Top 5 Online Tool to Know/Check Traffic On a Website

Whenever anyone creates a blog or sites their main purpose is to know how to know traffic on a website they have made. This process of tracking how much traffic or users they are able to divert towards their website or blog becomes an important task. Web traffic itself defines its meaning i.e. getting attention of large no. of users online and generate a content which can capably uphold the interest of the users.

If you have visited a website, you analyzed it properly then a question pops in your mind about how to check amount of traffic on a website to enjoy the similar exposure on net that the website is having.

Here in this post we will discuss, Top 5 Online Tools to Monitor Website Traffic

Google Analytics

Google Analytic, In today's era almost everyone uses Analytic code in their website or URL but very rare people knows how to use Google analytic to track website traffic. You can get an overview of amount of traffic on your site by log in into your GA account and then navigating to Acquisition tab and then into All Traffic or All Referrals Tab.

From here, you can check the traffic on your site, sources from where users coming to your site and average amount of time spent on web page or website. It also tells you about new visits on website and new sessions initiated by users.

Traffic Estimate

Trafficestimate.com is an online tool used to evaluate traffic of websites since 2004. People can search for any domain and can have an overview of the traffic the website is getting, they can also avail additional information like owner of a website, competitor's website traffic and other web analytic of competitors website.

Here, we took an example of amazon.com, a reputed online shopping website. This tool has provided information about visitor’s traffic on Amazon.com monthly, main keywords targeted by Amazon, their main competitors, its SEO, Who is as well as Host information.

The below image explains the working an overview of traffic estimate results

Google Trend

Googletrend is also an online tool to estimate traffic on a website or also comparison between traffic ratio of two different websites, its known as most accurate tool because its own by Google itself.

It basically shows you amount of traffic on a website via line graphs it doesn't provide value of traffic engaged on website. It’s a best tool to compare traffic on two websites.

The negative aspect is only, that it shows the traffic ratio of website having high tons of traffic, is a website is new and user's hit are less then it won't show you the result.

Here we have shown you the traffic comparison between Amazon & Flipkart.

Alexa

Alexa.com is one the most used and estimable tool online for monitoring website traffic. It gives you a detailed summary of your websites traffic but it’s important that your site must have an accomplished amount of traffic and ranking in Alexa unless it won’t show any result at all.

Via Alexa tool you can analyze the online presence of your website online, user’s engagement over the website, people who visit website, their geographical location, the traffic source, their website linking and their competitors as well the categories they focus on.

A brief diagrammed evaluation is given about Amazon.com

Compete

Compete.com is also an amazing website to see traffic for a website. They drag the statistics of a website from various resources and basically shows US based traffic only.

It represents overview of visitor’s traffic on amazon.com. The top most competitors of it, the traffic resource of a website and also shows traffic comparison between 2 sites.

The image of the above mentioned features of compete is given below.

So, these are the most demanding online tools available to see how much amount of traffic a website is getting, although there are more tools available in the net but the best among all are elaborated here.

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Save Word Document in PDF in Office 2010 without Using Online Converter

This is the most common query searched on internet “How do I create a PDF file from a Word Document”. MS Office Word is used by millions of people around the globe to execute their daily tasks. There are various reasons that create the demand of saving Word document as PDF, now we will discuss some grounds that actually peps up the requirement to save Word file as PDF.

Some Important Grounds that Encourages Need to Save Word Doc as PDF

1. Even though Word files are easy to edit, modify but when it’s transferred to another device like Mac it becomes difficult to view its content properly whereas there is no such issue with PDF file as it can be visible on any device.
2. PDF documents are much secured as they don't allow people to edit it without leaving an electronic footprint. So, in case of presenting such file in Court or important business presentations, PDF file is preferred.
3. If you want to take a print out of a content and images in high-quality then it is also advised to get it in PDF because of its WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) feature.

Now users can save their word documents as PDF without using any software. Prior it was a need to use online utilities to convert or save a word document into PDF file but now Microsoft has added this feature into MS Word so that users can avail this benefit without looking out for a trustworthy application. Here we will discuss the procedure of how users can save word document as PDF in Office 2007.

Step: 1

Download 2007 Microsoft Office PDF or XPS add-in from official website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=9943

Step: 2

After clicking on download, a pop-up will appear with distinct options, select if you need any unless click on “No Thanks and Continue”

Step: 3

Download begins and following window will appear showing percentage of download

Step: 4

Now Open your MS Word and browse “save as” option you will notice “PDF or XPS” option

Step: 5

Click on ““PDF or XPS” option” and then a pop-up window will appear and you just need to rename the documents and the process to save word file as PDF in Office 2007 is completed.

Now you can save any number of Word documents to PDF file format without any hassle. This add-in is permanently added to your MS Word Office 2007 so now don’t need to look out for a Word to PDF converter.

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Top Most Safety Measures Must Know Before Shopping Online

We have run a survey before coming to the conclusion with large group of people of several locations of United States, United Kingdom, India and several other countries to know their favorite mode of shopping, the result came as a surprise because more than half amount of people has voted for online shopping.  The major reason behind people opting for online shopping is because it’s more convenient and they can shop from anywhere, anytime irrespective of any geographical location.

Although shopping online is a very frequent and convenient way to buy stuff over the internet but it still contains various cons that should be taken care of before sharing your personal information. So, here we will elaborate security tricks and tips that should be taken into consideration before online shopping.

7 Safety Measures Taken before Shopping Online/Internet Transaction

SSL Secured Website

Before buying stuff online and making online payment make sure the website is SSL secured i.e. its online payment page should open with https:// rather than http://. The best way to know whether the website is SSL certified or not open the website on your internet explorer there you will notice a locked icon nearby the site address which clarifies that the website is running on secured mode, here the“S” word signifies security. Mostly all e-commerce websites run with SSL feature in order to keep detail and personal information of their buyers secured.

Opt for Credit Card over Debit Card       

    

It is often recommended to make online transactions through credit card, either it’s for online shopping or for bill payment. It’s believed that credit card are much secured option for internet transactions due to advanced validations features embedded in credit card payment as well as encrypted mode provided with SSL certification. According to U.S. Law if you credit card is used unauthorized by someone then you are liable to pay an amount of $50 only, something which is not provided with either checks or money orders. That’s why its advised to link your PayPal account with your credit card rather than debit card for any online payment.

Users are still afraid to use their credit card for payment over the internet, so in order to tackle with this issue they can generate a substitute number or one-time-use card number for online purchase. Currently, various companies are offering their users a benefit to produce a single time use card number while making purchase, so immediately after making payment this number expires so nobody can misuse your card if someone steals it or you lost it.

Disposable Credit Card – Preferred Solution by Many Users

American Express and Visa card both come up with a unique trend of disposable credit card which similarly acts as a gift card. You can add any amount of dollar into it and can use it until the balance finishes from it. Once the amount gets over, you can either add some more dollars into it or can buy a new one. Even if somehow this disposable card gets stolen or lost then it becomes anonymous and a third person can never use the amount more than available on this card.

Track your Online Transactions

While doing online payment, you must always be more alert and should always keep a track of your all transactions. Don’t be wholly depends upon company’s confirmation email regarding an online payment. Rather, you should keep the track yourself which includes the order name along with other vital details like shipping address, purchase date etc. so that if any dispute happens you can easily deal with it. Often, after making an online payment, a summary page comes where all the necessary details are provided, so do save that page somewhere in your hard drive in order to cope up with future mishaps.

Computer/Laptop Protection is Must

Safety measure must be taken into account while shopping online, you should make sure you are not using any public computer like cyber café or anyother place while making online payment. If you are using your own machine, then the most important thing is “Firewall” you should always keep your firewall mode activated or enabled which helps in hiding your machine from hackers so that none of your important information could be obtained. Also block all software’s and viruses that could make your machine vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Never Store Important Information Elsewhere

The most important rule or tips of online shopping or payment is “never ever store your personal information on web”. Although there are various shopping sites that allow you an option to save your card information on their server in order to make shopping procedure much speedy, yes they are faster but it also contains the risk of your data security. Suppose, you have stored your information with an online shopping website that you mostly used to make online purchase, now some discrepancy happened in their entire database, now what? It simply states that your database is at risk, so to avoid these situations it’s better to manually enter your information each time.

Analyze your Seller First

This is also an important area of concern, where it is recommended to analyze the website and its reviews or feedbacks over the internet before buying any stuff from it. You must check their past track records or response of other users for that particular website. You should check if there’s any complaint registered against them. This basic information can be grabbed from internet. Also check out their private policies and also their contact information like location, contact person, contact number etc.

These are the top measures you should take while purchasing products online, if you will follow these secured tips and tricks while shopping online accurately, there wouldn’t be any need to ever worry about your internet transactions.

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Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie Features, Release Date and Compatible Devices

Android 4.4 (Kitkat) has hit the internet few days back and most of the top devices are updating their Smartphone with this latest version of Android. It’s been a year Android is having back to back updation. This series started off in June 2012 as 4.1 Jellybean, after that 4.2.2 update came up in November 2012 and it was first offered in Nexus 7 and it has several highly advanced features for users. In July 2013, Android 4.3 was launched which has numerous technically advanced characteristics and finally in April 2014 the most speculated Android 4.4.2 Kitkat hit the market. Upto now this was the most awaited android version that has hold the interest of many users across the globe.

Now when the Kitkat version of Android is launched everywhere so many biggest companies like Samsung, Sony, Google are doing their best to make available this latest version of Android for their highly end devices. Even though the Kitkat version of Android is now available for Smartphone to be downloaded, the upcoming Android 5.0 version has created a buzz in the online market.

Android 5.0 or you can say Key Lime Pie, the name is still under wraps and no official announcement was made by Google yet. Although this 5.0 version, was expected to be launched in 2013 but information about this upcoming version is still under cover. Nothing has been clearly announced about this Android 5.0 version, the major questions that are asked everywhere are:

1. When Android 5.0 is going to release?
2. How Android 5.0 is different from earlier versions of Android including latest 4.4.2 Kitkat update?
3. Who will be receiving Android Key Lime Pie Update?

Android 5.0 Release Date

Until Android 4.4 Kitkat was not updated, launch of Lime Pie was speculated to be in October 2013 but now when Kitkat itself gets live in 2014 April then the launch of Android 5.0 is now expected to be come in late 2014 like October or November, no official date has announced yet. According to the reports, Android 5.0 is one year late compared to the time expected for its release. Taylor Wimberly has quoted “Motorola soon be launching its Nexus Smartphone in the fourth quarter” i.e. going to be somewhere around October. So, probably we will get to see latest version of Nexus with Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie. 

Google is following its old strategy, an eminent update has come with Nexus 7 Tablet and a tiny update with Nexus 4. So, this year may they are planning to launch latest model of Nexus with Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, the reason why they are taking so much time for its launch could be that they wanted to make sure that this update would perfectly match up with upcoming Apple iOS 7.

Top Features of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie

There are not much features discussed openly, only speculations are being made. Some of the assumed features are:

Google Babble

This feature will probably add in Android 5.0, Babble is the name given to the code of Google cross platform and application, the distinct services provided by Google in the form of chats, Hangouts, Voice messenger, Google+, Google drive etc will be called as Google Babel.

Better Location Tracking

In the current Android version, many users are found complaining about Google fails in tracking their accurate information, so this trouble will be eliminated in the upcoming version.

Improved Voice Calling

There are various occasions, when users have to face problem in voice calling due to network coverage area of other issues. So, this trouble is expected to be improved.

Mobile Payments

This unique feature would be most probably embedded in the latest version of Android i.e. 5.0

App Launcher

There are rumors about Google providing this app with a patent, nothing has been confirmed yet.

Compatible Devices with Android 5.0

There is no official list has been provided by Google yet but there are some devices which are in the buzz of getting latest Android 5.0 update.  As we have discussed above that Google Nexus latest device may be launched with Key Lime Pie version, there are some more devices in the queue i.e. Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3,  Galaxy Note 8.0 Tablet, Galaxy Note 10.1 Tablet.

The list provided above is just a possibility there is no official statement has proclaimed. Android 5.0 key lime pie will be given to 5 devices but never elucidate which one. 

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Facebook Anonymous Login – Now Use Third Party Apps without Sharing Personal Information

Since the day Facebook has launched it has captured attention of millions of users around the globe, there are around more than 1 million active on this social network. Facebook has launched various features in the past as well to uphold the interest of its users like new user interface, new features introduced in privacy tab etc.

But this time Facebook has come up with a very strong and much needed feature named as “Anonymous Login”. This feature has given right to users to have control over information they share with third party apps. It will encourage users to use these apps as they can easily use these apps without any fear of having their personal information misused.

 “In upcoming months the team of Facebook will launch a newly designed dashboard that gives users an access to manage or remove the third party application connected with their social profiles” Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook , told this news in conference of about 1700 people.

Top Announcements Made on Facebook’s F8 Conference 

Network Ads for Audience

This is one of the most waited features of Facebook where it allows advertisers a way to expand their campaign ads into other mobile apps apart from Facebook . In coming time, FAN (Facebook Audience Network) will take in distinct modes of traffic that comes from web. This network will successfully works with interstitial ads, banner ads as well as native ads. It will be one of the biggest moves for Facebook as they will move Facebook’s proprietor web properties into other mobile applications.

New Mobile like Button

A new feature is lined up for launch so that users can like and share a particular post with their network using their company’s mobile app. It will also include a feature of “send to mobile” that will download the app directly from web Facebook to mobile Facebook and also a newly designed dialogue box will be available for developers.

User Permission

This option comes in with new anonymous login feature which is explained below and it will included in advanced permission which provides an advantage to users to be much choosy about the information that they share with other apps using Facebook login.

AppLinks

This is also a unique feature for users but a typical one for developers to develop as it’s a new scheme which will permit to have a deep linking among native applications. The URL will check if the compatible applications with the device are installed it or not and if not ten it will automatically load it on mobile if it’s available.

Anonymous Login – Most Spectacular Feature

So from now on, whenever users go to a third party site they will get an additional feature of “login as anonymous” so that they don’t need to fill in their personal data. Facebook is one of the most eminent and popular social platform that holds the largest number of users across the world. Developer of third party app/website allows users to sign in with their Facebook account, in this way it makes the things easier for users as they don’t have to go through the of sign up and verification procedure and for developers the plus point is they get the data of Facebook like your profile, picture which they can use in order to power their apps.

The main reason of launching this app is to continue interest and trust of users in using external apps. As whenever any user use an app that asks for your personal details and access over your accounts and news feed, they also have a fear in their mind pertaining to the privacy of their data and also spam that can affect their friend circle.

As with “Anonymous login” your information won’t be tracked with them but there will be one person who will have complete track of your every steps and that person is none other than “Facebook” itself. That means even though you login as an anonymous users but Facebook will still jot down all your activities like if you are signing in a dating site despite of being married, then Facebook will know it.

So, now users can feel more secured while using a third party app with their Facebook account as they can have complete control over the data they share by choosing “log-in as “anonymous” feature.

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How to Create New Profile in Outlook – A Step by Step Procedure

MS Outlook is an email client comes with a package of Office Suite. There are various application offered with MS Office suite out of which MS Outlook is one. The latest version of Outlook is 2013 and for Mac its Outlook 2011.

It can also be used as a standalone application and smoothly works with Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server that serves the need of multiple users of an organization.

Now the question arises how users can add email accounts or create profile in Outlook in order to use it as their email client. There are precise steps to configure Outlook with the desired email ids i.e. either an Exchange mailbox or any online email clients like Gmail, Yahoo and Rediff Mail etc.

Check Here Steps to Create a New Outlook Profile

1. In Microsoft Windows Pane, Click on Start and the Select Control Panel
   
   
   
2. Click on Users Account and then Select “Mail” Option
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Following Window will pop up, Click on Show Profiles Option and then “Add”
   
   
   
   
   
4. Now, fill profile name as per your need and click on “Ok”
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Now the following window will appear, fill the required details
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. After entering the details like Name, Email ID and password, Click on “Next”
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Following window will appear showing the procedure of creating Outlook profile
   
   
   
8. Once the process is completed, congratulation window will appear, Click on “Finish”
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
9. Below screenshot shows that profile is successfully added in Outlook, now click on “Ok
   
   
   
   
   
   
10. Open your Outlook account and it shows that your Email account is successfully added with Outlook account.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

How to Set up Another Profile in Outlook for New Mailbox

Users can add multiple email accounts in Outlook and can create more than one profile in MS Outlook. Now if you want to add a second profile in Outlook, follow the given steps:

1. Click on Start >> Control Panel >> User Account >> Mail
2. Now Click on Show Profile Options and then Add
   
   
3. A new profile is added now you can view two profiles showing in the given screenshot
   
   
4. From the two options given in the end, click on “Prompt Profile” option and click on “Ok”
   
   
   
5. Now when you will open the Outlook, you will get a prompt window asking for choose desired profile to enter, shown in the below screen
   
   

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How Google Penalty Can Adversely Affects your Online Presence

Google penalty can cause a sever loss to your website and can badly effect your online business. There are various reasons when a penalty is uplifted to a website i.e. may be a site owner has used some manipulative methods to gain the good ranking in Google search results or may be put a false impression on Google by employing black hat techniques.

Today, the biggest challenge before Webmaster or site owners is, how to rank their website on top 10. Some techniques which are absolutely approved by Google and come under white hat but some are strictly prohibited and can cause severe damage if not followed correctly. Although Google has explained all the required terms and conditions in its Webmaster Guidelines but still some webmasters forbids the warning and hence face the penalization.

Now we will discuss the top penalty which can completely evaporate you from Google search even from the indexing.

Top 5 Google Penalties

Manual Penalty

Manual penalty is levied on a website when someone from the Google team manually reviews your website and found something fishy in it. If any of the Google guidelines are breached or manipulated then Google takes a serious action on those websites and can demote the ranking of it in search results or even remove it from their index. Whenever a penalty is imposed on a website, webmaster gets a message from Google in their WMT (Webmaster Tool) account.

Google Panda

It first came in February 2011 and brought a prominent change in the history of SEO. This penalty was related with “Content” and it influenced the ranking of large no. of websites. After this penalty hit the web, all the websites, blogs, directories etc who had low quality content or duplicate content got skeptically affected. All the ranking that these sites were holding since long became invisible and some of them faced permanently de-indexing from Google.

Google Penguin

Google Penguin at first hit the market in April 2012 and shifted the whole working strategy of backlinks creation into a different direction. This update majorly focuses on “Links” as we all know that approx 30-40% SEO is based on backlinks, so this updation affects the ranking of the websites that had backlinks coming from low quality websites or link farming or content farming site generally. Site having paid links were also became victim in this penguin update.

EMD (Exact Match Domain)

This penalty was introduced back in 2012 (September) and its motive is to stop the advantages that websites were having because of the presence of keywords in their domain name. Prior, having targeted keywords in your domain name was an added advantage for website owners as they get the privilege to rank on that keyword in top search results. Later Google observed that huge number of websites are ranking on top results not because of their quality content and strong backlinks but because they have keywords in its domain. So they brought in EMD update which has a motive to lower the rank of all those websites which has exact match keywords in their domain but failed to maintain the quality in it.

Humming Bird

Hummingbird is not a penalty but it’s more of an update introduced in September 2013. It is basically presented in order to make Google search more interactive and direct. Via this update Google is pushing search results in strategic way and preventing black hat techniques from being employed. It is beneficial for long tail keyword like queries related with how to, why so, what are etc.

Above the Fold Penalty

This penalty was enforced on websites having ads on the top section and the useful content in visible after that. There are websites that are showing ads before the content which affects the users experience and they don’t get what they were looking for. Google examines this trouble from the root and came up with a solution in the form of Above the Folder penalty which penalizes the websites having too much ad in their upper section.

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