Guest Blog Post Exchange on Related Niche

Guest blog posting is one of the toughest link building technique to increase the popularity of your website backlinks. In order to succeed in guest posting, a guest blogger should look for blogs that are in the same niche as his topic for the benefits of a guest blogger's website. Unlike article marketing, guest blogging is highly moderated by the administrator of  a blog site and a post will not be published if the blog content is not in the same topic of the blog niche or if it there are corrections in grammar of the blog content.The Dead-Simple Guide to Guest Posts: Generate Blog Traffic and Grow Your Platform!

Search engines view on Guest blogging is not as bad as article marketing, since article marketing strategy has gone down due to "content spinning issue". A guest blog post cannot be duplicated as it is highly moderated by the owner of the blog site and if a blog site provides useful information that helps search engines produce educated blog post, they will not accept guest bloggers that they believe would damage of the reputation of their blog.

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The main important purpose of guest blogging is to contribute to the blog site about something related, useful and informative insights on the topic of the blog to share more knowledge to the target audience of the blog site. Google, respects blog sites with useful information that can help them provide related and educational results on every search queries. 

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Guest blog post may be considered as white hat seo technique if the information said in the content is not copied from another blog post, article post or website content. If it has something good to contribute to the public and if it helps search engines provide original content that may benefit both, search engines and internet users.

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Effects of Article Marketing on Websites

Article marketing is one of the complex strategy to promote a website on the internet. It is a type of online Marketing which businesses write short articles about their services. As time goes by, Article marketing has been widely known and recognized by Internet Marketers as one of the finest and useful way of advertising campaign at free of cost and due to the benefits of article marketing it has become one of the effective way to generate a backlinks to a website.
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In SEO, article marketing is very crucial as it is one of the important things to focus on when creating a promoting a website. Article marketing has been one of the hottest issues that search engines deal with because of the uniqueness, originality and edifying content that a particular article should be consist of.

However, because of unethical link building techniques of some SEO guys, article marketing benefits have decreased and search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing have looked at backlinks from article submission sites in a different way. Google, decided to launch an algorithm update, "Google Panda Update" and the world of article marketing has turned upside down and the rankings of Article directory websites with full of duplicated and low quality content of articles have gone down. Same goes to websites that have thousands of links coming from directory websites.
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Article marketing has become unpopular and SEO guys who practice unethical link building strategy to promote a website started to have second thought on submitting articles to article directory websites. Although, article submission is still considered as a way of creating backlinks, links from article websites are not valuable as before and if a website has over  a thousand number of links to spam article directory sites with duplicated content, it may affect the performance of the website in search engines and in its business industry. 

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Main reason why Google has been strictly implementing their rules and guidelines to avoid a practice of duplicated and uninformative content of articles. Google also requires the SEO Guys to practice and implement the "what hat seo techniques" to help the search engines provide good and related results to search queries of internet users.

The Death of Directory Submission

Directory Submission is one of the easiest way to create a permanent back-link to a website and everyone in the world of search engine optimization used to believe that the more back-links a website is linking to, the better. The main purpose of directory submission site is to list and categorize websites on the Internet for the benefit of Internet users and to increase the visibility of a website on the Internet and in search engines like Yahoo, Google and Bing. However, because of the unethical behavior of Blackhat SEO guys to increase their website's popularity, they conduct activities in directory submission sites that violate the rules and guidelines of search engines particularly Google. But search engine will not tolerate this approach and they will find a way to disregard the majority of links coming from directory submission sites, also known as "over optimization" Boost the Traffic: List of best Directory Submitting Sites

Also, directory submission sites perform approval period for each website URL submission to limit easy way of giving a back link. Most directory sites take a few months before they accept and include into their database a particular URL and it is not guaranteed that a website will be accepted. But not all directory submission sites practice approval period for a site to be included into their databases, and these directory sites have been abused by Blackhat SEO guys.DIRECTORIES & CURATED LISTS: Week 14 of the 26-Week Digital Marketing Plan

                                            

Due to the abusive approach of Blackhat SEO guys to directory submission sites, Google, a leading search engine on the Internet  has started to ignore links coming from Directory websites and decrease the Pagerank of websites that have been exagerratedly linking to directory submission sites and worst, penalized a website from their database. Because of their guidelines, Google can penalize a website that they believe performing Blackhat SEO or unethical link building technique. Small Business Guides - Local Directory Submission

As a result of Google's action, SEO firms do not perform a website submission on directory sites for the websites that have been over optimized on directory submission sites. They also believe that linking into directory sites will not increase the performance of their websites and it may possibly harm their sites in the future.

Snapchat to have more US users soon

An image messaging and multimedia mobile application ‘Snapchat’ will have more US users probably by this yearend either Twitter or Pinterest, a market revealed. According to a forecast by eMarketer forecast, nearly one in five people in the country will be using the service. The number of people using Snapchat in the US will leap more than 27 percent this year to 58.6 million.

According to the report, Twitter was expected to have 56.8 million US users this year, and online bulletin board Pinterest to have 54.6 million users. By the year 2020, the rank of US Snapchat users is expected to swell to 85.5 million.However, eMarketer also forecasted that Facebook Messenger smartphone communication application would remain in the lead in this segment with its US user base growing from 105.2 million this year to 139.2 million in the year 2020.The company claims to have more than 100 million users globally of the service for sending videos, images and text messages which vanish after being viewed. And some reports say it generates 10 billion video views per day.
Snapchat’s never ending appeal includes letting users “cut through the clutter by injecting fun back into social sharing,” it also rolled out a redesign making it a more attractive stage for publishers or brands to attract online audiences.

Twitter accounts at stake with leakage of 32 million Twitter passwords

Happens to be a major leak till now, Twitter accounts are at stake. Reports claim that around 32 million Twitter accounts have been compromised. The incident and the news comes from a rather odd source that lets you download such data and even lets you remove yourself from the listing for free.

The website that seems to be making the most off it is LeakedSource. The site reported the same in a blog post stating that it received a copy of the leaked data from a user called “Tessa88@exploit.im,”. Turns out this is the same individual who also hacked data from VK. As of now the data is clearly being traded on the dark web.

The same source also claims that till now about 32,888,300 records that contain email addresses, usernames and passwords have been leaked. Users having the same issues can head to the website and simply pull out their name from the listing for free.

The latest news from the Twitter hack points out that LeakedSource was contacted by Twitter immediately and states that the situation is under control.

Google Announces $50,000 for One Who Finds Hole in Android Security

Google started its Android Security Rewards program in June 2015, awarding money to researchers finding vulnerabilities in Android as well as Nexus phones and tablets. One year later, the company posted the results of the program on its blog, and it can be considered a success, both for Google and the researchers involved.

So far, Google has paid more than $550,000 to 82 individuals who found more than 250 qualifying vulnerability reports, Google’s Android Security Program Manager Quan To wrote. The top researcher, identified by Google as @heisecode, is actually making a decent living finding Android bugs; he won a total of $75,750 for 26 vulnerability reports. He’ll get an even bigger enticement to continue searching for bugs in Google’s mobile OS, as Google is increasing the awards for reports filled after June 1, 2016.

From now on, researchers who submit “high-quality” vulnerability reports with proof of concept will receive 33 percent more. High-quality vulnerability reports with a proof of concept, a CTS Test or a patch will get 50 percent more. Also, a “remote or proximal kernel exploit” will now earn $30,000 instead of $20,000, while a “remote exploit chain or exploits leading to TrustZone or Verified Boot compromise” will be rewarded with $50,000 instead of $30,000.
The Android Security Rewards program is a part of Google’s broader Security Rewards Program, which has been running since 2010. The program financially rewards security researchers who discover security holes in Google’s software and hardware. Since January 2015, Google has also been running a program called Vulnerability Research Grants, which gives money to experts to find bugs before they start their work.