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- Students Who Buy Windows 7 PC, Get Free XBox 360
- How to Protect Online Content from Theft
- 301 Redirects Lose Google Juice, Pagerank [Confirmed]
| Students Who Buy Windows 7 PC, Get Free XBox 360 Posted: 19 May 2011 08:54 AM PDT   Microsoft has started a new back-to-school offer for Students – buy a new Windows 7-based PC and get a free Xbox 360 4GB console! The offer starts from May 22, 2011 at participating retailers for current students in the U.S. while supplies last. Students with an .edu email address can purchase new Windows PC through participating retailers like Dell.com, HP.com or Microsoft Store. If you don’t have a .edu address or want to buy from a participating Best Buy or any Microsoft Store, they will ask for your Student ID to verify. Xbox 360 is a perfect companion to you Windows 7 PC, as it brings a world of entertainment at your fingertips. Besides a immersive gaming experience, it’s also easy to stream music, TV and more from your PC directly to your Xbox 360! Update: A similar deal by Microsoft Canada starts May 27, wherein students can buy select number of new HP PCs priced at $599 (CAD) or more and get a free Xbox 360 4GB console. Original article: Students Who Buy Windows 7 PC, Get Free XBox 360 published at Quick Online Tips on 19/05/2011 under Computers Deals Microsoft.        |
| How to Protect Online Content from Theft Posted: 19 May 2011 02:33 AM PDT Guest post by Keshav Arora. How to prevent online content theft? Writing content is not as easy as someone thinks, especially those who only know how to copy the content. You've to work hard to find a topic, spend hours to research on it, think to organize the thoughts and then you start writing. After writing the content, the SEO of your website works to promote it on article directories and social media Websites.
File a CopyrightYou should file a copyright of your online content published on your Website(s) in your Country. If you search on Google with keywords 'take copyright of content' then you'll get dozens of URL asking to offer Government-authorized copyrights online quickly and easily. Please remember that taking a copyright is neither quick nor easy, it depends on a country's policies and procedures, and most of the times Governments do not approve such online copyright filings from third-parties. We suggest you filing the copyright by visiting Copyright Offices physically or do an e-filing on their Website. Following are few URLs of copyright Websites for different countries: -
You can also search to find the copyright Website of your country, but prefer to visit .GOV domain names. If no such authenticated domain is there in your results then contact your friends or find Copyright Office in your country. Visit the office directly to file the copyright. Few countries also allows e-filing from their websites only. Take a LicenseMost of us do not have enough time to physically visit the Government's premises for filing the copyright of online content. In addition, the new startups always try to avoid legal proceedings like registering their company and filing copyright until they earn some money. In such cases, you can take Creative Commons (CC) License from Creative Commons Organization. This organization offers six different licenses allowing you either to share your work or to protect it. Follow below steps to take a Creative Commons License,
It is noteworthy to mention that you can also take a Creative Commons License even if you've already obtained a copyright in your own country. The Creative Commons License gives you an additional protection. If you want to distribute your work free with your permission only then you can go for GNU Free Documentation License. After taking GNU License, others have to take your permission before publishing your content. DMCA Protection KitDMCA stands for Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Online service provider companies including search engines, Web Hosting Providers, Internet Service Providers, and Websites follow this act to protect the copyrights. As per Wikipedia article on DMCA,
You can take benefit of this act to show your Website and its content's copyright is protected by DMCA. Visit DMCA Website, sign up, get a DMCA badge, and add it to your Website. If you think that your content is stolen or its copyright is infringed then you can purchase a DMCA Toolkit. This toolkit (Website Protection Pro) helps you to identify the content theft, prove its ownership and in claiming online service providers to take action against the alleged Websites/Publishers. Prove Content is YoursYes, you've written the content from scratch on your own even without taking help of online resources. Still, you're required to prove that your content is original and only created by you. How can you do this? You can check your content at following plagiarism-checking Websites and obtain their badges of protection: - These services check whether your content has been copied from anywhere on Internet or not. In addition, they provide you badges to show on your Website that your content is protected and free from plagiarism. Copyscape offers a nice paid service and you've to pay only 5 cents per search. You can check 2000 words per search as per Copyscape's standards. If you're writing for monetization then it is a very small amount to save you from legal proceedings. You can also signup with its alerting service, which notifies when someone copies your original content. ConclusionIf there are ways to copy someone’s content and use it, then there are ways to protect your online content from theft. You can take Copyright in your country, get an online Creative Commons License or GNU Free Documentation License, protection from DMCA toolkit, and use Copyscape/Plagiarisma to prove you've original content. Guest author Keshav Arora is a technical writer working with Ipraxa, a full service web agency offering a wide range of services that can be broadly categorized into web design and development, web application development, mobile application development and Internet Marketing services. Original article: How to Protect Online Content from Theft published at Quick Online Tips on 19/05/2011 under Blogging GuestPosts HowTo Security.    |
| 301 Redirects Lose Google Juice, Pagerank [Confirmed] Posted: 19 May 2011 12:41 AM PDT Google has confirmed that that 301 redirects will cause a tiny loss of Google juice and Pagerank as Google crawls across to the new page. In general, site owners and webmasters believe that 301 redirects are the best way to pass same pagerank, but be aware that some loss will occur in your SEO efforts. 301 Redirects Lose PagerankWatch this embedded video where Google engineer Matt Cutts explains clearly that though 301 redirects are the best way to inform search engines that the site has moved to a new url, a ‘very tiny little bit’ of google juice and pagerank drop is inevitable… Why lose Google juice? He explains the reason very well – because otherwise people might start using 301 redirects instead of direct links to the sites. This ensures that 301 redirects are used only when required. Original article: 301 Redirects Lose Google Juice, Pagerank [Confirmed] published at Quick Online Tips on 19/05/2011 under Blogging Google SEO.    |
The other part of this hard work is plagiarism, i.e., stealing others content without prior permission. It is not new on the World Wide Web and hurts a lot when a content thief gets benefits from search engine rankings/preference. The situation becomes worse when search engine alleges you to have duplicate content even if you're its original creator/author. Is there any way to protect your content? Yes, there are and we'll discuss the ways to protect your online content in this write up.| You are subscribed to email updates from Quick Online Tips To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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