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The Theory

Here's the blab for all those really newbies. Mainly taken from Wikipedia.

What is web syndication?

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. This could be simply by licensing the content so that other people can use it; however, in general, web syndication refers to making Web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts).

Many websites on internet need you to register to acess the information, like many forums force you to register to have acess to their discussion pages. Below are some techniques that i found to bypass compulsory registrations on websites.

Keyword flooding is the bad bad habit of punching in as many keywords as you can. Google hates this, and punishes you for it.  Technically speaking, this includes the type of pages where there is a Title Tag loaded with scores of keywords. Using over twelve keywords per title tag is considered to be too much when it comes to keyword tags but some optimistic web masters will load them with as many as a 100 keywords in an attempt to increase sales. If you are one of them forget, high status on google.

The problem with cramming too many keywords on your home page is that the search engine spiders consider your site as a very big dictinary instead of seeing your site as specific individual. Individually they can never get the keyword density or repetitions need to order the site highly. When it comes to SEO keep your keywords short, sweet yet targeted for best results. If you load it with popular, generic or "most visited" terms you are going to end up with a lot of visits from people on the internet who are not even remotely interested in your site.

The solution to this is to focus the content on your home page on three to five of your top keywords or key phrases. For example if you have a site on personal health care, do not use keywords like "health" or "care", instead use more specific smaller keywords, break your ideas of keywords in to a more precise word. As a rule of thumb the more competitive your site is the less keywords you should choose. Choose only two or three excellent words or phrases and use them three times in each block of text on your site to bring you the most business and try to keep your title copy to less than seven words (but ideally five words!)

There are many powers of the google talk which lay unhidden, some of them are awesome, really awesome. For example you can now scrap from inside talk to orkut users, if you have many gmail accounts, you can use google talk to login to separate accounts at the same time! Its skype like interface is very handy. You can chat, email, scrap, call all from the same window. And now you can send even large files through talk! You can theme chat windows, or even display what track you are listening to on talk! And you can send formatted text also. You can quick mail a person with just one click! And for more, you can now play a game!

Scrapping on orkut
1. Go to your orkut account, and click start here on the google integration message.
2. Add your friends, and choose the settings and then you can scrap your friends from inside orkut
3 If you don't have a gmail account, you can create one.

Multiple Login
1. Right click on desktop > New > Shortcut
2. Paste this into the target box "c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
3. Click next and name it whatever you want (eg. Google Tak Multiple)
4. Click OK, now open this multiple times and login multiple times! how cool is that!

Themeing chat windows
Click on settings > Appearance, Now select the various chat themes.

Show off what you are listening to
1. Select Show current music track from the Available or Busy section of your status drop-down menu
2. Your friend will see the track you are listening to.


File Transfer
Send any type, any size, from talk!
1. From an active chat window, click the Send Files button.
Browse to the file or files you'd like to send (use CTRL-Shift to select more than one file at a time).
Click OK. Google Talk will insert your file into the chat session.

Quick Mail
1. Right click on desktop > New > Shortcut
2. Paste this into the target box "c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /mailto example.user©gmail.com (replace the email address with your friends)
3. Click next and name it whatever you want (eg. Google Tak - Mail Rahul)
4. Click OK, now open this, it will open a compose new mail window in your browser
5. Use it to quick mail some person.

Game
1. Invite wumpus.game©gmail.com as a friend.
2. Type “Play” in the chat window.
3. You’ll now start a game of Hunt the Wumpus.

 Text Formatting
1. When chatting in talk, or in the browser, type the text in _ marks to be italics
e.g. _my text_ appears as my text
2. type your text between * to appear as bold
e.g. *my text* appears as my text

Do you use a FTP client, a mail client, a RSS reader, a GIF editor a virus scanner? Yes all of us do, we use Filezilla for FTP, Thunderbird for mailing, RSSReader for RSS feeds, Animation Softwares, and a nice powerful virus scanner.
But think of it if you were able to do all this things online! great isn’t it? Yes, thats possible

Google Image Labeller is a tool which has a game type interaction

How to do it?
You login with your google account, start the game and you and another person are presented with a random same image, you have to enter tags and keyword for the image and then google checks how may of the tags are matching with your partner and you score points for them!

Rules:
You have 90 seconds for one image, then you have to move on to another image. After the game you can check how many points you have scored and see the links of the images and the website they were taken from

What is it, what do i get?
You just finally end up increasing the relevance of the images you get on google image search. So when you get a very relevant image on your next search thank the person who tagged it

Access Google Image Labeller here.

While there are many, many of tricks that allow you to download flash videos from Youtube or Google videos in either FLV or AVI format, Vixy.net allows you to do this with a difference