Social media traffic are the type of traffic that if goes viral, could bring a huge spike in your website traffic. This is true especially if your website is made it to the frontpage of Reddit or Digg.

Social media traffic are not targeted, which means they don’t convert well if you’re monetizing your website, but could be useful in self promoting your website. It could also bring some inbound links as people share what they found on your website elsewhere, which will then increase your search engine ranking.

These tips would help you improve your social media traffic.

Whenever you uninstall or remove a program/package in Ubuntu, only the binaries are removed but some of the related configuration files remain in your system. They can be anywhere in /etc or as a hidden file/folder in your home directory.

At certain time and situation you might need to completely remove both the binaries and settings. There are 2 methods to do this in Ubuntu

From it’s man page, rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file is being updated.

The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the differences between two sets of files across the network connection, using an efficient checksum-search algorithm described in the technical report that accompanies this package.

Say 192.168.1.10 (anduril) is the backup destination , herugrim is the host’s hostname, the following step will automatically rsync the home directory to the backup server.

If your Javascript code is too big, or just for readability and management purpose, it’s best to include Javascript codes from an external file. This method is also good for re-usability purpose.

The code below will load the Javascript code stored in myscript.js to the calling file.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="myscript.js">
</script>

You can choose to display either text ads or image / rich media ads for Google AdSense, or you could also chose to let Google display both types (which is the default, recommended option). Google will display whichever ads with the highest bid regardless of the type if you choose to display both types.

The default Google AdSense setting is to display both. Some people claim that text ads perform best while some has more success with image ads. Google’s advice however is to display both.

So, which type of AdSense ad unit should you use for your site?

As with other Google AdSense optimization tips, it all depends on the type of site you’re running. Also note that choosing the right ad type could complement to your site’s design. The following lists the pro and cons of each ad unit’s type.

GRUB is a small program used to manage booting into operating systems, loaded by the MBR. It allows you to select operating systems to boot and specify boot options …
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7-Zip is a file archiver program that claims to compress files into smaller size compared to other programs such as WinRAR and WinZip. The program can pack and unpack various formats such as ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, and of course, its own format, 7z. The 7z format itself is actually a container that supports few compression method such as LZMA, Deflate and BZIP2, with LZMA as default.

Vim can auto-complete syntax for popular programming languages, including HTML. It is however not enabled by default in most installation.

Entering the following while in Vim’s command mode will enable auto-completion for HTML language.

:set omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags

To start using the feature, press Ctrl + x followed by Ctrl + o keys while writing HTML syntaxes.

The following screenshot is an example in auto-completing <!

You can use the arrow key to navigate through the list to choose your desired auto-complete suggestion.

After installing Ubuntu and its derivatives on a Dell XPS Studio, the headphone jacks are both unusable. Plugging in earphone to the jack produces no sound, and the system still output the sound on the laptop’s speaker.

The problem is related to alsa. To fix it, follow these steps.

Google AdSense crawler crawls your website and tries to extract keywords from your pages. While Google generally performs the task well, you can help them to do it better. This is because certain part of your site is not always related to the content of the page. This normally includes the sidebar, footer, and sometimes maybe the comment section if you’re running a blog.

Section targeting will help Google AdSense to serve ads more relevant to your site’s content, which normally means higher click-through rate (CTR) thus increasing your AdSense income.

Section targeting allow us to emphasize specific part or section of our page for Google AdSense. To implement it, you need to add some HTML tag to mark the start and the end of the section that yo want to emphasize.

Here’s the HTML tag to emphasize a page section:

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->
.......
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

You can also specify a section of our page to be ignored. This is normally applied to the sidebar and the footer section of the page.

<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->
.......
<!-- google_ad_section_end -->