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Dropbox is a great way to share content with the world easily. It offers hot-linking to images which is useful. Recently we talked about how hosting your media content on a faster third-party server can help you out in many ways. If you're a Dropbox user, you can use your Dropbox storage to host images from your small to medium-sized website. Today, we'll talk about using Dropbox as an external media storage for your WordPress site.

For most blogs and websites out there, the bulk of their size comes from images. For videos, most bloggers resort to any of the video sharing websites such as YouTube, Vimeo and so on. But what about images and other media content? It only makes sense to host large images on a faster third-party server as well. Fortunately for bloggers, this isn't an alien concept. There are much faster servers out there known as CDNs (Content Delivery Networks). We'll talk about using third-party services for hosting your images.

Graphical representation is an important part of a good interface design. Often during the course of designing an interface, you will come across data that needs visual representation to be more readable. This is especially the case in app development. So today, we'll show you how to add charts and line graphs in your Windows Phone application. This tutorial works for Windows Phone 8, and is based on the open source project AmCharts for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone, which is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

Google has made quite a few changes to its search engine in the past few months, and these include the exclusion of certain authorship data from search real estate. Ever since then, some people have faced problems with their sitelinks. Sitelinks are automated links generated from your site, and are seemingly chosen randomly. The algorithm that chooses these 'random' sitelinks is shady at best, and often you do not want certain links to appear.

A robots.txt file can be important for a sufficiently large website that might want to keep some of its page away from search engines. Most smaller websites won't even need this file, but for others, it can be sometimes difficult to make and maintain the correct robots.txt files, as finding the directives within a large robots.txt that are blocking individual URLs can be tricky. For that, you need a debugging or testing tool to check out any problems with your robots file. And as always, Google is there to help.

App deep links helps users access content inside your app while browsing the web on their smartphone. They are like hyperlinks, but instead of a webpage, they open an app page with the content that the user is looking for. Google has incorporated the app indexing feature into its search results, which makes it possible for app developers to make their app's content available to the search engine. However, for app indexing to work properly, the first step is to enable support for deep links inside your Android apps.

Get confidential information about a website

Ever wondered how to get certain confidential information about a website that you can't normally get from an About Us or Contact page? Who is the owner of a website and how to get in touch with him? Where is the website hosted? What ad-networks is a site using? What Content Management System is powering a site? The answer to these questions can sometimes be useful, for example when you're looking for information about your competitors, or maybe just trying to follow the footsteps of your favorite blogger.

Do you know how to Google? You probably don't. There are certain tweaks Google keeps on adding to provide a better search functionality to its users. Even the most seasoned Googler might not know every tip and trick available with just a few extra keystrokes in the search bar. Here are some handy Google search tricks that will make your life a hell lot easier! (You can thank us later :P)

How To Surface Your Business's Contact Information in Google?

A lot of people use Google every day in order to find information about businesses that they deal with. These can be online retailers, or local restaurants. Often, they're looking for specialized information about a business, such as a contact number, email or physical address, or opening/closing hours (for a physical walk-in business). If you run a business, you can help Google recognize the most important information about your business, and make it more likely to surface that information to searchers looking for your business.

Recently, we talked about the Facebook EdgeRank algorithm, and how it has evolved over time. Facebook values in a lot of quality factors, which collectively decide how many people can a post reach. A couple days ago, we talked about Negative Feedback, and how important it has become to Facebook. You might be doing every conceivable trick to grow your reach, but could still be losing it, as a result of being held down by negative feedback. Today, we'll talk about how to monitor negative feedback on your Facebook Page.

Are you an entrepreneur looking to set up a new blog or website? The Google Webmaster Academy can help! Ever since its launch in 2012, it has helped hundreds and thousands of webmasters take their websites from mere startups to large money-making ventures. However, going over each resource from the academy can be time-consuming. Here's our version on how to build a website from scratch to greatness.

Are you using Pinterest effectively to drive more engagement to your blog? Pinterest is a great but underestimated marketing tool that individuals and businesses can use to drive more people to their site, or let them know more about what they do. Pins can help people discover the content that they like. As it stands, you can't be using Pinterest effectively unless you know what rich pins are, and how to use them. They provide a better way to show pinners information on your site.

Google AdSense is the widely popular ad-network used by millions of bloggers worldwide. It has helped many build their careers online. If you're a blogger, then you should know about the importance of optimizing AdSense ads to maximize revenue. Speaking of which, we have a trick for you for adding AdSense ads between your posts, so as to increase the ad-visibility and ultimately the click-through rate and revenue.

Like using Pinterest? Let your followers know where you are by pinning maps to your Pinboards! You can pin your business location, event locations, or places you're going to visit in order to let your fans know beforehand when and where you're going to be! This strategy can help you get more reach, especially with locals from your area of business. Google and Bing don't let you Pin a map location, but that shouldn't stop you from telling people where you are!

If you are a business owner or a Blogger, you might be interested in joining Pinterest as a Business. A lot of people who joined Pinterest ages ago have personal accounts on Pinterest, and not business ones. Business accounts give you access to advanced features such as Pinterest Web Analytics. If you don't have a business account, that doesn't mean you have to forego your followers, and start over again. You can convert your existing Pinterest profiles to become business accounts.

Font Awesome is an amazing icon-based font that contains compact-sized, but high quality scalable vector graphics that can be used to optimize most icons across your site. We've talked about implementing Font Awesome Icons on your Blogger template (or any HTML webpage), and we saw that one of the best features about this iconic font is that it is CSS-customizable, which means you can use some pre-built classes, or write your own custom styles to fit your website! In this post, we'll talk about customizing these icons for your site.

Do you like to play around with your Blogger template and customize its design? Or do you design professional templates for an income? How do you deal with template icons, such as buttons, form controls, navigation signals, etc.? Most people use images for such icons, which tend to deteriorate with an increase in their size. Some developers would scale down high-quality image to avoid this problem, but unwittingly introduce a new one - increased page load time due to increased file size. The solution, then, lies in an icon-based font such as Font Awesome, which can help designers optimize their site's icons.

Add Facebook Invite Friends Button To Blogger

Social bookmarking buttons are very commonly seen on blogs, and there are any number of widgets that will give you a ton of all the common buttons, such as Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet, Google +1, and so on. The Facebook 'Invite Friends' button is different in the sense that it isn't a bookmarking button. It is something much more useful - it enables users easily refer certain content to their friends, and also helps bloggers with increasing their audience. Today's how-to is all about creating an 'Invite Friends' button, and adding it to your (Blogger) blog.

Managing a blog with hundreds and thousands of pages and blog posts can be a tedious job. Not everything ages with your blog - some things expire. News updates become old, comparisons become obsolete, tutorials no longer remain relevant, and so on. You might have, over time, accumulated some 'bad quality' posts that are effecting your site's ranking or user-experience. So what should you do about such obsolete content? As you will find out, simply deleting the content in question will not suffice, and can lead to undesirable consequences.

Contact forms are one of the most integral parts of any website. They are what give it a humane touch. Almost every blog or website has one. But you'd be surprised at how only a few people actually know how to make a contact form. Since they're so important, we figured it'd be a nice idea to teach beginners how to create them, instead of relying on any third-part to do the work for them. We previously shared a post on creating a responsive contact form using HTML and CSS. Today, we'll continue that tutorial, and teach you how to actually make a contact form work.

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