites that generate millions of impression monthly.
   You still have other solutions, like using affiliates, other publisher like Adsense or integrating Adsense or your feeds...
   
   Your Pay Per Click will change from a day to another and you can't force your control over it. I prefer always to let Adsense choose the Ads for me. Another point, only interested visitors will click. This mean visitors that read your blog, will read your ads also. You can have then a click per 50 or 60 visitors. However, visitors from sites like Stumble Upon, won't click your ads, because they just have a 5 seconds look on it! So you may get 1,000 visitor with a 0 click.
   
   Another important factor is your visitor loyality, if you have 200 visitors that visit (the sames) your blog every day, you clicks will improve. Because they see the same ads every day, they become familiar with and click them the next 4 or 5 days, you clicks will increase floantly. It's by experience, that I click the 4 or 5 days, on ads on sites like digg, that I saw often, I click not interested, but just I got familiar with.
   
   Don't forget that Google Also, don't like a heavy number of impressions with overall time on site very low (like 5 or 6 seconds). Google may consider it as a robot generating impression and clicks. Keep on mind that you can earn with few traffic.

That's all! Wish you good earnings :)

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This is my second Blogger Hack. I inspired it from a Wordpress hack, published by the Wp Guy. Ok, I'm now the Blogger Guy and I'll show you how to convert this wordpress hack to a blogger one in two easy steps. If you are interested on the Wordpress one and how it was done, check out this page. If you are indifferent then, you can continue reading this blogger hack.

What's the initial Caps?
If you didn't understand, what an initial caps, then take a look at the first letter in this article, its' style is different? No? That's what we are going to do!

How to add this hack?
First step is too add the style, go to "edit html" and put this lines into the style tags. If you are having troubles, or you are new to Blogger hacks, you'd better consider a small introduction to Blogger hack.

.initialcap{
float: left;

font-size: 40px;
line-height: 35px;

font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #2583ad;
padding-right: 5px;
}

<span class="initialcap">H</span>ere is how i do it!

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Ok, today I come up with some 'wonderful' blogger templates. (XML blogger templates this time) Those templates don't go with simple bloggers but with fan of blogging and writing for the community; here's why!
Those templates are like a one page website, with high design and large graphics in the head. Note that those template aren't well optimized for Adsense and also don't include Blogger hacks and widgets. It's also not quite good to add blogger hacks and widgets to such as templates.
Interested here's the templates so far!

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Black Tech Template

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Blogy Eclipse Template

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Blogy Dead Template

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Blogy Spring Template

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Other sites and references:
http://www.bloggertm.com
http://best-template.blogspot.com
Latest Buzz from Blogger:
Introducing Knol
Fixes for july 18
Google reader blog

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If you open Technorati page, you'll notice that it works like Google. It get traffic and redirect it to blogs. That's ok and cool, so you can get a huge income of visitors through this portal. But... you are getting exactly 0 visitors! Do you know why? Ok, you don't and also you want to get traffic from Technorati; but there's somethings to accomplish. Here's the simple steps to follow to drive a load of traffic from Technorati.



First our aim is to have +200 visitor from this site as its' Alexa rank is 448, so it has a lot of traffic and it must drive so :)

1. Be favorited and authorized!
   Ok be favorited is known, you must get your blog favorited by other users. Note, that not all users have blogs and many users use Technorati to check the latest posts in their favorite blogs. So 100 fan, means 100 reader in Feedburner.
   That's good but how to do that? (isn't hard!)
   
   • Favorite 50 blog per day (they may favorite back)
   • Add Technorati Favorite button to your blog
   • Exchange favs in forums or chat rooms :)
   If you do that daily you should have an additional 20 fan every day. So keep the work for a month or two until you get 1000 (1000 is so much, 100 is good)
   What's Technorati authority? It's the number of blogs linking to you, despite their authority or rank. Try to get external link, you'll get it up!
   
   
2. Technorati Top searches keywords
   If you want some traffic from Technorati, then you won't write about anything. Technorati gives you some hints, here's how. Go to Technorati popular page. You'll find their, top 100 popular blogs by fan, Top 100 popular blog by authority and top 15 searched keywords.
   Don't know Technorati top searched keywords? Do you?
   The top searched keyword on Technorati is news, sound cool? no? People are searching for news, but that keyword isn't clear. Any news? There's many kind of news, so what will you talk about. Never mind, but whenever you post tag your article with news! As people search it :-)
   There's also other strange keywords like Dawn Yang! Does this have any meaning for you. What's Dawn Yang? Ok according to Google Dawn Tang is a girl that blogs. But why poeple search for it. Ok you have to investigate!
   
   
3. Link to other blogs!
   Yes link so much to other Technorati blogs. Technorati will give you back traffic. Don't try to link to top 10 or 100 technorati blogs like Tech Crunch or Gizmodo, this won't give you traffic, because people links to them too much and your link will be passed in short time.
   However to get traffic you need to include from 20 to 40 links to other blogs. Then you'll get as few as 10 or 15 from Technorati, that's because people aren't interested so much on Backlinkers blogs!
   Here's some blog of my choice: Google Blog, Reader Blog, Gmail Blog.
   
   

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Today, I come with a great idea: A chat room (there are already many rooms). Here you can exchange ideas, resources, make friends, waste time and many things in one time!
Access the chat rooms now! and start making new friends and get in touch with different people.
There's no need to register, just enter your nickname and you can chat.


1- Who use my chat service
Everyone that is interested in making friendship with others, or exchanging and sharing information. There's already a different set of rooms.
The general room where you can discuss anything that come to your mind; the googler room to discuss google technology, the Blogger chat room is for bloggers.
If you are interested on making friends then you must check the meet friends chat rooms.
2 chat rooms where made for Squidoo and hubpages.
Also there's a chat room for developers

2- Access the chat room now!

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