Everything You Need to Know About Instagram Stories

This article will be primarily useful to beginner optimizers, because more advanced ones should already know everything about them. In order to use this article with maximum efficiency, it is advisable to know exactly which words need to be raised to the right positions. If you are still not sure about the word list, or use the keyword suggestion service, it is a bit confusing, but you can figure it out.

Important! Rest assured, Google is well aware that ordinary users will not use them and only promotion specialists will resort to their help. Therefore, Google may slightly distort the information provided.

Intitle statement:

Using:  intitle: word
Example:  intitle: website promotion
Description:  When using this operator, you will get a list of pages in the heading of which is the word you are interested in, in our case it is the phrase "website promotion" as a whole. Please note that there must be no space after the colon. The title of the page is important when ranking, so take the responsibility of compiling the headings. When using this variable, you can estimate the approximate number of competitors who also want to be in the leading positions by this word.

Inurl statement:

Using:  inurl: phrase
Example:  inurl: search engine optimization cost calculation
Description:  This command shows sites or pages that have a source keyword in the URL. Please note that there must be no space after the colon.

Inanchor Operator:

Using:  inanchor: phrase
Example:  inanchor: seo books
Description:  Using this operator will help you see pages that have links with the keyword used. This is a very important team, but, unfortunately, search engines are reluctant to share this information with optimizers for obvious reasons. There are services, Linkscape and Majestic SEO, which are ready to provide you with this information for a fee, but be sure the information is worth it.

Also, it is worth remembering that now Google is paying more and more attention to the "trust" of the site and less and less link mass. Of course, links are still one of the most important factors, but “trust” is playing an increasingly important role.

Good results are obtained by a combination of two variables, for example intitle: promotion inanchor: website promotion. And what do we see, the search engine will show us the main competitors whose page title contains the word "promotion" and incoming links with the anchor "site promotion".

Unfortunately, this combination does not allow to know the “trust” of the domain, which, as we have already said, is a very important factor. For example, many old corporate sites do not have as many links as their young competitors, but they have many old links that pull these sites to the top of search results.

Site Operator:

Using:  site: site address
Example:  site: www.aweb.com.ua
Description:  With this command you can see a list of pages that are indexed by the search engine and which it knows about. It is used mainly in order to learn about the pages of competitors and analyze them.

Cache statement:

Using:  cache: page address
Example:  cache: www.aweb.com.ua
Description:  This command shows a “snapshot” of the page from the moment when the robot visited the site for the last time and in general, how it sees the contents of the page. By checking the page cache date, you can determine how often robots access the site. The more authoritative the site, the more often robots visit it, and accordingly, the less authoritative (according to Google) the site, the less often robots take snapshots of the page.

Cache is very important when buying links. The closer the page’s caching date to the link purchase date, the faster your link will be indexed by Google. Sometimes it turned out to find pages with a cache age of 3 months. Having bought a link on such a site, you will only spend your money in vain, because it is quite possible that the link will never be indexed.

Link Operator:

Using:  link: url
Example:  link: www.aweb.com.ua
Description:  The link operator: searches and displays pages that link to the specified url. This can be either the main page of the site or the internal one.

Related operator

Using:  related: url
Example:  related: www.aweb.com.ua
Description:  The related: operator displays pages that, according to the search engine, are similar to the specified page. For a person, all the pages received may not have anything similar, but for a search engine this is so.

Info statement:

Using:  info: url
Example:  info: www.aweb.com.ua
Description: Using this operator, we can get information about the page, which is known to the search engine. This may be the author, publication date, and more. Additionally, on the search page, Google offers several actions that it can do with this page. Or, more simply, he will suggest using some of the operators that we described above.

Allintitle statement:

Using:  allintitle: phrase
Example:  allintitle: aweb promotion
Description:  If we start the search query with this word, we get a list of pages in the heading of which is the whole phrase. For example, if we try to search for the word allintitle: promotion aweb, we get a list of pages in the heading of which both of these words are mentioned. And they do not have to go one after another, they can be located in different places of the header.

Allintext statement:

Using:  allintext: word
Example:  allintext: optimization
Description:  This operator searches for all pages whose text contains the specified word. If we try to use allintext: aweb optimization, we will see a list of pages in the text of which these words occur. That is, not the whole phrase is “aweb optimization”, but both the words “optimization” and “aweb”.

The social network Facebook is becoming more popular, respectively, the number of its users and the average number of Facebook friends among these users are increasing. Sometimes we add to our friends on Facebook unfamiliar or completely unfamiliar people whom we have never even seen in real life.
  And I’m sure that in connection with this, from time to time, many people need to publish Facebook posts “not for everyone”. That is, when you want your publication on Facebook to be seen only by certain people from your circle of friends, but not all. Or vice versa, you want to hide the publication from certain people on Facebook. I would even say that everyone has such a need, but most of them simply don’t realize it, not caring at all about the privacy of their data. And unfortunately, not everyone knows that Facebook has subtle settings for displaying publications, which help to maintain confidentiality on the network to avoid problems caused by certain publications.
When you post a post on Facebook, below the entry form you see the option to display the post, thanks to which you can choose who can see your post. By default, there are two options available: “Accessible to everyone” (that is, your publication will be available all over the Internet), and “Friends” (that is, only your Facebook friends will see your publication).

However, sometimes these settings may not be enough, so you can select the "Advanced Settings" option.

  In the additional settings, you can choose the following options for displaying your facebook post:


Also, the settings allow you to share your post only for your colleagues or for people from your region, or for your own list of friends.

  If all these options specially created by Facebook developers are not enough for you, you can create your own settings. This is very convenient for special cases - for example, you want to share photos from the past corporate party for your colleagues, but so that the boss does not see this.
  To create your own rule for displaying a post, select "User Settings" in the post publication settings.

You will see a window in which you can choose both individual people for whom you want to post (just start typing the name of the person and he will appear in the drop-down list), and vice versa, people for whom your post will be unavailable.

In August, Instagram launched a new feature - stories that disappear after 24 hours. In a new review, I put all the features on the shelves.

Literally on the first day of the appearance of "stories" I wrote an article with. However, there are more and more questions about how to use Stories every day. So I decided to prepare a complete Instagram Stories tutorial.

Here we go? 🙂

What are Instagram Stories?

This question is asked in different ways. Here are just part of the search queries for the new Instagram feature: “what circles on instagram from above”, “how to make instagram so you are in a circle”, “what circles in the news”, “what kind of circles around the avatar”, “circles on Instagram "," what a new garbage on instagram "and so on.

  - This is a new feature of the application, which in Russian is called “stories” or “stories”. These are photos and videos that will disappear exactly one day after downloading.

What is the meaning of "stories"?

Instagram launched Stories with the idea that users share more moments from real life. Because now, if you look at the tape on the social network, most of the photos are perfect: they do not work for 5 minutes in photo editors to set, analyze statistics and choose the best time for publication.

In addition, it is believed that taking more than 1-3 photos a day is bad manners. And Stories allows you to make at least 10 publications, while you will not be a spammer.

Anyway, content that disappears is a new trend. Pioneer - Snapchat, in a sense, a rival to Instagram. And apparently, the second decided to keep up.

Where are the stories located?

You can see the "stories" at the top of the news feed, where they are presented in a separate feed. It looks like this.

The first avatar is my “story”. The + sign in the blue circle means that I don’t have a photo or video in the “story” right now, and I can add it. To add a “story”, I need to click on the plus in the black circle above my profile picture.

The following avatars in the color circle are the “stories” of the people I follow and who have something new that I have not seen. If you scroll left, you can see all the “stories” published by my friends. Including those that I have already seen - in such "stories" circles are not colored, but white. An example is below.

How to connect Instagram Stories?

"Stories" are available to all users of the application. Somehow you do not need to specifically connect it. If for some reason you haven’t got this feature, you should upgrade Instagram to the latest version.

How to start your "story"?

Click the plus in the black circle in the left corner of the news tab. Another option is to swipe left on the screen in any part of the news feed. So you will also see Instagram Stories.

Let’s see what is here.

Center circle  - This is a button for taking photos or videos. Click once to take a photo. Press and hold your finger to make a video.

Just a few days ago, Instagram added a new feature.: Now in “stories” you can immediately shoot Boomerang (rounded video). To film Boomerang, tap the word at the bottom of the screen and then the circle to make a video.

Two arrow iconto the right of the white circle is a button to switch between cameras - front and outside. You can also switch by tapping twice on the screen, which is especially convenient if you are shooting a video and you need to quickly change the camera.

To the left of the white circle you see two icons. Lightning in a circle - it's a flash. Click on it to add lighting to a photo or video. Moon in a circle -appears automatically when the phone sees that there is not enough lighting. It is worth clicking on it to improve the quality of the photo (although, I think, you understand that in poor lighting conditions even with a flash or “moon” - the quality will not be so hot).

In the upper left corner you see the icon customization.
So what is there.

Opportunity hide "stories"From people who are following you, but you would not want them to view these photos and videos (as you can see, I have two such people).

Below - comment restriction. You can choose so that anyone can write you a response message to the “story”, those to whom you subscribe or disable this function altogether (especially suitable for public people who have hundreds of thousands of subscribers).

Save photos from "stories" automatically.  You can enable this feature and the entire stream of your photos and videos will be saved on your phone.

If you don’t need to save all the photos, you can save your favorite publication separately. In the photo on the left, you see the publication I made in Stories. In the lower right corner there is an arrow - clicking on it, you will save this photo.

On the left you see Cancel -by clicking, you remove the photo or video taken. Be careful when clicking "cancel", you can’t return a photo / video.

We will also discuss additional features of Instagram Stories. In the upper right corner you see two icons - a picture and a text.

Pictureyou can overlay both on the photo and on the text. It can be created using three tools: a marker, stand out and neon brushes. Choose the one that you like best and is suitable for the content. There you can select the stroke thickness and color. See the example below in the photo.

Textcan contain not only letters, but also smiles. You can choose any color, including one color for one word and another for another. You can resize the text and rotate as you want. To do this, bring and spread two fingers.

While there is no way to add a few labels. Well, to the text in this place, and in this, and in this. But here life hack, How can I do that. The first option is to add spaces so that the inscription is in several places (photo below).

You can also use special applications where you can add as many labels as you like, any fonts, colors and sizes.

Just put @ and start typing the name of the person or page that you want to mark on the photo / video. Avatars will appear, among them you select the desired profile. After publication, the link will become active. Example - see below in the photo.

Also, along with a link to profiles, Instagram announced that it was starting to test links to external sites. The first access to such a function was received by well-known personalities with verified accounts (a tick next to the nickname).

In addition to text and picture, in Instagram Stories you can add effects to photos and videos. To do this, swipe left or right on the screen - and select a filter. There are only six of them, and often they complement the content very well.

In stories you can add photos and videos that you already have on your phone from your gallery.  This is the secret of high-quality photos uploaded to the "story", as well as filters and effects that are not in Stories. For example, often users upload videos made in Snapchat (you know, when a person has a muzzle of a dog and he licks the screen? God, it's ridiculous to write)).

So you have the opportunity to process photos and videos in any application - and load already in the "story".

Swipe from top to bottom, a window pops up with a list of photos and videos taken over the past 24 hours and saved on your phone. Please note: only for the last day! Select the content you want to download and it in Stories.

Life hack. If the photo was not taken in the last day, but a week / month / year ago, process it in one of the applications (such as VSCO or Snapseed) and download it to your phone. It will appear as new. You can not even process it, but simply download it to the application - and upload it back to your phone.

With Boomerang, the video is a bit more complicated. The method I use: I send video from my phone to Google Drive or to my "mail" and from there I download it again. If you know a better way, share 🙂

You can also calmly delete photo or video  from stories. To do this, click on the ellipsis in the lower right corner.

Even if you do not delete the photo, it will still disappear from the tape after 24 hours, do not forget about it.

What is the format of the photo?

Many immediately after the appearance of the new function began to complain about the specific format of the photo. Indeed, it is unclear why the photos in Instagram Stories seem to be enlarged.

The fact is that Instagram adjusts the photo to Stories, because of which part of the image can be cropped. And without the ability to choose what to trim.

For example, I have a photograph that I took on a telephone in square format. Here's what Stories does to her.

What then to do? There are several options. The first is to shoot immediately in Instagram Stories (but then you can’t edit the photo). The second - to shoot on the phone vertically, while still the edges will be cut off, but slightly.

The third option is to add a frame. I do it in a simple way: I open the photo in the gallery on the phone and take a screen. Here is the result.

I think it's worth experimenting with applications where you can add frames. Remember how it was before Instagram allowed to upload not only square photos? These applications will come in handy again. True, I do not bother with this.

How to leave comments in Stories?

No way. There are no comments or likes in the “stories”. But there is an opportunity to respond to the publication by sending a personal message to the person in direct. For example, how I sent a compliment to Polina.

How to put “stories” on pause?

Yes, you can stop the “story” to read the text in the picture, for example. To do this, simply click on the screen and hold your finger - photos and videos will not move.

How to glue photos and videos into one “story”?

Your publications are collected in one story yourself. You just upload one photo after another, video, Boomerang - and the application does everything for you. The result is a selection of events in 24 hours. How many publications have been made, you can see at the very top - see a ribbon of dashes?

Whose "stories" do I see?

You see the Stories of the people you follow. Their “stories” appear one after another at the top of the news feed. New "stories" - circled by a colored halo.

By clicking on a person’s avatar, you will see his “history”. The transition between the “stories” occurs automatically, but you can speed up the process by tapping the screen with your finger. Well, if you click on the screen left and right, you will move between the "stories" of different users.

Also see the "history" of a person in his profile: his avatar is circled in bright color.

Is it possible to turn off someone's “stories”?

If you are subscribed to a person, but do not want to see his “stories”, you can hide them.

To do this, go to the news feed, find the "history" of the person you want to hide - press your finger and hold it for a couple of seconds. A screen will appear with the "hide @ user stories" button. Press - and exhale. You will no longer see the “stories” of this person.

You can see the “stories” again. To do this, scroll through the Stories ribbon to the end - there you will see the profiles of those who are hidden. Click on the profile picture, hold for a couple of seconds and you will see the same field with the ability to return the profile to the tape.

Will a man see me watching his “story”?

Yes, remember this, if you are watching someone’s “story”, a person will know about it. Under the photo, the number of views appears, and if you pull the screen up, a list of all users who have seen your "history" will appear. Only you can do this, that is, other users do not know how many people saw your “story”.

By the way, the list does not show how many times a person has looked at your “story”. So fans will be difficult to calculate 😉

Who is the first to be seen on the list of my “stories”?

When you open the list of those who watched your Stories, at the top you usually see those users with whom you interact most actively: like them, and get them in return, comment on their posts, and they yours, communicate in direct. Most likely, you see their “stories” among the first in the tape.

Why do I say “most likely” and “as a rule”, because Instagram does not disclose its algorithms, and then it’s probably difficult to speak. These are my personal observations.

Is it possible to secretly watch someone’s “story”?

No, Instagram doesn’t. And I have not yet found any applications that can make you "invisible".

However, under the previous review, I received a lot of comments about the fact that "invisibility" in Stories has already appeared. For example, one girl said that she sees one number of views on her “history”, and when opening the list, there are fewer people. I have not observed such a phenomenon in my accounts, but I think that the matter is more likely in the “story” glitch than in the appearance of “invisibles”. Time will tell.

Who sees my “story”?

It all depends on the privacy setting of your account. You closed profile? Then your “history” is only visible to subscribers you have approved, those who you have as friends. Outsiders cannot see your Stories.

It would seem that Facebook has already greatly simplified the management of privacy settings, but numerous questions and complaints still keep coming. On and in the comments we almost daily get questions of the same content: “ How to hide a post from everyone?«, « I don’t want to be found in the search«, « How to close my page?" and others.

We will not consider all the possibilities of confidentiality and write an online manual. You can easily find all this in the Facebook help center. We will only try to highlight the most popular questions and give the most concise and clear answers.

Publication Visibility

The most popular question. But in fact, everything is elementary. We can make visible publications for such options:

  • Visible to all
  • Visible to friends
  • Visible to friends except acquaintances
  • Visible only to me
  • Visible to People List
  • Visible to everyone except the list of people

Settings: go to SettingsConfidentialityWho can see my materials?

And select the marker you need. If you want to configure visibility for a separate list of users, then select User Settings.

Please note that these settings will apply only to new publications, but to apply them to old publications, click Limit access to previous posts. You can also configure the scope for each publication separately (right in the chronicle).

Chronicle Visibility

The second most popular question: “ How to make the chronicle invisible?". Unfortunately (or rather, to the article), you cannot be invisible on Facebook. You can hide / open posts, photos, personal information, but not hide the entire profile. The only option is to remove the chronicle from the search results.

Settings: Confidentiality

Annoying users

Facebook is not for you on VKontakte, there is much less spam and a higher culture of communication, but sooner or later there will still be characters who try to “steal” some product for you, invite them to another business training or just bother with silly questions. You can deal with spam by enhancing filtering or even personal ban.

As you know, Facebook has two private message folders. The first is Inboxsecond - Other. With inbox it’s clear, but others are something like a spam folder in mail services. Switching the filter to mode Enhanced filtering, you will receive messages in the folder Inbox  only from your friends. Everything else will fall down in Otherwithout any notice.

Another useful feature is the complete blocking of the user. Add his name in the input field (as in the screenshot below) and forget about his presence.

Feedback

It is not possible to contact the Facebook administration directly (via email, phone, etc.). There is a feedback form for this.

Good day. Today we’ll talk about protection and access to surveillance cameras. There are a lot of them and they are used for different purposes. As always, we will use the standard database, which will allow us to find such cameras and select passwords for them. Theory Most devices are not configured or updated after installation. Therefore, our target audience is under the popular ports 8000, 8080 and 554. If you need to scan a network, then it is better to immediately select these ports. Method number 1 For an illustrative example, you can see interesting queries in the search engines Shodan and Sensys. Let's look at some illustrative examples with simple queries. has_screenshot: true port: 8000 // 183 results; has_screenshot: true port: 8080 // 1025 results; has_screenshot: true port: 554 // 694 results; In such a simple way, you can access a large number of open cameras that are located in interesting places: shops, hospitals, gas stations, etc. Let's consider a few interesting options for clarity. Doctor's appointment. Private somewhere in the depths of Europe. A class somewhere in Chelyabinsk. Women's clothing store. In this simple way, you can find quite a lot of interesting objects that are available for access. Do not forget that you can use the country filter to obtain country data. has_screenshot: true port: 8000 country: ru has_screenshot: true port: 8080 country: ru has_screenshot: true port: 554 country: ru Method number 2 You can use the search for standard social networks. To do this, it is better to use page headers when viewing images from cameras, here is a selection of the most interesting options: inurl: /view.shtml inurl: ViewerFrame? Mode \u003d inurl: ViewerFrame? Mode \u003d Refresh inurl: view / index.shtml inurl: view / view.shtml intitle: ”live view” intitle: axis intitle: liveapplet all in title: ”Network Camera Network Camera” intitle: axis intitle: ”video server” intitle: liveapplet inurl: LvAppl intitle: ”EvoCam” inurl: ”webcam. html ”intitle:” Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed ”intitle:” Live View / - AXIS 206M ”intitle:” Live View / - AXIS 206W ”intitle:” Live View / - AXIS 210 ″ inurl: indexFrame.shtml Axis intitle: start inurl: cgistart intitle: ”WJ-NT104 Main Page” intitle: snc-z20 inurl: home / intitle: snc-cs3 inurl: home / intitle: snc-rz30 inurl: home / intitle: ”sony network camera snc-p1 ″ intitle: ”sony network camera snc-m1 ″ intitle: ”Toshiba Network Camera” user login intitle: ”i-Catcher Console - Web Monitor” We reap the benefits and find the airport Company office Add another port to the collection and you can complete Method number 3 This method is the target. It is used when we have either one point and we need to find a password or we want to run the database using standard passwords and find valid results. Hydra is perfect for these purposes. To do this, you need to prepare a dictionary. You can go over and look for standard passwords for routers. Let's look at a specific example. There is a camera model, DCS-2103. She is quite common. It works through port 80. Let's use the appropriate data and find the necessary information in shadan. Next, we collect all the IP potential goals that are of interest to us. Next, we form a list. We collect a list of passwords and we will all use this using the hydra utility. To do this, we need to add a dictionary, an IP list to the folder and run the following command: hydra -l admin -P pass.txt -o good.txt -t 16 -vV -M targets.txt http-get There should be a file in the root folder pass.txt with passwords, login we use one admin with the -l parameter, if you need to set a dictionary for logins, then you need to add a file to the root directory and register it with the -L parameter. The selected results will be saved in the good.txt file. The list of IP addresses must be added to the root directory with the targets.txt file. The last phrase in the http-get command is responsible for the connection through port 80. Example of the program operation Enter the command and start work At the end I want to add some information about scanning. To get network numbers, you can use the excellent service. Next, these grids must be checked for the presence of the ports we need. I will not recommend scanners, but I will say that it’s worth moving towards such and similar scanners like masscan, vnc scanner and others. It can be written based on the well-known nmap utility. The main task is to scan the range and find active IPs with the necessary ports. Conclusion Remember that in addition to standard viewing, you can take more photos, record videos and download it yourself. You can also control the camera and rotate in the desired directions. And the most interesting is the ability to turn on sounds and talk on some cameras. What can I advise here? Set a reliable access password and be sure to forward ports.

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