Transcripts and captions are a way to enhance the video-viewing experience for users. They supplement the audio to help viewers better understand what's being said. Similar to subtitles in a movie, you can add captions to a your YouTube videos which are not only played with the video, but can also be shown separately and made clickable. In this post, we'll talk about captioning your YouTube videos.

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How many of us, when starting off with a blog or a website, have asked the very same question? It's a common problem faced by every beginner who has content to put on his fresh domain, but lacks the popularity to get backlinks. Now you know how important backlinks are for search engines, and there's a whole science to it. But doesn't it seem unfair that quality content with no links, written by a beginner gets snuffed out by content from other well-established blogs?

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There are many ways you can optimize your website to handle mobile traffic. You can have responsive web design, dynamically serve content, or maintain a separate mobile site altogether. But how do you tell Google about this mobile version of a page, so that it can be shown in mobile search results? Users searching Google on a smartphone should ideally see mobile sites instead of desktop sites. So how exactly do you go about telling Google about the mobile version of a webpage?

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Creating inbound and outbound links on your website smartly is an important part of SEO. We have talked at length about linking strategies that can protect your blogs against algorithmic penalties. Someone once asked me if it was okay to add two links on a page that point to the same target. I just stumbled across Google's Matt Cutts' response to the question, so I thought I'd share it with our readers.

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Breadcrumbs are a great way of letting people know where they have landed on your site. Websites aren't like houses where people can come in through the front door only. They can simply 'materialize' within your site premises, and such is the nature of the web. To enhance the usability of your website, you use breadcrumbs to help people figure out where exactly on a site are they sitting on. Breadcrumbs can also help with the SEO of your website.

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When Google started off as a basic search engine in its infancy, it had none of the fancy search algorithms. The sole indicator of how relevant a content is to a set of keywords was the frequency of the keyword within the content, and the only way to rank one website over another was by looking at how many backlinks does a site have. However, much has changed now, and complex algorithms like the Penguin and the Hummingbird take search results beyond string matching. The emphasis has now shifted from backlinks to content, but does that mean backlinks will fade away into oblivion?

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Covering institutes across the country with the message of entrepreneurship and youth awareness, is an obligation that STC Network is trying our best to fulfill for the past 5 years. Communicating with a qualified public is indeed a simple task but conveying your message in simple words to an excited crowd of thousands consisting of mostly school children and housewives in national language was the toughest challenge of all. Pakistan Festival 2014 has therefore become the most memorable event of my life where we learnt a lot. Pakistan Helpline in association with Talib e Ilm Society, Anima and students across Karachi had organized a successful event on 23rd March 2014 at EXPO center, to share the spirit of being a devoted and loyal Pakistani. People from across the city participated in it including Nisar Ahmed khuhro (former Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh) , Dr Fauzia Siddiqui requires no introduction, Altaf Shakoor (President Pasban), Abid Beli, city Police commissioner, ARY TV Anchor Iqrar Ul Hasan (Host Sare Aam), Celeb Faisal Qureshi, Syed Qaiser Mehmood, NGO heads and a lot more amongst guests.

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Yesterday, we posted an article about link spam, and what is the easiest way to recover from it. While we're on the topic, we might as well turn towards another related problem, one which we have addressed periodically over the comments section, but never formally - comments with links in them, and how they're seen by Google. We see a lot of comments with links, both relevant and otherwise, so I figured it'd be a good idea to make things clear and easier to understand for our beloved readers in light of a video posted by Google's Matt Cutts on the topic.

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CAFAT as we mentioned in our last post is a "Computer aided First aid Trainer". It is a 3D game that we programmed as our final year project. It aims at teaching a player with survival tactics that includes Rescue/Escape missions and First-Aid related tutorials. It trains a player to get prepared both mentally and physically for any unexpected emergency scenario such as Heart Attack, snake bite, Fire burn, robbery, Gas leakage etc. We live in a world where accidents and mishaps are part of daily life routines. Public is often not well educated with survival tactics and they often fail to provide first-aid to victims or react rationally in a call-to-action situation as a result precious lives are lost due to lack survival skills. I remember back in November 2012, TV Media news broadcasted a burning man for over 15 minutes, who was hanging outside "state life building".

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On 2nd October 2013, in Civil Auditorium of NED University of Engineering and Technology, we conducted one of the biggest events on Cyber Security & Content Marketing which attracted over 550 attendees from all over Karachi city but due to Tickets Limitation only 300 students could get the pass. It was a combined work shop by Rafay Baloch of RHA Info Sec and STC Network. The event was initially planned during March but was later postponed to October 2nd. We had an exciting experience with the enthusiastic youth out there. I loved the enthusiasm displayed by the thirsty students who dreamt of escaping the current failed system of Job Oriented society and wished to step ahead towards a more brighter future with a keen determination to step into Online Business and make a sustainable Income online without a Boss and Fear of Job security. With 10% penetration in online market, Pakistan is currently 27th largest internet user today with India being 3rd Largest Internet user globally. I started my presentation with Tim Berners-Lee invention of world wide web back in October 1994 and later disclosed the 16 Most highly practiced Content Marketing Strategies Online that has reshaped Businesses Online like never before. Following are some details of what actually we discussed that day.

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This is a quick post to inform all our readers and dedicated contributors that I will be giving an Exclusive Live Interview on behalf of STC Network to Radio  Planet FM 94 this Saturday from 1:00 PM onwards till 3:30 PM. The show will be hosted by country wide renown RJ and Pakistan Media Awards 2012 Nominee RJ Haroon. The Interview is a two and a half hours consecutive Nationwide Broadcast on the most searched topic "How to Make Money Online From your Living Room?". The interview will be Live on every smartphone, PC, and Radio connected to FM 94 audio stream. You can hear it Live via any mobile device if you live in Pakistan or you can hear it Live using the Official Pakistan Radio website. Both our National and International readers have a great opportunity to discover the methods and strategies that we have been following for years  and which has made a small kid like me into a grown up entrepreneur today with a fully established business recognized by Federal Board of Revenue Pakistan.

Update: LUCKY DRAW! 2 Dinner Vouchers of SUBWAY To Live Callers!

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Note: This post is recommended to all readers and must be read word by word for your own benefit.

Were you fortunate enough to achieve a PageRank 3, 4 or higher? If yes then you might be receiving several emails in your inbox from link building companies that wish to pay you up to $100-$200 for a link on your blog post. I am sure its excites you greatly when you find such a great opportunity to make some free bucks. But wait! Google's web spam Head Matt Cutts has just announced on Webmaster Central blog last Friday that a strict action will be taken against websites and blogs that sell links for the sole purpose of manipulating Search engine ranking and passing PageRank juice.

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Google Webmaster Tools is a great friend to bloggers and webmasters. It hosts a great many features, and provides a lot of help to both beginner, as well as advanced users. For example, the URL parameter customization tool helps optimize your URLs, you can use Google Webmaster Tools to get advanced index reporting, and so on. The list of features is long and distinguished. Have you ever wondered about what the Search Queries feature under 'Traffic' did in Webmaster Tools? You can use some of the information provided to improve your site. We'll talk about this Search Queries feature in today's post.

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Your blog can really make your life a complicated one if it gets into the bad lists of Google. Throughout my career as a blogger, I have come across many newbies who are often way too worried for their blog ratings. It has also been seen that sometimes a blog with a considerable rankings and readership goes under a sudden change, bringing disaster that keeps on increasing. It is important to understand the significance of a consistent good progress when it comes to an online earning business because, that is where you have no boss to appeal and no actual help to get the things fixed up for you. However, Google seems merciful enough to let the suffering bloggers a chance to help their blogs and offers a reconsideration request form that the bloggers have to fill and submit to the Google Team.

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