Duplicate content generally refers to the content that is present across multiple websites and multiple domains, making the content not confined to a particular web page. These duplicate content pages are intentionally created by people who create blog networks that pull off the data from other blogs’ feeds.

A few unintentional reasons for the duplicate content creation include the formatted blogs which have scripts to run the blog separately for the desktop version and mobile version, print versions of the blog pages. The duplicate content issue also occurs when there are the www and non-www versions of the websites, as some of the search engines index both the versions of the site.

Having duplicate content in websites not just lowers the ranking of the websites in the search engine, but may also penalize the website, making the page a supplemental one with no value. Here is how search engines like Google determine which page among multiple pages with same content, is the original one -

• Google identifies the various pages with duplicate content
• It determines an original from the list, by considering the facts like where Google first saw the content, the page which is linked the most, the trust on the domains etc.
• Once the original one is determined, the other pages with duplicate content land into the list of supplemental pages.

But this is not the case all the time. Although you post the original content in your website, there are many other websites which may copy it, get indexed in search engines and get determined as the original one because of their authority. Here, you just need to avoid the content from being copied from your website. This is how -

Let your visitors know – By having a banner stating that the content is original, and if copied, you can file a DMCA infringement request with Google, with Yahoo!, and with MSN. This threat not always work, so a friendly request to the owner of the copying site, or contacting the web hosting company of the website may also help.

If your own website is causing the duplicate content issues -

• Be consistent in linking and having either the non-www or the www version of your website. Don’t use both the versions, as indexing both may lead to supplemental pages creation.
• Remove the references to index.htm of your website. The www.examplesite.com and www.examplesite.com/index.htm are different pages with exactly the same content.
• Try to use top level domains, rather than the sub-domains for different language versions of your website.
• Avoid posting stubs. The stub pages really have no content but the same meta data as the other pages have, and this would raise the problem of duplicate content.

If you are using content from other sides and still don’t want to land into any trouble – Use the meta name = “robots” content=”noindex, follow” codes in the header of the web page, so that the search engines ensure that the page should not be indexed.

To check whether anyone is copying your original content, there are sites like copyscape which checks the entire indexed web for the copied content.

Search engine optimization is one of the skills that can help improve the blog visibility in the search engines, and get better rankings in the search results. For an affiliate site with the referral links to the merchant sites, SEO is one of the best techniques to get the unique and best sales and earn through it.

WordPress being one of the easiest and best platforms for being modified into any CMS-like website, an affiliate like site is not hard to manage. Plugins are an added advantage, so here are a few plugins that are the best in fields of SEO and Affiliate marketing.

Search engine optimization plugins

1. All in one SEO Pack

The All in one SEO pack plugin is one of the best to insert unique meta tags for every post page in the blog. This removes the static titles that are commonly seen on every page, and with the meta description and keywords too, the way search engines indexes your blog also gets better.

2. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart links is an internal linking plugin, which automatically links the specified keywords to the links that you have set. Internal links always helps in better ranking of the web pages, and this plugin exactly does that. The only problem with the plugin is that you need to manually set the keywords which are to be linked to the specified pages of the blog. This is time taking for large blogs.

3. SEO Friendly Images

The image search engine is another traffic generator apart from the web search engine, so the optimization of images too is a must. Optimizing the images with the meta tags, like the ALT and TITLE, helps in better indexing of the images too.

Affiliate marketing plugins

1. Pretty link

There is no scarcity in the 3rd party URL shorteners which hide the original affiliate URL and give you their shortened URL, but affiliate marketing can be made smarter by doing the same from your own domain. The Pretty link plugin creates shrunk URLs, and it also helps you track the visitors which visit the blog through those links.

2. WordPress Affiliate Store Plugin

Affiliate marketing is mainly through the sites like Commission junction, Amazon etc. The wordpress affiliate store plugin helps add products from various sites like LinkShare, Commission Junction, ShareASale, Google Affiliate Network, LinkConnector, or Betty Mills.

3. Google analyticator

Earlier we had discussed about the Ultimate google analytics plugin, which is good enough but there is an alternative, neat and easier to use. It’s the Google analyticator which does the same job. It adds the necessary javascript code to enable the analytics in the blog.

There are several other wordpress plugins for affiliate marketing, like those which help in adding various stores and their products directly into the wordpress blog. But the ones mentioned above are good enough, as the WordPress affiliate store plugin is one of the best around.

A new wordpress blog comes with the anti-spam plugin, and a couple other plugins but that’s not enough for a blog to run well, with some options that may enhance the quality of the blog and even those which enhance the user experience. There need to be a few plugins installed as soon as you open a new blog.

WordPress is one of the best platforms for blogging, one of the main reasons being the availability of thousands of plugins. The plugins not only help to make the blog navigation better, but also makes the visibility of the blog better in search engines and social networks. Here is a list of plugins that one should be installing on a new blog -

Search engine optimization

All in one SEO Pack – Plugin page

This is one of the best plugins around to put in, the meta tags of every single post page, making the title modified rather than the static title. And apart from that, it also helps in the SEO of the blog, with meta description and keywords for the post page.
To install, just go to the Plugins > Add New section and search for “all in one seo” and install. To configure, go to the plugin settings section and enable the plugin and add the meta data for the blog, and the way you want the post page title to be shown.

Anti-spam

Akismet

Spam doesn’t end anywhere. WordPress blogs are a big victim of spamming, but the Akismet plugin which comes pre-installed, is one of the best to combat the spammers. It still would need an API key which you can get by having an account at wordpress.com free hosted blog service. Once you enter the API key, the plugin starts functioning.

Better indexing

Google XML Sitemaps – Plugin page

Sitemaps are one of the essential parts of any blog or website, as it is the one which lists all the internal links of the blog, and one of the most frequently visited pages by Search engine spiders. Indexing becomes faster and better through these sitemaps. The Google XML sitemaps plugin is one of the best for producing a well formatted sitemap page for the wordpress blogs, as the page created is supported by most of the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live search and Ask.com.
After installation of the plugin, you need to just add the sitemap link to the footer.php of your theme, and add the sitemap to Google webmaster tools.

Traffic tracking

The Ultimate Google analytics plugin – Plugin page

Tracking the visitors, the source of traffic and the search results is all what helps you develop the blog and modify it the way to bring in more visitors by implementing more strategies. And for the traffic tracking, there is nothing better than Google Analytics. The Ultimate google analytics plugin helps integrate the Analytics service of Google into your wordpress blog.
Just install the plugin, setup the analytics account and website code in Analytics site, and copy the property ID from there. Paste the same in the plugin settings page for the plugin to run.

Site safety

WordPress Automatic upgrade plugin – Plugin page

One of the safety measures for the wordpress blogs is to be updated with the latest version of the platform, thereby reducing the risk of attack of hackers. The WordPress automatic upgrade plugin helps you with the same, by automatically backing up the files, database and then downloading the updated version of wordpress, putting the site into maintenance mode, deactivating the plugins, upgrading the files and reactivating the plugins. All being played safe, the plugin upgrades the wordpress platform in the smoothest way.

There are many other types of plugins, but the above mentioned ones are the most essential for any new opened blog.

Google has launched its new Android OS phone, Nexus S. It is a pure Google Android phone. It comes with Gingerbread pre-installed, faster than any Android phone, yet. The new Nexus S has stylish look, glossy finish and with many advanced features.

Here is the Tech Specifications of Google Nexus S:

For Connectivity purpose:

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900
• HSPA 900/2100/1700
• HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
• WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
• Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR
• A-GPS support
• microUSB 2.0

Display:

• 4.0″ WVGA screen with 480×800 resolution
• Super AMOLED
• Capacitive touch sensor
• Anti Fingerprint Display Coating

Size:

• 63mm x 129.9mm x 10.8mm
• 129 gram weight

Hardware:

• Haptic Feedback Vibration
• Three-Axes Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Digital Compass
• Proximity Sensor
• Light Sensor

Processor and Memory:

• 1 GHz Hummingbird processor
• 16GB flash memory

Cameras and Multimedia:

• Back Side 5 Megapixel Camera with 2560 x 1920 resolution
• 720p video resolution
• MPEG 4 Video Recording
• Auto Focus with Flash
• Front-Facing Video call camera with 640×480 resolution
• 3.5mm Audio Jack

Battery:

• Talktime up to 6.7 hours on 3G and 14 hours on 2G
• Standby up to 17.8 days on 3G and 29.7 days on 2G
• 1500 mAH Lithium-ion battery

Software:

• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• Android Market (For Apps Download)
• Calendar
• Gmail
• Google Earth
• Google Maps with Navigation
• Google Search
• Google Talk
• Google Voice
• Voice Actions
• YouTube

Features:

The new Google Nexus S has many advanced features. It contains lots of new and old improved features. Here are the some of them:

Pre-Installed Android 2.3 (Gingerbread):

The Google Nexus S comes with Android 2.3 pre-installed, you don’t have to upgrade your old Android. Google says that Nexus S is the fastest Android device in the market with Gingerbread.

The New Inside Look:

Google Nexus S has new inside look. Now, it comes with Notification bar in the mobile screen, where new notifications appear. It has a virtual keyboard to type text, this time, Google made it more accurate while typing. Just pinch an alphabet and it will be on the screen !

Copy/Paste:

It has new Copy/Paste feature, which makes copying text more faster and easier than ever. You can copy text, webpage easily with this new feature and paste them where you like.

VoIP/SIP calling support:

The Google Nexus S has VoIP/SIP calling facility, which lets you make calls over Internet protocol. You can make cheap VoIP calls. You can also use Gizmo account to make cheap international calls.

Phone as WiFi HotSpot:

The Google Nexus S can also be used as a WiFi HotSpot. You can connect 6 devices simulative with this phone and have them Internet connectivity.

Fastest Android Mobile:

The Google Nexus S has fastest 1 GHz Hummingbird processor with 16GB flash memory, it makes it super fast loading. You can open Menus faster, change tabs, change tracks, everything is just a touch away. It has an inbuilt-GPU, which makes multimedia on this phone much better. You can view HD videos, play HD games on this phone with superior quality. The days are gone when you had to carry different devices for different works, this phone can do all the things.

Brilliant Display:

The Google Nexus S has a brilliant, 4″ contour display, which makes watching more smooth and good. The Nexus S is the first mobile which has contour display. You can view crispy and sharp text, videos, pictures on the display. It is also better for outdoor persons, who travels a lot. Even you can watch crisp contents on the display in the sun rays.

Cameras:

The Google Nexus S has two camera, one is on the back side and second is on the front side. The back side camera is a 5 megapixel camera, which is capable to take crisp pictures, videos. It has Autofocus and Flash, too. The front side camera is mainly used for video calling, it can take VGA quality pictures and videos.

Go with any Network Operator:

The Google Nexus S comes unlocked by deafult, so you don’t have to worry about network carriers, contracts, etc. You can use any SIM card in it and enjoy greater experience than ever.

Google Mobile Apps:

The Google Nexus S comes with many fabulous apps,  like Google Earth, Google Talk, YouTube. These apps extend your usage of the phone and lets you use the phone at its best level.

This phone provides access to Google Android Market, where you can download Apps, Games, Widgets, etc. The Google Android Market has appro. 100,000 contents to download.

Google Maps 5.0 with Navigation (beta):

This app comes pre-loaded on your Nexus S, and it gives you ability to see the world from a new angle. You can view earth on 3D, view streets, it rotates when you rotate your phone. You can search nearest ATMs, Restaurants with this pre-loaded app.

Nexus S listens you !

The Google Nexus S listens you, speak anything and it would do its best to know what you said. You can search by your voice, you can launch any app by just its name, you can get directions by just speaking the address. Everything is by just speaking !

Entertainment got much better with Nexus S:

The Google Nexus S is the solution to all your entertainment needs. It has superior quality sound, crisp videos, sharp pictures and many more which you can’t imagine. The pre-loaded YouTube app lets you watch millions of videos right in your phone. The YouTube app has specially customized for this phone. You can watch YouTube videos on the full screen, with auto-rotate feature.

Where to buy this Amazing Phone ?

By knowing all the features of Google Nexus S, finally, You want to buy this phone? Thinking where to buy? Here is the contact info where you can easily buy this phone.

Buy Google Nexus S Phone Online from BestBuy

Call Samsung 1 (888) 987-4357 to buy the phone

I hope, above review of Latest Google Nexus S phone will give you full info about it and will help you to choose the best phone available in the market.

Revenue Sharing sites are the best way to earn money online. You’ve to write articles of your choice and you’ll be paid for it. If you are beginner and want to earn money from your writing skills, then this is the best way. Here is the brief description of top revenue sharing sites.

1. Flixya

Flixya is a good revenue sharing site. It shares 100% revenue from your ads. Here, you can write articles of your choice. You can publish photos, videos to earn money. The registration is easy and takes a few seconds. After registration, you can apply for a Google AdSense account to start showing ads on your article page.

2. Hubpages

HubPages is the biggest site, it has 33 million readers. HubPages has a High PageRank. You can write articles here, share pictures, videos and can earn money from them. HubPages shares 60% of revenue with you. HubPages supports many affiliate networks, like Amazon, eBay, Kontera, Google AdSense, etc. Here, you have to write Hubs. It will be read by millions of readers.

3. Web Answers

Web Answers is a Question and Answer community. You will earn by just simply answering questions and asking questions. This is simple site, so you don’t need any special skills to do the job.

4. Xomba

Xomba is a great revenue sharing site. It shares 50% revenue with you. Here, you can write articles on almost any topic. You can write Movie Reviews, Gadget Reviews, How-to, etc. This site supports Google AdSense, so you must have an approved Google AdSense account to start earning money.

You can also read How to Make Money from Google AdSense

I hope, above sites will help you earning money online.

Google has launched its Chrome OS operated Netbook. As a starter, Google is running pilot project, it is giving away free netbooks for testing purpose. The netbook is not available for sale at the moment. So, Google is distributing it via Pilot Project. This netbook is available in a limited amount, so apply for your free netbook and if you’re lucky, then you will get one.

Google CR-48 Specifications:

• 12 inch screen size
• Fast Boot (10 seconds)
• 1.72 kg weight
• Built-in 3G
• WiFi
• Web Camera
• Flash Storage
• Full customized keyboard

You can apply for a free Google Chrome OS Netbook Here:

There are many blogging platforms are available to start your blog. Bloggers are increasing daily and starting their blogs. But, every blog starter has a question, which is the best and user-friendly blogging platform? It depends on the blogger type, blog functionalities user wants, etc.

There are many free blogging platforms available where a user can start his blog. Here is the brief description of most used blogging platforms.

1. Blogger

Blogger is a Google company, providing free blog service to millions of users. Anyone can start a free blog with Blogger. You must have a Google account to create your account at Blogger. Blogger provides subdomain to your blog, like yourname.blogspot.com, etc. It provides a user friendly interface, where a blog beginner can easily find the tools he wanted.

It also provides free and beautiful templates for your blog, you can easily apply them to your blog. You can easily edit the template, can set the width of sidebar, color scheme, etc. You can also edit the HTML of your blogger template to suit your needs. If you’ve a registered domain name, then you can use it with blogger. Blogger also supports Google AdSense to earn money from your blog. It provides Unlimited Bandwidth, too.

2. WordPress

WordPress is best for self hosted blogs. WordPress is also SEO friendly. Many bloggers are using WordPress as their blogging platform. You can install new plugins in WordPress, too. WordPress is fully customizable. Engineers are working day and night to create new plugins for WordPress and making work with WordPress easy.

3. Tumblr

Tumblr is a good choice for MicroBloggers. If you are interested in putting pictures, videos in front of your visitors, then this is best. This platform is best for little text content blogs, which includes more pictures less words. Because, “A picture says thousands of words”.

4. Posterous

Posterous is a mobile blogging platform. You have to send an email to post new article on your blog. The Posterous servers automatically catch-up your post and publish it. It has integrated with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr.

5. TypePad

TypePad is not free available, it is a paid service. It provides premium services, widgets, etc. It shows detailed statistics of visitors. It requires less maintenance than a self hosted blog.

Above are the best blogging platforms to begin your journey in the world of Blogging !

WordPress has become No.1 blogging platform for bloggers. Many big companies using WordPress platform for their blogs, websites. WordPress is used in many ways, some people use it as a CMS, some for shopping site, etc.

To extend the full usage of WordPress, you have to install some plugins. Plugins make your WordPress management easy and more comfortable.

Here are some Most Popular WordPress Plugins

1. Fast Secure Contact Form:

This is an advanced level contact form for your WordPress site. It lets you make contact forms, feedback forms with varieties of field types. This plugins has a spam remover, which automatically removes spam from form message.

Download Fast Secure Contact Form Plugin

2. WP-Optimize:

This plugin cleans your database orphan entries and makes your site loading faster. It removes entries which are orphan, which do not refer to any document, file, etc. This plugin is best for Shared Hosting customers.

Download WP Optimize Plugin

3. Sexy Bookmarks:

Sexy Bookmarks are bookmarks to the social sites. Users click on attractive buttons to share your site article. This is best for making your article sharing easy. Users have to click on any site bookmark and he will be redirected to that site with your article URL embedded.

Download Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

4. W3 Total Cache:

This is the best plugin available for WordPress optimization, it is a complete solution for WordPress optimization. This plugin caches site pages,objects to make site faster. This makes user experience faster and reliable.

Download W3 Total Cache Plugin

Above four plugins will surely help you optimize, extend your WordPress for more comfortable experience.

You can sell your blog ONLINE to thousands of customers. If you have a blog with good traffic and PageRank, then your blog can get you a big amount of money by selling it. There are many 0nline places available where you can sell your blog.

Is your Blog liable to sell?

Before selling your blog, you should consider whether your blog is sale-able, means it has good traffic? Good PageRank?. Customers will only buy blogs which have good traffic and are earning good amount of money. A Good Blog with good amount of traffic can be sold and can get good amount. Your blog must have keywords which are often searched on Google and other search engines.

Where to sell your Blog?

There are many websites available where you can sell your blog. These websites will charge you for your blog listing, but it is a nominal charge. Then the auction for your blog starts, customers bid on your blog and then highest bidder buys it.

You can sell your blog on websites like Flippa, SitePoint, etc.

(1) Flippa:

Flippa lets you sell and buy blogs online. The homepage of the site shows which sites are available to buy, its prices, bids. You can easily sell your blog in this site because this one has many members. Flippa itself says that it is #1 marketplace for selling and buying websites.

(2) SitePoint:

SitePoint is also a good marketplace to sell or buy websites. Here, not only websites can be sold. You can sell templates, link exchange, contents, etc. Few of these services are free for listing, others are paid.

After Sale Process:

After selling your blog successfully, you have to transfer your domain name. For this, you can go to your domain management panel and make a transfer. For blog files, you have to transfer all files to the buyer’s hosting account. You can do this via FTP. That’s all !

I hope, above article will surely help you in selling your blog successfully.

Google voice, formally Grand Central, is an online calling service.  It lets you make free calls to any USA, Canada number. You can also call at cheap rate to other countries. Google has launched this service in USA only.

People outside USA can’t use this service until it launches in other countries. But, we can use a simple trick to get a Google Voice account outside from USA.

Step 1: Get a USA number

First of all, you have to get an USA number, where you can receive incoming calls. The best site for getting an USA number is TPad. There you can get a  free USA number. Register there and get an USA number.

Step 2: Configure Softphone for TPad Account:

After successfully registering at TPad site, you have to download a small Softphone software and have to configure it.  Ninja Lite is a good softphone. You can get configuration details from TPad website and download link for the software.

Step 3: Register for Google Voice:

To register for Google Voice, you have to use a proxy which can show your IP location of USA. To do this, search Google for USA proxy and use one of them. After setting up proxy server, go to Google voice to signup for an account, you must have a Google Account to signup at Google Voice.

After signing up, it will ask you for an USA forwarding number, enter your TPad account number. Then Google will call you and you have to verify your number. After verifying your number, you can use Google Voice. Then you can also use Google Voice without USA proxy number.

I hope, above steps will help you getting a Google Voice account.