Quick Online Tips: 4 new tips

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• How to Add Facebook Comments to Your Blog
• New Google Social Search [Video]
• Are you Cannibalizing Your Own Keywords?
• 11 Reasons Why SaaS and The Cloud Are Taking Over

How to Add Facebook Comments to Your Blog Posted: 17 Feb 2011 10:26 AM PST   A new Facebook social plugin allows you to add Facebook comments to your blog and replace WordPress comments. The new Facebook commenting system can be added to any webpage on any site! Install Facebook Comments Go to the Facebook Comments Plugin page, and fill up the details to get your cut and paste code instantly. Remember to use this plug-in, your site must have an application ID. You can get an application ID by registering your site on Facebook Developers. Then you can also “Administer Comments”. There is also an inbuilt Like button which shows the number of likes on each page. We are testing Facebook Comments live on the site and you can see it below all post pages right now (even this post). There is a checkbox option to post the comment to your facebook profile also.  See  it is working along with our WordPress comments and we hope it will definitely add to more social community development around QOT. Replace WordPress comments: Its easy to remove WordPress comments by editing the single.php file, but that will remove all comments from your site. New blogs can see this as a viable option to have only facebook comments on their site. Have you added Facebook Comments to your site? Original article: How to Add Facebook Comments to Your Blog Copyright 2010. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.

New Google Social Search [Video] Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:46 AM PST   Now Google Social Search is taking a giant step forward, enabling you to get more information from your friends, whether they're publishing on YouTube, Flickr or their own blog or website. Google social search results will now be mixed throughout your results based on their relevance (in the past they only appeared at the bottom). Google Social Search is more comprehensive by adding notes for links people have shared on Twitter and other sites. Check the video of how this works. Remember you only get social search results when you are logged in to your Google Account. Check it live right now on on Google.com in English only. Original article: New Google Social Search [Video] Copyright 2010. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.

Are you Cannibalizing Your Own Keywords? Posted: 17 Feb 2011 09:28 AM PST   Guest post by Sarah Moore. Keyword cannibalization is a major problem for bloggers and website owners. The problem is, most of them don't know it. What is Keyword Cannibalization? Spend a short time looking around an expert SEO website like this and you will quickly learn how important keywords and keyword phrases are in attracting traffic to your site and improving your search engine rankings. Do some more reading and you will learn about the importance of using your keywords in the title, description and keyword tags. You are on the right track to mastering search engine optimization but, chances are, it won't be long until you make a major mistake—the same mistake that many website owners and bloggers the world over make—keyword cannibalization. Keyword what? Keyword cannibalization is probably one of the most common problems website owners face without ever really knowing it. It does severe damage to their site rankings and prevents their site from getting the traffic it is capable of getting. It usually begins immediately after the keyword research phase, when a site owner has identified a set of keywords that is relevant to their site and target audience. They now begin to optimize their entire site using these keywords and they begin to use the same set of keywords and keyword phrases on every single page of their site. That's fine isn't it? No. Here's an example of why not. Let's say you own a blog about cosmetic dentistry. You use the keyword phrase "cosmetic dentistry" on every single page of your blog, hoping that this will increase keyword density throughout your site. When you generate incoming links you use the phrase "cosmetic dentistry" as the anchor text, no matter which page in your blog you are linking to. You think your chances of getting a high rank for the phrase are very high because you have used the target keyword on every single page on your site and you have a large number of incoming links. It is actually the opposite. Why? Because Google ranks pages not sites. In very simple terms this means that, by using the same keyword or keyword phrase on every single page of your site, you are forcing Google to choose just one of your pages and rank it higher than the others. The more pages you optimize for the keyword the harder it will be to actually get a high ranking because you are diluting your link building efforts. For example, let's suppose an anchored incoming link is worth 1 point. If you have 50 links to 50 pages, the highest score a page on your site will have is 1. However, if you have 50 anchored links to just one page on your site, that page will score 50 and will therefore have a higher chance of ranking well. The same logic can be applied to any internal links you create. If you are pointing internal links that all say "cosmetic dentistry" randomly throughout different pages on your site then you are heavily diluting the value of those links. How to Avoid Keyword Cannibalization Now all this may sound extremely complicated but actually it's very, very simple—never optimize more than one page on your site for the same target keyword or keyword phrase. Give every single page a different keyword and use anchored links containing those keywords to link to the given page. Use your more important keywords on your homepage and then research alternatives to distribute throughout the remainder of your site. Easy! Guest author Sarah is founder of Vappingo, an online editing and proofreading agency that offers affordable expert SEO editing services for websites and blogs that need assistance in improving their website rankings. Original article: Are you Cannibalizing Your Own Keywords? Copyright 2010. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.

11 Reasons Why SaaS and The Cloud Are Taking Over Posted: 17 Feb 2011 01:35 AM PST   Guest Post By Patrick Jobin. What is so special about SaaS and Cloud computing? It seems that every tech blog on the net is talking about this new thing called "Software-as-a-Service"  or "Cloud Computing". Of course, the concept of paying for access to resources on a remote system via network connection is nothing new. Companies have been doing this ever since the days of renting mainframe time. And consumers have been using Software-as-a-Service applications since the early days of Hotmail. If this technology has been around for so long, why are we just now treating "the cloud" as a bold new concept? Well, a number of changes have occurred in the way SaaS is delivered, and the way society uses technology. SaaS and Cloud Computing Listed below are a few of the most important trends pushing the SaaS and Cloud Computing revolutions: There is a new generations of workers entering the market who are very computer literate, and capable of working through the web. In fact, they've never known a time when the Internet did not exist. International outsourcing is easier and more accessible than ever. This presents enormous economic opportunities for the developing world and great cost-savings for companies that need cheap administrative workers. Online outsourcing collaboration services make this easier than ever. New software products can be launched more quickly, with less start-up capital. This means that many new specialized applications are being introduced for every niche market. Standardization and public APIs are making it easier for companies to customize their software or combine multiple applications together into a single custom-built unit. In this sense, access to data is becoming more important than the software itself. Thanks to new advances in mobile computing, employees are doing more work from home or on the road. This requires synchronization across many multiple devices. For example, you could start a word document using your iPhone on the subway and finish it on your laptop when you get in the office. This type of synchronization can only happen if work is done through a shared third-party service. (Either internal or external) Offices are becoming more fragmented. Today, it's more common to see organizations split up across many remote locations. This means that a centralized approach to IT management is no longer as practical as it used to be. The Internet will become the primary network infrastructure for companies. IT budgets are shrinking, while storage and processing requirements are rising. Cloud computing allows rapid scalability with the click of a mouse. Now, servers can be provisioned in minutes instead of weeks. And desktop repairs are no longer a problem since defective machines can simply be swapped out without needing to reinstall new software. Cloud service providers invest more in security and high availability than the average company would be able to do in-house. That means that the chances of a virus or crash are significantly lower than if you had hosted these applications yourself. Why manage security for your web server when a hosting service can do it for you at $10 per month? An "internet of things" is allowing us to communicate with objects and appliances like never before. We've already seen this in the way that electronic readers (with social networking and social bookmarking capabilities) are putting old-fashioned paper book companies out of business. People trust the web. Today, nearly everyone trusts SSL encryption enough to make purchases online. And Internet connections are more reliable than ever. Banking and paying bills online is now much more popular than driving across town and waiting in line. Operating systems don't matter. Because SaaS applications all work through a client, emulator or web browser, you can use the same software on a Mac, PC or Linux machine. SaaS has been waiting a long time for its chance to shine. And that time is now. Within the next 5 years, you will see a major change in the way we use computers. Technical features such as speed, ram and storage will become unimportant as all of our everyday software is hosted in the cloud. Guest author Patrick Jobin is a researcher and technical writer for Storagepipe Solutions. Storagepipe has been an innovator in the SaaS storage space since 2001. Original article: 11 Reasons Why SaaS and The Cloud Are Taking Over Copyright 2010. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved.

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