Brand

Withdrawing From FullScreen.net Partnership

Fullscreen.net was founded in January 2011 by George Strompolos. Previously, George helped create and develop YouTube’s Partnership Program.

Fullscreen: Creators
Grow your YouTube audience with our tools and support
Increase earnings with premium ads and sponsorships
Connect & collaborate with our global community

Fullscreen: Brands
Supercharge your YouTube presence
Scale your message across thousands of creators
Optimize your YouTube media buys

There are many form posts and videos talking about shifting monetization of their YouTube videos to FullScreen.net

My advice
If you’re already a YouTube partner, you could better stick with YouTube partnership for monetizing your videos.

Grant Permission: Authentication

FullScreen needs following permissions on your Google account.

Fullscreen, Inc. is requesting permission to:
Manage your YouTube account
View and manage your videos and playlists
View and manage your YouTube activity
View basic information about your account
View your name, public profile URL, and photo
View your gender and birthdate
View your country, language, and timezone
View your email address
View the email address associated with your account
View YouTube Analytics reports for your YouTube content
View YouTube Analytics reports for your YouTube channels and videos
Know who you are on Google
Associate you with your public Google profile
Manage your YouTube account
View and manage your videos and playlists
View and manage your YouTube activity
Perform these operations when I’m not using the application

Myth
Some people think that it’s impossible to come out of Fullscreen partnership once they’re in!
But there is a way.

Withdrawing procedure:

Log into your Google account.
Goto your account settings @ https://www.google.com/settings/account
Goto the Dashboard @ https://www.google.com/settings/dashboard
Goto “Authorize Account Access” -> Login again
Now revoke access to FullScreen from your Google account.

10 Tips For Designing A Better Logo

This is a guest post by Buytemplates. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

Designing logos is just like any other design work; to be professional, you will have to pay attention to details. Even a great idea can be ruined if you miss out on some simple things. The following 10 tips will help you make an effective logo for your business.

1. Find out the various mediums where your logo is going to be used, because this will also have a say in the limitations on how complex the logo is. It is not a good idea to have a detailed or illustrated design for a logo that will be placed as embroidery on a uniform, as it wouldn’t be clear.

2. Do as much research as possible. This stage doesn’t actually involve any design skills however it is important as it makes sure that you understand and get to know your client’s products, services, and rivals better; this will also make sure that you don’t finish up with a logo identical to those of your customer’s competitors.

3. Your main concern as in designing the logo is to distinguish your client from competitors and other brands. So your design should be able to distinguish and communicate adequately; it should not be one that attempts to doll up things.

4. You should ensure that logo also works all right in black & white.

5. It is not compulsory that you should demonstrate the firm’s products or services on the logo. This is true especially when customers can identify from the name itself what the business is all about.

6. The logo you design should reveal more about the company’s culture than the industry. This makes sure a more personalized logo that is custom-built. The logo shouldn’t be a generic one that all the companies in a particular industry can make use of.

7. The logo should be made in such a way that it is scalable without missing the detail; it must be identifiable even when scaled down and used on smaller promotional mediums, like visiting cards.

8. Keep the icon simple and straightforward. Your job is to design an icon, not some wall painting.

9. Avoid using all the free fonts on the web for your logos.

10. Don’t be afraid to use a new approach. There is nothing wrong in standing out from the crowd. You don’t have to go with the latest fashion in Logo design.

Beep in mind, fashion keeps changing all the time, but a logo is one that is going to stay forever.

Creating a good logo and unique tag line are important in producing a brand that presents the ideal representation for your firm. If your logo is clear-cut and unique, and if people visit your web site frequently, people will relate your logo with your business. When completed as it should be, a logo is one of the easiest ways to create an impact on your brand name. So remember the above tips and start designing a great logo.

About the Author:
Buytemplates is a notable website that offers professional and reasonably priced web templates for a variety of internet site needs. The website offers resources on Vista Icons and ebay templates along with various other web products for corporate, Business, real estate, entertainment, e-commerce, health, hosting, and much more.

Does TRUST Play any Role in SEO ?

I don’t know, whether Trust is one of the factors in getting the results up in the Search Engine Results Page, but I certainly know that Trust will help you get more traffic even from Search Engines.

Benefits of building Trust
Building Trust helps in making people to act. The desired action might be:
1. To subscribe to your blog updates.
2. To subscribe to your News Letter.
3. To purchase your ebook or print book.
4. To make a sales (affiliate link or any other kind of sales).
5. To make them share the article link with their friends and family members.
6. To make them link to your article.
7. To make your brand name stick in their minds.
8. Build authority.
9. Show your passion.
10. Get their feedback and to get their opinion on any issues (make them comment on your blog and to learn from your visitors). Etc etc etc..

So with this Trust factor, you can build readership and you all probably know that, it brings in repeat visitors to our blog. Hence, increase in traffic.
But this Trust can boost Search Engine Traffic too. Its been working all these years, but most of us might not have noticed it. Here is how it works with me:
Google ranks websites based on its algorithm and no one outside Google probably know all about the algorithm.
Google is famous for its testing, like A/B split testing, change of background colour of Sponsored ads, change of width of Search result page and search box etc. And usually Google shares many of the test results with its users, in the form of reports.
And it is known to most of us that, the result shown in the first position of the result page gets more attention and click, than that present in 3rd, 4th, 5th and so on positions. And the results in the latter pages get least clicks.

But if you have seen a blog and Trust that blog, then you are more likely to click on it and go to that blog for information, then that ranking much higher.

Looking at the above image, you may be thinking Sony Ericsson is a bigger brand than fonearena. But if you have been reading fonearena for quite sometime, I bet you would click on it for reading the review before making a purchase.

So branding and Trust can increase the Search Engine visits too. You may be thinking it takes a lot of effort to get a small amount of traffic. Yes, it takes a lot of effort to build such Brand and Trust, but once done, you will get a lot of traffic. Its all about Trust, even if you are not a big brand yet, you can build the brand with the trust factor, which will have a long lasting effect on the minds of internet users.

Do you think, its late to join the bandwagon of building Trust? Might be a little late but better late than never 🙂

Photo or Gravatar next to comments on WP

For people who comment on other blogs:-
Its a simple thing for some advance internet users, but I am sure that most of the people are not yet sure about how to get a pic or gravatar next to their comments on some WordPress(which allows showing gravatar ofcourse!) blogs.

Here is the simplest way, which will take just 2 or 3 minutes(depending on your internet connection speed 🙂 ).

Goto Gravatar.com(acquired by automattic), Click on SignUp.
You will just need a valid email ID, as you will receive a confirmation email including a link that will activate your account and allow you to set your password. After activating your account, login and goto “Add an Image“, now you will be presented with some options to upload a photo to your account. Upload an image that you want to show beside your comment. People who want to create their brand awareness, will use their website logo. And some others who want to show their photo beside the comment can upload their photo.
You can even use the same account(therefore the same images) to multiple email IDs. Just click on “Add an Email Address” link and you can add another email ID.
Now while commenting on blogs which show gravatar next to the comments, use the email ID that you used to signup with Gravatar.com. You can use any of the email ID’s that you have added to your Gravatar.com account, this will automatically show your uploaded image beside your comments. WordPress will automatically retrieve the photo and show it on the blog.

For blog owners:-
If your theme does not have gravatar enabled by default, then here is a simple trick using which you can integrate it. Add below code in comment.php file

<?php if(function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar($comment, '50'); } ?>

to show the gravatar wherever you want to show them. You can use styling by adding some css class.

Plugin for blog owners:-
If you don’t want to go through the hurdle, just use WP-Gravatar plugin upload and activate it and you will be ready with the gravatar enabled comment section instantly 🙂

There are many other services and methods to show gravatar, but this one is the best and the widely used one.
Please share your knowledge in the comment section. Do you know any tips, tricks, hacks or anything regarding gravatar ?