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You used to have great rankings for your website, it showed up everywhere in the search engines, and you were receiving lots of traffic that was generating emails, phone calls, leads, and sales. Then something happened, you’re not quite sure what, and the leads and sales dried up. You check your analytics reports and see a sudden and distinct loss in traffic.

Now you’re alarmed. You check your rankings, and they've gone down or disappeared entirely. At this point you’re not just alarmed, you’re terrified. How could this have happened? More importantly, what can be done to fix the problem and get the leads and sales flowing again?

Note: If your thinking sounds like what I've described above, then you’re not only a victim of lost rankings, but perhaps of ranking obsession. Rankings are not the most important SEO metric, and you might be focusing on rankings to the point where it’s counterproductive. That said, rankings are still important, so let’s continue.

Rankings can fall for various reasons. Sometimes it’s due to a mistake that could have been prevented. It might have less to do with what you’re doing than what your competition is doing. In other cases a drop in rankings is the natural and temporary result of an intentional action on your part. Here are 10 reasons you might experience a drop in rankings and what you can do in each case.

1. You’re tracking the wrong rankings. In recent years there has been a shift toward “natural language” when it comes to searches, that is, people typing, or increasingly speaking, complete sentences into search engines, rather than just a few keywords. If you’re only tracking generic keywords, it might be that your keyword strategy is outdated. The people who are looking for you are using new keywords or phrases, and you need to update your keyword strategy.

2. The Google “dance”. It’s normal for rankings to fluctuate. Not just from one day to the next, but from one computer to another, one location to another, and based on a host of other variables. Google is constantly testing every variable it can detect by changing search results. This is part of why it’s counterproductive to focus too heavily on specific rankings. Your SEO firm may give you a ranking report, but if you check the rankings on your own computer they may be different, simply because the report was run from a different computer. Or because the rankings have changed since yesterday. Generally rankings that aren’t subject to other forces on this list won’t vary too much, but the Google dance might be the only logical explanation for small drops in rankings.

3. New website. If you launch a new design for an existing website you can expect your rankings to drop, regardless of what you do to prepare for that launch, and regardless of how much better the new website is, in terms of SEO, than the old one. To minimize the drop in rankings make sure a proper 301 redirect plan is in place. Make sure the new website is well optimized prior to launching it. But be prepared for the rankings to drop, at least temporarily.
Generally the rankings will recover within 1-2 months, if not quite a bit faster.

4. New website no longer. You launched a redesigned website to replace an old one and the rankings went down, and then came back up quickly, even higher than they were before, and now they’ve gone back down slightly. Or you launched a brand new website, and after a few weeks your website shot to the top of the rankings, and then dropped back down–a lot. This is also a common occurrence. The key is to be patient, and invest in best practices SEO. Long term rankings require long term work.

5. Low quality links. Now, with various updates made by the search engines to stop what they see as “search engine spamming,” websites with large quantities of low quality links pointing to them are seeing their rankings drop or disappear entirely. Google says if your site is being harmed by links you don’t directly control, “You should…make every effort to clean up unnatural links pointing to your site.” As a matter of last resort, you can disallow those links.

6. Losing good links. A drop in rankings might be due to losing high quality links. Perhaps those websites or webpages disappeared, or the link to your website was removed. Whatever the cause, the solution is to continually be building high quality links. And when I say “building,” I mean attracting, because the best links come naturally.
How do you attract high quality links? By creating amazing content, or merely helpful content, that people find interesting enough to share.

7. Bad hosting. Switch to a low quality hosting company, or a company whose data center isn’t in the ideal place to provide fast page loads for your site visitors, and you can end up with user behavior on your site that tells search engines they should rank other websites before yours. The solution is to make sure the majority of your website visitors have a fast, snappy experience on your website by hosting the site in close proximity to your visitors, where possible, and paying enough to have your website on a server that isn’t bogged down with 5,000 other websites.

8. Incorrect robots.txt file. I made a mistake in the robots.txt file of a blog I owned and managed. In effect, I told the search engines to ignore my website and not let anyone find it. Whoops. My traffic dried up almost entirely. The good news is that once I noticed the problem and fixed my mistake, the rankings came back within a few days, a few weeks in some cases. Make sure you employ best practices for your robots.txt file, and don’t make typos.

9. Competitors. Search engine rankings are a zero sum game. For any given keyword if one website’s ranking improves, at least one other website’s ranking must go down. This is part of why SEO services are ongoing, rather than provided just once. Your website is never fully optimized, because your competitors are constantly improving their websites. It’s an eternal game of king of the mountain, and the only way to stay on top is continual effort.

10. Google update. Thousands of PhDs are employed at Google working to improve their search algorithm. The algorithm is updates hundreds of times each year, with some of those updates being large and disruptive, while most are minor in impact. The larger updates usually receive some sort of animal-themed name, such as Penguin, Panda, or Hummingbird. The point is, when Google makes an update, it changes rankings negatively for the websites that aren’t in compliance. To avoid death by Google update, follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines as best practices, and engage only in white hat SEO tactics. This is the path to rankings that will generate traffic now as well as three years from now.

Have you experienced a drop in rankings due to reasons other than those listed above? Tell us about it in the comments.

See more - http://www.techskulz.com/2015/01/10-reasons-your-seo-rankings-dropped.html

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Most Android users usually complain that their Android phone is very hot sometimes if they are browsing with it or charging it. My friends usually complain of these mostly and I try to think what is making it to be that hot. My own initiative before was that they use the phone too much or over usage of the phone.

A friend ask me and said “Monday anytime I am using my phone it is very hot and whenever I am also charging it the same thing happens and what could be the cause?" My answer to him then was I don’t know and what I think will cause it is over usage of the phone. So I decided to find out and do some research about it and I find out in a post published by techbrainbox what the possible problem and solution is.
Possible problem is that you must check if there is no problem with the battery and if the battery is rotates on the smooth surface that indicates that there is no problem with it.
If the battery is okay it indicates that the battery hot problem is cause by application running underground. You will need to check all apps and kill the apps running underground that is not useful to you.

Below is a possible solution I find out
Go to settings in your phone and click on general and click on applications and then select the app that you want to disable and auto sync and disable it.
Also reduce the screen brightness of your phone because high screen resolution also makes battery hot.
Also ensure that your phone is up to date and to do that click on settings and select more and select about device then select software update and click on updates.
To also update all your phone apps go to play store app and select my apps and click update all.

Hope this solve your battery problem.
- See more at: http://www.techskulz.com/2015/01/my-android-phone-is-very-hot-how-to.html#sthash.n22IsKrS.dpuf

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Nice post OP

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Any man that uses his teeth to cut shaki from pepper soup, with his eyes wide open, is not afraid of anything - Williams Shakespeare (1900)
Anyone who graduates without experiencing a strike, has never been to Nigeria - Lord Lugard (1904)
He who refuses to mix agege bread and akara as a type of sandwich is a racist - Martin Luther King jnr (1788)
Any man who drinks Alomo bitters without squeezing his face, is capable of murder - Michael Faraday (1899)
Drinking Garri doesn't mean u're poor, but allowing the Garri to swell b4 drinking is poverty - Queen Elizabeth (1893)
He who runs around looking 4 scissors to cut indomine seasoning sachet is not hungry - Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (1947)
No matter how hot your temper is, it cannot cook yam - Goodluck Jonathan (2013)
Anyone who reads this without laughing is either looking 4 job or needs money Badly - Barack Obama (2014).

See more - http://brainacblog..com/2014/12/just-some-inspiration-but-funny.html

Google adsense is no doubt one of the highest earning paid per click platform where website owners (publishers) place their ad code on their website and generate income from every click in the advert displayed in your website.
But as you may observe getting an approved Google adsense is very hard due to Google terms and condition. But today I will be showing you some few steps that will give u a boost in letting Google approve you quickly as you might think. Although I got mine approved within 17 days of blogging with just 15 posts.
Here are the steps below that you will follow to get an approved adsense account

Step 1: Open a blog on any platform either on blogger, WordPress or other platform.

Step 2: Acquire a domain name not a sub-domain name. Domain name include .com, .net and so on.

Step 3: Use an SEO friendly template.

Step 4: Post up to 20 solid and genuine post not copy and paste post. Type your post by yourself and always make sure that you have an idea of what you are posting about and not typing another person post and if you must type another person post always make sure that you add a source back to them and always make sure that you post regularly.

Step 4: Do some SEO in your blog and submit your site to search engine for search engine traffic and also generate direct traffic or paid traffic to your site examples is Facebook ads.

Step 5: Wait for like 21 days and apply for Google adsense and see the magic work for you.

If these steps above are been followed you are on a sure way of getting an approved Google adsense account.

See more - http://www.techskulz.com/2014/12/how-to-get-approved-adsense-account.html

Google adsense is no doubt one of the highest earning paid per click platform where website owners (publishers) place their ad code on their website and generate income from every click in the advert displayed in your website.
But as you may observe getting an approved Google adsense is very hard due to Google terms and condition. But today I will be showing you some few steps that will give u a boost in letting Google approve you quickly as you might think. Although I got mine approved within 17 days of blogging with just 15 posts.
Here are the steps below that you will follow to get an approved adsense account

Step 1: Open a blog on any platform either on blogger, WordPress or other platform.

Step 2: Acquire a domain name not a sub-domain name. Domain name include .com, .net and so on.

Step 3: Use an SEO friendly template.

Step 4: Post up to 20 solid and genuine post not copy and paste post. Type your post by yourself and always make sure that you have an idea of what you are posting about and not typing another person post and if you must type another person post always make sure that you add a source back to them and always make sure that you post regularly.

Step 4: Do some SEO in your blog and submit your site to search engine for search engine traffic and also generate direct traffic or paid traffic to your site examples is Facebook ads.

Step 5: Wait for like 21 days and apply for Google adsense and see the magic work for you.

If these steps above are been followed you are on a sure way of getting an approved Google adsense account.

See more - http://www.techskulz.com/2014/12/how-to-get-approved-adsense-account.html

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hello,
that gif image is blocking the upper menus...it would be nice if the image is smaller

reduce it at this code section
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'height:98px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'width: 1920px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'right: 120px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'top: 20px;';

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any need for the whole code when one can just create a flashy gif image and upload it

The whole code is to make it appear in every page of your blog just check the PC view of my blog and see what i am saying

As the Christmas is fast approaching so are bloggers designing their blog to have a fancy looks to their readers. Adding it to a blog is very easy and can be done with just a minute or two.
To add it click on layout in your blogger dashboard and click on add a Gadget and click on HTML/JAVASCRIPT and enter the code below in the empty widget box

<SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript>
//<![CDATA[
var Ovr2='';
if(typeof document.compatMode!='undefined'&&document.compatMode!='BackCompat')
{cot_t1_DOCtp="_top:expression(document.documentElement.scrollTop+document.documentElement.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);_left:expression(document.documentElement.scrollLeft + document.documentElement.clientWidth - offsetWidth);}";}
else
{cot_t1_DOCtp="_top:expression(document.body.scrollTop+document.body.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);_left:expression(document.body.scrollLeft + document.body.clientWidth - offsetWidth);}";}

if(typeof document.compatMode!='undefined'&&document.compatMode!='BackCompat')
{cot_t1_DOCtp2="_top:expression(document.documentElement.scrollTop-20+document.documentElement.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);}";}
else
{cot_t1_DOCtp2="_top:expression(document.body.scrollTop-20+document.body.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);}";}
var cot_tl_bodyCSS='* html {background: fixed;background-repeat: repeat;background-position: left top;}';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS='#cot_tl_fixed{position:fixed;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'_position:absolute;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'top:0px;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'left:0px;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'clip:rect(0 100 85 0);';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+cot_t1_DOCtp;
var cot_tl_popCSS='#cot_tl_pop {background-color: transparent;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'position:fixed;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'_position:absolute;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'height:98px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'width: 1920px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'right: 120px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'top: 20px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'overflow: hidden;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'visibility: hidden;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'z-index: 99999;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+cot_t1_DOCtp2;
document.write('<style type="text/css">'+cot_tl_bodyCSS+cot_tl_fixedCSS+cot_tl_popCSS+'</style>');


function COT(cot_tl_theLogo,cot_tl_LogoType,LogoPosition,theAffiliate)
{document.write('<div id="cot_tl_fixed">');
document.write('<><img src='+cot_tl_theLogo+' alt="" border="0"></a>');
document.write('</div>');}

//if(window.location.protocol == "http:"
COT("http://www.honeybearplayhomes.com/resources/flashing%20christmas%20lights.gif", "SC2", "none";
//]]>
</SCRIPT>


Click Save and you are done and the flashing light should start displaying in your blog.
see more at - http://www.techskulz.com/2014/12/how-to-add-flashing-christmas-light-to.html

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As the Christmas is fast approaching so are bloggers designing their blog to have a fancy looks to their readers. Adding it to a blog is very easy and can be done with just a minute or two.
To add it click on layout in your blogger dashboard and click on add a Gadget and click on HTML/JAVASCRIPT and enter the code below in the empty widget box

<SCRIPT language=javascript type=text/javascript>
//<![CDATA[
var Ovr2='';
if(typeof document.compatMode!='undefined'&&document.compatMode!='BackCompat')
{cot_t1_DOCtp="_top:expression(document.documentElement.scrollTop+document.documentElement.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);_left:expression(document.documentElement.scrollLeft + document.documentElement.clientWidth - offsetWidth);}";}
else
{cot_t1_DOCtp="_top:expression(document.body.scrollTop+document.body.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);_left:expression(document.body.scrollLeft + document.body.clientWidth - offsetWidth);}";}

if(typeof document.compatMode!='undefined'&&document.compatMode!='BackCompat')
{cot_t1_DOCtp2="_top:expression(document.documentElement.scrollTop-20+document.documentElement.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);}";}
else
{cot_t1_DOCtp2="_top:expression(document.body.scrollTop-20+document.body.clientHeight-this.clientHeight);}";}
var cot_tl_bodyCSS='* html {background: fixed;background-repeat: repeat;background-position: left top;}';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS='#cot_tl_fixed{position:fixed;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'_position:absolute;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'top:0px;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'left:0px;';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+'clip:rect(0 100 85 0);';
var cot_tl_fixedCSS=cot_tl_fixedCSS+cot_t1_DOCtp;
var cot_tl_popCSS='#cot_tl_pop {background-color: transparent;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'position:fixed;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'_position:absolute;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'height:98px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'width: 1920px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'right: 120px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'top: 20px;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'overflow: hidden;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'visibility: hidden;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+'z-index: 99999;';
var cot_tl_popCSS=cot_tl_popCSS+cot_t1_DOCtp2;
document.write('<style type="text/css">'+cot_tl_bodyCSS+cot_tl_fixedCSS+cot_tl_popCSS+'</style>');


function COT(cot_tl_theLogo,cot_tl_LogoType,LogoPosition,theAffiliate)
{document.write('<div id="cot_tl_fixed">');
document.write('<><img src='+cot_tl_theLogo+' alt="" border="0"></a>');
document.write('</div>');}

//if(window.location.protocol == "http:"
COT("http://www.honeybearplayhomes.com/resources/flashing%20christmas%20lights.gif", "SC2", "none";
//]]>
</SCRIPT>


Click Save and you are done and the flashing light should start displaying in your blog.
See more at - http://www.techskulz.com/2014/12/how-to-add-flashing-christmas-light-to.html

Alexa listing or ranking of a website is based on proving the ownership of a site. And to prove the ownership of the site there are some things required of you to do either by uploading some content to your site or adding a Meta tag to your site html.
Alexa rank both globally and locally. Globally is how your site rank internationally while locally is how your site ranks in your country.
Once your site is been verified by Alexa it will start showing in your dashboard and you can edit the listing of your website information.

Below are the steps on how to claim your website free with Alexa

Step 1. Sign up with Alexa or alternatively you can sign in with your Facebook account
Step 2. Click on add site on your dashboard

Step 3. Click on check pricing

Step 4.Scroll down to the page and click on the claim a site and this will take you to another new page with this address http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/claim

Step 5. Select method 2 and copy the Meta tag and add it to the <head> section of your html homepage
How to add it to the html template
For blogger blog click on your blogger dashboard and click on template and click on edit template and add the code given to you by Alexa above the <head> section of your html editor.
For wordpress blog go to appearance and click on editor and you will find header.php, paste the code above it.

After adding the code to your template go back to Alexa and click on verify my ID and if successfully verified it will appear that your site was successfully claimed and the claimed will appear next to your site name in the Alexa dashboard and you are done.

If you encounter any problem claiming your site with Alexa kindly notify me with the comment box below.

See more - http://www.techskulz.com/2014/12/claiming-your-site-with-alexa-free-how.html

StumbleUpon is one of the best surest ways to gain traffic to a blog or website. StumbleUpon is a social media platform that can drive huge amount of traffic to your website. StumbleUpon enables webmaster and site visitors to share content to it and thereby engaging many people to your blog, but if not followed properly you will not get the required traffic you wish to get from there.

Here is just six (6) of what you need to know to get you started.

1. Create decent unique and attracting title and description: Before you type any post content make sure that the title you are using for the content is attractive enough that will force visitors to click on your link and visit your blog to read your content. Also write a good description for your content that is attractive enough for visitors to visit your site.

2. Be active: To become a successful man/woman in a business environment you need to be active in the business and take adequate measures toward your business to help you succeed. So also is blogging, For you to succeed in blogging you need traffic and without quality traffic you can’t become the blogger you wish to be. So to get the required traffic you wish to get from StumbleUpon, you need to take your time to build an attractive profile and always stay active on it, also share your newly updated blog post, stumble on some topic, ask question and start discussion within the people in your profile.

3. Friends Making: If you want improvement in your traffic from StumbleUpon you have take time to met users of the site, by doing so you will have to build a friendship with the other StumbleUpon members, get to know them and also let them get to know you.

4. Use link shortener: Link shortener like su.pr is a service provided by StumbleUpon It include the StumbleUpon share widget that can enable your visitors easily share your content to StumbleUpon and within just a short time you will see the dramatic change in your traffic.

5. Create a single unique user identity: Many bloggers all in the name of getting traffic create multiple identity on different social networking website. If you cheat on StumbleUpon with that you are just doing yourself harm because the traffic being sent to your website at the moment are just temporary but if you create a single unique user identity and engage yourself with other members of the website you will see a great improvement to your traffic not just temporary visitors but visitors that will always come back to your website to read your newly updated post.

6. Using StumbleUpon badges: Using StumbleUpon badges on your website can also increase your traffic. StumbleUpon badges make it easy for visitors to comment and also share your entire content to StumbleUpon easily.

NB: If you are really keen about improving your blog traffic then just apply the step above and watch the dramatic change in your traffic and if you have any question just use the comment form below.
- See more at: http://www.techskulz.com/2014/12/6-sure-ways-to-increase-traffic-with.html#sthash.qcI2AHAQ.dpuf