How to pick someone on Public Transport

Monday 14 July 2008 @ 11:30 am

There is no such thing as sophisticated as public transport for picking up a date. Public Transport provides a number of options to pick a date of your interest. How many times you saw someone who is so attractive for you and haven’t taken further steps to have a chat with them. Are you planning to be a single in your whole life time? Remember catching up a chat with a stranger on a public transport is very simple if you follow my way.

public transport

To pick someone in public transport, you first need to be a little but brave who can initiate the chat. No one will chat with you until unless you initiate the chat. Don’t be shy to pick someone on public transport.

Handle the Environment

Remember the rule one. Public transport is a tough environment. In public transport you can find a variety of people who might be soft or rough or someone who don’t like intrusion into their privacy or frustrated people about Traffic or any other things. You can even find people who are aggressive in public transport. So how can we catch up a chat with someone whom we hardly know? To chat with someone in public transport you must be a quick thinker and you must be able to create new topics for chatting. You must be decisive than aggressive. Aggressive people get less chance to catch a chat with someone on public transport

Checkout your date

In public transport you must first check the person you are interested. Find out the timings of travel to make sure that you travel with them on the same time. You must be quick in taking decisions because your date might get down in next stop. Once you decided to catch up some chat with the personals, check their environment. Are they with someone? Or Are they with their better half. Trying to pick someone who has a better half will bring tears rather than life.

Position yourself

Now you had found the person you wish to chat on the public transport. Now you need to position yourself such that there will be some eye contact between you and the personal you are trying to pick. Positioning is so much critical. I had seen a lot of personals loose chats with their loved ones because of their position. You must position yourself in public transport such a way that, there are high chances of getting an eye contact. If you are targeting a personal in public transport remember that, you need to position yourself outside too. If you are waiting for Bus or a local metro rail, let them get in first. This will give an opportunity for you to find out their place and you can position yourself easily.

Asserts

It is always useful to have a newspaper or a magazine in your hands. It will give something to pretend to look. By having a newspaper or a magazine you can avoid glancing the open space or outside always. Sometimes having a newspaper or a magazine will help you in starting a conversation with a stranger in public. If you use MP3 player, remember to remove the headphones off from ears. When you have your headphone on, your body language sates you are not approachable. This will reduce the chance of picking someone on Public Transport. Even though you have mp3 player, casually take them off in front of your target.

Eye contact

Eye contact is most important to start a conversation in public transport and to pick someone in public transport. Eye contact is the best way to tell someone as physically attractive. Begin by glancing him/her by catching their eye and holding it for a second or two. Then have a look somewhere. Again after 30 seconds you can glance at them again. If they glance at you, they might be interested. Continue this for some time before you speak up. This is because glancing might be misunderstood a lot of times. If they don’t look back at you, then chances are they are not interested and all your advancement will be bear no fruit.

Smile

There are no alternatives for a smile. A proper smile helps you to attract others like magnets. A Smile makes your face bright and attractive. When you catch their eye for the second time, smile at them. It makes you friendly and approachable. That helps you to start a conversation with them too. If they smile back, it is likely that you are on the path of winning. Remember too much smiling makes you look odd so be careful while smiling.

Body Language

A perfect body language is a great weapon to attract people. You don’t need to be Brad Pitt or Shakira to attract people. A perfect body language helps you to be the center of attraction. A comfortable body language will tell a lot about their interest on you. Once they smile back to you, it’s time to check out their body language. A proper sign about their interest on you is they angled themselves towards you. This is a positive sign and you are one step ahead in the path. Make sure your body language is also positive. Never cross your arms or your legs. These are negative signals showing disinterest. Angle yourselves towards them.

Speak up

It’s time to start a conversation with them. Lot of people is not ready to start a conversation with a complete stranger. Even though body language is perfect people don’t have nerve to start a conversation. Knowing how to start conversation with strangers will help you to have a small chit chat with the person you are targeting. Remember you don’t have hours, so decide immediately. They might get down at next stop, so better be fast on this.

A simple Hi will help you to start the conversation, try to ask questions which can open up more than just a yes or no. This is not an exam to get a yes or no. Also remember that they might not speak with you just like that. So don’t lose hope. If they are interested to have a chit chat, they will happily give details and answer more. Their voice will show whether they are genuinely interested on you or not. If it is going badly, just get off at the next stop.





Tips to Attract Women Like Magnets

Tuesday 8 July 2008 @ 5:36 pm

Are you interested in attracting women like magnets in your singles life. Every men can attract any kind of women easily like a magnet if you follow the basic 10 tips. Read below the 10 tips to attract women like magnets.

1: Never Settle for Just Any Woman

The biggest mistake you can possibly make in any relationship is to settle for whatever woman comes along for fear you can’t do any better than what you have! Doing this will prevent you from ever finding the woman you are truly meant to be with. It is difficult to take a leap of faith, especially in matters of the heart, but settling to be with a woman that doesn’t “do it for you” is a HUGE mistake…for you both! Do NOT settle for just any woman hold out for someone that you really connect with and live the life of your dreams! Believe it or not, women admire men who know what they want and won’t settle for anything less. It is a major turn on!

2: Apply the Laws of Attraction

Attract WomenThis subject has been poked, prodded, turned upside down and inside out. It is contained within every magazine and book and research paper on the subject of love that you will ever run across. As a relationship expert myself, I have an entire wall of books dedicated to this subject alone, and more books and articles and theories are created every day around the globe on the differences between men and women regarding their particular triggers for attraction. It is right under your nose, every day, everywhere…on TV, out in public, you name the place…it’s right there staring you down! Yet unbelievably, there are STILL people who are completely clueless about the Laws of Attraction.

Now, this is not to say that the Laws of Attraction are good or right or even tolerable at times. But, there are certain inalienable truths about attraction that you need to know and understand if you desire to become successful in any romantic relationship.

What are the Laws of Attraction? Simply put, Men and Woman are polar opposites when it comes to attraction. Men initially feel sexual attraction based upon a woman’s physical appearance, which then leads them into a desire for a relationship. But, women are initially attracted to a man’s qualities. Sure, women will admire a man’s looks, but that doesn’t lead them into a desire for a relationship with him. It’s when a man exhibits confidence in his body language and communication–regardless of his looks–that women feel a powerful sexual attraction that over shadows the man’s physical attributes.

3: Don’t Be Too Nice

Of course, everyone knows that being “nice” is considered socially acceptable in the world. But, women do not choose a lover based upon how nice they may be - that’s how they choose their friends. Being “NICE” just isn’t what ignites the flames of passion. What does ignite the flames? Attraction. What is attractive? Confidence in one’s self! Use positive body language, take meaningful actions, and be your genuine self without regard to what others may think of you. This doesn’t mean you should act like a jerk, because no one likes a jerk either. It simply means that in order to attract a woman, you MUST be confident in yourself.

4: Convincing a Woman To Like You is a Big No-No!

Do not waste any of your valuable time trying to convince a woman that doesn’t appear interested in you romantically that you are the person they are meant to be with. It will NEVER work, and in fact, may backfire on you in a most embarrassing way. Why is this? Because you can’t change the way a person “feels.” You can try to understand and you can offer alternative points of view, but you cannot change their feelings. To make matters worse, when faced with the knowledge that a woman doesn’t “feel” attracted to them, some men often take ridiculous action to convince them otherwise-they will relentlessly pursue the woman without regard for her lack of “feelings.” Spare yourself this tragedy and move on to the next lady in line, who might just “feel” attracted to you-an absolute necessity to a fulfilling relationship!

5: Seeking Her Approval is a Waste of Time

It is completely adverse to human nature for a woman to desire a man who seems to actively pursue her approval. Psychologically, it instills in a woman’s mind that the man is automatically not worthy of her attention, and no matter what you do to gain the woman’s approval…you will always be considered less than worthy. ALWAYS! The simple truth is that you will lack the necessary confidence in yourself in order to succeed in gaining the attraction you seek. Now, this does not mean you should completely ignore a woman’s approval-just that, instead, you need to gain it through self confidence. NOT by seeking her approval of you!

6: Buying Her Affections will not Score You Any Real Points

Yes, it’s true, everyone loves freebies! But, it’s also true that you get what you pay for. If you lavish freebies on a woman to gain her attraction, you send a strong message that you are so insecure in yourself that you must compensate by spending money. Guess what? Insecurity is NOT attractive. What is attractive? Confidence! Instead of buying a woman expensive gifts – take action that you put thought into, such as arranging a unique evening for you both to cook a meal together or doing something especially memorable and romantic. This sends a strong, clear message to a woman that she is too important for you to risk getting your message across by just sending a bunch of flowers. No, you are a MAN! So, show her that you mean business!

7: Revealing Your Feelings Too Early - Yikes!

There is a time and place for everything! Revealing your feelings for a woman should only be done after you have had plenty of time to assess and confirm a mutual attraction. Jumping into the “feeling” pit too early on sends powerful signals to a woman that you lack control. On the flip side, taking it slowly and even appearing aloof is a much better position. When you slowly warm up to a comfortable place where the woman is begging you to share your feelings, you will instantly know how attractive it is to be desired in such a away. This does not mean you should avoid being genuine. Definitely be honest and up front about who you are and what you like and don’t like, but save the “feelings” exchange for a time when you know the woman is sincerely interested in hearing them.

8: Basing Your Worth upon Money And Looks

Of course, it’s true…there are a few rotten apples in the barrel that focus all their energy on attracting only men that have good looks and lots of money, basing all their hopes upon material issues. But, they are fairly easy to weed out of the bunch. In truth, most women are much more attracted to a man’s personality than anything else, including women who end up with very wealthy men that lack personality! History has shown us that very powerful, wealthy people have fallen head over heels in love with others that have neither power nor wealth. What did they have? They had a personality, and that personality was based upon confidence! You see, positive character traits are compelling attributes that act like magnets and literally draw women to you instantly. Believe it or not, women prefer to be romanced by men who hold out their arms and pull them in for a hug rather than men who pull out their wallets whenever they seek attention. Yes, having a J-O-B is quite important, so don’t go overboard. No woman enjoys being romanced by a free loader with no money at all. But, it doesn’t take a fortune in the bank or a plastic surgeon to exude sexual attractiveness.

9: Sacrificing Your Authenticity

Guess what unique attributes you have that no one else in the entire world possesses? You have an original authenticity that is completely different from everyone else. If you sacrifice your authenticity by appearing desperate for a woman’s attention, you lack the ability to attract her. So, what do you do? You find out who you are and you stick with it. You don’t pretend to be something you are not and you don’t beg for a woman’s permission to be your true self. You walk the walk and talk the talk, and let the cards fall where they may. Why? Because if you don’t, you will end up settling for whatever it is you get.

10: Just Do It!

Countless numbers of people exude ignorance about matters that they know exactly how to handle. If you want something, you MUST take action to get it. If you find out that it wasn’t what you really wanted, then you move on to the next challenge. Life is a constantly evolving experience of action after action after action. So, if you want to approach a woman you’re attracted to and get her number or if you’re dating someone that you feel like kissing, don’t just sit there acting all nervous and confused. Instead, walk right up to her and ask for the number or move right in and kiss her. Sitting on the sideline and wondering what to do about things that you know you want will not score you any points. And believe it or not, women are attracted to men who know what they want and take action to get it. So, how do you do this without offending a woman? You confidently act on your desires without regard to potential failure while exhibiting a genuine respect for her feelings. If she appears disinterested, FINE…that’s your cue to exit stage left. But, don’t let it deter you from approaching the next woman you’re attracted to…or she might just be the one you pass on the way out the door!





Why Friendship and what is need of friendship

Tuesday 8 July 2008 @ 5:30 pm

Why we need friendships when we have a lovely life in this world.
Why we need friends in our life.

Well friends, this is a tedious question to answer. Lets see each questions.

Why we need friendships?

Friendships are the gift to the man kind. The relation which we get in this world are blood related. But the only relationships which doesnot related to blood is friendship. Friendship has many forms and shapes. It is like water. If we pour the water into a jug it takes the shape of jug. if you pour the same water into a bowl it takes the shape o bowl. Sameway friendships will take a different shapes and sizes according to our heart. Friendship gives pleasure to human beings. Where there is friendship then there will not be any sorrow. When you see a child laughing you will forget your sorrows for a second, sameway when you are with a friend you forget your sorrows.

Friendships crosses boundries

The world is rotating smoothly because of the friendly hearts in the world. it crosses boundries and share a mutual bonding of love. Friendships will take care of this entire world from problems. If we are friends then our countries will, when our countries are friends then there is not need of weapons. So take weapon named friendship and love and conqure the world with love.

Friendships saves life

Trusted true friendships never makes others down. it helps a lot to make friends to comeup from the situation. Friendships never expect anything in return for all its offering. It saves life without looking into situation.

Why Friendship

Why we need friends & friendships?

Friends comes with friendships, They are the channel of love and affection. Friends are like child’s heart which doesn’t know wrong thinkings. When there is a friend with us we feel secure, happy, huge support, and comfortable which you can’t get from others.

So Lets get some real friends in this world. and lets Be Friends.





LimeWire Download Manager 4.10

Tuesday 1 July 2008 @ 10:21 am

The free must have LimeWire add-on!

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What’s new
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Anger Management Strategies

Tuesday 1 July 2008 @ 10:17 am

While anger management tips can help you keep from blowing up, the best anger management strategy is to begin anger management when you’re not inflated!
Most experts agree that in order to learn long-term anger management techniques, you first need to recognize the “triggers” that set off your anger. But, what do you do if you’re angry most of the time?

Anger Management Strategies

An excellent beginning anger management strategy is a small change in your environment. Even a 15–20 minutes environment change, can make a big change in your perspective.

Anger Management Strategy #1: Changing Your Environment

  1. If you usually spend your day indoors, make a point to spend some personal time outdoors. Putter in your yard or take a walk. The fresh air will do you good, both physically and mentally.
  2. If you work mostly outdoors, spend some personal, private time indoors. Go home, put your feet up and andrelax.
  3. If you spend the day in physical labor, give yourself a “quiet time”. Sit on a park bench and watch the world go by or sit in your favorite chair and let your tired muscles relax.
  4. If you spend most of your day ina sit-down job, get those lethargic muscles moving! After work, take some time to walk, run, exercise to feel a surge of renewed energy in both mind and body!
  5. If you spend your day in noise, make sure your “quiet time” is quiet. Give yourself a chance to calm down and clear the chaos from your thoughts.
  6. If you spend your day where the silence is deafening, go home and pump up the volume! Listen to the radio, play a CD, watch an half-hour of television. Get your mind off your problems!

Anger Management Strategy #2: Learn to Recognize Your Anger Activators

When you’re reasonably calm, take a few minutes to examine recent times when your anger flared. Jot them down. Don’t relive each; just look for what triggered your anger – your anger activators. What started you simmering and when did you boil over? What effect did your temper flares have on those around you and most importantly, you? What resulted from your anger? Let this be the beginning of your anger log or anger diary.

Each day, “log” occurrences of your anger and their triggers. You’ll likely find that many of the same things are making you see red everyday.

For instance, a lot of folks start each day confronted by the harsh, irritating beeping of an alarm clock. If you’re one of them, consider changing its tune. Set a clock radio to music instead of alarm or purchase an alarm that starts with a quiet pulse and slowly increases in intensity.

Anger Management Strategy #3: The Serenity Prayer

You may have heard the platitude, “You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.” However, to paraphrase Abe Lincoln:

“You can solve all of the problems some of the time and some of the problems all of the time, but you can’t solve all of the problems all of the time. ‘

For instance, when you experience the loss of a family member, the anger you may feel is a natural part of grieving. No matter what you do, you can’t solve the problem, but you can learn to control and resolve your anger.

“God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The Courage to change the things we can,
And the Wisdom to know the difference.”

For decades, Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs have used the Serenity Prayer to help their members cope with their problems. Even if you don’t believe in a higher power, you can still use this simple message as an anger management strategy to help control your anger.





Spencer Pratt Once Sold Mary-Kate Olsen Pic For $50K

Tuesday 1 July 2008 @ 10:06 am

She dissed him on Letterman.

He hit back on a celeb news site.

But it turns out that the latest Hollywood feud - the actress Mary-Kate Olsen vs. the celebrity gossip king Spencer Pratt - actually goes way back!

Seeds of hate were planted years before Mary-Kate Olsen told David Letterman about her high school classmate Spencer Pratt’s ill-tempered ways.

In a 2007 Details article about Brody Jenner entitled “Screwing Himself to Stardom,” his best friend at the time, Spencer, bragged to the magazine’s reporter about how he once made $50,000 by selling a photo of Mary-Kate Olsen.

The shot was taken of Mary-Kate, underage at the time, drinking at a party.

Mary-Kate, who along with Spencer and many other celebs, graduated from the Crossroads School in Santa Monica. She has since become protective about her privacy, often disallowing guests in her homes if they have cameras.

[NOTE: Spencer's scheming did not end there. Pratt talks openly to Details about include having Brody Jenner start dating Nicole Richie merely to try to get her to eat (he failed), then date every girl on MTV's The Hills.]

Perhaps most amazingly, Spencer once talked about how he wanted to make a sex tape with Heidi Montag and then post it online to make big bucks.

Let’s hope Lauren Conrad appreciates the irony.





Super Mario 3: Mario Forever 3.00

Wednesday 25 June 2008 @ 9:39 am

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System Requirements
DirectX(R):DirectX(R) version 7.0 , 64 Mb ram minimum

What’s new
List of main upgrades in v 3.0 :1) Some changes in main engine.2) Game is more stabile in old machines3) Fixed problems with games save.

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Britney Spears Granted Change in Custody Rights

Wednesday 25 June 2008 @ 9:30 am

Britney Spears was granted a change in her visitation schedule with sons Sean Preston and Jayden James Federline at a custody hearing Tuesday.

We just don’t know what that is at this time.

The troubled pop star was looking for overnight visits with the little rascals, but details were not released - nor will they be, apparently.

Both Britney Spears and Kevin Federline exited the courtroom hearing in good spirits. Britney, Kevin and his attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, all smiled and conversed with celebrity news reporters as they left the building.

No sign of K-Fed’s Vegas girlfriend, however.

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline separated in late 2006 and divorced in 2007.

The judge in the case, Commissioner Scott L. Gordon, told the attorneys that he was “very pleased with the progress on both sides.”

“There was a change in visitation status that was ordered by Commissioner Gordon,” L.A. Superior Court spokesperson Alan Parachini said. “I’m not at liberty to answer any questions about the nature of that change, however.”

We imagine Britney Spears was granted some sort of expanded visitation rights with two of America’s favorite celebrity babies, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Our guess is that she will have the rights to overnight visits once a week - so long as they take place at her home and her father Jamie Spears is also present.

In related news, Laura Wasser is now back as Britney Spears’ attorney in the custody case. Wasser was Spears’ lawyer earlier in the case, but went and dumped Brit as a client after Spears repeatedly ignored her advice.





Basics of search engine optimization

Tuesday 24 June 2008 @ 9:54 am

At my day job, we’re contacted every now and then by clients asking about search engine positioning and optimisation. Most of the time the client has been approached by an SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) consultant trying to talk them into paying lots of money for search engine optimisation. The SEO firms promise “guaranteed top results” and “submission to 500 000 search engines and directories”.

Basics of search engine optimization

Many site owners are regularly contacted by scam companies of this kind, and it’s understandable that many take the bait and start paying for “top results and submission to everything”. After all, who doesn’t want their site to be highly ranked by search engines?

In an attempt to help a few people avoid paying for unnecessary search engine optimisation, I’d like to share what I have done to achieve very good search engine rankings, for this site as well as for clients’ sites.

First, just let me say that not all SEO consultants out there are scam artists – there are many reputable firms in the business. However, anyone promising “guaranteed top results”, “submission to 500 000 search engines and directories”, “instant results”, or “permanent top positions” is most likely a scammer. There is no way anyone can guarantee that your site is the number one result unless they actually control the search engine results, or if the top ranking is for a word or phrase that only exists on your site, of course.

What strikes me as I think through the steps I have taken to get good search engine rankings is how much SEO has in common with accessibility, usability, and high quality markup – the principles of web standards. That actually makes it even better: by making your site more accessible and usable for humans, and by using valid, semantic markup, you also make it more attractive to search engine robots.

Consider the guidelines I describe here a basic level of SEO – try this first, and if you’re still not getting the results you want, you may want to look into getting help from a reputable search engine optimisation firm. If you contact someone regarding optimising your site, ask them what they will do for your site. If they suggest any kinds of shady methods, be very careful. They might get you penalised or even banned from search engine indexes. On the other hand, if their advice includes what I’m suggesting here, they will probably do a good job.

There are no shortcuts

I’ll start with the bad news if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to get great results. There isn’t one. Instead, expect to do some hard work, especially when it comes to the content of your site.

You will also need patience. Results do not come overnight. If you’re working on improving the search engine positioning of a client’s site, you should probably explain this to them early on.

Write good content

This is probably the single most important thing you need to do if you want to be found on the web. Even if your site is technically perfect for search engine robots, it won’t do you any good unless you also fill it with good content. Yes, really!

Good content to me is text that is factually and grammatically correct, though that is not necessarily a must for all kinds of sites. Whatever your site is about, the content needs to be unique and/or specific enough to appeal to people. More specifically, it needs to be useful to the people you want to find your site.

Good content brings return visitors. Return visitors who like your content will eventually link to your site, and having lots of inbound links is great for search engine rankings, especially if those links are from highly ranked sites.

Closely related to good content is fresh content. By adding new content regularly, you give visitors a reason to come back. Search engine robots will also visit your site more often once they notice that you update regularly, which means that any new content you add will be indexed quicker.

When doing work for clients, creating quality content is rarely the responsibility of the web designer. Often, the client wants to write their own copy, which is fine if they’re good at it and keep adding new content. In my experience, that is rarely the case. If at all possible, try to make the client realise that they should hire someone to help them write, or at least get someone to help them edit what they have written. In either case, make it clear to them that they can’t expect consistent high rankings without good content.

Think about spelling

If you write in English, you are probably aware of the differences in spelling between American and British English. Colour vs. color, optimisation vs. optimization, etc. There are also many words that are commonly misspelled (this goes for all languages).

I don’t like the idea of intentionally misspelling words, since it goes against my definition of “good content”. If words with multiple spellings or commonly misspelled words are an important part of your content, i.e. keywords, consider adding a glossary or similar to include the most common spelling variations on the page.

Write descriptive page titles

By making your page titles simple, yet descriptive and relevant, you make it easier for search engines to know what each page is about, and people scanning through search results can quickly determine whether your document contains what they are looking for. The page title is also what is used to link to your site from search result listings.

Because of this, the title element is one of the most important elements on a page. Some argue that it is the most important element.

When it comes to the order of the text in the title element, I’ve found that the following works well:

Document title | Section name | Site or company name

Based on a discussion here a while ago, that is probably one of the best formats for accessible title texts. Again, accessibility and SEO work together.

Whatever you do, don’t use the same title text for all documents. Doing so will make it much harder for search engines, people browsing through search results, and site visitors to quickly find out what the document is about.

Use real headings

Use the h1 - h6 elements for headings. Using graphics for headings may let you use any typeface you want, but search engines aren’t going to pay much attention. Even if you (as is required) use the alt attribute to specify alternate text for heading images, that text will not be anywhere near as important as real text in a heading element. In my experience, this is true even if the images are inside heading elements. If you know otherwise, please tell.

If you cannot use real text, look at the various image or Flash replacement techniques that are available. Be aware that there may be a tiny risk involved in doing so. Since image replacement techniques involve hiding text, it is theoretically possible for search engines to penalise you. Currently that risk seems very slim, but don’t say I didn’t warn you if it does happen.

Use search engine friendly URLs

Avoid dynamically generated URLs that use a query string to let the server know which data to fetch from a database. Search engine robots may have difficulties with this kind of URL – they may stop at the question mark and not even look at the query string.

Use search engine friendly, human readable URLs instead. This will help both your ranking and your users. I’ve seen incredible improvements in search engine results from just changing the URL scheme of a site.

Modifying and rewriting a site’s URLs can be a little tricky, and some CM systems make it more difficult than others to implement. It is worth the effort though. A couple of resources to help you make your URLs better:

Get linked to

There is no easy and sustainable way to solve this one except for – you guessed it – providing good content. Incoming links are very, very important for SEO. They are also possibly the hardest part of SEO to implement.

However, in my experience incoming links are less important the more specific and unique your content is. As an example, a couple of our clients are in what you may call niche businesses. They don’t have lots of sites linking to them, yet they started ranking very well in search engines after I had applied the knowledge I’m sharing here to their sites.

Use valid, semantic, lean, and accessible markup

Most web browsers have advanced functionality to decipher the tag soup mess that is used instead of HTML on most current sites. You can’t rely on search engine robots to do that to the same extent. Validate your HTML and avoid presentational markup – use as lean and clean markup as possible. By increasing your content-to-markup ratio, you make your site faster and more attractive to search engines.

High quality markup will help boost your rankings.

Accessibility is also very important. Making your site more accessible to vision impaired humans will also help search engine robots find their way around it. Remember, Google is blind, so even if you don’t care about blind people using your site (which you should), you’ll still want it to be accessible. This means that you should use real headings, paragraphs, and lists, and avoid using anything that may interfere with search engine spiders.

Flash and JavaScript are fine, as long as they aren’t required to navigate your site and to access vital information. Don’t hide your content inside Flash files or behind funky JavaScript navigation. Browse your site in Lynx, and with graphics, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash off. If that gives you problems, it is likely to cause problems for search engine spiders.

Submit carefully

Often slightly overrated, submitting a site to directories and search engines can be useful, especially if the site is new and hasn’t already been picked up by Google and others. Go ahead and submit it to Google. It won’t hurt, but most likely Google will find you anyway.

Two directories that may be worth submitting to are Yahoo! Directory and the Open Directory Project. Be patient – it will probably take several weeks for your submissions to be processed, unless you pay for them to list you.

Don’t try to fool the search engines

Don’t use cloaking, link farms, keyword stuffing, alt text spamming or other dubious methods. They may work for a short while if you’re lucky, but you risk being penalised or even banned from search engines, which you do not want.

Search engines want their results to be accurate, and they don’t like it when people try to trick them. Just don’t do it.

Avoid using frames

While it is possible to provide workarounds that allow search engine robots to crawl frame based sites, frames will still cause problems for the people who find your site through search engines.

When somebody follows the link from a search result listing to a frame based site, they will land on an orphaned document, outside of its parent frameset. This is very likely to cause confusion, since in many cases vital parts of the site, like navigational links, will be absent.

Some sites use JavaScript or server side scripting to redirect anyone trying to load a document outside of its parent frameset to the site’s home page. This is a very user hostile thing to do, and it definitely does not help the people visiting your site. Just lose the frames. They are bad for usability anyway.

Be careful with browser detection

If you need to use some kind of browser detection, make sure that it doesn’t break when a search engine spider (or any unknown user agent) comes along. If the spiders can’t get in, you won’t be found. I’ve seen this happen on the sites of fairly large companies.

Don’t waste your time on meta tags

Most search engines don’t place any great deal of value on the contents of meta tags anymore. They have been used way too much by spammers. I’d suggest using the meta description element, but that’s all. Keywords won’t hurt, but they will rarely help either, so they are generally not worth the effort.

Some search engines use the contents of the meta description element to describe your site in their search result listings, so if possible, make its contents unique and descriptive for every document.

Uuh. That was too much for me to read.

Ok, then. The ultra-short guide to SEO: add quality content regularly and make sure your site is well-built.





Unlock a cell phone

Monday 23 June 2008 @ 11:09 am

If you have a cell phone that has become locked because it was given to you by a friend and you never got the code, or you forgot your own code, don’t be afraid. Unlocking a cell phone is usually a simple process and unless you try guessing at the unlock code too many times, you won’t have to use any special equipment.

Unlock a cell phone

Unlocking a phone to use with another service, however, usually requires special software that you will need to either purchase, or will require a visit to a mobile phone retailer who has the equipment and will charge a nominal fee. For a few phones, there are simple unlock codes that you can just enter into the phone.

Unlocking a sim card, on the other hand can be difficult. If you simply want the card unlocked to be used with a different service provider or in a different country, law requires that your service provider make it possible to do so, which will prevent you from having to change over all of your numbers. This makes it easy to change phones as you can just simply unlock the sim card than use a data cable to move over all of your ringtones, wallpapers, and photos.

If you do not know the passcode for your SIM that was created by yourself, you should call your mobile provider who will provide information on your specific SIM card.

Certain phones become un-usable if you try to unlock them unsuccessfully too many time. Be warned that this is common on many nokia phones!

Nokia Phone unlock codes:
NokiaFree.org

Motorolla Phone codes:
MotoUnlockNow

Virgin Mobile, Boost, T-Mobile, Cingular and all other phones:
MobileUnlock





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