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There are a lot of CPM programs out there, which don't have any traffic limit to approve websites. Almost all of them say that they provide the best CPM rates and the publisher will be able to make a handsome amount of money with them. They might be right in their sayings but I have a sort of customized question for you folks. What minimum amount of traffic should my website have to make me a successful CPM Publisher? I am trying to emphasize on being successful. Anyone with a website based on legitimate content (or even website with illegal content) can successfully qualify for some CPM network. Those networks provide the codes for ads which the publisher runs on his website, and soon the ads start to appear. Upto this point, everything seems fine, but when most publishers check their stats to see what they have earned, they become very disappointed. That is what occurs commonly. I have a medical related website and currently I am getting about 2K pageview per day on average. On some good days I would reach 3.5K, while on other cold days, I would get only 1.5 K. So the average is about 2-2.5K per day. I run Google adsense ads on my webiste exclusively, which are performing quite nicely. Whenever I try to do some research about adsense, I find a lot of people complaining about it. Most of them say that they don't generate enough revenues, the primary cause being low CTR, CPM or both. But for my website, the ads are performing quite nicely. Although I have a lower than average CTR and not the highest CPM, but I am happy with these ads. One of the potential reasons, for adsense to perform nicely on my website, according to my knowledge, is that more than 70% of the traffic to my website comes from search engines. And as we know that such traffic tend to click on ads much more than those who visit a website again and again. But still the CTR is a bit on the lower side, the primary reason of which according to my research is that the ads are not very closely related to the content of the website. On some days, when I get some closely related ads (when some advertiser related to my niche performs an adwords campaign) the website performs brilliantly and both the CTR and CPC rise to a healthy value. On other days they are just average and below average but I am happy for them. About three weeks ago, I tried to increase the revenues generated by my website by adding CPM ads in addition to the current google adsense ads. I applied for Infinity Ads, which seem to be the middle range advertising company. They approved my application and provided my with codes fro different sizes of ads. I placed three ad unit on my website, in addition to the current three adsense units and hoped that the earnings would increase. I did realize that some of my clicks would go from adsense ads to the infinity ads, resulting in lower adsense earnings, but I hoped that the loss will be more than compensated by the revenues I would get from the infinity ads. After one day, when I checked the stats, I was very disappointed. The adsense earnings dropped by more than 40%, mainly because of drop in the CTR and almost all of those clicks were received by the infinity ads. The conversion ratio was very good, 44% to be exact. The total impressions I made were more than 6000 (all ad units combined) but when I saw the money I made, I was very angry. I made only $0.18. After that, I quickly removed the all the CPM ads and set up for adsense only. Now my question here is that CPM is a successful type of advertisement, without any doubt, but how much impressions the website must have to make CPM earning comparable to those of CPC. According to my research, the more traffic a website has, the better quality ads it will recieve and consequently, the earnings per thousand impressions will be greater. So if a website's pageviews increases from for instance 5k to 10k (100% increase), the total revenues generated from CPM advertisement will increase by more than 100%. The same rule may also apply to CPC ads but is not so prominent there. So how much traffic should a website get so that the income of CPM becomes comparable to income from CPC both based on per thousand impressions?

I have been using wordpress to host my website, but I have hardly had any issue with it. It always keeps up to the point and needs very little attention if any. If you have some HTML/CSS experience and you have designed websites with tools like adobe dreamweaver etc., you would probable know the pain of coding every single page and then uploading it onto your server. The biggest pain in such traditional web-designing is that you have to edit pages which are already online to add navigational links to pages that you newly create. I personally found that very difficult and at that time my website's progress was very slow because I found it very hard and boring to work on my website.Fortunately, one of the prime members (@starscream) of this very forum advised me to go fro wordpress, instead of designing my website on dreamweaver. At first I hesitated a bit, and wasted a lot of time trying to research on implications of shifting to a CMS but finally I made the decision. Since that day, my website is making regular progress and now I feel really proud about my website.I told you that boring story because I wanted you to be sure about the power of wordpress. If your website is using much resources, that might cost you something, it is not because the website is based on wordpress. In fact, any CMS would use resources less than traditionally designed websites of the same caliber. About a month ago, I was near to exceeding my monthly bandwidth limit provided by my host to me. The main reason for that was increase in traffic but latter on I found that I was using non-optimized images that wasted a lot of space and bandwidth. When I optimized my images, the bandwidth usage dropped by significant value, even though the traffic kept of increasing. So you might be using non-optimized images, or videos or other scripts that might be wasting a lot of bandwidth on your server. It would have been better if you had published the URL to your website and the names of the plugins you use. As far as the plugins are concerned, I personally feel that most of the commonly used plugins don't waste much bandwidth. They are highly optimized (and this is one of the main reasons why they are commonly used) so you might try and look for more reasons, why your bandwidth is wasted.

I might be wrong in my observation, but I am experiencing an increased number of spam posts and topics on Xisto forum. About a month ago, I never saw a porn related post on this forum but a few days ago, I saw 2 such posts which were there for a few days. In addition to these highly objectionable posts, I have also experienced an increased number of posts used for link spamming. Sometimes totally unreadable posts are found with a huge number of links in them. Maybe this is because people have started to realize that the difference between dofollow and nofollow links is getting thinner and thinner and search engines have started giving weight even to nofollow links.But I have to request the moderators and admins to take actions against such spam posts. I have huge respect for this Xisto forum because it gave me my business and I cannot see it getting destroyed by spammers. I have an additional suggestion for the admins and moderators.Make the report button more conspicuous and spread a little awareness about reporting bad posts. It would make the job of moderators extremely easy if bad posts are reported quickly by the users themselves. A reward system will definitely boost the process and if used properly, it can also result in more accurate reporting. For example, if the first user, who reports a post that is eventually declared as spam and deleted, is given 10 mycents, people will open their eyes and always look for spammy posts and topics. Similarly the community will clean itself if fir instance a new system is made where titles are placed with user names according to the accuracy of reporting. The ones with more accurate reporting are awarded with good titles and the ones with inaccurate reporting (report spamming) are discouraged with discouraging titles.Astahost admins and moderators, please do something to keep this forum healthy and clean.

Currently, I am doing what most people do. When I first open up firefox, I quickly go to gmail to see any new emails. Then I check on my adsense earnings (the realtime reporting of adsense is just brilliant). Then I log in to my facebook account to see any new updates in my social circle. After all that, I either close my browser, or start working on my website. That's my routing now a days. However, I am looking forward to start a proper online business in coming years. Currently, I have huge time problem. I have got a tough exam ahead and I hardly manage any time for my website. My website MANanatomy.com is based on Human Anatomy. It is a medical subject, and gets good number of visitors from search traffic. As a result, adsense ads are performing brilliantly on my website. I have added only 25-30% of the content on my website, and still I am making almost the same amount of money that my father does (please keep in mind that I belong to Pakistan and for any type of work here, wages are very low). I am so desperate with myself because of not being able to add more content to the website. I currently have 300 pages and I receive about 2000 pageviews per day. So If I create more pages, the traffic will rise in a direct proportion. When I finish my exams, I will try to quickly complete my website. After completion, the website would have about 2000 pages, and if the traffic increases in a direct proportion, I will be able to generate a healthy income from my website. After I complete my website, I have planned to start another project, in which I won't rely on ads to generate money from my content. Instead, I would charge some fee for people to view my content. This type of system works fine in medical field, because the content is of high value and is not easily available. Some of my friends told me that I should apply the system to my current website. They say that I should make the current content sort of premium and charge a fee to make it visible to users. However, I don't think I am going to do this. I have two reasons for this. Number one is that adsense ads are performing brilliantly on my website and even with such a low traffic, I am able to generate enough money to not only support my education, but also make some savings. I always imagine how the earnings could increase, if I publish more quality content on the website and increase the traffic. This way, not only adsense earnings would increase, but my site will also become eligible for a number of CPM publishers. Therefore, the earnings should increase by a significant factor. And I want these earnings to continue coming so that I have a stable base for testing and experimenting with my next project. With this website running adsense and other CPM ads, I will get a good amount of money by the end of every month and will not have to worry about my financial condition. Thus I would be able to work on my next project in a better way. The second point is that 300 pages of my website are already public. If I request google to remove them from their index, then the search engine reputation of my website is going to decline tremendously and the website will be lost for all the major and minor terms in search results. Plus, I will have to create additional pages for marketing of the current content and I will have to target additional keywords that I currently don't need to. Thus I will not only be increasing work burden on myself, but also terminating the ad money. The website may start making money for subscription fees etc but it might take a huge amount of time. So once I get my current website completed, I will start next project that will be more like the traditional online business.

About two weeks ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced that starting from 2012, the normal domain name rules will end. The current 22 approved extensions (.com, .net, .biz etc apart from the specific extensions for each country) will not be the only extension for TLD (top level domains). After 2011, companies would be able to register names such as .google, .nytimes etc. In this way, a whole new (potentially unlimited) array of domain names would be available to buy.So what can be the implications of this announcement on internet? First of all, let me explain that what would be the difference in current TLDs and the New TLDs. Currently, when someone wants to go to google, he has to type "https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl;. This is because, every domain name should have a proper ending extension (one of the approved 22 extensions). So every name ends in .com, or .net, or .biz, or etc etc. But after the implication of the new rules, to go to google, you will have to just type "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; or simply "google". So imagine how much difference it would make for generic terms like .seo or .cars etc.To avoid the gold rush (as occurred about a decade ago) the ICANN has kept the price tag out of the reach of most people. To secure such costom TLD you will have to pay $200,000 and then you $25,000 as monthly maintenance fee. This makes these domains out of the reach of common business owners but the big brands can easily afford it and can abuse it too.The main point I want to make in this post is that what is going to be the future of internet after this change happens. Yes, the change is not going to happen any soon, but sooner or later, it will dominate the internet and some changes will happen. Can today's internet, which is dominated by search, be changed completely with these Custom TLDs? What will happen to search engines once the changes occurr? What would be the future of SEO?The above are questions that are in the minds of lots of people and everyone has a different explanation for them. I would like to share how I see these changes would effect the future.In my opinion, these changes coupe the biggest challenge to search engines. Today, without the search engines, the internet is just useless for many. Everyone is so dependent on them that some people consider search as internet. A normal internet user perform a search on the internet about 30 times a day and don't even notice that he has done something. The importance can be estimated by the fact that today's browsers are designed in such a way that they make search very easy. For instance, if you have firefox, and you write a couple of words in the url bar, instead of telling you that you have entered an incomplete URL address, the firefox takes you the the search results page of your default search engine.But when these changes occur, the search share will drop tremendously. Today when you type "cars" in the url bar, you go the the search result page for the term car and millions of users do this for this single term each month. But after someone acquires the ".cars" domain, instead of going to the search page, the user will go the website "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;. So the search engines will lose about a million searches only for one word. Imagine this for thousands of other generic high traffic words.In my opinion the search engines will really have to work hard in the future to stay in the business.

Yesterday, I witnessed a drop in the pagerank of my website Human Anatomy from 3 to 2. First I tried to find the possible causes of this on my own. I searched on google alot about the issue and tried to find whether the problem is global or only my website is affected. When I entered search terms like "Drop in pagerank", "pagerank dropped" etc, I got pages written in 2007 in results of the search. This clearly indicated that the phenomenon is not global and only my website is affected. Then I tried to find whether my website is penalized by google or something like that. I tried to find the pages of my website in google's index. I was happy to see that almost all the pages ranked the same on google and there was no decline in SERPs. So neither the problem was global nor was my website penalized. What could be the reason? The next think I thought was that probably google has updated its pagerank criteria or something similar. But there was no way for me to find it out. I searched and searched and searched and finally got a page written in june 2011 by the webpronews saying that some people have witnessed google's own pagerank drop from 10 to 9. Firstly I was amazed to see that a company which calculates a metric drops its own ranking in its own metric. There must be something going behind. By the way, I tried to relate this to the drop in ranking of my own website but I couldn't find a solid answer. So I had only one option, which was to seek help from other people online, I posted my problem on Google help forum, which is constantly criticized by some people for not providing correct information. I got a few replies in which I was told that I don't need to worry about the pagerank thing. Its importance is dropping with each passing day. I was told that the only possible cause for you website to drop the pagerank is that the google has recalculated the value of the backlinks that point to your website. This recalculation might have resulted in a lower reputation than before and that is why the pagerank dropped. The answer looked reasonable and I think this might be the reason, but I am not sure about it. I need to know a few things and I know the Xisto community is the best place to get these facts. Number one: What is the actual cause behind the pagerank drop in general? I mean lots of people experience this and some are very intelligent and educated. So they can tell the reasons behind the phenomenon better. Number two: Should I worry about the drop? The more probable answer is no but can anyone tell me any bad thing that can happen to me because of a lower pagerank. Number three: What should I do to restore the pagerank to what it was before? Should I just concentrate on getting more backlinks or should I give my website some time to get the real natural backlinks. Number four: What should I do to avoid these drops in future? I hope someone on this forum would come up with a brilliant answer

I have my website made on Wordpress CMS. It has worked brilliantly for me and has provided me results that I wanted but sometimes, I get an issue that I don't understand. I try to solve it my self, but when I can't I come to forums like this to seek some help. The issue I am currently having is that every page of my website that is newly indexed by the search engines shows the name of the site with it. The actual problem is that I have edited the header.php file in such a way that it should not display the name of the website with page's title. In a browser, it obeys my commands but when search engines indexes my pages, they show the name of the website with the title of the page. Let me provide some more details. The name of my website is Human Anatomy. One of the pages of my website titles "Esophagus". When you go directly to the page by clicking the link, you will see that the title is fine. There is no "Human Anatomy" with it. But when you go to google and type "Esophagus Human Anatomy" and go to the second page of search results, you fill find the same page (Esophagus) under the title "Esophagus - Human Anatomy" in google results. The problem is common to almost all pages of the website. Any newly created page, when indexed by google displays similar title, while according to my settings it shouldn't do it. The problem is made even more complex by the fact that when you type title of the page followed by "mananatomy.com" in the google search, the resutls displayed no more contain the term "human anatomy" with the title of the pages. For example you go to google.com and type "Esophagus mananatomy.com", you will see that the title of the page doesn't contain the term "Human anatomy". This makes me think about the nature of the problem that it might be google's own problem and nothing is wrong with my website but yet I have to agree that google responds to actions on my website. it doesn't do anything related to my website on its own. So you see the problem is a bit complex and I don't understand what to do with it. When I researched on the internet about the possible causes of the problem, I found some glimpses that the sitemap might be causing it. I am currently using "Google XML Sitemaps" plugin for wordpress. I have checked all its settings and everything looks ok. As a precautionary measure, i have also checked the code of the sitemap.xml file. It displays the following lines <url> <loc>http://www.mananatomy.com/digestive-system/esophagus; <lastmod>2011-01-26T19:48:51+00:00</lastmod> <changefreq>daily</changefreq> <priority>1.0</priority> </url>I couldn't find any title thing in the sitempa.xml file so I figure it might not be the cause of the problem.So my conclusions are that both google and sitemap are not causing the issue. Wordpress by default ads the name of the website with the titles of all newly created pages. I have modified it but I think I haven't done it correctly so that the google bot is still seeing the default title of the page, while the browsers read the ones I like them to read. Anyone with any kind of help is welcome. I really want to solve this issue and make the search engines index the correct title of my website. The addition of the term "Human Anatomy" with the title of pages of my website is causing them appear lower in SERPs because of dilution. The words I want them to rank for are not the only words contained in the title and this is causing an adverse effect. If someone can provide me some advice on this, I would really appreciate.

Google's Panda Update, which according to my knowledge is a sequel of the Farmer update has been criticized big time lately. I haven't seen a single person (established in his field) or a single firm praising this update. Everyone seems to be frowned towards it and rightfully so. It hasn't provided the results it promised. In fact, instead of making the user experience better, it has resulted in lower search qualities and unhappy users.Google is already facing a lot of criticism about using personal data for its search results. At this time, such updates, which make more people unhappy than happy, might not be a good thing for Google itself. I was lately watching a video at the WebProNews Video blog. The owner of Daniweb was interviews by Abby Johnson in the video. Daniweb lost about 70 percent of its search traffic after the panda update. The owner of daniweb talked about the various factors that contributed to such devastating decrease in traffic. She said continuously and rightfully that daniweb have very little duplicate content if any. (The main target of Google panda update were the content farms who used duplicate content on their websites). According to the owner of daniweb, the factor with the biggest impact in drop of search traffic was that because the websites linking to the daniweb used its synictated content, the drop in their ranking caused a drop in the juice of links coming to the website. And therefor the ranking of the website dropped. In simple words, the ranking of the website dropped because the ranking of the sites linking to the website dropped.Now that is something which is really bad in my opinion. Even the websites which haven't done anything wrong are being affected by this update. In my opinion the content farms should be dropped in the SERPS but because lot of good websites depend on the backlinks coming from these content farms, the process should have taken a much longer period.

I would like to write about two things in this post. Firstly I will talk a little about the important of one way inbound links and link exchange in SEO and secondly I will talk about the SEO elite and how exactly should it be used. I have another topic on Xisto forum, under the title: "Backlinks: The Backbone of SEO". If you read this topic, you will get something to know about the importance of backlinks in SEO. I will try to summarize the major points here. There are two components of SEO. One is called the On page optimization and the other is known as off page optimization. The on page optimization deals with the content of your page itself. It means that you need to modify the content and the code of your page to what search engines like. The title tags, using keywords in URLs, keyword density, internal linking (which is not considered very important now) etc all belong to this part of the SEO. The second component of SEO is the offpage optimization. This component deals with factors that lie outside your website. You have no or very little control over them but it is the more important part and unfortunately it is the harder one as well. In terms of percentage, the importance of the two components can be evaluated as : on-page optimization is 30% and off-page optimization = 70%. This is a rough estimate but is more likely to be true. So you should have got an idea of the importance of off-page optimization. The most important component of off-page optimization is "Backlinks". They are THE primary factor in determining the SERP of pages in Google and almost all other search engines. All the major search engines: Google, Bing, Ask, Search, Yahoo etc use the backlinks as the primary ranking factor. The theory behind use of backlinks as the primary ranking factor is that Search engines consider backlinks as a vote. A vote from a website where the link is placed to the website where the link directs. Like a democratic system, the more votes a website has, the higher its credibility would be. But the democratic system of backlinks is a bit more complex. Here the backlinks from relevant websites count as a heavier vote and the backlinks from non-relevant websites as lighter votes. In the end, it is the total weight of these links that determine your credibility and SERP. As an example of the importance of backlinks, let me tell you something. Go to Google and search for the keyword âClick hereâ. You would see the âDownload Adobe Readerâ page on the first place in the Search results. Now adobe hasnât optimized their page for the word âclick hereâ. Neither is it appearing in the title or any heading. The only reason the page ranks at #1 for this word is that lots of websites (including adobeâs internal pages) link to the page with anchor text âclick hereâ. And because of this the page ranks at #1 in google. The reliance of search engines on backlinks has given rise to two kinds of backlinks to reduce spamming and other black hat SEO things. The two types are âDofollowâ and âNofollowâ. The Dofollow links are the ones in which the link juice (credibility) is passed to the linked page from the page where the link exists. The Nofollow link is the one in which the credibility is not passed to the linked page. The ârelâ attribute is used for the â<a>â tag in html to determine whether the link is nofollow or dofollow. For instance the following link to my website âMANanatomy.comâ is dofollow. <a href=http://www.mananatomy.com/ rel =âdofollowâ>Human Anatomy</a> (It should be kept in mind that no rel attribute means that the link is dofollow. The following link to one of the pages (Human Body Systems) of my website is nofollow <a href=http://www.mananatomy.com/body-systems rel =ânofollowâ>Human Body Systems</a> The backlinks are so important for search engine rankings that people try to find new innovative methods of gaining them. The more common of them include reciprocal linking and three way linking. In reciprocal linking, you give a link to a website and in return, the website links back to you. This was fruitful in early days of search engineâs development but nowadays they are not considered very important. However, if the linked websites are closely relevant, the reciprocal linking might prove very fruitful. Not only will it bring a lot of traffic, but also a lot of link juice to your pages. But if you exchange links with every page you can, the strategy might do more harm than good. Your website can be classified as a link farm by the search engines and this is a very bad thing. The reciprocal link exchange should be kept to a minimum and only done with very relevant websites. The three way linking is a bit more valuable in terms of SERPs and Link Juice but it is rather a Gray Hat method of SEO and might have some consequences. In this type of link exchange, you give a link to a website and instead of the website directly linking back to you, the link to your website is placed on a third website, to which you have given no link. In this way, both parties receive on way inbound links which are much more valuable than reciprocal two way links. Now I would come to the second part of the post, which is the use of âSEO Eliteâ or any other linkbuilding software. In Search Engine Optimization, the statistics are very important. You have to keep record of the implications of your actions. In other words, you must always know the results of your actions performed on the website. SEO elite and other similar software can provide you extremely beneficial statistics on realtime basis. These stats can help you a lot and can guide you about what to do in the future about your website. Some of the more sophisticated programs may even tell you how to do the SEO exactly. Such use of these software is very beneficial but if these powerful tools are used for Black Hat SEO, they can be very devastating. As in your case, you got your website thrown out of the googleâs index. And because google brings more than 70% of traffic to an average website, this is equal to death of a website. So you should avoid all actions that can potentially cause you such damage. I would advise you to use these powerful tools only to get valuable statistics about your website. You may also get help about what to do next but never use them for the black hat methods. If a tool is used for a bad thing, it is not the fault of the tool but the user who uses it for such things.

CTR is one of the more important factors in CPC (Cost Per Click) programs. Although, for many webmasters, CPC programs don't work as well as other monetization programs but for many they do. I am looking forward to increase my earnings with google adsense (one of the best CPC programs). So I thought this time I would go for a niche which has most relevant ads.Relevant ads would simply result in more clicks and thus more revenue. But when I tried to research on this topic through search engines. all of them including google, bing, yahoo, duckduckgo failed to bring relevant results to me. As I don't have enough time to personally go to different websites and search for the topic within each, I thought I would rather post an entry on Xisto forum. the best online forum in my opinion.So anybody who knows something about the niche having most relevand ads is welcome to post here.I would also appreciate if someone teach me how to search for topics like these. They don't seem to be hot trends and that's why there isn't enough material out there. But still there must be some and all the famous search engines cannot bring it forward.I am looking forward for your replies.

May be I overlooked it but I think I won't agree with you. The fact is not that they didn't track data and use it against users. The fact is that they couldn't. They days of Yahoo's glory were not so technologically advanced to make it possible to record and then use the data coming from every single computer online. If I am not wrong, Oingo (later changed its name to Applied Semantics) was the first company to use User search keywords to manipulate search results. They were later on acquired by Google and formed the base for Adsense. Before that, search engines other than google used primarily on site factors for ranking. Google was the first to introduce Backlink=Vote concept in search market, and this concept is the major factor in google's success. And how many people are concerned more about privacy than results. The percentages may be high in more educated and technologically aware western societies but not in Asian societies. Believe me, more than 90% of people who use internet in Pakistan don't know how google decides which pages to display in the first page of search results. They don't care about privacy issues (and probable that is the reason why Pakistan is no.1 in porn related search terms). People don't know here that there data is being tracked and it can be abused in the future. I would only say, "forget about it man!". That is something no one can deny. Safety is the first priority for everyone. I think writing posts like that is a huge plus to make people aware of what is happening around them. If people know how they can be abused, they will surely do something to avoid it. I hope so. You can say, and you might be right in saying so but the point is that its like shooting birds in the night. Yes there is a probability but no one can say for sure that it is happening exactly so. The release of user queries details from google is a shame and it should apologize for it but there is nothing in it beyond that. In today's world, everything can be used for political benefits. War on Terror is the best example of this.

Power is something that makes you do what you shouldn't. I agree with you completely but I have to ask one question. Can you say for sure that if instead of google somebody else were so powerful, it would have not done what Google is doing today. Google don't have any real competition in the search market at least for the time being. This means that they can do whatever they want to without any serious consequences. Continuing my example from my previous post, after the end of Cold War, what did US do. Didn't it invade numerous countries and kill hundreds of thousands of men. Why was it able to do so? It was because it had tremendous power and no competition. So even if it would receive some damage, there would have been no serious consequence. But even after that, you have to keep a good relation with them. You know they are bad for you and they will give you nothing but misery but still you have to carry on with them because of their power and there is no where else to go. Similar is the case with Google. You know they save your data. You know they might use it for bad things but because there is no one who can compete them in the quality of service they provide, you have no where to go. You have to keep using it to get accurate fast search results, even if you don't want to use it.About a year ago, I tried to swith to ask.com as my primary search engine but it didn't provide me quality anyway near to google. So I had to switch back to it. And now when I have a website to keep alive, which receives about 65% of its entire traffic from google, I have to use it for my business. Yes I can try other safer search engines when I need more privacy about my search terms but in general I have to use it. I would like bing to rise up and give a tough competition to google. Because competition is a good thing. It makes you induce changes that are better for the end-user so that the end-user is attracted towards your product. LOL. I think you are hurt by @Benett's post. Keep it cool dude. This is an open forum. You are a nice man and your words speak for you. Everyone who will ever read this topic will know you as a humble educated person. It doesn't matter if someone calls you something.As I mentioned above, because of the dependance of my website on Google's traffic, I have to use it at least for my business. But I can always use safer search engines for words that I don't want to be public. But let me say one thing. Today's lifestyle has made people so lazy, that even opening a new tab and clicking the bookmark of the safer search engine is a hard thing to do. I don't remember when was the last time I went to "https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl; and then put my search query. What i do is put my search query directly in the address bar of firefox and it displays results based on my default engine. But this is a good sign for smaller search engines. The can capitalize on this privacy issue and who knows a new face appears who makes the web a better place. Yes, I know this. I had watched a documentary about yahoo and overture and how the yahoo's directory was formed. But what I wanted to say was that I believe if yahoo were in the place where google is today and it had the same power, it might also have done the same. This is human nature. I hope facebook is a safer place but every now and then I get an article to read about facebook's privacy issues. Last time when I read an email about the same issue was about 3 days ago. I really hope facebook understands what its actions can do to the life of its users and stay on the right path. In my opinion there is a direct relation between the two. Google's uses the data primarily to manipulate search results and also to show relevant ads to users. Both of these have direct effect on google's incomes. By manipulating search results, it can show better results to the user and happy users always tend to come back with their friends. This can potentially further increase their user base and searches done per user. Which means more advertisement can be served and thus more revenues can be generated. The other thing for which google uses user data is to serve relevant ads. By doing this, google increases the chances of visitors to click on ads and by this way it can increase its revenues.

There is a hot debate going on. That is the quality of Xisto community.I would also like to share my views. In my opinion, money is the major driving force behind everything. Moral values seem good in books and abstract things but when it comes to real life, money drives almost everything. I don't think people can deny it. Every big giant (as well as small businesses) try to increase their revenues. If moral values come into their path, they don't care about it. (at least this is the case in most cases). You might have heard about Bill Gates being sued by the Government of US. He was getting advantage of his windows monopoly to control the internet, which was the future's biggest revenue generator at that time. Bill Gates is a good man. You can say it by looking at the fact that he has donated almost all his wealth for public service but even such a good person can take actions like that. What was the driving force behind that? Obviously it was money, which would come by controlling the internet. He killed the competition, Netscape to be exact, by using the power of Windows operating system. He made deals only with those who agreed that they won't sell Netscape to their users. In this way, the chances of users using internet explorer for internet increased. And for Bill Gates and Microsoft, this meant money, huge money.It is a characteristic common to almost all of us. We would do anything to increase our chances of earning money. Google is no exception to this. They know that search market is a huge money generator. To give you an idea, Google's generates revenues each year nearly double the amount of revenues generated by the entire state of Israel. From this you can get an idea of the power of Google. They are using their resources to increase their power. I don't blame them for this because it is common to all of us. If Yahoo were the biggest search engine today, I believe that it would have done the same. They have the power and the capacity to do this and that is why they are doing this. They don't care about the moral values of it because it generates a huge sum of revenues for them.Yes I agree that Google shouldn't save user data and use it for their own good without showing any concerns about the persons good or bad. But for most, results are more important. They don't even know about Google's behavior of saving and using their data. They need results and they would go wherever they get the results from. Today if google is providing the results, they would rush towards google but tomorrow if someone else exceeds google, everyone would rush towards it.This problem is even more prominent at Facebook. At google you only disclose your mind by typing the keywords but at facebook, everything that is personal and must be kept secret is online. And believe me, more people are concerned about facebook than google and there is more knowledge of how facebook uses their personal data but people still use facebook. Why? Because Facebook gives them what they need. As long as people get what they need, they won't complain about anything. Not even their privacy.In my opinion it has become a necessary evil for google. Just like nuclear weapons for a country. If you don't have nuclear power, big powers like USA will invade you (in the name of War on Terror or whatever) as they did in Afghanistan, Iraq etc. They will capture all your resources and destroy you completely. If google is to survive the increasing competition from social media, it has to make improvements in search results or it will be destroyed. And in the world of internet, it doesn't take too long.

Lately, I have hear a lot about the value of fast loading time for a website. There are both direct and indirect benefits of making your web pages load faster. The direct benefits include increased pageviews per user, increased number of clicks per user, increased revenue from the same amount of traffic, decreased bounce rate and above all happy users. I would like to discuss them all one by one.Increased pageviews per user:On slow websites, users have to wait long before they can actually see the content they were looking for. In this busy life, no one likes waiting. So if your web pages have huge loading times, your users might wait to see the first page (landing page) of your website according to their needs, but they are very unlikely to click on any other page. As soon as they see the content they were looking for, they will disappear from your website. This means that the value of pageviews per user will be very low for your website. If you think, this is a huge draw back. No matter you serve ads or sell products. Every user is a potential customer and the longer a customer stays with you, the higher the chances of making money out of it. For advertisers serving CPC and CPM ads, the increased pageviews per user is very helpful. This can simply double or even triple the revenues generated with the same amount of traffic.Increased number of clicks per user:When users see that your website responds very quickly to their commands (clicks), they will be encouraged to click more and more. This will not only increase the page views per user, but also the chances of the user clicking on ads or buying a product. On slow websites, which take forever to load, the users are discouraged to click on everything they find interesting and this is a major drawback for the site owner.Increased revenues from same amount of traffic:As I discussed above, the increased pageviews per user and increased number of clicks per user will directly effect the revenues you generate from serving ads. This may simply double or even triple your earnings from exactly the same amount of traffic. In my opinion this is the easiest way to increase your earnings.Decreased bounce rate:Their are many rumors that bounce rate is a potential signal for determining the SERP. So decreasing the bounce rate (which is the reciprocal of increasing pageviews per user), is going to be very helpful in the longer run.Happy users:This is the most important effect of increasing page speed. Happy users will always talk about your product and believe me or not, word of mouth advertisement is still the best form of advertisement.So what is your website's page speed?Google has a wonderful tool that determines a page speed score for the pages of your website. When I first checked my homepage, I got a score of 83. It is a good score but the tool gave me few suggestions. I acted on them and streamlined my website accordingly. Now the page speed score of my website is 91.What is the score of your website's home page.

I am enjoying this discussion with you @starscream. There is a lot to learn for me in it. The assumptions which I made in my previous posts were all based on my little experience online. I have tried almost every CPM program that accepted my website. These include smowtion, adbrite, and a couple more ( I don't even remember the names). They didn't work for me at all. Furthermore the CPM rates were way too low. I can't imagine them to get multiplied by 10 even if the performance of my website triples. That is why I assumed that it is very hard to get CPM rates of more than $6/1000 impressions. Keep in mind that I am talking about average websites with less than 7k,or 6k impressions daily. Mine is way too behind. It gets only 1.2-1.4 k daily. So there is no way for the CPM ads to work for me at least till I develop my site to get more than 10 K impressions a day. The leader in my niche (which is at top spot in both Google and Bing) gets about 8k impressions a day. It is not running even a single CPM based ad on its website. All ads are adsense ads. As they say, you learn by looking at your elders, I have to take that adsense is the best choice for me.You talk about Aff Managers looking on forums for potential publishers. These aff managers are also looking only for big fishes who can do big business with them. I have mentioned many times that I am talking about average or below average websites with less than 7k pageviews per day. How many websites with less than 7k pageviews will get attention of these aff managers. I don't think there will be much. So if you are a webmaster of such a website which doesn't get attention of Aff managers, what are you supposed to do. What options do you have. Is there any program better than adsense for such publishers. I don't think there is (if the site gets a share of traffic from search engines). You may find my discussions funny but I am saying all this after experimenting with CPM programs for which my website (an average developing website) was approved. If their are programs better than adsense for me in my current situation, why don't you tell me about them. You are not looking at the bigger aspect of the picture. There are other CPC programs which might give even 80% of share to the webmasters. But the point you need to understand is that in CPC, the thing that matters the most is relevancy of ads. If your ads are not relevant to the content of your website, how many clicks are you supposed to get from your visitors. I don't think you can get much. All the competitors of adsense have very small inventories (compared to adsense). Not all sites can get relevant ads through this program and my website is one of them. I have tried chitika CPC ads. Believe me I hardly got any relevant ad on my website. So even if google gives you 68%, if you are getting more clicks than what you can get with other programs, you are at a significant benefit. Furthermore the CPC rates of adwords are higher than CPC rates of Chitika or say adbrite for same keywords. So 68% share at adsense will end up with more money than 80% share at other programs. You have have to admit that, even if you have significantly ANTI-Google thoughts. I think you are not getting the base of my discussion. I am talking about average or below average websites. Websites which get lower than 7k or even 10 k pageviews per day. How many websites do you know, which get less than 7K impressions and still get CPM rates as high as $6. There would hardly be any. The reason is that CPM business is like a vicious circle. The more you get famous, the higher rates you get. I have nothing to do with big fishes getting whatever rates of CPM, I have to consider my self and I have to look at my website first. If CPM is not working for me, I have to say that it doesn't work. If adsense works the best for me, I have to say that adsense is the best. What is so funny about it. I have to say what I experience. You are right that I am in infancy. I am not a mature publisher yet. And by saying so you have answered all questions by yourself. An infant will always talk about what is good for infants. He will not care about the elders (the big fishes). What works for the big fishes may be in fact the best. What works for me may be temporary. But the point is that I cannot say adsense is bad if I haven't experienced anything bad in it. I cannot say CPM is the best form of advertisement if I haven't yet earned money from it. I am afraid you might not be correct about about.com or even demand media etc leaving adsense and going to other forms of advertisement. If you go to about.com at this very moment and checkout there niche pages (pages which actually display content), you will find that they have 3 adsense ad units. My friend, 3 ad units is the maximum you can have. You are not allowed to serve more than 3 ad units on a single page. So if about.com is serving google ads to their maximum potential, how can you say they are moving away from adsense to other forms of advertisement. You have to prove this first before anyone buys it. Without proof no one is going to buy it. Most likely, about.com is displaying banner ads because they still have space for ads left on their pages. Let me ask you a question. If banner ads pay more than adsense ads, why will the about.com webmasters not replace the adsense ad units with banner ads. Why are they still displaying maximum allowed number of adsense ad units. Answer the question if you can. No body is a fool to waste opportunities of making money. And we are talking about big fishes like about.com here. They have special departments to take care of advertisement stuff. They are very unlikely to let the money go away easily. Facebook ads have their own pros and cons. They might me more effective than adwords but this doesn't mean that adwords is bad.

I have a static looking wordpress based website. The title is Human Anatomy. I have created my website on pages, not on posts. So I have lots of pages and no posts in my website. I am in a stage where I constantly add new content to it. I want to create a feed for which my users can see and subscribe. The problem is that the feed features of wordpress don't seem to work. The feed page of my website http://www.mananatomy.com/feed/ gives a 404 not found error. I need to know how to successfully create a feed for my website that is automatically updated. i know how to create a static feed.xml page but I need a feed which is updated automatically.

You might be right in saying that those websites who do the analysis before signing up to their service lose the prospective merchants and publishers because of pre-screening. But the fact is that they do the anlaysis to keep their directory clean. they only allow quality publishers into their directory. In this way they can keep a higher bid on their ads and the advertisers will be willing to pay a higher amount because they will be guaranteed that their ads are placed on high quality sites. Therefore, getting approved for such programs is more valuable because they will pay you on the higher side. On the other hand, companies that don't perform any analysis before approving websites might find it difficult to charge a higher amount of money to the advertisers because the advertisers cannot be guaranteed about the quality of the publishers.That is one thing that is not on the good side for a quick approval process. Adsense is not that bad. You should give it some credit at least. You said that adsense will perform only on sites having a higher share of traffic coming from search engines. This is not a downside of adsense ads. It is a downside of all CPC ads. In fact adsense is by far the best CPC available online. All the competitors of adsense are far far behind in every aspect.Yes, you might be correct in saying that if you are running CPM ads, you don't have to worry about the source of traffic etc. But it should be kept in mind that CPC ads generate more revenus than CPM ads. How many CPM companies are there that will give you $6 or more per thousand impressions. I don't thing there are any. The highest amount you can get (I am talking about average websites not super ones) on CPM basis is $1 or $1.5 at most. Furthermore there are lots of complexities there with CPM ads. I remember signing up with network which served ads only to visitors form US. All other visitors were wasted. And the CPM rates were very very low. On the other hand, the adsense ads regularly give you a high ecpm. People say that there are fluctuations in adsense earnings and they are not constant. I say, why consider day to day basis. Why not consider month to month basis, and believe me they are fairly constant in that. I have no inclination towards the typical CPM ads. They are just a waste of time for sites having less than 10k impressions a day. Selling ad space is a good thing. It is not like the typical CPM ads where you have lots of wasted impression. in this case you don't have to care about impressions at all. Once you get advertisers and your website does not drop in performance (it keeps to current level) you will be doing fine. I can imagine about why bigger fishes go for CPM ads instead of CPC ads. Why not consider the example of about.com. They are well established and almost everyone know it. Every one is willing to pay a healthy amount of money for their ad to be placed on about.com website and advertisers do pay a huge amount of money for such well established websites. In fact the sold ad spaces may earn much more than typical CPM or CPC ads because of the credibility of the website. That is why they replace the CPC or CPM ads with sold ad spaces. But how many established websites are out there. 10,000 or 20,00. There won't be much more than that (even this figure is highly exaggerated). There are more than 20 million websites out there and only 20,000 of them are so well established that they can sell their ad space for a high value. What will the remaining average publishers do. The best option for them is to go for programs like adsense because no body is going to buy ad space on these websites for a good sum of money. So if you talk about average websites, you have to go for programs like adsense. Why will adsense slap me if I do nothing wrong. If I am not violating their terms of service, why will they kick me out. There is a 60-40 distribution between me and them so if we do $1 business, 60cents come to me and 40cents goes to them. I mean to say that they have their own benefit in keeping me in their program. Why would someone do his own damage. I don't know if panda has anything to do with adwords but I would like to comment on merchants going to facebook from adwords. The actual reason lies in the fact that the best place of advertisement is where a rush is present. Facebook's example is of an extremely busy square where millions of people come and go daily. Now tell me, why wouldn't the advertisers like to advertise on this square. Everyone likes to get traffic and they will always go for a source from where they can extract maximum traffic. Some advertisers have a limited advertising budget. They can either expend it on adwords or Facebook. So if they choose facebook (which is the new boy in the industry) why should we blame adwords that it was not performing and so and so. Google generates billions of dollars from serving ads each year. If it was not so good, how could it generate so much.

After hearing about advertisespace.com from you, I thought I should give it a try. If you visit my website now, you will see that I have created spaces to sell. The registration and approval process was real quick. I can't say it's good or bad. Most high quality companies take some time to approve websites, so if I am to follow the tradition, it is not a good signal but on the other hand, getting approved quickly is a good thing in itself. You don't have to wait for days just to get approved. I will see how it performs and will I be able to sell any advertisement space. Because it is the first time I have created such spaces, I have decided the prices to be on the lower side. So that anyone who is willing to buy some ad space on my website don't run away by seeing high prices. I hope it works for me.You mentioned in your post that the best thing you like about CPM ads is that they give you a constant, known value of income. You don't have to keep guessing about how much you can earn. This might surely be a good thing but I have a different opinion on that. About two months ago, when I wasn't earning much from adsense, I had a similar thinking. But believe me, when you see your adsense earnings rise, it multiplies your efforts. You begin to understand that you can earn serious money from this program and start to work harder. Moreover, you also understand the factors that matter the most. That rise you earnings the most. So you start working in the right direction and with full enthusiasm. Furthermore, there is a special fun in guessing what you are going to make this day. I check on my earnings about four or five times a day. it is fun. When the earnings are below expectations, you feel a little sad. When they are above expectations, you cheer in joy. I thing it is great experience.

Backlinks are the backbone of SEO. No other factor determines the SERP of your page more than backlinks. Almost everyone knows the importance of inbound links to pages but still a huge percentage of webmasters fail to get good results. They do obtain a lot of backlinks but they fail to see their website rise to first page of Google's search results. The science of gaining inbound links to your page is not that simple. I used to be quite simple few years ago, but with each passing day, all search engines especially Google are making updates to their system. They are trying to generate new sophisticated ways to separate bad webmasters from good ones. I would like to define bad webmasters as those who try to manipulate the search results by doing things that are prohibited by search engines to do. The good ones are those who keep up to rules and don't do anything black. There are a few important points that webmasters need to understand and remember when they are obtaining backlinks to their websites. The most important thing is that your strategy should look natural. The best way to assess your strategy is to think about your website as a neutral person. Suppose you have created your website today and after 3 days you got 500 backlinks from spammy blog posts, comments, forum posts, and other sources. Suppose your website is about tomatoes and you post a comment on a blog about cars saying: "visit my site to buy tomatoes". Does it make sense to you? Does it seem natural to you. It doesn't. And believe me, google is much more intelligent than you and I. They have the highest quality brains in their army. Their algorithm is a masterpiece, which is very difficult to trick. These 500 links are going to do you no good. If instead of these you could obtain just 3-4 links from other tomato related websites that are well established, it will boost your ranking many times more. The second important thing is that link exchanges should be kept at a minimal level. I have heard people saying that link exchanges are a good way of building a huge portfolio of links. It might be true but building a portfolio of links through link exchanges is a risky business and you need to be very careful about it. Don't exchange links with every one. If you do that, google will catch you as a link farm and will penalize you for doing it. Only exchange links with websites that are related to yours in terms of the main topic. For your tomato website, it would be good to exchange links with another website selling tomato sauces. The third important point is that during creating backlilnks, you should keep your visitors in mind, and not the search engines. Suppose you post a comment on a blog post. You should write the comment in such a way that readers read it. the link should be included in the comment in such a way that the user who is impressed by your comment is compelled to click on it to know more about what you have to say about that particular topic. Suppose on a website about tomato sauces, there is a post about which type of tomatoes are best for making sauces. You can post a comment to this blog post in which you describe different types of tomatoes briefly and then provide a link to the page on your website that has detailed explanation of the types of tomatoes. Such links which users tend to follow have a greater value than others which are built only for the search engines.

I agree with @manuleka. Although I don't have any problem with the login, because I always use one PC and one Internet connection to login to my Xisto account. But still this feature should be added. This can save a lot of time especially for friends on slower connections. In addition to this feature, I would like the forum webmasters to remove the flood control on replying. Whenever I come to Xisto forum, I look fro recent topics that interest me. I open them in separate tabs and give them a glimpse. The topics, which interest me get my full attention and I read them thoroughly. I let the tabs open containing the topics to which I think I can reply and close the others. After that I start replying. After posting reply in one topic, I have to wait for 30 seconds to post a reply to next one. 30 seconds might not seem as much. In fact it isn't much at all but what it does it that it creates an annoying effect. People don't want to be made to wait. I don't like waiting as well. So if it is possible, please remove this thing.

I will definitely go for a laptop, no matter how expensive it is or how many side effects it can have. The main reason for this is that I am from Pakistan and there is a huge problem of Load Shedding, especially in summer. At most, you can have only 12 hours of electricity. The remaining time is complete darkness and silence. Now if you have a desktop, what are you supposed to do in the 12 hours of no electricity. You will sit like a dump wasting your time. But if you have a laptop, with a good battery time, you can do all your work irrespective of the availability of external power.I have read a lot of posts in this topic saying that laptops are expensive. They might very well be but not in Pakistan. All the used models from europe and other developed countries are shipped to under-developed countries like pakistan like garbage. You can get good configuration and a good clean model very cheaply. I bought a laptop a few days back. It was hp6910p. The configurations were: Intel Core2Duo 2.0GHz, 1gb DDR2 Ram, 80GB Hard disk, ATI Radeon X2300. The condition was awesome. I got it for 23000 Pakistani Rupees. That is about $250. It cheap, isn't it. I inquired about desktops of the same configuration, at believe me, they were at the same price range. The reason I was told was that the parts they use to assemble desktops are brand new. That is why the prices are high. So if you are in Pakistan, you should definitely go for a laptop.By the way, I am currently writing this post on my home desktop. It is 5 years old Dell optiplex GX240. It is the most reliable system I have ever seen. I have enabled the "auto power on" and "AC power recovery" features. This makes the computer start automatically whenever the electricity is available, Lot of people say that you might damage your motherboard or power supply because the pc gets on and off is a blink with electricity appearing and disappearing. I don't remember last time when I properly shut my computer down. But here is my PC working fine. In fact doing a great job.

My website "Human Anatomy" gets a huge share of visitors from search engines. More than 80% visitors that come to my website are blessed to me by the search engines. Almost all of these come from google. Websites that get a lot of visitors from search engines tend to perform very well with google adsense. Because the niche, my website is based on, does not have technical visitors, they do tend to click on adsense ads and that is why adsense is performing brilliantly. I am able to generate enough money from my website to support my education and also save some. The traffic to my website is not huge. I get about 1200-1400 impressions a day but even with this modest value, adsense is generating good money for me.I don't think CPM based ads will work on my website. First of all, with impressions as low as 1400/day, no one is going to approve my website for CPM ads. If any one does, I think I will not be able to get enough rates to compete with earnings of adsense. Even if I can get $3 cpm, which is very unlikely, it would be many times less than what I currently get from adsense on CPC basis. Furthermore, some pages of my website are so small, that even the adsense ads look spammy on them. I am working to find some script to remove one or two ad units on pages having less than a certain amount of words. So I cannot place the CPM ads in addition to my current google ads. This will turn my website into just a junk. The only CPM network, which I have fixed my eyes upon, is buysellads.com. It may be called a CPM network but it is quite different. It is much like old time advertisement where the advertizers selects a website himself and determines what is he going to pay. But they require at least a 100,000 impressions per month and for this I have to get more than 3333 impressions per day, that is more than double the current value. I am working on it and I think this will be good. I have researched alot about their program and concluded that for a 200x200 banner, they might very well pay about 100$ a month. This will be a good alternative to one of my adsense units that is not performing very well. If I get qualitfied for buysellads.com, and get good rates, I might replace one adsense ad unit with a banner for their advertizers.

Yordan !I want your comments on the rumors that I discussed in my previous post under the same topic. I have heard a lot of people say that the older you get on Xisto Forum, the harder it is to earn money here. In other terms, the greater is the number of posts for a user, the lesser he will earn per word.Is this correct?

I checked your website today. It is good but I have two objections with the site design. The first is that the background is black. In my opinion, this doesn't seem very professional. If you want to make a mark in your industry, you should be careful about every aspect of your website's design. I will recommend you to work with light backgrounds. I think white is the best for any type of website.The second objection I have with your website is that the pages are displaying errors, near the footer. Any new potential user who comes to your site, after seeing these errors is very unlikely to register. No one likes to register on a buggy non-professional website. So you should spend a good amount of time taking care of your website. The bugs should be fixed as soon as you see them. There is no second opinion in that.But after all, the site is your property and you know your niche better than I. You control the looks and feels of your website and it is you who has to decide what is good for it. Best of luck.

What you call a problem is not a problem at all. We see different companies add new features every now and then. Keep in mind that every new feature added costs huge volumes of money to the company. So if the company thinks that this particular feature is not going to earn them more (no matter whether it is in a direct or indirect way), the company will simply not invest in it. You said that google is sort of problematic because you get too many options to choose from. This might be the case for you but not for most of other users of Google.I would like to quote the example of Google Search Suggestions. It is a great feature for some but for others, it might not be so great. When it was made online, I didn't like it at all. The main problem I was having was that my browser had some bugs in it and it won't allow me to save google preferences. I often needed to extend the search page to 100 results per page instead of just 10 to check the rankings of various pages of my website. But with Google search suggestions enabled, I couldn't do this. And because my browser won't allow me to save Google preferences after turned the suggestions on, I had to find other sources to check SERPS of my web pages.Now when I have fixed the issues with my computer, and I can save the preferences to do whatever I want to do, I can surely say that Suggestions are extremely useful and saves a lot of time. Look, google is a giant and knows a lot about its users. You behavior online triggers the type of search results you would see on google. And similar is the case for Suggestions. In early days, when I was having problems with this new feature, I used to say that it is bad. But now I have realized that the feature was not bad at all. It was me, who was having problems with it. When I solved the problem from my side, the same feature which used to be a problem, became a time saver.So if you say that google is problematic because it makes you choose from a huge list of options, I am afraid you might not be correct in saying so. It is you who is having problems for one reason or the other. The features are not problems. They are very useful tools for some, who without them will have to spend a good amount of money to achieve similar results.