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List of Top 10 forum softwares Running  a forum is quite easy today with lot of forum software present all over internet. But making a forum successful is very difficult. Any forum do not instantly becomes busy with people discussing stuffs. Forums behaves initially like blogs and later rides up with content generated by users. Suppose you launch a forum for pet owners and you want  others to join the forum. Who will  join a forum with 0 posts and 1 member that is you. You will have to register with different profiles on the forum and start discussing stuffs. This is just like blogging but with a different aspect. Once people start visiting your forum, it will look busier and they will feel that they will get responses after posting topics. This way your forum will rise and one day you will have only one job left with forum and that will be forum management . Deleting spams and moving posts to appropriate categories. Although my recommendation is xenforo but  if you ...

  Free Question answer script list When you think about running your community driven websites, forums comes in mind first as they are from a long time a single solution for running a discussion oriented websites. With sudden surge in popularity of question answer websites like yahoo answers, stackoverflow, blurtit  etc. budding webmasters have started leaving the idea for running a   forum   and are looking forward to run their own QA websites. Top question and answer websites answers . yahoo .com answerbag.com yedda.com blurtit.com qna. rediff .com Stackoverflow.com What made question and answer websites perform better than forum websites ? These websites are more direct as they provoke incoming users to ask questions and find their answers more directly than going to the painful procedure of joining the forum. They look better than forums and chances are more that a user will post question will always exist. Apart from dedicating a whole website to Q&A section...

  How to find out which wordpress theme someone is using Bloggers around the world never get satisfied with their theme. When someone start a blog, he tries a flashy theme full of widgets and Govinda colors. But once he progresses and as soon as he realizes that in the long run simple theme sells, he start changing his themes to more simpler and faster wordpress themes. I know many of you would know this , but if you don’t know how to find which wordpress theme someone is using then try things given below. Just view the source code of the blog and find the line given below. <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://www.BlogName.com/wp-content/themes/ DwsFinal /style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” /> ADVERTISEMENT The theme name is sandwiched between themes and style.css. Clearly in this case DwsFinal is theme name. Just search Theme name in Google and get it.

  How to improve your word power via Google Chrome Improving your word power is a thing we all want to do, but always drift away from the pain required. In our childhood we always avoided opening that pocket dictionary and always thought “I will do it later” or “This is not the only word in English”. It was a real hard work for finding word meaning in a crude Alphabetical classification. Then internet and computer came and things became simpler. Either you have to open a dictionary software or use Dictionary.com kind of websites. Here is an even simpler plugin from Google which takes just your Double Click effort for knowing a word meaning. A tool tip opens up after clicking a word and the meaning in a concise way gets displayed. Download Plugin

How to backup your Online Journey Being paranoid is the most important part of human nature. We can’t sway away from it. Even when we cross roads there are chances that that may become your last journey. Its up to us,  how we see different things and what are our fears attached to it. When you fully depend upon online income, there are many statements attached with “What if” that crosses your mind from time to time. Below are some of the greatest fear and their solutions for you if you are solely dependent  upon online income like me. Common Fears of Bloggers and Webmasters 1. What if your credit card account gets hacked and you can’t pay your hosting fee on time and they discontinue your service? – Always pay 3-4 months of hosting fees in advance . In this way you will get the time to think and arrange another credit card in time. 2. Adsense accounts gets cancelled – Always blend different adsense alternatives in advance in your blog to feel safe. 3. What if you loose all you...

Google translate aletrnative for websites Google translate tool is the ultimate tool for webmasters and bloggers around the world . But it also do not work always as some webmasters find it difficult to implement it on websites where URL rewrite have been done. There are a small fractions who don’t like the looks and the bold brand positioning of Google on it. Anyways whatever may be the reason, i wanted to share a fantastic Google translate alternative to you. Translate This – Translate this is a simple javascript tool which provides you with a copy paste code which you will be able to paste on your website or blog and it will render a sleek button which can translate your website to over 52 languages worldwide. translate this Visit Website Why translate button is important for your blog ? Do you know only 42% global internet readers use English. With choosing not to use translator tool , you may be missing more than half of the internet users.

Lets design Meta tags of your Blogspot blog Its strange but true, Google have always tried to make the SEO structure of its blogspot blogs as unfriendly as possible. A person got do a lot of restructuring if he want a SEO friendly structure of his blogspot blog. Default Google blogspot template miss the meta tags and if you have downloaded the template from anywhere else then please put your unique meta description and keywords for your blog. <meta content=’your blog description!! ‘ name=’description’/> <meta content= ‘your , blog , keywords‘ name=’keywords’/> 1 – Log in to your blogger account and when you reach Dashboard, Click on Design. dashboard 2. Click on Edit HTML Link as shown in figure navbar blogspot 3. Check the option of expand widget template as shown below. expand widget template 4 . First of all , download the full template or copy and keep it in a textpad on your computer to have a backup. Now find “description”. If there is already meta keywords and meta d...

Alexa ranking method explained Do you know how Alexa evaluates rankings. If not then read on. If you will visit Alexa, they will prompt you to download their toolbar. Of course you are smart enough and you will not download their toolbar at once. But Alexa is addictive and once you start visiting alexa frequently to check yours and others CGPA , one day you will surely download their toolbar to save time. Once downloaded, you will become a part of Alexa sample survey group. Alexa Ranking method For example on this earth 10,000 people have Alexa toolbar. What it does is that it keep recording browsing history of those people everyday and stores on their huge databases. Lets say, Alexa have to track visitor statistics of twitter. It will watch how many of those 10,000 people ( victims of alexa toolbar ) visit twitter. Now Alexa founded out that approximately 73 people out of 10k visits twitter. Hence Alexa calculated  what we call visitor percentage or reach. Visitor percentage = 7.3...

Google Reader Sound alert Everyone uses Google reader these days, but bloggers depend a lot on them. Its the best way to find stuffs from around the world which are updated, are written by guru bloggers and are fresh. Fresh keywords means lesser competition and thus more chances of success when you blog. But the problem with Google reader is that you will have to kook in to it every time to check that if something new has arrived. Its like opening the letterbox 20 times a day in a city where you never know when the postman arrives. The solution to this is to play some sound alert when an update happens, so that you get notified about it. You may fool around your flat and can put the speakers at the highest possible volume, so that your whole colony get to know that an update has occurred . Grain is a simply installable desktop client which automatically alerts you when your RSS reader gets updated. Download Grain from the link below. Once you install the software , you need to do two t...

Buy Mark Zuckerberg website for $10,000 Only “The Social Network” , movie based on Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg is going to be a blockbuster of the year thats for sure, But for someone like Rahul Jahn its like selling older bought clothes. The Actual Story Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard Dorm’s room started thinking of building a Social networking website and he created Facemash.com. This was his first entrepreneurial venture at an age where people start thinking what to do with my life. The later part of the story is world known. He created Facebook and made Billionaires jealous .The world was never expecting this kind of a Billionaire wearing plastic watches, sleepers and an ugly looking GAP T-Shirt. Whatever, But  Mark Zuckerberg let his domain expire in 2007 which he shouldn’t have done. This was the fragrance of his first entrepreneurial spark and he let it expire. He could have borrowed $10 per year from me. Anyways Rahul Jahn booked the domain name thereafter in $10 and...

Why Nokia N8 is so great : A Review Nokia N8 is perhaps the most hyped Nokia phone ever in India. Now what make it a great smartphone with a price tag of Rs.26,500. Below are some features, test videos, pictures and review of Nokia N8. Nokia N8 12 Mega Pixel Camera carl zeiss nokia n8We have seen Digital cameras of 10 MP strength But Nokia N8 gives you the ability to take a snapshot of 12 Mega pixel and that too with a phone.The Camera is built on Carl Zeiss lens with Xenon flash. Now for a Phone thats the highest MP one can get. Previosly samsung amazed the buyers with their 8 MP capability, but Nokia answered them back with 150%.Below is a test Photo taken from Nokia N8. Nokia N8 Test Photo Nokia N8 sample picture The size of the above picture is 1.84 MB and so you will definitely need bigger storage space and that too in the phone itself. 48 GB Storage space 48 gbThe expandable memory of Nokia N8 can go up to 48 GB comparable with hard disk we used in assembled computers. Now what d...

How to decrease your bounce rate to 20% Bouncing rate You must have seen bounce rate as one of the stats in your Analytics account. Actually this is the only figure which needs to be decreased. For all the other figures like page views, time on site etc. the bigger the better rule is applicable. The bounce rate is a figure which do not have a direct effect on your Adsense income, but it has a long term effect on the growth of your website or blog. Read : How does Google determine your search engine ranking ? What is an ideal bounce rate ? Anything below 50% is good and ideal bounce rate and a Bounce rate approaching 20% is magical and will definitely make you a valuable blog in eyes of search engines. How to decrease your bounce rate ? Make your website or blog more engaging by placing related articles in the places where the article ends. Once the reader gets your point by reading your post fully he may click on another articles and will go to another page. Use most popular posts on y...

How to find out when Google last crawled you ? google Google keeps visiting blogs and websites spread over internet to check out for updates. The frequency of visit on a particular blog depend upon the quality of Blog or website. For example Google may be visiting your newly created blog once in a month, and at the same time he may be poking his nose in TechCrunch every hour. Updated blogs with high Page Rank are visited daily. Colder blogs with low Page rank are touched once in a month. So, its quite clear that you can know how much Google loves you by the frequency of his visit. Do the hell with visitors, everyone want Google uncle as a chief guest on their blog daily. Because if Google comes on your blog, the visitors will come anyway. The question is how to find when Google crawled you recently? To check out just search your website name  in Google search and click on cached link there … google crawl Click on Cached link and you will be taken to a page where on the top portion ...

Forget finding lost phones, Now find anything with Tile tile app Everyone know how to find where they kept there Phone. Its simple, just call your phone with your friend’s phone and the ringtone will guide you to the edge of sofa or below the pillows or whatever weird places it slipped in. I always thought that it would have been great if i could call my bike which i couldn’t find in the parking lot or call my lost wallet  from other wallet and could find it. It seems funny but behind every wish there lies a great entrepreneurial opportunity. The maker of tile app have sensed it and sensed it well. They have built tile a tiny capsule sized device which you can attach with any object you wish, either it be your bag containing documents related to your divorce applications, or your dog who always amuse you with his eloping capabilities. Once attached, you can track your thing with your smartphone. Tile is a bluetooth powered device having the size less than of a matchbox and like oth...

 Seun Osewa ! A third world story of webpreneur millionaire seun-osewa Seun osawa was a 24 year old guy who was fascinated by the power of internet and convinced by its ability to change lives. But like other third world country’s entrepreneurs, he was unsure of which path to follow.  Bill gate in his famous book “The road ahead” quoted that a day will come when a person living in far flung areas of africa and a harvard graduate living in promising valleys of sillicon valley will stand at equal platform. Seun osawa proved him right by making Nairaland, a forum which is the 7th most visited website in nigeria today. He built this forum with help of open source forum software SMF and persistently graduated it up the traffic ladder to  having an alexa rank 800 in whole wide world (www). His forum receives 60 million page views per month and has more than a million members. nairaland Even if you assume a lowest CPM of $2 per 1000 views, it translates to (60000000/1000)*2 = $1...

The chinese version of Global sites China has always tried to create a walled internet. An internet made by china and used by china. Language is the biggest reason being other factors like huge population having similar interests residing together. Also the population of china is so huge (Note that 36% of world population lives in china), the sites imitating the success of global hugely successful sites cater to a large group of people and thus become a success here too. Below are china’s version of world famous sites. Table of Contents 1. Google  -> Baidu 2. Facebook  -> RenRen 3. Twitter -> Weibo 4. Amazon -> Alibaba 5. Quora -> Zhihu 1. Google  -> Baidu google   robin liBaidu was incorporated in year 2000, two years after Google was launched. It was founded by Robin Li and Eric Xu. Robin Li was the son of factory workers in china who was extremely passionate about computer science in his teenhood days. He is also currently the richest man in main...

 How to limit google search to your favourite websites Only in Chrome Most of the time you see some important or intresting info on a webpage, you just care to bookmark it so that you dont forget the url of the webpage and keep in mind that you will see it later. This was the original psychology behind creating bookmark functionality on the browser from earlier times. Now if you are a regular internet user, your bookmarks tend to increase to a long list, and finding what you found become a cumbersome process. For example you found a cool recipe on web and added the bookmark and now you dont want to stress out more to find it again by looking to that long and exhaustive list you created in the past. Now here is a simple trick to narrow down that process to just one step.   Steps for a Bookmark search Just type this in your chrome browser chrome://bookmarks Search your bookmarks from the searchbox given. You will get the result from your bookmarks only. Alternatively Install Boo...

 Top fiverr users and their earnings Earning money online is a tricky business. When you stumble upon any way to get rich online, it seems very easy at first and you start day dreaming and making plans about being free from your full time job. But eventually you realize that the process was not easy and the success icons which you seen making money with it are still there earning more and more and you are still there at the bottom of the pyramid scratching dust. Why this happens? The simple answer is that there is an ice breaking point for every damn method in this world and internet is not different from it. Up to that ice breaking point your struggle will reap nothing and you have to keep burning that candle of hope inside you. You have to feed positivism to your hope every day and keep working until you break that ice breaking point. The amount of work done by you do not changes, but only difference which happens in due course is that you start making fortunes out of it by doing...