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Using Visual Similarity In Image Searching on Your Mac

February 2, 2011

Some amazing developments in Mac software continue to come from both research centers and private developers. We are well aware of applications like Spring Cleaning from Smith Micro Software. This software will perform a large variety of functions, such as finding archives, disk images, empty folders, font files, superfluous help files, music, podcast and even [...]

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Off Page Search Engine Optimization

February 1, 2011

You can make use of other’s websites to promote and attract traffic towards yours. The category of SEO in which you tries to drive traffic from external websites is known as Off Page Search Engine Optimization. Here are a few commonly used Off Page SEO techniques. Social Networking Sites Social networking sites are a great [...]

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5 Tips To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly

January 28, 2011

With the increasing trend in mobile platform, there are limitations of the website being displayed in the actual HTML format as designed for your web browsing over a PC or a laptop. These HTML formats could be made more amicable to make your website supportive and adapt efficiently to work well on the mobile platform. [...]

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Follow-up: Intro to Web hosting – so, how’s TechPatio hosted?

January 10, 2011

Last week I wrote a quick introduction to the different kinds of web hosting you might come across as a webmaster or blog owner. Today I thought I would share a quick note about what kind of web hosting TechPatio has been going through. When TechPatio.com was first launched in the Summer of 2009, it [...]

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Quick introduction to the different kinds of web hosting

January 5, 2011

If you’re new to being a webmaster or a blogger, it might be confusing to figure out what kind of web hosting you should purchase for your website. Here’s a quick introduction to the most used types of web hosting you are likely to encounter in your search for the perfect web host. Linux Hosting [...]

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December 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

January 4, 2011

2011 is the number of the year which means bye bye to 2010 and also bye bye to December. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year as well. There’s no way around it, you’re probably here to read the December [...]

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Considerations before hiring a SEO consultant to optimize your website

December 23, 2010

Not everybody is aware of the importance of ranking well in the search engines, Google, Bing etc., but the more online experience you get the more you’ll start to become aware that the reason you’re not getting much traffic to your website is because people are not finding it due to low search engine rankings. [...]

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A Brief Introduction to Domain Names and How To Find & Register One

December 9, 2010

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you will know that we occasionally publish articles on blog-related stuff, such as picking a web host, which blogging platform to choose and so on. Now it’s time to look into domain names, as they also have quite an important role in your online blogging business – [...]

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Web Hosting Hub – Get your website online in minutes!

December 7, 2010

I’ve said it several times before and I’ll say it again – if you’re just a tiny bit serious about your website, blog or whatever it is that you’re having online, you’ll want to have it hosted somewhere where you have control over your website and you’re not putting all your eggs in a basket [...]

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November 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

December 5, 2010

We’re almost a week into December so I hope you’re all close to getting in the Christmas spirit now that the holidays are closing in on us. So, November has ended and it’s time to wrap-up and see what November brought to TechPatio.com in terms of visitors and income. Here are the numbers… November ’10 [...]

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G.A.S.P.: WordPress anti-spam plugin. Good idea, but does it deliver?

December 2, 2010

G.A.S.P. , GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin, is a WordPress plugin that takes a different approach to spam filtering than Akismet does, which is the anti-spam plugin used by most WordPress bloggers. Instead of analyzing the content of each comment as well as having a giant database with information about which URL’s, IP’s etc. to mark as [...]

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ebuzzing – one of the best ways for bloggers to monetize!

November 25, 2010

I’ve been a member of the ebuzzing community for over half a year now and when they approached me yesterday asking me to write a little about ebuzzing and a brand I’d like to see on the ebuzzing platform, well, how could I refuse?So, ebuzzing.co.uk is part of the Wikio group which is probably most [...]

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October 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

November 4, 2010

Well, hello there! It’s November – that means another month just went by and that also means it’s yet again time to spill all the TechPatio beans to let you all know how many visitors arrived here last month and how much money were made as well. I knew beforehand that October wouldn’t bring in [...]

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Simple Methods of Link Building for SEO

November 3, 2010

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been used mostly for developing better links. Having a large number of links means having a large number of people for getting in to the site as well as also increasing popularity of that web site. This process is somewhere related to the success of that business as it offers [...]

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Review: Monitis – All-in-one server monitoring from the cloud

October 30, 2010

Monitoring your website is not only for big corporate sites – with the prices of today, everybody can do it and it’s especially important if you’re somewhat dependent on your website, or blog, to be online as much as possible. There’s no way you yourself will be able to monitor your site 24/7, that’s why [...]

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September 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

October 3, 2010

Welcome to another income report & traffic summary for TechPatio.com – as usual, we’re putting all the cards on the table for you to enjoy/laugh at them September was a quiet month in terms of content being produced, but let’s have a look at the numbers below anyway… September ’10 Aug ’10 July ’10 June [...]

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Infolinks vs Kontera for contextual in-text advertising (split test)

September 27, 2010

TechPatio is around 14 months old/young and back in the days when I first started this blog, I tried out contextual in-text ads. Initially I went with Kontera but I never got it to work so I had to do Infolinks instead. After some time, maybe a few months I guess, I decided it wasn’t [...]

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Simple tips to make your articles Search Engine friendly

September 22, 2010

If you are a blogger then do spend your time to read the tips given below as it can help in optimizing the article. I am not saying it because I want a reader but I want a successful blogger. I am sure most of you would write for readers but the articles must be [...]

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I hate the way Popup Domination market themselves and their $10 off discount

September 14, 2010

Internet marketers can be funny from time to time, not all of them of course, but some of them has a tendency to build those amazingly long landing pages (sales pitch pages) where your finger gets all sore after scrolling through it. Obviously they’re doing it because such pages convert better (=more sales) than just [...]

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Warning against freelance writer Pranav Jain (pranavalwar@gmail.com) [UPDATED - Oct. 4th]

September 12, 2010

UPDATE – OCTOBER 4TH: Pranav Jain has done the right thing and issued a full refund. The lesson to be learned here is to not pay upfront for content unless you know the writer – and be sure to run the text through copyscape.com or similar to make sure it’s not copied from elsewhere. I [...]

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4 Reasons Why People Blog

September 11, 2010

Hmm well the title seems to be little interesting and unique but there are real reasons found in the corner. Well there could be hell a lot of reasons but I would say that there are only four main reasons behind the blogging. The four main reasons are, 1) Money I have seen many bloggers [...]

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Building an Online Community: 8 Crucial Tips

September 9, 2010

Online marketers new and old must recognize the power of the online community to establish the reputation of a business and to attract new customers. Members of online communities visit sites that interest them more often, stay longer at those sites, and spend more money than other internet users. This is the type of visitor [...]

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Outsource all your video work?

September 7, 2010

If you’re like me, you’ll know how frustrating the whole online video production process can be. There’s just so much to learn, and so much to do, and to be honest, it can do your head in! But it doesn’t have to be that way… Powerful online video marketer, Gideon Shalwick, is running a brand [...]

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August 2010: Blog Summary & Income Report

September 1, 2010

A new month has arrived and that means it’s time to look back and see how August went for TechPatio.com in terms of traffic and money. I was on a two week vacation in August so I didn’t really have much time to write content and do the usual marketing, but thanks to a bunch [...]

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CommentLuv – A Link Builders Dream Or The Latest Waste of Time?

August 27, 2010

First off I’d like to say I have never used comment spam, and I never plan to, I will admit that I have partaken in some forum spamming in my early days, before I seen the light. Matt Cutts and Google decided that they wanted to put a stop to this spam and the nofollow [...]

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See How Easily Video Cash Is Made [YouTube]

August 7, 2010

If there’s one thing I hear all the time about making an income with video, it’s that it’s too HARD. Too time-consuming, difficult, expensive… Listen up friend: THAT IS SO 2005! Take Gideon Shalwick for instance. He cranks out cool videos pretty much as fast as he can think. These clips often get thousands of [...]

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