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Optimize Your Website Using YSlow

January 5th, 2011 . by Anup



Have a lot of people leaving your site too fast ? Your high bounce rates could be due to a slow loading website. People these days simply don’t wait for 5 or 10 seconds for a page to load.  A slow loading page affects everything else you do . You can say bye bye to those sales and leads. Therefore it is important that you optimize your websites. Lets forget usability or anything else that would affect sales. We’re going to concentrate on making your site more responsive i.e load faster. Want another reason ? Okay then .

Here’s something that happened to me a while back.Now serving niches is a relatively small site / blog. There are only a few 100 posts. You don’t exactly see it and expect it be heavy on the server.

As it turns out I had just deleted older posts which I thought were longer relevant and some I thought didn’t live up what we are trying to achieve here. Now as it turns out the blog was loading a bit faster after I had deleted a lot of older posts, atleast I thought so.  I felt content and logged out.

Next day I check my email and there’s an email from my hosting provider.

First I sit there and scratch my head thinking what on earth could they be emailing me about on this day of the week.

Turns out my small site was so slow loading and so heavy on resources and the server, it was starting to affect the other sites on the server. So they had to temporarily suspend my account and stop all traffic to it until I speed it up.

Needless to say I was shocked. Well okay first I was confused and then I was shocked. My teeny blog is causing problems ? So they agreed to let me in provided I fix stuff or lease out an entire server. Of course they weren’t exactly going to throw me out. There weren’t going to let in any traffic unless I had fixed the problem.

That is where YSlow came to the rescue. I ran it and well it gave me an F . But it also told me how to go about fixing the blog and site .

The next few blog posts are going to be all about Website and Blog Optimization. First we’ll begin with Yslow. We’re going to take it a bit further than that in later blog posts. But first YSlow.

Today is the simplest part . Installing Yslow and related Components.

You need to get the Firefox Browser first . Download the browser from http://mozilla.org and install .

Now you need the firefox browser and and add on called firebug. YSlow is  a plug in for Firebug. Firebug is pretty cool itself but its features are out of the scope of this blog post. Back to installing YSlow.

Go to http://www.getfirebug.com and install Firebug

Then go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5369 to install YSlow

Once all these are installed , You are now ready to run Yslow. Restart your FireFox Browser.

You should see something like the picture below at the bottom right of your firefox browser.


Once you have restarted Firefox, open your website.

Go to “Tools > Firebug > Open Firebug”.

A split window should open . Click YSlow . Choose appropriate Ruleset. It doesn’t really matter .

It will analyse your website and give you a grade.

We’re going to work on improving that Grade in the next blog post.


To learn more about Firebug check out

http://www.packtpub.com/article/installation-and-getting-started-with-firebug

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Crowd Funding ?

April 22nd, 2010 . by Anup



Quick Funding ? . Any funding would be nice sometimes.

By the way the title isn’t hyped up or vague theory. But of course you’d have to

pull it off successfully first . But it isn’t impossible . Don’t judge

this before you’ve tried it. It works and when it does its amazing.

This is what Non profit organizations do . You don’t have to be

non profit and you don’t have to pay it all back.

This is not an MLM Scheme. This is not a pyramid scheme. This is genuine .

This is good when you understand it .

This concept is called Crowd Funding. Like the name suggests it involves getting

money for something/anything from other people. You can pool up money using this

process for projects you desire. All this without hype. There isn’t too much room for hype

in this method.  Best of all there are sites you can try and pony up cash. People out there

are willing to help out other people and causes they feel are important .

The beauty of this is that you can pull it off without having to learn to be a business person.

Here’s the wikipedia description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd_funding

Here are a few Sites you can use to fund your projects.

Kapipal

Indiegogo

Rockethub

KickStarter

Incase you need a tutorial or would like instructions on how to make it better.

Check out TellmanKnudson’s 90 Minute Cash Advance

www.90minutecashadvance.com

This is a powerful concept. This has massive potential.

Do give it a test.

Have Fun with it.

What Web Sites Can You Buy Twitter Followers At ?

April 20th, 2010 . by Anup



You’ve undoubtedly seen people on Twitter with 20k or more followers.

Like any other somewhat sane person I have too.

Saw them and said to myself  ”Holy Cow”. That’s a lot of followers.

Wonder what the clicks on those accounts are like.

Yes, you can buy twitter followers. Its an extremely good idea if you’re looking to

make an income.You can do a search using the term in any search engine. That will

present you with a list of web sites.

Some of the better known web sites include Twitter Promoter and uSocial.

uSocial

Let’s take a look at uSocial http://usocial.net/twitter_marketing/

This is a site that has been infamous for buying votes on several social sites such as Digg,

Delicious and others.Now they are offering followers for sale in various amounts. From 1,000 to

over 100,000 and everything in between, this site will help you to get followers for your list.

No matter what your need, this site has what you need to make your Twitter following rapidly grow

at a reasonable price. They also have a Twitter Marketing Service which promotes your product to their list.

Twitter Promoter

The other site of note to buy twitter followers from is Twitter Promoter http://www.twitterpromoter.com/.

This site too is one to go to when you want to purchase followers for your Twitter account and don’t

have the time to line them up the old fashioned way.

When time is of the essence and you need followers now, your best bet would be to buy twitter followers so

that your business can at least have an accelerated chance of growing in a short amount of time. This will help give you a

quick kick-start. This strategy definitely is worth serious consideration.






Paid Vs. Free – What You Need To Understand About Them

April 15th, 2010 . by Anup




Why Bother Paying For Anything ?


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So here’s one of those things you end up asking.  Why even bother paying for something ? Money doesn’t grow on trees and most of you wouldn’t mind paying for something truly valuable. But that isn’t something thats very obvious right off . People do lie and some of them are quite good. Rubbish marketing claims seem to be the order of the day sometimes. So why paid communities. Why paid membership sites ? . And why ask people to pay if all they want to is help. Read on for a good answer.

Over the years, I have had the chance to be part of  paid communities and free communities open to the public. I have found “free” communities are good but filled with many “haters” and hackers and people uploading bad scripts to hurt members. Also, there is a “free only, scarcity” mentality in many cases with some bad apples rather than an “entrepreneurship, abundant” mentality. These places are filled with not only mad information from people that have never and will never have success, they pose opinions as fact without testing real world practices. This misinformation and disinformation is often bad advice given by “know it all haters”.  They are annoying and you don’t want them dragging you down. There is no need to put up with this kind of negativity. There’s only so much you can put up with.

Haters never pay. Of course there always is the fact that you want your business paying for the resources it consumes. But that’s another story. Criticism is okay but hating only drags everyone down. There’s no point to it and its a nuisance.

This is why getting into a Paid Community is worth it.

 

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April 11th, 2010 . by Anup



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