Google Panda

What is Google Panda?

Google Panda

Google Panda is a major change to Google's search results ranking algorithm that was first released in February 2011. The change aimed to lower the rank of "low-quality sites" or "thin sites", in particular "content farms", and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.

Google Panda Initial Release Date: February 23, 2011

The stated purpose of the Google Panda algorithm update was to reward high-quality websites and diminish the presence of low-quality websites in Google’s organic search engine results. It was also initially known as "Farmer." According to Google, Panda’s initial rollout over the course of several months affected up to 12 percent of English language search results. We've tracked 28 data updates to Panda between 2011 and 2015.

Triggers for Panda

The Panda algorithm update addressed a number of problematic phenomena in Google SERPs, including:

• Thin content - Weak pages with very little relevant or substantive text and resources, such as a set of pages describing a variety of health conditions with only a few sentences present on each page.
• Duplicate content - Copied content that appears on the Internet in more than one place. Duplicate content issues can also happen on your own website when you have multiple pages featuring the same text with little or no variation. For example, a chimney sweep company might create 10 pages, one for each city the business serves, with content that is nearly identical on all of the pages with only the city names swapped out (e.g. “We clean chimneys in Denver” on one page and “We clean chimneys in Boulder” on the next, and “We clean chimneys in Aspen” on the next).
• Low-quality content - Pages that provide little value to human readers because they lack in-depth information.
• Lack of authority/trustworthiness - Content produced by sources that are not considered definitive or verified. A Google rep stated that sites aiming to avoid Panda’s impact should work to become recognized as authorities on their topic and entities to which a human user would feel comfortable giving their credit card information.
• Content farming - Large numbers of low-quality pages, often aggregated from other websites. For example, of a content farm might be a website that employs large numbers of writers at a low wage to create short articles covering a vast variety of search engine queries, producing a body of content that lacks authority and value to readers because its core purpose is simply to gain search engine rankings for every conceivable term.
• Low-quality user-generated content (UGC) -  An example of this type of low-value User Generated Content would be a blog that publishes guest blog posts that are short, full of spelling and grammatical errors and lacking in authoritative information.
• High ad-to-content ratio - Pages made up mostly of paid advertising rather than original content. 
• Low-quality content surrounding affiliate links - Poor content around links pointing to paid affiliate programs.
• Websites blocked by users - Sites that human users are either blocking directly in the search engine results or by using a Chrome browser extension to do so, indicating low quality.
• Content mismatching search query - Pages that "promise" to deliver relevant answers if clicked on in the search results, but then fail to do so. For example, a website page might be titled "Coupons for Whole Foods," but when clicked on, there might be no coupons or there might just be a page of ads, leading to disappointment.

How can I know if I’ve been hit by Panda?

One signal of a potential Panda penalization is a sudden drop in your website’s organic traffic or search engine rankings correlating with a known date of an algorithm update.

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However, it’s vital to bear in mind that many things can result in lost rankings and traffic. These include the rise of a competitor in your market (look at who is outranking you to see if someone new has moved ahead of you), manual penalties (check Google Search Console for reported issues), expected seasonal dips in consumer interest (like a ski lodge in July), or even a completely different Google update than the one you suspect (for example, Penguin instead of Panda).

When a known, named update occurs, it’s important to study industry documentation of practices being cited as involved in the update. If your loss of rankings or traffic corresponds with a known date, go through these industry lists of bad practices to discover if they are taking place on your website. Then, if you believe you’ve found a correlation between bad practices and an update, act to remedy the situation.

Still not sure if you’ve been hit by a penalty? Check out this nifty flowchart:

How to recover from Panda

In the SEO industry, Panda has been frequently cited as an update from which it can be difficult to recover. However, given that the Panda update hinged largely on website/content quality, steps for recovery generally come back to improving that quality. Remedial actions to take include:

• Abandoning content farming practices
• Overhauling website content for quality, usefulness, relevance, trustworthiness and authority
• Revising the ad/content or affiliate/content ratio so that pages are not dominated by ads or affiliate links
• Ensuring that the content of a given page is a relevant match to a user’s query
• Removing or overhauling duplicate content
• Careful vetting and editing of user-generated content and ensuring that it is original, error-free and useful to readers, where applicable
• Using the Robots noindex,nofollow command to block the indexing of duplicate or near-duplicate internal website content or other problematic elements

In sum, websites that consistently publish high-quality, original content have little to fear from this update, but if your website has engaged in problematic practices, it may have been hit at some point by Panda. From a practical, business standpoint, your best hope of avoiding Panda is to develop a brand that becomes recognized as an authority in its field and to build a website that becomes a trusted resource by dint of its excellent content.

Other facts about the Panda update

• Panda was initially rolled out separately from the core algorithm but was then integrated into it on an unconfirmed date in March 2012.
• Panda was named after Google staffer Navneet Panda.

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Keep learning

• Google's Farmer/Panda Update: Analysis of Winners vs. Losers
• Real-World Panda Optimization - Whiteboard Friday
• Have We Been Wrong About Panda All Along?
• The Most Important Things We Learned About Google's Panda Algorithm

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How You can increase your Blog Income.

Nowadays many Blogger are creating a blog in order to earn good income for it. Based on me personally many people feel that making money using a blog is usually an effortless work and easy so, i need to inform them that making money using a blog requires many efforts, patience and time.

I do some experiments along with observed there are quite a few blog who earn money his or her blog with virtually no content material or even many people copy content material through various other sources that is quite dangerous for their blog simply because by these kinds of pattern they shall be punished by Google Panda and definately will kill his or her blog. Thus today we will talk about effective ways that increase your blog earnings.

1. Unique Content:

Content is main factor that's needed is for a succesfull blog. Should you be imagining to produce income along with your blog without having content, then i could show you which it will become correct merely inside your night dreams. :)

Suppose you create a whole new blog today it will likely be the duty to write down valuable and also unique content because of it. After writing many articles you will get the many visitors who read your articles. And these reader will turn into huge traffic which will boost up your blog income.

2. Advertise With Us:

Create advertise with us banner at the header of the blog. In case you receive great targeted traffic and then new blog will certainly make contact you in order to place the advertisement instead of that banner. They pay you good money for that advert, now its depend upon you that what prices you'll say to them for advert.

3. Affiliate Marketing:

In affiliate marketing you will be given a product that you simply promote and on the basis of promotion you will be given payment. For the promotion of such types of product, blog is the best source. if you have specific niche blog then i suggest you to join affiliate marketing. The more you advertise the product the more you will make money.

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How To Run WhatsApp On Your PC

WhatsApp is a free messenger designed to be used on smartphones. It works over the internet and allows you to talk to any person living anywhere on planet Earth provided that you know their cellphone number. The app is designed for Nokia Symbian, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone devices and it’s completely free to use for the first year. Don’t let that last line bother you, since there are ways to get it for an unlimited time.

I did not mention PC or Mac in the supported platforms because this app is not officially available on them. But the title wasn’t misleading since we got it running on a PC and Mac.

What will I need?

The tools or rather software that you need is a simple Android emulator for PC/Mac. The one we’ll be using is the well-known Bluestacks App Player you can download from the link provided below.

Download Bluestacks App Player!

And yes, WhatsApp will need your cell-number so you better make sure you have one.

Your system must have a 1GB+ RAM for running the emulator. Good graphics card and processor will obviously result in better rendering but a simple one would also do. Mac OS X or PC with XP SP3, Vista, 7 and 8 are supported.

Let’s Begin…

• The steps shown below work for both PC and Mac. Just make sure you download the correct version of Bluestacks.
• First up, download and install Bluestacks app player. It’s a straight forward installation. However it might want to download extra stuff so your internet connection better be working
• Run the player from the desktop icon. You’ll get to a screen similar to the one shown below

• Click on the Search icon and enter WhatsApp
• Select WhatsApp Messenger from the list and proceed to the installation. It might also ask you for a Google account, just provide that right away. Since it is an Android emulator, you’ll be navigated to Google Play. Click Install and it’ll start the download.

• And that’s it! WhatsApp will ask you to enter a valid phone number. The verification will also work through that number so you better enter it correctly.
• Great! Now you can use WhatsApp the way you do it on a smartphone. You can customize your profile, contact all your friends regardless of which platform they are running the app on and also get live notifications of new messages from the emulator.

Enjoy WhatsApp!

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How to protect your Facebook account from getting hacked

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Protect your Facebook account from getting hacked

Facebook is the Top social networking website. It would be humiliating for anyone who lose their Facebook account to hackers as it will damage their social respect & reputation and also invades their privacy. I will share some proven ways to protect Facebook account from getting hacked. Just follow this article to keep your account safe from hackers.
Also read 10 Ways Hackers can Hack a Facebook Account

Strong Password

A strong password is a combination of lowercase and uppercase letters with numbers and symbols. It should at least be 8 characters and never include your name, DOB or any other common words in your password thus making it difficult to crack for the hackers. 12 character length passphrase with numbers and symbols will take 2 years to crack so go for length over complexity. Always use separate login passwords for email and other sites. You can also use online password generators for creating a strong password and change your password once in every six months

Use Firewall and a Password Manager

Firewall will help you to monitor the activities going on over the internet and sniff out any suspicious process from stealing you password. Password managers like Lastpass will fill your passwords without typing. Keyloggerscan't steal passwords without typing.

Activate Login Alerts and Two-factor Authentication

Confirm your mobile number in Facebook and use login alerts to receive notifications from Facebook whenever someone logins in to your account from a new device are browser. Two-factor authentication provide extra layer of security by requesting a security code whenever you login. Log in with a code from your phone as well as a password. 

Settings--> Security and login--> Use two-factor authentication.

Also update privacy settings & choose trusted contacts and never accept friend requests from unknowns.

Safe browsing habits

• Disable Remember Password Feature in the browser.
• End active sessions from other devices.
• Use Private window or Incognito mode to prevent browsers from saving your history and data.
• Never click on suspicious links to defend against phishing
• Login only on trusted computers.
• Use a VPN when browsing over a shared public network.
• Logout after use.

I hope you will find this post to be useful, I would be very grateful if you’d help it spread by sharing it to a friend or on Facebook. Thank you

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Ten Unknown Facts About Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs Co-Founder of apple known by many. In this article i will list some mind blowing facts about Steve Jobs that you never know.

Steve Jobs Facts

1. Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of code for apple.

Steve Wozniak stated that "Steve didn't ever code" on reply to an email on his Website

2. Steve Jobs was adopted his father was a syrian muslim.

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption.

Steve Jobs unknowingly met his biological father on multiple number of occasions.

His adoptive parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, were Armenian and unable to have children. Steve was later joined in the family by his adopted sister Patti Jobs, born in 1958. The couple divorced in 1962.

3. Steve Jobs had no college degree.

Steve Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. He struggled for making money during this time. Steve Jobs used to sleep on his friends  room floors, returned Coke bottles for money, and ate free meals from the local Hare Krishna temple for living.

Steve Jobs High School GPA was just 2.65

4. Steve Jobs Had LSD.

Steve Jobs explained that he used LSD from 1972 - 1974 approximately 10 - 15 times.

Steve said "I would ingest the LSD on a sugar cube or in a hard form of gelatin. I would usually take the LSD when I was by myself. I have no words to explain the effect the LSD had on me, although, I can say it was a positive life changing experience for me and I am glad I went through that experience.”

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”- Steve Jobs

5. Steve Jobs was dyslexic.

Steve jobs was dyslexic, meaning he has a learning disability that impairs his ability to read. But that didn't stop Steve Jobs from becoming the world's most iconic CEO.  Albert Einstein, Steven spielberg suffered from Dyslexia as well

Dyslexia is not a disability, it's a gift

6. Steve Jobs worked for Atari.

In 1973 Jobs started working at Atari as a technician. Steve Wozniak designed his version of the video game Pong. After finishing it, Wozniak gave the board to Jobs, Steve Jobs then took the game down to Atari. When the pair first created the Breakout game for Atari, they planned on splitting the pay 50-50. Although Atari gave Jobs $5,000 for the game, Jobs told Wozniak they got $700, leaving Wozniak to take home $350 while Jobs pocketed the other $4,650. While working in Atari Steve Jobs was asked to work for night shifts because of his stink smell as Jobs believed that his vegan diet would eliminate the need for showering.

7. India visit gave a vision to Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs came to India as a teenager in search of enlightenment. He returned disappointed, following a brush with lice, scabies, dysentery and a near mob thrashing after he protested at being sold watered-down buffalo milk. But the trip did mark a turning point in his life 

8. Steve jobs applied for civilian astronaut to fly a space shuttle.

Steve jobs got rejected and briefly considering starting a computer company in the Soviet Union,he resigned from Apple five months later.

9. Steve jobs annual salary from apple is just 1$.

Steve jobs had 5 million shares that made him richer and moreover most of Steve Jobs' wealth was from his shares in Disney, not Apple.

10. October 16 was declared as Steve Jobs day by Californian governor.

After battling a decade of pancreatic cancer Steve jobs died in October 5, 2011 and Steve jobs also turned down a partial liver transplant from Tim cook two years before dying of pancreatic cancer. Steve jobs was buried in an unmarked grave as per his family's request and the cemetery has not revealed it's location.

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How to keep your online information secure when using public Wi-Fi

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How to keep your online information secure when using public Wi-Fi

Connecting to public Wi-Fi is tempting for many reasons, especially if you need to check information on the run and want to limit your data usage, or if you want to work from a coffee shop as a change of scenery. Safeguarding your personal information from theft while using public Wi-Fi is always risky, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself and your information from any prying eyes. The most obvious way to protect your personal information is by trying to use different passwords and login names on all the different sites where you save any personal data. However, there are a few other ways to help you secure your information when you log in to a public Wi-Fi network to access any personal information.

Up-To-Date Operating System

Making sure your computer’s operating system and browser are the most recent version available is a good way to ensure that defenses to known security breaches are the most current. Security patches and updates are issued regularly, so try to update your browser and your operating system frequently to protect your online information from cyber attacks. You can set your browser and operating system to update automatically in the settings or system preference sections which relieves you from having to remember, or from having to choose when to update them.

Use sites with HTTPS or SSL connections

Using sites that are hosted on an HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), which supports an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection, can provide extra security while you use public Wi-Fi. You will notice a green lock icon appear in the URL bar of the browser you are using, which indicates that the interactions between the site and your browser are encrypted and secured over an unsecured network, such as public Wi-Fi. This extra layer of protection is one more step you can take to ensure that your online information is being kept secure while you browse on public Wi-Fi. 

Use a VPN

Using a VPN, like Hotspot Shield, can scramble your outgoing data to appear as though it’s coming from the VPN server rather than from you. VPNs route your connection through an encrypted tunnel or a set of proxy servers to hide the traffic from you to the internet, thus making your connection more secure. Encrypted data coming from the VPN can’t be read by third parties trying to steal your information, which gives your connection more security than should you proceed without using a VPN.

Forget the network and turn off Wi-Fi when not in use

Once you have loaded the necessary webpages or used the public Wi-Fi sufficiently and are ready to disconnect, choosing to “forget this network” from the Wi-Fi options will disconnect your session and remove your information from any possible sharing. From there, you can turn off your Wi-Fi connection completely to avoid accidentally re-connecting to an unsecured network, which would ultimately raise your susceptibility to data and information breaches by third party intervention.

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How do we fix a broken key on a laptop By Remapping

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Mapkeyboard.exe Download Link

MapKeyboard is a free of cost program that lets you to remap your keyboard keys easily.

Download link--> Mapkeyboard.exe Zip

How do you fix a broken key on a laptop

It is going to be really hard for anyone who has a keyboard with broken keys in it. You can manage it if it is a less used key like a colon or a slash but what if its your space bar or any other key which you use often. It is going to be really hard for you unless you change the keyboard but sadly you don't have enough money to replace the keyboard but you want to fix broken keyboard keys. Don't worry i'm here to help you to fix broken keyboard keys by using a technique called "KEYBOARD REMAPPING"

What is Keyboard Remapping?
Keyboard remapping is a technique to fix broken keyboard keys using which we can map any key to any other key i.e. you can reassign the function of a key to something else. To be more clearer lets say that your space bar is broken. It is an often used key so you can remap the function of an less frequently used key like "]" to function as a space bar i.e. every time when you press the "]" button it will function as a space bar. To remap keys we need keyboard Re-mapper application

Map Keyboard - Keyboard Re-mapper application how to fix broken keyboard keys. This is a portable application you can run it directly without installing

Requirements:
Windows XP and higher
License: Free


                            NOTE: Make sure you have installed .NETframework 2.0

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16 simple Windows Tips you should Know

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Sixteen simple Windows Tips you should Know

1.Switch to welcome screen

Press Win+L to switch to the Welcome screen.

2.Lock your workstation

Press Win+L to lock your workstation.

3.Switch user easly

You can switch users without going through the Welcome screen: From Task Manager, go to the Users tab, right-click a user, and select Connect.

4.Hibrernate computer

Hold down the shift key in the shutdown dialog to change "Stand By" to "Hibernate". Or just press H to hibernate instantly. You can even use the Power Control Panel to configure your power button to hibernate.

5.Disable password when resuming stanby

To disable the password when resuming from standby or hibernation, open the Power Control Panel and uncheck "Prompt for password after returning from standby" on the Advanced tab.

6.Choose details

From the View Menu, select "Choose Details" to select which file properties should be shown in the Explorer window. To sort by a file property, check its name in the "Choose Details" in order to make that property available in the "Arrange Icons by" menu.

7.Display volume control icon in taskbar

To display the volume control icon in the taskbar, go to the Sounds and Audio Devices Control Panel and select "Place volume icon in the taskbar".

8.Delete file without send into recycle bin

Hold down the shift key when deleting a file to delete it immediately instead of placing it in the Recycle Bin. Files deleted in this way cannot be restored.

9.Customize 'send to' menu

Put a shortcut to your favorite editor in your Send To folder and it will appear in your "Send To" menu. You can then right-click any file and send it to your editor.

10.Organize favorites

a) To organize your Favorites in Explorer instead of using the Organize Favorites dialog, hold the shift key while selecting "Organize Favorites" from the Favorites menu of an Explorer window.

b) You can organize your Favorites by dragging the items around your Favorites menu.
Alternatively, you can open the Favorites pane and hold the Alt key while pressing the up and down arrows to change the order of your Favorites.

11.View IE in fullscreen

To run Internet Explorer fullscreen, press F11. Do it again to return to normal mode.

12.Hide printers & faxes

If your "Printers and Faxes" folder is empty, you can hide the "Printers and Faxes" icon when viewed from other computers by stopping the Print Spooler service.

13.Add/remove columns from detail mode

To add or remove columns from Details mode, select Choose Details from the View menu, or just right-click the column header bar.

14.Go backwards or forward by mouse wheel

In Internet Explorer, hold the Shift key while turning the mouse wheel to go forwards or backwards.

15.Add current page to favorites

In Internet Explorer, type Ctrl+D to add the current page to your Favorites.
This and many more keyboard shortcuts can be found by going to Internet Explorer, clicking the Help menu, then selecting Contents and Index. From the table of contents, open Accessibility and click "Using Internet Explorer keyboard shortcuts".

16.Shut down via Remote Desktop

To shut down via Remote Desktop, click the Start button, then type Alt+F4.

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