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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The Best Free Learning Monitor!

Free Learning Monitor Newsletter (Subscribe Now! Of Course, Free!)
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Free online learning experiences delivered to your inbox monthly!

NEWSLETTER

Do you want to receive a monthly digest of free and low-cost online courses, tutorials, videos, podcasts, games, and blogs?

YES! YES! YES! Let me repeat: YES!

The Free Learning Monitor newsletter compiled/synthesized/authored by Jeff Cobb does just that by providing regular monthly updates about free and low cost education opportunities available on the Web, and so much more.

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In addition, Jeff Cobb runs:

The Mission to Learn Blog - Postings 2-3 times per week on new learning resources, news, and insights about learning. Subscribe to the blog by RSS
Radio Free Learning - An occasional (aiming for one to two times per month) podcast in which he interviews thinkers and doers in the world of lifelong learning. Subscribe to the Radio Free Learning Podcast via RSS or with iTunes.
Mission to Learn on Twitter - a continuous stream of lifelong learning resources and updates on Twitter. Follow Mission to Learn on Twitter

Finally, you certainly dont want to miss his excellent easy-to-read/learn/digest Learning 2.0 eBook. WOW!

REFLECTION

No need to reflect whether to subscribe or not, just do it (recommendation based on experiencing these newsletters since May 2008)! Seriously, one extra e-mail a month with tons of excellent free learning resources cant do any harm! Though, if you are stubborn and dont want to subscribe, at least enjoy reading the newsletters from the archives section on his Mission to Learn website.

Amazingly, based on interpreting Jeff Cobbs reflections (here and there!), the Free Learning Monitor has yet to really hit off around the world. Well, with a bit of screaming out loud blog-to-blog, blog-to-twitter, twitter-to-twitter, and twitter-to-blog SWOOSH marketing that might change dramatically going into the newsletters second year of existence.

Finally, Jeff Cobb I would recommend that you also innovate further and synthesize all the free learning resources shared on the newsletters into resource indexes (webpages) such as the ones you find on Jane Harts amazing site (though a lot of commercial stuff, too. Not my cup of tea!). People love these 100+ resource lists. Not sure if they really explore the resources on them, but they surely bookmark and spread the news about them (which again increases traffic from Google).

Jeff Cobbs contribution to discovering and sharing (or referring/recommending) learning resources is simply breath-taking. Lets hope that more people around the world discover and enjoy his tremendous contributions. Besides hoping, lets promote his work, too! Twitter me this, and twitter me that, who is the best free learning monitor around?

I am still waiting for the one page 1000+ online resources mega index (with really juicy learning stuff). Perhaps you could be the first one :)

Top 5 Best C C IDEs

An integrated development environment (IDE) or interactive development environment is software that provides facilities to programmers for software development. An IDE consists of a source code editor and compiler. Working in IDE really make our programming more interesting and easy because it has many interesting features like syntax highlighting, code completion, tabbed interface, smart indent and many more.

In this article I am sharing the list of top 5 best C/C++ IDEs that are very popular among programmers and available on the internet for free.

Also Read: 15 Common Errors in C and C++ Programming

List of Top 5 Best C/C++ IDEs

Eclipse

Eclipse IDE is mainly famous for Java but its C/C++ IDE is also cool. It has awesome features like code highlighting, auto code completion and debugger. Eclipse IDE is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Netbeans

Netbeans is another popular IDE that is widely used by programmers. It is also mainly famous for Java same as like Eclipse IDE. Netbeans has all the features that Eclipse has and it also offers some advance features. Netbeans IDE is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Code::Blocks

Code::Blocks IDE is open source and cross platform IDE that is being widely used by programmers for C/C++ programing. It supports multiple compilers and consists of various features like syntax highlighting, code completion, tabbed interface and smart indent.

Dev-C++

Dev-C++ is a fast IDE that can work in a computer with low configurations (Windows 95 or higher, minimum 32 MB of RAM). Some of the features of Dev-C++ are, support GCC-based compilers, integrated debugging, class Browser, code completion, debug variable browser and many more. It is available for only Windows.

CodeLite

CodeLite is an open source, free and cross platform IDE for C/C++ programming which runs on all major Platforms (Mac OS X, Windows and Linux). Some of the features of CodeLite IDE are, refactoring, code completion, code navigation, built-in SFTP.

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The 5 Best Ways to Build Quality Backlinks for Your Website or Blog

No one can deny the fact that backlinks are vital for the success of your online business – they will play a big role in determining your search engine rankings. However, the thing you need to understand is that after the latest Google updates, the quality of backlinks is more important than the quantity of those links. It means, not only do you need some diversity in your link pool, but you also need to ensure that those links come from high PR, authoritative websites.

Also Read: Tips on How to Have Better SEO Results with Link Building
Also Read: Best Way to Easily Find and Remove Broken Links from your Website or Blog

Many people often make a mistake when judging the quality of backlinks. Unfortunately, they are not like diamonds that you can rate considering clarity, cut, color, and other features. Backlinks are different, and they cannot be graded using any simple scale. Still, when you get a backlink from a website, the search engines will rate them as okay, good, mildly good, or excellent.

As it is not easy to have one single definition of quality backlinks, you have to find another way to make your link building campaign work effectively. A better idea would be to ensure that you dont go for bad backlinks. A backlink that is not bad will be considered good for your link building campaign, and here are a few ways to avoid bad links and fetch good links.

How to Build Quality Backlinks for Your Website or Blog

Take Full Advantage of Guest Posting

Writing guest posts on other blogs is a good way of getting quality links. You need to ensure that you pick a blog that is relevant to your theme. It is worth mentioning that the links from these blogs are considered good because you will have your post approved by a human webmaster, which is something that makes Google think that you know the topic well, and might have an informative site too.

Remember, your guest posts will work if they hold some value for the blog owner, and, at the same time, are relevant to your website/blog. Therefore, you should try to tailor the content of your post to fulfill this requirement, and its not that difficult too. For instance, if your blog is about leather care and maintenance, you can easily write and publish that post on a blog that sells leather jackets and shoes.

Also Read: How to Find the Websites or Blogs that are Copying your Content?

Use Credible Article Marketing Websites

Even though the value of article marketing is no longer the same as it was a few years ago – thanks to Google Panda and Penguin updates – you can still find a few legitimate sites to publish your articles. You can use these sites to post your article and have a link placed in the article that points back to your blog. Quite like guest posting, you can again write articles on topics that have some connection with your blog. Just make sure you pick a right category on these article-marketing sites to submit your article.

Using these sites is a lot easier than getting your article published on another blog, and thats one of the reasons why guest posting holds more value as compared to simple article marketing. Still, you can use these sites to diversify your link pool. You can find a category according to the theme of your blog and post as many articles as you can – though its a good idea to stick with one-article-a-week policy.

Add Your Links to Comments Sections

For this, you can pick blogs, article sites, and websites where they have a comment section. You simply need to make a productive comment and embed your link to your key phrase. This works quite well, but the only consideration is that youre going to get the link juice only if you opt for a comment section that comes with "do-follow" tag. It may take some time to find it, but you will accomplish the task after conducting some research.

Also Read: The Top 10 Websites to create free Logo for your Blog

Get Links from Directories

This is still a good way of getting backlink, but the catch is to find a legitimate and well-followed directory – this could well be a paid directory. Although you can try some free directories like Google locations, you will be better off making use of paid directories like Yelp.

Make Use of Forum Postings

Making posts in forums, with your link attached to your keyword, is still effective. However, you dont always need to make posts; you can simply convince the forum administrator to place a link to your blog – it is difficult, but not impossible.

About Author:
Kate Funk is a writer and tutor at tutorleader.com. She loves covering writing tips and strategies for blogging.

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