Category: Blogging

Why new websites disappear from Google search results?
If you have built a new website recently, you might have noticed that your site is not showing up in Google search results even for the most obvious search queries. You might be frustrated in seeing no visitors coming directly from Google search. This is a typical phenomenon experienced by nearly all bloggers. Many lose patience and give up on their website because no one is reading their posts.

Why is your new website not showing up on search results?

It is due to a loosely known phenomenon called “Google Sandbox Effect”. Google simply does not like new sites, so they put these sites in a sandbox for some time and during this period, your site may show some of the symptoms listed below
- Your website is not showing up for easy obvious search queries like your blogs name or a unique article. Or, your new site is outranked by other websites for these obvious search queries.
- Your blog posts or web pages are not ranking for exact match title searches.
- Your new blog posts show up on search results in the first page as soon as you submit it to Google, but it gets moved to page 10+ of search results in next few hours.
- Google lists your pages on their search results, but the pages disappear after few hours/days.
- You get zero or near zero traffic from Google.
These are the few examples of the things your site may experience while it is in the sandbox.

Why doesn’t Google show new sites in search results?

It is simply to avoid spammy sites from ranking quickly in search results and taking advantage of the system. Currently, there are millions of SEO experts out there who can create a perfectly optimised site in no time. So, if Google allows new sites to easily show up on search results, these people would create spammy sites targeting highly competitive keywords and by the time Google find out these spammy sites and ban them, they would have made tens of thousands of dollars quickly. If Google bans them, they will simply create a new site do the process all over again.

These sites are useless and give no value to Google’s users who are basically searching to find good web resources. So, by not allowing new sites to show up in search results, Google is simply trying to protect their own product from spams.

Be sure that you are not doing something wrong
1. Check your Robots.txt file. It is found at yourdomain/robots.txt section of your site. If it is misconfigured, you could be the one blocking Google from indexing your own site.
2. Check if you are not plagiarising content. Google hates sites which copy paste content and often give them lower rank
3. Check if your site has quality content.
4. Check if you have not done any spamming activity or bought backlinks
5. It is not sandbox if your site was getting traffic from google and it suddenly stopped. It is something else.
How to get out of Google sandbox?

The only thing you can do is wait. Typically new sites experience this sandbox effect for about six to ten months from the time they are created. Some bloggers have got out of Google sandbox in less time by getting high-value backlinks from established authority sites. But, some others have elongated their sandbox-time by trying to get low-quality backlinks from Fiverr or by spamming the comment section of other sites.

What should new websites do in the meantime?

Don’t be discouraged and continue building your website.
- Keep writing new content and keep updating your site. You should have 100s of posts by the time Google releases you from this sandbox.
- Try to do guest blogging on reputed sites.
- Join Google webmaster tools and go to ‘Fetch’ section under ‘Crawl’. Now, fetch and render new links of your site, and click ‘index’ button when it shows up.
- Use a good SEO plugin like Yoast SEO plugin if you are using WordPress.
- Keep building good high-quality backlinks. Do not be tempted to buy 1000s of backlinks or spam forums.
- Schedule posts on your site to get published once every week for next 10 months. Google loves a site with good activity.
- Submit your posts to relevant subreddits on Reddit.
- Build your social media audience
The only thing you can do is to patiently wait for next six to twelve months. Be prepared for this long period with no traffic and you will reap your rewards next year. Don’t be like the millions of people who give up before they cross this sandbox period.
July 7, 2017
Best online tools for creating infographics and charts

Now everything is said using infographics. Because it is easier, faster, and more engaging. Sooner or later you too will find a need to create an image “that says things.” Infographics are simply using graphic design to visualize the content that has long existed in other forms. While it is not useful for all types of content, infographics can add valuable context to existing stories by using visuals to show relationships in data, anatomy, hierarchy, chronology, and geography.It also makes it easier for the general public to understand complex things. Here are some online tools which will help you create infographics and charts quickly and for free. It never fails.

Visual.ly

This infographic about why you need infographics was made in visual.ly 😀

Visual.ly is a large library(or marketplace as they call) of infographics. The free tool offered on the site can create stunning infographics. You choose one of the templates that are already included on certain networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), and usually have to enter your account name, a hashtag or things like that, to create a chart with data on it. You can follow the life of a popular trend on Twitter and make it into infographics. The Infographics can be downloaded in JPEG and PDF or sent to Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook.

Piktochart

Piktochart is difficult to compete. The free version includes only a handful of the hundreds of templates that are available to subscribers, but even these are beautiful and customizable to the last detail. The editing tools include graphics, shapes, texts, and images. You can save your work to your online portfolio to continue at another time, or export it as JPG or PNG image.

Easel.ly

In Easel.Ly, you can manipulate any element on the screen as in Piktochart. The only saving options is to export to JPG, but Easel.ly has more facilities to share your graphics on websites and social networks, so it is very useful to quickly spread your creations.(If you are lazy to download and then share)

Venngage

If you are looking for an easy tool to make your infographics then venngage is the best. You can choose from hundreds of templates, charts,icons and themes. Also, you can upload your own images and backgrounds, or customize the theme to suit your brand. The coolest thing is that you can animate them too!

Infogr.am

Infogr.am is one of the latest tools for creating online informational graphics. It is more oriented to traditional statistical infographics, but with great visual power. Note that it is not as configurable as what we’ve seen so far, but if you’re looking to put all those data you have in text files or XLS into a beautiful graph, Infogr.am is the # 1 choice.

Hohli

There is possibly no simple way to create statistical graphics than by using this tool. There are 14 different models to choose the charts (bar, pie, Venn diagrams, lines, etc..) where you must simply enter the reference data using the form. If infographics may be very large or complicated because the data can be imported. The images are saved as PNG and can be shared online.

Dipity

Dipity is a tool to make interactive timelines. You will not have to touch anything directly, just simply fill in the forms with the necessary information, and Dipity will create it for you. The timelines support videos and pictures.You can keep it private, or selectively share time.

iCharts

iCharts is another tool for statistical graphics, similar to Hohli, but with a crucial difference: it allows data import. In comparison, it is simple and is much heavier to work. For basic graphics, it includes several nice templates that will make your graphics look well enough. You can download the work to PNG, PDF, send it to a website, share it with users and social networks.

Gliffy

Gliffy is an interesting service for computer graphics, a specialist in connective networks, organizational charts, and for other graphics. It Includes some alternatives that we have not seen so far, more specifically in the areas of technology, such as networking. It has several export options (image, XML).

Tagxedo

Tagxedo is a creative way to integrate words into a graph. you enter a data source (which can be a website, a Twitter account, search, etc..) and generate a huge image with the most relevant words around that criterion. Some are truly unreadable mess, but some of them are really good too. If you prefer to do the work manually, it also includes an editor from which you can start everything from scratch. There are several quality options and recorded formats.

Visualize

It is a infographic ‪resume generator. You can visualize your resume in one click and also take a look at previous examples. We think that this is how our resumes are going to look like in the future.

We hope that you found this list useful. If you have any better info-graphic tool to add to this list, then please comment below and let us know.

April 11, 2014
How to professionally edit photos online for free?

Here we present some of the best ways to edit photos in a browser. Everyone doesn’t actually need to buy those expensive photo-editing software for their occasional needs. We are choosing chrome as the browser because Chrome is simple,fast and allows you to install applications-plus-extensions and access them directly from the startup tab. Although, most of the below mentioned sites does not need you to install anything at all! Editing within a browser doesn’t mean that you are limited to few options, infact you can do almost all the things which a professional software can do. The only thing is that you should be prepared to hop from one site to another.

Pixlr

Pixlr is a classic online photo-editor , possibly one of the most powerful online editors. It includes many features and you do not have to register. The images are saved in JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF formats and PXD.

iPiccy

iPiccy is another application which has several basic editing tools. It also works as a descent editor with pretty good filters and effects. It supports layers, requires no registration and saves JPG / PNG or sent to Flickr.

piZap Photo Editor

piZap is a little weak compared to the other option. As it has a large catalog of funny issues (stickers, color filters, frames), so it will not be good for Professional editions, but it has some interesting filters. It also makes facebook cover pics, collages and montages with intermediate quality. Registration not required.

Amopic

Only available for Chrome, iPhone and Android, Amopic is an extremely simple and easy to use editor. It incorporates some effects, but are broadly the same as we see in most complete tools. If you need to try some basic editing or casual effects, Amopic will be enough . Files can be saved in JPG, PNG and PDF. It does not support layers.

Thumba Photo Editor

One more in the range of basic, Thumba Photo Editor includes almost all the functions of a traditional free image editor. It is true that it does not support layers and the effects are limited, but has interesting settings and controls , if you have a lot of editing knowledge. No registration is required. Images are saved in JPEG, PNG or BMP formats.

I picadilo

Picadilo editor is a discrete, but with good tools and settings . Support layers and does not require prior registration for use. Images are exported to JPG and PNG formats.

Photo Raster

PhotoRaster is complete editor, it takes online editing to a rather advanced level. Supports layers and filters, and is updated regularly with new features and tools. Requires registration to use and has a paid version available.

Filters and Effects

Pix: Pixel Mixer

Pixel Mixer is an application exclusively for Android platforms, iOS and Chrome . No layer manipulation features. It’s just a publisher of filters and effects to photos.It has over 50 filters and frames and the quality is impressive. No registration is required to use.

BeFunky Photo Editor

BeFunky Photo Editor has almost 200 unique filters to manipulate photographs. The settings range from the basic (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc..) to classic retro photo effects such as Lomo, Cross, Orton, and black and white . The images are saved without registration, and can send to social networks easily.

Pixlr-o-matic

Pixlr-o-matic is another variant of Pixlr, the editor we’ve seen in the beginning, and only serves to add retro filters to your images. It includes dozens of unique effects and frames, with possibility to download more.

PicMonkey

PicMonkey is a fantastic application, with fully oriented filters and high quality retouching. No registration is required, but several of the best filters are premium,. Dozens of effects to try and some extra, like the ability to make collages. Supports JPG and PNG.

Drawing

deviantART Wall

deviantART works with layers, and has a great selection of brushes and filters. It is good for all the basic things. Using the Redraw feature, all your creative process will be recorded to the delight of the observers. Requires registration to save your work.

Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is another favorite, No offers such as the variety of brushes and effects of deviantART wall, but it requires no registration and allows the use of layers.

Psykopaint

The last among the tools of art, Pyskopaint offers admirable working environment with many quality effects, supports layers and a multitude of possibilities to explore. Images have excellent resolution, and it is good in photo editing too. No registration is required and there are several options to save and share.

April 6, 2014
How to get free and legal images for your website or blog?

You can go to Google and search directly for the images you want and use it, but too bad that it is illegal.

Yes illegal! The sad truth, is that you can’t just download any image you like from internet and use it on your blog/website.There is that rather annoying thing called copyright.If you want to ensure that the owner of the image enables playback, editing and reusing the same, it is best to find images on these specialized sites which gives you full freedom to use the images for free.

Pixabay

More than 100,000 free opensource photos are available in pixaboy. There are clip arts, vector graphics and many templates.

Wikimedia Commons

Absolute reference of those who work and study on the Internet, Wikimedia Commons holds more than 17 million files with freedom of action and use. It has very detailed information about the license and that’s very good for professional work.It is the best place to get opensource photos.

Openphoto

Openphoto provides high-quality images and others that are a bit below our reference values.However it has the characteristic of being fed with pictures by users, so it is constantly growing and is one of the most original banks free image sites.

Photo Pin

Photo Pin is one of the best image banks because it can make searches within Flickr. This makes the service almost infinite and you can add images to your blog very easily after a few minutes of search.

Photl.com

The images are of very good quality but there is one limitation, you can only download 10 MB of photos per day.

Photo Rack

Photo Rack is a large free image collection organized into categories. Even though they do not have a convenient search box, you can get your desired image if you browse through the categories of the site.

Mayang’s Free Texture

With a specialization in textures of buildings, houses, nature, artifacts and all kinds of signs, library Mayang’s Free Texture has over 4350 texture to download. The images are of high resolution. Free download limit is 20 images per day.

Public Domain Photos

It has around 8,000 free cliparts and more than 5000 photos. One good thing is that it do not requiring registration.

Morgue Files

No. There are no autopsy photographs, but the opposite. The morgue file name was given because it refers as the place where back issues of newspapers, comics, drawings, etc. are stored. Morgue Files has a lot of pictures and they are very creative.

Stockvault.Net

Excellent overall quality and a pleasant design to newcomers. The search box works perfectly and you don’t need to register.

Wylio

It have plenty of good quality images. The downside is that it is not completely free, as it only allows 5 free images per month. Take advantage of it very well, for the images are of a quality equal to the cost.

Photoree

You can search multiple image hosting websites using photo-tree,but you need to register to download.

April 5, 2014