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Facebook "new Photo Look"-The Coolest one till now

The social networking giant Facebook has been continuously experimenting with its features and this time,it has come up with a new photo section and that too having the coolest features of all time.

Though,Facebook has made the changes in its photo section earlier also,yet the changes were not so attractive that they could seek anybody's attention.

But this time,the changes are really praise worthy.

So,how the new photo section looks like:

At the top,you will get to see the three tabs including your tagged photos,your wall photos and your albums.

The best and the noticeable change has been introduced in the album view.Earlier photo albums on facebook were as simple as the normal bunch of photos which you could navigate through but now when you hover your mouse over any album,you can see the slideshow of top five photos in that album even without having any need to open it.

But With this cool change is associated a serious Privacy Concern.By default,Facebook has set the domain for every new profile pic to be added to Public,that means if you add a new profile picture to your facebook account,then by default it would be visible to public now no matter what privacy conditions had you set before for your photos.

Ofcourse,you can change it to other options too manually like before but that was a point that should really have been discussed keeping in mind the privacy concerns of the people.

What else has been changed:

The earlier features like

a) star button(*) to highlight the photo

b) edit button to change the location and time of the photo

c)like and comment buttons

have now been introduced on the photo thumbnails also.

With the new star button(*),you can highlight any photo in your album(Earlier star button was used to highlight the photo only on your timeline).After highlighting,everybody will see your that particular picture in a magnified view when he/she reaches your album.

New Edit button allows you to change the location and date of the picture directly from the thumbnail without having the need to open it in the full view.

New Like and Comment buttons again allow you to like and comment on your picture directly from the thumbnail without having any need to open it in the full view.

Some analysts hold the view that facebook works with the motto of competing with its own features.Bringing up such brilliant features this time,Facebook has indeed proved it also.But not everybody can enjoy this feature for now.Seems like it would take sometime for everybody to see the new photo section looks.The reason for this has not been found yet.

After Samsung,its time for Facebook-Apple Controversy

After the most famous Samsung-Apple designs theft Controversy which has still the final hearing pending in the US district Court,its the Social Networking Giant Facebook now which has been involved in another controversy with Apple for copying its designs.

Facebook unveiled a new look for its message service recently.The new design puts the list of user's friends on the right side and the message content on the left.

Facebook has large hopes from this new design,the CEO,Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview."This new design will attract more and more users to their service and will make their system more reliable as well".

But to everybody's surprise,the new design was accused by many users as they found it to be very similar to Apple's Ipad mail software.

The Apple users said that the facebook new message design is very much similar to Apple's two-pane design.

When Facebook was questioned regarding this,it stated "A lot of thought and care went into this new version of messages and we really hoped that people will like it".It also added that "there is so much more we can do to make the world more open and connected and to make our messaging system more flexible and more reliable".

Though,Apple has not filed any case against Facebook in the court yet and the facebook new message look is in the oral controversies only,the sources reported that Facebook will publish the new design with some major changes in it to avoid Apple design Infringements.

Till then,we can only wait for the new design to come up but one thing is certain,the way facebook is enhancing the chat features whether by adding the emoticons to it or allowing the people to attach the files in their chats shows how hard Facebook is working for its users.Also Apple's not filing any case against Facebook shows that its only the users who are firing the issues without knowing the actual details.

Facebook Up with "NO backup maintaining" Way-Out

The Social Networking giant Facebook which promises the privacy to its users had been keeping the huge bunch of inappropriate pictures in its storage against the users' will for years which you had deleted in the past and thought that they would not be available to anyone now.

But the fact is that if anyone on facebook had the direct link of your picture,then he could still view it in your profile.

The issue was raised by a 28 year old Cambridge student who discovered that even when he deleted his pictures from facebook,they could still be viewed by his friends having the direct link to them.

But now finally a good news is out in the market.The company has declared to remove the storage of all those millions of embarassing and inappropriate pictures from its servers.

From now onwards,any picture deleted from the facebook account will be permanently wiped out from the system within 14 days or a maximum of 30 days.Also,unlike before,picture will now not be viewable to anybody from the very moment it is deleted even if someone has got the direct link of that picture.

The reason reported for the company to take that much of time to make it really possible is the huge engineering effort involved behind the change.Facebook has gone that much broad in its functionality and features that now even making a small change requires thousands of brilliant minds and million dollars of money and the change we wanted from Facebook was something that could make any company go mad but Facebook still managed to do it successfully for its users.

A Revolution in Technology-Apple Vs Samsung Verdict

Apple's patent win over Samsung last friday night through US(California) district court is reported to be one of the biggest events in technology awarding the World's richest company with an additional $1.05 billion in its account.

The decision was taken by the US Jury after it found that Samsung had infringed several of the Apple's Software and design innovations.

While Samsung says that it intends to appeal in the court,Apple says that it even seeks a ban on eight of the Samsung Smartphones including Galaxy S 4G,Galaxy S2 AT&T Model,Galaxy S2 Skyrocket,Galaxy S2 T-Mobile model,Galaxy S2 Epic 4G,Galaxy S Showcase,Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail in the US market at the heart of lawsuit hearing on 20th September.

An internal source even reports that Apple will try to use this verdict to halt the sale of other Android based Phones in the market which it believes are infringing its patents.

Apple's another rival company Google released a statement saying
"The court will review validity of all the patent claims and the
infringements".It also says that "Not all the core android operating
system is included in this verdict and they will continue to work on the
android to provide the public with the innovative and the affordabe products as they don't want anything to limit that."

Impact on Microsoft:

After Apple,the company that has been found getting the maximum benefit out of this verdict is Microsoft.During the court case,a hidden fact was revealed by Apple that it has licensed some of its technologies to Microsoft.

Some analyst even reports that Microsoft can now take the advantage of the verdict to convince the mobile manufacturing companies to use their Windows Operating System in the new phones.

The Windows OS has already been taken to the next level thereby raising the stock price by about 0.4%.

Impact on Google:

Google,another android OS based company is looking after the lawsuit hearing scheduled on 20th september and is expecting the patents to hold up under appeal so that it could recode Android to ensure avoiding infringements.

Also as an alternative way to settle down with its rival company,Google has filed its first lawsuit against Apple since it took over motorola,based upon seven patent infringements by Apple,succeeding which Google could call for an import ban on Apple's iOS products.

Talking about the stock price,Google was down by 1.4% on Monday.

Impact on Apple:

Quite obviously,Apple has got the maximum out of this verdict afterall its the company who has won the biggest verdict ever in technology.

Apple's Stock price was found to rise already by 2% to an all time high on monday.

News are that Apple can use this verdict to win monopoly over hundreds of Smartphones' basic features and designs(which are continuously being improved by Samsung and other companies) which then couldn't be used in the other Smart phones generating the need for the companies like ~~Motorola~~ Google,HTC,Samsung,etc to almost double their efforts to come up with new ideas.

Impact on Samsung:

Samsung is hoping to succeed in keeping its devices in the market or atleast creating a delay on ban based upon the appeal it has petitioned for the verdict whose hearing is scheduled on 20th september.

Till then,Samsung flagship smartphone,Galaxy S3 which were not included in the verdict will be on sale in the market.

You can surely expect the future Samsung Smartphones to be highly different in features,looks and design from Apple's Smart phones.

A chief analyst said that its actually a win for Samsung since Samsung could make it to the #2 position (in terms of most profitable mobile company) by paying just $1bn as compared to Microsoft which paid $8bn for Skype.

Regarding the stock market,Samsung's shares fell 7.5% on Monday which is reportedly their biggest drop since 2008 wiping about $12 billion off the companies value(approximately the amount Google paid to buy Motorola Mobile Unit).

Impact on Design & Technology:

All the future smart phones by the companies other than Apple will be highly different 'in features and looks' from Apple Smart phones.

Seeing such a tremendous loss incurred by Samsung,the designers will have to carefully design the new products so as to avoid any kind of infringement in future.

Impact on Customers:

There are two schools of thought for its impact on the customers.The first thought is that the customers will be blessed with the new features that the companies would innovate for their hand sets.

The second thought is that since Apple will have the monopoly over hundreds of features existing in today's market,Customers will be left with only less innovation,fewer choices and obviously the higher prices.

Definitely,this verdict has affected every mobile manufacturing company,leaving them with lots of restrictions,one of them being not to use the famous zooming and bounce back functions,which eventually can make them to pay Apple licensing fee for access to the technology thereby making Apple go even more Rich.

But all this depends upon another lawsuit hearing on 20th September.The decision can even turn the entire game. ;)

Annoyed with Facebook timeline ? learn hiding it then

Facebook Timeline is one of the features that no other social networking website can compete with.It has made everything so interactive on facebook that you can easily go back to any part of your life on facebook and make changes there no matter whether that change includes adding some new life event there.

But definitely,facebook timeline feature has got the complexity and people find it real very difficult to use and sometimes even get annoyed with it.

Some people just want to get rid of the timeline but they are left helpless in the end because facebook doesn't give you any such option.Infact all the accounts are automatically switched to the timeline format after certain period of time.Yeah,Facebook definitely gives you the time to manage your timeline before it starts appearing to the public but you can't avoid it(as everybody says).

But now it has really become possible to get rid of the "so called annoying" timeline.Its not any new feature introduced by facebook to help out its users but its simply a plugin that can help you get rid of it.

Steps to get rid of Facebook Timeline:

1) Go to the Timeline Remove .

2) There you have to download an extension..Dont worry,the extension is fully tested and is 100% virus free.You can install it without even giving it a second thought.

3) Choose your browser out of the various choices as displayed in the picture below

4) Next click on "Add" on the dialog box generated that looks like one shown in the picture below

5) Save the extension.

6) Double click the extension saved in your computer and just install it by clicking on the "Install" button on the new dialog box generated which looks like one shown below

7) After it is installed,just refresh your facebook page to see your facebook profile switched back to one,it used to look like before.

But remember,your friends and others will still see your profile in timeline format only.It has only been hidden from you because of the timeline remove extension you have just installed.

If you again want to see your profile in timeline format like before,its very easy.Just find out the timeline remove button towards the top right corner of your computer screen and click on "Status:Timeline Remove".Refresh your facebook page and you are done.

5 new stunning features introduced by facebook

Facebook,the world's number one Social Networking Site with its tremendously increasing popularity owes its success to the stunning features it introduces with time.

These days Facebook has got much faster in making the changes and introducing the new stunning features to its users.

Within just few months only,Facebook has come up with five new brilliant features about which I am going to write today.

Though the company's CEO,Mark Zuckerberg is being repeatedly accused of the falling prices of the shares,yet he his thinking far behind all this.It seems like he is not affected with all these criticisms.He has come up with a new infrastructural project for his company costing him about thousand crores of dollars.Not much exaggerating it here,I straight forwadly come to the new features facebook has introduced with time.

5 New Features introduced by facebook:

1) Facebook Voice: One of the most awaited feature has now been introduced by facebook and has come up with the name "voice".This is the feature for all the facebook page owners and gives them the choice of posting,liking and commenting on the page either as the page itself or with their own name.

Earlier facebook page owners could like,post and comment on their page as the page only no matter even if the page owner was not using 'Use facebook as page' option.Whatever way he was accessing the page,he couldn't like it with his own name.But now,he gets a choice to do so.

The experts hold the view that the biggest advantage of this feature will be to the new page holders who can now make atleast two likes on each post thereby giving others the impression that people are active on the page.

2) Picture Thumbnails in Notifications:Though not so famous,yet another good feature introduced by facebook is the 'picture thumbnails in notifications'.With this new feature,you would be able to see the thumbnail of the picture,which is getting the comments,in your notifications itself so that you wont have to navigate to the picture first before getting an idea,exactly which picture you are getting notifications for.

The obvious advantage of this feature is that it saves time and avoids boredom.

3) 'Seen Time' in Chatbox: This feature is useful for those who dont like being avoided.Lol.The "Seen time" feature has been introduced in the chat and it tells the people when the person whom you are chatting with sees your message.It not only tells that the person has seen your message but also give you the exact time when did he do that.

Some people hold the view that introducing this feature,facebook has compromised with their freedom.Not always everybody is interested in doing chat but telling the other one that I have seen the chat message makes me to reply even sometimes unwillingly.

4) Distinction between blocked and deleted accounts: I personally found this new feature by facebook to be very useful.Earlier facebook didn't make any distinction between one who has blocked you and the one who has deleted his/her account in your friend list.In either case,you couldn't find the person's account anywhere(including your friends list)even if you tried visiting the account using the person's facebook username .

But now,facebook has made the distinction between the blocked and the deleted accounts.Now,When you go to your friends list,you would be able to see both the blocked and deleted accounts but clicking on deleted accounts will give you a message like one shown below

while the accounts of the persons who have blocked you will not be clickable at all.

5) Interest List: One of the best feature introduced by facebook is the "interest list".Not everybody is aware of this new list introduced by facebook.This list creates a separate group in which you can add your

a)friends

b)the people you have subscribed to

c) and the facebook pages you wish to follow.

The advantage of this list is that whomever you have added to this list,you will get the updates of that person/page/subscription under that group itself.

Its upto you whether you want to make that list visible to public,your friends or only yourself.

How to create an Interest List:

Creating an interest list is as simple as creating any other list.Since you get the choice of adding your friend,your subscription or any page to the list,you can start from anywhere say from the page you want to add to your interest list.Just visit the page and there will be an option reading "Add to Interest Lists" as shown in the picture below

Click on it and follow the 2 steps instructions to create your new interest list.

You can add your friends,subscriptions and other pages to the list from the tabs on the left hand side as highlighted in the picture below

Using the interest list gives you the chance of being more interactive to the people and hence to socialize more effectively.

Facebook launches new version of Iphone and Ipad App

Facebook launched a new version of App on Thursday for the Apple Iphone and Ipad Users.The previous version of App was unveiled long before by Facebook but it couldn't give its users a satisfactory experience and met with the hell lot of criticisms for it being really very slow.

So,the facebook engineers re-started working on it,replaced most of the web-based code with the native programming code used for iOS,Apple's Mobile Operating System and finally came out with a new and a faster app on Thursday evening.

The company said that instead of adding new features to the app,it rebuilt the application from the scratch to make it speedier and less clunky.

The older code from the photo and the messaging tools has been replaced with the code from Facebook's stand alone camera and Messenger Apps.

The new app proves out to be a great success.During the live demonstartion of the app at the company's menlo park,it was found to perform everything at almost double the speed of the earlier version of the app.The app opened really very fast and so did the photos and the comments.

What exactly did they do to increase the speed:

The mobile product manager at facebook,Mick Johnson said that the programmers removed some lesser-used features like "the way to view the app horizontally" in order to increase the speed of the app.

Feautures Associated with the new App:

1) "Faster speed"(almost double the speed of previous version).

2) Allows Users to "like and comment on photos" which wasn't possible with the earlier version.

3) The new Ipad version features "Timeline",the latest profile page version.

4) A very prominent feature added to the new App is the "Real Time NewsFeed".

Whenever someone likes or adds a comment to the post or status update,it is shown in the newsfeed in the real time thereby eliminating the need of refreshing the post to see new likes and comments.

The app is available for free from the Apple's App Store.

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How to private message the person who has blocked you on Facebook

Did you know that its really possible to send the message to the person who has blocked you on Facebook.To your surprise,YES IT IS.

With the increased popularity of facebook email id about which I discussed in my previous article,Facebook has made this really possible.Either Call it one of the flaws of facebook or the relaxation given to the people who have just got blocked by someone but still want to maintain the conversation with him/her.

Facebook never closes any option completely.It always leaves an undisclosed alternative for everything.You just have to find that alternative.Today I am bringing one such brilliant alternative to you.

How to Send the Message:

For sending the message,all you got to know is the "facebook username" of the person who has blocked you.Obviously,if the person has blocked you,you won't be able to visit his/her profile.But finding the facebook username is really a cakewalk.You can make a new account to find the username or better you can simply ask any of your friend just to tell you the person's facebook username.

Once you know the username,you automatically gets to know the person's facebook email-id.To know how Username is related to Facebook email-id,you can read out my article .Now,you must know that facebook has come up with one new feature,"Emailing blended up with facebook messages." This feature allows you to use your personal email id to send the messages to the people on facebook.

Sending the message using email is as simple as sending a normal mail to anybody.In the "To" section,you have to add the person's facebook email id whom you want to send the message to but has blocked you and in the "body" section,you have to write your message.As usual,the subject part is optional.

After you send the email,the message will arrive in the person's facebook message box in the folder named "Other" and he/she will be able to read out your message like other normal messages he/she receives.

(Note: That person won't be able to reply to your messages but will see an immediate option to unblock you and continue the conversation with you.So doing this,you can really increase your chances of getting back in touch with the person whom you have lost the contact with or atleast you can convey your message to the person who doesn't even want to talk to you anymore.)

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How Facebook fooled the people for its own Benefit

Facebook,the number one Social Networking Website Owned by the CEO Mark Zuckerberg has once again fooled its users for its own benefit.

We all know,these days,Facebook is doing the changes very frequently and some of these changes are quite noticeable even in the first look.But this time,Facebook has changed something which has gone unnoticed by most of its customers.

In 2010,Facebook introduced a new feature called facebook email to give its customers a unique identity.But somehow it didn't get the success and majority of the facebook users still used their personal email id's in order to identify themselves.

Facebook didn't do anything at that time but now surprisingly,Facebook itself has changed all the users' email id's by the facebook email ids without even intimating it to its users.It can also be known as the "Facebook lame attempt to force its email servie on you".Now when someone views somebody's profile,he/she will only be able to see the facebook email-id of that person and not his/her actual email-id.

Whats exactly the facebook email-id:

The facebook email-id is nothing but your facebook username followed by @facebook.com.So if you have the facebook username say XYZ,then your facebook email-id will be XYZ@facebook.com

This Change has still got a solution:

Although the facebook users have not been intimated about the change,but the good thing is they are left with an option to get rid of this.Its upto the users now if they are okay with it and want to go on with the change or they just want to revert to their original email-ids.

How to Revert to Original Email-Ids:

For making your original email-ids visible on your timeline instead of facebook ids,all you need to do is

1) Go to your profile,click on "About".

2)Then reach out the "Contact Info".

3) Click on "Edit" button.

4) You will see the option of Emails on the top.You would see two email ids-one would be your personal email id that you want to show on your timeline and the other one is your facebook email-id.It would just look like one shown below

5) As you can see in the picture above,there are small circles in front of each email-id.

By default facebook has hidden your personal email-id from the timeline and made your facebook id visible as you all can see.

6) All you got to do is click on the arrow beside the circle of that email-id which you want to make visible on your profile(in our case,it would be your personal email-id which is the 1st one) and click on "Shown on Timeline".

7) Finally click on Save and you are done.The final picture will look like one shown below

Its your wish now if you want to hide your facebook id from your profile or not.You can do it also following the same procedure.

Why did it all Happen :

A spokesperson for the social network said :

"As we announced back in april,we have been updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site.

In addition to everyone receiving an address,we're also rolling out a new setting that gives people the choice to decide which addresses they want to show on their timelines.

Ever Since the launch of timeline,people have had the ability to control what posts they want to show or hide on their timelines,and today were extendin'g that to other information they post,starting with the Facebook address."

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1 Mistake that should certainly be avoided by new Webowners

Today I am sharing an article on how the new WebOwners are making blunder which is preventing them from being selected in the adsense and various other affiliate programs. Even I made this mistake initially due to which my blog really suffered in the beginning.

I have seen hundreds of bloggers who have just started blogging not because they are good at writing articles or they are passionate about it but simply because they want to earn money like other successful bloggers are earning.For this,they just try to opt the simplest path of copying the articles from other successful blogs and presenting them as their own thinking that it would help them getting more and more crowd to their blogs thereby generating the revenue to them.But they forget that the big companies like google are not fool to pay them for what they dont even own.Getting the blog views counting many thousands in number per day is not the only sole criteria left for being selected in google adsense after google has adopted a new harsh algorithm named google panda .There have emerged various other factors also like the quality of the posts,internal and external links,search engine optimization to name a few which enhance your chances of being selected in these revenue generating programs.

Infact copying the articles from other blogs undoubtedly lowers your rank in the search engines' ranking system which adversely affects your blog.Search Engines reject all the duplicate articles and accordingly lowers your page ranking according to their algorithms.And the situations are even getting worse.Companies are going for even smarter algorithms which has now made the selection process even more harsh.As mentioned above Google has adopted a new algorithm named google panda which includes a domain level penalty which means if you have some low quality post in your blog,then not only that post would be penalized but your domain as a whole would be penalized thereby bringing down your website rank.

Being specific,Copying a single article from other blog would bring down your ranking by almost 1 thousand or may be even more than that depending upon the article.You can now yourself realize how worse it can be to copy the articles in an attempt of making your blog popular.To make the picture even more clearer,I recommend you to use the famous alexa toolbar.The alexa toolbar helps you to get the real time data for your blog or website including the page rank,number of links and many other useful information.Learn how to get it here .

So,all the new bloggers should not only avoid copying the articles from other blogs but also try to write the good quality posts to survive the new fear for the WebOwners-google panda.

You can also learn how to protect your articles from copy paste to be a better blogger and how to use seo to optimize your blog.

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Why Restricting SMS to 5 per day is not a Solution

Another move by the Indian Government that has made the entire country suffer-"SMS restricted to 5 per day for all the GSM and CDMA mobile users for the next 15 days.".This restriction has been implemented from 18th of august,2012.The restriction has been made to curb the spreading rumours which were meant to create violence and lead to vacate the North Eastern Indians from various South Indian states including Maharashtra,Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh.The effect of these rumours had the most adverse effects to be seen in Bangalore.

In July,more than 75 people were killed in an ethnic violence in Assam.Since after that,there have been many SMSes out spreading the rumours like the violence in Assam would be avenged by attacking the Northern Eastern people in Southern Indian States after Eid (20th August).There are thousands of people from the Northern Eastern region working in the South Indian States.Due to such kind of rumoured SMSes,the government had been facing many problems which eventually made it to come up with an idea of restricting the SMS to 5 per day for all the GSM and CDMA mobile users as a solution to curb these rumours.

Rajan Mathews,Director General of Cellular Operators Association of India added that "Its better to save lives even if that means putting up with the inconvenience of not being able to send the bulk messages".

Not only this restriction has been limited to SMS,but also to the MMS.You can't send more than 5 MMS a day and that too includes only 20 kb of Data.

Now when a customer is crossing his limit of 5 SMS per day,he is getting a message like "Dear Customer,as per directive from DoT,SMS/MMS relay has been limited to 5 per day for the next 15 days.Inconvenience Regreted".This message is being seen by the Reliance Customers.Other companies' customers are also seeing such kind of message.People have to bear this loss of the free message packs which are quite popular these days especially among the youngsters and are making the highest revenue to the telecom companies.

All the companies have agreed to this decision of the government although airtel has not implemented these rules in some parts of the country.

Also keeping in mind that the alerts from the services like banking,railway reservations,airlines etc are exempted from this ban on the bulk messages.

Now the question is that Is this decision of the government an ultimate solution to all the spreading rumour problems?Well,the answer is obviously NO.The experts say it may not be the solution because the people who were sending these threatening SMSes were not using the bulk messages facility.The messages are travelling from peer to peer groups.So if the violators have to spread the rumours,they will spread them.

Also the restriction is not being applied to the data based messaging services like WhatsApp,Blackberry Messenger(BBM),etc.So if someone has an intention of spreading such rumours,he/she can use these services also and get the work done.

Moreover,the persons who do such kind of work,use only fake sim cards.They can have multiple sim cards with them and use the "5 SMS per day restriction" of each sim card to make them 100.

So,the experts and almost every other person in India are today holding the view that instead of taking such an insane step,the government should have taken some sound step that could solve the problem without putting the common man in trouble.

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How Alexa Toolbar helps to increase traffic to Websites and Blogs

Ever thought that a simple tool could be that effective that it could help you get more and more traffic to your blogs and websites?The answer would definitely be "NO".But companies have come up with various such tools that help to know the traffic to the blogs and websites in real time and alexa is so far the best and the most popular among them.

The alexa company has come up with one very effective toolbar that can easily be integrated into your browser which you can use anytime to know the ranking of the websites and the blogs you are visiting and also the traffic emerging on those website and blogs.

Usually what happens is that you download some software,install it and then never use it again.It gets lost behind various other things in your PC which you find more interesting.Keeping this thing in mind,the company came up with a toolbar that can easily be integrated into your browser so that it always remains in front of your eyes and you use it whenever you want.

Now you might be wondering,how this toolbar will bring the traffic to your blog/website.So,I must clear you that its not a magic wand which you will rotate and get your work done.But alexa toolbar provokes you to go for the best by giving you the real time data for your blog/website.Without any such tool,you would totally be unaware how your blog/website ranking on the search engines is varying.If you are unaware of exactly how the search engines work and what website ranking is all about,you can read it here.Reading it would make the picture even more clear and would definitely convince you to go for one such effective toolbar.

Earlier,Even I was not in the favour of using this toolbar,but seeing it on other blogs,I installed it and I got more than just being surprised as I found it really very useful.It showed me that my ranking was going down when I was thinking that writing the articles would be promoting my search engine ranking now.It made me aware of the blunder I was doing.You can read it here . From that time onwards,I have been using this alexa toolbar very effectively and it has helped me a lot increasing the traffic to my blog.

Simple steps to get this toolbar for Google Chrome

Getting this toolbar for the google chrome users is quite easy and only few steps procedure.

1) Go to alexa's official website here.It looks like the picture shown below

2) Click on the "Install Alexa Extension" button highlighted with the red pen in the picture above.

3) You would immediately be redirected to a page that would look like one shown below

4) On the top right corner,you can see the button reading "Add to Chrome" highlighted with the red pen.Click on this button.

5) Clicking the button will bring to you a dialogue box which looks like one shown below

6) Click on "Add" and you are done.You will be seeing a message on the top right corner of your browser which looks like shown below and also an alexa toolbar icon(highlighted with red pen)integrated in your chrome browser.