Top 21 Traffic Generation Techniques to Help You Get More Traffic to Your Blog

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The number one challenge most bloggers face is getting traffic to their blog.
A lot of people can write great content, so many people have great plans to monetize their blog should they experience a traffic breakthrough and so many people already have a system in place to help them make money from their blog, but unfortunately, a major problem most of them face is with getting traffic to their blog. The traffic just doesn’t seem to be coming.
The fact is, it doesn’t matter how great your content is, how experienced you are about a subject, how you’re perceived in your niche and how effective your web copy is, the only thing that will make a difference in how much you make is the amount of traffic you get. The funny thing is nowadays you need far more than write great content to get traffic to your blog and this article will be listing 21 of the most common and most effective ways to generate quality traffic to your blog. Make use of them today and start experiencing a traffic breakthrough.
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1. Submit Your Blog to Blog Aggregators

While there are some general ways to get traffic to a website, there are some more specific techniques that can be used by bloggers alone and if properly used, this techniques will yield great results.
A great way to get more traffic to your blog is by submitting your blog to blog aggregators like Alltop.com. These sites will be displaying a feed of your most recent blog posts in the right category on their website and if you have the right title you will be able to get a lot of people to visit your website.

2. Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories

I haven’t really been a fan of this until lately. Technorati is sending me an average of 10 visitors a day nowadays and I’m beginning to see how powerful this technique can be.
There are several top blog directories you can submit your blog to in order to start getting great traffic. These directories works in such a way that they index your latest blog posts and include it in their blog search engine so that whenever someone searches for a keyword related to your blog or latest post you will appear in the results and have the potential of getting more traffic. It is also very important to know that since these directories get a lot of submissions they rank the websites that will get the most results based on several criteria, so the top websites according to them will get the most traffic. Some of the major factors I have noticed that these websites use are the number of regular links to your blog, your pagerank, your alexa rank and your social media engagement. Of all these factors, the one that is most important and that you should focus on the most is getting quality links from other blogs.
If you want to learn more about link building, read this latest link building article of mine.

3. Write Guest Posts

Of all the techniques in this article, this is one of the most powerful and most effective, if properly used. I was able to build a successful blog getting an average of 10,000 visitors monthly in just 8 months by making use of this technique and I have gotten as much as 1,000 visitors in less than a week from some of my best guest posts.
The more guest posts you write, the more traffic you can get so make sure you’re writing an average of at least 5 guest posts every single month.
It is also very important that you realize that not all blogs are equal so you should always do your best to get your guest post featured on the biggest blogs in your niche.
If you’re interested in learning more about guest blogging you can either download my guest blogging guide or read this recent article of mine on guest blogging.
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4. Forum Marketing

Another great tactic I have been using lately is being active on forums. I’m presently active on two major forums, the Viperchill Forum and the Warrior Forum and at the time of this writing both forum combined are sending me an average of 30 visitors a day (that’s 900 additional visitors in one month).
Forums should never be underestimated when it comes to generating traffic but it is even more important to be doing things right so as to get results. What I mean is that you shouldn’t just be spamming your links on forums or linking to your blog posts anyhow, you should rather focus on helping people and contributing valuable comments to discussions on your favorite forum while putting a description of yourself and link back to your blog in your signature. If you want to be getting an average of 50 visitors to your blog from forums everyday then you should be ready to start or reply to an average of 30 threads every day.

5. Article Marketing

Article marketing can also be a great technique to generate both short term and long term traffic to your blog, the thing about it is that it isn’t as effective as guest blogging.
When trying to promote your blog by writing articles you should focus on two major things, which are to generate traffic to your blog and to build quality backlinks that will help your long-term SEO. This means you should always use your anchor texts in your article.
To get the best from article marketing you need to ensure your articles are properly researched and contain the right keywords. You should also ensure that the keywords you’re targeting are long-tail keywords and are less competitive as this will make it easy for your articles to easily get to the first page of the search engines and start bringing in results quickly.
One thing you have to understand also is that the 80/20 rule is very important when it comes to article marketing i.e. only 20% of the article sites you’re submitting to will bring 90% of the results so you should only look for a few top article directories in your niche and submit your articles to them.
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6. Accept Guest Posts

One funny thing about accepting guest posts is that they can also be very effective when it comes to increasing your blog traffic.
It is very important to first understand that guest posts are two faced. In most cases, 90% of the guest posts I have published on this blog bring about reduction in traffic – by this I mean if my posts average 400 views in one month most guest posts average 200 – but some very great guest posts I select carefully bring about great increase in traffic. In fact, I have once published a guest post that went viral on Stumbleupon, brought in 2,000 visitors in less than 2 hours and crashed my server. It’s all about publishing the right guest posts.
If you’re looking to get more people to contribute guest posts to your blog make sure you check MyBlogGuest. It is an awesome community run by Ann Smarty.

7. Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines

Google alone has sent this blog over 30,000 visitors in general and I get as much as 4500 visitors every month nowadays.
This kind of traffic is very unique and should never be underestimated because search engine visitors are always action takers – they are only searching because they want a quick solution to their problems and this means if you do it rightly it won’t be difficult for you to convert your traffic to subscribers and sales.
There are various aspects of search engine optimization you have to consider, some of which includes the on-page SEO, the off-page SEO and link building. If you want a thorough guide on getting more traffic from search engines you can read the wordpress seo guide by Glen Allsopp.
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8. Run Creative and Viral Contests

I recently ran a contest giving people free facebook ad coupons on this blog and you won’t believe the contest post has exceeded the average number of views for blog posts on this blog and has been viewed over a thousand times till date. It was only a contest post, I wasn’t giving any valuable tips in this blog post yet it brought in thousands of visitors. The funny thing was that through that blog posts alone I added over 50 additional fans to my Facebook page which has since led to more visitors for my blog.
It is also very important for you to know that not all contests will be successful so you have to be very smart and creative to run a successful contest. What this means is that every contest you run must have one main aim, to drive traffic back to your blog. It could be by telling your readers to tweet your post, stumble your post, share your post on Facebook or even create a Youtube video promoting your blog. It is even more important that you realize that the most important thing that will determine the success or failure of a contest is the gift, so make sure you give your readers attractive gifts in return for their participation.

9. Interview Influencers in Your Niche

People love to be praised and appreciated, and some people even love to be flattered. The problem nowadays is that a lot of top bloggers get people link to their blogs everyday – I’m still a growing blogger but the fact is that I now get an average of 3 people linking to my blog or one of my blog posts everyday and it is very difficult to acknowledge all of these people by sharing their posts – it becomes even worse for bloggers who get hundreds of links everyday and the best thing you can do in cases like this is to interview them. Once you have interviewed them you should then encourage them to spread the word about your post. Some of them will share your blog post on twitter, some will share it on Facebook and some of them will even go to the extent of blogging about it or emailing it to their list. The result of this is a win-win for both of you because you exposed the influencer to a new audience and he sends a flood of new visitors to your blog.

10. Double Your Blog Posting Rate

Do you know that research has shown that blogs with more blog posting rate get the most traffic to their blog?
Well, as funny as it sounds, it is true. What this means is that you should not only focus on delivering valuable content to your readers but you should focus on delivering it more often. There are many advantages to this, first if you publish two new unique blog posts a day more people will share both thus leading to more social traffic to your site and the other good thing about it is that Google will be crawling your blog more often and will be very friendly towards you while at the same time seeing you as a reputable authority site thereby leading to more long-term search engine traffic for you.
This shouldn’t be an excuse to post crap content because Google takes a lot of factors into consideration before ranking a page, and the funny thing is that social media is now a very huge part of that factor and since people don’t share crap posts it will only mean you can’t get more traffic to your posts.
Blog more often and write quality posts!
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11. Utilize Your Email Signature

This particular technique looks archaic but the fact is that it works wonders.
I used to have an email signature encouraging people to subscribe to my blog, do you believe that at least 5% of those who communicate with me via email tell me they have subscribed. I know that might not be much, but everything adds up. A single line of text with a link back to your blog can make a whole lot of difference in how many more people will visit your blog, especially if you attend to a lot of emails everyday.

12. Social Bookmarking

A lot of people argue against the result of going viral on Stumbleupon, Digg or Delicious. Many of them believe these sites only send you traffic that doesn’t last so they don’t even bother working on getting traffic from them.
Do you know that an article on the homepage of Delicious or Digg can catapult your blog post from nowhere to the top of the Google search engine rankings? The reason for this is that the top articles on some of the biggest social bookmarking sites gets linked to a lot and since links control the web search engines can’t but see these posts as an authority and then rank them for their desired keywords.
The more social media traffic you get, the more likely your blog is going to get a lot more traffic on the long run.

13. Social Networking

Do you know that Facebook now has over 700 million users?
Do you know that twitter is now having over 300 million users?
Those are huge numbers and are far more than the population of so many countries combined, but it is the truth!
If you’re yet to be making effective use of social networking for your business then you’re losing a lot of great traffic.
The best way to get more traffic to your blog is by being where your users congregate – for most tech blogs this is on Facebook, and for internet marketers this is on Twitter. It doesn’t really hurt to be on both and you should know that ignoring social media is dangerous and you should only do this at your own peril.
Make sure you have an account on the top social networking sites, make sure you make it easy for your readers to find and follow you on their favorite social networking sites and make sure it is easy for your readers to share your post on their favorite social networking sites – doing this alone can bring in thousands of additional visitors to your blog.

14. Press Releases

If you’ve been looking for ways to get featured in the media making use of press releases might be the solution you need. The reason for this is that a lot of press release sites have relationship with journalists, some of them are indexed in Google news and some of the top news search engines, and a lot of them rank for the keywords they’re targeting very easily.
In most cases, before they write their articles and reports, journalists make use of the search engines and various news/press release sites to find out what is the latest news in their field and to see if they can have enough fact to back up their statements, this is where your press release comes in. If your press release is professionally written then you shouldn’t have any problem getting featured in the media and on top blogs in your niche thus getting more traffic to your blog.
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15. Web 2.0 Sites

Aside making use of article marketing or guest blogging to get traffic to your blog, one great tactic that can be very effective is the use of web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo and Hubpages to get more traffic to your blog. Some of these sites are highly respected by Google and are ranked among the top 200 websites in the world; writing a great keyword rich article on them can make a whole lot of difference as it can easily be ranked in the search engines while at the same time being featured as one of the best posts in its category on the web 2.0 site. This will only lead to more traffic and increased search engine rankings for you on the long run.

16. Optimize Your Site for Mobile Users

Do you know that over 500 million people access the internet using their mobile phones in 2010?
The funny thing is that that number is not decreasing but it is rather increasing more than  ever so you will be missing a lot not to lock yourself into the mobile market.
A lot of people will be visiting your blog via their mobile phones/PDAs and if they can’t access your website because it is incompatible you will end up losing them. You need to also focus on retaining the visitors you have instead of just trying to get more, and a great way to start is by optimizing your blog for mobile phones.
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17. Optimize Your Images for Search Engines

Another underutilized but smart way to significantly increase your blog traffic is by optimizing your images for search engines.
There is enough competition already for some of the major keywords/key phrases you’re targeting but has it ever occurred to you that very few people are targeting the images results for that particular keyword? So all you need to do is optimize your blog images by making sure your images are not too large, that you’re using the right combination of images description and alt text and that the image is not linking to an external site. So that you know how powerful this technique is, I have a friend who was able to rank #6 for a very popular keyword under Google Images – this particular friend of mine got 8,000 visitors to his new blog in only 5 days.

18. Blog About Top News

The same friend I was talking about was also able to get as much as 10,000 visitors to his new blog in only one week just by blogging about top news. He has a tech blog and he blogged about the Anthony Weiner news that was trending, he ended up getting 10,000 visitors from related keywords in only one week.
There are always top news, every single minute, hour, day or week and it’s all about being smart with what you blog about. Make sure you subscribe to CNN, Techcrunch, Yahoo News and some of the other top news sites to see which news is trending. There is more than enough traffic to circulate the blogosphere from these trending keywords, blog about it and you’ll be amazed at how much traffic you can get.

19. Optimize Your Website for Faster Loading

Do you know that your website speed can have a great impact on your search engine rankings?
Do you also know that the slower your website, the more visitors you’re likely to lose?
This is because people value their time and there is a lot they can do in a split second so if you really want to capture their attention and make them stick then you should work on improving the speed of your website. It is also important to improve your website speed because search engines now give fast websites preference over slow ones so making sure your website loads faster will help increase how much traffic you can get from the search engines.

20. Promote Your Popular Posts

One of my most popular posts on this blog every month is my list of dofollow blogs. That post has a lot of comments but wasn’t always my most popular post until I added a popular post widget to the sidebar. This popular posts widget ranks blog posts based on the number of comments it has and luckily this post was among the top posts so this led to a lot of new readers seeing it and linking to it. It was only a matter of months before it started ranking on page one for its keyword. That post now averages 50 views every single day, mostly from search engines.

21. Build an Email List

I get thousands of visitors to my blog from my email list alone every month, even though I didn’t gain all my subscribers overnight the results I am getting still proves the importance of having an email list.
The best kind of traffic isn’t one time traffic but repeat traffic and one of the best ways to get visitors to keep on visiting your blog is by making them subscribe. The funny thing is that there are various ways readers can subscribe to your blog but email is the best because it makes it easy for you to showcase certain blog posts of yours whenever you want and how often you want. If done rightly, this will lead to you spreading the word about your blog post to hundreds or thousands of people on your email list and it can even bring about a viral traffic effect for your blog.
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Finally…

It’s not about reading or knowing, it is about implementing. Don’t just sit down and smile because you have gained new knowledge, instead, get up and get something done right away!

Add Passwords To Protect Your Blog And Its Contents...

Now, you can keep your posts inaccessible from unknown persons which requires some privacy. Yes! An extremely useful and secure script for password protecting blogger blogs has been introduced by vincentcheung . The script created by him hides whatever you want in the form of an encrypted code which can be revealed only if your users know the password to see the hidden content. 

It works more like a Lock and Key Mechanism. 

I am sure this post will be use full for a good blogger / web site developers. Enjoy this new technique that will help you to maintain some privacy.

HOW TO ADD A PASSWORD TO POST : 

Step  1 : Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML

Step 2 : Backup your template.

Step 3 : Search for this ( Press ctrl + f  to quick search ) 

              ]]></b:skin>

Step 4 : Paste the following JavaScript code, just below of above code.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.vincentcheung.ca/jsencryption/jsencryption.js">

</script>

Step 5 : Save your template and you are done!

STEPS IN DETAIL  : 

Step  1 : Create and write the post as you normally do in your blogger editor.

Step 2 : Go To > Edit HTML mode and copy all the code. As shown below,

Step 3 : Go To > JavaScript Encryption Page.

                  Follow these steps:

                  Step 3.1 : Enter a password in the Key Box.

                 Step 3.2 : Paste the code that you copied from your Blogger Editor into the Plain Text box.

                    Step 3.3 : Copy the code from the HTML CODE box.

Step 4 : Now get back to your Blogger Editor. Create a New Post. Give your post a title and paste the HTML Code that you just copied inside your blogger Editor in the  Edit HTML Mode.  You can write anything in place of this text -> Show Encrypted text but make all changes in Edit HTML mode only.

Excellent Tips To Improve Your Alexa Ranks

Alexa is a service provider for ranking websites based on the information gathered from the websites through various resources. Mainly Alexa takes out its data from the Toolbar that it has, although the ranking is not that accurate it is being said that Alexa ranking is quite important.

Find here some of the important tips that will help you to improve on your Alexa ranking!

Write about Alexa

Do what I do! Write about Alexa, which is one of the most wanted articles that will make visitors coming to your website stop and make them read to find out whether you have a new tip or not! There are so many ways you can improve your Alexa Ranking, but writing on how to improve them is like a give and take policy, telling others on how to improve Alexa ranking. When you write, write something substantial!

Post Frequently

Post frequently and regularly, this is because it is believed that Alexa engines spans through the website and finds out how frequently the contents is being updated and is believed that your regular visitors will find something new regularly, everytime when they visit. Whether or not the former is true, the later is a theoretical and logical fact. This will automatically increase your page ranking, which will reflect on your Alexa ranking as well. However, you ought to be careful for not being to frequent that you will be considered a spammer or a bot.

Comment on other blogs and websites

This is more than a welcoming gesture to comment positively or critically on others websites and blog posts, so that you will also be allowed to leave a trace of you and your website. This way you can increase the number of page visits, and drive traffic to your website from the website or blog that you have commented on! This is also one of the best ways to increase your backlinks, which can give you hundreds and hundreds of visitors. But be patient! This does not happen overnight!

Use Alexa rank widget

Add Alexa rank widget to your website, this is one of the most essential step to do on your blog or website, which will help you to improve your Alexa rank automatically, how this helps! Well, every single click of this widget is counted and adds to improve your Alexa ranking, and probably might also encourage your dedicated visitors to think of helping you by clicking on this to judge the article by trying to figure out where you stand in the market. This is one of the best ways, that is the reason why I use this in my weight watchers and ediets promo codes blog, believe me it took my Alexa high in no time. One more possibility is that this widget could be a motivation always present in front of your eyes while you work on your website or blog.

Install Alexa  toolbar

This is one of the smartest ways to boost your Alexa ranking for all of your visits to your webpage will also be recorded dedicatedly and will be counted while ranking you. For added effect, be sure to set your website as your homepage, and watch out for yourself how well you are performing.

Expand your social network

This is one of the best ways and is the modest way to improve the number of visitors to your website. This will have a positive impact on your Alexa rank and some of the best social media that you can use for this purpose will include Orkut, twitter, Digg, Facebook, Stumble Upon and others.

Trick to Auto Poke Back Friend’s in Facebook

Facebook Poke feature doesn’t have a specific meaning instead it can be used for various purposes like to say Hello or just to annoy someone.Whenever someone Pokes you it is automatically shown on your facebook homepage with the option to Poke back.Sometimes a lot of people poke you simualtenously and it gets really difficult to poke back each and everyone.Using this trick you will poke back everyone automatically.This trick works in Google Chrome and Firefox browsers

Trick to Auto Poke Back your Friend in Facebook:-

For Google Chrome:-

• Open your Google Chrome browser and install the script by Clicking Here
• Click on the Install or Add to Chrome button appearing on your screen.

• Now after installation you will see a conformation Message You Have successfully installed and you will also see a Facebook button in your browser.

• Click on the Facebook button and do check mark in the box.

• That’s it. Now Refresh your Facebook page. You will see a Poked notification rather than Poke Back.

For Mozilla Firefox:-

• Open your Mozilla Firefox browser and you first have to install Grease Monkey Add-on by Clicking Here.
• Click on Add to Firefox button and a new window will be open.

• In the newly opened window click on the Install button.

• Now you have to add Javascript in to your browser by Clicking Here.
• Click on the Install button appearing on the upper right side corner in to your firefox window.

• In the new pop up window again click on the Install button.

• That’s it. Now you will see a script is successfully installed notification at the below of your screen.

Now when your friend will Poke you then he will automatically be Poked Back.

Trick to Check Who Un-Friended You on Facebook

Eager to know who un-friended you and when? Well the new Facebook Timeline feature has a flaw which can be explored to know who unfriended you and in which year.If you have activated Facebook Timline then by using this trick you can easily find all the friends who unfriended you.This is a loophole and it will be fixed soon by facebook so you better hurry!!

Trick to Check Who Has Un-Friended You on Facebook:-

• First of all Enable Timeline Feature in your Facebook Account.
• Now open your profile and click on the year in which you want see the people who unfriended you.

• Scroll down the cursor till you find Friends column where you wil see list of new friends you made in that particular year. Like in this screenshot you can see I Made 32 New friends.

• Click on it and all your friends will be shown in a new  pop-up window and if you find Add as Friend option next to any person it means he has un-friended you.

You can check all the years one by one to find out how many of your friends have un-friended you.

Trick on How To Change Colour Of Facebook

Most of us have our profiles on facebook and many of us login into our facebook accounts daily.Aren’t you get bored of same old facebook features.If you want something refreshing then I have a facebook trick for you.By using this simple trick we will change the colour of the facebook.You can select any colour of your choice.
This trick has following Requirements

• Mozilla Firefox browser
• Greasemonkey
• Facebook Script

I will be providing you the links and instructions for the Greasemonkey and facebook Script.So here is the step by step tutorial with screenshots for trick to change the color of facebook.

1. Open firefox browser.If you donot have you can download it here
2. Now install the greasemonkey add0n into your browser by clicking here.
3. After installation is complete restart your browser.
4. Install the facebook script by clicking here.
5. Now open facebook and login into your facebook account.
6. Now goto Tools>Greasemonkey>Userscript Commands>Customise Facebook Colours.

7. You will now see to boxes with colours.Select the colour you want and click on Set button
8. And that’s it.

Trick on How to Convert Firefox into keylogger

Do you want create your own working undectable keylogger and without any programming knowledge.The keylogger can store all the usernames and passwords of mozilla firefox without the user’s consent.
How this Keylogger Works?
Whenever you login into any website using mozilla firefox browser it always ask’s you whether you want to Save password or not for that website.
We will be using a script that will not give the user option to save the password instead it will automatically save the passwords without user’s consent and we will retrieve them later.
Can this be detected by antivirus?
I have scanned it with Mcafee,Norton and Avast and it is totally undetectable.
Does It work on all websites?
It is working on almost all websites like facebook,hotmail,reddit and digg.But this trick somehow failed on Gmail.
Now I will give you the step by step tutorial on how to use this trick

1. Download this script here
2. Now go to the following address

If you are Windows user then goto
C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Components
If you are MAC user then goto
Applications > Right click Firefox > Show Package Contents > Contents/MacOS/Components

1. Now find a file nsLoginManagerPrompter.js and copy it to somewhere safe location because we will be replacing this file in next step.
2. Extract the script folder that you have downloaded in first step and copy and paste the nsLoginManagerPrompter.js from the folder to the folder mentioned in step 2.
3. So now your firefox keylogger is ready.Now Each and every username and password will be automatically saved.

The next step is to retrieve the username and passwords that have been stored in your firefox browser.
It is very easy to retrieve the password from firefox using firepasswordviewer.You can read the complete tutorial here.

Improving Theme's In Gmail New Look

One of the most visible improvements in last week’s Gmail update is the entirely new theme system and the new high definition themes that it supports. This refresh to themes both simplifies them and makes them more immersive. You can browse what some of the new themes look like below:

Themes are now implemented as semitransparent layers on top of a large background image. Each theme uses either a dark or light variant of most UI elements to balance legibility and visibility of the background image, allowing the background image to peek through and provide color and personality. Background imagery can also change based on date, time, or weather. Bringing all these changes together really makes the new themes shine:

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In addition, these changes also reduce the technical complexity of the theme system, which will enable us to create more beautiful and unique themes in the future.

Like the new themes? You can switch to the new look today by clicking on Switch to the new look in the bottom-right of Gmail.

Tips to recover scratched CD's

Tips to recover scratched CD's

1. Spread a cloth on a flat surface and place the CD on it.
2. Then, hold the disc with one hand, use the other to wipe the polish into the affected area with a soft cloth.
3. Wait for it to dry and buff using short, brisk strokes along the scratch, not across it.
4. A cloth sold to wipe spectacles or camera lenses will work super m8's.
5. When you can no longersee the scratch,, wash the disc with water and let it dry before playing. Intersting isnt it? Try it right now
I have used toothpaste with good effects before Ive also used car paint cutting compound on deeper scratches. It does leave lots of smaller scratches (as it is a cutting compound after all) but it will remove the worst scratches in most cases.
ya u r gng to b surely befinited by this Operation

* Fingermarks/prints cause 43% of disc problems!
* General wear & tear causes 25% of disc problems!
* Player-related issues cause 15% of disc problems!
* Remaining Others

How to Disable Notifications from Any Facebook Group

Facebook Groups is a great place to connect with like minded people.But if you have joined a large group which is too frequently updated by its users then it can be irritating.You will get notifications every time somebody posts into group.The best remedy is to disable (or customize) the notifications from the group.

How to Disable Notifications from Any Facebook Group:

• Login in to your Facebook Account.
• Goto the homepage of the Group from which you want to disable Notifications.
• At the upper right corner you will see a Notification button. Click on that button and select the OFF button. This will stop all the notifications from that group.

• You can also customize notifications using  Settings button. Under this button you select the activities of group for which you want to get notifications like all Posts, Friend’s Posts.
• Then click on Save Changes button.

Once you have Disabled notifications from the group you can  revert the settings anytime i.e. make it ON to receive the notifications.

Note Pad Trickz...

Note Pad Trickz
~!~!~!~ Trick#1 ~!~!~!~
1. Open a blank Notepad file
2. Write .LOG as the first line of the file, followed by a enter. Save the file and close it.
3. Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor on the line after.
4. Type your notes and then save and close the file.

After that open the file and see the changes.
by this trick u can also use ur notebook as a personal diary.


~!~!~!~ Trick#2 ~!~!~!~

1.open notepad
2. type "bush hid the facts"
3. save it and close it...
4 then open it again........n see the changes...............


~!~!~!~ Trick#3 ~!~!~!~
Do you know the number of the flight that was used to attack the world Trade Centre????
The flight number was Q33N.

Now, open your Notepad, type the number of the flight (i.e. Q33N).
Now click on format>font, increase the font size upto 72, and change the font style to 'wingdings'. Now see the ammmaaazzzing thing.

~!~!~!~ Trick#4 ~!~!~!~
Over at WinCustomize, someone thought they'd found an Easter Egg in the Windows Notepad application. If you:
1. Open Notepad
2. Type the text "this app can break" (without quotes)
3. Save the file
4. Re-open the file in Notepad

Notepad displays seemingly-random Chinese characters, or boxes if your default Notepad font doesn't support those characters.

It's not an Easter egg (even though it seems like a funny one), and as it turns out, Notepad writes the file correctly. It's only when Notepad reads the file back in that it seems to lose its mind.

Create a unique Facebook profile picture

At the top of your Facebook profile, you'll see the five most recent pictures containing a picture of you. You can use this section of your profile to make a more unique and original profile picture by extending the main profile picture into these recent pictures. As can be seen in the picture to the right, this profile takes a larger image and spreads it from the profile picture into the recent pictures across the top.
This can be easily accomplished using the free Pic Scatter online tool. With this tool, you can upload any picture and easily adjust the picture to be shown in the profile section, the top five images, and even the wall.
When using this technique any time you or a friend tags you in a photo it will be posted in the top section of your profile ruining this effect. To keep this effect, hide any new photo by clicking the x that appears when hovering the mouse in the top right-corner of the picture

Top 10 Facebook tips

Below is a listing of our top 10 tips for the popular social networking website Facebook. Hide users, games, polls, etc.

It quickly gets annoying seeing some users posts, game invites, polls, etc. Hovering your mouse to the right of the post and clicking the Hide button as shown below can hide any post. Once this button is pressed you'll be prompted with the option to hide that user or in the case of a Facebook application the option to hide that application from ever showing up on your profile.

To unhide someone or unblock an application click the Edit Options link in the bottom right corner of the news feed as shown below.

Greasemonkey and FB Purity

Although Facebook does not allow the ability to hide friends getting new friends messages, friends becoming fans of something, and some application messages they can still be hidden with browser add-ons. If you're running Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari we suggest installing the Facebook Purity add-on.

Update your privacy settings

Click Account in the top right corner of the Facebook window and then click Privacy settings to adjust who is capable of seeing what on your Facebook profile. We highly recommend going through all the privacy settings to verify your privacy is properly protected.

Anything that is not set to friends only or friends of friends can be seen by anyone searching on the Internet. Below is a few things we recommend for most users.

1. Under Search in Privacy settings uncheck Public Search Results. This will prevent users from finding your account and profile picture in search results such as Google
2. Under Application settings, make sure you're only allowing applications you want to have access to your information. Applications that you grant rights to can have access to your Facebook profile information.

• If you're curious to see how a program or web page connect to the Facebook API can see your profile see Tip135.

Use the Facebook top bar for navigation

Knowing how to properly navigate is vital if you want to get the most out of Facebook. Below is a brief description of each of the available options in the top bar as shown above.

Home (facebook logo) - Clicking this logo will take you to your wall (News Feed) that shows all friends recent posts.

Friend requests - If any friend requests are waiting to be approved this icon will show a notification of how many friends are waiting for approval. This icon can also be clicked when you want to view any friend recommendations or search for friends on Facebook.

Messages - This section allows you to send and receive private messages between one or more people you're friends with.

Notifications - Any time a friend or Facebook application creates a new post you'll be notified in this section. Clicking this icon will show all recent notifications. If you wish to change what is capable of sending you notifications including any Facebook applications or games click the See All Notifications link at the bottom and check or uncheck what you want to be notified on.

Search - Finally, the search box in Facebook can be a powerful tool that can be used to quickly find any current friends or people on Facebook. In addition searching for terms such as a company name, product, sports team, music band, etc. will find fan pages and groups that can be joined.

Modify your account notifications

Keep your e-mail and your cell phone clean by updating or eliminate Facebook notifications or keep more up-to-date by adding new notifications. Facebook notifications can be added and removed by clicking Account link in the top right corner, then Account Settings, and then clicking the Notifications tab.

Top News and Most Recent

By default Facebook will display your wall postings in the News format, which means it only displays posts it believes are most relevant to you. These results are based on your past interaction with your friends. If you want to see every post made by all your friends that are not hidden click the Most recent link in the upper right section of your news feed as shown in the above picture example.

If you want to adjust who shows up manually click the Edit Options in the bottom right corner of your news feed.

View High School work friends

If you've added your High School or previous Work locations to your profile, quickly see all classmates and co-workers on Facebook by clicking the link in your Info tab under your profile.

Quickly change profile picture

Your profile picture can be quickly changed to any other picture by visiting your profile, hovering the mouse over your current profile picture, and clicking the Change Picture link that appears in the top right corner of the picture.

Don't post private information on friend's walls on in comments

When you make a post on a friend's wall or in any of their comments realize that any of their friends are going to be able to see that post. If you wish for something to remain only between you and a friend send them a Facebook message instead.

Suggestions and random friend invites

As you get more friends on Facebook it will begin making friend, groups, and fan suggestions. These are suggestions made by Facebook and not your friends. Unless these are something you're interested in they can be ignored.

This same rule can be applied to people who may want to be your friend that you don't know. If you don't know someone don't accept his or her friend invite. Once someone becomes your friend they'll have access to any information your friends are capable of seeing.

Tag your Facebook friends in your photos

Always make sure to tag any of your Facebook friends that are in pictures you upload. However, never tag someone who is not in the picture. When someone is tagged in a photo that picture is automatically added to that persons profile and is a great way to share pictures with all friends.