TECH GUIDE BLOG

Many webmasters/ bloggers want their websites/ blogs have many visitors, including me. How to increase the traffic of our website? Lot of people gave many tips about this and I’m here to summarize and collect some of the useful tips they’ve made.

1. Make your article title SEO, good title has eye-catching topic, short and make some of your title is the keyword that highly used in search engine but still relevant with the article.
2. Make an up to date article, when Michael Jackson died many people search about Michael Jackson but find dummy site with many “Michael Jackson” words, don’t make article this way, it just increase your popularity slightly but decrease your popularity for a long time. Make article with your opinions about the rising topic, even give solutions about the topic.
3. Make a good permalink, http://www.techguideblog.com/2009/07/tips-for-increasing-blog-participation/ is better than http://www.techguideblog.com/?p=99, easier to read and understand. Many said uncle Google prefer the first one.
4. Optimize relationship, with e-mail we can give signature () that is placed below your name. People can get curious and click or go to our site. My friend asked me a lot “is that your website?”, “can you teach me how to create website like you?”, “how you can make original article?” and they even give some comments on my website.
5. Just like your title relevant with your article, make sure your article have keywords that relevant with the topic about your website/ blog and keep focusing to that one, don’t make article that’s not relevant with your website although it’s popular.
6. Exchange your website link; do you have any friends that have websites/ blogs? Ask them to exchange links. The visitors from their websites can be your visitors and they can get more visitors too, mutual-ism.
7. Join to traffic exchange website, www.trafficswarm.com can be a good solution to increase your websites traffic.
8. Join with social bookmarking websites, such as Technorati and Bloglines.

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This article will help you to do online transactions, perhaps interested in online payment method, that provides easy and simple way to do shopping, but also some risks ahead about security. These tips provide basic knowledge to increase security and awareness about online transactions.

1. When you do transaction or open an e-payment website such PayPal, make sure you do visit the real website. Website phishing nowadays is very tricky to fool you. Look at the URL at your browser, make sure it is the real one, and usually this kind of site are using secure HTTP or HTTPS.
   

   Paypal Secure HTTP

2. Don’t tell anybody about your username and password. In the internet, don’t ever trust anyone to share your passwords, just trust yourself. Change the password periodically and make a strong password, like some combination with numbers, lower case, upper case letters and symbols.
3. Don’t use public computer to do online transaction and don’t lose a sight when you are doing a transaction. Many people use public computer and so there’s a chance one of many people is a cracker.
4. Update your anti-virus periodically. Viruses not only can delete your data or make systems errors, but they can also track your data and keep your data and install a program that can see your informations such as passwords and credit card pin.
5. Don’t trust an e-mail that include a link to a suspicious website that you don’t know or never see before, who knows it’s a phishing website that disguise like a real one.
6. If you find something weird when you are doing transactions, just cancel it and contact your bank customer service immediately.
7. After you done, make sure you’re logged out successfully.

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In some case, there is a few that use Microsoft Office 2007. Most of them still using Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2007 brings a new format, smaller file size and new extension, like .docx that replace old .doc. But somehow, Microsoft Office 2003 can not open this new format. This is of course in Microsoft Word 2007, you have to save as Word 97-2003 Document. Unfortunately, you forgot to change your word document into .doc format and you couldn’t open it in your office computer because their computer didn’t use Microsoft Office 2007. There’s an important document and project to be shown to your superior, you couldn’t do anything but begging to delay it to the next day, scolded, salary-cut, kicked from the job, go home and tell to your wife that you didn’t bring any money and your wife left you, wait wait, these are not the main problem, but these things can be happened to your life. So for the main problem, how can I always remember to save as .doc format instead of .docx format in Microsoft Word 2007?

Word Options in Microsoft Office 2007

Word 2007 by default will save your document in .docx format. Of course like the illustration above, Word 2003 or below can’t read this format. The easiest way is to set the default save format in your Word 2007. Open your Word 2007 application and click office button that on the top left Word 2007, click Word Options.

Save as 97-2003 document

As you can see now, there are two column is available in this window. Choose Save tab that is placed in the left column. In the right column, see in the Save Document section and in this section you can see an option “Save files in this format:” and the  combo box is set to Word Document (*.docx). Change this option to Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc) and make sure you click OK. Now your Word 2007 will save any document to .doc by default.

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