This is one misconception that is very common among people and you might be having the same misconceptions. It is wrong to believe that to be successful you need to have a rich and well established background. Most people believe that only those people that are highly qualified and have a powerful backing can succeed while common people with little or no money cannot. It’s a false believe and you should clear this misconception. It does not really matter what your background is as success comes from hard work, dedication and proper planning only.

To be successful you have to dedicate your entire life to your career:-

A misconception that you might have about success could be that,

“To be successful you have to work for hours and dedicate much of your free time to your work”.

This is also wrong as being successful does not require you to work 24 hours a day. You can easily achieve success in the general 12hrs which are allocated for any form of work. All that is required from you is sincere dedication during the working hours and a firm commitment to succeed in life

Success is flawless

A major misconception that most people have is that success is flawless and successful people don’t make any mistakes. This is not entirely true as making slip-up is general while running a business or career. If you make mistakes during you career it does not indicate that you are a failure, all you need is to learn from your mistakes and don’t repeat the same errors again.

Success is everlasting:-

Don’t ever think that success would last forever. It has proven time and again that only those people have lived up having successful careers that have worked hard their entire lives and did not limit themselves to their early success. Even if you achieve success you must work hard and intelligently to retain your success and should work promptly to be more successful as “thriving for more” is a key to success.

In simple words, search engine optimization is a process in which a website is designed or altered in such a manner that it’s ranking particularly in Google goes as high as possible for public viewing. Tools like particular keywords, phrases that are used in a manner which makes it easy for the search engine to get to know the theme of the website is a possible tool to get ranked higher in Google. Simply put, a website can get ranked higher in Google, when it is focused on particular keywords and is targeted towards a goal.

A number of web developers who do not have proper SEO training or even experience find it extremely hard to receive high rankings for their selected keywords. There are numerous search engine optimization tips and tricks that might help you optimize your website site in a way that you would rank better than your competitors. Out of all those techniques, some which would surely help you rank better through Google SEO are:

• First of all, while working on Google SEO, you need to make sure that the keywords you have chosen are right for you. Every single site that has ever been created would ultimately wish to market its services and products. For this, you would obviously have to focus your website on particular keywords that are in some way or the other related to the products that you offer. Basically, what you have to do is optimize your keywords in such a manner that you believe the audience will truly use in order to look up services on Google.

• Secondly, you would also have to optimize your domain name and title tags for Google SEO in a way that they are easier for the spider to read and rank higher in search results. If you offer a particular service, than it is recommended for you to use the service name in your domain name instead of your company name. Same goes for title tags as they can significantly improve your rankings.

These are just two of the  several search engine optimization techniques for Google SEO. Keep coming back to learn more on how to optimize your site!

In my list of top 5 blogs, ‘The Internet Time Blog’ comes at no.1. This blog belongs to The Internet Times and its writer is Jay Cross. This blogs covers a vast area of expertise from marketing techniques to learning inspirations. The writer has used a natural tone and practical examples to make his concepts easy to understand for everyone. His way of writing is simple and keeps you attached with reading. Use of humor, in writings, at proper place makes the readings more interesting. Use of some nice and different topic titles lights up the curiosity to read the complete post.

http://www.internettime.com/

Tasty Research

As the name of the blog suggests, this is really a tasty blog to read. Blog, ‘Tasty Research’ has discussed many random but very tasty and different things as compared to everyday things we see on blog. It covers many topics from life philosophies of being happy to some virtual reality computer interfaces, from phenomena of nature and nurture to the loneliness of Americans. The writer has a straight forward and simple way of writing and kept the posts as compact as possible. Use of proper images and graphs to make other understand the concepts he is talking about is highly appreciable.

http://tastyresearch.com/

Read more: http://webupon.com/blogging/top-five-blogs-on-the-internet/#ixzz0wekv6YKs

Mark Zukerberg along with his fellow computer science students namely Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. They were Harvard students and therefore, Facebook was limited to Harvard students initially. Then it spread out and since September 2006, people who are aged above 13 and have an email address can log in to Facebook, make their personal profiles there and meet new people. It also includes networks of different organizations like schools, NGO’s etc.

The website currently includes more than 400 million users that belong to different countries of the world. The growth of Facebook is massive and it has become a global phenomenon. Facebook has become such a popular website that everyone wants to have his or her own profile or account on this social networking website.  Everything in this world has some positive and some negative aspects. Similarly, Facebook also poses certain risks. These dangers come along with your account on Facebook and some of them can be a real threat to you. Some of these possible negative risks are as follows:

1.  First of all, the sharing of information on Facebook is perhaps the worst risk you would ever face. Sharing personal information on your profile page, through your messages and sharing your pictures can be easily modified and misused by different people.

2.  Social networking on such sites has restricted the physical meetings of the people. All the youth spend more time on such websites rather than going to some family gathering or some other function. So, one of the risk that can be created through Facebook is that it is making people grow distant from each other.

3. Fake identities are another big negative aspect of using Facebook as people can create their fake identities and fool around with people. When you add these people to your account they will be able to read about your routine, your family background and other private matters.

4. There is a lust among the people to add more and more friends into their accounts to show that they are oh-so-social. This lust forces them to add unknown people to their profiles. This again allows hackers and other unwanted people to acquire your personal information.

5. People have also started using Facebook to vent out their anger at someone’s country or religion. Making unreasonable comments on someone’s status, posting awful pictures related to some religion or some sect has also risen through this website.

These are some of the negative aspects of using Facebook. But it all depends on how secure yourself from these threats and risks.

To put it in simple words, we choose to be creative only when we believe that we have enough time on our hands, and try to be creative while dealing with twenty million other commitments that take up much of our time each and every day.

If you wish to be creative, than the abovementioned approach would just not work for you and lead only to aggravation and no creativity obviously. In order to be creative, you need to first figure out what creativity means to you? How important is it? You first have to find out how valuable creativity is to your existence. Just imagine yourself as an alien from a totally different world and you are visiting Earth for the very first time. Obviously, as you are new, you would have no idea about the currency of this planet, you would not be able to differentiate between a $100 note and a $10 note. For this reason, you would have no value at all for both these notes.

But now, as you surely are not an alien, you have a clear idea about the difference that exists between both of them. You know that it is better to have a wallet that is full of $100 notes instead of $5’s because of the difference in their value, no matter what currency you are dealing with!

Furthermore, it is also very important for you to know the worth of creativity itself. If this statement does not convince you, than simply try to imagine a life where no creative thought ever occurred, nothing was ever created, no paintings, no music – basically nothing at all. What would the world be like then? In the words of Henry David Thoreau,

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination”.

Our existence, our world would be nothing but dark, gloomy and depressing. As soon as the real worth of creativity, its importance in our world and day to day lifestyle is realized, an individual would automatically gain motivation to start thinking creatively. This would also make you realize that you might be playing a major part in limiting creativity by not allowing it to exist simply because you have no idea about its real worth.

So for starters, you need to take some time out, measure out the importance of creativity, to yourself and to this entire world at large. Then follow your instincts and follow the course of action that you believe your creativity deserves. Give it time and let your creative juices flow! And remember, as Erich Fromm said, “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas”.

The Phrase; ‘Content is King’

The Phrase; ‘Content is King’ simply means that content whether text, graphics, images or video remains superior to any other design factors. Lack of appeal, originality and desire in content, may lead to a failure of any venture.

When organizing or building a website, content is, and will always be, the king. Principally; text content is extremely important for search engine placement as maximum search engines will be unable to match search terms to the content of a site without creative text content.

Success of a Website

Content is basically the information available on any website. A website will be a Success only if it contains the content which is more valuable, handy and fascinating. If a website draws more number of visitors frequently, its success can be determined.

Why a Website is visited again

Now a question arises, ‘Will anyone like to visit an already visited website’? The answer is ‘Yes’, if the website is updated frequently, i.e. latest content like articles, pictures, tutorials, news, animations etc are added on a regular basis.

If you device your site to sell your product alone, that odd surfer will visit your site only, who is looking for that particular product and your site will not be very successful. Your site will not even be visited if someone is not finding your product online.

Tools for a Good Content

Appeal

The foremost thing to create a good content is to ensure that your content will possess a specific appeal to any visitor.

Originality

A unique content will make the difference and the unique part will be ensured if the content is original and different from other websites. 

Writer’s Personality

A good content is the depiction of a writer’s personality, coupled with originality and well researched, it shall be very useful and enlightening for the reader / visitor and people will get benefit from it.

Easy understandable

The content must be easily understood. As far as possible, simple English to be used. Specific / technical words must be described / explained.

Reading viz-a-viz Buying

News and articles about your industry in which the product is available must be created as content. This will lead a visitor who is reading the content to buying your product.

Writing Skills

A person good at creating product may not be a very good content writer; therefore, he may find good content written at many places by good content writers for free. The good content may be used by giving a brief note about the original writer at the bottom of the article.

Proof Reading

Before the content is published, make sure that a proof reading is done for checking of any spelling and syntax mistakes as any such mistakes will pose the writer / company / website unprofessional.

A blog is actually a log that is created and operated on the Internet or World Wide Web. We might say that the word ‘blog’ has emerged from the word ‘web log’, which is a written record of some kind on the Internet.

Blogs have great features!

Blogs are one of the most innovative features of sharing information on the Internet. Indeed, blogs have evolved from the idea of websites. While making websites and managing them can be costly, blogs tend to be very cost efficient. This is the reason why people are now turning to them. Also, blogs tend to be easier to search up; they are well optimized for search engines and they receive many more hits or clicks than websites do.

Owners of blogs as well as bloggers [those who write for blogs] are aware of the need to constantly maintain their blogs. They apply additional strategies for improving their blog features so that they are easily searched up.

Blogs generally have a particular domain name such as blogspot.com or wordpress.com. If you wish to own a blog, you will probably have your name associated with the domain. For example, you may have XYZ.wordpress.com.

Free usage and paid usage:

You will be able to use a blog for free with a certain number of features. However, for a few dollars, you can avail all the features offered by the blog owners.

Blogs are believed to be a complete package; they are cost efficient and meet all your requirements. There are many organizations that are switching to using blogs as opposed to websites for this particular reason.

With more and more blogs coming into operation, blogging, which is the act of writing on blogs, has developed into a specialized field. Bloggers are thought to be the best web content writers, as they are aware of the continuous changes faced in terms of business and economics. Additionally, bloggers that work on other kinds of blogs are well versed with the constant update or fluctuation of global issues. For example, politics is one area that requires blogging to be up-to-date.

Blogs keep a record of your Work:

Apart from the above-stated features that make a blog it one of the best options for bringing your content up into the best search engine rankings, it also keeps an entire record of whatever you have written in the past. It manages this in the form of a blog roll. Bloggers find this very handy because you will never have to worry about backup issues!

People generally do not have a rather clear idea about what creativity really is. It is simply assumed in a majority of cases that artists are creative because, well, they are artists and that they are way too interested in their respective areas. This is not true at all. Artists are creative just because they have a habit of being creative, not because their area on interest asks them to do so. For this reason, people need to leave behind notions of what creative people think, its more of how they think.

Creativity is generally fostered by something that is already existent in a person’s mind, a thought that is already there. Creativity also comes from ideas that are already being used somewhere or the other. The best ideas come from these thoughts – thoughts and ideas that have already been used. The best form of creativity is to enhance something which already exists.

Every single person out there has the capability to be creative. You just need to be able to create new connections. To be very precise, creativity is nothing but the human mind’s growing edge. You need to be able to discover things constantly. Basically, what happens is that once you create a few new connections, your brain power expands and interpersonal as well as mental flexibility is developed, all of which work together to enhance your capability of carrying out a number of tasks with more comfort than ever.

Think of it this way, every single time that an individual connects two things to each other, s/he creates a third entity. Moreover, when this creative and innovative connection is further linked with more ideas, which creates even more possibilities.

The potential of individual creativity is immense. Whenever two things are linked with one another, the individual goes further than them, creating the possibility to come up with new beliefs about the potential that exists within the individual.

All that is required is for you to allow yourself some time as well as energy to create new links and connection, which is basically all that creativity revolves around. Creativity basically deals with the thought process, and not the outcome. Creativity can strike just about anywhere, at work, at home, in school, while driving – it does not require a particular state of mind. Moreover, creativity is not limited to any particular line; individuals can be creative with food, thoughts, ideas, words and even material – basically anything that you have fun with!

Apart from everything else, creativity helps create new things. Yes, this is true. Even if every single thing that was put to use to come up with something new was familiar to you, it would still create something fresh. For example, an insight is the most creative thing ever, yet it is a conclusion that is derived from previously known information – the only difference is the new perspective that you have!

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.  No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.” Robert Frost

“The difference between the right and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.”  Mark Twain

“The most valuable of talents is never using two words when one will do.” Thomas Jefferson

“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.” Elmore Leonard