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If you are looking for ways to enhance your website’s visibility and grow organic traffic then basic on page optimization can turn out to be one of the best ways.Have a look at some of the basic steps you must take care of :

Have Rich and Original Copy

Content rules the website! High quality content on a web page can actually attract many eyes and also help users to connect with your website or product. Think about your users first, write original and value added content that fits the need of your target audience.

Include some of the keywords that you want to target but do not over emphasize any. Search engines love unique, original and relevant content.

Get Web Design Basics Right

Ensure your coding is error free. One way to do so is checking for W3C validation.  Your URL should be simple, easy to remember and contextual. Prefer dashes to create URLs over underscores. It is always good to use alt tags for images as Search Engines can not see they only read.  Keep the file size light so that your sites load faster. Good for human as well for search engines.

Meta Tags and Use of H1 Tags

Include Title & description tags on your web pages. Each page must have unique Title & Description. Both these tags are important as these would be displayed on Search Engine Result Page. Better and relevant the Title and Description tags are, the higher are the chances of getting clicks.
Similarly for H1 tags. Rightly use ‘H’ tags for your content as they attract the visitor on site and also being given importance by search engine.  Standard practice is to have one H1 tag on your site.

Internal Linking

Wikipedia is one of the first and best example of this practice. This helps your users to browse through multiple pages, increases time on site, decreases bounce rate and really help Search Engines to easily crawl through your website.

XML Sitemap

Sitemap helps Search Engines to understand the structure of your website. This can help to increase the rate of  indexing.   This includes site information such as important pages, date the page was last modified, as well as a priority  of what you feel are the most important pages on your site.

Check Your Webmaster’s Account Regularly

Verify your site using Google webmaster account and check regularly for updates on your site there. It provides detailed report on all errors related to HTML, Broken link issues, not found, unreachable, and a lot more. Investigate these issues and get them rectified.

Link Building

This is important to gain Page Rank. The more link  juice flowing towards your site through relevant sites, the better will be the page rank for your site.  It is better to have a healthy link building strategy in place. Avoid reciprocal and paid link building practices. It has to be natural.

Hope you will make use of these suggested techniques to boost up your search engine ranking. Please share your comments and suggestions on the same.

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We have received many requests from our buyers  to make their projects editable when they are under bidding.  Understanding this need of our buyers, we have now introduced this capability in order to make the project management more flexible and robust.

You can now make edits in All the sections of your project, except for the ‘Project Title’ and ‘Project Type’. Many changes will be highlighted immediately, however edits made in the description of project will start reflecting post approval from LimeExchange.

In order to ensure that your providers have a clear understanding about revised scope of your project, we would recommend you to please convey the changes made via Message Board and get them on the agreement before awarding the project.

We hope that this feature will help you hire the required talent for your job. Please share your feedback and suggestions to help us serve you better at all times.

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To keep your data risk free you need to take its back up and restore it through a secure tool. There are many offline tools available which let you copy data automatically from your PC to your local disks or their secure servers. Having an offline back up helps in many ways as it is consistent, database is in closed state and you don’t need an archive mode.

Here are some useful tools for taking safe data back ups offline:

Backup2net

This is a flexible back up tool that takes back up according to plans and schedules. It is a cost effective way to restore the files you have backed up to any computer connected to the Internet. It also recovers files even after a system crash from their secure servers.

SyncBack

It is a powerful tool for restoring  your files to a different drive, other mediums  such as disc, removable drive, etc. and over your local network. It is a free tool and allows you to do simple file transfer and syncing. It offers a wide range of versions which let you take back ups of both open and locked files, and offers features, like encrypted backup and tons of customization options.

Time Machine

This is a back up tool for Mac users as it lets you automatically save up-to-date copies of everything including photos, music, videos, documents, applications etc. You also have an option to recover your deleted files by browsing through the dates you saved it. Use the timeline to select a specific date, or let Time Machine fly through time to find your most recent changes.

Rsync

This file transfer program for Unix systems offers a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It provides a huge list including updating whole directory trees and file systems, optionally preserving symbolic links, hard links, file ownership, permissions, devices and times, using rsh, ssh or direct sockets as the transport, supporting anonymous rsync which is ideal for mirroring.

Clonezilla

It is a Free tool for single machine backup and restore  as it saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk. It supports motile file systems like (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (5) VMFS of VMWare ESX. You can also remotely use it to save or restore a bunch of computers if PXE and Wake-on-LAN are supported in your clients.

SyncToy 2.1

It is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. It can be used for sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders. It can manage hundreds or thousands of files by manually dragging and dropping from one place to another, and keeping track of whether the locations are synchronized in their heads or use two or more applications to provide this functionality.

Windows Home Server

This is an operating system designed with heavy emphasis on ease of setup, ease of use, and a fire-and-forget system of backing up files. It backs up all the Windows computers on your network automatically every day, and you can restore everything from a single file to an entire machine.

Carbon Cloner

It help you in taking a backup of your data, the operating system’s data and preserve them in a bootable volume. It takes fast; incremental backups, and copy only the items that have changed since the last backup. You can even schedule backup tasks on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

We hope these back up tools will help you in restoring your important files and folders securely. We welcome your feedback and suggestions on the same.

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Internet users make use of a variety of browsers for accessing different websites, and so you would need to design your website in a way that a large majority of viewers can access it in conveniently. In other words, your website must be compatible with the most popular browsers because  no matter how well the [...]

Some days back we wrote a post on ‘useful iphone application for freelancers’ which received some good feedback and comments. Continuing the trend, this time we thought of highlighting iphone apps for creative writers. Here are some  great iPhone applications providing you the complete freedom of writing anytime from anywhere.

Documents To Go

It is an interesting application to create, view, and edit Microsoft documents. Using this application you can easily sync files from desktop to boot. It lets you view PDF, PowerPoint, iWork & other files as well. You can also check your Gmail attachments and edit them whenever required.

Air Sharing

Using this application you can view a wide variety of documents, including Windows docs, Mac and Linux docs, HTML, PDFs, and more. It allows you to mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a Wi-Fi drive on your computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) or connect from your computer’s web browser. You can easily Drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your computers.

BookShelf

It is an easy-to-use electronic book reader for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. It lets you read any text or HTML file, older Palm OS reader files, and ePub books. It enables you to download many file types from websites directly to your iPhone. You can even download any web page and read it later without having the Internet connection.

Screenplay

It is the world’s first fully-functional mobile screenwriting application. It allows professionals and web workers in writing complete movie and television screenplays directly on the iPhones. You can create and edit properly formatted screenplays using quick navigation tools and sync them with your computer.

IdeaPad

This application keeps a track of your insights and ideas to act and work upon them quickly.  You can instantly jot down and save an idea in seconds. It also enables you to prioritize and manage your list of ideas. You can even email your idea to your connections  instantly.

WordBook English Dictionary & Thesaurus

This iphone application is a comprehensive, quick and intuitive dictionary and thesaurus for writers. It lets you browse through 150,000 entries with more than 220,000 definitions, 70,000 usage samples,  23,000 root word origins (etymologies),  120,000 pronunciation guides in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and other notations.

Jott for iPhone

This Free application lets you record your notes and messages and also transcribe them easily and instantly.  You can use Jott voice-to-text conversion to send emails and texts to your iPhone contacts and Jott Groups. Also take notes, set reminders, and manage your lists. It also allows you to post to Google Calendar, Twitter, Facebook, and more web services.

EasyWriter Pro

It ensures quality of your write up as it helps you write emails faster and more accurately. This application checks spelling to ensure your emails are error free. It automatically text clips, which saves time and helps you write professional emails quickly. It also use text clips to choose from multiple signatures.

Storyteller

This inspirational application helps you come up with a great write up every time.  It offers thousands of character ideas, plot suggestions, story settings and themes. You can also find more specific suggestion by choosing from one of four different categories at the bottom of the applications.

Wikipanion

With this application accessing Wikipedia becomes faster and easier. This applications has been specially designed to search, navigate and browse through Wikipedia entries. Its features include dual language searching and language switching, bookmark, including bookmarking individual sections of pages, history, grouped by last visit date and full in-page searching.

We hope these useful iphone applications will enhance your iphone usage in every respect. Please share with us your suggestions and feedback as always.

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LimeExchange Vantage Plan is an exclusive membership plan that empowers providers to leverage their online reputation and credibility.

‘Vantage Tag’ against your profile adds weight to your profile and brings plethora of privileges with it. Some of the exclusive features enjoyed by the Vantage Members are:

•  Customized space on LimeExchange profile to showcase testimonials earnings, etc., from sources external to LimeExchange
•  Lower project fee
•  Improved Profile Rank
•  Enhanced listing on the search pages
•  Purchase Coupons
•  Dedicated Account Manager
•  Preferential listing on the Bid summary page

Plus a Vantage Service Provider on LimeExchange has some exclusive advantages like:

•  Unlimited Bids
•  Unlimited Featured Project Bids
•  Unlimited Friend Requests
•  180 Free Call Minutes
•  Free Payoneer Card
•  Unlimited Skill Tests

Since Vantage membership is one of our exclusive membership plans, we reserve the right of approval for a member to become a Vantage member. Apply for free 30-day vantage trial to become a vantage provider. Remember a vantage membership increases your chance of winning projects by 10s of folds.

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