BizFactory.pk an accelerator program for business based in Karachi in collaboration with OPEN Karachi, Ritual Tours is forming a group of 30 interested entrepreneurs & freelancers to visit Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its going to be 6 day networking & learning opportunity with Malaysian entrepreneurs.

BizFactory.pk is offering a massive 30% discount at complete package, return ticket form Karachi to Kuala Lumpur and Karachi, stay at a 4 star hotel, accommodation and recreation everything is covered.

Interested? Registration is open till February 8th, you can signup here.

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WordPress is one of the most powerful and widely use CMS available. If you want to setup a website that easy to setup and manage plus also dynamic, then WordPress the best available option. You can see WordPress powering personal blogs to complex web apps like directories, dating apps. Today I was looking for a resource for someone to get started with WordPress usage and stumbled across this excellent free course for beginners by Envato.

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Google has provided its 30 most recent search changes with code names. These are search quality updates. Read these to improve your knowledge of latest algorithm changes so you may stay at top of your game.

Rankings:

• Image Search landing page quality signals. [launch codename “simple”] This is an improvement that analyzes various landing page signals for Image Search. We want to make sure that not only are we showing you the most relevant images, but we are also linking to the highest quality source pages.
• Better spam detection in Image Search. [launch codename “leaf”] This change improves our spam detection in Image Search by extending algorithms we already use for our main search results.

Search Results:

• More relevant sitelinks. [launch codename “concepts”, project codename “Megasitelinks”] We improved our algorithm for picking sitelinks. The result is more relevant sitelinks; for example, we may show sitelinks specific to your metropolitan region, which you can control with your location setting.
• More accurate country-restricted searches. [launch codename “greencr”] On domains other than .com, users have the option to see only results from their particular country. This is a new algorithm that uses several signals to better determine where web documents are from, improving the accuracy of this feature.
• More rich snippets. We improved our process for detecting sites that qualify for shopping, recipe and review rich snippets. As a result, you should start seeing more sites with rich snippets in search results.
• More accurate byline dates. [launch codename “foby”] We made a few improvements to how we determine what date to associate with a document. As a result, you’ll see more accurate dates annotating search results.
• Google Instant enhancements for Japanese. For languages that use non-Latin characters, many users use a special IME (Input Method Editor) to enter queries. This change works with browsers that are IME-aware to better handle Japanese queries in Google Instant.
• Related query improvements. [launch codename “lyndsy”] Sometimes we fetch results for queries that are related to the original query but have fewer words. We made several changes to our algorithms to make them more conservative and less likely to introduce results without query words.
• Tweak to +1 button on results page. As part of our continued effort to deliver a beautifully simple user experience across Google products, we’ve made a subtle tweak to how the +1 button appears on the results page. Now the +1 button will only appear when you hover over a result or when the result has already been +1’d.
• Better spell correction in Vietnamese. [project codename “Pho Viet”] We launched a new Vietnamese spelling model. This will help give more accurate spelling predictions for Vietnamese queries.
• Improvements to image size signal. [launch codename “matter”] This is an improvement to how we use the size of images as a ranking signal in Image Search. With this change, you’ll tend to see images with larger full-size versions.
• Improved Hebrew synonyms. [launch codename “SweatNovember”, project codename “Synonyms”] This update refines how we handle Hebrew synonyms across multiple languages. Context matters a lot for translation, so this change prevents us from using translated synonyms that are not actually relevant to the query context.
• Encrypted search available on new regional domains. Google now offers encrypted search by default on google.com for signed-in users, but it’s not the default on our other regional domains (eg: google.fr for France). Now users in the UK, Germany and France can opt in to encrypted search by navigating directly to an SSL version of Google Search on their respective regional domains: https://www.google.co.uk, https://www.google.de andhttps://www.google.fr.
• Faster mobile browsing. [launch codename “old possum”, project codename “Skip Redirect”] Many websites redirect smartphone users to another page that is optimized for smartphone browsers. This change uses the final smartphone destination url in our mobile search results, so you can bypass all the redirects and load the target page faster.

Webmaster:

• Soft 404 Detection. Web servers generally return the 404 status code when someone requests a page that doesn’t exist. However, some sites are configured to return other status codes, even though the page content might explain that the page was not found. We call these soft 404s (or “crypto” 404s) and they can be problematic for search engines because we aren’t sure if we should ignore the pages. This change is an improvement to how we detect soft 404s, especially in Russian, German and Spanish. For all you webmasters out there, the best practice is still to always use the correct response code.

Backend:

• Better infrastructure for autocomplete. This is an infrastructure change to improve how our autocomplete algorithm handles spelling corrections for query prefixes (the beginning part of a search).
• Improved dataset for related queries. We are now using an improved dataset on term relationships to find related queries. We sometimes include results for queries that are related to your original search, and this improvement leads to results from more relevant related queries.
• Safer searching. [launch codename “Hoengg”, project codename “SafeSearch”] We updated our SafeSearch tool to provide better filtering for certain queries when strict SafeSearch is enabled.

Answers:

• Live results for NFL and college football. [project codename “Live Results”] We’ve added new live results for NFL.com and ESPN’s NCAA Football results. These results now provide the latest scores, schedules and standings for your favorite football teams.
• Better lyrics results. [launch codename “baschi”, project codename “Contra”] This change improves our result quality for lyrics searches.
• Upcoming events at venues. We’ve improved the recently released places panel for event venues. For major venues, we now show up to three upcoming events on the right of the page. Try it for [staples center los angeles] or [paradise rock club boston].

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After working with nearly a dozen web hosts (for my personal projects and clients) I had come up with 3 best web hosts. First 2 are shared web hosting services and 3rd one is a dedicated hosting service provider.

1. DreamHost

My number#1 recommendation is DreamHost.com I’m hosting with DreamHost for last 5 years and have 4 accounts with them. One account have more then 300 small websites for clients hosted on it and this account is kicking, no problems. DreamHost has the most easy to use hosting panel, one click installs of dozens of open source CMS systems like Joomla, Drupal & WordPress. It even automatically updates your WordPress to latest release, you don’t even need to worry about managing your site. Unlimited sites, unlimited hosting and bonus 50 GB space for your backup storage.

If you get into problems with your hosting server, ask DreamHost support, explain the problem, request them to put you on a less crowded server and they will transfer your account. DreamHost has a very forgiving resource usage policy, if you optimize your sites well with cache plugins, you cannot get into any trouble.

They also offer upgrades to their VPS system if your site grows big and you need more powerful hosting. If you want to host with DreamHost use promo code AQEELSYED at the time of signup to receive a discount of $50. Or use this link, you will be automatically entitled the discount. They offer a 2 week trial period, during this period you can check their service, if you like you can continue, if you don’t like it you can cancel the service and you will have no fee to pay.

2. Site5.com

My 2nd recommendation is site5.com. I’m hosting with them for last 2 years. I have 2 accounts with them. The best thing about site5 hosting is speed of their shared webservers. Their servers are well optimized, they have a strict resource usage policy as compared to DreamHost but even then they are forgiving then 99% of the share web hosting companies out there.

Site5 plans start from $4.95, great if you are going to start with single domain. I recommend hosting your important sites with them so that you can have good performance at these sites.

3. SingleHop

When my sites grew bigger, all my shared hosting service providers said that they can’t host them any-more. After experiencing with several VPS hosts, cloud hosts and dedicated hosts I finally settled with SingleHop. After hosting with SinlgeHop for last 2 years I can say that these guys are the best in dedicated and cloud  hosting. They have the lowest possible dedicated hosting fees and best possible support. I now have 2 dedicated servers with them and a very satisfied customer. They manage, maintain, update and even provide quick response service 24/7 if any of my servers go down. They inform and also take necessary action to bring and back online and it is because of SingleHop support that I sleep well at night Highly recommended dedicated hosting provider.

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Here are the 10 for last month.

1. “Related query results refinements.” More results will be excluded when synonyms and related terms conflict with other words or phrases in the search query.
2. “More comprehensive indexing.” Google is getting better at finding long-tail documents, making long-tail optimization even more important.
3. “New ‘parked domain’ classifier.” Google now detects parked domains more easily, making them less likely to show up in the SERP.
4. “More autocomplete predictions.” Does what it says.
5. “Fresher and more complete blog search results.” Blog content now has a faster and deeper indexing system, making your blog even more valuable and likely to surface on the SERP.
6. “Original content.” Google has “added new signals to help us make better predictions about which of two similar web pages is the original one.” In other words, Google has added some scraper counter-measures.
7. “Live results for Major League Soccer and the Canadian Football League.” Does what it says.
8. “Image result freshness.” Google is now better at finding fresh images for news queries.
9. “Layout on tablets.” Tablet users will see some changes in the color and layout that make Google more usable.
10. “Top result selection code rewrite.” The code that “ensures that we don’t show too many results from one site” has been rewritten. While it will behave the same as before, it is now “easier to understand, simpler to maintain, and more flexible for future extensions.”

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Sadly, the RBI had done it once again (as they did it with PayPal) and has blocked the Payoneer MasterCard POS (swipe payment) throughout India, and will soon be blocking ATM withdrawals as well. However, the folks at Payoneer maintain that it is a temporary block and it will be reversed in the future by the Indian authorities. In other words, if you have money in your Payoneer account, there is no fear of losing it in the future.

If you are in need of the money in your Payoneer MasterCard, you can try these steps to retrieve it.

If ATM withdrawals have not been blocked yet, so you might want to try out the nearest ATM and withdraw all the money. Since Payoneer does not charge any money for the upkeep of the card if the balance is empty, you can flush out your entire savings at one go.

You can contact Payoneer and reverse your transactions back at the originating site (such as oDesk or Elance or iStockPhoto). From there you can use the many types of different withdrawal methods to get your money back. Payoneer management is working with Indian authorities to resolve this issue, similar situations like that happened in past and they proved temporary.

May be RBI is taking these steps to improve its tax network but freelancing is a source of many for their bread and butter in India. These steps are going to hurt badly these individuals.

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Javid has asked this question:

I want to put my sites on different Adsense accounts. I tried to create another one but I failed. Is it possible to create multiple Adsense accounts?

Sure, multiple Adsense accounts can be created. Only limitation is that you need a new separate entity with separate address from that of previous one to create another Adsense account. It means one individual cannot have two Adsense accounts but your siblings, spouse or a friend can have another account for you.

You have two options.

1. Create an account in name of some relative or friend but use a separate address.

2. Register a company and create Adsense account in name of that business. You will need a bank account in name of that company in order to receive payments. To have more then one account, setup multiple companies and have Adsense account in their name. Only limitation is that they should have separate address.

Some have worried about using their Adsense  accounts from the same I.P.  I haven’t seen this to be a problem. Set your accounts up legitimately and don’t worry about it.

This is the legitimate way of setting up multiple Adsense accounts. There are many ways to do it non-legit

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Change is good, change is healthy and it makes things pleasant. SyedAqeel.com is a 2 year old blog and I admit that I had not justified my efforts for it. Its time for change at this blog in terms of design, writing frequency and marketing efforts. Blog needed a decent layout, we had used default Thesis layout for last 2 years. Finally I decided to to give it its new look. In past 1 week our designer Nasir Hayyat was busy working at new design and its finally online now. You can see new design now and give us some insight at how it can be further enhanced.

I’m not taking this design change as just a design change, I’m taking it as an attitude change. Long awaited design change is made to evolve this blog and take it to next level.

Please let us know how do you find it.

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