May was pretty cool month for us. This month we did a lot of work especially I want to appreciate the hard work of Ankit who made such a nice skin for the theme (now version five is final!), Ankit not only worked on the theme, but yeah we also welcomed a full-time editor – Akshay. We completed the goals that we made in last month and wanted to complete as soon as we could though the difference is negible in traffic. Here’s a round of the posts, then will share the traffic reports.

Round Up

Social Networking

• Who’s better for ‘Mashable’? Google or Bing?
• Twitter testing new features.
• [News] An update from Orkut!
• A ‘Social’ app by Vodafone!
• [Spam] Facebook gets a new Scam!
• Father, son re-united after 37 years via Facebook.
• [How] Access Facebook from Outlook!
• What’s up Twitter?
• [How] Turn your Facebook profile in a Blog!

Links/Internet/News

• [News] Google acquired AdMob.
• How safe a ‘link’ is?
• A ‘Social’ app by Vodafone!
• [How] Check Paypal balance without logging in the site.
• How does Steve Job earns?
• Father, son re-united after 37 years via Facebook.
• [How] Turn your Facebook profile in a Blog!
• Microsoft Download Manager. Worth using?

Mobile Phone

• Next iPhone could be iPhone 4G Ultra?
• Firefox Home: Firefox comes to iPhone?
• [News] Google acquired AdMob.

Stress Buster/Tricks

• [Trick] Make your Keyboard do Disco!
• What’s Windows saying about Chrome to OS X?

Traffic Reports

Visitors

• Page views: 7,253
• Unique visitors: 2,833
• Bounce rate: 66.48%

Traffic Source

• Direct – 24.96%
  
• Refering – 41.21%
  
• Search - 33.69%

Keywords’ Up & Down

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Hello! Remember an article written by our editor in which he listed top three software using which one can be anonymous on Internet easily? I was just checking my Analtics and found that post was one of the most read post. So it seems everyone wants to anonymous by hiding their IP, but their bad luck that those software are available free for only limited period of time and I know that some guys can’t afford them (even I wasn’t when I was new on Internet, because I didn’t have credit card, Paypal accounts and all).

So, I thought why not to give away Easy Hide IP for free worth $29.95, which is one of the most used software among them. This software could help you out in many ways like the Editor said:

The usage of social networks and blogs have become too much and nothing is now private. It’s OK to share what you like, but tell me if we continue doing like this, then what would be the difference between a virtual life and a real life?

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Like other contest, this contest is too simple too..

• Tweet about this contest via Twitter (can use any app to do so).
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• After doing all that drop down your comment with the tweet link (it would be good if you use your Twitter avatar while commenting. To use it just enter your Twitter name/profile and click on find button above the comment box.)
• Two winners would be selected via Random.org!

First winner will be selected once this post gets 10 Retweets and second will be anounced after completing 20 Retweets. So Tweet now!

Hello folks! I am pleased to introduce myself – Akshay, the co-editor of Extreme Trix. I am very happy to be a part of this extra-ordinary blog and would help as much as I can to make it number number one blog in the world. I am a kind of fun loving person, who spend around 12 hours on Internet checking out various stuff and other things. Ya I am a gaming freak and love to play all kinds of games, I am really passionate about hacking and web development, I have made sites for some big companies such as E-phoenix, Dk Gray Hosting and currently holding three more projects with Extreme Trix too. I am also interested in graphic designing and have knowledge in this field too.

In all the above mention qualities i think hacking is the one field in which I am more comfortable and experienced.

Extreme Trix v5

If you are one of the loyal visitors of our site, then may have observed that the site has got tweaked! Ankit made the first skin in Web of the TechieSoul theme and is using on Extreme Trix (with the launch of Extreme Trix v5). And I must say after those changes the blog have become much more enhanced and looks much much better, now you all can easily read recent post because this feature has been added, also separate column for tutorials have been added so that you can find required tutorials much easily. I won’t tell about more features because I want you to explore them yourself so, just start exploring the site with new look and enhanced features and enjoy!

I think we are running late this time. Round up was to be posted on 1st, but we didn’t post it. April was not too good nor too bad for us, it was neutral! The best thing of April is we got a hacked blog back and our two sites completed a year. This time we didn’t post many posts as compared to the month of March, but thanks to all guests who joined our blogs and helped. Here is the round up of April-

Tech & Social News

• McAfee update freezes PCs Worldwide!
• High alert for increasing Cyber Attacks!
• Google Indian site gets a Makeover!
• Twitter welcomes Joe & Kristin to their Mobile team!
• Did you know that Google updated the Page Rank?
• Opera Mini changes to ‘Internet’ on Vodafone!

Internet & Links

• Buying something online?
• Opera Mini changes to ‘Internet’ on Vodafone!
• Time for the photos to Talk!
• Which Internet Messenger is better? Google Talk or Windows Live Messenger?
• Google Indian site gets a Makeover!
• What happened to Twitter?
• Kill off your Facebook profile with honor!

Stress Buster

• Kill off your Facebook profile with honor!
• Time for Photos to Talk!

Mobile

• Opera Mini changes to ‘Internet’ on Vodafone!
• Ten stunning mobile Wallpapers!
• Use front cam of Sony Ericsson w910i to capture & record! (trick)

This month we posted just one trick, we’ll now try to focus on every category that we have in Extreme Trix. We have also decided that this month we’ll also post monthly traffic report. So have a look at it!

Monthly Traffic

• Page views: 7,445
• Unique visitors: 3,202
• Bounce rate: 68.93%

Traffic Source

Main sources

• Google
• Yahoo
• StumbleUpon
• Passionate Bloggers

Search Impact

Source: Alexa

We will have to work very hard this month to improve our Alexa ranking and Bounce rate. If you have any suggestion for Extreme Trix please drop it down. Previous sugesstions:

• To Mobilize our blogs by Prateek – Done!
• Add a Favicon by Ram Kumar bro – Pending (BTW any good favicon?)

Hope you liked round up of this month. For more update of Extreme Trix follow us on Twitter @ExtremeTrix or sign up for the newsletter.

March was simply awesome for all our blogs and was the best month especially for Extreme Trix. This month we were back to blogging after a long break of three months (our blog was not updated because Ankit’s exams were going on). We got two sponsors this month who paid us really well just for two in-link advertisements. This March Google also showed its love for us, they gave us eight link backs and approved us for Adsense. As we promised (in first post of this month) that we’ll be doing monthly round ups, here we are. I have compiled a list of all our posts of this month.

Tricks & Hacks

• Getting bore? Checkout Sunspots on Facebook.
• Use front cam of Sony Ericsson w910i to capture & record!
• List of the best WordPress tricks and hacks ever.
• How to crack Windows’ password?

Tech News

• Infolinks’ lower payment threshold!
• Internet Explorer losing its Market Share!
• Play video games with your eye!
• YouTube’s homepage updated!
• Now send messages to a Twitter friend easily!

Stress Buster

• A Wiki that would make you LOL!
• Getting bore? Checkout Sunspots on Facebook.
• Geeks can get a girlfriend too!

Internet & Links

• Top six alternatives of Digsby.
• Infolinks’ lower payment threshold!
• YouTube’s homepage updated!
• Internet Explorer losing its Market Share!
• Geeks can get a girlfriend too!

Extreme Trix

• Extreme Trix is back what’s new?
• Small, but MUST steps to improve my blogging career.

For more update of Extreme Trix follow us on Twitter @ExtremeTrix.

Loyal readers of Extreme Trix may have noticed some big-big updates in the site. Actually from a long before I was planning to make it look more good and reliable, then while stumbling my site only I came through a comment post by Harsh bro to change the theme as it was not looking good, which was posted around July, but I didn’t see it yet. I asked some of my friends too they also suggested me to change the theme. I was afraid to change the cause theme cause I didn’t have Adsense and whenever I applied for it they rejected me saying the domain is not yours or the site is under construction. That was the main reason to not to change the theme. Last night I re-submitted my Adsense application and finally got an approved account this morning . So changed my theme tonight and I have also taken some more steps rather changing the theme, which would help me a lot in my blogging career (as I think).

Steps

• PPP Progarm: Yes! now rather than allowing guest authors to show their advertisements below or above the posts on my site, they would be paid per post via Paypal. We are giving 2$ per post to the author. For more info and guidelines checkout this page.
• Ad Prices reduced: This month I got two sponsors who really paid  well for just text links so, to get more sponsors I have reduced the advertisement prices. I would soon publish a detailed page on it.
• Logo: The logo is same, but I have added a reflection below it, which makes it look more professional.
• Niche: This month I have not posted even a single post about or of blogging and SEO. Now I am trying my level best to be on the niche. I will be publishing all Tech and Tricks related stuff here, all Blogging and SEO related posts are on Passionate Bloggers and all hacks are on Hacker’s lane.
• Forum: Sorry to let you know, but we are closing our forum for sometime due to some reason .
• Network: As I told before we are working on Budding Blogger with Satish bro to improve it and make it India’s first network of blogs giving free domain and ad-free hosting. We are currently making the plan ready and then we would be releasing some Blogging and computer related applications (one of them I am going to release tomorrow only – (have released it and gave a tutorial too of making it)).

Hope you liked the my steps to improve my blogging and please feel free to suggest me some more to make me a Pro-blogger.

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Good news for you all, we are again giving a free Google’s AdWords coupon worth 54.92$ valid until 31st March to Extreme Trix readers. To win this coupon all you have to do just comment on this post and the guy who will do the first comment on this post will get the coupon.

Google Adwords

If you don’t know what is AdWords and how much is it useful to bloggers in getting traffic and link building , then please refer to my this post. This page will be soon updated with name of the winner. Until stay tuned.

Update: Arun bro is the first commentator, but he doesn’t wanted this coupon so we have sent the coupon to Birju bro who the 2nd commentator. Congrats Bro!

Yup! You read it right after a long break of three months I’m back again to it. In these three months I have learned a lot of new things about blogging especially branding and SEO. I have reverted back Extreme Trix’s theme to iNove from Swift. I reverted it back to iNove because swift was a bit unprofessional and making changes on it was difficult. From now onwards I will try to cut down blogging related posts on Extreme Trix and will focus on Tech and Tricks as it is based on “Tricks”. I will write blogging related posts, but not on ET on Passionate Bloggers, which is my new blog after Limit Trix. I realized that I’m not following basic and main rule of blogging that is “Post articles based on your site’s niche” and I was continuously posting posts under Blogging Category and cut down posts on tricks.

Author Image uploading feature.

Changes -

• Created official Twitter accounts for all sites in my network. (Learned branding ).
• Created a personal blog on Blogspot, which I will use a my personal diary so I will not post any more post about me on ET to keep my friends updated about me.
• Added an author image plug-in, which will allow users to upload their own images on ET (just like a social network) and will get displayed in sidebar of their profile and posts (if posted any).
• New logo of ET, PB and my personal blog.
• New revenue sharing system coming soon (good for guest authors!).
• Our first WordPress theme and plug-in coming soon!

Links -

Twitter – Personal  acc (@AnkitPuri), Official  acc of ET (@ExtremeTrix), Official PB blog (@PassionateBlogr) and Devilish Lover (@DevilishLover)

Network – Personal (Devilish Lover), Blogging related (Passionate Bloggers) and  (Limit Trix)

Stay tuned to my blogs, each blog and Twitter profile will be updated regularly this month with weekly and monthly round up of posts.

I’m continuously blogging since the launch date of Extreme Trix version one. Now I’m completely tired by blogging. Blogging is disturbing my studies and my social life too. Because of blogging I’m not able to focus on my studies properly nor able to spend time with my friends and family. This time I want to score good marks not like what I scored in first term. I was getting second rank in my class, but I failed in Mathematics so didn’t get any rank.

I still have two months to prepare for my exams so I can score good marks. I have decided to take a long break from blogging. We’ll be back after the month of Feburary when my exams will get over and my holidays will start. After coming back the first thing I’m going to do is the launch of first WordPress theme (haven’t decided its name yet, actually its under construction). Hope you guys will like it.

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Please spread this message to others via Twitter (with the link of the post) and comment back with status link (comments will be moderated by Hack Minded and Prateek.). One of the lucky will get a valid Rapishare Premium account valid until 21st of Feb.

Thanks and Regards

- Ankit

You may remember that Extreme Trix was deleted on 16th of November and it took me almost complete two days to make it live again without any problem, it was entirely my fault for not keeping a backup, but from now onwards I have started using WP-DB-Backup plug-in which helps me in getting daily backup easily. When Extreme Trix was deleted the biggest challenge to me was to solve SEO problems. Actually I had two installations of WordPress in my Database one was of WordPress 2.7.1 and second one was of WordPress 2.8.1. I wanted to remove WordPress 2.7.1 as ET was powered by 2.8.1 and the blog which was powered by 2.7.1 was just a test blog which was consuming my free space and making ET very slow.

While deleting that first installation of WordPress by mistake second one (blog directory) also got deleted where Extreme Trix was installed. I lost my everything images, videos, docs and even some articles too. Thanks to Farhan and Prateek bro who helped me in finding back images and permalinks of the posts and pages from Google Cache. At last after continuous hard work of five hours my images and permalinks were restored.

The second challenge for me was to redirect some pages and my forum (my forum was also deleted so I installed a new one) be directory to the new one. I searched on Google about how to redirect PHP based pages and finally got a solution. First my login page was www.extremetrix.com/wp-login.php but now its www.extremetrix.com/blog/wp-login.php. To redirect old page to new one I simply made a new PHP file and added this piece of code -

< ?php header( 'Location: http://extremetrix.com/blog/wp-login.php' ) ; ?>

then saved it with name wp-login.php in my root directory.

Firstly when I launched Extreme Trix’s forum, it was with permalink forum, but when I re-installed it I changed the permalink to “support” instead of forum. To redirect forum to support what I did is just made a blank directory with name “forum” and made an index.htm file. In that index file I added a piece of HTML code (301 redirection code) which redirects and tells the crawler not to index forum directory. The code was -

<html>
<head>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location.replace("http://www.extremetrix.com/support");
-->
</script>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10; URL=http://www.extremetrix.com/support"/>
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="10"/>
<meta name="Description" content="301 moved permanently"/>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"/>
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"/>
</noscript>
<title>301 moved permanently</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<h1>ET - Forum</h1>
<p>has been moved to new address</p>
<a href=" http://www.extremetrix.com/support/"> <h1>ET - Support</h1></a>
<p>Sorry for inconvenience... </p>
</center>
</body>
</html>

Last challenge for me was to find a free SEO optimized theme for New version of Extreme Trix, I didn’t want again use my old theme because everything was new on my blog and moreover it was a bit un-professional. After reading reviews of 5-6 free themes the best theme I found was Swift by Satish bro. That time I was expecting a spike in my traffic so I switched to it as it was light and had very cool features.

Well that’s all! It was the entire story how I made Extreme Trix up again and solved SEO errors. If you also have such a drastic blogging story do share with us.

Christmas is almost near and now it is time to update our computer’s wallpaper with a nice and cool Christmas wallpaper. I have collected some beautiful and stunning high resolution wallpapers and today I am going to share them here, hope you all will like them.

Wallpapers

Christmas Tree

Snowfall

Christmas bells

Cool SnowMan

House covered with Snow.

Snowy Window

Shinning Christmas Tree

Christmas Gifts

Santa

Merry Christmas

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Just a quick post to say sorry to all readers for not updating Extreme Trix from last week. Actually was I was ill, I was having fever and my doctor advised me not to do any exertion and take rest for some days. That’s why I did not update Extreme Trix from last week. I took medicine and had some rest and now feeling much better.

Sorry again. Keep visiting Extreme Trix, I will soon post some rocking articles.

Hi, there is some good news for all new bloggers who are seeking to increase traffic of their blogs traffic by promoting themselves to interested visitors and prospects. We are giving Google’s Adword Coupon, which is worth Rs.2500 for absolutely free of cost. To get that coupon all you have to do is take part in this contest.

Google Adwords

What is Adwords?

AdWords advertisements are relevant text advertisements that appear alongside or above the results in response to searches on Google. So, when someone searches for products, services or content that you offer, your advertisement could show up alongside or above the organic search results. So, with AdWords, you are promoting yourself to interested prospects right when they are searching for just what you offer.

How to participate?

The rules of the contest are -

• Share and re-tweet this post.
• Publish about our contest on your blog/site (optional).
• Drop down a comment on this post.
• One winner will be selected randomly with Random.org.

Note : Contest ends on 15th Dec and coupon will get expire on 31th Dec, so hurry up!

Before writing anything, I would like to thank Prateek and Farhan bro for helping me. If you are a regular reader of Extreme Trix, then you may have observed that our site was down from last night, no there was no problem is our server, but yesterday when I was trying to upgrade my WordPress to 2.8.6 manually my blog directory (where ET is installed) got deleted. I was even not having my WordPress back-up still somehow I got my permalinks and images because of Google Cache.

I have made some severe changes in blog and changes are -

• Swift Theme – now I have started using Swift theme on Extreme Trix because it is clean and simple. Well it’s always good to have themes like SWIFT at your disposal so that you can easily switch to it if you are expecting a spike in traffic from social media sites.
• WidgetBucks - Just giving it a try
• 125 Ads – Started using 125 x 125 advertisements in sidebar.
• Added a Logo!

How is my new design? You liked it? If yes, then do drop down your suggestions.

You may be aware that Orkut has got a make over and till now you may have also started hunting for getting the access and invitation to get the new web design of the Orkut to your profile. So I thought to give you all a chance to get it.

Note – This Contest ends on 12th November

The rules of this contest are too simple, you just need to re-tweet and digg this article. After sharing this article, drop down your status link with your Orkut e-mail Id in comments section, we’ll pick five random winners

Orkut Invitation

FYI -

• We will be using Random.org to get the 5 lucky winners.
• Contest will end on 12th November.
• Thanks Rajesh bro for sending me invitation of new Orkut.

Update: Contest is now closed and we have sent invitation to five lucky winners