Check if a Domain Name is a Trademark

Check if trademark through this site: http://uspto.gov

And you can check if a domain name is available, here.

How to Boost Website Traffic

Boosting your website traffic is one of the most wished things in life. By increasing your website traffic you can reach more and more people and make great conversions in sales, advertising, PPC, affiliates, etc.

One of the Internet’s strengths is its ability to help consumers
find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. – Jared Sandberg

There are many creative ways to increase the traffic to your website. Some costs money but there are other free proven techniques to boost the number of visitors to your website.

Offer Free Content

Offering free content is probably one of the most successfully techniques to get quality traffic. People love quality but also love the chance to get something without spending a cent. If you are reading these lines, does not sound better to know the boost traffic techniques that are free instead of the costly ones? Well, that is a sign that free services are more attractive sometimes.

Create Quality Content

Use a proofreader to validate the grammar and spelling in your site. Poor spelling websites are not so much attractive, for visitors but also for search engines. Google for example seems to pay more attention to well-written websites.

Content generators are a bad idea. That only generates duplicated content and your site could be banned or penalized. Avoid content generators and spend more time creating quality and original content.

Avoid copying from other websites, that could be also penalized by search engines and is not an ethical approach. Instead, focus on creating original articles.

Try to get more backlinks

How many websites links to your site? As more websites linking to your site (related websites for example) may look it more important for visitors and search engines.

Imagine that a Search Engine is a Unique Visitor

Avoid creating different content for search engines than your normal visitors. Practically a search engine works like a normal visitor trying to find usable information in your website. If you offer good information, then forget avoid creating a segmented content for search engines. Search engines love exactly the same than normal visitors that look for information. For example, if you are looking how to boost your website traffic, then search engines will try to search the same while reaching your website.

Get a better ranking at Search Engines

Prepare your pages SEO friendly. That is, do an analysis about what are the keywords that best fit into each page, and then prepare the HTML/CSS for Search Engine Optimization friendly. That means you will need to put specific tags in the titles, paragraphs, ALT images, as well as using standard conventions.

Born to be Fast

Try to optimize your server for speed. Many people say that speed is one of the most important factors for Search Engine Optimization. If your website loads so much faster than your competitor, then you have a plus.

Advertise your presence

If you have some buckets, consider Pay-Per-Click networks like the ones offered by Google Adwords, Microsoft or Yahoo. Also, you can submit free press releases, like e-zines.

And, be patient

Yes, be patient. That is not immediately. All this work takes time and effort. But after that you will notice that using ideas like the ones published here you will see how the traffic is improved.

How to Change Firefox Language

If you want to change your Mozilla Firefox locale, ie from Spanish to English, then write the following string in your URL bar: about:config

Once there, search for general.useragent.locale and change the current value from es-ES (or whatever) to en-US. Then, restart your browser.

But if you want to translate all menus, labels, etc. then probably you may install the Language Packs from Mozilla.

Export PuttySSH settings and then import on another machine

If you use PuttySSH to connect via SSH probably you may be interested in copying the settings to another machine.

This article explains step by step how to export the settings and import them in another computer.

Assuming you are on Windows, these steps can be summarized as follows:

1. Open Registry Editor by running “regedit”
2. Look for SimonTatham folder under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham
3. Right click –> Export
4. Save the .reg file anywhere
5. Copy the file to your other Windows computer
6. Execute it and ready

How to order your Google Nexus One Phone if you are not US-citizen but plan to visit US soon

Well, I just arrived to US for attending a conference here and planned to stay in a Hotel in Santa Monica, CA.

Once arrived, I wanted to buy an unlocked phone. After comparing I decided to buy the Google Nexus One. Let’s give it a try and see how it works. So, I opened www.google.com/phone on my laptop’s browser and choose the Unlocked phone.

Then, next step was specifying the payment method and shipping details.

The order was shipped overnight, and I was able to track the Fedex package online.

On Wednesday I received the box at 3pm directly in the Hotel, so when I returned back from the conference around 3.30 pm I got the package and opened my new Nexus One.

Then, just need to charge it until the green light appeared, and everything worked smoothly.

If you are not citizen then probably your payment details have an address outside USA. In that case, when you fill the payment details in nexus one website, you will notice that only an US address can be specified. No place to put a country or any other state than the US states.

So here is a tip, if you want to specify another address in a different country, then go to Google Checkout settings and add it as a payment option. Then, run the process again on Google Nexus One purchase page and you will see that the new payment option appears. Hope that helps

Translate Wordpress in a Multilingual Blog

There are several ways to translate WordPress and add support for multilingual blog. We can classify these ways in two sets, depending the mechanism used to store the translated content.

• One language per post
• All languages in a single post

The first approach saves internally different posts for the translated languages. That have some benefits and drawbacks. Examples of these plugins are Gengo and WPML Multilingual CMS.

The second approach, saves all the translated content in a single post, using some special tags than a WordPress plugin like qTranslate can identify and handle properly.

Using these plugins from WordPress, you can translate your WordPress blog to multiple languages, including Spanish, English, Japanese, Italian, French or whatever language you want to use.

Best Domain Parking

If you are looking for domain parking solutions, then we can give you some ideas. However, the best domain parking will depend on your needs. Do you need advertising? Do you need to sell your domains? Both?

Domain name parking allows you to put domains for park and win some extra money by advertising. You can host your domain for type-in traffic and earn some extra money by PPC model.

Template for PowerPoint

Recently I found FPPT.info, it is a website that offers tons of templates for PowerPoint that you can download for free.

Each template is organized under a descriptive category and tags. For example, you can easily find Christmas PowerPoint for Christmas season.

Win money creating an Online Games website

Online games websites are very popular nowadays. If you are interested in earning some money by running your own website, then you can consider creating an online games website with almost zero effort. An online games website can let you win some extra money periodically by publishing advertisements that have a high estimated CPC (Cost Per Click).

How? We can use existing free packages and a free provider of online games that runs in Flash and then install these packages in a hosting to start earning money by using an advertisement program.

As an example, you can create in just a few minutes a site that looks like OnlineGames.io

Things you’d need:

• Run a fresh WordPress installation
• Use a free Flash games provider: Moximedia
• Use a special plugin that was created to download games from the provider: MyArcadeBlog
• Configure a WordPress theme for online games that display games in a single page and a catalog of games the user can browse

Moximedia offers a great catalog of free games that you can download into your site with no effort. Games like pacman, tetris, car games, games for playing alone, RPG games that runs online, and any kind of special games.

Then, once you have figured how to do that, you need a Hosting of course, where you can place the files and publish it to anyone on Internet. We used A2Hosting for a long time, and then we migrated to a managed VPS at WiredTree. But of course, you can use whatever hosting you prefer. Another interesting option is HostMonster that offers a cheap shared hosting with cpanel and Fantastico support.

Statistical Data for SEO

I am interested in SEO and for that reason I am looking for reasonable Statistical Data for SEO. I found many interested resources regarding Statistics, Maths and Analytics focused on SEO and my feelings are that there is so much work pending on that field.

Probably Statistical Data for SEO could be part of Statistics thesis in the University as well as a great business opportunity for many people.

I will be publishing information about Statistics and SEO analysis periodically.