General Tips and Tricks for City Ville Addicts

City Ville has hooked me for some time now around 6 months or so. In these 6 months I have learnt many tricks which I am going to share now with you all. Before you read this post if you haven't started playing City Ville I would recommend not to start.
In case you have already started this post will let you play city Ville the smartest possible way. I am goint to include very simple and effective tricks to play City Ville:

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Clever and smart ways to add backlinks without showing intention of Spamming?

SEO business still runs around backlinks. The most important thing after Good quality content is adding backlinks of your blog or website on others blogs. One of the best ways of doing that is adding comments to others blog.

Just recently I got a very nice comment for one of my articles and I even published it. But I was very suspicious of that comment the moment I saw it. Yet I didn't bother to investigate further but then I though lets do some investigation. I will tell about this later, first lets focus on back links and comments.

There are basically following reasons why you are prompted to comment on others articles:
You are wanting to ask some query to the author.You really want to thank and appreciate the author of the article.You really want to criticize the author or point out some mistake.You want to add a back link (This is very bad if you do just for the sake of it).Benefits of adding back links:
You get some incoming traffic from other websites. You might get a Google Page Rank because of it thus gaining more visitors from organic traffic.Myths about adding back links:
The more back links you add the better the Google PR: Well these days are gone Google gives credit to only quality back links. What that means is back links from higher PR blogs or websites within your niche.You are not doing any harm to your website by adding any irreverent comments: Again a very common mistake. Look most of the blogs are having comments which are moderated. If you add comments which are irrelevant to the article your blog and comments might be included in spam category. Once that happens all the comments will be auto spammed. At least Google has that mechanism.Link exchange is the safest way of adding back links: Well it depends with whom you are exchanging the links. If the website with which you exchanged links is a spam website chances are you will also be declared as spam website and you might be removed from search engine index.Clever and smart ways to add back links (Do's and Don'ts) :
Do Genuine comments: By clever I do not mean fool the author. Always read the article and then leave a relevent comment which indicates that you have read the article.Do Constructive Criticism: You can criticize the author only if you have relevant data or genuine point. Don't use harsh language. Your comment will be for sure deleted.Do Genuine appreciation: If you likes an article and it really helped you or you enjoyed it pass a natural comment. This approach  is best and also the author is more than happy to accept your comment with your back link. Don't Write Common Generic Comments: Some people fool blog authors by using generic common comments which are very appreciative in nature and the commentator hides his back link in his name. These work some times but back fires in most cases. This is what I was mentioning at the start of this article. Check out the below comment and search for first sentence in Google "Simply wish to say your article is as surprising". You will find all articles having same comment with different back links. SEO experts use these to add back links to any articles as it suites any article. I highly recommend you all not to fool others please. This way of getting success is not long term and not at all recommended.ABC says:Simply wish to say your article is as surprising. The clarity in your post is just excellent and i could assume you are an expert on this subject. Well with your permission allow me to grab your feed to keep up to date with forthcoming post. Thanks a million and please continue the enjoyable work.
Moral of the story:

Adding back links is not a bad practice only thing is it should be done with utmost genuineness and every comment should be unique.

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Is Facebook $100 Billion IPO a little overpriced?

Facebook is preparing for an Initial Public Offering of around $100 billion. Many people including me feel its way too overpriced. Now you must be wondering why I feel that way? Well there are many reasons for that.
A driving factor for any industry is the growth factor. As far as growth goes Facebook already had 500 million users. Recent trends suggest that Social media is already overcrowded and there is less scope for tremendous growth and now soon the consolidation phase would begin.

With consolidation I mean a period when growth either slows down or starts reducing. One example I can give is of the telecom industry in India. In very few years Indian cell phone industry saw a tremendous growth. From few millions to 800 plus million users.

The moment that happened the telecom industry in India saw a consolidation phase. Now due to MNP (Mobile number Portability) cell phone companies are trying to eat each others market. But their share values are at an all time low if not lowest.

Facebook is entering the market when the growth is already tremendous. But the problem with Facebook is its monopoly. There are many things in Facebook which even annoy users like recently introduced photo viewer, increasing privacy breaches and also potential privacy threats. But users are ignoring them due to lack of awareness or negigence. The day awareness would creep in people would start searching for alternatives.

In 2004 Google also had launched on IPO with $24 Billion one of the biggest at their time. But the difference between then and today is Facebook is already big and the hunger to grow is not that high which Google had at that time.

If Facebook IPO does get a good response initially and start seeing a downward trend it should not surprise people. I am not suggesting that growth is the only thing which is of great concern, the hunger for innovation and bring something new periodically should also be there. In case of Facebook I feel they are already at the peak and from the peak one can stay at the top or come back down.

Google success story is mainly because they give everything for free plus they give opportunity to earn money to millions of content publishers in many ways. With Facebook I feel its not such a simple case. May be in future Facebook will have to start thinking in those lines to stay in business.

May be this article is a bit ahead of time or completely irrelevant for many. I also like Facebook but I am a firm believer of Karma and Hindu mythology i.e. "Any thing that starts comes to an end". Facebook is cool today how long it stays cool only time will tell.

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Improve WordPress Page Load Time by Compressing the JS and CSS Files

Being a blogger, we always try to find ways on how to improve the page loading time of our blogs especially when we are not yet into premium hosting where there are provisions for it. You can improve the page loading time of your wordpress blogs to a certain extend using WP Minify plugin. It uses the Minify engine to combine and compress JS and CSS files of your wordpress blog to reduce the blog load time.

How WP Minify Works?

WP Minify grabs JS and CSS files in your generated wordpress pages and passes that list to the Minify engine. The Minify engine then returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the wordpress header. Just go through the features and give a try!

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Google experiments with changes to its Ad Sense appearance.

Google's Ad blocks were many times criticized for not being able to blend in web content effectively. Google has done a slight correction in this regards and now the Google Ad blocks look more similar related links rather than prominent Ad units.
Though this change is minor its a huge change in Google's policy of displaying Ads. Many webmasters use to do various unethical tricks to display Google Ads to make them appear more as a part of content rather than prominent Ad units.


What experimental change has Google really done?
Google has simply removed its name from the Ads Earlier Google used to show Ads by Google in some Ad units. This change is not applicable to the Ad units of 468 X 15 or one line Ad units. This change is applicable only to square or rectangular Ads blocks (my observation). The new Ad block is exactly similar to previous one except for this change and the Google name is replaced by a triangle which is accompanied by AdChoices word.

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