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ALEXA’S TOP TEN GLOBAL WEBSITES 2011

 

Alexa is a very useful site for web masters as it enables you to discover information about other websites. You can use Alexa to find out how renowned a site is, who owns the site, to find new sites and a lot more. Whether you are a web professional trying to know what are the latest competition’s out there or just wish to play around with some SEO or Web tools, Alexa is the best site available. If you want to sort out the different websites all over the world based on their popularity or category then this site is the best tool for you!

PS: Alexa's  Traffic Rank are time dependent. The top ten sites below fluctuate a lot in ranking within a week. So the rankings below are in accordance with 26th May 2011.

Based on Alexa’s global rankings, following are the top ten sites of 2011:

1- GOOGLE

 

Google enables users to search information including webpages, images, videos et cetera. It offers numerous unique features and search technology. the site has been online for the last thirteen years, established in around 1998, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Google is ranked #1 according to the three month Alexa traffic rankings. The top queries driving traffic to Google.com are wide ranging, starting from gmail which receives 7.80% of the total search traffic and provides over 7GB free storage along with fun applications such as Google chat and gmail mobile. This, followed by Google maps, Google translate, Google earth and other such useful tools makes Google the #1 website for the year 2011.

 

2- FACEBOOK

 

Now who doesn’t know about Facebook? From your nine year old cousin to your grandmother, everyone knows and loves Facebook. This social utility, established in 1997, connects people from all around the world, enabling them to keep up with their friends (old and new), friends of friends, and their friends too! :p That’s just how popular this site is (and down right addictive too)! You can upload and share photos easily, post on your friend’s walls, share videos and links and engage in so many fun games online! Not to mention update your status to let your friends know what you’re up to. That reminds me, I forgot to update my status today.. Oops! :p

 

3- YouTube - Broadcast yourself

 

Online since 2005, this site has made video sharing and uploading all over the world a matter of few seconds. Never before was watching and uploading videos such a convenience as it is now after YouTube, which acts as a global platform for distribution and sharing of information all over the world. Whether it’s that Chelsea game you missed last weekend or that old song you grew up listening to when you were young, it’s sure to be found on YouTube!

 

4- YAHOO!

 

Ranked 4th by Alexa’s three month traffic rankings, is a major internet portal providing search results, chat-rooms, free e-mail, groups, images and so much more! The site ranks #3 in U.S. while in Taiwan it beats all others, ranking as the #1 site of 2011. Established in January 2004, Yahoo has grown gradually and is still among the leading sites available online when it comes to email, chat, advertisements and searching information.

 

 

5- BLOGGER

 

Blogger is the fifth most popular site in the world based on Alexa’s global traffic rankings. Compared with other sites, this site appeals to users who browse from home and school. The site was owned by Google Inc. in 2003 from Pyra Labs. This site lets its users have their own voice on the web. Anyone can make their blog and share their thoughts with the rest of the world. The site also helps amateur journalists and writers to express their views and interact with people who read their work. With Google Blogger you can also control who can read and post to your blog. It’s all in your hands! You can also find other bloggers online who share your interest and connect with them, expanding your own information. This blog , that you are reading at the moment is served by Blogger. It’s really as easy as it sounds. :)

 

6. BAIDU

 

Baidu, ranked 6th by Alexa’s global rankings, is the most popular Chinese search engine. It provides simple and reliable search experience, strong in Chinese language along with multimedia content including MP3 music, videos and movie files. Established in 2000, Baidu provides over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. Woah! No wonder the Chinese are making rapid progress. ;)
I came across an interesting fact about this site. One of the founders of this site, namely Robin Li, talks about coining the name for this site. He says:

“Many people have asked about the meaning of our name. 'Baidu' was inspired by a poem written more than 800 years ago during the Song Dynasty. The poem compares the search for a retreating beauty amid chaotic glamour with the search for one's dream while confronted by life's many obstacles. '...hundreds and thousands of times, for her I searched in chaos, suddenly, I turned by chance, to where the lights were waning, and there she stood.' Baidu, whose literal meaning is hundreds of times, represents persistent search for the ideal.”

Hmm.. you’ve certainly put quite a lot of thought there Mr. Li! =p

 

7- WIKIPEDIA

 

How can we forget Wikipedia? Ranked number 7th by Alexa, this free web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia has been online since 2001 and has become the largest and most popular general reference work having available on the internet 365 million readers. The site is equally famous among students and people belonging to all types of professions because of its wide ranging articles on any and every subject.

 

 

8- WINDOWS LIVE

 

Ranked 8th by Alexa’s global traffic ranking, this search engine from Microsoft also called bing has been online for more than sixteen years. It is a collection of services and software products provided by Microsoft. Most of these services are web applications such as chatting, e-mailing, games (particularly multiplayer gaming is an important feature of its applications), news and other fun things. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.

 

 

9- TWITTER

 

Twitter is the ninth most popular site in the world according to Alex’a global rankings. Twitter offers a social networking and micro blogging service, along with instant messaging (tweeting). Established in 2006, twitter had gained popularity since then and is estimated to have 200 million users worldwide. Twitter simply allows their users to discover what’s interesting to them and interact with others who share that interest. You’re always linked to your friends through this site and can get the latest news on entertainment, fashion, movies etc.

 

10- QQ.COM

 

China’s most popular free instant messaging program QQ has been ranked 10th by Alexa’s traffic rankings. Its users amount to 636.6 million, making it the world’s largest community online. The program is owned by Ten-cent Holdings Ltd. Since its launching in February 1999, QQ has quickly emerged as a modern cultural phenomenon in China. Besides its cat program, QQ has developed many sub-features as well such as gaming, virtual pets, ringtone downloads, blogging etc.

20 Ways for how to Get Followers on Twitter

Twitter is a really powerful tool for online social networking, promoting your online work and getting to know people in the web world around you. To maximize your use of Twitter, you want to gain followers on the site. The more people that you have following you there, the more likely it is that they will see what you’re doing and be interested in your work around the web. There are many different things that you can do to increase the number of people who follow you on Twitter. Here’s a look at the twenty things that you should do first to get more Twitter followers:

1. Use Twitter’s tools for finding and adding your existing contacts. If you follow them, they’ll likely follow you. Don’t stop there, however. Follow up with an email to each of those people letting them know why you really hope that they’ll follow you on Twitter. This follow-through increases the number of followers that you’ll get.

2. Make an announcement on your other social networking sites that you’d like to be followed on Twitter. Let your Facebook and MySpace friends know where they can find you to follow you on Twitter. Don’t just make this announcement once either; update your Facebook status with this info every two or three weeks to keep getting people’s attention back to your Twitter. You can also post to Facebook from Twitter and it will show up on Facebook that you did that so people will know that you’re using Twitter.

3. Add your Twitter information to your email signature. Every time that you email anyone, they’ll see that they can follow you on Twitter.

4. Blog about your use of Twitter. Mention regularly in your blog or on your website that you are a Twitter user and be sure to link to your Twitter contact information.

5. Add the Twitter widget to your website. In addition to mentioning your Twitter use yourself, you can actually show others what you’re Twittering by adding the Twitter widget to your site or blog. This encourages readers to check out your activities on Twitter and therefore to follow you.

6. List yourself in Twitter directories. Directories like JustTweetIt and WeFollow are great places to provide others with information about who you are and how to follow you on Twitter.

7. Improve your page. You can customize Twitter with a better background, avatar and bio info. The better your page looks, the more likely it is that people who see that page will want to follow you.

8. Be active on the site. The best way to get followers is to follow other people and then respond regularly to the things that they post. The more active that you are on Twitter, the more people are going to want to follow you.
9. Be interesting on the site. Don’t just be active without saying anything. Post things that are actually interesting so that people will be interested by you.

10. Offer to guest post on the sites of big Twitter users. Find Twitter users who have a lot of followers. Check out their blogs. Offer to guest post on the blog in exchange for promotion of the post on Twitter. This increases attention to you on Twitter and creates more followers.

11. Write articles around the web and promote them on Twitter. There are many sites that you can write articles on (HubPages being one of them) so write a few about Twitter and link to your profile. (Here’s my Twitter information!)

12. Participate in forums and blog comments about Twitter. The more that you’re talking about Twitter, the more that you’re going to get attention from other people online who are using Twitter and who may want to follow you on the site.

13. Request support from your Twitter followers. Once you’ve established a bit of a following, Tweet that you’re looking for more followers and would love people to let their Twitter followers know where to find you. Some just might help you out.

14. Create some sort of contest related to Twitter. Make up your own creative contest on your website or Facebook page that ultimately leads to benefits to someone else for supporting you on Twitter. For example, you might giveaway something to the friend who refers the most people to follow you on Twitter.

15. Make a Twitter Landing Page. This is a tip from Problogger that basically says to replace your website home page with a Twitter landing page which informs people about your use of Twitter so that they can follow you. Then they can check out your website.

16. Add your Twitter URL to your business cards. Make sure all printed promotional materials that you have include a link to your Twitter profile.

17. Follow people often. Follow new people every single day. They may follow you back. Follow everyone who follows you. Their followers may follow you back.

18. Join Twitter Groups. There are online groups that are all about Twitter and if you join them then you’ll meet people who use the site and who want to friend other users on the site.

19. Go to TweetUps. These are in-person meetups of Twitter users that are springing up all over the country. Meet people in person, put a face to the name and then you can follow each other on Twitter with some real impact.

20. Get creative. The main thing is to do all that you can to keep thinking of new ways to drive traffic to your Twitter account so that you gain followers. The more creative you get, the more likely it is that you’ll see success on the site.

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Every day, you hear or read someone, so and so, have made some amount of money on the internet. You would think, hmmm…. I use the internet day and night, surely I can be one of them and I will certainly welcome any extra income on top of my current job. With a little bit of extra effort, I might be able to quit my full time job and concentrate on making money online! Well, to me, it doesn’t work like that. No doubt you can make money online but it requires a lot of commitment just like normal full time jobs.

When it’s Too Good to be True

Yes, it probably is! There are no easy ways to make money. If you are paid 10 dollars an hour for your normal job, don’t expect to get the same amount of money just by doing a few mouse clicks or typing a few words. Each and every day, I never fail to receive emails about earning money from home. They always started out by telling successful stories of people earning thousands of dollars just by working from home.
The truth is, those successful faces can be found modelling in some other types of advertising too. Once you clicked on the link, you are either installing spywares onto your PC or you are directed to a site asking you to pay a certain amount of money to get you started in this lucrative scheme. Couple of weeks later, you realise that you are cheated. It might be faster than that.

BLOGGING

I blog occasionally. I used to blog just about everything from personal life to technology stuffs. But now, I am just concentrating in making it as my personal blog while I write articles and reviews in websites like Hubpages. When blogging, it is important to focus on one topic. For example, if it is a technology blog, write things about technology and so on.
So, how can you make money from blogging? There are lots of successful people earning money through blogging. Sadly, I am not one of them. Hey, please don’t stop here! I do earn some money through keywords blogging as well as advertisement such as adsense. There are numerous sites like PayPerPost, SocialSpark and Payu2Blog which pay you to blog. A blog post can earn you from one dollar to anything that the advertisers are willing to pay. All you have to do is to blog about the advertisers with some keywords provided.

PayPerPost

I used to earn some good money from PayPerPost. Each of the paid post has to have an unpaid post in between. In order to get a job, you have to login to the site and you will see a list of available jobs with the number of available spaces. Unfortunately, I was kicked out a couple of years ago because my blog didn’t have a PageRank. I am not bothered to join again now that I have PageRank 2.

SocialSpark

This is a PayPerPost’s sister company. It works the same way as PayPerPost but in a community way. You can have friends, post comments, like and things like that. Advertisers sometimes offer some good amount of money for a single post. It doesn’t judge a blog by its PageRank but of course, the higher PageRank you have, the more opportunities you get.

Payu2Blog

I have been a loyal member for at least three years now. The staffs at Payu2Blog will assign assignments, so you have to login frequently to check. A normal assignment has a pay-out of five dollars for 60 words including a keyword provided. Occasionally, there are special assignments which mean more money per blog post.

MARKETING

Google Adsense

The good thing about Google Adsense is that it is global. You can use it anywhere, in your blog or Hubpages. More importantly, you need to have good amount of traffic in order for Adsense to work for you. In order to get free traffic fast or advertise your blog, it is easier if you join Entrecard and Adgitize. Both of them require you to add their widgets in your blog.

Entrecard

Entrecard works on the basis of Entrecard Credit (EC). When you visit a blog or website with Entrecard widget in them, you can click on their widgets and you earn one EC per unique click per blog. The blog or website owners will then know that you have clicked their widgets and they are most likely to do the same. Accumulated EC can be used to advertise on Entrecard blogs or websites that have Entrecard widgets on them.

Adgitize

This advertising site requires you to pay to generate some traffic to your website. However, you get to earn back your money if you are active Adgitizing. I used to pay $15 for a month of advertising and at the end of the month; Adgitize would send me some money based on my activities. Normally, I would get a little more than the $15 that I paid.
Join Adgitize.

SURVEY

Surveys can be fun and you couldn’t ask for more when you are paid to do survey. I have joined dozens of survey sites and most of them just don’t work for me. I am not saying that other survey websites are not good to join. It’s just that they do not have that many opportunities like the ones that I am about to list below.

ValuedOpinions

ValuedOpinions is one of the few survey panels that I would recommend. Each survey can go as low as 10 pence to any amount depending on the requirement as well as the time it will take to complete the survey. The highest amount of remuneration that I got for one survey is £4 while the highest amount that I have ever seen was £6. When your total amount hits £10, you are entitled to request vouchers for use in Tesco, Amazon, Topshop, Burton and many more.
Join ValuedOpinions.

IPSOS Panel

IPSOS Panel works on point’s basis. As usual, the longer the survey, the more points you get. You need to get at least 1400 points for you to be able to request for vouchers range from Leisure vouchers and Amazon as well as charity organisations.
Join IPSOS Panel.

MySurvey

MySurvey is another point base survey site. It used to be called LightSpeedPanel which was inactive for quite some time. MySurvey is the new name and you can claim a £3 PayPal for as low as 400 points. Needless to say, the more points you have, the more options you get.
Join MySurvey.

Finally…
There are many others ways to earn money online but it all down to the time that you have in a day. I am more inclined to focus on several main paying websites before moving on to find other similar websites. The pennies and pounds may not seem much but it’s nice to have some vouchers once a while to pay for groceries or gadgets or accessories that I fancy.

How to stop your Gmail account being hacked

As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail – including US government officials, reporters and political activists – have had their email accounts hacked.
This wasn’t a sophisticated attack against Google’s systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page.

Victims would believe that they had been sent an attachment, click on the link, and be greeted by what appeared to be Gmail’s login screen. Before you knew it, your Gmail username and password could be in the hands of unauthorised parties.

So, what steps should you take to reduce the chances of your Gmail account being hacked?

1. Set up Two step verification

The hackers who broke into high profile Gmail accounts grabbed usernames and passwords. So, an obvious thing to do would be to make Gmail require an extra piece of information before allowing anybody to access your account.

Google provides a facility called “two step verification” to Gmail users, which provides that extra layer of security. It requires you to be able to access your mobile phone when you sign into your email account – as they will be sending you a magic “verification” number via SMS.
The advantage of this approach – which is similar to that done by many online banks – is that even if cybercriminals manage to steal your username and password, they won’t know what your magic number is because they don’t have your phone.
Google has made two step verification easy to set up.

Once you’re set up, the next time you try to log into Gmail you’ll be asked for your magic number after entering your username and password. Your mobile phone should receive an SMS text message from Google containing your verification number.

Let’s just hope the bad guys don’t have access to your mobile phone too..
Here’s a video from Google where they explain two step verification in greater detail:

You can also learn more about two step verification on Google’s website.

By the way, note that two step verification doesn’t mean that your Gmail can’tever be snooped on by remote hackers. They could, for instance, install spyware onto your computer which could monitor everything that appears on your screen. But it’s certainly a good additional level of security for your Gmail account, and one which will make life much more difficult for any cybercriminal who might be targeting you.

2. Check if your Gmail messages are being forwarded without your permission

Gmail gives you the ability to forward your emails to another email address. There are situations where this might be handy, of course, but it can also be used by hackers to secretly read the messages you receive.
Go into your Gmail account settings, and select the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab.
If your emails are being forwarded to another address, then you will see something like the following:

That’s fine if you authorised for your emails to be forwarded to that email address, but a bad thing if you didn’t.
If your messages are not being forwarded you will see a screen more like this:

Hackers want to break into your account not just to see what email you’ve received up until their break-in. Ideally, they would like to have ongoing access to your email, even if you change your password or enable two step verification. That’s why it’s so important to check that no-one has sneakily asked for all of your email to be forwarded to them.

3. Where is your Gmail account being accessed from?

At the bottom of each webpage on Gmail, you’ll see some small print which describes your last account activity. This is available to help you spy if someone has been accessing your account at unusual times of day (for instance, when you haven’t been using your computer) or from a different location.

Clicking on the “Details” option will take you to a webpage describing the type of access and the IP address of the computer which logged your email account. Although some of this data may appear nerdy, it can be a helpful heads-up – especially if you spot a computer from another country has been accessing your email.

4. Choose a unique, hard-to-crack password

As we’ve explained before, you should never use the same username and password on multiple websites. It’s like having a skeleton key which opens every door – if they grab your password in one place they can try it in many other places.
Also, you should ensure that your password is not a dictionary word, and is suitably complex that it’s hard to break with a dictionary attack.
Here’s a video which explains how to choose a strong password, which is easy to remember but still hard to crack:

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Don’t delay, be sensible and make your passwords more secure today
And once you’ve chosen a safer password – keep it safe! That means, don’t share it with anyone else and be very careful that you’re typing it into the realGmail login screen, not a phishing site.

5. Secure your computer

It should go without saying, but this list would be unfinished without it. You need to properly secure your computer with up-to-date anti-virus software, security patches and so forth. If you don’t, you’re risking hackers planting malicious code on your computer which could spy upon you and, of course, your email.
You always want to be certain that your computer is in a decent state of health before you log into a sensitive online account, such as your email or bank account. That’s one of the reasons why I would always be very nervous about using a computer in a cybercafe or hotel lobby. You simply don’t know what state the computer is in, and who might have been using it before.

6. Why are you using Gmail anyway?

Okay, I don’t really mean that. But I do mean, why are you storing sensitiveinformation in your Gmail account?
The news headlines claim that senior US political and military officials were being targeted by the hackers. Surely if they had confidential or sensitive data they shouldn’t have that in their webmail account? Shouldn’t that be on secure government and military systems instead?
Always think about the data you might be putting on your web email account – because if it’s only protected by a username and password that may actually be less security than your regular work email system provides.

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