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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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The Immediate Edge Review

November 21st, 2010 . by Anup



It’s not everyday you come across truly remarkable training, internet marketing or otherwise.

Thorough review helps when making a decision. So I signed up for the Immediate Edge. I was surprised by what I found inside.

NOTE: the link to the website is an affiliate link. This means that if you choose to purchase using this link , I will be paid a commission.So why should you trust me or my review of this site then ? — You should consider what I have to say because I signed up to be an affiliate after I went through the content and saw the sheer value it had to offer anyone visiting it. It is a treasure chest of usable information. Of course you don’t have to buy through my link or any other link if you don’t want to . But do read this post and decide for yourself.

If I had to summarize The Immediate Edge for you in a few words , I’d call it   ” a treasure chest of quality usable internet marketing content” . There is so much good info here that anyone can take and apply right away. But of course you don’t care what I think of it, you want to know what the content is. Let’s get to that then shall we.

What you get at the Immediate Edge for that price is access to 3 courses that sell on their own. You get access to the Blueprint Series, the Challenge Plus series and the Immediate Edge Training .

Edge Blueprints


The edge blueprints have been made with one intention in mind. To get to in a position to quit your day job in six months. Of course the usual thing about you implementing it all and the effort you put in will decide everything. These blueprints sound sane enough . I would like to kindly remind everyone that we’re talking about building a business here. This should come as a breath of fresh air for most people.

Currently there are 3 you can apply. You need not apply all at once. Just any one.

1). Sniper Traffic 2). Blog Farms & Content Clusters 3). Flippa

What you see on your left is a screenshot of the blog farm and content clusters mind map. The entire mind map isn’t there of course but you get the point.

Next comes

The Immediate Edge Training Series

This is a module based series. It discusses everything you need to know in order to build a business on the internet.

Finding a Niche ,Market Research ,SEO ,Social Marketing ,Testing and tracking

Finding a niche : using google insights – don’t be fooled by the free tool. Its how you use them that makes a world of a difference. Niche research mind maps , research using websites, magazines, top sites etc.

There is way too much information in there to discuss in detail or even mention in a single blog post. Niche finding is probably the most frustrating part of building websites and apps for profit. This narrows down and makes the process a lot less frustrating.

Challenge Plus

The challenge plus is the continuation of the challenge . There’s nearly 23 months worth of content .

Month 1 : has 6 modules on using Friend Feed. Audio lessons on Product Creation and numerous lectures on product creation. This is just month 1 .

But the challenge plus material is an add on to the challenge material. This is to say that it would be best if you worked on challenge material first before you dive into the challenge plus stuff.

All this isn’t everything.

There still remains the Newsletters Content.

Newsletters

There are around 21 Newsletters . All filled with immediately actionable content like

Newsletter 11

An entire blueprint for setting up a business in a weekend (or less), including a 24 hour action plan. Plus ways to improve your websites, sales letters and emails, and a couple of other sneaky things :)

The above mentioned newsletter is just one of the many found inside.

All this seems unbelievable . I know . Everything I’ve said is a 100% true. But you need to make up your mind about whether you should take them up on this offer.

Why ?

Because right now its only $1. This is for the trial period only.Check it out while you still can . Click on the image on the left to go there.

Note: the trial period is over . But it is still worth the money if you want my opinion. If you’re looking for something to build on challenge.co lessons, then this is the right place. Anyone could use it but it is best if you have some experience.

As always … Good Luck .

P.S. Little hint – you can still access it for $1 . Just try to exit the page and a pop up should appear. If you choose to stay on page, you will be taken to a page where you can choose the $1 trial period.

Fastest Way To Make A Video For Free

April 26th, 2010 . by Anup




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Having already served up over 1.73 billion video views and 45 terabytes of video footage to the world, YouTube is everyone’s first port of call when they want to search for online video. It isn’t the best but it definitely is the most popular. Video Marketing is great and necessary. Once your videos get indexed , they will stay there for longer.

Why have videos on Youtube or even a youtube account ?

Because youtube videos are found not only on youtube but they are also automatically indexed by search engines.

This is a great way to drive traffic to your site and get your products and name out there.

So in my search for video production tools , I’ve found ridiculously complicated to just not worth the price.

You don’t have to have a video of you speaking straight to the camera.

You have something instructional.

Maybe something like a powerpoint presentation, except its a video.

I’ve found a solution for you.

And its an amazing one.

Animoto compiles your pictures and makes a video out of them for you.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

The above video is merely an example. I made it in a couple of minutes.

You can share it to Youtube. Although the free account has limited options. Its more than enough.

Once again the site is http://animoto.com/

Have fun with this.

The #1 way to get blog readers

April 11th, 2010 . by Anup



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Check it out. You will not be disappointed.
Talk to you soon guys
Have Fun .

Get Subscribers to your List using this Service

May 9th, 2009 . by Anup



 

Building your List is literally like growing a Money tree. Email lists are the most trustworthy and important part of Internet marketing . Something you can always rely on . Building a List . Developing a Squeeze Page/Landing Page.  Driving TRAFFIC to it. Timeless Strategy. Whether you are a hobbyist, an online business , an offline mom and pop store or even a large corporation, You need the List.

 The Newsletter List is a Godsend. They do not rent out lists or any such thing. They get you subscribers. Brand New Subscribers. Brand New Highly Targeted Subscribers. Brilliant Service. Check them Out here .  Let them worry about getting you Subscribers.

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