Saw it falling in night and wokeup to see all covered in snow this morning.
It is not going to stop ….
First time I saw so much snow in London in past 5 years.
Just heard omn BBC it is the heaviest snow in 189 years. 18 cm snow already fallen over London and expected to go about a foot by end of day today.
London came to complete standstill and whole of UK is affected. Trains are not operating, Airports are closed. Heathrow is open but sever delayed.
Millions of pounds loss to Economy.
My Street covered in Snow
Backyard
My street other side
What a lucky day, I got this in my mail box today. I won £200,000.00 WOW!!!
 Shell Petroleum Development Company of England |
| BATCH REF: JAN/009/YY
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds( £200,000.00 GB Pounds) for the 2009 International E-mail Draw which is Organized by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). SPDC collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla,rediffmail, Gmail, Russian Mail and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected yearly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Shell Award must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Stated below is your identification number: REFERENCE NUMBER: SPDC-081511
Your Personal Information Is Needed; Full Name:…………………….. Resident Address:…………… Sex:…………………….. …….. Occupation:…… …………….. Phone Number:………. ……… Age:…………………………….. Tel……………………………… This numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in London [Dr. Bob Williams] with the details below and send your winning identification numbers to him; E-Mail: shell-uk15@live.com Tel: +447031877021 He shall immediately commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund to you. Congratulations!! once again. Yours in service, Dr. (Mrs.) Lynda Johnson [Publicity Secretary] |
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Australian Open 2009, the first grand slam of the year 2009, is almost ready to get into action. Draws are out. The sad part is that Maria Sharapove has pulled out from the tournament which disappoints many. Australian Open and Tennis Tournaments are providing complete coverage, up to date news and live match analysis. |
Tags: Australian Open, Australian Open 2009, Grand Slam, Maria Sharapova, Tennis
Ever wonder how come you see that small icon in front of the URL in web browser?
Magic?
Nop it is very simple stuff. It is called Shortcut Icon.
The first thing you need to get is an icon of the pic which you wish to add there. This icon is in .ico format.
Once you have the icon you have 2 ways to make it visible
1) Name the shortcut icon to be favicon.ico and upload it in the root folder of your website. If it doesn’t work then use the next method
or
2) Add this line of code between <head> </head> part of html code
<link rel=”SHORTCUT ICON” href=”http://www.yourdomain.com/youricon.ico”/>
Have Fun!!
Tags: .ico, Shortcut Icon
There are plenty of methods to speedup wordpress. You can find a lot of information on how to speedup wordpress on the Internet however most of those methods are either complex or impossible to achieve due to various limitations.
Since most of us host the wordpress on 3rd party hosts which give us very less scope to tweak mysql server as such so we are left with optimizing the Wordpress code itself.
One of the most sluggish blog which I’ve handled is Australian Open. It used to be tremendously slow in the past. I’ve applied most of the following methods in it and now it seems to be quite fast.
Following are some of the methods which I follow.
1) Hard coding some of the dynamic code
In header.php file you will a lot of dynamic calls which you can replace by static text.
E.g.
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘html_type’); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” />
Replace above line with followings, it will get rid of 2 function calls.
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
Replace
<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
by the Blog Title Australian Open Tennis in <title>..</title>
Replace the http absolute reference by relative reference
E.g.
Replace
<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?> by
/wp-content/themes/Australian Open Theme
Replace
<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
by the title of Blog
Australian Open Tennis
Replace <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
by
<link rel=”pingback” href=”xmlrpc.php” />
Replace
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Australian Open Tennis RSS Feed” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” />
by
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Australian Open Tennis RSS Feed” href=”http://www.australianopen4u.com/feed” />
2) Install WP Super Cache Plugin
3) Get a good web host
BlueHost, Hostgator, DreamHost are notoriously slow for Wordpress.
In my experience 1&1 seems to be the best host for Wordpress.
Visit Web hosting Review to find out the best host for wordpress.
Tags: Slow, Speedup, Wordpress, WP Super Cache
Attracting more traffic to website whether it is business website, corporate website, ecommerce website or affiliate website has been always challenging task. This is not because it is difficult but because there are more websites like yours on the Internet and competition is getting tougher day by day.
Even if your website appear in the Google Top 10 there is no guarantee that it will generate a good traffic.
So what is the trick?
What is the secret behind attracting more traffic?
Well there are may ways in which you can attract more traffic to your website and I’m revealing the secret below.
Web Design
Believe it or not it is true that a poor web design can not attract visitor even if it appears on Google Top 10. I’ve personally observed it for many such websites which started with simple design achieved Google Top 10 ranking but didn’t attract much traffic and as soon as they got a good web site design they started pulling traffic.
I started a business website which was pretty simple in web design and not attractive even though I have done enough SEO to bring it in Google top 10 for main keywords. In the initial days it was not attracting much traffic and I used to get just less than 100 unique visitors per day.
After few months of its launch I decided to completely redo the web design and got a very attractive Web 2.0 design for this website and within 1 month of launch with new web 2.0 design this website not only attracted more than 1000+ unique visitors but also generated a lot of business and revenue for me and still continues to do so.
Web Design has been always ignored by people in favor of other methods such as Link Building, Advertisement and Social Media Optimization. But as I explained above am attractive website design can also increase the traffic and keep your visitors hooked up to it.
Search Engine Optimization
It is well known fact is that a website appearing in Google Top 10 attracts 70% more traffic than ones which appear on page 2 onwards. And a website appearing in Google Top 3 attracts 80% more traffic than those appearing anywhere between top 4-10. So the conclusion is you would like to in Google Top position in order to attract more traffic to your website.
SEO is big topic and it can’t be described in one post or even in a book. However I can describe some of the most basic SEO techniques which you shall always keep in mind for optimizing websites for search engines.
1) Content/Website Optimization
Content is the King.
Always write relevant, interesting and dynamic content which is optimized for Search Engines. Keep main keywords in mind while writing content. Keep revising the content till you have reached to the perfection.
Most often people optimize only the home page of website and completely ignoring the other pages. Each and every page in your website is important and contributes towards improving overall ranking of your website.
2) SEO Reports
You should get a good SEO Consultancy firm to prepare a comprehensive SEO report for your website in order to optimize all pages of your website.
A good SEO report is also needed to keep an eye on your performance against your main competitors.
3) Link Building
Link building is one of the most important aspect of SEO Optimization. You must be careful in link building and should avoid linking from irrelevant websites, link forms and certainly don’t get involved in link buying. Always rely on Organic SEO.
4) Blogging, Article Writing, PR and others
Blogs are excellent platform to create dynamic content and get instant traffic. Articles are another way to get relevant and contextual links. PR is good for your business websites and may not be relevant when you are not a business.
Mere blogging again can’t guarantee you traffic. You need to promote blog in order to attract traffic. Blog promotion is again tricky and requires extra effort and some investment.
The above are some of the SEO guidelines, as I said SEO is a massive task and you should certainly consider engaging a good SEO Company for all your SEO activities.
Social Media Optimization
Social Media is now the present and future of World Wide Web. The advantage of SMO is that your website gets instant exposure and sometimes within few minutes of SMO your website will be populated in all social networking websites thus brining more traffic instantly.
However SMO is not limited only to bring instant traffic but it can be leverage to keep your website popular in social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo and others.
Social Bookmarking
The Social Bookmarking revolution started by Digg still continues and it is one of the most popular way to get instant traffic to your website. On average a top story on Digg can attract more than 10,000 unique visitors per day which is by far massive and requires almost no investment.
New to Digg-ing?
Learn how to digg in easy steps.
However not all websites can be made popular on digg and other social bookmarking websites. Blogs/news stories are the best to promote on social bookmarking websites.
Above are just some of the basis online marketing strategies to get traffic. I would try to discuss other methods of getting more traffic in future.
Keep tuned…
Tags: Increase Traffic, Interent Marketing, Make Money, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO Company, SEO Consultancy, SEO Marketing, SEO Report, SMO, Social Bookmarking, Social Media Optimization, Social Networking Websites, Web Promotion
Making websites appear on first page of Google search engine is my specialty and also now earns me my bread and butter.
I was too lazy to make my own personal website on Google No. 1.
However I decided to get the coveted spot and finally I’m glad and proud to see that I’m no. 1 on Google.
Ajay Kumar Singh - Google No. 1
Well SEO pundits might argue that getting into Google top 10 for your own name is no fun but if you happen to have a name which is shared by millions of others across the globe then it becomes quite a challenge.
if you search for keyword “Ajay Kumar Singh” then you will see about 426,000 search results and getting the No. 1 spot on Google out of 426k search results for Ajay Kumar Singh is not an easy task.
Delighted to be “Google No. 1” which is now my alias given to me by my beloved :)
Brave (err.....Bold) New World - A big .. very big billboard advertisement on a busy London Road
Haringey Council's Benefit Advertisement - In case you lost ur job try knocking council's door they got thousands of unused benefits, who knows you might be lucky to qualify for one.
London's New Telephone Box - Opps!!! what happened to the old iconic Telephone boxes? Well you might see some in central London, but these are the new telephone boxes you will often see. I was wondering who (sic) designed it.
Grand Old Lady in Red on a tyical gloomy December afternoon.
A typical afternoon in my street
Tags: London, London Bus, Sex Advertisement, Street, Telephone Box
Bengaluru thru my Pink(Black)berry….
This is the security at the newly opened Bangalore International Airport.
The security guard sitting in the following pic is preparing “Surti” (Tobacoo). It’s a typical tobacoo chewing habbit in India. After prepartion they keep it between their lower lip and teeth..
A security guard at Bangalore International Airport preparing tobacco instead of gaurading airport entrance
And here he goes out to spit out tobacoo at every 2 minutes…
Security guard going to spit out tobacoo
I took above pics while waiting at the airport for my return flight to London. First I was wondering why these secruriy guards are walking towards toilet too frequently. But it didn’t take me much time to solve the mystery after I saw that they are Tobacoo addict (see the 1st pic above) and all are taking their return to go out to toilet to spit out.
No it is not T5 at Heathrow, it is new Bangalore International Airport
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