Also, there are a lot of Softwares and Plugins which allow publishers to create AutoBlogs. Auto-Blogs are basically blogs which get updated automatically using the content from other sites. When, pre-mentioned websites get updated, the content in the Autoblogs is also updated.

So, the AutoBlogs have continuous source of Content without any moderation by the user. We can call such sites as a hub of Copied Auto-generated content. (they do give credits to the original source most of the times)

Many Publishers use Adsense Ads for monetizing such blogs. But, according to Google Adsense policies, it is not allowed. The recent Blog post on the Adsense Blog clearly mentions:

We don’t allow sites with auto-generated or otherwise unoriginal content to participate in the AdSense program. This is to ensure that our users are benefiting from a unique online experience and that our advertisers are partnering with useful and relevant sites.

It must be taken as a warning by publishers who use Google Adsense on sites with Copied or Auto-generated content. As the Adsense team has made it clear, your Account may be in danger. So, take proper care of your Adsense account as getting banned from Adsense may be the worst set-back in your Blogging career.

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There have been quite a few new Tags which are being introduced in HTML 5 which were not present in the earlier versions of HTML. Also, about 15 tags have been removed from the list. Lets us know about the New Tags here:

<article> Tag

The tag defines external content. The external content could be a news-article from an external provider, or a text from a web log (blog), or a text from a forum, or any other content from an external source.

<aside> Tag

The tag defines some content aside from the content it is placed in. The aside content should be related to the surrounding content.

<audio> Tag

The tag defines sound, such as music or other audio streams.

<canvas> Tag

The <canvas> tag is used to display graphics. The <canvas> tag is only a container for graphics, you must use a script to actually paint graphics.

<command> Tag

The <command> tag defines a command button, like a radiobutton, a checkbox, or a button. The command element must be inside a menu element. If not, it will not be displayed.

<datalist> Tag

The <datalist> tag defines a list of options. Use this element together with the input element, to define which values the input element can have. The datalist and its options will not be displayed, it is only a list of legal input values. Use the input element’s list attribute to bind it together with a datalist.

<details> Tag

The <details> tag is used to describe details about a document, or parts of a document.

<embed> Tag

The <embed> tag defines embedded content, such as a plug-in.

<figcaption> Tag

The <figcaption> tag contains a caption for the “figure” element. The “figcaption” element should be placed as the first or the last child of the “figure” element.

<figure> Tag

The <figure> tag is used to group some elements. The content inside a figure element is stand-alone content, typically used to explain parts of a document, but also able to move from the document and put somewhere else.

<footer> Tag

The <footer> tag defines the footer of a section or document. Typically contains the name of the author, the date the document was written and/or contact information.

<header> Tag

The <header> tag defines an introduction to the document.

<hgroup> Tag

The <hgroup> tag defines the heading of a section or a document. The hgroup element is used to group headers, <h1> to <h6>, where the largest is the main heading of the section, and the others are sub-headings.

<keygen> Tag

The <keygen> tag defines a generated key.

<mark> Tag

The <mark> tag defines marked text. Use the <mark> tag if you want to highlight parts of your text.

<meter> Tag

The <meter> tag defines a measurement. Used only for measurements with a known minimum and maximum value.

<nav> Tag

The <nav> tag defines a section of navigation.

<output> Tag

The <output> tag defines different types of output, such as output written by a script.

<progress> Tag

The <progress> tag defines work-in-progress. Use the progress element to display the progress of a time consuming function in JavaScript.

<rp> Tag

The <rp> tag is used in ruby annotations, to define what to show browsers that do not support the ruby element. A ruby annotation is Chinese notes or characters. Used in East Asia, to show the pronunciation of East Asian characters.

<rt> Tag

The <rt> tag defines an explanation or pronunciation of characters (Chinese notes or characters). Used in East Asia, to show the pronunciation of East Asian characters.

<ruby> Tag

The <ruby> tag defines a ruby annotation (Chinese notes or characters). Used in East Asia, to show the pronunciation of East Asian characters. Use together with the <rt> and/or the <rp> tags:

The ruby element consists of one or more characters (that needs an explanation/pronunciation), and a rt element that gives that information, and optionally a rp element that defines what to show browsers that do not support the “ruby” tag.

<section> Tag

The <section> tag defines sections in a document. Such as chapters, headers, footers, or any other sections of the document.

<source> Tag

The <source> tag defines media resources for media elements, such as <video> and <audio>.

<summary> Tag

The <summary> tag contains a header for the “details” element, which is used to describe details about a document, or parts of a document.

<time> Tag

The <time> tag defines a time or a date, or both.

<video> Tag

The <video> tag defines video, such as a movie clip or other video streams.

I would like to hear from you all, How do you think these latest Tags and Web-development and Designing practices are going to change the People who Design Web Pages?

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<acronym> Tag

The <acronym> tag was used to define acronyms in HTML 4. An acronym can be spoken as if it were a word, example NATO, NASA, ASAP, GUI.

<applet> Tag

The <applet> tag was used to define an embedded applet. You can use the<object> Tag instead of it now!

<basefont> Tag

The <basefont> tag was used to define a default font-color, font-size, or font-family for all the text in a document. But we can use CSS for this purpose now!

<big> Tag

The <big> tag was used to make text bigger.

<center> Tag

The <center> tag was used to center align text and content. We can use CSS for this purpose now.

<dir> Tag

The <dir> tag was used to define a directory list. But we can still use the <ol> and <ul> Tags.

<font> Tag

The <font> tag was used to define font face, font size, and font color of text. It was among the most used tags in HTML 4 but we have to use CSS for this purpose now.

<frame> Tag

The <frame> tag was used to define one particular window (frame) within a frameset.

<frameset> Tag

The <frameset> tag was used to define a frameset, which organized multiple windows (frames).

Note: The Frame and Frameset tags are removed because it hinders the usability of the web-page. Also, it has negative SEO implications.

<noframes> Tag

The <noframes> tag was used to display text for browsers that do not handle frames. When frames are not supported then there is no need for noframes.

<s> Tag and <strike> Tag

The <s> and <strike> tags were used to define strike-through the text. We can still use <del> instead. Also, it can be handled using CSS.

<tt> Tag

The <tt> tag was used to define teletype text. But now we can use CSS for this purpose.

<u> Tag

The <u> tag was used to define underlined text. But now we need to use CSS.

<xmp> Tag

The <xmp> tag was used to define pre-formatted text. But we can still use the <pre> tag for this purpose.

Do let me know, if you know any more tags that do not function with HTML5. You can always try the Online HTML Editor !

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Now when I can see some cash flowing in, I don’t really mind investing some money in my blog. Actually, I had purchased this Premium hosting account from Dreamhost more than a month back. But it was not getting activated as my debit card was not billed correctly. So, I had to use a Credit card of my friend for paying the money and getting my Account activated.

You may not be unaware of the various problems I faced on a Free web-host. Firstly, My database used to get deleted after each week! And it used to get restored too, after a day or two. I know how fear used to creep inside me when I used to see the “Error establishing Database connection” message on the Homepage of my blog.

If this was not enough, it once happened that the “wp_posts” table of my Database got corrupted. This is the most important table of the WordPress database as it contains all the Articles you have written on your blog. I was about to faint when I came to know about this. Thankfully, Piyush helped me with the problem.

Also, the Free web-host dint allow me to host RAR and ZIP files for my readers to Download. It used to redirect to some promotional offer when they clicked on the link. Also, A warning on some pages would be shown that some of the features have been disabled because the Website is using Free Web-hosting. You can also refer to the SEO disadvantages because of using a free Web-Host.

I hope that Dreamhost does not give me any such problems and if I make the desired progress, the day is not far when Tech-Freak Stuff will be hosted on its own Private Server.

I have shifted successfully to Dreamhost premium hosting keeping all the factors related to SEO in my mind. I have done the necessary changes in the “Preferred Domain” option in the Webmaster tools [You can observe that now my domain name is no longer http://techfreakstuff.com, it is changed to http://www.techfreakstuff.com]

I just hope that you guys learn from my experience if you are still hosted on a free web-host. Make the move to a premium hosting as soon as possible! Just don’t wait till something really bad hurts your Website or Blog. To get discount on Dreamhost hosting accounts you may use the Discount Coupon code TFS70 . You will get a 50$ discount when you purchase any hosting from Dreamhost and also a Domain Name registration of any domain you want for One year. [This is the Maximum discount which Dreamhost normally offers, don't be fooled by anyone if they try to offer you some added discounts]

Now its high time I start posting cool stuff consistently here. I am looking forward to your support and increased participation. Thanks and Lots of love!

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The submissions pages of other search engines are difficult to find and so we are giving you a ready made list of about a hundred Second Tier search engines.

Submit your Website to these search engines for free and get additional traffic.

Big Finder – Submission Page
Search Hippo (requires free registration) – Submission Page
Web Squash – Submission Page
W8 Search – Submission Page
Tower Search (requires registration) – Submission Page
Burf – Submission Page
Exalead – Submission Page
guruji – Submission Page
Gigablast – Submission Page
Entireweb – Submission Page
FyberSearch – Submission Page
MixCat – Submission Page
OneSeek – Submission Page
WhatUseek – Submission Page
Scrub The Web – Submission Page
Search Site – Submission Page
Infotiger – Submission Page
SonicRun – Submission Page
Abacho – Submission Page
Acoon.com – Submission Page
Amfibi – Submission Page
homerweb – Submission Page
JGDO – Submission Page
Myahint – Submission Page
Walhello – Submission Page
Baidu (in Chinese, but pretty easy to figure out) – Submission Page
Google – Submission Page
Yahoo – (reguires free registration) – Submission Page
MSN/LIVE – Submission Page
Search-O-Rama – Submission Page
Igwanna – Submission Page
Cipinet – Submission Page
Navisso – Submission Page
AxxaSearch – Submission Page
Dino Search (for kids sites only) – Submission Page
Boitho – Submission Page
Gheto Search – Submission Page
Intel Seek – Submission Page
My Prowler – Site Submission
Search Ramp – Site Submission
Ultimate Web Search – Site Submission
Find Once – Submission Page
Net Search – Submission Page
Susy Search – Submission Page
iASK – Submission Page
ZhongSou.com – Submission Page
Famhoo (family friendly search) – Submission Page
ExactSeek (requires registration) – Submission Page
AcrossCan (Canadian sites only) – Submission Page
Megaglobe – Submission Page
AnooX – Submission Page
Alexa – Submission Page
Aesop – Submission Page
Shoula! Search – Submission Page
NetSearch – Submission Page
Claymont Search – Submission Page
Really Big Search (requires registration) – Submission Page
Search Engine XXX (not adult – requires registration) – Submission Page
shazee (requires registration) – Submission Page
amidalla – Submit Page
Wedoo.com (requires registration) – Submit Page
Stopdog – Submission Page
searchengine.com – Submission Page
eXactBot – Submission Page

Web Portal Guide – Submission Page
Search Blast – Submission Page
The Seek Portal – Submission Page
Find That Website – Submission Page
Search It Guide – Submission Page
Find Similar Pages – Submission Page
Smart Search Guide – Submission Page
Klik Point – Submission Page
Hi Seek – Submission Page
Hot Site Search – Submission Page
More Web Search – Submission Page
Peak Search – Submission Page
Prime Search Results – Submission
Page
Search Box – Submission Page
Ifernatix Solutions – Submission Page
The Original Search Engine – Submission Page
amele – Submission Page
AZ to ZA – Submission Page
Dr. Search – Submission Page
Help You Search – Submission Page
My Search Pilot – Submission Page
Therbo Search – Submission Page
Search Engine Tool – Submission Page
Your Reply – Submission Page
Mouse Click – Submission Page
Dash Launch – Submission Page
All Best Search – Submission Page
Better Internet Search – Submission Page
I Need Search – Submission Page
Local Search Engine – Submission Page
Ask the Search Guru – Submission Page
Searching Portal – Submission Page
Home Business Data Center – Submission Page
Go Find Here – Submission Page
Webmaster Tools – Submission Page
Sitefind – Submission Page
Gokoole – Submission Page
BruneiFM – Submission Page
AcuSearch – Submission Page
My Coco Land – Submission Page
All Can Seek – Submission Page
All U Search – Submission Page
All We Seek – Submission Page
And Search – Submission Page
AskSearch – Submission page
Beat Bop – Submission Page
Best City Search – Submission Page
Best Net Search – Submission Page
Big Splash – Submission Page
Computer Seek – Submission Page
DigiCrawl – Submission Page
Dot Search – Submission Page
Easy To Search – Submission Page
Final Search – Submission Page
Find This – Submission Page
Find Path – Submission Page
Find Your Search – Submission Page
FindZilla – Submission Page
Fitter Bitter – Submission Page
Search Network – Submission Page
Hip Flip – Submission Page
Hypno Search – Submission Page
Lightning Search – Submission Page
Meta Search Live – Submission Page
MicroSeek – Submission Page
Mota Crawler – Submission Page
One Search Nation – Submission Page
Querybit – Submission Page
Rapid Crawl – Submission Page
Refresh Line – Submission Page
Remote Search – Submission Page
Search Mind – Submission Page
Search Quick – Submission Page
Search Bell – Submission Page
Sly Seek – Submission Page
SparkleBerry – Submission Page
Surfer Search – Submission Page
Sweet Search – Submission Page
Teeter Totter – Submission Page
Text Billboards – Submission Page
Think Seek – Submission Page
Thunder Seek – Submission Page
World Seek – Submission Page
Wow Seek – Submission Page
Yuppy Search – Submission Page
Maddog’s Profiles – Submission Page
WaWiz – Submission Page

Swoogle – Submission Page
Knoole – Submission Page
Vmgo.com – Submission Page

This was a list of among the know Second tier Search engines. If you know about any other search engine, please let me know.
And yes, please inform about any dead links. Hope I have helped you a bit in optimizing your blog for better search engine rankings.

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Traceroute command in windows helps you to know the time required by your computer to reach any website. Just-Traceroute is a new web-service which allows you to run the traceroute command in windows online. But the best part of this service is that the command runs parallel to four different servers located in Singapore, US, Netherlands and Australia. The results of Just-traceroute can be forwarded to anyone via Email without having to copy-paste the data even once.

Just-Ping is another such utility which allows you to undertake a web-based ping for a server or a website using their network with 30 checkpoints worldwide. This gives you a fair idea about which countries do not give proper access to your website(might be server problems). Recently there were cases where some of the Website where banned in China. Just-Ping came handy in that circumstances.

Thanks Amit

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