Thursday 31 January 2013

Tips For Blog Appear in Search Engines

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To create a blog so that we could come up in the search engines, let alone the emergence of the front yard and the top, the desire of almost all bloggers. But it is not easy to create a blog perched on the top rank result search engine. There are many ways in which it is true that, from a brain-tweaking scripts and meta tags to pay for the services of SEO Service. Nha following I will give some tips or things that affect how our blog can be perched at the top of search results, or at least in the series comes out walopun search results bloated: D
Here are his tips (for Google):1. Try typing the URL address of your blog on google search and then press Enter. If your blog is meant to appear Indes in google but it may still be unable to compete with the others. And if your blog does not appear on google keindex means yet. Try register your blog http://google.com/addurl kms. Results are not immediate so you know, so it took us so blog indexed by google.
2. "Blog Title", if you create a blog of course, we were asked to create a blog title. Blog title is very important and very influential on the search results on search engines, so smart to choose a blog title km. Create a blog title that describes the content of the blogs km. Not too long and not too short.
3. "Post Title". This post title is almost as important as the blog title. In making the post title or post title should be considered correct, kira2 imagine what the most suitable title for postinganmu. Also imagine kira2 if km search for articles about your post is, what keywords would km type in the search engines. Imagine that.
4. "Update Blog", frequently updated blogs miles at least once a week were twice ato. It was once I feel the effect in one of my blog. My blog who initially had visitors from search engines about 30-40% suddenly dropped to only about 3%. It happened because of the blog I have not updated, and when I update again, then my blog can go back into the ranks of top rank in search engine result.
5. "Promote your blog", promote your blog to a lot of web / blog, forum, situs2 free promotion, etc.. As more and more links it will be more spread out your blog often searh engine spiders visit your blog.
6. while it was just me deh tips
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Changing Blog Title with Post Title | SEO

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Does not need to change the title / title of the blog post with the title?
Title blogs usually located in front of the post title. As I always say, optimizing title it will affect in a blog we are in the top rank of the search engines. Nha if you use this trick to change the title of your blog post title and it will be great for future entry into the ranks of search engines.

Bener not it?

Back when I did not use this trick, when I searched on google with the keyword "How to Create a Search Engine", the result is a case of this:




But now when I apply this trick then the result will be like this:

 

well of course people would prefer to choose clicking on the image results like the latter than the first picture, right? and if according to the experts in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) this way he will make our blog a more Search Engine Friendly. OK for those who wanna try it please follow the steps below:

1. Go to the "Layout - >> Edit HTML
2. Find this code:

<title><data:blog.title/></title>
(Located at the top)

3. If you have found replace with the following code:


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>
4. Then save it.

To the main page will remain title titlenya blog. but if you try to open one km postinganmu the next title will be the title your blog your posts.

Have a try ......

 
 

 
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How to improve SEO Blogger

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How to improve SEO blogspot or in the English language How to improve SEO blogspot needs to be applied to blog - blog all. Previously, I'll explain what SEO is. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization has is the process of improving / optimizing ranking in the results of search engines index pages (SERP) to increase the number of visitors to your blog / website. Thus, the higher SERP position mate, the greater the likelihood the number of visitors.
If my friend wants to know, very rarely explorer (visitors) search engine to browse from page 1 to page onwards. Is seen just to the SERP page 1 only. Therefore, the webmaster competing and jockeying for position serp for web / blog pages show the main search engines. There is also another term SEO (Search Engine Optimizer) the actors, tools, and elements that can help increase SERP rank blog / website. Okay sob, we went straight to the basic tutorial How to improve SEO blogspot:

    
Choosing a SEO friendly template
    
A blog template design can have advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, a display template / theme looks dynamic (good) looks, but in terms of SEO can be weak, or vice versa. Therefore, choose a SEO friendly Blogger templates. As had been widely available premium quality free Blogger templates that have been inserted hack SEO.
    
Put meta tags on the blog
    
Indeed, many types - types of meta tags, which are most often used the meta description, which contains a description of your blog / website and meta key, which contains keywords related to the content of your blog / website. Well, there are ways used by the webmasters to put meta tags on each post. My friend can see it here
    
Maximize solid and effective keywords in blog post
    
In this step, man must be clever to put keywords in your blog posts. For example, mobile phone price tags. Fill out some keywords that are often searched people and in accordance with the post title. And, grant writing effects in bold (Bold) / tilt (Italic) / could also underline (U)
    
Link building
    
Link building is the process of creating inbound links (links that point to your blog / website), which is getting backlinks from blog / website. Link building can be done in many different ways: either by making reciprocal link directory / social bookmarking (which requires reciprocal link), exchange links with your blog / website, register their blogs and articles to social bookmarking / directory and much more. In this step, a step that has important points in SEO
    
Fast Loading Blog
    
It's a lot of ways to speed up loading blog. Like, set number of posts on the blog, use auto readmore, use the handy widget course, css and javascript optimization. and much more
    
Putting behind the title of the blog post title
    
The purpose of this step is when my friend made a blog and use the new official template. Standard blog title is "Blog Buddies: How to create a blog" nah when already be set will be like this "How to create a blog | Blog Buddy" for menyetingnya, my friend can use a meta tag that has disetting blog title. Here you can just see the tutorial
Actually there are many ways of improving SEO tutorial blogspot but over just a basic tutorial which is the result of my experience in improving SEO blogspot. Okay sob, until here first for How to improve SEO blogspot. See you ;)
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10 Ways to Improve SEO Blog

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1. Update Article Every Day Always update the article is the work required as a blogger for example, and of course the article is an excellent article allure of high value. Do not worry too much writing articles will remain just one or two guys updated, as long as it is a fresh article and is being sought after (still hotly discussed by the media). The aim is that these guys keep the site alive.

    
2. Submit Articles to Social Bookmarks

    
Promotional tool that is very powerful is submit articles to various social bookmarking. Many social bookmarking available on the internet, for example Lintas.me, Infogue.com, Antarblog.com and many more that I lainnya.Saran for beginner bloggers, submitlah articles / content to social bookmark your blog, if you are lucky and get the top 10, Top Hits, then you will quickly flooded many visitors.

3. Attach Related Articles in Blog / website One surefire way is also very much used to the webmaster or SEO professional blogger though. Why this is also quite a trick that can make visitors mebeludak, as it was a very friendly since made it easier for visitors to quickly find the news or content-related content.

    
4. Make a Good Site Navigari and Focused

    
Create a comfort to the visitors by providing good navigation. Navigation is also a powerful step to make your site flooded with visitors. Making menu for example is one of the important stakeholders as by providing menus on the site, this is a small overview of your own websites sitemap.

5. Attach Blog Archive If you are lazy to install the related article, it is possible to do is put up a blog archive is an option that must to be done. many great blogs like terselubung.blogspot.com charged blog archives makes it as a field pageview and this is proven to be effective. How to install itself is pretty easy because it was provided by blogspot plus gadget blog archive >>>

    
6. Attach Important Articles in Sidebar

    
Take advantage of your sidebar facilities to provide convenience to the visitors of a website is to find a very useful article, navigate your sidebar blogroll or link mainstay article, do not forget to write down the title of an interesting and elegant look will help the number of pageviews your period to be come.

7. Make a Blog Become As soon as may be This you can do by deleting some widgets that are deemed less important, but it's going to weigh a speed for your site is loaded by visitors to the web browser. The longer you open web pages will automatically streamline the number of visitors kalian.Sobat can check the speed of your blog on Iwebtool.com

    
8. Use Social Networking

    
Take advantage of social networks available like Facebook and Twitter. This you can do to promote content that is interesting and certainly hot news or the most requested by people.

9. Perform Backlink How very familiar promotion for the blogger is backlink.Saling exchanging links (Link Exchange) is the thing to do. As brilliant tips to promote, it can also be a way for the event kinship between bloggers.

    
10. Register your Blog to the Search Engines

    
This is a palin important for bloggers who have blogs exact as this, you will directly facilitate the lawyer's index your URL in the search engines easily. This means that if you register your own URL, it will facilitate the search engines index the URL without it must find its own which will surely take a fair amount lama.Sobat can register your blog on Submit Your Blog
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21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

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It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we've observed.
NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2007. This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers - independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. Not all of the tactics will work for everyone, but at least some of these should be applicable and useful.

#1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share

When strategizing about who you're writing for, consider that audience's ability to help spread the word. Some readers will naturally be more or less active in evangelizing the work you do, but particular communities, topics, writing styles and content types regularly play better than others on the web. For example, great infographics that strike a chord (like this one), beautiful videos that tell a story (like this one) and remarkable collections of facts that challenge common assumptions (like this one) are all targeted at audiences likely to share (geeks with facial hair, those interested in weight loss and those with political thoughts about macroeconomics respectively).
A Blog's Target Audience
If you can identify groups that have high concentrations of the blue and orange circles in the diagram above, you dramatically improve the chances of reaching larger audiences and growing your traffic numbers. Targeting blog content at less-share-likely groups may not be a terrible decision (particularly if that's where you passion or your target audience lies), but it will decrease the propensity for your blog's work to spread like wildfire across the web.

#2 - Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers

Advertisers on Madison Avenue have spent billions researching and determining where consumers with various characteristics gather and what they spend their time doing so they can better target their messages. They do it because reaching a group of 65+ year old women with commercials for extreme sports equipment is known to be a waste of money, while reaching an 18-30 year old male demographic that attends rock-climbing gyms is likely to have a much higher ROI.
Thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. In fact, you probably already know a few blogs, forums, websites and social media communities where discussions and content are being posted on your topic (and if you don't a Google search will take you much of the way). From that list, you can do some easy expansion using a web-based tool like DoubleClick's Ad Planner:
Sites Also Visited via DoubleClick
Once you've determined the communities where your soon-to-be-readers gather, you can start participating. Create an account, read what others have written and don't jump in the conversation until you've got a good feel for what's appropriate and what's not. I've written a post here about rules for comment marketing, and all of them apply. Be a good web citizen and you'll be rewarded with traffic, trust and fans. Link-drop, spam or troll and you'll get a quick boot, or worse, a reputation as a blogger no one wants to associate with.

#3 - Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly

Search engines are a massive opportunity for traffic, yet many bloggers ignore this channel for a variety of reasons that usually have more to do with fear and misunderstanding than true problems. As I've written before, "SEO, when done right, should never interfere with great writing." In 2011, Google received over 3 billion daily searches from around the world, and that number is only growing:
Daily Google Searches 2004-2011
sources: Comscore + Google
Taking advantage of this massive traffic opportunity is of tremendous value to bloggers, who often find that much of the business side of blogging, from inquiries for advertising to guest posting opportunities to press and discovery by major media entities comes via search.
SEO for blogs is both simple and easy to set up, particularly if you're using an SEO-friendly platform like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. For more information on how to execute on great SEO for blogs, check out the following resources:
Don't let bad press or poor experiences with spammers (spam is not SEO) taint the amazing power and valuable contributions SEO can make to your blog's traffic and overall success. 20% of the effort and tactics to make your content optimized for search engines will yield 80% of the value possible; embrace it and thousands of visitors seeking exactly what you've posted will be the reward.

#4 - Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections

Twitter just topped 465 million registered accounts. Facebook has over 850 million active users. Google+ has nearly 100 million. LinkedIn is over 130 million. Together, these networks are attracting vast amounts of time and interest from Internet users around the world, and those that participate on these services fit into the "content distributors" description above, meaning they're likely to help spread the word about your blog.
Leveraging these networks to attract traffic requires patience, study, attention to changes by the social sites and consideration in what content to share and how to do it. My advice is to use the following process:
  • If you haven't already, register a personal account and a brand account at each of the following - Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn (those links will take you directly to the registration pages for brand pages). For example, my friend Dharmesh has a personal account for Twitter and a brand account for OnStartups (one of his blog projects). He also maintains brand pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.
  • Fill out each of those profiles to the fullest possible extent - use photos, write compelling descriptions and make each one as useful and credible as possible. Research shows that profiles with more information have a significant correlation with more successful accounts (and there's a lot of common sense here, too, given that spammy profiles frequently feature little to no profile work).
  • Connect with users on those sites with whom you already share a personal or professional relationships, and start following industry luminaries, influencers and connectors. Services like FollowerWonk and FindPeopleonPlus can be incredible for this:
Followerwonk Search for "Seattle Chef"
  • Start sharing content - your own blog posts, those of peers in your industry who've impressed you and anything that you feel has a chance to go "viral" and earn sharing from others.
  • Interact with the community - use hash tags, searches and those you follow to find interesting conversations and content and jump in! Social networks are amazing environment for building a brand, familiarizing yourself with a topic and the people around it, and earning the trust of others through high quality, authentic participation and sharing
If you consistently employ a strategy of participation, share great stuff and make a positive, memorable impression on those who see your interactions on these sites, your followers and fans will grow and your ability to drive traffic back to your blog by sharing content will be tremendous. For many bloggers, social media is the single largest source of traffic, particularly in the early months after launch, when SEO is a less consistent driver.

#5 - Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results

At the very least, I'd recommend most bloggers install Google Analytics (which is free), and watch to see where visits originate, which sources drive quality traffic and what others might be saying about you and your content when they link over. If you want to get more advanced, check out this post on 18 Steps to Successful Metrics and Marketing.
Here's a screenshot from the analytics of my wife's travel blog, the Everywhereist:
Traffic Sources to Everywhereist from Google Analytics
As you can see, there's all sorts of great insights to be gleaned by looking at where visits originate, analyzing how they were earned and trying to repeat the successes, focus on the high quality and high traffic sources and put less effort into marketing paths that may not be effective. In this example, it's pretty clear that Facebook and Twitter are both excellent channels. StumbleUpon sends a lot of traffic, but they don't stay very long (averaging only 36 seconds vs. the general average of 4 minutes!).
Employing analytics is critical to knowing where you're succeeding, and where you have more opportunity. Don't ignore it, or you'll be doomed to never learn from mistakes or execute on potential.

#6 - Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing)

If you're someone who can produce graphics, take photos, illustrate or even just create funny doodles in MS Paint, you should leverage that talent on your blog. By uploading and hosting images (or using a third-party service like Flickr to embed your images with licensing requirements on that site), you create another traffic source for yourself via Image Search, and often massively improve the engagement and enjoyment of your visitors.
When using images, I highly recommend creating a way for others to use them on their own sites legally and with permission, but in such a way that benefits you as the content creator. For example, you could have a consistent notice under your images indicating that re-using is fine, but that those who do should link back to this post. You can also post that as a sidebar link, include it in your terms of use, or note it however you think will get the most adoption.
Some people will use your images without linking back, which sucks. However, you can find them by employing the Image Search function of "similar images," shown below:
Google's "Visually Similar" Search
Clicking the "similar" link on any given image will show you other images that Google thinks look alike, which can often uncover new sources of traffic. Just reach out and ask if you can get a link, nicely. Much of the time, you'll not only get your link, but make a valuable contact or new friend, too!

#7 - Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts

Not surprisingly, a big part of showing up in search engines is targeting the terms and phrases your audience are actually typing into a search engine. It's hard to know what these words will be unless you do some research, and luckily, there's a free tool from Google to help called the AdWords Keyword Tool.
Type some words at the top, hit search and AdWords will show you phrases that match the intent and/or terms you've employed. There's lots to play around with here, but watch out in particular for the "match types" options I've highlighted below:
Google AdWords Tool
When you choose "exact match" AdWords will show you only the quantity of searches estimated for that precise phrase. If you use broad match, they'll include any search phrases that use related/similar words in a pattern they think could have overlap with your keyword intent (which can get pretty darn broad). "Phrase match" will give you only those phrases that include the word or words in your search - still fairly wide-ranging, but between "exact" and "broad."
When you're writing a blog post, keyword research is best utilized for the title and headline of the post. For example, if I wanted to write a post here on Moz about how to generate good ideas for bloggers, I might craft something that uses the phrase "blog post ideas" or "blogging ideas" near the front of my title and headline, as in "Blog Post Ideas for When You're Truly Stuck," or "Blogging Ideas that Will Help You Clear Writer's Block."
Optimizing a post to target a specific keyword isn't nearly as hard as it sounds. 80% of the value comes from merely using the phrase effectively in the title of the blog post, and writing high quality content about the subject. If you're interested in more, read Perfecting Keyword Targeting and On-Page Optimization (a slightly older resource, but just as relevant today as when it was written).

#8 - Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others

The web was not made for static, text-only content! Readers appreciate links, as do other bloggers, site owners and even search engines. When you reference your own material in-context and in a way that's not manipulative (watch out for over-optimizing by linking to a category, post or page every time a phrase is used - this is almost certainly discounted by search engines and looks terrible to those who want to read your posts), you potentially draw visitors to your other content AND give search engines a nice signal about those previous posts.
Perhaps even more valuable is referencing the content of others. The biblical expression "give and ye shall receive," perfectly applies on the web. Other site owners will often receive Google Alerts or look through their incoming referrers (as I showed above in tip #5) to see who's talking about them and what they're saying. Linking out is a direct line to earning links, social mentions, friendly emails and new relationships with those you reference. In its early days, this tactic was one of the best ways we earned recognition and traffic with the SEOmoz blog and the power continues to this day.

#9 - Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon

The major social networking sites aren't alone in their power to send traffic to a blog. Social community sites like Reddit (which now receives more than 2 billion! with a "B"! views each month), StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Tumblr, Care2 (for nonprofits and causes), GoodReads (books), Ravelry (knitting), Newsvine (news/politics) and many, many more (Wikipedia maintains a decent, though not comprehensive list here).
Each of these sites have different rules, formats and ways of participating and sharing content. As with participation in blog or forum communities described above in tactic #2, you need to add value to these communities to see value back. Simply drive-by spamming or leaving your link won't get you very far, and could even cause a backlash. Instead, learn the ropes, engage authentically and you'll find that fans, links and traffic can develop.
These communities are also excellent sources of inspiration for posts on your blog. By observing what performs well and earns recognition, you can tailor your content to meet those guidelines and reap the rewards in visits and awareness. My top recommendation for most bloggers is to at least check whether there's an appropriate subreddit in which you should be participating. Subreddits and their search function can help with that.

#10 - Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others)

When you're first starting out, it can be tough to convince other bloggers to allow you to post on their sites OR have an audience large enough to inspire others to want to contribute to your site. This is when friends and professional connections are critical. When you don't have a compelling marketing message, leverage your relationships - find the folks who know you, like you and trust you and ask those who have blog to let you take a shot at authoring something, then ask them to return the favor.
Guest blogging is a fantastic way to spread your brand to new folks who've never seen your work before, and it can be useful in earning early links and references back to your site, which will drive direct traffic and help your search rankings (diverse, external links are a key part of how search engines rank sites and pages). Several recommendations for those who engage in guest blogging:
  • Find sites that have a relevant audience - it sucks to pour your time into writing a post, only to see it fizzle because the readers weren't interested. Spend a bit more time researching the posts that succeed on your target site, the makeup of the audience, what types of comments they leave and you'll earn a much higher return with each post.
  • Don't be discouraged if you ask and get a "no" or a "no response." As your profile grows in your niche, you'll have more opportunities, requests and an easier time getting a "yes," so don't take early rejections too hard and watch out - in many marketing practices, persistence pays, but pestering a blogger to write for them is not one of these (and may get your email address permanently banned from their inbox).
  • When pitching your guest post make it as easy as possible for the other party. When requesting to post, have a phenomenal piece of writing all set to publish that's never been shared before and give them the ability to read it. These requests get far more "yes" replies than asking for the chance to write with no evidence of what you'll contribute. At the very least, make an outline and write a title + snippet.
  • Likewise, when requesting a contribution, especially from someone with a significant industry profile, asking for a very specific piece of writing is much easier than getting them to write an entire piece from scratch of their own design. You should also present statistics that highlight the value of posting on your site - traffic data, social followers, RSS subscribers, etc. can all be very persuasive to a skeptical writer.
A great tool for frequent guest bloggers is Ann Smarty's MyBlogGuest, which offers the ability to connect writers with those seeking guest contributions (and the reverse).
MyBlogGuest
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ are also great places to find guest blogging opportunities. In particular, check out the profiles of those you're connected with to see if they run blogs of their own that might be a good fit. Google's Blog Search function and Google Reader's Search are also solid tools for discovery.

#11 - Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site

The power of beautiful, usable, professional design can't be overstated. When readers look at a blog, the first thing they judge is how it "feels" from a design and UX perspective. Sites that use default templates or have horrifying, 1990's design will receive less trust, a lower time-on-page, fewer pages per visit and a lower likelihood of being shared. Those that feature stunning design that clearly indicates quality work will experience the reverse - and reap amazing benefits.
Blog Design Inspiration
These threads - 1, 2, 3 and 4 - feature some remarkable blog designs for inspiration
If you're looking for a designer to help upgrade the quality of your blog, there's a few resources I recommend:
  • Dribbble - great for finding high quality professional designers
  • Forrst - another excellent design profile community
  • Behance - featuring galleries from a wide range of visual professionals
  • Sortfolio - an awesome tool to ID designers by region, skill and budget
  • 99 Designs - a controversial site that provides designs on spec via contests (I have mixed feelings on this one, but many people find it useful, particularly for budget-conscious projects)
This is one area where budgeting a couple thousand dollars (if you can afford it) or even a few hundred (if you're low on cash) can make a big difference in the traffic, sharing and viral-impact of every post you write.

#12 - Interact on Other Blogs' Comments

As bloggers, we see a lot of comments. Many are spam, only a few add real value, and even fewer are truly fascinating and remarkable. If you can be in this final category consistently, in ways that make a blogger sit up and think "man, I wish that person commented here more often!" you can achieve great things for your own site's visibility through participation in the comments of other blogs.
Combine the tools presented in #10 (particularly Google Reader/Blog Search) and #4 (especially FollowerWonk) for discovery. The feed subscriber counts in Google Reader can be particularly helpful for identifying good blogs for participation. Then apply the principles covered in this post on comment marketing.
Google Reader Subscriber Counts
Do be conscious of the name you use when commenting and the URL(s) you point back to. Consistency matters, particularly on naming, and linking to internal pages or using a name that's clearly made for keyword-spamming rather than true conversation will kill your efforts before they begin.

#13 - Participate in Q+A Sites

Every day, thousands of people ask questions on the web. Popular services like Yahoo! Answers, Answers.com, Quora, StackExchange, Formspring and more serve those hungry for information whose web searches couldn't track down the responses they needed.
The best strategy I've seen for engaging on Q+A sites isn't to answer every question that comes along, but rather, to strategically provide high value to a Q+A community by engaging in those places where:
  • The question quality is high, and responses thus far have been thin
  • The question receives high visibility (either by ranking well for search queries, being featured on the site or getting social traffic/referrals). Most of the Q+A sites will show some stats around the traffic of a question
  • The question is something you can answer in a way that provides remarkable value to anyone who's curious and drops by
I also find great value in answering a few questions in-depth by producing an actual blog post to tackle them, then linking back. This is also a way I personally find blog post topics - if people are interested in the answer on a Q+A site, chances are good that lots of folks would want to read it on my blog, too!
Just be authentic in your answer, particularly if you're linking. If you'd like to see some examples, I answer a lot of questions at Quora, frequently include relevant links, but am rarely accused of spamming or link dropping because it's clearly about providing relevant value, not just getting a link for SEO (links on most user-contributed sites are "nofollow" anyway, meaning they shouldn't pass search-engine value). There's a dangerous line to walk here, but if you do so with tact and candor, you can earn a great audience from your participation.

#14 - Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!)

If someone drops by your site, has a good experience and thinks "I should come back here and check this out again when they have more posts," chances are pretty high (I'd estimate 90%+) that you'll never see them again. That sucks! It shouldn't be the case, but we have busy lives and the Internet's filled with animated gifs of cats.
In order to pull back some of these would-be fans, I highly recommend creating an RSS feed using Feedburner and putting visible buttons on the sidebar, top or bottom of your blog posts encouraging those who enjoy your content to sign up (either via feed, or via email, both of which are popular options).
RSS Feeds with Feedburner
If you're using Wordpress, there's some easy plugins for this, too.
Once you've set things up, visit every few weeks and check on your subscribers - are they clicking on posts? If so, which ones? Learning what plays well for those who subscribe to your content can help make you a better blogger, and earn more visits from RSS, too.

#15 - Attend and Host Events

Despite the immense power of the web to connect us all regardless of geography, in-person meetings are still remarkably useful for bloggers seeking to grow their traffic and influence. The people you meet and connect with in real-world settings are far more likely to naturally lead to discussions about your blog and ways you can help each other. This yields guest posts, links, tweets, shares, blogroll inclusion and general business development like nothing else.
Lanyrd Suggested Events
I'm a big advocate of Lanyrd, an event directory service that connects with your social networks to see who among your contacts will be at which events in which geographies. This can be phenomenally useful for identifying which meetups, conferences or gatherings are worth attending (and who you can carpool with).
The founder of Lanyrd also contributed this great answer on Quora about other search engines/directories for events (which makes me like them even more).

#16 - Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog

As a blogger, you're likely to be sending a lot of email out to others who use the web and have the power to help spread your work. Make sure you're not ignoring email as a channel, one-to-one though it may be. When given an opportunity in a conversation that's relevant, feel free to bring up your blog, a specific post or a topic you've written about. I find myself using blogging as a way to scalably answer questions - if I receive the same question many times, I'll try to make a blog post that answers it so I can simply link to that in the future.
Email Footer Link
I also like to use my email signature to promote the content I share online. If I was really sharp, I'd do link tracking using a service like Bit.ly so I could see how many clicks email footers really earn. I suspect it's not high, but it's also not 0.

#17 - Survey Your Readers

Web surveys are easy to run and often produce high engagement and great topics for conversation. If there's a subject or discussion that's particularly contested, or where you suspect showing the distribution of beliefs, usage or opinions can be revealing, check out a tool like SurveyMonkey (they have a small free version) or PollDaddy. Google Docs also offers a survey tool that's totally free, but not yet great in my view.

#18 - Add Value to a Popular Conversation

Numerous niches in the blogosphere have a few "big sites" where key issues arise, get discussed and spawn conversations on other blogs and sites. Getting into the fray can be a great way to present your point-of-view, earn attention from those interested in the discussion and potentially get links and traffic from the industry leaders as part of the process.
You can see me trying this out with Fred Wilson's AVC blog last year (an incredibly popular and well-respected blog in the VC world). Fred wrote a post about Marketing that I disagreed with strongly and publicly and a day later, he wrote a follow-up where he included a graphic I made AND a link to my post.
If you're seeking sources to find these "popular conversations," Alltop, Topsy, Techmeme (in the tech world) and their sister sites MediaGazer, Memeorandum and WeSmirch, as well as PopURLs can all be useful.

#19 - Aggregate the Best of Your Niche

Bloggers, publishers and site owners of every variety in the web world love and hate to be compared and ranked against one another. It incites endless intrigue, discussion, methodology arguments and competitive behavior - but, it's amazing for earning attention. When a blogger publishes a list of "the best X" or "the top X" in their field, most everyone who's ranked highly praises the list, shares it and links to it. Here's an example from the world of marketing itself:
AdAge Power 150
That's a screenshot of the AdAge Power 150, a list that's been maintained for years in the marketing world and receives an endless amount of discussion by those listed (and not listed). For example, why is SEOmoz's Twitter score only a "13" when we have so many more followers, interactions and retweets than many of those with higher scores? Who knows. But I know it's good for AdAge. :-)
Now, obviously, I would encourage anyone building something like this to be as transparent, accurate and authentic as possible. A high quality resource that lists a "best and brightest" in your niche - be they blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, individual posts, people, conferences or whatever else you can think to rank - is an excellent piece of content for earning traffic and becoming a known quantity in your field.
Oh, and once you do produce it - make sure to let those featured know they've been listed. Tweeting at them with a link is a good way to do this, but if you have email addresses, by all means, reach out. It can often be the start of a great relationship!

#20 - Connect Your Web Profiles and Content to Your Blog

Many of you likely have profiles on services like YouTube, Slideshare, Yahoo!, DeviantArt and dozens of other social and Web 1.0 sites. You might be uploading content to Flickr, to Facebook, to Picasa or even something more esoteric like Prezi. Whatever you're producing on the web and wherever you're doing it, tie it back to your blog.
Including your blog's link on your actual profile pages is among the most obvious, but it's also incredibly valuable. On any service where interaction takes place, those interested in who you are and what you have to share will follow those links, and if they lead back to your blog, they become opportunities for capturing a loyal visitor or earning a share (or both!). But don't just do this with profiles - do it with content, too! If you've created a video for YouTube, make your blog's URL appear at the start or end of the video. Include it in the description of the video and on the uploading profile's page. If you're sharing photos on any of the dozens of photo services, use a watermark or even just some text with your domain name so interested users can find you.
If you're having trouble finding and updating all those old profiles (or figuring out where you might want to create/share some new ones), KnowEm is a great tool for discovering your own profiles (by searching for your name or pseudonyms you've used) and claiming profiles on sites you may not yet have participated in.
I'd also strongly recommend leveraging Google's relatively new protocol for rel=author. AJ Kohn wrote a great post on how to set it up here, and Yoast has another good one on building it into Wordpress sites. The benefit for bloggers who do build large enough audiences to gain Google's trust is earning your profile photo next to all the content you author - a powerful markup advantage that likely drives extra clicks from the search results and creates great, memorable branding, too.

#21 - Uncover the Links of Your Fellow Bloggers (and Nab 'em!)

If other blogs in your niche have earned references from sites around the web, there's a decent chance that they'll link to you as well. Conducting competitive link research can also show you what content from your competition has performed well and the strategies they may be using to market their work. To uncover these links, you'll need to use some tools.
OpenSiteExplorer is my favorite, but I'm biased (it's made by Moz). However, it is free to use - if you create a registered account here, you can get unlimited use of the tool showing up to 1,000 links per page or site in perpetuity.
OpenSiteExplorer from Moz
There are other good tools for link research as well, including Blekko, Majestic, Ahrefs and, I've heard that in the near-future, SearchMetrics.
Finding a link is great, but it's through the exhaustive research of looking through dozens or hundreds that you can identify patterns and strategies. You're also likely to find a lot of guest blogging opportunities and other chances for outreach. If you maintain a great persona and brand in your niche, your ability to earn these will rise dramatically.

Bonus #22 - Be Consistent and Don't Give Up

If there's one piece of advice I wish I could share with every blogger, it's this:
Why Bloggers Give Up Traffic Graph
The above image comes from Everywhereist's analytics. Geraldine could have given up 18 months into her daily blogging. After all, she was putting in 3-5 hours each day writing content, taking photos, visiting sites, coming up with topics, trying to guest blog and grow her Twitter followers and never doing any SEO (don't ask, it's a running joke between us). And then, almost two years after her blog began, and more than 500 posts in, things finally got going. She got some nice guest blogging gigs, had some posts of hers go "hot" in the social sphere, earned mentions on some bigger sites, then got really big press from Time's Best Blogs of 2011.
I'd guess there's hundreds of new bloggers on the web each day who have all the opportunity Geraldine had, but after months (maybe only weeks) of slogging away, they give up.
When I started the SEOmoz blog in 2004, I had some advantages (mostly a good deal of marketing and SEO knowledge), but it was nearly 2 years before the blog could be called anything like a success. Earning traffic isn't rocket science, but it does take time, perseverance and consistency. Don't give up. Stick to your schedule. Remember that everyone has a few posts that suck, and it's only by writing and publishing those sucky posts that you get into the habit necessary to eventually transform your blog into something remarkable.
Good luck and good blogging from all of us at Moz!
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Memasang Alt Tag Pada Gambar Agar Seo Friendly

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Memasang Alt Tag Pada Gambar Agar Seo Friendly - Alt Tag Pada gambar memang sangat sangat penting yang perlu dilakukan dan dipasang pada setiap gambar pada blog kita.lalu apa tujuannya Alt Tag Pada Gambar ? ya jawabannya adalah agar memudahkan seseorang mencari artikel yang diinginkannya dengan gambar. Padahal Memasang Alt Tag pada Gambar ini sangat penting, tetapi kebanyakan para blogger menganggap remeh masalah ini, So kita harus memasang Alt Tag Gambar ini segera agar SEO Friendly. Langsung aja kita buat caranya seperti berikut :

Ini adalah Contoh kode gambar yang belum dipasang Alt Tag pada Gambar :

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezE5eQ18BZAjOU0riCFqqwXvLw6vVDmQztDnHWR21Xn1SWcRR8WC1aLFcDx-TrI_cZbybAQyg7AT_h3m_fvy2sGQvnTh4DaeGIelw1BAQvVcUJKPXloHhlDxWUeKumu0FqCzQTrki7A9K/s1600/Contohgambar.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="218" width="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezE5eQ18BZAjOU0riCFqqwXvLw6vVDmQztDnHWR21Xn1SWcRR8WC1aLFcDx-TrI_cZbybAQyg7AT_h3m_fvy2sGQvnTh4DaeGIelw1BAQvVcUJKPXloHhlDxWUeKumu0FqCzQTrki7A9K/s320/Contohgambar.jpeg" /></a>

Dan dibawah ini adalah contoh kode gambar yang sudah diberi Alt Tag Gambar :

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezE5eQ18BZAjOU0riCFqqwXvLw6vVDmQztDnHWR21Xn1SWcRR8WC1aLFcDx-TrI_cZbybAQyg7AT_h3m_fvy2sGQvnTh4DaeGIelw1BAQvVcUJKPXloHhlDxWUeKumu0FqCzQTrki7A9K/s1600/Contohgambar.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img alt = “keyword target sobat” border="0" height="218" width="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiezE5eQ18BZAjOU0riCFqqwXvLw6vVDmQztDnHWR21Xn1SWcRR8WC1aLFcDx-TrI_cZbybAQyg7AT_h3m_fvy2sGQvnTh4DaeGIelw1BAQvVcUJKPXloHhlDxWUeKumu0FqCzQTrki7A9K/s320/Contohgambar.jpeg" title='keywords disini'/></a>
keterangan :
  • Gunakan Keyword pada Alt Tag dan Tag Title dengan deskripsi atau keyword yang sesuai dengan gambar sobat dan harus terkait juga dengan Judul postingan sobat.
  • Jangan gunakan terlalu banyak keyword pada Alt Tag anda, cukup 2 sampai dengan 3 keyword aja.

Cukup mudah bukan Cara Memasang Alt Tag Pada Gambar Agar Seo Friendly ? sekian dulu penjelasang kali ini. semoga bermanfaat
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Membuat Efek Zoom Gambar Saat Dilalui Cursor

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Cara Membuat Efek Zoom Gambar saat Dilalui Cursor , masih sengit persaingan di Bisnis Online Daftar Gratis Bonus jutaan Rupiah yang baru berlangsung 1 minggu, tapi dengan adanya itu menambah kesibukan saya buat postingan, baik saya langsung aja jelasin Cara Membuat Efek Zoom Gambar saat Dilalui Cursor berikut :



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Pilih rancangan --> Edit HTML --> Centang Expand.
Kemudian letakkan CSS berikut diatas kode ]]></b:skin>


.upiksmedia img{
-webkit-transform:scale(0.3); /*Webkit: Scale down image to 0.8x original size*/
-moz-transform:scale(0.3); /*Mozilla scale version*/
-o-transform:scale(0.3); /*Opera scale version*/
-webkit-transition-duration: 9.9s; /*Webkit: Animation duration*/
-moz-transition-duration: 0.5s; /*Mozilla duration version*/
-o-transition-duration: 0.5s; /*Opera duration version*/
opacity: 0.7; /*initial opacity of images*/
margin: 0 10px 5px 0; /*margin between images*/
}

.upiksmedia img:hover{
-webkit-transform:scale(1.2); /*Webkit: Scale up image to 1.2x original size*/
-moz-transform:scale(1.4); /*Mozilla scale version*/
-o-transform:scale(1.1); /*Opera scale version*/
box-shadow:0px 0px 30px blue; /*Kode Css3 untuk efek shadow*/
-webkit-box-shadow:0px 0px 30px blue; /*Untuk safari*/
-moz-box-shadow:0px 0px 30px blue; /*Untuk Mozilla*/
opacity: 1;
}
Kemudian Save Template.

Untuk memanggilnya anda bisa memberikan perintah berikut :
 <div class="upiksmedia">
<img src="ULR GAMBAR ANDA"/>
</div>
Untuk peletakkan anda bisa letakkan di sidebar ataupun dipostingan,silahkan dikreasikan sendiri kode dan eefk"nya .
 
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Popup Facebook Like Box Dengan Timer CountDown Untuk Blogger

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Widget Popup Facebook Like Box adalah widget yang dilengkapi dengan timer atau waktu dengan 4 skin gambar yang berbeda-beda. Kotak like box popup ini akan muncul ketika halaman blog dibuka dan dirancang untuk tidak muncul kedua kalinya jika pengunjung sudah mengklik like atau suka pada box tersebut serta dilengkapi dengan tombol close pada sudut kanan atas.

Widget like box yang satu ini sangat berbeda dari widget like box facebook melayang karena like box melayang akan selalu muncul pada saat halaman dibuka atau direload. Berbeda dengan like box fans page facebook popup dengan timer yang dirancang khusus dan dilengkapi dengan timer untuk menutup sendiri pada saat countdown timernya sudah habis serta dilengkapi dengan script atau fitur pembaca cookies pada browser sehingga membuat like box yang satu ini tidak akan muncul untuk kedua kalinya jika like atau suka pada box tersebut sudah di klik.

Popup Facebook Like Box Dengan Timer CountDown Untuk Blogger


Setelah melihat demo di atas, mungkin sobat tertarik untuk memasangnya pada blog sobat dan jika iya, berikut kode dan cara meletakkan kode tersebut ke dalam template :
  • Login ke Blogger
  • Pilih Template » Edit HTML » Centang Expand Template Widget
  • Copy kode di bawah ini dan pastekan tepat di atas tag </body>
<!-- Upik's Media Likebox Facebook Code Start -->
<style>
#fblikepop { background-color: #fff; display: none; position: fixed; top: 200px; _position: absolute; width: 450px; border: 10px solid #6F6F6F; z-index: 200; -moz-border-radius: 9px; -webkit-border-radius: 9px; margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt; color: #333333; text-align: left; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;}
#fblikepop body {background: #fff none repeat scroll 0%; line-height: 1; margin: 0pt; height: 100%;}
.fbflush { cursor: pointer; font-size: 11px !important; color: #FFF !important; text-decoration: none !important; border: 0 !important;}
#fblikebg { display: none; position: fixed; _position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; background: #000000; z-index: 100;}
#fblikepop #closeable { float: right; margin: 7px 15px 0 0;}
#fblikepop h1 { background: #6D84B4 none repeat scroll 0 0; border-top: 1px solid #3B5998; border-left: 1px solid #3B5998; border-right: 1px solid #3B5998; color: #FFFFFF !important; font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding: 5px !important; margin: 0 !important; font-family: &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, sans-serif !important;}
#fblikepop #actionHolder {height: 30px;overflow: hidden;}
#fblikepop #buttonArea {background: #F2F2F2;border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;padding: 10px;min-height: 50px;}
#fblikepop #buttonArea a {color: #999999 !important;text-decoration: none !important;border: 0 !important;font-size: 10px !important;}
#fblikepop #buttonArea a:hover {color: #333 !important;text-decoration: none !important;border: 0 !important;}
#fblikepop #popupMessage {font-size: 12px !important;font-weight: normal !important;line-height: 22px;padding: 8px;background: #fff !important;}
#fblikepop #counter-display {float: right;font-size: 11px !important;font-weight: normal !important;margin: 5px 0 0 0;text-align: right;line-height: 16px;}</style>
<script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'/><script>google.load(&quot;jquery&quot;, &quot;1&quot;);</script>
<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
 kakinetworkdotcom01username="Upik's Media",
 kakinetworkdotcom01title="Join us at Facebook!",
 kakinetworkdotcom01skin="01",
 kakinetworkdotcom01time="15",
 kakinetworkdotcom01wait="0",
 kakinetworkdotcom01lang="en"
//]]>
</script>
<script src='https://sites.google.com/site/luthfansite/Facebook.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
 $(document).ready(function(){$().kakinetworkdotcom({ closeable: true });});
//]]>
</script>
<!-- Upik's Media Likebox Facebook Code End --> 

Keterangan :
  • Upik's Media : Ganti dengan username fans page facebook yang sobat punya
  • Join us at Facebook : Silahkan disesuaikan
  • kakinetworkdotcom01time="15" : adalah waktu (seconds/detik) yang diperlukan sampai popupnya tertutup sendiri
  • Skin ="01" : Ganti dengan kode skin yang lain (01, 02, 03, 04). Contoh skinnya ada di bawah ini :
SKIN "01"
Cara Membuat Facebook Like Box Popup Dengan Timer Pada Blog

SKIN "02"

Cara Membuat Facebook Like Box Popup Dengan Timer Pada Blog

 SKIN "03"

Cara Membuat Facebook Like Box Popup Dengan Timer Pada Blog

SKIN "04"

Cara Membuat Facebook Like Box Popup Dengan Timer Pada Blog

  • Langkah terakhir, simpan template sobat...!!!
Semoga artikel kali ini bermanfaat dan jika ada saran ataupun kekurangan dari tutorial ini, mohon memberikan komentar di bawah. Terima kasih dan happy blogging...!!!
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Tuesday 22 January 2013

Cara Membuat Screen Saver Pada Blog

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Cara Membuat Screen Saver Pada Blog itu lah yang akan saya bahas pada artikel saya kali ini.
Disini saya akan memberikan tips untuk Membuat Screen Saver Pada Blog dalam dua versi.
versi pertama yaitu dengan memakai kode HTML. Trik kali ini saya buat dengan bantuan teman - teman sesama programmer.



Cara Membuat Screen Saver Pada Blog

  • Masuk ke Dasbor
  • Rancangan
  • Elemen Laman
  • Tambah Gadget
  • HTML/Java Script
  • Copy-kan kode berikut :
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://sites.google.com/site/luthfansite/screen_upik.js"></script><style type='text/css'>div#energysaving, div#energysaving * { -moz-border-radius: 0; -webkit-border-radius: 0; border: 0; background: url(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i7sbf0snwiE/UP51MhfgWKI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/fKesEqyqa4o/s1600/screensaver.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed black; }div#energysaving p span {display:none;visibility:hidden;}</style> <br>
  • Klik Simpan / Save.

NB :
Gantilah kode yang berwarna merah dengan Url gambar screen saver anda.
Screensaver akan muncul setelah kurang lebih 25 detik tanpa aktivitas.
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Wednesday 2 January 2013

7 Cara Mempercantik Tampilan Windows 7

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Anda pengguna Windows 7?Jika iya sama dengan saya.Windows 7 ini mempunyai banyak kelebihan dari pada windows sebelumnya.Misalkan windows 7 dilengkapi gadget yang disediakan oleh microsoft,yang dapat mempercantik tampilan Windows anda.Ngomong ngomong soal mempercantik tampilan,kali ini Upik's Media akan membahas tentang 7 Tips Mempercantik Tampilan Windows 7.Berikut bisa di Check it out:

1.Menggunakan Aplikasi Stardock Object Dock

Seperti yang anda lihat Seperti Itulah Stardock Object Dock.Aplikasi itu bekerja layaknya seperti shortcut.Tetapi dengan tampilan menarik dan Lumayan juga.Saya sendiri (admin topgood7) menggunakan aplikasi ini dan hasilnya pun cukup memuaskan bagi saya.Jika anda berminat hubungi 0877539*** (yang itu cuma bercanda xD).Udah langsung saja disedot disini

2.Membuat Video Menjadi Wallpaper dengan Dreamscene Activator

Dari judulnya saja,anda pasti sudah tahu.Yap,Membuat video menjadi wallpaper.So,wallpaper anda menjadi gerak gerak gitu lah.Saya (admin Topgood7) belum mencoba,tapi,saya percaya aplikasi ini working.Jika ingin mengujinya,silahkan dunlut di sini

3.Menggunakan Skin Pack

Skin Pack.Adalah aplikasi yang mengubah tampilan windows anda,namun Os nya tetap sama.
Misalkan anda menggunakan Windows 7 Ultimate,lalu anda menggunakan skin pack windows 8.Disitu sekilas Tampilan nya Windows 8,namun Operating system anda tetap windows 7 ultimate.Anda ingin mencoba?Berikut kumpulan skin pack yang saya cari di blog tetangga.Click Here.

4.Menggunakan Gadget yang Tersedia
Seperti yang tadi saya jelaskan di pembuka,yaitu menggunakan gadget yang ada.Misalnya jam,atau kalender,dsb.Jika ingin mencoba,klik kanan pada desktop anda,dan klik tulisan Gadget.

5.Menggunakan Rainmeter

Aplikasi ini dapat membuat Desktop anda menjadi keren.Untuk lebih jelasnya,Lihat screenshotnya.Dan bila berminat mendownloadnya,silahkan klik di sini

6.Menggunakan Windows 7 Logon Changer

Maksudnya adalah,mengganti gambar saat anda loading startup.Backgrouund itu hanya bisa diganti oleh aplikasi tertentu salah satunya dengan windows 7 Logon Changer.Jika anda ingin mencoba,silahkan sedot di sini 

7.Menggunakan Tema yang Disediakan

Tema ini bekerja seperti skin pack.namun perbedaanya adalah,tema hanya mengganti beberapa hal saja.misalnya wallpaper,start menu,dsb.Namun jika menggunakan skin pack,bisa mengganti bahkan saat startup atau login windows.Anda bisa menggunakan tema dengan cara klik kanan desktop,lalu klik personalize.
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Tuesday 1 January 2013

7 Aksesoris Penting Untuk Kamera DSLR Anda

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Oke, jadi anda sekarang telah memiliki kamera SLR baru, menenteng-nenteng SLR kemanapun anda pergi dan memotret beragam obyek, dari wajah orang-orang disekitaran sampai bakso langganan. Seiring dengan jam terbang yang meningkat, cepat atau lambat anda akan mulai berpikir untuk menambah aksesoris fotografi untuk melengkapi kamera DSLR dan lensa anda.
Untuk menyeimbangkan dengan isi dompet, perlu bagi anda untuk membuat prioritas belanja aksesoris. Jadi, sebenarnya aksesoris fotografi apa saja sih yang paling berguna (dan juga paling populer) bagi pemilik DSLR? berikut saya pilihkan 7 aksesoris untuk anda:

Tas Kamera

Tersedia beragam jenis tas kamera di pasaran, tinggal pilih yang sesuai selera: dari backpack, ikat pinggang, sling-slide (menyamping) sampai yang mirip koper. Yang jelas tas kamera disini berfungsi agar kita bisa menyimpan kamera dan lensa yang kita miliki selama bepergian secara aman. Tidak jatuh, aman dari benturan dan aman dari air.

Kit Pembersih

Untuk menjaga kondisi eksterior lensa dan kamera agar selalu bersih, anda memerlukan lap mikrofiber dan cairan pembersih khusus. Terutama untuk lensa, sebisa mungkin anda melindungi lensa dengan filter UV (lihat filter dibawah), biasanya untuk lensa cukup gunakan blower. Kit pembersih bisa dibeli di toko-toko kamera.
Saya tidak menyarankan anda membersihkan bagian interior kamera (apalagi sensor), serahkan saja pada ahlinya: biasanya toko kamera menyediakan layanan sensor cleaning. Toh kebanyakan SLR sekarang memiliki fasilitas self-cleaning yang cukup handal untuk menyapu debu dari sensor.

Tripod

Tripod, monopod, gorillapod, apapun fungsinya adalah membantu anda menghasilkan foto yang tajam saat mengambil eksposur long shutter. Dibandingkan jenis lainnya, tripod masih tetap paling populer, karena relatif lebih handal dan tangguh.
Pastikan anda membeli tripod dengan kemampuan menahan beban yang cukup, kaki-kakinya cukup gampang di perpanjang (dan diperpendek), memiliki mekanisme pemasangan dan pelepasan kamera yang enak serta memiliki kepala dengan gerakan yang fleksibel (saya sarankan jenis ball head).
Flash Eksternal
Flash ekternal akan secara drastis meningkatkan kualitas foto anda jika dibandingkan sewaktu anda menggunakan flash bawaan yang melekat di kamera SLR. Memiliki power yang jauh lebih besar, kemampuan kontrol yang jauh lebih fleksibel, dan kita bisa mengatur arah pencahayaan yang jatuh ke obyek secara lebih mudah.
Dengan flash eksternal anda akan bisa menghasilkan pencahayaan yang jauh lebih lembut, rata dan cerah dibandingkan kalau menggunakan flash bawaan.

Filter

Filter adalah aksesoris yang cukup esensial bagi sistem SLR. Dari beragam jenis filter, ada 3 jenis yang layak anda pertimbangkan untuk dibeli:
  • Filter Proteksi (Filter UV atau Netral) – fungsi nyatanya adalah melindungi lensa anda, filter ini relatif murah sehingga anda akan ‘ikhlas’ menjadikannya sebagai bemper yang dipasang didepan lensa. Biarkan filter yang bersentuhan dengan udara kotor-tangan-cipratan air, dan bukan lensa yang harganya bisa berlipat-lipat lebih mahal.
  • Filter Polarisasi atau CPL – mengubah langit sehingga terlihat lebih ‘dalam’, menghilangkan refleksi di air (atau kaca), agar pepohonan tampak lebih hijau. Gampangnya ini adalah ibarat kacamata hitam bagi lensa anda..
  • Filter ND (Neutral density) dan Grad-ND – mengurangi jumlah cahaya yang masuk ke kamera anda. Jika anda ingin menghasilkan foto air terjun yang tampak seperti kapas (shutter panjang) sementara hari masih terlalu siang, maka anda akan memerlukan Filter ND supaya cahaya bisa dikurangi . Sementara filter ND Gradasi (Grad-ND) berfungsi seperti ND dengan tingkat penggelapan yang bersifat gradasi (bagian atas lebih gelap dan semakin ke bawah semakin terang). Grad-ND sangat berguna saat anda akan memotret landscape yang melibatkan langit, karena beda terang yang sangat mencolok antara langit dan tanah.grad-ND

Shutter Release

Selain tripod, aksesoris tambahan yang akan meningkatkan ketajaman hasil foto anda adalah shutter release. Dengan shutter release, kita tidak perlu memencet tombol shutter di kamera, cukup gunakan shutter release sehingga anda bisa mengaktifkan shutter dari jauh. Ya, fungsinya mirip remote control TV anda. Shutter release tersedia dalam 2 pilihan: kabel dan wireless.

Verikal Grip (VG)

Jika anda mulai lebih intensif memotret sementara kamera anda belum memiliki fitur pegangan vertikal dari sononya, belilah vertikal grip tambahan. Selain sangat membantu saat  memotret dalam orientasi portrait (vertikal), VG juga berfungsi sebagai batere cadangan, sehingga tidak perlu khawatir kehabisan batere saat asyik menjepret
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