Google posts Q4 earnings results; Revenue up 36% while profits only up 7% year over year

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While all eyes will be on Apple's earnings report tomorrow, Google earlier today released its earnings results from Q4 2012 and posted revenue of $14.42 billion, a figure which would have been $15.24 billion if revenue from Motorola Home was included.

"We ended 2012 with a strong quarter,” Google CEO Larry Page said in a press release. "Revenues were up 36% year-on-year, and 8% quarter-on-quarter. And we hit $50 billion in revenues for the first time last year – not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half. In today’s multi-screen world we face tremendous opportunities as a technology company focused on user benefit. It’s an incredibly exciting time to be at Google.”

But enough about revenue, how much did Google actually take home in profit last quarter?

Well, the recorded $2.9 billion in profit, or $8.62 a share. By way of contrast, during the same quarter a year-ago, Google posted a profit of $2.7 billion or earnings of $8.22 per share.

So while Google's revenues are up an impressive 36%, its net profit only grew by about 7.5% Analysts were anticipating EPS of $10.57 on revenue of $12.38 billion. It'll be interesting to see how the market rewards or punishes Google for their revenue growth and slower-than-anticipated profit growth.

Some other notes of interest from Google's earnings report include:

The number of aggregate paid clicks at Google during the last quarter rose by approximately 24% from the same quarter a year-ago.

Cost-per-click rates, however, decreased by 6% year over year.

Google spent more than $1 billion on infrastructure in the last quarter, representing the company's second largest quarterly infrastructure expenditure in history.

And conspicuously absent from Google's earnings report was any mention of Google+.

via Google

Apple posts record revenue and profits; iPhone sales jump nearly 30% while iPad sales up nearly 50%

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Apple just posted its earnings results from the 2012 holiday quarter and posted revenue of $54.5 billion, net profit of $13.1 billion and EPS of $13.81. During the same quarter a year ago, Apple posted revenue of $46.33 billion and profits of $13.06 billion, resulting in EPS of $13.87.

It's important to note, though, that last year's holiday quarter earnings results comprised 14 weeks while the most recent quarter comprised 13 weeks. Consequently, Apple's record-setting revenue and profits this past quarter are made all the more impressive.

So while everyone was busy predicting the decline of Apple, its revenue grew by 17% and its profits remained strong. The consensus was that Apple would deliver about $54.74 billion in revenue and EPS of $13.45. As such, Apple slightly missed expectations with respect to revenue, but really nailed it out of the park when it came to what really matters - profitability.

Product-wise, Apple sold 47.8 million iPhones, 22.9 million iPads, and 4.1 million Macs. iPhone sales grew by nearly 30% while iPad sales increased by nearly 50%. iPod sales checked in at 12.7 million units compared to 15.4 million in the same quarter a year ago. And, adjusting for the extra week during last holiday's quarter, Horace Dediu notes that on an adjusted basis, iPhone sales grew by 37% while iPad sales grew by 60%.

Mac sales were down quarter-over-quarter, from 5.1 billion Macs down to 4.1 million, but Tim Cook noted during Apple's earnings conference call that the new iMac wasn't available for two out of the first three months of the quarter.

“We’re thrilled with record revenue of over $54 billion and sales of over 75 million iOS devices in a single quarter,” Tim Cook said in Apple's press release. “We’re very confident in our product pipeline as we continue to focus on innovation and making the best products in the world.”

Looking ahead, Apple issued the following guidance for its earnings next quarter: revenue between $41 billion and $43 billion. Apple now has about $137 billion in cash.

In after-hours trading, shares of Apple were down to $480, a 6% drop. Absurd that Apple continues to make money hand-over-fist, deliver double-digit growth across its two most profitable product lines, and the street is still disappointed.

During Apple's earnings conference call, Tim Cook noted that Apple to date has sold over 500 million iOS devices.

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WordPress related posts plugin without see

For this you can use the file, you can find a lot of WordPress plugins related posts on the blog. If you want to keep your Wordpress blog a lot, try not to use the plugin WordPress plugin related posts plugin without showing the first step you can take to avoid it. So here is how to display Wordpress trying to write this post without the use of the related posts plugin. You can see how!

Wordpress related posts plugin without displaying

There are two ways that you can show the Wordpress plugin related post without it. One tag and the other is to use categories looks got here using the. tag to display the related posts plugin without WordPress.

1. create a new page in the WordPress theme directory. Name and related post.php past the following code and save the file in.

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See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_tags
//Get an array of the current post, this function is assigned to the tag we use
$ Tags (ID-> $ post); wp_get_post_tags =
If ($ tags) {
$ First_tag = $ tags [0] term_id;-//we > enter the only first tag id
//Query_posts on the argument: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts
$ Args array (=
'tag__in' = > array($first_tag),
' Post__not_in ' = > array (ID-> $ post) > rename
' Showposts ' = 4,//number of related posts > rename. If you want to change.
' Ignore_sticky_posts ' = > 1//if you want to exclude sticky posts
);
//Query_posts, WP_Query, the same arguments
$ Related_query = new WP_Query ($ args);

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wp_reset_query(); //If you want to reset the loop: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_reset_query
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2. now you need to find where the post without the plugin WordPress-specific display. you can easily find this code to single.php file or content single.php or in the file content.php . Add the following line after the code.

Now it's your job to save! Please let us know if you do not work or work. We would be happy to hear.

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Use Keywords in Blog Posts

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One of the biggest sources of traffic to your blog will be search engines, particularly Google.  You can boost the traffic that comes to your blogs from search engines by implementing search engine optimization (SEO) tricks into your blog layout and writing.  You can get started by doing some keyword research and determining which keywords are likely to drive the most traffic to your blog.  Then focus on incorporating those keywords into your blog posts using the tricks below.

Try to use your keywords (without keyword stuffing) multiple times in your blog post.  For best results, use your keywords within the first 200 characters of your blog post, several times throughout your post, and near the end of the post.  Take some time to learn more about keyword stuffing and other search engine optimization don'ts.

When you upload an image to your blog to use in your blog post, you usually have the option of adding alternate text for that image which appears if a visitor cannot load your images in their Web browsers.  However, this alternate text, can also help your search engine optimization efforts.  That's because the alternate text appears within the HTML of your blog post content as something called an Alt-tag.  Google and other search engines crawl that tag and use it in providing results for keyword searches.  Take the time to add keywords that are relevant to the image and post in the Alt-tag for each image you upload and publish on your blog.

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Add AdSense Between Posts

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If you're using Wordpress.org and hosting your blog through a third party blog host, you can add Google AdSense ads to your blog and earn money.

To display Google AdSense ads (image ads or text ads) between your posts, log into your Wordpress dashboard, go into your theme editor screen (see the red circle on the left in the image above to find your editor screen), open the index.php file (see the red circle on the right in the image above to find your index.php file), and enter the code in the red circle in the center of the image above, which is:

into your own editor screen directly above the code that says:

.

You can change the number in the code from "1" (meaning the ad will appear beneath the first post on your blog) to any number you want in order to place the ad under the specific post on your blog where you want it to appear.

Warning: It's a good idea to copy the original code and paste it into Notepad or a similar text-editor program. That way, if something goes wrong, you can simply delete all of the code from Wordpress and replace it with your original code.