WordPress powers 48 of the top 100 blogs online. More than that, WordPress actually powers 19% of the web as a whole.

Such a strong community of users and developers means that the platform is sure to evolve even further and provide us with lots of features that are yet to be developed.

Unfortunately, this creates some dangers as well. The cases where a blog owner loses complete access to their site are not uncommon.

WordPress as a whole (a website management platform) is very well designed. It doesn’t have any preposterous security issues that beginning programmers could exploit. The problems, however, arise when you try to tweak your settings of WordPress by adding new plugins or themes.

This doesn’t mean that you should settle for the default installation, not use any plugins, and only blog using the default theme. You need to be careful when installing new stuff on your blog, as well as when setting up your blog for the first time.

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YII is a free open source web application development frame work written in php5. It has the extremely optimized performance and it is a perfect choice for any kind of projects. Its high and impressive performance while comparing with other PHP-based frameworks immediately drew very positive attention. Its popularity and adoption continues to grow at an ever increasing rate.

YII is the fastest PHP frame work best for creating large scale Web2.0 applications. YII can be used for developing any kind of web applications. It is especially suited for high traffic web applications like portals,forum, social media sites and so on. The name YII(pronounced as ‘yee’) is the abbreviation of “Yes It Is”. Obviously it is the answer for the questions like:

Is it fast? … Is it secure? … Is it professional? … >> Yes, it is!

Why YII?

YII has the features like MVC,DAO/ActiveRecord,caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing and so on. It is light weight and has powerful caching support. Security is a part of this frame work. It includes input validation, output filtering, SQL injection and Cross-site scripting prevention.

YII is much faster because it is using lazy loading technique. It does not enable a functionality until or unless that has been invoked for the first time. For example it does not create an object unless the object is called for the first time. Other frameworks suffer from the performance hit because they would enable a functionality no matter it is used or not during a request.

1. Performance.

YII has the extreme performance compared to other frame works. The YII team have generated a statistics for the performance of different frame works based on “request per second” which describes how many requests an application written in a framework can process per second. From the graph given below the RPS is for “request per second”. The higher number shows the higher performance level of the frame work. The performance is significantly high when we enable the PHP extension APC.

2. Security.

Security measures like Cross-site Scripting Prevention, Cross-site Request Forgery Prevention and Cookie Attack Prevention are enabled. Also YII includes client side and server side validation. We can just enable or disable the validation rule. It is not required to write separate validation rule for the inputs like other frameworks. YII has built-in authentication support. It also supports authorization via hierarchical role-based access control.

3. Best Caching features.

YII provides various cache components to store cached data in different media. While comparing to other frame works YII has an excellent caching system. YII supports memcache, APC, XCache and DB based page and segment caching.

4. Friendly with third-party code

YII is also designed to work with third party codes. You can use code from PEAR or Zend Framework in your YII application.

5. Easy to extend / customize

It is very easy to edit or customize the YII based applications, since it has a very simple code structure. You can also use different kinds of extensions and widgets as per the requirements.

YII is purely object oriented, architecturally clean and very simple to extend it. If you are not experienced with the PHP frame works and want to develop some simple applications, then maybe you should try an easier framework. I recommend to everyone who knows object oriented programming should pick up YII and try it once.

About the Author :

Prasobh Balakrishnan works as a Software Engineer in Bobcares. He joined Bobcares in may 2012. He loves programming and listening to music in his free time.

Adwords is an advertising system that allows you to buy links on search engine results pages. Google AdWords is by far the most popular and widely used Pay-Per-Click (PPC) service currently used. Cost-per-click (CPC) bidding allows you to set a maximum price on the cost of someone clicking on your AdWords ads. This means that your ad runs for FREE until somebody clicks on it. You ONLY have to pay when somebody clicks your ad.

Selecting keywords is the most important part of any Adwords campaign, as well as other internet marketing campaigns. This is what will bring people to your site who are searching for what you sell. Also look for keywords that are not really that competitive at first or you will exhaust your budget quickly.

1.Think like a customer when you create your initial list

Write down the main categories of your business and the terms or phrases that might fall under each of those categories. Include terms or phrases, your customers would use to describe your products or services. Be more specific, while choosing the keywords.

2.Set a budget for keywords

AdWords has a very clever feature which allows you to set a daily budget. So first set a budget and then carefully check on the needed keywords.

3.Use the Keyword Tool to find and select new keywords

You can get keyword ideas by using the Keyword Tool. Take the list of keywords and put it into Google’s Keyword Tool.

Google will show you how many people are searching for your keywords every month, and how much advertiser competition there is for that word. It will also generate a bunch of additional keywords that are related to the ones you already put in. If you go down the list, you may see some good ones that you didn’t think of yourself.

Ideally, your best keywords will be the ones with the most searches and the least competition. The less competition your keyword has, the cheaper it will be to run an ad on that keyword.

4.Carefully observe the competition

Make sure you research what your biggest competition is doing, and take full advantage of that information. Is a particular keyword effective for them? What market are they targeting with their keywords? All if this information can help you determine which AdWords strategy will work for you.

5.Optimize and use a relevant landing page

When a person searches for one of your products or services, don’t have the landing page associated with that keyword be your homepage. It is much more useful to have them lead to the relevant page, so that the searcher finds what they want as quickly as possible.

Use limited good keywords and configure manually CPC , Choose perfect add location , not whole world target specific location and then enjoy the benefit.

If your website is new to search engine optimization and you don’t know which keywords will draw higher conversion rates, you can quickly test the popularity of different keyword phrases using Google AdWords campaign and later specialize in more popular ones for organic search.

The above is a very rough outline on google adwords , if you have any questions, we would be happy to talk to you!

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Appu Joseph Xavier works as a Software Engineer in Bobcares. He joined Bobcares in April 2012. He loves reading books and listening to music in his free time.

Bobcares, has released its new “Software Testing Services” section here. This section offers customers website/web application testing services. To know more about the pricing and free trial offers, go through the section now!

Bobcares had been offering testing services to it’s existing software development customers for years now. Today, Bobcares is offering its services to anyone in need of testing services. Bobcares specializes in testing the following website/web applications:

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We discussed Google analytics, and it’s basic features in the last blog. Lets now find out “How to setup Google Analytics”.

Setting up Google Analytics in three easy steps :

Step 1: Set up your Google account
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How is it that some websites are always successful, while others never reach the glory? The reasons for this could be improper marketing of the web-site. I am not talking about giving ads and promotions here, but an insight into finding out more about your site’s visitors.

Gathering information about your visitors, their trends, volumes, and locations, all these help in guiding prospective visitors to your site. With Google Analytics (GA), gathering information and performing analysis is easier than ever. Read the rest of this entry »

Using Facebook all the time nowadays? Have you ever wondered how this user friendly yet innovative site has been made ? Do they use Java, C++ or Python for coding purpose?

The answer is - “Thrift”, now called “Apache Thrift”. Read the rest of this entry »

A social networking site is not just a place to socialize with friends by dropping messages, spreading giggles, chatting, sharing videos and photos etc. The arena of social networking can transcend the boundaries of just maintaining good relationship with friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Well planned and effectively managed business applications in social networks remarkably increases the popularity of a business, by leveraging its “word of mouth” marketing advantage.

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