Search engines reward pages with the right combination of ranking factors. Below, some major factors or “signals” you should seek to have.

SEO Periodic Table

The first thing to take care if you want to attract more random visitors and willing to make them lifetime subscribers, Write Genuine content. Your content should be consist of 5 Factors as described in the chart. Quality, Research, Words, Engage, Fresh.

The second thing is to make your website error free. Always check for any minor JavaScript error by enabling debugging tools in your browser. If any runtime error occurs, debug them fast otherwise Google wont like it much. You also need to make sure your page loads faster from all the location in the world. You can test it online through “Pingdom tools“.

You should not have too much of outbound links. To be clear, there are too type of links – Outbound : Links to the other site through your page. Inbound: Links to your site through other page. Your ratio of links should be 2:1 (inbound:outbound). SEO is done at daily basis so you should always consider hiring professionals to take care of your website. There are too many freelance web designers london based which should be considered as priority.

Your reputation plays the important role in SEO. How social you are and how do you share your content, SEO considers all the parameters. Another thing, people will always trust if you are a authority website or your history is good.

First of all lets talk why IRCTC sleeps at peak time : Service from Indian Government. low performance servers, No maintenance. Server is not able to handle more than 10k inbounds in 5 minutes as stated by government authority.

You will find some websites suggest to use autofill browsers plugins, no doubt, it will help in increasing speed of your booking. But what if the website doesn’t opens? You can only use this trick if you get rid of Internal server error or connection timeout errors.

The best method to speed up the process is by sensible use of Proxy servers. Follow these steps just 15 minutes before the IRCTC tatkal booking opening.

• Get your IRCTC account ready.
• Get your browser fill with autofill form plugins (I wont suggest that, and if you want, google it you will find the method)
• Hunt for the faster Proxy server. Your proxy server should be Delhi Based. There are too many free proxy servers available. you just need to Google away. or here is the list.
• Configure that proxy server in your browser. See below for the steps to set the proxy server in your Firefox browser.
• Surf faster IRCTC.

Note : You need to choose faster proxy server so you must tryout different IPs and check your download speed through that proxy IP. I suggest you to perform all these steps prior an hour.

How to set the proxy IP in your Firefox Browser.

• Step 1: Get one Delhi based Open Proxy IP from the link i stated above.
• Step 2: Open Firefox
• Step 3: Tools > Option.
• Step 4: Go to Advance tab, click on Settings button on Connections option.
• Step 5: Check the Manual Proxy Configuration radio button.
• Step 6: Enter your Proxy IP and port in HTTP Proxy field.
• Step 7: Click Ok and Exit the Settings window.
• Step 8: check your download speed from the same browser.
• Step 9: if download speed is not satisfying, Goto Step 1 and hunt for another proxy IP until you find the faster one.

After all these work, surf IRCTC and you will get faster response. Do let me know if you need further help.

After he left running the day-to-day operations f Microsoft in 2008 to devote himself full time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a kinder, gentler side began to emerge. Here I am posting the complete timeline of a very known personality “Bill Gates” – The Machine of the Decades.

1955

- Bill Gates born in Seattle to William H and Mary Maxwell Gates (28th October)

1967

- Bill Gates III – nicknamed Trey because his father, Bill Gates Sr, customarily used the suffix “II” after his name – begins attending the Lakeside School, a private college preparatory school where many children from Seattle’s wealthy and elite families were enrolled, including Paul Allen.

1968

- At age thirteen, Bill Gates writes his first Computer Program in BASIC on an old Teletype model 33 terminal at school.

1970

- Bill gates starts a business with Paul Allen. Their main product is “Traf-o-Data“, a program to help keep tabs on traffic patterns.

1972

- Bill Gates works as a congressional page in the United States House of Representative over the summer.

1973

– Bill Gates graduates from Lakeside in June after scoring 1590 out of 1600 points on the SAT. Bill Gates is accepted into the pre-law program at Harvard University.

1974

- Bill Gates takes a summer job with electronics from Honeywell joining Paul Allen, who had dropped out of college to work there.

1975

– An article about the Altair 8800, manufactured by Micro instrumentation and Telemetry Systems – MITS – appears in “Popular Electronics”, captivating Bill Gates. He and Paul Allen write BASIC software for the computer, and the manufacturer – based in Albuquerque – hires the pair.

- Bill Gates leaves Harvard in his junior year and moves to Albuquerque with Allen; they christen their partnership Micro-Soft.

1976

- Bill Gates and Allen officially register Microsoft – without the hyphen – as a business organization.

- Computer hobbyists had acquired copies of BASIC, which they used and passed along to others, without paying Microsoft. Bill Gates writes a scathing letter accusing the hobbyists of theft.

1977

– Microsoft severs ties with MITS. Bill Gates writes and develops other computer languages, including FORTRAN, for various companies and contractors.

- Bill Gates is arrested in Albuquerque for speeding.

1978

I’ve always believed in a paperless office.

– Microsoft opens its first international office, in Japan.

- Company revenues hit US$1 million.

1979

– Microsoft moves its office to Bellevue, Washington.

- Twenty-five employees work full time for the company, which generates US$2.5 million in revenue that year.

1980

– Microsoft strikes a deal with IBM to provide the DOS operating system software for their line of personal computers, scheduled to be produced and sold to the following year. Bill Gates retains the rights to MS-DOS, allowing Microsoft to license the operating system to other PC manufacturers.

- Steve Ballmer joins Microsoft as personal assistance to Bill Gates.

1981

Because there aren’t enough hours in the day, it’s tempting to try to do two things at once. Right now I’m perfecting reading a newspaper and riding an exercise bike at the same time – a very practical form of multitasking.

– Microsoft officially becomes a corporation, naming Bill Gates as chairman and CEO. Steve Ballmer becomes executive vice-president of sales and support. Bill Gates receives 35 percent of Microsoft, Allen gets 31 percent and Ballmer has 8 percent.

- The IBM Personal Computer debuts. (August)

- Microsoft has 128 employees and annual revenues of US$16 million.

- Steve jobs of Apple Computer asks Bill Gates and Microsoft to develop software for their new computer, named the Macintosh.

1983

– Instead of announcing a “Man of the Year”, Time names the personal computer as “Machine of the Year”.

- Paul Allen is diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and leaves Microsoft.

1984

– Apple Computer launches the Macintosh. (January)

1985

– The first incarnation of Windows Launches, which many believe is similar to Macintosh. (20 November.)

- Annual revenue hits US$140 Million; 910 employees work at Microsoft.

1986

There were lot of missteps in the early days; because we got in early, we got to make more mistakes than other people.

– Microsoft’s first common stock is issued. With 45 percent of the 2.7 million shares issued.

- Bill Gates earns US$234 million the first day of trading.

- Bill Gates moves Microsoft’s 1200 employees from Bellevue to new headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

1987

The simplest thing to say about Melinda is that I fell deeply in love with her and decided to get married and have a family together.

– Forbes names Bill Gates a billionaire in its annual list of the 400 Richest People.

- At thirty-one, Bill Gates becomes the youngest billionaire in history.

- Bill Gates meets Melinda French, a Microsoft Product manager, at a Microsoft event in New York City.

1988

– Apple sues Microsoft, accusing Bill Gates and the company of designing Windows to mimic the Macintosh design too closely.

1989

- Bill Gates launches Corbis, a digital archive of art and photography.

- Microsoft introduces Microsoft Office, which incorporates several software programs, including Word and Excel.

1990

– Microsoft launches Windows 3.0. As a result of its overwhelming popularity – more than 100,000 copies sell in just two weeks – annual sales at Microsoft reach US$1 billion for the year.

- Microsoft had been developing an operating system with IBM called OS/2, but pulls out in order to concentrate on Windows.

- The Federal Trade Commission starts looking into anticompetitive practices between Microsoft and IBM.

1992

I was a mover. I was the guy who said, ‘Let’s call the real world and try to sell something to it.’

- Bill Gates hits the top of Forbes 400 Richest People list, becoming the richest person in the United States, with US$6.3 billion in personal wealth.

1993

- Bill Gates proposes marriage to Melinda French, who accepts.

- The FTC decides to pass on the antitrust issue, instead referring in to the Department of Justice.

1994

- Bill Gates marries Melinda French on in lanai, Hawaii. (1 January)

- Bill Gates buys Leonard da Vinci’s Codex Leicester for US$30.8 million in auction.

- Bill Gates launches the William H Gates Foundation, officially marking the start of his philanthropic career.
Mary Gates, Bill Gates’ mother, dies of breast cancer. (June)

1995

People don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.

– Windows 95 launches; it incorporates the web browser Internet Explorer. (1 January)

- Bill Gates fist book is published. “The road Ahead” hits number one on The new York Times bestseller list and stays there for almost two months.

- His fortune pegged at US$12.9 billion, Bill Gates is named by Forbes as the richest man in the world.

- Despite initially understanding the internet’s potential, Bill Gates sends Microsoft executive a memo directing them to focus on developing software for the Internet.

1996

- Bill Gates and Melinda’s first daughter, Jennifer Katharine, is born. (26th April)

- Warren Buffett replaces Bill Gates as world’s richest man as declared by Forbes Bill Gates drops to second place.

- Internet Explorer 3.0 Launches.

- Netscape, a company developing a browser, requests that the justice Department look into Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.

1997

– After 7 years of construction, Bill Gates moves his family into a 66,000-square-foot huse on Lake Washington in Medina. It’s estimated that the house cost US$97 million to build.

1998

– Microsoft launches Windows 98.

- Steve Ballmer becomes president of Microsoft.

- The US department of Justice and twenty state’s attorneys file an antitrust suit against Microsoft, accusing the company of participating in anticompetitive practices.

1999

Take our twenty best people away, and i will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.

- Bill Gates and Melinda’s son, Rory John, is born. (23 May)

- Bill Gates’ second book, Business @ the speed of Thought, is published in twenty-five languages.

2000

– Microsoft launches two separate versions of Windows: 2000 and Me, short for Millennium Edition.

- Bill Gates passes his title of Microsoft CEO to Steve Ballmer; Gates officially becomes known as Chief Software Architect.

- The judge in the anti-trust trial orders Microsoft to become two companies: one for Windows and one for all software. Bill Gates appeals the ruling.

- Bill Gates and Melinda gates launch the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, incorporating several other foundations, with an initial contribution of US$28 billion from personal funds.

- Global annual revenues from Microsoft hit US$229 billion; the number of employees is almost 40,000.

2001

I don’t think that IQ is as fungible as I used to. To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

– The judge’s decision in the anti-trust trial is overturned. Microsoft and the department of Justice reach an agreement that keeps the company intact.

- Windows XP is introduced.

- Microsoft Launches the Xbox, a video game console.

2002

- Bill Gates and Melinda’s second daughter, Phoebe Adele, is born. (14 September)

2004

- Bill Gates becomes a board member at Berkshire Hathaway, friend Warren Buffett’s investment business.

- The European Commission launches an anti-trust investigation against Microsoft.

2005

Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

– “Time” names Bill and Melinda gates and U2’sBono as its Person of the year because of their philanthropic work.

- Bill Gates receives an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth.

2006

– Warren Buffett gives the bulk of his wealth, US$31 billion, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

- Bill Gates announces that he will step down from his full-time job at Microsoft in 2008.

- Bill Gates receives the 2006 James C Morgan Global Humanitarian Award.

2007

- Bill Gates receives an honorary doctor of law degree from Harvard; he gives the commencement speech at the ceremony.

- Microsoft introduces Windows Vista and Office 2007.

2008

Replying to a suggestion that he’s mellowed in recent years : Bullshit

– The European Union fines Microsoft $1.4 billion, the largest fine ever levied against a European business, claiming the company has not followed through on an earlier EU ruling, ordering the company to give specific software code to its competitors.

- Bill Gates spends his last day at Microsoft. He stays on as chairman. (27 June)

- The number of Microsoft employees hits 90,000.

2009

– Despite losing US$18 billion in net worth, Bill Gates usurps friend Warren Buffett as Forbes’ number one billionaire in the world, retaining US$40 billion in personal wealth.

- Bill Gates quits using Facebook because too many people wanted to friend him.

2010

- Bill Gates attends the Sundance Film Festival to help promote “Waiting for Superman”, a documentary that he helped to found on America’s failing education system.

- Bill Gates rejoins Facebook, and signs up for Twitter as well.

2011

- Bill Gates loses the top spot on Forbes’ Richest Person in the World list because he’s given away so much money, but is still second on the list, with US$53 billion; Buffett is third for the year. Bill Gates still the wealthiest American.

- Rumors swirl late in the year that Bill Gates would return to Microsoft. No dice, he says he likes his foundation work too much.

Today his life is virtually an open book, featuring regular updates on Facebook and Twitter and blog posts at TheGatesNotes.com
Excerpts are taken from the Book : Impatient Optimist by Lisa Rogak

Lets have a quick look on what Windows Azure provides and makes it stand in market:

• Your contents are distributed in 8 datacenters with worldwide CDN network. You might not know but whenever you upload any file in Azure, your data is automatically replicated to another datacenters to provide reliability and uptime.
• Windows Azure allows you to use any language to build applications, including .NET, PHP, Java, Node.js, Python and Ruby.
• You will stay online even if you are upgrading your system, like increasing HDD or CPU resources, 0% downtime.
• You can directly access your content through Open REST protocols available.
• Your operating system is automatically upgraded if any new patch or update is released.
• Add resources with just a click and applied within a minute.
• Premade OS templates for your VPSes.
• Inbuilt opensource apps for your Azure websites.
• Store data in SQL, tables, BLOBs depending upon your worker role.

Windows Azure Cloud Services consist of Internet facing Web roles and Worker roles that run background tasks. Web roles can offload computing jobs to Worker roles and can distribute work via queues to scalable pools of Worker roles. All roles can access data stores or other services.

Windows Azure Media Services provide a selection of services for encoding and protecting streaming media such as videos and music. Drop off your high-resolution source content and convert it to multiple bit rates for playback on a variety of devices. Stream to HD, DVD and phones.

Windows Azure Mobile Services is a turnkey backend solution running on Windows Azure servers that offers functions such as saving data, querying, managing identity and pushing notifications to phone. Additionally, you can run scripts on the server to execute custom logic when doing CRUD operations.

Windows Azure Virtual Machines can run both Windows and Linux operating systems. Create VMs from Virtual Hard Disk images stored as blobs. Create VHDs locally and upload them, choose from a stock gallery or modify a running VM and save the image to your personal gallery.

You can view my previous article in which i have described the Steps to Create a virtual machine in Windows Azure.

With Windows Azure Web Sites, you can share space in a VM or reserve an entire machine for your web site. You can create sites with both SQL Database and MySQL databases, as well as deploy popular open source software from a gallery. You can use the slider on the Windows Azure portal to scale out to more instances.

You can visit my previous article in which i have described steps to Install WordPress on Windows Azure, or view this video.

Everyone is moving towards cloud, why not you. Just tryout Windows Azure for 90 days now. Download the Full Meet Windows Azure infographic.

How about a smartwatch which will display the time, as well as current whether, location, your google+ profile and the whole features which is being imported by Google Now. Last time Google has introduced something cool with Google Glasses but unfortunately it didn’t stand a bit in the market. This might effect the popularity of the upcoming smartwatch as many of the vendors developed this kind of device which can even track your physical strength. Google is already having this feature on Smartphones but seems like this is the new hope for something bigger might come out.

Adrian Maciburko saw a vision and using the Google Design language, he developed a concept which seems simply a nice idea and might come with the great success in near future.

If you are asked the question near the end of the process, this can only indicates good things. If the interviewer has no interest in hiring you at this point, he wont bother you asking you this question. Generally, larger companies have less latitude in compensation packages than smaller companies. If you are asked this question, it probably indicates the company is willing to negotiate.

Before getting in to the loophole, you must be clear yourself about particular terms and the bargaining procedure.

It’s important to do your homework ahead of time when answering this question. First, if you find that people with simmilar jobs in your area are making 3 to 3.5 Lacks per year, you are not probably going to make 6L a year. Second, Never undersell yourself. If you are looking for an annual salary of 4L, don’t tell an employer that you are looking for 3.5L a year. Third, consider carefully what you want in local compensation package.

in general, try not to tip your hand too early when answering this question. Instead of answering a question about salary directly, ask what range the interviewer is prepared to offer. There are four possible answer to your question.

First, the range is about what you expected. In this case, you can usually gain slightly higher salary but following this rules: First, Try not to act too excited – Stay Cool, Next, say you had a slightly higher range in mind and present the new range in front of the interviewer.

The second possibility is that the negotiator starts with a range higher than you expected. Bingo, this is great!

In the third case, the negotiator may not answer your question. He or she may give a response like “We have a wide range of salaries depending on the applicant. What are you expecting?” This response is quite favorable because it indicates that he or she has the authority to pay you a comparative salary.

Avoid weaker expressions like “I’m hoping for….” or “I’d really like……” Just say your range confidently like “I’m expecting….”.

The forth option is that the offer may be less than you expected. In this case, here are some tactics to try to increase the offer. First, re-emphasize your skills and state the salary range you were expecting. You can say that “I’ve to admit I’m little disappointed with that offer. Given my extensive knowledge and contributions I can make to this company, I’m expecting salary of 4L a year.“

At this stage he or she will often cite one of the following three reasons:

1. The amount wasn’t budgeted.
2. Similar employees at the company don’t make that much.
3. Your experience doesn’t warrant such salary.

None of these is an acceptable reason. First, the budget may be a constraint on the company, but it should’t be a constraint on your salary. If the company really wants you, it will find money and a way around this artificial barrier. If the company truly can’t find the money, it’s such a crash-strapped, close-to-death organization that you probably don’t want to work there anyway.

Here are other few final thoughts on salary issue. Some people are embarrassed or shy about talking about salary. You should realize that you’re already looking to engage in a business relationship, and salary is just one more part of the picture. No employee expects you to work for free, and there’s no reason you should act as if compensation isn’t important.

I have compiled this article on the basis of my personal experience and excerpts from the book “Programming Interviews Exposed – John Mongan”

Just remember my mantra “Be confidant and don’t express yourself, sell yourself.” All the best.

So here you go. Try to solve all and comment bellow the answers.

1.  How would you weigh jet place without using scales?
2. Why are manhole covers round rather than square?
3. Why do mirror reverse right and left instead of up and down?
4. Which way should the key turn in a car door to unlock it?
5. Why is that, when you turn on hot water in a hotel, the hot water comes out instantly?
6. How do they make M&Ms?
7. If you are on a boat and toss a suitcase overboard, will the water level raise or fall?
8. How many piano tuners are there in the world?
9. How many gas stations are there in the United States?
10. How much Mississippi River water flows past New Orleans each hour?
11. What does all the ice in a hockey rink weigh?
12. If you could remove any of the fifty U.S. states, which would it be?
13. How many points are there in the globe where, by walking one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, you reach the place where you started?
14. How many times a day do a clock’s hands overlap?
15. Mike and Todd have $21 between them. Mike has $20 more than Todd. How much does each have? You can’t use factions in the answer.
16. On the average, how many times would you have to flip open the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name?
17. How do you cut a rectangular cake into two equal pieces when someone has already removed a rectangular piece from it? The removed piece can be of any size or orientation. You are allowed just one straight cut.
18. How would you design bill gates’s bathroom?
19. How would you design a microwave oven controlled by a computer?
20. How would you design the controls for a VCR?
21. Design a emote controls for a Venetianblind.
22. Design a spice rack for a blind person.
23. How would you test a saltshaker? [A toaster? A teakettle? An elevator?]
24. how would you locate a specific book in a big library? There’s no cataloging system and no librarian to help you.
25. Suppose you are hired as an IRS agent. Your first job is to find out whether a nanny agency is cheating on its taxes. How would you do it?
26. You have eight billiard balls. One of them is “defective”, meaning that it weighs more than the others. How do you tell, using a balance, which ball is defective in two weighing?

Try to solve some of them and comment the answers. It would be fun to know how talented my readers are. 

you need to navigate to Windows Azure Management portal and click on +NEW sign located at the bottom left corner.

Select the Virtual machine option from the list and you have to choose an option between “Quick Create” and “From Gallery”.

Galley provides some wide range of operating system list where you can find Linux and Ubuntu servers too.

Choose any of the operating environment and click on NEXT arrow.

Next screen will allow you to set the Virtual Machine name, Login credential and the size of the Virtual Machine.

After that you need to set up the virtual machine mode. This section will allow you to set a custom DNSfor that virtual machine and the storage account. The region specifies where your Virtual machine will belongs to. After setting all the option, Click on Next arrow.

Next screen will allow you to set the availability set. Availability set defines the secondary instance and if your primary virtual machine fails than this availability set will be available for the service at any time.

When you click the next arrow, Windows Azure starts provisioning your Virtual machine. Provisioning mean setting up the storage account and installing virtual operating system on the disk. Just wait for 4 to 5 mins and your virtual machine will be up for the service.

To manage the virtual machine you will need a remote desktop connection. You don’t need to worry about this thing, just click the connect button located at the lower bar and your remote desktop connection will be started automatically.

So here you go, you have successfully installed Virtual machine on Windows Azure. If you got stuck somewhere please let me know through the comment box.

Any PHP coded website can be hosted on Azure servers through 2 ways. In the first traditional process developers need to transform their PHP application to the compatible Azure format using Windows Azure ADK for PHP and then the deployment process starts. This process is very lengthy and time consuming because developer needs to configure their PHP application accordingly to get compatible with Azure. To get rid of this, Microsoft has recently launched the service – Windows Azure Web Sites, which is still in Customer technical preview (CTP) and provides limited amount of configuration.

In this article I will explain the step by step procedure to host WordPress blog using Windows Azure Web Sites preview. Before getting started I assume you have a Windows Azure subscription. If not, you can have a free 3 months trial.

Windows Azure web sites gallery provides wide range of open source application which can be deployed on Windows Azure. Fortunately WordPress is in the list.

Windows Azure Web Sites is provided as a Preview Feature and after getting the free trial account you need to activate that preview feature. Follow the step.

1. Navigate to https://account.windowsazure.com/ and sign in with your Windows Azure account.
2. Click preview features to view the available previews.

   

3. Scroll down to Web Sites and click try it now.
4. Select your subscription and click the check.

After activating the preview feature you will get the notification Email from Microsoft about the activation within a day or two.

Follow the steps to create a Web Site.

1. Login to Windows Azure Management Portal.
2. Click the New icon on the bottom left of the dashboard.
3. Click the Web Site icon, and click From Gallery.
4. Locate and click the WordPress icon in list, and then click Next.
5. On the Configure Your App page, enter or select values for all fields:
   • Enter a URL name of your choice
   • Leave Create a new MySQL database selected in the Database field
   • Select the region closest to you
6. Click Next.
7. On the Create New Database page, you can specify a name for your new MySQL database or use the default name. Select the region closest to you as the hosting location. Select the box at the bottom of the screen to agree to ClearDB’s usage terms for your hosted MySQL database. Then click the check to complete the site creation.

After completion the above process Windows Azure automatically will initiate build and deploy operations.

Finally you have deployed your very own WordPress blog over the cloud. Navigate to your blog using the URL you provided in the Step 5.

If you are having any technical difficulties on the deployment process, feel free to comment below.

Happy Cloud Computing.