Why Google Deletes Blogger Blogs and How to Recover Them

Where Google is extremely kind for bloggers as it offers great blog hosting at Blogger, sometimes it proves to be cruel and deletes blogs for several known and unknown violations. It is extremely painful when you see your well developed blog being deleted by Google in minutes. Although it is most frustrating but Google always doesn't delete blogs without any reason. Blogs are generally deleted when they are found committing below mentioned wrongdoings.

Some Common Reasons Why Blogger Deletes Blogs

The biggest reason behind deletion of Blogger blogs is the spreading of spam. Google takes it extremely serious and whenever any blog is found as spreading spam, it is deleted instantly. In addition to spreading spam, blogs are also deleted when they are found violating TOS of Blogger. Some common reasons behind Blogger blog deletion are:

1. Copying Content from Other Blogs/Websites: If you have copied content from other blogs/websites, the owners at that blogs or websites complain against your blog and Google deletes your entire blog or selected posts

2. Frequent Posting: Although it is good to update your blog frequently, but this should be kept in limit. If you post a lot of content on your blog (more than 15-20 posts per day), your blog is considered as a bot and Google deletes it instantly. So never write more than 20 posts on your blog per day

3. Spending Less Time on Post Editor: Sometimes, bloggers write posts in any post editor like MS Word and then publish them over their blogs by pasting in post editor. If you do it most of the times and don't spend much time on post editor, then again your blog is considered as a bot and it may get deleted

4. Copyright Infringement: This is yet another violation which leads to deletion of blogs. Copyright infringement involves the usage of copyrighted content without permission of the owner. For example if you are using images of other people on your blog without their permission, then it is infringing the copyright which may cause your blog deletion

5. Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing may also lead to your Blogger blog deletion. If you are posting affiliate links on your blog, then it may snatch your blog from you

6. Scrapped Content or Content Created Using Scripts: If you are using scripts to create content or scrapping content from other sources and then are posting on your blog, then you are doing a risky practice. Google appreciates blogs which are maintained naturally. i.e. blogs with hand written and genuine posts are safe.

7.  Links to Illegal Software and Media Downloads: If you are promoting illegal downloads of software and other media, then your blog is most likely to be deleted sooner or later. For example if you are providing download of wares (with serials and cracks), then it is against of Blogger TOS and your blog may get deleted anytime

8. Links to Hacking Tools and Related Content: Blogs promoting and encouraging hacking tools and other related stuff are also at the risk of deletion

9. Blogs with Multiple Indecisive Topics: Blogs with a lot of indecisive topics are also deleted. So maintain your blog well and purposeful if you want to see it live on Blogger in long run

These were some common reasons which lead to the deletion of blogs. Ensure that your blog isn't facing any of these situations, so it will stay safe and sound.

How to Restore Your Blog if Google Has Deleted it

If Google has unfortunately deleted your blog for any known or unknown reason ,then you will see a link saying "Deleted Blogs" / "Locked Blogs" in your blog dashboard. Start from there and submit a Restore request. Normally it takes about 24-48 hours before your request is reviewed. Sometimes it may take even longer due to high frequency of requests, so keep patience. Don't submit multiple requests, as it may frustrate the reviewers at Google.

If you can't find the link saying "Deleted Blogs" or "Locked Blogs" in your Blogger blog dashboard, go to Blogger Section of Google Product Forums and seek the help. You will be guided through the process of restoring your blog.

Have any other suggestions? Please don't forget to leave your suggestions below in comments as they will help other suffering bloggers. Thank you!

WordPress SEO by Yoast vs SEO Ultimate, Which One is the Best

WordPress SEO by Yoast is considered as the best WordPress SEO plugin but indeed there is no any perfectionism in anything, anywhere in the world. In the competition of providing search engine optimization for WordPress blogs, there is yet another name popular as SEO Ultimate. SEO Ultimate also performs brilliant when it comes the on-page optimization of your blog posts for search engines. In this review, we will look over the features of the two plugins and will try to find out which one is the real champion of this competition. But please ensure that these plugins only make task of SEO easier for you and the SE optimization depends on how much you have learned it.

Why WordPress SEO by Yoast is Loved by Bloggers

WordPress SEO by Yoast provides an easy but complete on-page SE optimization for your blog posts. The plugin is developed by Joost de Valk. It is free to use and provides almost all possibilities for doing a brilliant on-page SEO for your site content. I'm using it on one of my WordPress sites where it has made my task of SE optimizing extremely easy.

The plugin calculates the keyword density when you set the focus keyword and instructs to maintain a good keyword density which is very important for ranking your content in SERPs. It re-writes the title of your post and makes it more SE friendly. When we look over more advanced features, the plugin analyzes the length of individual sentences in your content and helps you in making your post easy to read and understand for your visitors.

Sometimes, the ranking of your WorPress blog posts drop in SERPs due to indexing of categories and tags. When it happens, content on your blog is indexed under each category and tag also, thus it appears as duplicate content and ranking of your blog drops dramatically. WordPress SEO by Yoast allows you to prevent search engines from indexing categories and tags, thus the risk of content duplication on your blog eliminates. You can modify this from "Taxonomies" tab of Yoast under settings.

In addition to above mentioned features, the plugin allows you to do much more including checking images for missing alt tags, headings and the appearance of keywords in URL and first paragraph etc.

SEO Ultimate, Yet Another Brilliant SEO Plugin

SEO Ultimate is developed by SEO Design Solutions. The most important and useful feature of this SEO plugin is the "Deeplink Juggernaut" feature which enables the auto-linking within your blog for selected posts and keywords. Once you define the anchor text and post URLs, the plugin automatically converts the defined anchor texts to links and thus a well internal linking is developed across your entire site. This internal linking or deep linking helps search engine crawlers to crawl across your entire site easily and the rank is boosted. The latest version (6.5 at the time of this publish) of the plugin adds some more advanced and useful features to "Deeplink Juggernaut" feature and now you can limit the number of links per anchor text per post or per page.

Apart from deep linking, SEO Ultimate allows you to do other on-page SEO tasks also which are common and aren't necessary to be discussed.

Conclusion: Although the "Deeplink Juggernaut" feature of SEO Ultimate makes it brilliant, still WordPress SEO by Yoast is the most diversified SEO plugin for WordPress. 

To rank your WordPress site well, you can use both plugins together on the same site. Although SEO Ultimate will warn you that Yoast is conflicting, but you can make both perfect by disabling all features of SEO Ultimate other than "Deeplink Juggernaut" feature and use Yoast with recommended settings. This will give you authority to do a brilliant on-page SEO for your WordPress website or blog.

So what is your experience with these two plugins? Don't forget to share as we are looking forward for more opinions.

Traditional SEO is Dead - What Modern SEO Strategies are Working Now

Google is burying websites and blogs in search results which are still adapting traditional SEO strategies. Old days of Search Engine Optimization have gone and now you need to change and redefine your strategies to maintain your website or blog ranking in SERPs. Here is what you need to change for your online content so it will attract the attention of modern search engines.

Increased Backlinks are Not Going to Rank You Anymore

You can't rank your website or blog in SERPs by increasing the number of backlinks. Google is strongly looking into this section and will bury the sites and blogs with unnatural backlink profiles. So don't adapt unethical and traditional strategies to build backlinks, instead maximize the content quality. Apart from this, following SEO strategies have become essential for ranking your site in SERPs.

Manual Directory Submission

There are a lot of directories on the web to which you can submit your site for boosting ranking. While submitting your site or blog, ensure that the directory is human edited and is maintained well.

Article Submission

You can write articles relevant to your site and its content, can place backlinks in it and then can submit these articles to well established article directories like Ezinearticles.com. This will help you in ranking your content in modern SERPs easily.

Press Release Submission

Press releases greatly help you in boosting your content's ranking in SERPs. There are many PR distribution sites on the web which allow you to submit press releases. Write a PR, put a backlink to your site in it and then submit the PR. You should do it on regular basis to ensure that modern search engines are being attracted to your content regularly.

File Creation and Submission

You should create PDF, MS Word and PPT files containing unique articles and links to your content and then submit these files to file distribution sites like slideshare.net.

Increase Social Shares and Bookmarking

You must increase social bookmarking of your content to boost its rankings in SERPs. Social shares are a strong indicator for search engines that how much your content is interesting and useful for visitors. So build your social network and share your content among it on regular basis. For example create a Facebook page and get a lot of likes for it. Additionally, make the social sharing and bookmarking of your content easy for your visitors.

Anchor Text Diversity  

If you have used and are using the same anchor text in backlink building, then you are committing a big mistake. You must diversify anchor texts. Use different anchor texts for backlinks, this will make your backlink profile more natural and safe. It means that forum signatures and blog commenting isn't much beneficial anymore, instead it may bury your blog or website in search results.

Above discussed were some off-page SEO strategies. Along with these off-page SEO strategies, you must follow on-page SEO strategies also to ensure that your site or blog is well optimized for search engines. Good luck!

How to Withdraw Money in Pakistan from Your PayPal Account

If you are earning money online but belong to Pakistan, then it will really frustrate you that there is no any easy global money withdraw mechanism in Pakistan. If you do freelance jobs, earn money from blogging or any other source over the Internet, then almost all of your clients will process payments through PayPal. So if you are frustrated how to get a verified PayPal account in Pakistan, and how to withdraw money from it, then you are at right place. Today, I'll provide you the only best working method in Pakistan by which you can receive money through PayPal and can withdraw it  without any difficulty.

In one of my previous articles, I have written, how to get a verified PayPal account in Pakistan, so today, I'll just proceed a little and will discuss only how to withdraw money which you receive in your PayPal account.

As I've mentioned earlier that you can verify your PayPal account using Payoneer's US Payment Service. When you signup at Payoneer and submit scans of your ID card or any other identity proof, Payoneer will verify it and your card will be approved. At the meantime, US Payment Service is also approved which is maintained by a US bank named as First Century Bank. You are provide with a routing number and an account number after your card and US Payment Service signup is approved. You can then use this account to verify your PayPal account. Read in detail how to create and verify a PayPal account from Pakistan.

The card is shipped to your residence in Pakistan and it will take around 3 weeks before the card reaches you. Once the debit card is in your hand, you can withdraw your money from selected ATMs in Pakistan.

Currently, only ATMs at MCB, Citi Bank and Standard Chartered Bank accept Payoneer Master card. Still it is good. If any of above mentioned banks isn't available in your area, you can travel a little to find one and can withdraw your money.

Payoneer also supports Global Bank Transfers and the money can be transferred directly to your bank account in Pakistan, but to enable this, you need to signup for Payoneer card through any of the selected partners of Payoneer. More information regarding this can be found at http://www.payoneer.com/LocalBankTransfer.aspx

So ready to signup with Payoneer? Get the debit card approved now for free and start receiving money from PayPal in Pakistan without any difficulty. Signup here.

4 Top Alternatives to YouTube for Sharing Videos

YouTube is the largest video sharing platform of the Internet world but for several reasons, a huge number of Internet users search for YouTube alternatives. Sometimes YouTube bans you for violation of TOS or the service gets blocked in your area as it happens in Pakistan frequently :), but you need YouTube for uploading and sharing your business or personal videos and this task is crucial for promoting your products among target audience.

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Although you will find several websites, which allow you to upload and share your videos, but you need a popular service with high traffic as your videos can send a good traffic to your blog or website. In such a situation, a good YouTube alternative with high traffic must be there to serve you. I have listed 4 best YouTube alternatives which allow you to upload and share your videos among a big audience. Here is the list: 

DailyMotion

DailyMotion is one of the largest video sharing websites. This is the best alternative to YouTube. If you don't have access to YouTube or searching for any additional service to promote your videos among a broader audience, then DailyMotion must be your first option.

DailyMotion is a French limited company which offers its services globally in 16 different languages. According to the stats provided by ComScore, DailyMotion receives more than 100 million unique visitors per month and more than 2 billion videos are viewed. These stats are enough to tell you that DailyMotion is the perfect place for your videos.

Vimeo

Vimeo is the second largest YouTube alternative which allows you to share your videos among a huge crowed of video searchers. In 2004, some film makers founded Vimeo for sharing their work but by the passage of time, the service got globalized and now every Internet user can use the services of Vimeo to share his/her videos among a diverse community of target audience.

MetaCafe

MetaCafe is yet another brilliant video host which is dedicated to serve short videos from movies, games, adventure videos and other content. You can make promotional video clips of your business and can share them on MetaCafe where your videos will receive good impressions. Thus MetaCafe can serve your business to grow by hosting and sharing your videos among target audience.

ZippCAST

ZippCAST is our last recommendation as another top YouTube alternative. Primarily, ZippCAST is dedicated to serve originally created videos. i.e. the video which you are going to share must be created originally by you. ZippCAST is a brilliant video host which allows you to upload, download and watch videos easily. The high traffic flow at ZippCAST ensures that your videos are viewed by a lot of people.

These were four brilliant alternatives to YouTube where you can upload your videos, download videos uploaded by others and can watch videos online. Apart from the ease of use, reliable services, high traffic and other features, these services empower you to make any video either public or private. I hope that you will find these services cool for promoting your business or for sharing your personal content among friends and family.

MyBlogGuest.com Introduces "Article Requests" Feature

MyBlogGuest.com has introduced a new cool feature in its interface. This feature is "Article Requests" which allows blog owners to request for articles of their interest from other bloggers and freelance writers. Previously, bloggers were restricted to search and place offers for articles submitted in Articles Gallery, but now they can ask MyBlogGuest community to provide specific articles for their blogs.

MyBlogGuest.com is a perfect place for both bloggers and freelance writers at which bloggers can find quality articles for their blogs. The new feature will surely benefit bloggers as well as writers in several ways. Apart from Article Requests, other features of MyBlogGuest are described below:

Articles Gallery

The coolest feature of MyBlogGuest.com is its Articles Gallery where freelance writers and guest bloggers submit their articles and blog owners place their offers for interested articles. In this way, Articles Gallery of MyBlogGuest.com makes it extremely easy for blog owners and guest bloggers to find targeted articles and blogs.

When you navigate to Articles Gallery of MyBlogGuest.com, you will see a long list of submitted articles there. You can preview the article and can offer your blog for publishing the article if you like it. You will be informed and provided with the HTML source of the article once the writer accepts your offer.

Infographics Gallery

Infographics are getting more popular than traditional articles these days as they convey the information more quickly and more beautifully. MyBlogGuest.com's Infographics Gallery allows you to find professional infographics for your blog. 

MyBlogGuest Direct

MyBlogGuest has tools like plugins for WordPress which allow you to receive articles directly in your blog dashboard when a writer accepts your offer. You need to add and setup your blog properly on MyBlogGuest to receive articles directly.

These three features were available at MyBlogGuest.com from beginning but the new features "Article Requests" has been introduced recently. Let's see how it works.

CSS Secondary Navigation Menu for Blogger and Websites

An easy and perfect navigation menu isn’t important only for building a good site or blog structure for search engines, but an attractive menu makes your site and blog more beautiful in eyes of your visitors. If the primary navigation on your site or blog doesn't provide enough space for putting all links, then this secondary CSS menu will allow you to put a lot of links in it. You can put this menu in sidebar of your blog or website. Let's learn how to add this menu.

• Your First Link Here
• Your Second Link Here
  • Your Third Link Here
  • Your Fourth Link Here
• Your Fifth Link Here
  • Your Sixth Link Here
  • Your Seventh Link Here
  • Your Eighth Link Here
  • Your Ninth Link Here
• Your Tenth Link Here

Adding Secondary CSS Menu to Blogger
To add this CSS secondary menu to your Blogger blog, follow below steps:

1. Sign in to Blogger, select your blog and go to its layout
2. Now add a gadget on sidebar as HTML/JavaScript by pasting below code in it

<style>
 #column .subnav{display:block; width:230px; padding:25px; background-color:#F9F9F9; margin-bottom:30px;}

#column .subnav ul{
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    list-style:none;
    }

#column .subnav li{
    margin:0 0 3px 0;
    padding:0;
    }

#column .subnav ul ul, #column .subnav ul ul ul, #column .subnav ul ul ul ul, #column .subnav ul ul ul ul ul{border-top:none; padding-top:0;}

#column .subnav a{
    display:block;
    margin:0;
    padding:5px 10px 5px 20px;
    color:#777777;
    background:url("http://qa.supportivehands.net/files/images/blue.gif") no-repeat 10px center #F9F9F9;
    text-decoration:none;
    border-bottom:1px dotted #666666;
    }

#column .subnav a:hover{color:#059BD8; background-color:#F9F9F9;}

#column .subnav ul ul a, #column .subnav ul ul ul a, #column .subnav ul ul ul ul a, #column .subnav ul ul ul ul ul a{background:url("http://qa.supportivehands.net/files/images/black.gif") no-repeat #F9F9F9;}
#column .subnav ul ul a{padding-left:40px; background-position:30px center;}
#column .subnav ul ul ul a{padding-left:50px; background-position:40px center;}
#column .subnav ul ul ul ul a{padding-left:60px; background-position:50px center;}
#column .subnav ul ul ul ul ul a{padding-left:70px; background-position:60px center;}
</style>
<div id='column'>
      <div class="subnav">
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">Label1</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Label2</a>
            <ul>
              <li><a href="#">Label3</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Label4</a></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li><a href='#'>Label5</a>
            <ul>
              <li><a href="#">Label6</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Label7</a></li>
                  <li><a href="#">Label7</a></li>
                  <li><a href="#">Label8</a></li>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li><a href="#">Label9</a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
</div>

3. Edit the links (#) and labels and save your gadget. You are all done!!

Adding Secondary CSS Menu to WordPress
To add this attractive navigation to your WordPress blog, sign in to its dashboard, go to Appearance section and choose Widgets

Then drag Text widget to sidebar. Paste above provided code in the box and save widget.
 
How to Add this CSS Menu to Your Static Website
Simply put a div in sidebar region of your webpage with above provided code. This will add this secondary CSS navigation to your website.

Need any help in customizing this navigation? Just leave a comment below. I’ll help you.