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Blogger is one of the many options available to bloggers who are looking for free blog software. This website located at the following web address: http://www.blogger.com offers registered users the opportunity to publish their own blog free of charge. The website also has templates the blogger can use to create his blog and even enables bloggers to easily place Google advertisements on their blog and coordinates an AdSense account for the users so they can potentially earn a profit from their blog. This article will discuss the history of Blogger as well as the terms of service.

The History of Blogger

Blogger began in 1999 with a small group of friends in the San Francisco area who ran a company called Pyra Labs. These friends did not set out to create a network of bloggers but nevertheless Blogger emerged from their efforts. The three friends who developed bloggers were programmers who toiled away for others in an effort to fund their own endeavors. As previously mentioned a blog network was not their original goal but the friends were intrigued by the idea as it emerged and found others were interested too as their concept quickly took off and new members were joining everyday. Like most Internet entrepreneurs of this time period, they experienced setbacks but continued to persevere.

In 2002 Blogger was doing well but got an unexpected surprise when Google expressed interest in purchasing Pyra Labs. Google was interested in the upswing in the blogging community and the members of Pyra Lab sold their company enabling Google to take over the operation. Since taking over Google introduced the concept of AdSense advertising campaigns on blogs which has been generating profits for Google and bloggers alike. Blogger not only offers members templates to create a blog and voice their opinions on the Internet but also simplifies the process of placing AdSense advertisements on the blog.

Blogger Terms of Service

The Terms of Service of Blogger are susceptible to change but there are a few basic terms which users can expect to exist. The Terms of Service for Blogger provides explanations of items such as the services offered, description of proper use of the services, privacy policies, an explanation of intellectual property rights, cause for termination and information regarding the legal jurisdiction of the website. Members of Blogger are advised to carefully review these policies before becoming a member and to be sure they understand and agree to all of these terms. If the potential member is unsure about the meaning of one or more of the terms, he should contact Blogger to seek clarification on the Terms of Service.

Members of Blogger should also be aware that the Terms of Service may change and should review these terms periodically to ensure there have been no changes made which will adversely impact the member.

Members of Blogger should pay particular attention to the section of the Terms of Service which specify causes for termination of a member’s account. This information is important because it will help to prevent the member from inadvertently performing an action which may result in his account being terminated or suspended. Blogger is not required to inform the member of the infractions before suspending the account so a member will likely lose his account before he is even aware he has violated the Terms of Service agreement.

The two main ingredients to rank highly in the search engines are that you must have good content and have lots of links pointing to you. For the vast majority of bloggers, writing outstanding content is not the problem. The problem is finding the best ways to build links to the blog, as well as building deeplinks to the blog posts themselves.

Thousands of self-proclaimed “link building experts” will try to sell you costly ebooks showing you the greatest places to build your links. The main reason this article was written is to show you that there is no reason to buy your way to a great link building campaign when you can do it all totally free. As a prologue, you should know that the most common free link building strategies such as link exchanges or linkfarms can be dangerous to your sites search engine rankings. For more details go to www.your-own-blog.com. As a good way to judge whether or not a link building technique will be dangerous to your site or not is to imagine if that link would be placed there if the search engines didn’t exist. If you were not adding your link to a site for the sole purpose that Google would find it, would you still add it?

With the prelude out of the way, lets move on. Building links to your blog is a lot different than building links to a static site. According to most people who own blogs, it is hundred of times easier. On your blog, you can build tons of links to hundreds of different pages, which you cannot do on a static site. Blogs are also updated on a daily basis, meaning the search engines crawl through them for hours and rank them higher with very little extra work. Your link building campaigns will be far more reaching than if you were on a static site. Every single post you make on your blog has a chance to gain tons of social media links which will result in higher search engine placement and more traffic. The more traffic, the more money you make!

After spending many hours searching the internet for places to build links for blogs, the best place you should focus your blog’s link building campaigns are on social media sites. These sites generally have a huge amount of visitors and the content that is promoted ranks heavily on the search engines. You are allowed to submit every blog post you write to every single social media site, thus building many links for every single blog post you write. This will allow you to have many deeplinks which will raise the authority of your blogs main domain. For more information login to www.blog-and-png.com. In the end, you will be able to rank higher for your blog posts without doing any extra marketing. Stop paying for bad quality ebooks when with a few minutes every day you can submit your blog posts to social media websites for free and receive far more benefit. If the social media sites like your blog posts, it may even make their front page resulting in thousands more visitors and hundreds more links. The result of this can easily snowball into reaching wide new audiences and rank for longtail keywords that you never thought possible. Give it a try because after all, you have nothing to lose

Introduction

WordPress has become one of the most popular blogging packages on the Internet; this is largely due to its ease of use and its object oriented design which allows the user to easily extend its capabilities in the form of WordPress Plugins. The WordPress plugins repository is a high-availability set of development tools — a wiki, version control using Subversion, and bug tracker — that aims to nurture the active WordPress development community.

Plugins

Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs. Plugins are one of the most valuable elements of WordPress as a platform. You can download a fresh version of WordPress with the plugins you select, or just a zip of all your favorite plugins. More and more plugins are starting to use AJAX techniques. For any WordPress user, plugins are essential. Luckily there is already a few plugins out there for that, but sometimes your readers will suggest something that has yet to be implemented as a plugin. Semiologic CMS is a set of plugins and themes for WordPress that work together to turn a WordPress blog into more of a content management system. Each plugin is activated separately, so if you want to use a couple of the plugins, you can do so without running the plugins you don’t want.

Tag

Tags in the Head is a WordPress plugin that attempts to make your website both more machine and human readable by using the ‘Tags’ you specify as META keywords in a page’s header. When using this plugin, you can use the WordPress’ categories as tags — no additional tagging plugin is needed. Some search engines are supposed to love this tag, so I guess we should, too. This plugin is extremely easy to install and it will create a dynamic Meta Description Tag for every page on your blog, based on post excerpts or on the first words of the page.

Video

WP-FLV is a plugin to help you add flash video to your WordPress site. It holds the URL to your Flash Video file. For instance generate a list of video links rather then show the player. It was really easy to get this running, and I think it looks more professional then most of the non free flash video players. It is easy to simply pop it up, but its hard to specify the sizes of the windows they open in, especially when all the videos have different resolutions.

Ads

Adsense Deluxe allows you to automatically insert Google Adsense with ease. Adsense-Deluxe allows you to test your Adsense styles without having to edit your WordPress templates. There are a lot of ways you can add ads to your WordPress blog. Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program. WordPress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins.

Social

Social Bookmark Plugin : Make it easy for users to bookmark your posts in del. Socializer is way to submit your post to all of the social bookmark networks at once. It include 37 social bookmark networks (digg, de. Bookmark Me by Denis de BernardyLists links to common social bookmarking sites. This is an excellent way to promote your articles on one of the most popular social bookmarking sites around. This plugin is very useful for handling sudden bursts of traffic coming from social bookmarking sites like Digg and Slashdot. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Conclusion

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of WordPress plugins available for download. Top 10 Underrated WordPress Plugins those plugins are certainly awesome, but there are many others out there that can be life savers, and people often neglect them.

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Right to the last the oldest blogger in the world was making entries. Olive Riley, of Broken Hill, Australia, died peacefully in July, at a fabulous 108 years-old. Though she didn’t have the strength to get out of bed, she was still managed to peck away at the keyboard of her computer. “It doesn’t require much strength to be a blobber,” said Olive.

The Life of Riley, received more than a million hits in the 18 months it was live. Olive was the only resident in the retirement home to operate a website and a ‘blob’. A filmmaker of a documentary on the life and times of Olive Riley, Mike Rubbo said, “Olive was introduced to blogging by and an older friend who had taken up blogging.”

Unfortunately Olive did not have the strength to speak on a US talk show, when invited to do so, though her fans came from all over the world.

Perhaps we all take ourselves too seriously, along with our Google rating and the number of hits our blob gets. Maybe we could learn some lessons from Olive.

Before she dropped off to sleep, Olive liked to do her thinking. Perhaps this was the key to her success. Some experts (whoever they may claim to be), say our brain works sharper and better at night than during the day. Perhaps like Olive, we would be more successful if we ‘blobbed’ at night. Or at least got our ideas and motivation for blogging, in the night hours (which is something a lot of us do).

What would your results be if you blogged every week for the next thirty years? Olive made 70 entries on her life experiences, in just eighteen months. Experiences that covered two World Wars, a world depression, the advent of motor cars and large commercial planes, electricity and the exciting world of computers. Olive was also employed as a cook on a station in outback Queensland and a barmaid in Sydney.

Now you are a lot younger more energetic than Olive, so say you write 5 blogs a week, for 50 weeks of the year. That is a total of 250 per year, or 2500 in 10 years, 5000 in 20 years, and 7500 in 30 years. That’s around 2,250,000 words.

What if each of your blogs received a mere 500 hits? That would be a total of 3,750,000 hits in 30 years. What if you could score an average income of just $1 per blog? You would become a $3.75 millionaire in just a short thirty years. Of course you would have the money out at interest during that time so maybe that would make you a???

So what’s in this for you? Don’t ever quit. Most people give up just when it is about to get going. You never know when you’re once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity will bring home the bacon, (or is that meant to be the champagne).

Patient Assessment

Donor Supply

In performing a hair transplant, the physician must balance the patient?s present and future needs for hair with the present and future availability of the donor supply.  It is well known that one?s balding pattern progresses over time. What is less appreciated is that the donor zone may change as well.   

The patient?s donor supply depends upon a number of factors including the physical dimensions of the permanent zone, scalp laxity, donor density, hair characteristics, and most importantly, the degree of miniaturization in the donor area – since this is a window into the future stability of the donor supply.

The size of the donor area is determined by both its width (height) and its length.  When assessing the potential width of the donor area, doctors usually assess the lowermost point that the balding will reach, i.e. the top part of the permanent zone.  However, it is equally important to pay attention to the inferior margin as well.  It is common for the hair to thin significantly at the nape of the neck as a person ages, producing an “ascending hairline.”  Since this can significantly diminish the width of the donor area, any evidence that this process may occur should be taken into account in the planning.  Loss of the temporal points is another process that has a significant impact on the donor supply. Not only does it foreshorten the potential length of the donor strip but it often portends very significant baldness.   

Scalp laxity is another variable that affects the amount of available donor hair.  Very tight scalps significantly limit the amount of donor hair that can be removed through strip harvesting.  The constraint imposed by a tight scalp is not always apparent in the first session, but can plague the hair restoration down the line; therefore, it should be evaluated carefully in the initial patient assessment. A very loose scalp can present its own set of problems, as patients with very loose scalps often heal with widened donor scars. [18]   

The average donor density of a Caucasian is about 225 hairs/cm2. This can easily be measured using a hand-held instrument called a densitometer. (2) When the density of a Caucasian is below 180, a hair transplant should be undertaken with great caution. In this author?s opinion, when the maximum donor density is below 150/hair mm2, a person should generally not be transplanted, as there will not be enough donor hair to make the procedure cosmetically worthwhile and the risk of a visible donor scar is too great. (3) Exceptions would be an older person with very limited expectations and in races where the normal density is lower (i.e. Asians and Africans). 

Hair characteristics, particularly hair shaft diameter, are as important as the absolute number of hairs in determining the outcome of a procedure.  The amount of transplantable hair is related to both the number of movable hairs (determined by the size of the donor area, scalp laxity and donor density), multiplied by the hair shaft cross sectional area.  Since each hair in a person with coarse hair can have over 5 times the volume as a person with fine hair, the estimate (or actual measurement) of hair shaft diameter is important in determining the overall donor supply.  

Miniaturization, the progressive diminution of hair shaft diameter and length (the result of the action of DHT on the hair follicle) produces thinning on the front, top and crown of the scalp and is the hallmark of androgenetic alopecia.  But the back and sides of the scalp can miniaturize as well and when a significant portion of a patient?s donor area is miniaturized, the hair in this area can be rendered useless for a hair transplant. (Figures 1 and 2)

This condition, called diffuse unpatterned hair loss (or DUPA), is the most common type of hair loss seen in women and it is not uncommon in men.  It goes without saying, that every patient, male or female, in whom a transplant is being considered, should be evaluated for donor miniaturization using densitometry to make sure that the donor hair to be transplanted is stable. 

Recipient Demand

One should never assume that a person?s hair loss is stable. Hair loss tends to progress over time.  Even patients who show a good response to finasteride will eventually lose more hair.  It is always best to consider the reasonable worst-case scenario when assessing how bald the patient may become, so that the finite donor hair can be allocated properly. Although the Norwood classification is very helpful in staging the hair loss, it doesn?t take into account actual scalp dimensions. Just like the donor site, the recipient area should actually be measured.  Even within a single Norwood class, there is a vast difference between a patient with a narrow forehead and one with a very broad head with respect to the actual surface that needs to be covered, and thus the number of grafts required for the restoration. 

Designing the Hairline 

Hairline Position

In the adolescent, the hairline sits just above the upper brow crease formed by the upper border of the frontalis muscle directly below it.  The position of the normal adult male hairline is approximately 1.5cm above this crease at the midline). A common error is to place the newly transplanted hairline at the adolescent position, rather than one appropriate for an adult. Although the younger patient, first experiencing hair loss, may put considerable pressure on the doctor to place hair in the lower position, the physician should not yield to this demand. 

Under normal circumstances, as a patient ages, his density decreases and the natural hairline will move back somewhat.  However, a transplanted hairline is immutable. Therefore, when the transplanted patient continues to thin or bald (which he invariable will) the fixed low frontal hairline will begin to look out of place, since it is natural for a person with decreased overall hair volume to have a slightly receded hairline, rather than one that is still in the adolescent position. 

Hairline Shape

A similar logic applies when choosing the shape of the hairline.  As a male passes from adolescence to adulthood, his broad, flat hairline evolves into a more tapered shape with some recession at the temples.  A persistent low, broad hairline is enjoyed by those who also maintain their adolescent density. This situation is not present in those who are suffering from androgenetic alopeica; therefore, a transplanted flat hairline will not “age well” over time and will look unnatural as the patient?s overall density decreases and particularly as the crown begins to thin. 

If a person is older, has maintained a high donor density, and has a small risk of extensive hair loss, a broader hairline is possible.  However, this is not this case for the person who is starting to bald at a young age, since he has a significant risk of extensive baldness and, more importantly, the extent of his future hair loss can not be known at the time the surgery is planned. 

Graft Distribution

The nuances of graft distribution and the multitude of problems that result from distributing grafts improperly are beyond the scope of this writing; however, there are two main but related themes that the hair transplant surgeon should be cognizant of when deciding where to place grafts. The first is to set a target area of coverage that takes into account the patient?s future balding pattern, as well as, his total donor hair supply.  The second is to forward weight the grafts, rather than distributing them evenly over the top of the scalp.

Extent of Coverage

The problem of deciding how much bald scalp a hair transplant should cover can be illustrated as follows.  As an example, take a patient whose total number of follicular unit grafts available to harvest is around 5,500.  The front part of the scalp has a surface area of about 50 cm2.  The top or mid-scalp has an area of about 150 cm2 and the vertex or crown about 175 cm2. However, the size of the bald crown can vary dramatically depending upon the extent of hair loss, reaching over 200cm2 in a Norwood Class VII patient. 

If the front and top of the scalp were transplanted using all of the patients donor hair, the transplanted density would be only 5,500grafts/200cm2 or 27.5 grafts/cm2 (less than 1/3 the density of the patient?s original hair). If the crown were covered as well, that would be 5,500 grafts/400cm2 or 12.5 grafts/cm2 (only 15% the density of the patient?s original hair).  Using various manipulations, such as creating different densities in different parts of the scalp, a skilled surgeon can make 1/3 of the overall density look like a substantial amount of hair. However, working with only 15% of the original density, can make the job of creating a natural look significantly more difficult, if not impossible.    

The way to avoid having a hair transplant with a look that is too thin, or see-through, is to limit the extent of coverage to the front and mid-scalp until an adequate donor supply and a limited balding pattern can be reasonably assured -  an assurance that can only come after the patient ages.  Until that time, it is best to avoid adding coverage to the crown.  

Another problem with transplanting the crown early is that as the crown expands additional hair will be needed to follow the expanding area of baldness outward, just to keep the first hair transplant looking natural. This may require considerable amounts of hair that will not be available to cover the front and mid-scalp if that were too bald as well. On the other hand, if the hair transplant was limited to the vertex transition point or VTP (see figure above), the restoration would look natural without further surgery no matter how far the hair loss in the crown progressed. The reason is that the front and top of the scalp represent a complete cosmetic unit, with the VTP as the natural posterior boundary – so it is natural for hair to cover this region of the scalp but not beyond.  

Density Gradients

Another way for surgeons to prevent a thin, see-through look is to avoid distributing the grafts evenly over the transplanted area. It goes without saying that only 1-hair grafts should be used at the hairline, with larger grafts behind them, but there are additional ways to produce the gradations of density to mimic the way hair grows in nature.  Specifically, the greatest density should be in the front part of the scalp (shown in brown) and particularly in the frontal forelock area (shown in dark brown).

The greater density in the front of the scalp forelock area can be created in two ways; by placing the recipient sites closer together in this location and by using larger follicular units in the area (i.e. 3- and 4- hair units rather than 1s and 2s).  These techniques may be use in combination to achieved greater density but, as will be discussed in the following section, if done to excess, may compromise growth.  

Summary

Follicular unit transplantation is a powerful hair restoration technique that allows the surgeon to create natural hair patterns and produce results that mimic nature. The success of the procedure depends greatly on proper patient selection, accurately assessing the patient?s donor supply, and distributing the grafts in a way that is appropriate for a person who will continue to age and eventually thin over time. With thoughtful planning, major mistakes can be avoided and our patients will be able to achieve the full benefit of this remarkable procedure. 

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