Zoho, the leading provider of cloud-based services and online business applications has recently announced the launch of ‘Zoho Sites‘ – an easy-to-use website builder to Build Professional-Looking and Mobile-Ready websites. Zoho offers a wide suite of online applications and now the addition of website building and hosting service makes them more powerful in the market! Zoho Sites Website Builder lets anyone create a polished and professional site in minutes without writing any code. The websites carry a responsive design, means they’re automatically optimized for smartphones, tablets, etc. Available in both free and paid editions.

Zoho Sites offers a drag-and-drop user interface and integration with third-party apps like Google Analytics, YouTube. It is integrated with Zoho’s suite of apps, thus allowing users to manage their data using Zoho’s business apps. For instance, one can host email in Zoho Mail, customer data in Zoho CRM, financial data in Zoho Books, etc.

Get started with Zoho Sites is real easy – Simply login into your Zoho account (sign up if new), define a name for your site, choose a theme from the gallery, drag and drop desired elements such as text, images, videos, etc., and then publish the site with the push of a button. You can also add forms, widgets and other various stuff to your site. Making changes is just as easy and fast.

Highlights: 

• Mobile website – Websites are automatically optimized for access on mobile devices, eliminating the need to create a separate mobile website. Visitors are automatically redirected to the mobile-optimized website when accessing on mobile devices.

• Dynamic content – Zoho Sites simplifies frequent content updates by storing all content in the Zoho Creator database. Whenever content in the database is modified, the corresponding webpage is automatically updated.

• Powerful form builder – Powered by Zoho Creator, the form builder lets users create website forms for various purposes like managing contacts, support requests and much more — without writing any code. Forms can also trigger automated email notifications and other custom workflow.

• Third-party integrations – Pre-integrated YouTube, Google AdWords, Google Maps, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa elements can be embedded on websites easily using the drag-and-drop interface. Other third-party elements can also be embedded.

• Zoho Sites for Google Apps – Zoho Sites is integrated with Google Apps and is available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Google Apps customers can now create and publish websites under their domain.

• Collaborative website creation – Users can invite other users to serve as authors or moderators of select pages or the entire website.

• Themes gallery – An array of ready-made business themes and page layouts can also be customized with the built-in HTML editor.

• Domain registration and hosting – Users can register a domain on Zoho Sites and host their website on that domain. All Zoho Sites websites come with free, reliable hosting.

Pricing 

The Zoho Sites Free Edition includes two websites, with each website containing two forms, one blog and unlimited pages. The Professional Edition is priced at $39 per year and includes six websites, each website containing 10 forms, a blog and unlimited pages. The Professional Edition also supports Google AdSense and complete rebranding.

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Start creating your new site at Zoho -  http://zoho.com/sites

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Tumblr is a very popular micro-blogging platform that allows everyone to simply share multimedia stuff such as photos, videos, textual content, etc. It offers a great and smart way to share your thoughts, creativity and interact with other people online. Perhaps, if you’ve a blog on Tumblr (tumblelog) or are obsessed with some of the amazing tumblelogs out there, then here’s a nifty and handy tool that you must check.

TumblRipper is a free small tool for Windows that offers the ability to quickly download photos of Tumblr blogs with great ease. Using it, you can create a backup of all your tumblr pictures to your computer or any of the tumblr photoblog you adore. The app is indeed very useful as it can automatically download entire pictures from any tumblr site. One just need to specify the source and the destination for saving the photos.

It downloads the photos in their largest size available and keeps the original upload dates intact. The indexing and downloading progress of files is also shown. One good feature is that the tool doesn’t downloads the entire photos as a standalone package but as individual files, thus allowing you to access the downloaded photos in real-time. The application has a mere size of 11KB and doesn’t requires an installation.

- Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Download TumblRipper    via [Ahmed Zizo]

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Technology is a boon that has made our lives simple in more than one aspect. When it comes to the Internet and other related technologies, there is a sea change in the manner things were done a decade or so before. Today with technologies like Cloud computing, we have a promising future to look up to.

What is Cloud Computing?

It is the latest technology that is used to access services which are accessible on the Internet cloud. With this technology at you disposal, you no longer need to install any hardware or software as all services and storage space are provided over the internet. Moreover, it is quite easy to get started with this service.

When people start up with a business, they usually look for some cost cutting methods. The constant endeavor is to employ the most advanced tools for your job. With cloud computing you have an all in one and perfect solution. It not only helps in reducing the cost but is also very simple to set up and run. Discussed below are some of the Cloud based tools which you can utilize for your small business. These tools will help your business to become more fruitful and operate at a reduced cost.

1. Invoicing: Invoicing is an important and necessary part of every business. You can use Invoicera to send and create professional invoices and maintain your business accounts. Now, with the help of cloud based invoicing service, you can create and send invoices to your clients easily. This ensures that you get paid on time. There are some cloud based apps that let you track your time and expenses effectively. Thus it helps to keep you up to date. Although there are a number of Invoicing applications available in the market like Zoho Invoice, Blinksale, CurdBee, FreshBooks, but Invoicera is certainly the best among all.

2. Online Conferencing: Today, online conferencing has become a normal routine for almost every business. With online conferencing, you can meet your customers and employees. Go to Meeting, WebEx, WebDialogs.com (for video conferencing), Press8 Telecom (for audio conferencing), and Nefsis are some of the cloud based conferencing tools available across the internet.

3. File and Calendar Sharing: With a feature like calendar sharing, one can share and access digitally stored information like calendars, multimedia files, documents and computer programs. Some well known cloud based and calendar sharing applications are ZohoDocs.com, Google Docs, Microsoft SharePoint, Centraldesktop.com, etc. In fact, there are many hosting companies that offer MS SharePoint in a cloud. These companies charge on a per client basis.

4. Data Storage: Now you can keep a backup of your important digital files by making use of data storage service providers like ZumoDrive or Mozy.com.

5. VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Hosted PBX: With VoIP PBX system, you can fundamentally access your PBX system over the cloud. This cloud based tool provides a simple sign up and you can get started with it within few minutes.

6. Blogging Software: A company blog is a simple way to keep your customers up to date and to publicize your enterprise. You can easily sign up with an online blogging company. Some popular blog software are WordPress, Squarespace, etc.

7. Custom Relationship Management (CRM): This is one of the most employed tactics in order to manage the company’s communication with its clients and sales scenario in an effective manner. This system is a must for every small business. Some of the well-known cloud computing CRM tools are Zoho CRM, Salesforce.com and SugarCRM.com.

Author Bio: This post is contributed by Kevin. Kevin works as an E-Marketing Executive for PixelCrayons, which offers best ecommerce website development & designing services, online shopping cart development, Magento development & designing services and other ecommerce software services.

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Today is a big day! I’m extremely happy to announce that it’s our Third Anniversary, WebTrickz.com has turned 3 years old. It was on this day i.e. 12 Sep, I registered this domain 3 years back in 2008 without any idea that it would cover such a long journey. It was my passion, dedication towards work, great support from readers and friends that made this possible. Blogging isn’t so easy as it appears – one needs to have a lot of patience, time, adequate knowledge and at last passion is what counts the maximum, if you want to achieve success in this field.

Blog Stats – We are very close to 2400 posts, RSS Subscribers counts 8450, Alexa Rank is 22,589 and PageRank 4. There isn’t much progress in the traffic and revenue in last couple of months. Certainly, Panda aka Farmer update is the ultimate culprit.

A while back in July, we also launched a web app “WhatIsMySEORank”, a free and useful service for webmasters and bloggers. WIMSR offers a fast and efficient way to Find your website position in Google search results (Google.com). Do try it out!

Thanks to all our lovable readers, friends, family and sponsors for appreciating and motivating us in this long phase. Hope to see your warm support in future too!

Image credit: helen james

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Certainly, it’s not possible to stop scraper sites as the web is a huge place but if you’re a webmaster or blogger then you must be aware of sites who copy-paste aka scraps your hard written content. Spam blogs are usually a scrapper site which automatically pulls the entire post via sites RSS feed and publishes it on their site without the consent of original author. This can be generally referred as stealing of content.

Unfortunately, the recent Google Search algorithm (PANDA update) seems to give more importance to these splogs rather than the original site. I’ve seen many instances where our site was being outranked by the content scrappers in Google search, this makes me sad and is pretty bothersome. A small example of this can be seen below:

As you can see in above screenshot, the scrapper site is ranking at 1st position whereas the original site is at 3rd position. This definitely drops down our organic traffic and the sploggers who just steal our work enjoy the benefit of it.

To combat against this, Google seems to have finally started working to improve their search algorithm and they need data points for testing. Matt Cutts (head of the Google webspam team) just tweeted a link, using which site owners can report about blog scrapers to Google. This is a specialised webpage to Report scraper pages, it says:

Google is testing algorithmic changes for scraper sites (especially blog scrapers). We are asking for examples, and may use data you submit to test and improve our algorithms.

From now onwards, if you ever find any spam site or blog who is lifting your articles and is ranking above your site in Google, then do report about them and help Google in improving their algorithm. For me, Panda is a sort of nightmare that has turned into reality, resulting in 50% drop in both traffic and revenue since last few months.

To Report a Scraper site, just visit here. Input the search query, then URL of original site page and the scrapper site page. You can share some details too. Click Submit!

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Hot-linking occurs when someone directly uses a link to an image that is stored on your site server, instead of saving and uploading the image to his own website server. This is referred to as bandwidth theft because the person is utilizing the bandwidth for which you’re paying and causes extra load on your server which can degrade its performance.

This is usually the case with Spam Blogs who blindly copy your content and link directly to your site images. Let’s say you published an informative article, then there is a good chance that it might get scrapped by numerous content scrappers as was happened in my case. To prevent this, you must Enable Hotlink Protection for your blog or website and stop everyone else from hotlinking your site images and videos.

How to Stop Hotlinking using cPanel -

We’re sharing the easiest method to do this task, provided your site has cPanel and you have access to it. Follow the steps below:

1. Login to cPanel.

2. Select “HotLink Protection” from Security window in cPanel.

3. Click on the ‘Enable’ button to enable hotlink protection.

4. Now enter the desired URLs/website to whom you want to allow access. Make sure to enter your site domain here as well as the list of feed readers like Feedburner, Google Reader, Bloglines, etc. so they don’t display the redirect image on your site and feeds.

ADD all the domains listed in image below (replace webtrickz.com with your domain).

5. Specify the file extensions you wish to block. (Default are jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp)

6. Input the URL of any image (should NOT be hosted on your site) which you like to serve as the Redirect image on sites who have hotlinked your images. Below is an example of our redirect image hosted on Imageshack.

Then click ‘Submit’ and you’re done. Now visit any site who is directly linking to your site images. They must show the redirect image. In my case above image is shown, visit (goo.gl/2SmKN , goo.gl/j6cSK) to see the live demo

“Do check your website and feeds properly after making this change to make sure everything is working the right way.”

Thanks +Dhawal Damania and +Amit Banerjee for the hat tip!

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Most webmasters and bloggers are concerned about their website traffic after Google announced its new search engine algorithm recently. Currently, Google has launched this big algorithmic change in the U.S. only and plans to roll it out universally over time. Google’s new algo highly affects the ranking of sites on its search engine results page.

This is what Google says about its new SE ranking update:

This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.

To determine if recent Google algorithm has affected your website SE traffic, check it easily by analysing your site’s organic traffic in past few days using Google Analytics:

Just visit Google Analytics > Traffic sources > Search Engines and choose ‘Google’ (organic) as the traffic source. Now examine your site’s organic traffic by seeing its growth or fall after Feb 24. Fortunately, this update hasn’t impacted our organic traffic.

Do let us know if this new algorithm update has posed a positive or negative impact on your site’s traffic via Google search.

Tip via Labnol

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From past 2 days, WebTrickz was experiencing major technical issues and several long downtimes occurred in short intervals. Though, our site is running perfectly now as we moved from Hostgator’s Shared hosting to their VPS. We got to learn some new things while getting our issue sorted. A simple tip is shared below which may come in handy to bloggers and webmasters using WordPress.

Certainly, our Comments section is bloated with lot of Spam comments listed under Spam section and similarly there are Pending comments. If you want to get rid of all the Spam or Pending comments, then you can easily remove all of them at once in just a few clicks without the need to use the uneasy phpMyAdmin method.

Just install the WP-Optimize plugin directly from your WordPress Dashboard and activate it. To access it, just open the Dashboard drop-down menu and click on the “WP-Optimize” option. Now tick mark the desired option ‘Clean marked Spam comments’ or ‘Clean Unapproved comments’ (Pending comments). Click on the Process button.

Voila! All the Spam or Pending/Unapproved comments will get deleted instantly. You can deactivate this plugin later if you don’t want to use it frequently.

Update – I just noticed that we can easily bulk delete all the Spam comments in WordPress without using any plugin. To do so, go to Comments > Spam and click on the “Empty Spam” button. All the spam comments will get deleted.

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