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Just last month I  received an email from Google stating that they are taking mobile friendliness designed website as a ranking signal for their search engine results. What this means is that websites that are fully optimized for mobile devices will be rewarded with a better search rank in their engine.

Hellooo fellow bloggers~ Are you an active twitter user? Cause if you are~  You probably would have noticed the many different types of tweets that twitter displays ~ Particularly the one with 'view summary' links at the bottom. View Summary Twitter Which you can click on it to view the article's snippets Twitter Summary Card

Some bloggers go all the way to have their date stamp removed. If you are thinking of doing so ~ my advice to you is to keep it. I dont encourage anyone to hide their posts' dates away from Google. Why? you might ask. First of all nothing is evergreen in this world.. If somebody tells you that his/her niche is evergreen- that's bullshit!

Ever wondered why No one tweets your article? Well actually there is a way to make a tweet work. All you need to do is to make tweeting easier and interesting. Most people find tweeting a hassle. That is because they'll need a good amount of time to login to their twitter account, come out with a catchy phrase to go with the tweet, key in those words and copy the link back to the article. That's a lot of work for just a single tweet. Don't you think so?

Like the new design of this site? Some of you might have already noticed that I have changed the layout of this site to mobile responsive last week. Try viewing this page with your favourite mobile device. Notice any difference? If not, you can test out the responsive web design of this blog simply by minimizing the browser. Notice that by shortening and lengthening the width of your browser window will cause the web design layout to change. Yes, the site you are looking at now has the capability of adapting to different screen sizes.

Wondering how to get your profile picture to show up on search engine?  or Are you searching for ways to improve your search engine click through rates (CTR)? i.e. you hunger for Google's organic traffic? Well.. Claiming of authorship is definitely one of  the best and simplest way to drive organic traffic to your site.

If you are a follower of my blog you might have already noticed it. I've hidden parts of my blog sections which they will appear only on my homepage and static pages. In this post I am going to present you the various conditional tags code. You can utilise them in blogger template to show or hide your widget/section or ad in the specific pages. Of course, to implement these code you'll need to have a bit of coding knowledge. And there maybe plenty of reasons to why some of you want to have selective display of widgets in blog posts or homepage. But if you are looking for ways to optimise your blog loading speed, then look no further! Believe me all you need to do is.. Just hide your widgets when is not required! This is a simple solution to improve your page speed performance.

In the Web 2.0 era, web sites today no longer contain content that is static. Everyone here is constantly generating/commenting and sharing content online. That is where our Word wide web is heading! ~ towards interactive, real time updates and social sharing. Is a global phenomenon which results in the rapid growth of various social networking sites. Everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon of advertising on Social Media platforms. Large companies searching for social media experts. Advertising agencies turned to social media marketing as their primary marketing strategy. So Why? Why is everyone using social media? Simply because it is cheap, effective and is a targeted marketing strategy. If execute correctly anyone make a big splash in just a short time, especially beneficial for a small business company . And that's why everyone is using it.

Hi hi! this must be your first time creating a blog or a website? Am I right? You did a Google search, but to no avail. You just cant seem to find your site. So where is your site? you are wondering..  I had the same experience when I started my first blog.

Hey you there! Stop hopping around sites to search for Free backlink building software or tools. Before you start using these free tool why not ask yourself:" Will I be able to handle the risk of getting my blog/site blacklisted?" If you can't. Dont try it! These back links builder or services would probably cause you more harm than do you any good. How much trust can you actually put into these site? The most you can get out from them is a bunch of cheap useless links. 

You only need ONE powerful addon to understand the SEO metrics of a ranking site. And SEO Quake is the #1 choice that comes to my mind. Doesn't matter if you are newbie or an expert in SEO. This tool is very useful for anyone who is doing competitive SEO research, it gives a good guide of where your competitors are actually standing. Best of all, it's Free. I'll just briefly go through some of the features that SEOquake offers:

In order to put your code in the blogger XML template you have to parse your adsense code to XML. Use the online Adsense Parser tool below. This is a online html escape Parser tool for parsing any html code to xml format. You can use this to parse other ads codes too! That include, but not limited to the follwing: Chitika, Adbrite, Infolink.. Find this online html parser useful? Just Bookmark it! (Ctrl+D) 

Before reading this article you should already have basic understanding of what SEO is about. If not, you can always refer to our previous post on  What is Search Engine Optimization?   SEO can be categorised into two sub groups Off page SEO and On page SEO. This is how I look at Off page and On Page SEO... The context is pretty much similar to that of a human behavioural psychology theory. Nature vs Nurture . How it affects the development of human or in this case a website. On Page SEO is similar to "Nature" while Off Page SEO is similar to "Nurture" Let me explain further... Some said that Off page SEO is 30% responsible for the overall SEO process. In my opinion both On page and Off page are mutually responsible for a site to achieve #1 ranking.

I remember when I first started my blogging it was 10 over years ago. Till this day the blogosphere is still expanding. More and more people are blogging and which is why you are here to start your own! For me, blog is just like a diary and notebook. I only write down memories that I choose to remember, express my own personal thoughts, useful information and personal experiences. Some people like to write about their gloomy life while others may blog about serious news.. Basically, you can write just about anything on a blog. And if you are searching for a free blogging platform then this article is written for you! These three, in my opinion, are my top recommended blogging sites for beginners. Best of all is! they are free! and they are much less likely to face the shut down threat.

Oh yeah. This marks the beginning of my blogger SEO guide . Even if you are not a blogger these 10 golden rules still serve as a basis for you to succeed in optimizing your website. And if you managed to follow what is being engraved on the stones I created, you are on the right path to  White Hat SEO. Some must be thinking.. Why? Why should I stick with White Hat and not go Black Hat ? Reason is very simple.. Google's search algorithm is always changing for the better. Why? To wipe out all the black hat spams and low quality sites! Of course! If you choose to venture into the dark side.. Be prepared to get your ass slapped by some black/white animal someday. Therefore to create a true everlasting successful website/blog .. My advice is .. . . To follow the 10 Commandments!

Mr Durian is back! woo~ Someone wrote in a comment the other day requesting for a tutorial on How to make the revealing evolving picture in my mini point click game "The Mysterious Letter ". So here I am doing my little coding session again. ~ This should be very easy if you have some knowledge in coding. The code I use down here is straight forward and simple to understand. But first let me show you another example of what the code does. Click on the picture below and you will see our cute Pikachu evolve. Pika!

Apart from the revenue you make online.. the most rewarding part of blogging is when your readers comment on your blog. It indicates that people are reading your blog seriously and they would like to engage with you. Google has recently launched a new comment system which was just only yesterday... Now we can integrate Google+ comments to our Blogspot blogs comments.. Yeah...  or Nay?

I've been talking about SEO on my blog for quite a long time but some are still unsure of what SEO exactly is about.. So for the benefits of those beginners who wants to know more about web page ranking or want to gain more traffics to your blog/site. This is something that you will want to know. The word "SEO" is an acronym that stands for Search Engine Optimization .   First let's breakup the words into two segments and understand what each of them means.

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Hey Spidey Can you sense it? Can you sense my happiness? Just a few days back my blog got approved by Google Adsense. Have been blogging hard for the past few months for this day to come (And of course I will continue to do so. :D) For those applicants living in Asian countries such as Singapore would probably understand how I felt waiting anxiously for our accounts to be approved because of  the irritating 6 months rule that was implemented by Google adsense few years back. If you got your Adsense account before they implement this rule Lucky for you. Now if you are applying Adsense from India, China, Singapore or some other parts of Asia, your running/active site must clock a certain domain age in order to get in. Although is stated clearly in their site that 6 months is the minimum required criteria. However if your website has high traffic is still plausible to get your account approved in less than 6 months. I got ap...