Hi everyone and welcome to our featured community spotlight. Today I’m going to introduce Justin Matthew from Jmhhacker. Justin is mostly a social media blogger.

Justin can be somewhat called a “Twitter King”. With almost 121K followers on Twitter and in 32K Google Plus circles , he has a massive following behind him. He is also very influential when it comes to social media updates. With a Klout score of 79, he can be regarded as a top influencer in the social media world. He makes most of his online income from Fiverr gigs. Using fiverr, he normally makes five figure incomes.

Justin didn’t start out early in the Online Business niche. Before coming into the online business, he worked in finance for eight years. He has also worked with Household hackers with their viral YouTube channel that became 25th in World. He used to managed their network and got them a great revenue deal plus some brand name sponsors. He also took over negotiations, researched and wrote 80 episodes, and was in 40 of them. 189 million+ Youtube views and 1.3 million subscribers to date. Revision3 broadcast their videos and Netflix, Ford, and others were sponsors.

According to Justin, Google Plus is great for SEO and natural page linking. He believes if you have more Google Plus followers the higher your search engine rankings will be.

How Justin makes money with Fiverr ?

Making money with Fiverr requires some strategies and mostly importantly 100% reviews. According to Justin, the key to be successful on Fiverr is about reviews. Reviews are actually worth more than the $5 gigs themselves. The secret to his incredible success on Fiverr is because of his %100 raving reviews which is almost impossible to achieve.

Another tip shared by Justin is that you need to be a level 2 seller. The strategy is to start with 10 orders with great reviews to get to Level 1. And then, another 50 orders with great reviews to get to level 2. Here’s a link to some of his Fiverr gigs – http://fiverr.com/atlcomputerdude .

Justin’s Company – MSM

If you didn’t know, Justin also owns a company called Monopolize Social Media (MSM). This is another cool site which Justin has created. Mostly concentrated on social media, it provides in-depth knowledge about social networking sites and it’s elements.

One of Justin’s latest post is on Facebook Graph Search. It gives the audience in-depth knowledge about how the Facebook Graph Search actually works and how it emphasises engagement.

Another recent post of Justin that I love is based on Google Plus. In this post, Justin writes about how people now out there prefer to login to Google Plus more. According to Justin’s research, in the first quarter of 2013, 46% people preferred to login to Facebook and 34% preferred Google Plus. Only 6% of the people actually went onto login to Twitter. You may also be interested to know that from the last quarter of 2012 Facebook had a 3% drop in user’s login rate.

So, what are you waiting for ? Connect with him and his blog to check out more of his recent posts. You can add him as a friend here on Blog Engage, follow him on Twitter and check out his Klout profile.

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Hi There my name is Brian, I'm the owner of Blog Engage. I own a personal blog about SEO and Marketing. Make sure to follow blogengage on twitter @blogengage and like us on facebook. Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

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The number of computers per person seems to be constantly increasing. At the beginning of the computer age most people owned exactly zero. After the nineties we came to the point where most people owned just one, perhaps two if we count those old gaming consoles. Then came laptops, mobile phones, mp3 players, smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches, and now there’s even some hype over smart glasses (Google Glass).

At this point it seems perfectly normal for a middle class person to have a laptop, smartphone, a console, and in a lot of cases also a tablet, an mp3 player, and a desktop PC.

Of course what drives this expansion of the number of digital devices we own is specialization, and the convenience that comes with it, coupled with a dramatic increase of our dependence on the digital world. We didn’t need so many devices before because we didn’t engage with the digital world so much back then. We didn’t have this expectation to be always online even when on the go, for instance.

The main issue with that is the seeming necessity to buy multiple devices whereas we only used to buy one or two. It’s no longer enough to have a computer at home. Now you need a laptop or a tablet, and a smartphone, at least. And there is to some extent an overlap of functionality between them which makes each, or at least the older form factors like PCs and laptops, somewhat less useful. The whole thing seems to start falling in line with the law of diminishing returns.

If you are strapped for money and can’t afford multitude of devices the question then becomes what would be the most useful and desirable thing to own. Between desktop PCs and laptops the battle is pretty much won in favor of laptops, and increasingly ultrabooks, but between ultrabooks and tablets things aren’t so clear. And there may come a time soon when a smartphone could technically have a functionality of a full scale computer except you don’t get a bigger screen unless you dock it with one.

In other words we have a lot more choice and flexibility in the ways we are to engage with the digital world, and as always, more choice and flexibility results in a little more hassle when it comes to deciding how exactly are we to arrange our digital lives. This is especially true for those of us employed in the digital economy, and techies in general.

Those who can’t afford more than one device will likely still center around laptops or perhaps tablets, plus a cheap phone. Those who can afford multiple devices have to contend with how to arrange their digital activities between them in a way that makes sense and justifies their purchases, and how and where to store the data used in these devices.

Households with multiple computers and many digital devices could increasingly benefit from networked storage in form of a NAS (literally meaning “Network Attached Storage”), which is typically a big hard drive (or multiple hard drives in a RAID arrangement, like Drobo) serving data stored on them over the local wireless network. This way you can access all of your data from any device rather than having to shuffle data between them. It is a bit like having your own personal cloud.

These network attached storage solutions could even go online, allowing you to access your data when on the go. But then, a decent alternative is to just use cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox. Which would you prefer? Decisions, and more decisions.

So as we can see the increased diversity in form factors is both a blessing and a curse. A curse because we have to think a little harder about how we are going to arrange our digital life in a way that fits our lifestyle, preferences, and budgets.

The blessing, however, is hidden within that process of deciding, or rather, the ability to decide in the first place. When all we were offered was a computer, when tablets and smartphones as we know them today didn’t exist, and internet connections were simply not fast enough to support anything like mass cloud storage, things were simple, but also pretty inflexible. Now you get to design your own perfect system, and for some of us, this is pretty exciting.

What about those who don’t want to deal with all the extra hassle? Well, some of them likely fall into the category of those who use computers mainly for facebook, twitter, and occasional office work so they’ll probably just stick with laptops as long as something else (like tablets perhaps) becomes more obvious as a true replacement. They don’t really track the technology world sufficiently to care. They’ll just stick with what works so long as it is not obvious that there is something significantly better.

For others, those who do keep up with technology and wish to take full advantage of these advancements, but don’t have the time or will to come up with their own perfect system a solution could come in form premade tiered solutions. One such package, for example, may contain a selection of ultrabooks, tablets, and NAS devices that fit a particular type of use cases that you might be aiming for. And they could even be sold together at a discounted price. In other words the shop would do part of the deciding and arranging work for you. They would recommend what goes best together and how you might use it most efficiently. The discount may motivate such a customer to buy all of these devices at once as a bundle, and get support in setting it all up to work smoothly.

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My name is Daniel, and I am a front end web developer, editor, and blogger working for Memebridge, a web publishing company focused on offering a variety of resources that improve your knowledge and allow you to be more independent. I mainly write for The Tech FAQ, our biggest resource, which you may want to follow on twitter and like on facebook.

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WordPress.com has incepted a new way to protect its users. What is it? – A guarding personnel, a scout dog or a heavy metal lock for each blog? No! The company has come up with the idea of two-step authentication, which renders an added layer of protection to its users.

While giants like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Apple (to some extent), have rolled out this feature for their users long ago, WordPress.com happens to be the most recent member to join the league. The idea behind this new security measure is to ask users to verify their credentials via two means as they log into their accounts.

As users turn on this security feature on their WordPress.com blog, they will still be able to use their old password. Besides, after every log in attempt, they will be prompted to enter a unique numerical code, which can be generated using Google Authenticator App available on all major smart phones. For those phones which do not support this app, Nokia and Windows for instance, several third-party apps are available. Moreover, they have the option of receiving the code via simple text message service on regular mobile devices.

The official WordPress.com blog lists the process of activating the two-step authentication on your WP blog. Here is how users can go about it:

Open the new Security Tab which appears under your WordPress.com account settings and follow the instructions listed in the set up wizard.

Once this security feature is activated, there are a couple of things which the users need to wrap up as well. These include:

Backup Code Generation:

In case users’ smart phones are lost or get stolen, how would they access their WordPress.com account? As a solution to this query, the company has introduced the concept of Backup codes. Users can print these codes from WordPress.com and store in the safest place known to them- a file cabinet, a wallet or a document case, but not on any networked device. And one needs to be careful before experimenting with this one, because once users hit the ‘Generate Backup Codes’ button, all the previously generated codes will be discarded.

Generating Passwords for Specific Applications:

Several apps that are used in sync with WordPress.com accounts do not support the two-step authentication system. For these applications, users can generate unique passwords which can be used separately for each of these applications. If anyone loses his device, he can disable the password for it in a single click and shun it out of his account.

It’s Highly Encrypted

This dual authentication procedure introduced by WordPress.com is highly encrypted. According to company officials, the authenticator app generates a new numeric code in every 30 seconds, which makes it virtually impossible for anyone to guess. All that users need to do is- unlock their phones and punch in the code. This authentication system ensures that even if attackers get hold of anyone’s account password, he is unable to breach the account.

While no security app or authentication combination can ensure 100 per cent security of an account or app, requiring something that is known to the user and something that is owned completely by him, will make it an uphill battle for attackers to attempt any possible cyber crime.

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Nick Carter is a freelance blogger associated with wordpress cms development company at full-time basis. He has been blogging for company for past 5 years and currently heads the editorial team of various wordpress web technology blogs.

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Content is king is the notion when it comes to blogging. Blogs then are the kingdoms. When you want to be a successful blogger, there are things you need to know and do. More important are the things to know that should not be done. Critical mistakes may put an end to your blog forever. Learn what to avoid and make your blog upstage others in the vast internet community.

Sharing the Old Boring Stuff:

Blogs deal with everything under the sun and apparently the same concept is handled by another blog. You need to make yours original and unique. Mere copying of content or rewriting what is available will never work. Keywords should never be similar to other blogs. Rephrasing contents and keywords never add value to your blog nor does it look genuine and original. When you repackage ideas available in other blogs nobody would turn up to you, but go for the genuine and original blog. Handle the same concept with your perspective, which is actually good.

Improper Introduction and Title:

The very introduction should tell what people get from your blog. Even if the entire blog is genuine and is exceptionally great on a concept, but you cannot open it up in the right way, then the readers are bound to turn away from your blog. Again, even if your information and introduction are alluring, a boring title would never do justice to it. You can look for catching titles in the internet. Questions that serve as titles surely invite more audience.

Awful presentation:

Whatever your content and title may be, the blog itself should be a feast to eyes. Get a catchy layout to your blog. Determine the sort of layout you need. You can choose from professional, artistic, creative and what not from the internet.

Present your blog post using tools. Impressive blogs need to be presented in an impressive manner. Do not present content as a whole paragraph. Use bullets and other graphics wherever necessary. Again use of graphical pictures should not be an eyesore or should never out do the original content.

Lack of artistic approach:

Inspire of awe inspiring content and titles, your blog may lose out the competition if it sounds less artistic. Images grab attention. Relevant images are necessary for a making the blog impressive and alluring. When you fail to add the right set of images, the blog is dull despite of your great writing style. This holds same for your blog layout. Dull and monotonous layouts are not for impressive blogs.

Design V/s Content:

Appealing styles and layouts are mandatory for a blog to be successful, but you should know the limits. It is essential to know where to draw the line. Never sacrifice your content for the style or design. Lack of design may cost you a bit much, but sacrificing content is a deadly error.

Forgetting the Readers:

All things mentioned here are to make sure you are appreciated by the readers. Ensuring to listen to their appreciation is more important. What is use when you all breathtaking stuffs for your blog but never take comments? Encourage the readers to leave out comments and feedbacks. More important is you need to respond back to your readers.

When you fail to do any of these, any great content or writing style is at stake.

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In the last few years, the global market for smartphones has seen tremendous growth resulted by innovative mobile devices such as Apple’s iphone, Google’s Android, Blackberry etc. There are many professional including the SEOs who chose Android as their mobile phone platform.

There are a large number of SEO applications for android phones with the help of which one can monitor various site’s analytics, page rank, social status, check for back links, research for keywords etc. With the help of the following Android SEO applications webmasters can keep the tabs on for any potential site for avoiding any penalty.

Raven Tools

Raven tools are running trend for the SEOs these days. It picks its data from a variety of sources such as SEOmoz, word tracker, MajesticSEO etc. It puts together all the number and statistics on one dashboard. Thus it allows you to do multitask including the site audits, competitor research, social media management and many more without haunting anywhere. It enables its user to gather baseline data on potential clients and stay on top of what is happening. It helps you to dig really deep into your client’s website to make powerful changes for better optimization. With this interesting android application, you can handle a variety of SEO tasks.

SEO Automatic

To use this tool, you need to just type the URL and push the button. This is a WordPress tool combined with several unique SEO tools such as URL checker, Bulk URL checker, keyword list multiplier, Link variance, RSS feed etc.

LinkJuice

LinkJuice is an important aspect taken into consideration by Google to rank its website, so it is a crucial application for SEOs with the help of which, they can maintain the quality of your website.

SEO Stats

This application let you grab the page rank for a site while viewing in your browser. It also gives you information about your position in social networks including twitter, facebook, Digg, Delicious etc. This is paid app for 1.50 Euros.

Google Analytics

This handy plug-in application logs you in automatically. It is also known as mAnalytic. With this application, you can analyze Google analytics without logging in to your PC. One feature that makes it so easy is that it displays all the accounts and sub-accounts in a single list, you will not have to search the hidden sub-accounts if you need to check the Google Analytics of one site.

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My self Kaushal Shah , I have been in internet marketing industry since 2009. I am affiliate marketer, competitor analyst, website optimizer and lover. I love to do on page experiment in all niche, currently I am focusing on my promo code website Couponcodehut.

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Mobile search engine optimization is being talked about a lot more lately, as technology rapidly begins to outpace SEO best practices. At first, mobile optimization either of sites in general or with regards to SEO was an afterthought, as there were too few users.

Then there was a perception that these users were less likely to make purchases while browsing on their phones, due to security issues and inconvenience of a small screen and keypad.

Now that mobile devices are so prominent, people have begun to realize that they cannot ignore them when it comes to optimization. In addition, people can use VPN services to browse the web from a mobile device, which means they may feel more secure in making purchases.
Still, there are other factors driving the need for mobile SEO.

Mobile Traffic Leads to Action

If you think it through, this makes a lot of sense. When people search the web for a business on their mobile device, it is usually something they are looking to do right away. Otherwise, they would wait and search on their computer later.

Thus, a lot of people will be searching for a phone number to call right away from their phone. The ability to have links trigger phone calls makes this even easier and makes mobile SEO even more important.

With regard to these developments, keep in mind the importance of being listed among the businesses on Google Maps, as people are often searching for a certain business near their current location.

Don’t Build a Mobile Site

This has more to do with experience optimization than search engine optimization, but as mobile devices get more and more advanced, people would rather load normal, full sites than dumbed down mobile sites.

As such, it is best to use responsive code to identify screen sizes and display your site accordingly. This can be more work on the front end but should also result in fewer fixes after the fact for new devices, which should balance out costs and labor.

Overview

Mobile devices are not only more prominently used to browse the web today, but they are more likely to give users the avenue to quick action that can give your business profits.

As such, mobile search engine optimization cannot be ignored and might actually be able to provide you with even more upside than regular search engine optimization.

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Melissa Tyler is a tech writer at VPN Ten – a place where you can read reviews about the best VPN providers. She is fond of sharing advice about online security, safety connections and VPN technology.

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All bloggers want more traffic to their site. Unfortunately many bloggers think the only way to do this is to pay someone. Through paid SEO or pay per click or banner ads and the like many bloggers pay out much more money than they need to for the opportunity to have people come to their site.

However there are alternatives to paid traffic. Organic traffic is the natural way to get in new readers and best of all if you do it yourself it won’t cost you a thing. Here are a few ways that you can use organic methods to increase traffic to your blog:

A good niche

The first thing you should do when you want to increase your traffic organically is to make sure your blog has a niche. A niche is a core topic around which all your blogs posts fit. This should be specific enough to keep readers interested, but general enough for you to have plenty to write on. Where ‘cats’ is way too generic to get anyone’s attention, ‘calico cats with one ear’ is a little too specific. You should pick something that is both specific and wide ranging.

Have a goal

After you figure out what your blog’s niche topic is then you should decide upon a goal for your blog. Do you want to make a certain amount of money? Do you want to see x amount of this product or get x number of new customers? Do you want to get in five hundred new readers a month? Once you find out what your goal is you can plan a way to work towards that. Without a goal you are directionless and all your efforts will be unfocused and wasted. Get a goal first and then work.

Know your audience

Once you have a goal in mind and a plan to get there then do your research. Who is your target audience? What do they search for? What do they read and talk about? You can’t hope to get more traffic if you do not know who you are attracting. Once you know the who the how will fall into place.

Keyword use

Okay, so now you know what your topic is, what you want to do with your blog and who is reading it (or who you want to read it). When you picked a target audience you should have also made note of what they were interested in. There are many programs online that can help get you this information such as keywords and phrases that are searched by your target audience. Once you know the keywords integrate them into your blog posts and blog post titles. Do not do keyword packing, which is for computers not people. Instead, just make a mental note of what you should include and try to write something that an actual person would like to read. You will find it quite easy to do as long as you know what to start with.

Quality content

Now on to the content itself. As they say, content is king. If you do not have content on your blog then search engines and real people alike will not come to it. You need to have substantial content of five hundred words or more per post and you also need to update regularly. Updating your blog is the surest way to get and keep your audience. As for the length your posts should be long enough to keep the search engines happy (around five hundred words or more) and short enough to not bore your readers (under two thousand words).

Readability

Next we will talk about something that is frequently overlooked by bloggers too consumed with SEO to remember that real people are your target audience. Readability is key to an organic blog. I have seen so many blogs that have the text almost the same color as the background. How do you expect a person to read that? Either that or they have ads everywhere, chunks of text broken up haphazardly, weird scrolling things that cover up text as you read, and so on. No, no, no! Think about what you look for in a blog. You want to be able to read the text easily, get anywhere fast and just generally have it be an organic experience. To do this in your blog, try to keep your text short and to the point. Break up long paragraphs into shorter ones. Make lists or bullet points so readers can scan it. Try to have fun with your writing also. No one wants to read a dictionary. Try to be human and relatable. Blogs are informational at times, but they are also supposed to be fun to read.

Images and multimedia

No one wants to look at pages and pages of text. That is just plain boring. Break it up with images and multimedia. There are tons of places that you can find great stock photos for free or low prices like Freedigitalphotos.com. You can also make your own videos or infographics to include on your blog. Today almost every laptop comes with a camera and microphone so you can make your own video, use a movie maker to make an animated film, or just upload one to your blog from YouTube.

If you have Photoshop or another art program you can make your own infographic around your blog’s niche topic or link to one on another site. Anyway you go about it, these will add a pop of color and excitement to your blog. You will also get traffic from image searches and people are more likely to read a blog post with an image than one without.

Usability

If people can’t get around in your blog easily then they won’t stick around. Make sure your blog is easy to navigate and you do not have too many buttons or widgets. Instead make it as simple and easy to use as possible. If you want people to stay in your blog and come back every once in a while then make your blog a positive experience for them and not a pain in the neck.

Guest posting

Another great way to get people to your blog organically is to guest post. Guest posting works because each party gets something out of it. The blogger that allows guest posts gets free quality content that they can control. The guest poster gets exposure to that blog’s audience and also a link on that blog site. Links like that work well in two ways. First, real readers can come check out your blog because they like your writing. Secondly search engines like it when a blog has links to it because that tells them that you are an ‘authority’ on something. Guest posting can be a great way to both lift your search engine rankings and get more traffic directly.

Community service

Last but not least is the community. Bloggers are a great community to get involved in. Most of them want to help out their fellow blogger so that everyone can be successful. You can get new readers in by commenting thoughtfully on other people’s blogs. You can also give your time or ad space to not for profit services like disaster relief and in exchange a link to your blog, and maybe even an ad for your blog, will appear on their site. That can get you exposure to lots of new readers who typically would never have come across your blog. By making friends and helping out you can get your blog’s name out there and new readers pouring in.

These are just a few of the ways that you can organically get more traffic to your blog. If you are currently paying out the nose for ads, banners and the like why not try the organic way? You might be surprised at how well it works. Keep in mind that organic is also slower, but more consistent. Because you are focusing on the long term it takes a while to pay off but it is not subject to fads and gimmicks. That means the traffic you get will stay with you no matter what changes the search engines make. Happy blogging!

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Ken Myers is the founder of http://www.longhornleads.com/ & has learned over the years the importance of focusing on what the customer is looking for and literally serving it to them. He doesn’t try to create a need; instead he tries to satisfy the existing demand for information on products and services.

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Hi everyone and welcome to our featured community spotlight. Today I’m going to introduce Lahaul Seth from LionBlogger. Lahaul has been blogging for more than 15 months now. It was back in December, 2011 that he started his first blog on Blogger platform (which is still around) under a blogspot domain (now a custom domain).

His idea for blogging came to him after his third semester in his engineering degree. In the third semester, he studied Data Structure & Algorithms paper for which he did a bunch of C Programming. After the semester was over, he created a blog on Blogger and published those C programs. Then later on he also learnt other programming languages like Java, C++ and web designing scripts like HTML, CSS, PHP etc.

3 months into blogging , he bought his first .co.in domain and got approved for Google Adsense as well. Another 3 months later, he had made $45 with Google Adsense and that’s when his Google Adsense Account got suspended because someone click bombed his site and he lost all his earnings. With Google Adsense disabled, he got into the Internet Marketing niche. He kept on learning about Blogging , Social Media , SEO and Affiliate Marketing.

Another 3 months later, he decided to buy a .com domain to increase his traffic. He redirected his .co.in domain to the .com domain and eventually saw an increase in traffic. For a month it was going well, and then the worst thing happened. His site got hit by the Panda update and he lost all his rankings in the search engines.

Then in January, this year he won a giveaway of hosting and domain for a year. He then decided to create his first WordPress blog – Lion Blogger. Soon after launching Lion Blogger, he started promoting his site heavily. Lion Blogger basically covers information on Blogging Tips, SEO, Social Media and Making Money Online.

If you didn’t know Lahaul also participated in the Affiliate Lights $150 USD Contest which he won as well. He made a staggering sale of $137.50 USD which also included a Direct to Front Page Membership and also got the $100 USD bonus as he made the maximum sale. So, in total he made $237.50 USD from the contest. His contest entry article was about how Blog Engage is the ultimate Blogging Community for any blogger. Go ahead and read the article as it highlights all the features of Blog Engage.

Some of Lahaul’s favorite Blog Communities are Blog Engage and BizSugar. He loves Blog Engage more because it’s a lot more active and he can make money from it.

For Blog Engage readers he shares the following tips :

Always write for your audience. If you don’t have any audience yet, keep writing and one day you will have a large one. If you’re not making money, don’t give up. I didn’t make a dime for more than a year and now after months of hard work I can make pretty good money online.

So, make sure connect with Lahaul. You can add him as a friend here on Blog Engage, add him as friend on Facebook, follow him on Twitter, add him to circles on Google Plus, connect with him on LinkedIn, follow him on Pinterest and subscribe to his blog’s feed.

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Hi There my name is Brian, I'm the owner of Blog Engage. I own a personal blog about SEO and Marketing. Make sure to follow blogengage on twitter @blogengage and like us on facebook. Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017

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